The Spanish Ministry are issuing decrees of confiscation against the
property of the Curlist Clergy, especially in the diocese of Burgos. This mode of proceeding is an indication of the strength which the late quadruple treaty must have given the Queen's government. The last accounts state that the treaty had been received and ratified by the Queen. There appears to be continual skirmishing between the Royalists and Insurgents in the Northern Provinces, without any decisive result. As to Don CARLOS, the last intelligence that can be depended upon is, that he was moving in the direction of Santa- rem. A report which reached Paris by a telegraphic despatch from Bayonne, that he had embarked from some place on the Por- tuguese coast for England, has been very prevalent, but wants confirmation.
It was stated in the same despatch from Bayonne, that the civil war in Portugal had been extinguished at last by the resignation of Don M IGUEL ; but this news also is deemed too good to be true, and strong suspicion rests upon it. Complaints are frequent among the British merchants resident in Lisbon, that Lord HOWARD DE WALDEN detains the Govern- ment packets for some time after he has given notice that they are to sail, and beyond the time of closing the letter-bags, thereby affording certain individuals the opportunity of sending later intel- ligence to their correspondents in England—an advantage which, in the excitable state of the Portuguese Stock market, may be of considerable value at times. We seem to have been peculiarly unfortunate in our Ambassadors to Lisbon ; but, as the Times re- marks, the English Foreign Secretary is not perhaps aware that there arc any merchants at Lisbon—he is too fine a gentleman to think of any thing so loathsome and degrading as trade.
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