The Express.
London, England, 1851-12-29 00:00:00

SPAIN.

MADRID, Dac. 23.
The Princess Royal was baptized yesterday- Tbe
infant 1). Franciteso de Pattie, the father of
the King, was the godfather, and Queen Marie
Christine was the godmother. The Princess was
christened Marie Isabelle Francoise DAssises Chris-
tine Francois° de Peule. The ceremony was per.
firmed by the Archbishop of Toledo. The city wi!l
be illuminated this evening. Since the birth of the
Princess Madrid has all the air of a season of festi-
vity. The Gazette. of to-day publishes the budget of
1/452, which has not yet been approved of by the
Cortes, but which is nevertheless to come into opera-
tion on January 1. This fact leads to the presump•
tion that the minister does not think of convening
the Cortes before September or October, unless ex-
traordinary events should happen.
The decree of the Gazette fixing the budget fcr
18Z2, is as follows :

Art. 1 files the,_ ordinary expenses of the state at

11,410,5311. Art. 2 HU, the extraordinary expen,esat
,osol. Art. 3 relates to the payment of the active and
passive classes of empfoye's. Art. 4 estimates the receipts 4
11,884.7471. Art. 5 dedicates the surplus to the ditninuti.a
of the floating debt. Art. 6 authorises th 3 government to
open upon the receipts of 1853 a limited credit amount og
to the deficits of 1819, '5O, and 'ol. Art. 7 autbonses the ;a-

verninent to sell, by public auction, the umountof thischarge
fur pros idiag the royal household with quarters, to whoa
various houses of Madrid are subject, the reslciaptiun of
which, granted by the law of May, 1815, is not realiwd by
those interested within four months from the prat nt time.
Art. 8 authorises the government to contract a loan, de•tintd
exclusively for covering the expenses of in: acrid. for t!:a
army ; the interests and sinking fund of which loan •hail bi
discharged, with the credit of 30,0001. assigned fur that par.
pose in the present budget. Art. J provides that the Duch..s
of Montpcnster, whose pension as heir apparent to the throne
amounting to 21,5001. now passes to the infanta, born on
the 20th inst., Shall receive, instead of the pensioned .5,50/..
settled on her by the budget of 1814, the manual sum of
20,0001. For this purpose, the budget of the royal how,
hold is increased by 14,•"001.

hereto% that new elections should take place, and
that be would ever maintain the constitution. Only
one of these prosaism was kept, namely, the calling
of the new parliament, which sat just as long as the
events of Europe were doubtful. No one ever be-
lieved that the revolt of May would be revived, and
a monster trial grow old of it. It would appar,
however, that the government thought it an admir-
able opportunity to imprinter amid dear theseentry
of the members of the led fit. This I *eke
to be the political aim aft them WA. The neeehee
el the accused is 321 (p. de" Chem, 16 Motergien,and
creoprises one cabinet minister, we minimise eleelpo.
kebab several deputies, perakehish in the
few nobles and other persons of &deaths and pro-
perty. Of these only 46 are brought to trial ; the
rest are in exile, or " liable to be called Imes." Why
so many who were actually taken with SEM in their
hand are not incorporated in the trial, k a Neapoli-
tan mystery, to say the least of it. The general anew
esti= runs thus :—" (If conspiring and threatening
the internal security of the states, with a view of de-
stroying or changing the form of government, and
exciting the subjects and inhabitants of the kingdom
to arm themselves against the Royal authority, as
well as, in fact, fur having actually excited civil Mt
between the inhabitants of the same
treason consummated in the capital, 16, 1648."
(Coma, p. .59.)
Those who are not present will be tried, says the
act of accusation, precisely as if they were in siert,
so that many exiles will probably find it impost Is
to return, as there can be little doubt about the im
tentions of the government.
The printed act of accusation contains a variety oi,
documents. The first is the programme of the first
constitutional ministry (approved by the King). The
ke° Bahasa is promised, and the royal banner is
to wear the Italian tri-colour! Then follows a pro-
clamation of the supreme magistracy of the king-
dom, calling on the people to demand the constitu-
tion of Pito. This paper declares the King will not
observe his royal oath, but will destroy, the consti-
tution, as the Bourbons have ever done. That
the then ministry must be changed. To arms!
and lung life to the Pope ! finishes this paper.
The next proclania demands ono chamber
and no peers. 'flan follow the thanks of the depu-
ties to the people and National Guard, dated May 15,
I`i4t4. Further on (p. 133) is found the protest of
the chambers &runlet the violence used by the royal
troops, and a declaration that they will meet again
on the first opportunity. The royal amnesty fol-
lowed, but that is not printed. The prisoners have
naturally protested against their being tried for an
act which, supposing they were accomplices, was
forgiven by the King. The court having been called on,
in the preliminary acta on which the accusations are
founded, to ~l,nw cause why the royal amnesty does
not stand good says (p. 130), that as a commission
was appointed to inquire into the criminal acts of
May 13, the royal decree does not stand good. And
that the solemn words in fact of the King were simply
es momentary precautions ("prsirm aormers iak ntaneu.4)
No one, 1 presume, will be surprised at this decision of
a Neapolitan court, illegality is the rule, not the excep-
tion ; and as for royal promises and royal oaths,
they are not only broken, but we have, as ail the
world knows, an authorised catechism to teach
perjury to the youth of the country.
Leopadi, late Neapolitan minister at Turin, and
Scialoja, a cabinet minister (two of the prisoners
now under trial), both put in a plea of incoinpe-
teney, as by law, old as well as now, ministers
cannot be tried by the ordinary courts of law. The
act of secteuttion," I need not say, puts aside the
difficulty which is illegality No. 1. Illegality
No. 2, is the non-recognition of the royal amnesty.
Illegality No. 3, is trial by a court which does not
admit of appeal. Illegality No. 4, is the seizure of
documents necessary to the prisoners' trials. Ille-
gality No. 5, is the intimidation of lawyers to pre-
vent their pleading fur the prisoners. Illegality
No. 6, is the packing of judges.
The proceed:age of the criminal court are, if pos-
sible, more illegal than when l'oerio was tried.
Yesterday the president would not allow the pri-
soners to speak; refused to register the fact in the
minutes of trial, and finally, on more than one
occasion, objected to witnesses being called. It is
very clear the whole of the prisoners will be con-
demned.

Neapolitan Fives, 1011 ; Sicilian Fives, 88 ; E:-
change on London, 342.