The Express.
London, England, 1856-08-14 00:00:00

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

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ON MARSHAL

II BRITISH

PARIS, TIORSDAY, 6 A.Y.

Marshal Mistier hu received the title of Duke of
the Malakhoff, and he is to have an inoome of
100,000 francs granted him by the State.
M. Ronland, the Procnrenr.Oenersi, is appointed
Minister of Public Instraction, to noosed the late
M. Porton].

THE NEW HAMBURG BANK&

NT XL3CIIIIO AND 121121111TIONAL

HAMBURG, TIIIIIIDAT.

The three days' subscription for shares in the
Bank of Northern Germany closed last evening.
The amount subscribed for is very large.

SPAIN.

02011 ♦ SPACIAL

The Association, a journal published at Madrid,
contains the following :
" Some alarming rumours were circulated yester-
day, and it was said that new troubles were
on the point of breaking out. The inventors and
propagators of these reports have no other
object than to make foolish and turbulent people
believed that the only way to re-establish order, and
to secure the prosperity of our trade and industry, is
to recall such men as Narrate, Mon, and Salamanca
to Spain. We recommend all patriotic citizens to
maintain the strictest vigilance. Whoever proposes
now to resort to insurrection and street fighting, is
sure to be an infamous tool of the reactionary party,
a wretch who has sold himself to Christina and her
partizins. Be vigilant, all you liberals! Our enemies
are not less hypocritical than cowardly; and let us
be not lees prudent than brave."

The journal above goofed was suppressed on the
9th by the Governor of Madrid; and its contents are
now limited to bare matters of fact, and newe.

A despatch from Barcelona states that a certain
degree of agitation recalls there, caused by the
levying of the new tax, which is to supersede the
odroi and the right of preemption. The governor
of Navarre has prohibited the exportation of MS
on account of the high price of wheat, which is now
at 60 reale the fanoya. The same measure hes been
adopted in other provinces, to avoid such disturbances
as have been excited by scarcity of food in Castile.
The Spanish Gaulle of Railways gives some par-
ticulars of the scheme of the company to whom has
been conceded the line from the Pyrenees to the
Mediterranean. The company is already proprietor
of two great MUG between Armco, Madrid, and the
Mediterranean, connecting Samara and Alioant
with the capitol. This great association combines
the interests of five distinct parties:—Fiat.
the oonceseisanaires of the line from Madrid to Bars-

goes', including Metered, Monty,Guetave Delahante,
Chateloe, end Lebois ; god, the proprietors of the
Grand Central Railway of France; 3rd, the home of
Rothschild; 4th, the commercial and industrial body
in Spain; and sth, the town of Salamanca. The term.
of its coostitution, which have already been submitted
to the approval of the government, will probably
be sanctioned, and the issue of shares will then be
commenced, both in Spain and abroad. The Ans-
gon line la to be divided into three motions-4nm
Madrid to Guadalajara, from the latter place to
Calatayud, end thence to Saragossa.

There is nothing of importance in the Madrid
journals of the 9th. The GaseUe only contains a
circular of the Minister of the Interior, explaining
some points in the recent airculu relative to the
math in, and circulation of, corn and provisions.

In consequence of the r►eetabliebment of tran-
quillity, the government (says the Bpoca) had
ordered that the divieion of General Dales in Arragon
should be recalled. According to the same journal,
the garrison of Madrid was only between 6,000 and
7,000 men, bat a • trees &roe was encamped in the
environs.

Marshal Serrano, the new ambassador at Paris,
had had a long eoeferenes wit► the Clasen. The
Espana says that M. Moo, instead of M. Pacheco,
was spoken of as ambassador to Ragland.

MADRID, Arson 12.

Boma persons who had been mated at Barcelona
have been condemned to the galleys or to transporta-
tion to the °Monism The general disarming of the
National Guard is everywhere being carried on with
t►e most perfect tranquillity. The fears entertained
of scarcity an gradually diminishing.

CONDITION OF SPAIN : THE
,

PT AN ENGLISH TILATELLER.

It will be my she, in the present commuoication, to
oil with the fear North-Eastern provinces of Spain
-Navarre. Armen, Catalonia, and Valencia. The
molter configuration of the latter province renders
perhaps scarcely a legitimate appeadsge to a group
North-Eastern states; bet it may be allowed for

Aconicass to fall within the present classification.
The salient divergences of national character be-
twain the different provinces of Spain, to which I
before adverted, are siegularly applicable to the four
provinoes now coder discussion, in spite of their close
territorial proximity. The only qualifications to be
eared to this statement are, that they unite in do-
vish's the revival of their single independence; that
their hatred of the Central Government knows no

appreciable distinction ; and that the inhabitants of
each province detest those of the others with a most
impartial and patriotic reciprocity. The form of
these conflicting sentiments in their itifluenos os the
political organisation of Spain is thee completely
neutralised. The whole centrifugal power of these ea-
'
flout predilections is lost, because there are no means
of combination between single provinces. Were the
national antipathies between province and province
once overcome by the political antipathy of each
provisos to the Central Power, Spain would immedi-
ately cease to be governed by a single monarchy.
I will deal first with Catalonia, as the most impor-
tant and peculiar of the provinces here in question.
The Catalonians are the manufacturers of Spain.
Their oedema character is the most singularly ver-
satile on the fees of Europe. They are the hardest
labourers and the most ardent politicians of the Pen-
insula. The whole soul of the nation oscillates from
the permits of commerce to active rebellion,
with a suddenness and a rapidity nearly beyond
belief. They alone, of all the provinces of Spain,
have practically been nearly flung away by the court
at Madrid. Zajoyiog this comparative independ-
epos, they have become the greatest difficulty of the
state. Too important, both by commerce and by
tenitory, to be abandoned, and too powerful and
determined to be subdued, their relations with the
supreme power are jest those which diplomatic