The Spanish Ministry has undergone further changes, according to accounts
from Madrid of the 16th instant. It is said that MENDIZABAL has given up the Finance Department to Senor FERRER, taking the department of Foreign Affairs himself, in addition to the Presidency of the Council ; that GALIANO goes to the Naval department, and ARGUELLES to the Home Office. It seems rather singular that MENDIZABAL should cease to be Finance Minister ; but perhaps lie found it necessary to take the Foreign Affairs under his especial care, and in that case he would
at least require a deputy at the Excheuer,. e as this in- ,tiaiyabsence of t
gori#16:1T. ich
defatigable man also manages the War
ALMODOYAR.
The Carlists are besieging St. Sebas was seasonably augmented on the 10
of British Artillerymen from Santander, under the command of the Hcipourable Major' Futws Gftsvitts ; *ho were only alit* hours in the place before they did excellent thervice. At an inter- view with the emu:Sander of the Carlist troops, Coldnel ARBUTH- NOT ascertained fink the sanguinary decree, forbidding quarter to be given to the Foreign Auxiliaries as well as the Guerillas of the Queen of Spain, was still in force. It is evident that the CarliNtS do not lack ammunition; for they bombarded St. Sebastian, and obliged the inhabitants to take refuge in the bomb-proof buildings. By the latest accounts, however, the garrison had, principally _through the aid of the British troops, become the assailants; and the inhabitants had returned to their ordinary dwellings.
