The Express.
London, England, 1856-09-01 00:00:00

SPAIN.

The suppression of the National Guard, while it
has definitively cut off O'Doenell'a last chance of sup•
port from the progression, has encouraged the " mo-
derates "—such is the present designation of the
reactionary party in Spaia—to speak out plainly.
Their organs in Madrid now openly threaten
O'Donnell with dismissal if he dare to halt in the
tyrannical course which be has begun. The following
language of Al Parlamento is clear enough In
times of revolution every situation has its natural
chief. Espartero was the recognised leader of the
progressist party, and his name alone given
a certain political order of things—implied
the ezistenoe of a National Guard. But, in an opposite
sphere of politics, the name of Narvsez is the conceit.
Crated idea of a strong dieciplined army, devoted,
above all things, to the throne and sociel order.
When we are so circumstaneld that political questions

are not to be decided by discussion and epee clam it
a parliamentary way, but the cannon and the musket
are obliged to interfere, such a situation naturally
calls to mind the regenerator of the old army and
the creator of the present one, ameral Narvaer, is
who's hands this army never hesitated or went
astray."
This hit at O'Donnell is very palpable.

(710 w A, IPICIAL CONAZIFONDINT.)
Ton cannot imagine the great activity which is
now employed by the at :.olutist party. Intriguing
at Madrid, they have succeeded in imposing upon
the cabinet the measures prepare 3 for it according to
the system of el rey neo. Io the provinces,
sided by the money which is supplied by I
the French Lvgitimis: party, they are get"
dog up a general insurrection, which will be
provoked by the rigorous measures the government
must take, when the opposition to the law of dine
morasation shall have been thoroughly manifested.
Abroad, the absolutists are publishing nein cal-
culated to prepare the public mind for
new kind of convention of Berger& The
Carlist chiefs are well aware that any
rumour, however absurd it may be, will always
find people ready to let it pass current and give it
circulation. For instases, look at the curious scheme
of an arrangement, which some Belgian clerical cosi
respondeats of the claricaabsolutist Spanish journals
have lately propounded—namely, that the Spanish
cabinet should proclaim a quasi constitution, recog-
raising the concordat, and decreeing the inviolability
of the privileges of the clergy; and then, the
constitution having been pro claimrd, that Labella
should abdicate in favour of the Princess of Asturias;
and that the Cerlist provender should also abdicate
on his side, in favour of the son of his brother, Deal
Jun; that there should be a marriage between this
child and the Queen's little daughter, the Princes, of
Asturias; and that, dewing their minority, a comma
of Regency, under the presidency of O'Donnell, um.
posed of Concha and &nano for the hlodendo party,
with Cabrera and D'Elio for the absolutists, should
govern the country! This absurd canard has been
carefully translated into Spanish, and distributed
everywhere throughout the Basque provinces, and in
Arragoa and Catalonia.
The news from the provinces does not present
mach of interest. Arrests continue to be made in
Catalonia. At Barcelona the price of bread still
rises, in spite of the fall of prices in corn and flour
and there have been some tumults at the doors of
the bakers. From Lerida it is announced that Marla
is about to publish a statement addressed to hie con-
stituents, in which he will narrate the events that
preceded and have followed the counter revolution,
from July to the present day.
The bulletin of incendiarism is as follows :—" The
ancient church of Gantegney, in Biscay, has been
completely destroyed, and great damage has been
done in the neighbourhood, continuing four days,
before it could be stopped. At Jaen, the Cerro of
San Cristoval has been entirely destroyed by firm
From Malaga, we hear of the destruction of the
Monte Pinar, on the Sierra Bermejs."
A letter, which I have received this morning from
Madrid, informs the that the famous Union Liberal
does not now muster a single partisan; the Epoca
alone continues to sustain it. The Moderate fac-
tions, represented by the Partamento, the Espana,
the Occident., the Diario Espanol, and the Leos
Espanol, repudiate it; the r orlon would accept it
yet, with progressist tendencies.

ITALY.

NAPLES.

The Vienna Press* of the 26thcontains the follow-
log:—" The arrival of Baron Habser at Naples hem
been incorrectly announced. On Saturday lut he
was enjoying sea-bathing at Venice, and bad the in-
tention of starting on the 24th for Dalmatia and
Balaban Italy."