The Press.
London, England, 1856-09-13 00:00:00

SPAIN.

The Emperor Napoleon has conferred the Grand
Cordon of the Legion of Honour upon Marshal
O'Donnell. The Epoca of the 4th, anticipating
this mark of distinction, says that the Emperor will
accompany the honour by "an autograph letter
highly flattering to the man who in Spain has saved
the cause of monarchy and society."
Such French exiles as are in the Basque pro-
vinces are to be forthwith removed to the interior of
Spain.
The Gazette of the sth contains an official denial
of any misunderstanding in the Cabinet. Marshal
O'Donnell was unwell.

The Journal de Madrid has published the report
on which the Cabinet has based the decree dissolving
the Cortes. The report draws a parallel between the
Cortes of 1851 end those of 1837. The latter having
formed the constitution spontaneously solicited the
decree for their own dissolution, thereby rendering
the Queen Gobernadora; and, relying upon this pre-
cedent of 1837, the report is followed by the decree
of dissolution. No allusion is made to the convoca-
tion of a new Cortes.

The suppression of the Liberal papers was enforced
with severity.
Catalonia is in a state of great agitation.

SWITZERLAND.

The insurrection at Neufchatel on the 3rd was
completely crushed by the federal troops before forty-
eight hours had passed. Count Pourtales, and the
principal leaders, with the exception of Colonel
Meuron, were captured, with a hundred prisoners.
The losses are under thirty killed and wounded on
both sides.

The Council of State of Neufchatel has published
a proclamation, in which it acquaints the inhabitants
of the republic that order is again restored, and also
thanks them for the patrioti•sin and courage they dis-
played during the late events.
The Paris correspondent of the Inclipendance Beige
writes on the Neufchatel question :

We are assured here, contrary to what you have been
told from Berlin, that Prussia attaches the greatest im•
portance to the affair at Neufchatel, and that it has ener-
getically embraced this opportunity of bringing forward
this problem for solution, which the war in the East had
effaced from the general political programme of Europe,
though constantly engaging the attention of the Berlin
Cabinet. _ _

It is on the question of the prisoners (whose existence
the Prussian Government is not willing on any account to
leave to the mercy of Helvetic justice) that the discussion

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will probably arise ; but the question will assuredly take in
a wider range, and it is added that Prussia intends sub-
mitting it to the Diet of Frankfort, in order that she may
obtain the concurrence of Germany, and be authorised in
case of need to send an army into those German States
that separate Prussia from Switzerland, whose territory
would also have to be violated before she could reach Neuf-
chatel. On the other hand, the Swiss cantons announce
their intention of defending themselves energetically.
The Austrian Gazette congratulates the republican
party on their having staled at its birth by their
promptitude and energy a new European question :

The present situation (says the writer) alters in no
respect the rights of the Prussian crown ; this question
has rather the air of a civil law snit than that of a political
question of any weight, and it will probably be settled by
the acceptance of au indemnity.