The Express.
London, England, 1856-09-06 00:00:00

SPAIN.

The Madrid Gazette of the let says that the
Espana falsely asserted on the Friday before that its
number of the 30th alt. had been seized for having
published an article defending the Duke de Valencia,
and that as this " was conduct calling for censure,
the civil governor of the province had thought right
to punish the journal by a fine of 500 reels." The
other Madrid journals contain nothing of political
interest. At San Lawn the fete of the Ditchers de
Montpensier had been celebrated with great pomp,
with bull fights, &c. Some bandits in the neighbour.
hood of Malaga had carried off a notable personage
named Espinosa, of Alma, and had, after obtaining
9,000 piutres for his ransom, barbarously pat
him to death.

(111016 •

I catanienee today my analysie of the papers Wend I
at Madrid by the secret democratic press. The first
of theme is entitled the Bolefin Daaseratico, and its
subject is, The Situation." It be written with
vigour and a certain ability, but we do not recognise
in it the style of any of the well-known writers. The
lone of it would give as some grounds for sup-
posing that its authors belonged to the party by
whom the 800 do Is Raohicion was founded some
days after the events of 1854. The bulletin declares,
in the first place, that it is not the people, the
democratic party, which has been conquered by
O'Donnell and Zepatero. It reminds as that at the fa-
mous sitting ot the Cates on the 14th of /sly, Mace,
when speaking of the assembling of the militia,
plainly avowed that the militia was called to arms
in order to chastise the turbulent faction that wanted
to create disorder (by which he clearly intended to
designate the democrats sad the republicans). The
writer congratulates the people upon their not having
taken part lathe late conflict. He die ipproves of the
system of birdman and fighting in the capital cities.
When the muscat shall have arrived, this bulletin
promises to furnish a general scheme of the move-
ment, which should begin in the small towns, and
should enclose the garrison of the capital of each
province between the insurgent rustics and the
malcontent inhabitants of the lesser towns,
eo as to force them either to capitulate or ,
to mango osrtain defeat. The writer is decidedly
spinet allowing the ontinsaace of a standing army
for the future t he says that Spain needs no foreign
conquest, sad that the army serves only to oppress
the people at home. Without the aid of the
militia and volunteers, he needs that the
army could never have subdned the formidable Culla
issairectien ; and the fawn would again, if neon-
eery, repeat the prodigies of valour which they dis-
played from 1833 to 1840. The money which the
army costs should be devoted to making roads, sad
Spain should be delivered for ever from the satraps
who keep her bowed beneath the sabre. _ _

This bulletin nezt refers to the letter of Orense
and hie prognunme. It gives an amount of the
strength of the party in the different provinces,
directs its adherents not to show themselves too Im-
patient, and announces the day of their liberation as
very near. It concludes by recommending the demo.
Grate of the provinces to circulate theme bulletins
throughout the country, and giving notice of the
publication of the second number for the ensuing
week.

' You will obser•e that, it the responsible public press
is now gagged by a censorship, the ideas of the oppo-
sition party us still paragraphed nevertheless; nay,
sore, for nobody would have dared to write such
an article as this in a journal which wu allowed to
circulate freely, but subject to the risk of a sestina
against it if it were seized and prosecuted before the
tribunals.

Senor Martinez has anneasesd through the Gazette
that an the 39th and 30th alt., no Madtid journal
had its circulation prohibited. Do not believe
that the censorship hes allowed the pries any grater
latitude t it has not dose no in the slightest
degree, aad if the journals were not seised
on three days, it was because they contained
no controversial articles. The prosecutions of jour-
nalists is the provinces Mill *indium I at Malaga,
Don F. Ferrodea, anther of • democratic paper
entitled, Lase► ea datocialias, he. been arrested.