The Express.
London, England, 1867-08-23 00:00:00

THE INSURRECTION IN SPAIN.

(azurzes warm.)
MADRID, AUGUST 20.
The following is an extract from the despatches
published by the Captain-General of Catalonia,
relative to the insurrectionary movements in that
province :

The small bands of insurgents in the country district of
Tarragona are being actively pursued, and they have al-
ready sustained some defeats.
The band under Eacoda surprised and captured three
carabineers at Villanueva. One of them afterwards succeed-
ing in regaining possession of his rifle by main strength ;
he joined a sergeant and four carahineers at a guard
house, whence they opened a sharp fusillade upon Escoda's
band, and kept it in check until the arrival of a company
of the Savoy regiment which bad been conveyed to Villa-
nueva by the steamer Leon.
At Salien, on the road to liens, • company of the
Toledo regiment came upon a band of 40 men from Beal;
two of these were killed and ten wounded, the remainder
throwing down their arms, which were of a very inferior
character, and dispersing.
A company of the Lueliana regiment in the Sorra du
Can Torres de Prudalla fell in with another band of insur-
gents, two of whom were made prisoners and the others
dispersed.
They are being very actively pursued. The insurgents
cannot hold that, ground before the Queen's troops. Many
stragglers are taken prisoners.
An infantry detachment has beaten a band of insurgents
in the wood of Vila, and completely dispersed them,
capturing 15 rifles, some side-arms, • banner, and some
munitions.

A despatch from the governor of Figueras announces
that the band under Prejel has been beaten and driven back
towards the French frontier.

THE EMPRESS Cmtatornt.—lt is with much
satisfaction that we hear that the unfortunate ex-Empress
of Mexico has been placed under the care of that very able
and distinguished physician, Dr. Bulkena. The 'neonate
which from time to time have been published in the
newspapers, and the private reports which have reached
individuals, though fragmentary and incomplete, have con-
veyed enough information about the treatment to which the
Empress was submitted at Miramar to arouse the greatest
uneasiness intim minds of English alienist physician• Soli-
tude, silence, and gloom of every kind seemed to have been
her surroundings ; while there was too much reason to
believe that an absolute system of court etiquette was
permitted to interfere with those vigorous measures which
must be taken with the melancholic insane in order to
ensure their being properly supported with the sustain-
ing nutriment that is indispensable for the reparation
of the exhausted nervous system. The fact that •
Priest was one of the guardians appointed to regulate
the control of the unhappy patient was ominously INV
geative of those dark days of lunacy treatment which in this
country are happily now only • tradition of the past—days
when it was thought much more important for the
attendants; of the insane to have right theological and
metaphysical views about the nature, of the mind,
than to have any special knowledge of bodily diseases.
In Dr. Bulkens we are certain that the Empress will find •
medical adviser whose system is the very reverse of all
this. Pure fresh air, pleasant converse with friends,
and other modes of employing the mind, • generous nutri.
tion, kindly but firmly enforced,—such are the 'remedies
which we may be sure the illustrious patient will now re-
ceive.—Lancet.

Rarrwax boitrirrrrrorr.—At the meeting of the
Mersey Docks and Harbour Board yeoterday, a letter was
read from Messrs. Wilson, Son, and Walter, and Messrs.
Fletcher and Parr, calling the attention of the board to a
oombination of railway companies, having lines to Liver.
pool, and steamboat proprietors, to divert trade from
Liverpool to the eutern porta, by the reduction of tariffs
in some cases as much as 50 per cent. below what they
were formerly, and very much below the rate. charged to
Live = One of the companies mentioned was the
, Shellielf,and Linoolnalin•Ballway Company.,
who were stated to be also owners of steamers plying to
the Dutch porta. Mr. Laird, M.P., said that on a former
occasion he bad drawn the attention of the board to this
matter, but no action hod been taken upon it. The letter
was referred to a committee.