The Express.
London, England, 1855-06-15 00:00:00

SPAIN.

A telegraphic despatch from Saragossa of the
Bth announced that the rest of the insurgent cavalry
of that city had been routed, and that the chief and
nine of the band had been arrested. Ten officers of
the band of Garcia, in Arragon, had made their sub-
mission, and almost all the armed peasants who had
joined him had returned home. A letter of the 9th,
received in anticipation of the regular mail, nays:
In the Cortes to-day some members of the democratic
party took occasion to attack the government for its conduct
with respect to the constitution. The Gam& of this morn-
ing says that it is probable that the new Minister of Finance
will be able to negotiate the payment of the half-year's
dividends to the foreign creditors. The same journal con-
tains an expression of the Queen's thanks to the national
Ruud of several towns in Antigen for the part they have
taken in patting down the Carlist bends. A band of 10 or
2 iue am nta h appeared at Naval Careers, at three
11eag%seerfrom Madrid, but it will soon fall into the power of
the Queen's troops. The new Minister of Finance thinks
of abandoning the project of a forced loan. and of seeking
resources by other means; one of the pleas mentioned is
the re•mtablithment of the Gourd duties, but nothing has
yet been decided on the subject.
MADRID, JUNE 11.—The government has received
a despatch announcing the complete defeat of the in-
surgents. According to the telegraph the insurgents
have been annihilated three or four times already.
The general payments for May will shortly com-
mence. The government has entered into a contract
with the Bank of St. Ferdinand for the payment
of the foreign debt.

FREE TRADE TRIUMPH IN ROME.

(TROY TRZ CORRZSPONDIXT Or TRZ DAILY News.,
ROME, Jima 6.
Since the exciting period when revolutionary edicts
and appeals to the people were every day occur-
rences in this city, and the walls were covered in
every direction with placard literature in most
1 attractive capitals, I have seldos seen such groups
of omqpr perusers rounds government notification as
*see which collected in all quarters on Saturday
afternoon to eon over the leag wished for announce-
ment of a reduction in the import and consumptive
duties of the principal articles of foreign produce
introduced into the Roman states.
Cardinal Antonelli's high pressure protectionist
den has had a fair trial. It has been weighed in the
Wanes of political economy, and found wanting;
and therefore the oft-repeated representations of the
biennial council, backed by the undeniable argu-
ments of diminished customs receipts and daily in-
emesing smuggling, have at last effected a notable
madliketion of the tariff in a liberal point of view.
The Cardinal Secretary of State's decree, dated
Jaw the Ist, plainly admits " the fitness of intro-
diming some reforms in the customs tariff, which, by
lerwarding the general interests of the state, may
principally have the effect of developing commerce
and guaranteeing home industry, and check the hurt-
hi opposition to both, which is presented by the ape-
gelation or contraband ." It is only sur-
prising that these reflections should not have occurred
sight months ago to Cardinal Antonelli, Signor Galli
(then Minister of Finance) and the other profound
political economists, who framed the high pressure
tariff, which caused so much discontent on its priming-
;tion, and has subsequently turned out to be such a
nal failure.
he principal articles mentioned in the tariff, which
mown British commeroe, are colonial produce, cot-
ton, woollen, linen, silk, and mixed goods, gotta
percha and India rubber articles, metals rough or
wrought, crockery, coals, machinery, and paper.
On these articles the duties are reduced in acme
instances to a third or fourth part of what they have
hitherto been, and occasionally there is a much
Qatar diminution, bat there is a slight Wawa in
Bros on fancy: goods, embroidered =slips, is ,
It is superfluous to add, that both commercial ma
and general consumers are in high spirits at the lie-
complistment of this desirable measure, and these
will be now some prospect of the custom-houses and
free-ports being disgorged of their accumulated
dep6ts of merchandise, which no speculators were bold
enough to take out of bond under the hitherto exist-
( 1 big enormous import and consumption dues.
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