The abdication of the Queen Regent of Spain was announced
inn the Paris papers of Sunday. The news was received by telegraphic de- spatch from Barcelona. The manifesto of abdication is dated the 12th. It is stated that tine Queen had determined to resign before her inter- -view with Espartero and the new Ministers at Valencia. The Madrid correspondent of the Alio-nifty Chronicle says, that " in their first inter- view with her, they meutioned the situation of affairs at Madrid, the anxious and excited expectations of tine people, and tht necessity of calming them by a kind of address or manifesto, promising tine with- drawal of the Municipal-law, as well as the submission to the future Cortes for discussion of that modification of the Regency for which certain parties clamoured. Her Majesty was averse alike to any state- ment of disapprobation of the Municipal-law or to any allusion to the question of tine Regency. Sine demanded from the 'Ministers present a note in writing of these their recommendations and demands. This, with some hesitation, was drawn up. On perusing tine note, the Queen Regent withdrew, and sent for Espartero, with whom alone she had a short conference. Espartero pitted tine Queen with a countenance full of emotion, brought tine Ministers instantly to his apartments, and there informed them that she had already drawn up and signed her abdication of the Regency, which sine seemed deter- mined to persevere in. After some consultation amongst them- selves, Espertero and tine Ministers returned to the Queen, and endeavoured to dissuade her from taking so extreme a course. Her Majesty remained inimovedly determined. Senor Ferrer then observed, that it' Queen Christina insisted on abdicating, and on retiring to Na- ples, as sine proposed, she must leave the young Queen Isabella to the guardianship of the nation, and must also give up the publics property vested in her as Queen and Regent. Christina made no difficulties
with respect to Queen Isabella; but the demand of resigning her right over all reverie seemed to cause her some hesitation. (The I Queen is reported to have amassed an immense fortune since tine death
of Ferdinaud.) Sine said she would :reflect upon it till next day. Tine
next day, however, she was resolved Si)) abdication, and withdrawing to :seeks at all events ; and she handed the act of abdication, which had
heel: ready on the first day to Senor Ferrer, The Ministers accord- 'g :ellioneneed the event to time tiatiall. They themselves are by tine t :nes title len invested svith the Regency till the meeting of the Cortes.' telegraphic despeteln has since reached Paris, announcing the am- - ri its! Qineen Christina at Perpignan. " She disembarked," says the ,Vw,ilefir, "at Port Vendres, and proceeded by Perpignan to Marseilles, foon en hence it, na her intention to proceed to Naples."
; The ,Votiono/, in its Madrid correspondence, states that the Junta hol,e diseovered, among mher papers of tin: lrown, a document which proves that Et secret marriage between the glleell Regent and M. Munoz ha I actually taken place, as also that several children had been the fruit ot it. 1 doeutnent is said to show that line persons wino were witnesses
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to the cremony were Aimee}, M. Gonzali:s, the Queen's confessor, Messrs. Grareria and Ronchi, some relations of' N. Munoz, and a I fennne-de-ehambre named A ntonia.
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