The Express.
London, England, 1855-01-05 00:00:00

SPAIN.

The following is the text of the octroi bill :
Art. 1. From the let of January, 1865, the tax of Coe.
sumos and the gate dues are suppressed throughout the Pe.
nissula and the adjacent islands, as far as concerns the part
' received by the state.
Art. 2. If after making the retrenchments that the pub.
lie service may permit in the budget of expenses for 1851, a
deficit results in it compared with that of the receipts, the
law of the budget will establish the real and effective mum
necessary to cover such deficit.
Art. 3. The government is authorise(' to obtain a
credit to the amount that may be necessary to cover the
deficit resulting from the suppression of the tax of Con.
sumac and of the gate dues, from the Ist of Jan. nest until
the law of the budget be put into execution, the said credit
not to exceed 40,000,000 reale (400,0001.)
Art. 4. The government is also authorised to issue bonds
of the Three per Cent. Consolidated Debt to the nominal
amount of 120,000,000 reale, of which there shall be dem.
sited in the Spanish Bank of San Fernand. the sum that
may be necessary to guarantee that which shall be raised in
virtue of the authorisation granted in the previous article.
These bond. cannot be applied to any other purpose.
Art. 6. The sum the government may receive in vittesof
this authorisation shall be paid with the resources voted is
the law of the budget ; but
,if, on the let day of July, 1855,
the lenders should be either wholly or partly unpaid, a sat.
ficient amount of the bonds deposited as guarantee shall be
sold to reimburse those creditors, and the remaining bon3
shall be publicly cancelled.

(PROM THE

HOLLAND:

OP THE DAILY NEWS.)

ROTTERDAM, JAN. 2.
" After this comes the deluge." Here we are, for
the second time in twenty-four hours, almost knee
deep in water, with a north-west wind blowing great
guns, and dashing up the water of the sea into the
caught that intersect the town, submerging our
streets, and making traffic impossible otherwise than
by boats, cabs, or pickback. It has not the slightest
respect for persons or places, this water. The greater
part of our " respectables," indeed, live in &men-
?wizen, that is, in houses separated from the street
level by means of a staircase, thus, they are exempted
in a great measure, from this impertinent intruder.
But woe to ground-floor premises, for in spite of flood-
planks and besome, it makes its way, oozing up from
underground, or through the chinks or porosities of
the foundation, impregnating, in its muddy revelry
the carpets, paper hangings, and furniture, sweeping
through coal-cellars, and filling the wine-cellars,
gurgling through warehouses, and soaking the wares;
turning out of doors, bed and baggage, the poorer
inhabitants, whose only home perchance is a room or
two on the ground floor, or compelling them
to make a sort of Noah's Ark of their
table, on which to huddle themselves, and
their more spoilable effects, till the wind drops and
the water sinks into its legitimate channels. Fortu-
nately for Admiral Ensile, he is now out of office,
and his portfolio of marine is gone a begging ; other-
wise we should be hearing one of their sagacious
High Mightinesees of the States-General proposing
a vote of want of confidence in the minister, for eo
far neglecting his duty as to suffer the element com-
mitted to his special charge to intrude into the de-
partment of the Minister of the Interior. Fortunately
he has escaped this ordeal through having resigned a
few days beforehand, overwhelmed by the difficulties
he had to encounter in defending himself against a
similarly vexatious accusation.
Some months ago a government war steamer was
despatched to Japan, and her commander was in-
structed to treat with the Japanese government for
an extension of the commercial privileges now for so
many years accorded by that jealous government to
Holland. Letters have lately arrived from the com-
mander of this vessel, by which it appears that
important concessions of a very favourable character
have been granted by the court of Japan to the
court of the Netherlands.

FILIBUSTERISM IN SANTO DOMINGO.

(ram AN OCCASIONAL CORRNSP
NIIISJ

OP THE DAILY

SANTO DOMINGO, DEc.
The treaty between the Dominican Republic and
the United States, was, on the sth of December,
unanimously rejected by the Dominican Congmig.
American aggrandisement has therefore found an
unexpected shock dealt by the insignificant Sister
Republic," as the American commissioner calls her.
She has taught a lesson to the great model republic,
which the latter will not so easily forget. The third
clause, that denied equal rights to the Dominic"
citizens, whether white er of colour, on their
arrival in the slave-holding states of the Union,
has been the calms that the treaty was thrown
out. There were other reasons of minor con-
sequence ; but the determination of the repre-
sentatives of the Dominican people that no
such disgraceful injustice as the people in South
Carolina dealt to Pereira, a man of colour and s
British subject, should betel any of their fellow-
citizens incited them to a man; hence this was the
rock on which Mr. Cazneau'a diplomacy split.
The American plenipotentiary has last all lug
equanimity. He sent on the 4th of Decembse

Nest ['tempest' sots to the Demi% lase minister. It
it esid. that so little doss be uniusetesd the &Fluty
his Wok* that while ameba msversation to
Soto ably
Deede in r
mots CiellytiMills he
abbe lb* Siam est hint' that
SIPA
enhensity et the irdibesiline haws so bounds
▪ esgssmarmei of the fallen it their 'enigma, and
hen shears itself by the castors et some American
womehaist meals hem the smiths* states now in the
barbs* •
The gig of the semasandar of her Majesty% ship
se returning to that steam simm ewe having
the geode, had to peas is the Basin the
Atomises mbsenor Leisisse the mods, of which
Wks's! the bat to acme ass* bet the cockswain
did sot heed it. When psis the asbeaser the
minor tired delassitely a meshes at the me* the
hea Mks eels a few het short et the use. Ice
thlewage, our mend end the essmander
a ILK& Argus had to use stringent measures in
cis le Sine the authorities to have the perpe-
trator sesisted, and the case is now under trial.
Ig sea* however, that SanteDomiogo has at last
MINIM lir attention of England and France, and
the billirao• hitherto paid to the intrigues of the
Fabian from the slave states of the American
UAW bee goon place to an active "surveillance."
Igoe yelling, her Majesty's steam sloops, Argus
sot Nam with the French frigate Penelope, the
blip e f MST Moiety/re. and Orestes, and the steam
deep Meet, are lying in the " Placer del Estudio,*
. ge Ifs waists! at Sasto Domingo is called.
U is Marled that Mr. Carnets has written in
bye Plibustssie style to Mr. Marcy, entreating him
ter& a powerhil Beet, in order to revenge his de-
kal. Mr. Messy's high reputation for justice and
praisers implies us with the hope that his govern-
ment will est mmmit so rash an act, which might
ideals the tomb of war—an event for which the
rgllostherns" in the United States seem to be
panting.

ne Court.

WINDSOR, JAR. 4.

The dinner party yesterday included the Duchess
if Zeal, t►e Bari of Aberdeen, the Earl and Connie.,
Orsini Lady Pansy Howard, Baroness de Bpstb, and
Lisaleseat-Oeseral Sir Reap Bowles.
Ty saad el the Royal Rom Guards played during
dinner, sad her Majesty's Private Band afterward..
The Qom and Prim), waiked in the pounds adjacent to
the Castle this morning.
The Hos. Eleanor Stanley and the Hot. Beatrice Byag
Rave enaweded the Hon. Flora Macdonald and the Hos.
Caroline Cavendish as Maids of Honour in Waiting.
The Earl of Aberdeen arrived at t►e Castle yesterday
aftwooce,aad left Windier this morning for London.
The Earl sad Countess Chauvin, and Lieutenant-
Owed Sir G. Bowles have also taken their departure to.
day

Tbe last of Aberdeen arrived is tows yesterday from a
slit te the Queen.
Degatibee be the Governors of Australia were seat last
Midas trim Oa Colonial-office.

WINDSOR, JAN. 4.—The Queen and Prince Albert,
asesespaakd by the Princess Royal and the Prince of
Will., will leave Windsor Castle to-morrow (Friday)
aarealag, sad proceed by Orest Western and South-
Wailers Railways ti Osborne. The august party will be
atteaded by a portion only of the Royal household. and it is
asderstood that her Majesty will return to Windsor on
Watley next.

The Grand Dukes Michael and Nicholas are, it is
said, to rotors to the Crimea on the 7th hut..

Admiral Duadu arrived at Constantinople on the
25th tilt ,on his way to England, having left Rees-Ad-
mind Lyons at t►e hood of the English squadron.