17 MAY 1834, Page 2

The Spanish finances remain in a very unsettled state. None

of the offers for the new loan have been accepted, and the Cortes Bondholders are again disappointed in the hopes of even a partial recognition of their claims. The ratification of the treaty between England, France, Spain, and Portugal, has given great satisfac- tion in Madrid. The Queen Regent's birth-day has been splen- didly celebrated. There are only ninety Spanish grandees al- together, and of these fifty went to Aranjuez, where the Queen was residing, to pay their court.

QUESADA has experienced a most disgraceful defeat in the North ; owing, it is said, principally to his extreme rashness.