The Express.
London, England, 1856-08-15 00:00:00

SPAIN•

The Madrid journal' of the 10th contain no poli-
tical news. The &paws says that the French
authorities had arrested General Raiz, chief of the
insarreetios at Gerona, " for MAO= which have
nothing to de with politics." The battalion at vo-
, Inatome. formed at Madrid has been dissolved.

Two diligence@ had been stopped and robbed at
Aranda by two wen only.

Letten from Manilla Of the 4th state that a tor-
Tibia fire had broken oat in the cigarette manatan
tort' of Amara, bat they do not say how it 00.
caned, nor the amount of the damage dose.
_ MADRID, A1701:1117 13.

The Gaseite publishes decrees appointing M. Pa.
oheeo Minister of Spain at London, and M. Souza at
Turin. The paranoia° to import wheat and flour
into Spain is extended to Jane, 1857.

CONDITION OF SPAIN : THE CENTRAL

ET AN ENGLISH TRAVELLED.

In thee groupies together for discoed= what I
have termed the "Central Province" of Spate, I
design to imolai Old and New Castile, Marais and
Estressadara. Any each characterisation, I am aware,
is merited only by an approximate aocuracy, which
meet be assigned to the latitudinarianism of political
geograPh7•

It Would be extremely curious, if the necessary
space were at comatead, to analyse the influences
which, daring so many geseratioas, have main-
tained the two Cast(les as the dominant, and,
an it were, the sovereign pavilion; of Spain.
I may here be able at all events to note a few of the
suppositious classes to which their supremacy is not
to be attributed. Thus it is clear that Madrid has in
itself been quite incapable of sustaining this previa-
alai elevation. The capital of Spain is altogether
modern ; it has no earliest traditions, no soolmeastioal
magnum (for until lately it bad neither a oaths.
deal nor a bishop), no considerable population, no
incident bat the establishment of the Court to place it
upon anything like as equality with the chief provin-
cial towns. It occupies a very similar clads, to the
chief cities of Spain with that which Maeda would
now hold tower& Nummthus Augatiarg. sad Bads.
boo, if those sides ware yet nig/sing in their old
municipal and commercial glory. Ofstile and
Arnica, it is true, up to the msrriage of
Labelle and Ferdisead, were twin sovereign states.
But subsequently to that period Charles L
(Emperor Charles V.) recognised Seville as quite as
mesh his Spanish capital as soy city in Castile, while
Madrid was even thee genre. It was not until
the reign of Philip IL that the Court was definitively
and preferentially settled where it has ever since
been Lid. Hence the bread divergence between the
numerous oligarchy of Spanish cities and the single
autocracy of the Parisian mob.

The &Milian ban bon deseribed in many re •
cent works is the natural national aristocracy of
Spain i and this bemuse they an stated is
works to be the meet sorties, manly, and
equable rase of the Peninsula. This posi-
tion apeman to es wholly inaccurate. We
must, is the fist place, dissociate the
Castilian niatessay hoot the Castillo. rer
the foresee bare very little peevish&
about these, and are scarcely more Oestiliae.'.."47l7.
anise or many other provisoes. When we, they de-
nted to the mass of the ninths+. endowed
with little, either or 'mentally, bet the
overflowing szebennie et their 40111 assns. De-
spising the latabiteats at nay ether genies, they
themselves dwell le mei bets. Bo musk hr their
aroblosteral 'hillsides, 6 leads yet awls with
the Weenies tradidess of the Moor ! The sedition
of their sentry le ea insecure that the sodas °flood
farms, whenever it has been entertained by them, has
bees always discarded as impracticable. The state
of the country exhibits in ceseequence an sapeet
absolutely uninhabited, freqesatly for a
tance of many miles. The penults stare
to their noshed homes beton nightfall, ba-
nning suss ma hosenS, distaste from their Aside
of Moor, the seesemies a large pools of their
daily Its sod inns& span the road. The soil is in
may ph... ezbenely arid i and the want of rain
ed
of coy sellelene brigades, whether natural or an
dada, ha 'veal Allan to agriculture. Nadia( can
more tally illestrate the atter ineempetany of the
governsst than the fact that in these two central
manes the soaaoy is still pillaged by robbers, the
skived= of the moil extremely backward and the
security of the agriculturist utterly sprovided for.
If we tura from the social and material to the moral
conditios of tbef Castilian peasant, we shall fled it
equally lemmeinest with the demises of his expe-
rience ewe say other. No people ever yet sated mere
Ass poise sad less from shalaties. contempt
hr all issal imitations, and for laws themselves,
bee seareely peeallol. On the 'lightest seams of
Weans, whetW national or individual, they spun
all nenseity. It may be very tree that their meaner
is often onus and ravel bat it is little more than
the doll gravity of stupidity, what nadisturbel by a
sense of wrong. Their soh attribute of moral supe-
riority over their !wishbone rests in the fact that
they an not addicted, leks the Valentine and moss
others, to treachery and canning. Bat lam apt to
thick that moot a conumenity so corrupt se the
governing cheese of Spain, this very moral sheaths
would he liable to beamed as an intellectual tailing.
It is obvious, thee, how extremely artificial is sot
only the antes of politica entraliestion in thole
but oven the sepresasy of any city of the two Coe:
tilos, eader whatever for. of constitutional organe-
lles.
The provisos of Marcia, which falls away from the
two Coils on the seatheast, and extends to the
Modheersessa sen•bned, say be described as pre-
seethe a seemseseenne idyllist:ion altogether dlgri•i;
sre=hdevv The distinenn, in fact,letwinseekl d
them be ="lll7pepniatiess sent t haps
=from • ellabil Siert firilt Of pete,tal
epos obligee limas. they ascot far
quo* hew travened par: seen With the ex-
emption, therefore, et the chiefly seaboard distaste,
whore hissallisnol ketercoures has raised essieleent
dins, Iponish Sanitary may be mid to mint a
brood inhaler) a sons= and of upset, with a
sonely amenable dilbremes of cialisatios.
Maeda is a deanship province. The nil is
seerable t the drought lass waste the prase t the
people as in a ovation of saline igoonsemt with-
out being puffed up by the hides" of
Osetile. They are generally as Weisel as you
woad regard them se la the sejsyment of the most
easy eiresestanoar, did set their wand apposes I
lie which all travellers eraser) Mel to a very apposite
MThey are sowed Merit a essidler-
aamalelist of Mien Meek sad Physiesessy who
is the slave of lithmelsgy, is, of seerree, mode to
discover the promising of African features among
them. The mimes and the salt marshes of this diarist
eahr the Manias two extessive spheres of 'env,
indepeedeatk, of the agriculture whisk they select.
The letter, however, has bees very ineousiderably
developed, mad the formic as asset ends', is the
hash of adventures Ins this country and from
Frame. Bather avocados is sersover local. The
ehipment, however, of Mercian eat to the leathern
ports a Norse yields a certain CCOM•f011 to the
seas, and the ratans establishments, a had and
reetriseed laser to certain nano. The story of
Ullik is seen told.
gonmedsre is still man SCollyiesoss la its bask-
werines than Mesta, basnMl its sliest. mid soil

inanparably sertirier, without tiag say
inpreeeneat vintner la modal Though
sea* •N nibs is hug* mad primp 80 ia breadth,
popanden is namely Si,. thaa half a siltisa.
When ambers is nuaillssat aad Writer, thus nun-
shoe thisse Is little indassessat to a rade pepalatin
to sande may larp ptypertisa et tie sell. What,
theesferto, would supply stunk, We et thousands in
sear mania lime altogether fallow. If Una&
dots wore a larboard preens, it wear press& a