The Express.
London, England, 1856-08-16 00:00:00

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

SPAIN.

(mom ♦ spawn 00113/PONDINT.)
The journal celled 111 Loon Bopeno; which u the
organ of Navas, observes:—
" Ws cannot but feel great astonishment at the
tended of the government, in allowing the leaders
of the insurrection to live quietly at home,
while it closes the frontiers of Spain against
a most illustrimis parson, against one who
has rendered mom eminent services to the cause
of the Clown and the interests of society. The
noway ought to be informed that General Navas,
though he has been reduced to live in a noble retire-
ment, has not been reposing under the shads of his
laurels ; he has been keeping watch faithfully on
behalf of his (Wren and her crown, ss he lately
proved by his emidnot in the moment of denier
and the government hes now rewarmed hie noble
and chivalrous ardour by behaving towards him in •
manner which the connoissos of the nation will judge
as it dearret.'

The Madrid journals of the 11th instant do not
contain anything of general interest.
The Madrid assails of the 10th published a royal
decree, which recorders as the coneastioanaires of
the railway from Madrid to Samosa, besides Mews
de Money, Cluttelus, Delabante, and Labon, also
Messrs. Salamanca, Weisweiler, and Bawer, together
with the Spanish Commercial Amociation, all of them
being Jointly responsible. The separate amounts of
security taken from there parties will be amalga-
mated in one sum total of 6,600,000 reale.

The Ciatette also publish'. an official statement,
showing that the floating debt, which on the let of
July was at 664,072,21140 stood on the Ist of
August at 637,738,170 98, and that there
wee stock to the amount of 97,738,170 98, at
that data, applicable to the extinction of the debt,
which would thus be reduced to 440,000,000, the
limit prrscribed by the law which her teen passed
for the regulation of the budget. The terms agreed
to with individuals are at the rat. of seven per
out., and with the Bank six per east.; the con-
tracts for the remit mouth have been opened.
The law on the formation of the gjeadatnineles
provides that the elections shall be terminated
before the Ist of September. The Dior* Mercantil
of Valencia does sot think it will be pos-
sible to proored to the elution before the
middle of September, but in any ease the new mem-
bers will be able to enter on their functions by
the Ist of October. The same journal adds that it is
" informed on gal authority that the government of
O'Donnell has determined to axone a legal
course, and to avoid everything which might tend to
compromise the permanent welfare of the cora-
enuaityr
A letter from Barcelona, of the Bth instant,
says that two days previously the steam-vessel
Pajero del Ooseao Named away to the Canary
Islands, the insurgents Mageina, Felt*, and other
persons who were lately arrested at Tarragona.
Oa the 7th instant, nine barrels of gunpowder

wire hood conoeded at Tarragona: in the
ancient and abandoned church of the Rosary; the
key of this ple.s wrs in the poessesion of the late
Inspector of the National Guard et Tarragona.
.

Some Cellist bands venture to show themselves
near Burgos, and even dose to the city.
General &pater° has seised all thepriated copies
of an address issued by the Barcelona wearers, and
has imprisoned several of the workmen.
The heat and the droaght which prevail in Valencia
cause much apprehension as to the harvest.
The new line of Spanish and German packets,
touching at Southampton, will commence running
from Hamburg to Barcelona oa the 20th or 22nd
instant.