The Press.
London, England, 1856-08-30 00:00:00

SPAIN.

The Madrid Gazette of the 22nd contains the fol-
lowing :

ROYAL DECREE.

Considering the reasons exposed to me by my Council
of Ministers with regard to the expediency and necessity of
disbanding the National Oulu* I have decreed:—

Art. 1. The National Guard of the kingdom is dissolved
and definitively suppressed.
Art. 2. The Government will account to the Cortes, at
their next session, for the adoption of this measure.
THE QUEEN.

Given at the Palace, August 15, 1856.
The Government, in a lengthened exposition, justify
the measure on the ground that, since its establish-
ment. except during the period of the last civil war,
the National Guard has been "an element of un-
ceasing perturbation," "a constant opponent to every
established government, and preventive to every
salutary reform," and that all past experience pro-
claims that the institution of the National Guard is
incompatible with "the normal and regular govern-
ment of the State."

The suppression of the National Guard is to be
followed by other important measures, viz., the dis-
solution of the Constituent Cortes, the publication of
the constitution of 1843 modified, restrictive munici-
pality and provincial deputation laws, depriving
those bodies of all right to interfere in political ques-
tions, the law on the press, introducing changes in
the penalties and the organisation of the jury, and
the establishment of the Council of State.

Messrs. Bravo Murillo and Gonzalez Romero,
former Ministers, have obtained leave to return to
Spain, and are to reside some time in the Basque
provinces. M. Manuel Bertran•de-Lys was expected
at Madrid.
It is said that the Government has concluded a
contract with the Bank of Spain for a loan of
60,000,000 reels, payable in three months, at five and
a half per cent. interest.
The law of clisamortisation (secularising ecclesi-
astical property formerly held in mortmain) will, it
is rumoured, be put in execution by the Govern-
ment, to supply immediate wants. The Estrella, a
journal of the ultramontane clerical party says :

The Junta of disamortiaalion at Madrid holds two meet-
ings every week, and at every meeting 1,501 of the sae-
'dales filed must be disposed of. At this rate there will be
:3,000 properties authorised at Madrid to be sold in each
week, or 12,000 in the course of a month. Orders have
been given in the provinces to sell fifty estates every day.
The Messager dA Bayonne (a doubtful authority)
asserts that a Spanish junta has organised itself at
'Bayonne, and is actively at work
The leading members are MM. Olozaga, Sagusta, Cairo
Ascencio, and General Gurrea. At one of their last meet-
ingsit was proposed to choose a new leader of the Liberal
party in place of Espartero. A celebrated diplomatist
modestly offered himself, but was not accepted. The
meeting decided that secret societies should be created
all, over Spain, and that a new revolution should be
provoked.
The Spanish Minister at Mexico has been removed
from his post.
_ _

Prince Adalbert of Bavaria arrived at Madrid on
the 21st, and was married to the Infanta Donna
Amalia last Tuesday.
The Dukes de Medina, Cceli, and D'Albe, have
written public letters denying that their palaces or
property in Madrid sustained any damage during
the insurrection.