12 APRIL 1851, Page 2

Notwithstanding the proverbial procrastination of Spaniards, the present Spanish Ministry

have cut the Gordian knot of Parlia- mentary difficulties with more promptitude than our Ministers have done. Finding themselves unable to carry their financial measures in the present Cortes, they have dissolved them, instead of, like Sir Charles Wood, presenting an amended budget, or, in imitation of Lord John Russell, advising the Queen to send first for Narvaez and then for Espartero.