The Express.
London, England, 1855-01-04 00:00:00

SPAIN.

We have received the Madrid journals up to the
29th nit. •
The Diario Espanol informs us that the ministry,
in phrsuance of the promise that it had given, was
endeavouring to effect economy in every department
of the state. In the foreign department, the lega-
tions of Denmark, Parma, Tuscany, Switzerland, and
Saxony are to be suppressed, and those of Mexico,
Turkey, Piedmont, and Naples are to be of the second
class. In the other departments there is to be a
general reduction of the number of functionaries, and
of the salaries of those who are to be retained. It
appears also to be decided that there shall be a large
redaction in the budget of the clergy. Nothing
important took place in the Cortes on the 29th. The
government presented a bill for a levy of 25,000
men, but there was no discussion on the subject in
that sitting.
Our letters from Madrid of the 28th ult., and the
Madrid journals of the same date, give details ex-
planatory of the retirement of M. Collado, the
Finance Minister of the FApartero cabinet. The
fact, together with the nomination of M. Sevillano as
his successor, was announced in the Cortes on the
28th, when decrees on the subject were read. The
octroi question appears to have been at length regu-
lated by an agreement between the government and
what may be distinguished as the economical opposi-
tion. Ia the Cortes M. Sancho Silva announced that
the committee on the octroi question had come to an
understanding with the government to adopt a bill
on the subject to the following effect : To suppress
from the Ist of January, 1855, the octroi duties
payable to the state, but to continue those
payable to muticipalities and provincial deputations
until otherwise decided ; the committee on the

I budget to propose savings which may help to make
up the deficit which will be occasioned; and the go-
vernment to be authorised to make a loan. A bill in
those tams having been brought in was immediately
taken into consideration, aad the first article of it
was adopted by by 209 votes to 2. The Diario states
that the financial situation of Saragossa, Barcelona,
Seville, Valencia, and other large towns is so deplor-
able that the municipalities have hadtto make locoed
loans. The journals announce the death of Captain-
General of the Army Don Pedro Villa Camps, direc-
tor of the asylum for invalid braises, and a distin-
guished soldier, and of General Lavalette, second in
command of Cuba.

• THE BRAZILS.

By the Lady Jocelyn steamer we are in possession
of advices from Bahia to the 2nd December—twelve days
later than by the Great Western steamer.
The commercial accounts are favourable.
At an auction of sugar, of ordinary quality, sales were
effected at 2.120 per arroba for whites, and 1.300 to 1.520
for browns. Picked lota could not be purchased at less
than 1.600 for browns, and 2 900 for whites.
The demand for cotton was merely nominal, at 5.400
to 5.600 per arroba for biopic) and Bahia. There was
nothing doing for export.
In con,equence of the rainy weather, the supplies of
coffee from the interior had fallen off considerably. Prices
of coffee afloat remained at 3 700 to 3.750 per arroba.
C lb. 'sold by auction at 4 to 4 100 for unwashed;
firsts, at 3.800 to 3.950 ; seconds, at 3.400 to 3.650 for
ordinary, and 2 200 to 3 200 for triage.
A few bags of cocoa sold at 2.100 per snobs.
Hides were in improved demand, and prices ware ad-
venting, sales having been reported at 210 re. per lb. for dry
and 170 rs. for salted.
For rum the inquiry had almost ceased, and prices in
consequence tended downwards—ranging from 620 rt. to
640 ra. per can.
Thus was no tapioca offered In the market.
A fresh demand having sprung up for Piassava, prices
were higher, 13 per hundred having been granted for
fair gustily. Double bundles, weighing 40 Ibis, were pur-
chased at 22 per hundred.
Tobacco continued to be neglected. A few small sales
of Wooed leaf thirds were made at 2.200 per arroba.
The new crop had not made its appearance.
Freights to the United Kingdom nominal at 57e. 6d. to
60s. per ton for orders ; to London, 50s. to 555. ; and to
Liverpool, 40a. to 455. par ton for sugar ; and id. per lb. for
cotton.

Exchange on London nominal, at 27/ 1. to 28d. for 60
days ; Paris, 345 f. to 350 f. ; Hamburg, 670 c. to 680 C.
SHIPPING.—The Statesman, from London for Rangoon,
put into Bahia leaky. Arrivals at Bahia—Murray, and
John Martin, from Liverpool ; Eliza Robson, and Parts-
soles. from Rio Janeiro. Sailed from Bahia—Seringapa.
tam, Nov. 21, and Rubin, Nov. 28, for Liverpool ; Ranger,
Nov. 29, for Macsio; and Benne, Nov. 30, forth. Channel.