The Express.
London, England, 1847-09-23 00:00:00

MADRID, Sarr. 16.
The programme of the mieie try looks daily more
and more like a delusion. The fit of enthusiasm
lighted up throughout the country by the amnesty
offered a happy moment for holding out a truce to
the partisans of Montemolin, and giving them the
option to return pardoned and unmolested to their
homes. This occasion has been leip. Yet
the truce was a necessary make-weit sl
ght to the
amnesty, and the surest safeguard against the
increased facilities for fomenting the rebellion
being used as an arm against the government.
It does not answer to be generous by halves.
The latest ministerial nominations have not tended to
increase the confidence of the liberals or to conciliate
their support, while the addition of a client of Chris-
tina, and a friend of Mon, to the cabinet, has been
hailed as a triumph by the moderadoe. The only two
ministers who have either inclination or energy to
hold on in a progressive direction, are Salamanca and
Esoosura. The tendencies of these are counteracted
by Cordova and Hos de Olano, while what little poli-
tical weight belongs to the three remaining minis-
ters is no doubt exerted on the side of the latter.
Under these circumstances, which have damped the
hopes of the liberals and slackened their expectations
of the fulfilment of the promises with which their sup-
port was bought at the critical moment which fol-
lowed the repulse of Narvaez, we may expect to find
the ranks of progress shortly opening fire upon the
government, unless they het a fresh instalment of con-
cessions. One of the ministerial doings which has
most irritated them of late, is the promotion by Cor-
dova of 9 brigadiers, whose only apparent merit is
that of being moderadoe, to-the rank of mariscales-de-
campo. Certainly. the brigadiers in question did not
see much service in the late expedition to Oporto, in
which nearly all of them were employed.
A change, miscalled reform, contemplated in the
army, place; the incapacity of the Minister of War in
a striking light. The rank of brigadier is to be sup-
pressed, and all the existing brigadiers are to be
made mariscales-de-campo, a rank corresponding to
that of our major-general. At present brigadiers are
not called generals, a mariscal-de-cameo being the
lowest rank entitled to that denomination ; next
above the mariscal-de-cameo comes the tementi-gene-
ral (lieut.-general), and then the captain-general,
equivalent to field-marshal. The last rank must
not be confounded with the captaincy-general of
a province, there being only five field-marshals
in the Spanish service, but of course a much greater
number of captains-general of provinces. The effect
of the reform above indicated will be to create 400
generals by. courtesy, in addition to the innume-
rable effective generals already in existence. The
new promoted will wear the uniform, without enjoy-
ing the pay, of major-generals. But, of course, to-
morrow, or the next day, intrigue and favouritism will
open for them the door to commands and emoluments,
as favours authorised by their new rank. Besides
this evil of multiplying aspirants of little experience
for important poste, the new mariacales-de-campo
will be disabled from accepting the inferior services
in which they might have been usefully employed
as brigadiers. So that the tendency of this measure
to swell the already overgrown multitude of mili-
tary loungers, and to add to their empty self-impor-
tame. The issuing of so absurd a decree will at least,
000 may hope, have the good effect of sickening peo-
pie of the system of decree-law, and give a fresh im-
pulse to the call for a fair codes and a speedy seseion.
A very significant symptom of the activity of the
French agency which is at work in corrupting all
departments of the public service, and preparing the
mines whose explosion is to upset the present order
of things, may be found in the sudden variation of the
exchange upon Paris which has risen 11 within the
last three days. Three: days ago all the houses of
Madrid were taking bills upon P aria, and at this
moment they are getting rid of them. The same fact
b noted in the provinces. What better proof that
large unusual remittances of money have been made
from France into Spain ? and, in the absence of all
commercial grounds to explain this novelty, it is clear
this pouring in of French money must be attributed
to a political cause. The same phenomenon was
remarked before the outbreak of the revolution of '43.
The Faro hears that the government are going to
unite the functious of political chief and intendente in
the same person, under the title of provincial governor.
The new governors will be divided into three dames,
and those of Madrid and the principal cities will re-
ceive a considerable salary.
The same paper reports that the government have
taken back the treasury bills they recently gave to
the Bank of San Fernando, and have delivered to
company 40 millions in cash.
Rumours have been afloat latterly, I fear with little
foundation, about the dissolution of the Cot Mid in
event of these not being dissolved, of the re-diction of
about 40 members, whose places are vacant on various

accounts.
The Herald° having taunted the progresistaa with
the Onsrrier Francais, whose late atrocious libel upon
the Spanish Queen has excited so much disgust,
advocating the same principles in France which the
ayacnchos do in Spain, the Erpectador, in answer,
has revealed some curious facts. It states that M.
Durrieux, the principal redacteur of the Courrier,
is
a great friend of the ultra-moderado Martinez de la
Rosa, and was presented with the 'Cross of Charles
111. by his patron, when minister of state.
General Inane has had an interview with the
Minister of War, in which he has made a fresh appli-
cation in favour of the amnestied offioers of the
progresista party, and professes himself satisfied
with General Cordova's reception and reply.
The Faro states that the night before last, at the
Theatre of the Circus, where the Queen and ministers
were present, rumours were industriously circulated
(of course by English agents) of a military con-
spiracy, beaded by moderado generals, that was to
break out at two 'n the morning. It was to be a
very sanguinary affair, killing the Queen, and so
forth. The King Consort was to play the princi
part. These tales were the preface to a pro to
the Queen for seizing Narvae: and other peop e, and
arming the national militia. I really should not
notice the contemptible lying paragraphs of this kind
which are continually put forward by the respectable
oqs.na of the ultra-moderados, but that I know they
will reach you by some other channel if I do not, and
probably excite more attention.
The ingenious shifts which are resorted to by the
Faro for making a bugbear of England in the eyes
of Spain may be conceived from the notices of our
designs upon Cuba, which it carefully extracts from
American papers. One of these appears in its number
of to-day.
Notices in the Daily News of the 10th lead us to
expect daily the arrival of Espartero or Montemolin
in the capital.
By the last news from Barcelona Concha had
arrived, and Pavia given np his blood-stained
incheon of command.

FRANCE.---Pante, SEPT. 21.—The Courrier
Francais says :—" A report is current that, in order to get
out of the difficulties in which the affairs of La Plata are in-
volved, the ministry has concaved a medico terminus. The
cause of the rupture of the late negotiations was, as is well
known, the pretensions of Roses to theconoession of the river
Uruguay, and the other tributaries to the Plata. 11.
Walewski, comprehending that this concession would have
the effect of rendering Roue master of the whole country,
refused to grant it. It appears that M. Guizot, finding hint.
self on the point of being abandoned by England, fancied he
could get rid of the difficulty by giving up the rivers to
Rose', but reserving I. the other nations the right of rir .
gating them. This right is to be exercised under certain eas-
ditions and regulations, to be mutually agreed on by all the
contracting parties. This arrangement, although it . may
put an end to the present state of things, must become •
source of future and more numerous difficulties."
INGENIOUS ESCAPE. —Two sportsmen, one of
them furnished with a license and the other not, IFITO
lest week out with their guns near Lyons, when a garis4l••
chaise was seen at a little distance coming towards do m.
The unlicensed man became alarmed and was about to fly ;
when his companion prevailed on him to stand his ground,
engaging to bring him harmless out of the scrape. When
the garde came within a certain distance, he with
the permit set off at the top of his speed, over hedge
over ditch, in true steeplechase style, leaving his friend im-
movable with astonishment. The garde at once concluded
that the fugitive had good futons for his flight, and fol-
lowed him till, at a considerable distance, the flying sports-
man stopped and allowed him.to come up. As soon as the
garde had recovered breath enough to speak, he demanded
the other's license. This was produced, examined, and
found to be perfectly regular. Disappointed and vexed, the
garde in no very good humour asked the bearer of it why ha I
had fled so fut. The answer was, " Only to stretch my
legs ! " To this there was no reply. In the meantime the
unlicensed gentleman turned in the opposite direction, and
reached home unmolested.
WE/ann. Ole TUE FRENCH CoasT.—The wea-
ther continue exceedingly stormy on the western and nor-
thern coast. On Friday morning the Bretagne steamer
went out of Havre for Cherbourg, but the wind blew so
strong, that she we' obliged to put back in the afternoon.
The packet for Caen could not venture out. On Saturday,
whilst the sea was so very boisterous off Dieppe that scarcely