By the last accounts from Spain, the election of Deputies
who are to attend the Cortes was going on. Count ALrAmIRA, a nobleman of Constitutional principles, had been returned for Madrid. It was hoped that the Cortes might yet become more serviceable to the country than was either intended or expected by the Court.
Don CARLOS bad transmitted from Lisbon to the King, a formal protest against the abolition of the Salic law, to the prejudice of his.claims to the throne. He intends, it is said, to renew it, when the Cortes assembles. Considerable importance is attached to this proceeding in Spain. It is called a proclamation to the Carlists, an appeal to their strength, and the sure forerunner of a civil war. The King is reported in the bulletins as enjoy ing excellent health; but whenever he appears in public, he looks wretchedly ill.
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