The Express.
London, England, 1860-04-12 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, THURSDA f If,'PING}, APRIL

have been everywhere uncloistared ; their lands
have been sold in the auction market; those 1/110
once trembled at their spiritual pretensions, or
needed their temporal power, stand in their picot;
the peasants have become landowners, and thd
monk and abbot lords have became mendicants.

The priestly glory of the secular church is neatly
in the same predicament with that of the regular.
Tithes, glebe, and other territorial endowments
have all been commuted for • simple cuito-y-clere
tax, which barely leaves the priest the means of
livelihood, and takes away all that consideration
which was based upon worldly position, ad
well as upon a blind mental subjugation
which is altogether broken up. If we turn
from the church in the provinces to the civil
government in the provinces, we find just the
same absence of the conditions on which the
Carlist power once reposed. It would be unfair
to visit on the triumph of the Qcssat's party the
evil of an absentee nobility ; and indeed that nobi-
lity evinced a readiness to abandon their duties in
their respective provinces long before the death of
FLADINiND brought about the civil war. But there
can be no doubt that the almost universal
absenteeism of the titled landowner in Spain is a
fact that has coincided with the reign of Isaseta.s,
and that one of various causes which has brought
it about is the dis-favour of the Crown in the
bestowal of great offices in the provinces. The
nobility of Spain chiefly reside at Madrid, at Paris,
at Rome, and in other capitals, those who evince
the moderation of keeping to Madrid affecting
great patriotism on account of it. Besides all this,
the Spanish lord-lieutenant of a county, termed
the Gefe Politico°, who presides over the adminis-
tration of each province, is usually some " bluster-
" ing democrat," to use • phrase of Lord Deasy's,
who has been found inconvenient in the Cortes,
and is bribed with office into sycophantic silence.
This rapid glance will suffice to show how the
pillars of the old monarchy have disappeared. The
daily teaching of the influential priest, the magni-
ficence of the regular orders, the presence and
influence of the titled landowner on his estates,
the administration of provincial government by
men of fixed interests and fixed principles—all
this was the embodiment of Carlism, and all this
is gone. It was therefore obviously impossible that
a Carliat plot could possess itself of a solid
basis of action. The tendency is in favour of
democracy, not of State and Church tyranny.
The plot, such as it is, must have been devised
during the Moroooo war, and therefore on the
supposition that it would catch a party with whom
that war was unpopular. But, in fact, the object
of aggrandisement at the expense of the Moors was
just what was most in conformity with the tradi-
tions of the Cachets ; and the plot has followed
too closely on the peace to have sprung from die-
satisfaction with the cessation of the war. With-
out
desiring to incriminate an absentee nobility,
we can well believe that the plot has had Spanish
partisans beyond the Spanish frontiers, but very
few, we suspect, within them

LATEST INTELLI(ENCE.
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IFJOANCIC.
An ofll4ol decree lin the lifesor of today
notifies Sat the Superior Conailt4Coningtee,
Agriculture, and Industry, will prossed to enquiry
for the purpose of investigating the average prices
'of the objects admitted into France by the treaty
of eurarearee with England, And in order to fix an
ad valorem duty upon them.

THE INSURRECTION IN SICILY.
MARSEILLES, Aram 11.
The packet arriving here brings news from Na.
pies to the 7th inst.

The official Giorriak di Napoli, of the 6th inst.,
confirms the repression of the insurrection at
Palermo on the 4th. Letters received add that the
rebels attacked the royal troops at 5 o'clock
in the morning, then re-formed and shut
themselves up in the convent, which they
barricaded. A battalion of the 6th Regiment
of the Line made a sudden assault upon the insur-
gents, but were driven back with considerable Ices.
The Royal Artillery then opened a breach, and
the convent was taken by assault. The insurgents
and their arms were captured. Several bands
of rebels having risen in the environs in
order to create a diversion were beaten and
pursued in all directions. The Official Journal
does not speak of an insurreaticer in Mes-
sina, but announces that General Sidearm has
placed Palermo in a state of siege, and also adds a
telegraphic despatch received on the afternoon of
the 6th, which affirms that all the other provinces of
ISicily have been tranquil, and that the inhabitants
of Palermo had not taken part in the combat of the
4th. Letters state that on the evening of the
6th an immense crowd, estimated to number
80,000, blocked up the Rue Toledo, at Naples, and
raised numerous shouts of " Viva la Constitn-
'ion.," before the residence of the Papal nuncio.
The streets were quickly cleared by the patrols.

TURIN, Amt. 11.
According to news from Naples to the 10th, the
insurgents, numbering about 10,000 well-armed
men, were concentrated in the Sicilian Islands, and
had interrupted the canals communicating with
Palermo.

The troops quartered in that city were attacked
every night.

The Neapolitan fleet was cruising along the
meat.

The Opinime publiahre the following telegram,
dated Naples, April 10 :

_ . .
" The insurrection in Sicily appears to be spread-
ing. The despatch of troops continues. Great
agitation prevails at Naples."

SPAIN.

The Madrid Gaztite of the 7th publishes a list of
the persons arrested in connexion with the recent
Carina affair ; and the names of Count de Monte-
molin and his brother Don Fernando do not appear
in it ; consequently, the statement that they had
been captured must be considered erroneous. A
despatch from the military commander of Tortosa
says that, on landing, General Ortega was observed
to speak, uncovered and with marks of great re-
spect, to five or six persons in plain clothes ; but
that, when his troops turned against him and he
g►llopped away, these persons jumped into a small
boat, and suddenly disappeared. Ortega, who on
the 6th was in custody in the fort of Alcanez, in
the neighbourhood of Saragossa, was so ill that he
had to be bled twice. It was reported that the
Queen had resolved that the Carlist General Olio,
whose arrest has been mentioned, should not be
shot. Some of the journals express surprise that
Marshal O'Donnell should not have returned from
Africa, notwithstanding he had been specially sum-
moned by the Queen, and various important affairs
were awaiting his decision.

MADRID, WIDMIDAT EVIIIITKO.
General Ortega will arrive to-morrow at Tortola,
where his trial will take place.
Great efforts are being made to capture Count
Montemolin and his brother. A successful result
is anticipated.
Perfect tranquillity prevails.
The boundaries of Ceuta have been amicably
arranged.

The value of the territory ceded to Spain is
estimated at 300 millions of reals.

AUSTRIA.

VIENNA, Tacransr.
The answer of Austria to the circular note of
M. Thouvenel, of the 13th March, on the annexa-
tion of Savoy and the district of Nice to France,
has been sent to Parks. The answer is very similar
to the despatch of Russia on the same subject.
The Austrian cabinet, like that of Russia, does
not raise any objection to the fact of annex-
ation as long as this annexation is repre-
sented as being the result of a cession freely con-
sented to by Piedmont, and not am the effect of an
appeal to universal suffrage. As regards the neu-
trality of Switzerland and the neutralised districts
of Chablais and Faucigny, Count Rechberg ex-
presses a desire that the French government, in
accordance with the promises given by M. Thouvenel
in his despatches, should maintain the guarantees
stipulated by the treaties.

SARDINIA.
TURIN, TUNIDAT ECK:4INC.
Signor Loma hu been elected President of the
Chamber of Deputies by 129 against 90 votes at
the second ballot.

CONST&NTINOPLE, Anut 10.
The Duke of Brabant arrived here yesterday, and was
received by the gultan at the Tephane Palace. To-day the
Duke visited the British arobsiesdor, Sir Henry Hull's.

At Jamdps the market was unsettled, and business dull. I
San ailments had taken place at 3d., sad of lard at
9d. Coif.• was meld at 425. to 44a. Sugar : dirk, lea to
lee.; fair igiality, SOL
Exchanga au Learion • Colonial Bank, at ledays,
eemt. •?B,oladisl gra. cent.. ; and 30 days, per oat. pror
Meediant • ai 90 days, par.
At holders were demanding higher rates. Corea
was quoted 13 doh. 50c. Corn, meal, sticks, and sisal
butter were in demand. Irish butter selling at 16 doh.
Exchange on London—At the Colonial Bank, selling bills
at d
90 d
per ayslool. aight, at 482 dole. per 1001. ; purchaaing, at 472
oh.
Tonnage was abundant.
At Barbados' the crop was procaeding victrowelY• Sugar
was reported to be good. Several vessels were in port
1 • .
Ex on London was quoted, 30 days, 485 doh.
Private 475 doh. for 90 days.
The Whirlwind, from Chas, with nearly 400 emigrants,
had arrived at Demerara. No deaths had 000tured during
her voyage. The ship Dais modally expected with another
batch.

Ths weather was favourable for planters. Sugar making
StViurnr=rate ; market without attendance.
Freights were advancing.
Chili was quiet. Business was improving The Copiapo
silver Mine, were prosperous. The gold nuns in June were
acquiring importance : a great discovery was ',ported on
the frontiers of Bolivia and in the Andes.
• Peace was completely re.established among the Indians on
the lower frontier of Aranco those on the upper, frontier
continue hostile : 2,000 bad attacked Fort liegmetti, but
without effect.

Ciineriaiii;tillawiui daily expected at Aricat toi
war with Bolivia.

111. prem. English gold 20 per cent.
prem. Freights 50s.