The Madrid Gazette of the 15th contains the official announcement*
of the resignation of the Queen Regent ; with an address from the newly•appointed Ministers to the people of Spain, explaining the cir- cumstances which preceded the act. In this address the Mb dsters say, that in their interview with the queen they presented a progreinine, stating the conditions on which they would undertake the responsdnlity of the Government. The bases of these conditions were-
" That her Majesty should give a manifesto, in which responsibility of Mi- nisters for the past would be insisted on; that a promise should be made that in future the constitution would be respected and fulfilled religiously; and that in the new rera commencing in Spain, the natural consequences of that con- stitution would not be obstructed or neutralized by the sinister influences of either natives or foreigners. This we conceived to be one of the first necessi- ties to be satisfied; and in order to save her Majesty the disagreeable feeling which would arise from the supposition of those persons who had recently enjoyed her confidence being criminal, we attributed, in the manifesto which we had the honour of presenting to her, the lamentable consequences which bad ensued to errors in their administration.
"The dissolution of the Cortes and convocation of a new one, preceded by the election of Provincial Deputations, although not strictly in conformity with the conditions assigned by the constitution—the suspension of the Mu- nicipal law until revised, supporting ourselves in the unconstitutional nature of that law—the preservation of the Juntas till the assembling of the Cortes, with an auxiliary character only, and without exercising any authority in matters of government—the deferring to the next Cortes the decision of po- litical questions which had been started, and especially that of the Regency, .assuring her Majesty that it was very possible that the opinion entertained on this subject might change in the interval, if during this time guarantees equal to those proposed to be obtained by Co-Regents were given—these, we say, were the wants which we considered called fin by circumstances.
" The document in which these bases were proposed having been read to her Majesty by the Minister of the Interior in our presence, her Majesty, without having made any objection to what was stated, required us to take the oaths of -office; which we did without hesitation, because we had more than sufficient reasons to believe that the measures we laid before her Majesty would be ac- cepted. But great was our surprise, upon hearing her Majesty immediately after object to them all, awl assert her firm and decided intentioa of resigning the Regency, and of travelling for some time. In vain we enaleavoured to con- vince her 'Majesty that such a step might be dangerous to the welare of the .nation, perhaps to its institutions, and even to the throne itself; but nothing could induce -her to alter her resolution."
Previous to resigning her authority, the Queen issued a royal decree dissolving the Congress of Deputies, and ordering that the third part of the Chamber of Senators be renewed. The following is the act of resignation-
" TO THE CORTES.
" The actual state of the nation, ond the delicacy of my health, have de- cided me to resign the Regency of this kingdom, which was conferred upon me during the minority of my daughter, Isabel the Second, by the constituent Cortes of the nation, couvolsed in 1830; notwithstanding that my legal ad- -visers, with the honour and patriotism which distinguish them, have besought me most earnestly to continue in the Regency at least till the meeting of the next Cortes, believing such a step to be beneficial to the country awl to the public cause; but, being unable to yield to some of the demands made by the .people, who my councillors themselves are of opinion ought to he consulted— I'm the purpose of calming the public mind, and terminating the actual state of things, I find it impossible to continue in the discharge of the Regency, and believe that I only consult the interests of the nation in renouncing it. I trust that the Cortes will appoint persons to the office who will contribute to the happiness of the nation as its virtues deserve. To the same I confide my augnst slaughter; and the Ministers who are to govern the country according to the spirit of the constitution until the Cortes assemble have given the strongest proofs, by their loyalty, that I may safely and with pleasure confide to them the care of so sacred a deposit. For this purpose, therefore, 1 sign the autograph document of my resignation, in the presence of the authorities and corporations of this city, and deliver it to the President of the Council of Mi- nisters, to be presented by him to the Cortes at the proper time.
The Ministers have for the present taken on themselves the Regency till the assembling of the Cortes. The Juntas, it is said, seem little disposed to add a member of the Royal Family to the Regency. The Junta of Cordova has published a decree abolishing the law of tithes voted by the last Cortes.
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