The Madrid papers are much occupied with a sort of

quarrel between the Minsters and ESPARTERO. M. LINAGE, Aide-de-Camp and Military Secretary to ESPARTFRO, published in the Leo, an Arragonese paper, a sort of manifesto announcing Esraetsao's disapproval of the conduct of Ministers; and the latter have threatened to resign unless ESPARTERO disavow LINAGE.

A recent prceeeding in the Spanish Cortes (noticed last week in the .1.Toridog Chronicle) affords an evidence how little Spanish politicians have yet become familiar with that state of public morality which is the natural consequence of representative govern- ment. A more inexcusable disregard of those obligations on which reposes all mutual confidence between a government and its agents, has never been exhibited than in the conduct of M. PEREZ DE CASTno in regard to the mission of M. ZE.% BERNICDEZ and M. MARLIANI to Berlin and Vienna, despatched in May 1838 and terminated in Slay 1839.

At the period when this mission seas conceived and sent, it was an ohicct of vast heportance to the Queen's cause in Spain that Don i.:ARLOS should be deprived of that sympathy and assistance from the Northern Powers which tended so powerfully to sustain bins in the Peninsula. The mission of M. ZEA Bunmenux and M. Msestsm was intended to accomplish this object, by demonstrat- ing to the Cabinet of Berlin especially, that apart from all question between representative institutions on the one side and absolute government on the other—and considering the rival pretensions of Don Cantos and Queen ISABELLA ou the simple ground of legiti- macy alone, as determined by the recognised public law and pre- cedents of time Spanish monarchy—even upon that view of the subject exclusively, the Northern Powers were supporting the worse title against the better, and that Queen IssnEssa was in every sense of the word the legitimate Queen of Spain. The Envoys were never formally recognized and authenticated at Ber- lin; but they were admitted to exhibit the expositors/ documents and reasons which constituted the primary object of their mission,

Atvistely noticed by the King, and were backed by all the aid

lo, ;,.w. if:elle:British Legation at the Prussian Court could afford ...- - - 1114i.,-..Its 'Bent of fact, the evidence which they produced upon eAc --the tfuNI4le , mbodied in a tarnaire composed by M. MARLIANI, Old\ dVetrk a great and powerful change in the convictions of

the German publicists and university professors respecting the disputed question of Spanish Succession; not merely by its

own' force, but inasmuch as it- furnished-materials for the more elaborate .publication. of Professor ZoPFL of Heidelberg, which even according to the testimony of the Gazette of Augsburg, the avowed organ of the Absolute Governments of Europe, places the legitimate title of Queen ISABELLA beyond all possible

dispute. The English Ambassador at Berlin was so convinced of the impression which had been made upon the minds of the leading men in the Prussian Cabinet by the strength of the case exhibited in favour of the Queen which seems never to have been attentively meditated and discussed in Germany before, that he entertained sanguine hopes of being able to procure from the

Prussian Government a formal recognition of Queen IssnEsss; and 31. 'MARLIANI was despatched to London to obtain from Lord PAssfeassrox a special instruction enabling him to demand it. The

demand was made, but without effect. The Prussian Government

did not formally recognize Queen ISABELLA ; but there are the best reasons for believing that the altered feeling in the minds of

German politicians produced by this mission, in respect to the legitimacy of Don CARLOS, prevented the transmission of further supplies to his aid, and also that the formal recognition of Queen

ISABELLA, which has since emanated front the Cabinet of the Hague, is another effect arising from the same cause. Such re- sults are amply sufficient to show that the mission was both well conceived and beneficial.

During the rem e session of the Spanish Cortes, in the last week of October las 'soweves, several of the Opposition Depu- ties, and amongst others M. ARGUELLES, attacked both the mission

and ifs object, as altogether absurd and dishonourable. At that moment, Dcrs CARLOS was safe in French keeping, and all alarm on

the subject of his pretensions had passed away. It was easy then to assume a tone of defiance, to treat the pretensions of Don CARLOS with contempt, and to boast of the capacity of Spaniards to uphold their own institutions and the Sovereign of their own

choice, in spite of all the hostility of foreign powers. But M. Pnunz las CASTRO had only to explain the real history of the

mission, and the posture of events as they stood when the envoys were at Berlin, in order to establish a triumphant

case of defence. Instead of which, he thought fit to dis- avow the whole mission, absolutely and positively, in the lisce of the Cortes ! At the very moment when he ventured upon this disavowal, he must have been aware that M. Msasissi had in his possession the original despatch of the Duke of FIHAS, consti- tuting the mission and nominating the two Envoys who were to execute it, much against their own will—as well as two letters from M. PEREZ DE CASTRO himself, dated in May last, formally

closing the mission, and expressing the high satisiiiction of the Spanish Government with the two Envoys, for the manner in which they had discharged the duties confided to them. M. Msaissxt

has published these letters et-rig-dim, in his recent pamphlet entitled

Eclairel4semens sin. ma ilEvsion en Allemagne; which contains an ample vindication both of the wisdom and of the utility of his

discussions with the Prussian Cabinet, not omitting a gratefid re- cognition, which in this case seems to have been well merited, of the good-will and promptitude of Lord PALMERSTON.

The publicity of the forms of proceeding connected with repre- sentative government renders such an act of signal falsehood and immorality less likely to occur, but also more flagitious and revolting

when it does occur. M. PEREZ DE CASTRO probably counted upon the silence of M. MARLIANI; and unless the latter had happened

to be a man both independent of all government patronage, and of personal character too high to endure a sentence of public disgrace, the disavowal in the Cortes would probably have passed uncontra- dieted. We think it essential, however, that the true state of the

facts should he put upon record, especially in a case where the as- sistance of British diplomacy has been both asked for and obtained.

If the disavowal of nit. PEREZ DE CASTRO were tbunded in fact, the British Government would have been a consenting and auxiliary party to a pretended and unauthorized mission.