5 DECEMBER 1840, Page 1
The best news that can now come from Spain is,
that there have been no events worth notice; and this is the state of affairs during the present week. The rumours of dissensions in the Regency, indeed, continue ; but they are party statements, affirmed by one side to he contradicted by the other. ESPARTERO remains at Madrid; his journey to the Basque Provinces having been post- poned. The reports of his retirement have died aAety. The Re- gency are engaged in regulating the financial affairs of the coun- try, which are embarrassed enough ; and preparations are making for the revision of the customs tarid: This looks plausible ; but in the present unsettled state of things, all such regulations may by the political movement of a day be rendered nugatory.
