_foreign anb Siena.—The revolution has been fully consummated in a
very de- cided step, the declaration of the young Queen's majority. The cere- mony was performed in the Palace ; where assembled the Infant Don Francisco de Paula, the Infanta his wife, the members of the Corps Diplomatique, the Ministers, grandees, nobility, general officers, and the authorities of Madrid. The President of the Council read a manifesto signed by all the Ministers, asserting it to be the wish of the nation that the Queen should be declared of age. The Ministers undertook that the Cortes should ratify that resolution ; and until the Cortes assemble, and the Queen can take the necessary oath, the Government will be administered by the Cabinet in her name. It is said that a lively satisfaction was observable in the countenance of the young Queen, (who is in her thirteenth year,) as well as in the face of her younger sister, She expressed her concurrence, in the words set down for her. After the ceremony, troops defiled before the Palace, and shouted vivas for Queen Isabella the Second.
The Barcelona Junta have made a show of submission to the Lopez Cabinet. The Junta of Valencia had asked of the Provisional Govern- ment permission to take the title of "magnanimous :" the title granted to Seville, "invicta," had excited its envy !
The Dutchess of Victory had only recently left Madrid ; where she received the most delicate attentions from the conquering party, and especially from General Narvaez. She has departed for Paris.
PORTIIOAL.—The Malabar, with Espartero on board, entered the port of Lisbon on the evening of the 6th instant. At first it was understood that the Government would permit him to land ; but after his arrival, the Spanish Ambassador, hitherto his stanch adherent, " pronounced " ; and when the Council of Ministers learned that fact, they refused per- mission for the Duke of Victory to land. He has sailed for England in the Prometheus.
Espartero issued a manifesto to the Spanish nation, dated on board the steamer Betis, on the 30th July ; averring that he had been guilty of no perjury against his oath to observe the constitution ; and drawing a distinction between the original revolt of a few, and a military revolt, against which it was hopeless to contend. He is said to have suffered grievously and continually from his old complaint, stone. It is understood quite to have incapacitated him during the late campaign.
FRANCE.—The French news is not of political importance. The Prince de Joinville had been called to assist in the Council of the Ad- miralty. The Due d'Aumale was to be " Viceroy of Algeria"; to which his Governorship of Constantine was to be preparatory.
On Saturday, the Civil Tribunal of the Seine gave judgment in the case of the executors of the late Marquis of Hertford against Nicholas Suisse, for improperly appropriating about 30,0004 in French stock. The Court decided that there were no grounds for the action against the defendant, and condemned the executors to pay all the costs. It is supposed That an appeal will be lodged against this decision, and that the matter will come before the Court of Cessation.
NORTH AMERICA- — The Caledonia mail-steamer has arrived at Liverpool ; having left Halifax on the 3d instant, Boston on the 1st. There had been no great change in the short interval since the last advices. The Irish Repeal agitation was still in much suspense, al- though General Cass had declared in its favour. The correspondent of the Morning Chronicle mentions a fact creditable to Mr. Tyler's Presi- dency: the Government expenses of the United States, for the year ending 4th March 1843, were 23,078,047 dollars, being 3,300,000 dollars less than the expenses of the previous year."
The same writer mentions a frightful danger with which the Southern States have been threatened-
" Yon may remember, that some three years since the city of Mobile was nearly destroyed by incendiarism, and more than twenty murders were said to have been committed during many days of horror. A few days ago, a runaway slave named William Carter, who bee now made his escape to Canada, con- fessed to a gentleman in the State of New York, that the town was set on fire at different times by the slaves; that they bad counted the White men in the streets, with a view to murdering them, for the purpose, as they imagined, of obtaining their own freedom ; and that, worse than all, a number of White ruffians, swearers, gamblers, and loafers' about taverns, encouraged them in the wdrk of blood and fire. He said that these men were not Abolitionists, of whom he never saw any until he came into the North ; but ' swearing and vicious men.' The horrid design of massacre was prevented, Carter said, by some Negroes who could read, who pointed out the wickedness of such a course, and contended that, if it were adopted, men would come from the Northern States and severely punish the deed. He added, Hit had not been for the fact that there were Coloured men who could read, and were Christian men, Mobile would have been deluged in blood. The ignorant were for butchery.'" The Liverpool Albion has the following news of an untoward event in Newfoundland- " The brig Science, which arrived at Cork late on Friday night, in sixteen days from St. John's, Ncwfoudland, has brought over Mr. James Tobin, with despatches from Sir John Harvey, the Governor of the island, to the British Government. They relate to a serious collision which took place a few days before the Science left St. Jan's, between her Majesty's ship Electra, of 18 guns, and the French fishermen. It appears that the fishermen had begun to take bait on British ground; were repeatedly warned off; but, refusing to obey, were fired upon by the Electra, stationed there for the purpose of protecting the British ground, alien one man was killed and several wounded. This un- toward collision bad excited considerable sensation at St. John's; and the Governor had deemed it of such importance as to forward despatches home by lkir. Tobin ; on the day of whose departure, a French frigate bad arrived to demand explanation."
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