The Press.
London, England, 1855-12-08 00:00:00

SPAIN.

Great efforts are being made to create ft division
between Espartero and O'Donnell, but the Cortes
passed a vote of confidence in O'Donnell by 131
votes to 8.
" The question of the Western alliance," says the
Epoca, "is not so completely abandoned as is gene-
rally thought, and before the spring a decisive result
may be attained." The preparations fur raising
eighty battalions of provincial m►litia were proceeding
rapidly, and great numbers of rifles were being
manufactured in the arsenals, it being intended to
provide the whole army with that species of weapon.
The Spanish Cortes, in its last sitting, adopted,
nearly without discussion, Art. 58 of the Constitu-
tion, empowering the Cortes to exclude from the
succession to the throne any person who is incapable
of governing, or who shall have committed an act by
which the right to the crown may have been for-
feited. They have also the power of excluding any
persons who may be similarly situated from the
guardianship of the King

AMERTCA.
The arrival of the Pacific at New York with
English papers of the 3rd ult. bad created a great
sensation throughout the United States, but after a
few days the official organ of the Washington Cabi-
net states .
Thai despatches received by the steam-ship Pacific
confirm the assurances that there is nothing whatever in
the diplomatic relations between Great Britain and the
United States which need awaken a moment's solicitude
on this side of the water, and that though the Central
American question is a subject of earnest discussion and
very serious difference on some points, yet that it is still a
matter of negotiation ; and that the despatch of the British
fleet to the West India station was probably caused by the
alarm produced by the British Consul's mistake relative to
the barque Maury.
After this declaration the general feeling of the
States was that the difficulty would be speedily ad•
justed, and that matters would soon assume their
old routine.

INDIA AND CHINA.
The Santhal insurrection, by date to November 2,
still continued. The insurgents, descending from
their mountain fastnesses, made razzias upon the
neighbouring villages, burning and murdering in all
directions. The Supreme Council still hesitated to
declare martial law.
On the north-west frontier everything was quiet.
At Oude the general religious war was subsiding,
though the difficulties and troubles of the kingdom
were so great that the crisis was rapidly approaching.
At Bnrmah all was quiet ; the embassy had been
received at Ava on the 13th September, and the
Governor-General Lord Dalhousie had expressed
his intention to visit Burmab, and to return to Cal-
outta by the Ist December.
From Hong-Kong to the 15th ult. we learn that
Sir James Stirling has been employed it; the negotia-
tion of a treaty with Japan. Two French ships, and
ber Majesty's ship Pique, had taken possession of one
of the Kurile islands, and the Russian settlement
there was destroyed.

FOREIGN MISCELLANEA.
TIIE ANNIVERSARY OF THE COUP D'ETAT, last Sun-
day, passed over in Paris without any of those corn
metnorations lately anticipated. '1 he bulk of the
Imperial Guard only reaching Marseilles on the 3rd
entirely preven►ed a triumphal entry into Paris on

the 2nd.
COUNT DE HATZFELD, the Prussian plenipotentiary,
has returned to Paris from Berlin after a short
absence. It is rumoured that Count Walewski has
a'ready asked him for explanations touching the King
of Prussia's speech.
THE Frew' French journal, in commemoration
of the 2nd of December, in one sense, reprinted on
Sunday at full length the valuable Austrian treaty,
signed on the 2nd of December last year by England
and France, underlining the passages which say
that " in case peace should not have been made iu
the course of the then present year (l 854), the Em•
peror of Au4tria would deliberate without delay with
the Emperor of the French and the Queen of Eng-
land as to efficacious means for enforcing the object
of the alliance ;" and asking, what result has this
treaty produced?
THE FRENCH ENGINEERS appointed to survey the
Isthmus of Suez, to report. on t le practicability of
the proposed canal between the Mediterranean and
Red Seas, and all the European commissioners, have
arrived at Alexandria.
GENERAL CANROBERT'S :MISSION To SWEDEN was
mainly intended, said Mr. Wise, M.P., at a public
dinner at Stafford last week, " to obtain for Prince
Napoleon the hand of a daughter of the King of
Sweden."
THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL OF ALGERIA, in warning
the newspapers published in that colony, forbids
them to discuss anything whatever in regard to which
the Government may have interfered, either directly
or indirectly.

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