16 APRIL 1836, Page 2

It is still a matter of uncertainty whether MENDIZABAL will

be able to maintain his ground in the midst of the difficulties which press upon him on all sides. He admitted, when attacked in the Chamber of Procuradores, that his efforts to complete his Ministry had been unsuccessful. There was no lack of distin- guished persons who approved of his policy ; but there were few who were qualified by talent and knowledge to aid him effectually in the government of the country. MENDIZABAL'S case is by no means peculiar. If the Premiers in other countries were fastidious as to the qualifications of their colleagues, many a Ministry would be incomplete.

In the discussion on the address, ARGUELLES took occasion to complain bitterly of the language used in the British Parliament respecting the execution—murder, it has been called—of the mother of CABRERA, the Carlist officer. He read a letter from MINA, to the effect that she was executed for treason, in pursuance of a legal sentence. And this appears to have been the case; for the correspondent of the Morning Chronicle at Barcelona has supplied the following extract from the official account of that affair ; thus placing it a very different footing from the cold- blooded murder of a helpless female, whose only crime was being mother of a rebel soldier.

" The Spanish Government, in a Royal Order, forwarded General Mina the copy of a declaration made at Soria by a Carlist deserter, in which information was given of a conspiracy plotting at Tortosa for the purpose of delivering up the Castle of that place to the enemies of the country, and further ordering the General to take such steps as the necessity of the case required. In con- sequence, General Mina immediately commanded Brigadier Fochet and one of his own Aides-de-Camp to repair to Tortosa; where, by the investigation of these officers, the truth of the existence of this conspiracy was discovered, in which the confidential servant of the Bishop, the mother of the Cabecilla Cabrera, and some soldiers of the Fifth Regiment of Infantry, played the prin- cipal parts. Of the latter, three individuals effected their escape by flight ; the others were tried, found guilty, and sentenced to death by a regular court- _martial. Precisely at this time Brigadier Nogueras's request reached General Mina, calling upon him to execute Cabrera's mother, in consequence of the atrocious assassinations committed by her son on the persons of the authorities of four large villages, and several others of a similar description. In reply to which, General Mina answered, that reprisals, to be effective, should take place

at the instant and on the spot where the crime was committed; that the mother of Cabrera should be executed, not in reprisal, but together with the Bishop's servant and the soldiers of the Fifth Regiment of the Line, in virtue of the sentence passed upon her by a regular tribunal of her country, in consequence of her guilt being fully established.

" Cabrera's two sisters, who had also been arrested by the Governor of Tor- Etaa on suspicion, were placed at liberty by General Mina's order ; sufficient evidence not appearing against them, and their close affinity to Cabrera being i

by no mean. construed into a crime."

It is said that Lord PALMERSTON has addressed a note to M. TRIERS, calling upon him to aid in an endeavour to withdraw Don CARLOS from Spain by the offer of an asylum with a princely income in France or England, but in case of the refusal of Cast.os to nowt this proposal, to cooperate with England in a vigorous attempt to put an end to the civil war. What answer Trims has given or is likely to make to this communication, is not stated. That the Government of this country is prepared to act efficiently for the suppression of the rebellion, may be gathered from the distinct declaration of Lord MELBOURNE in the House of Peers last night, that Ministers were "in the strongest degree impressed with the duty and necessity of putting an end as speedily as possible to the lamentable contest in Spain."