The Express.
London, England, 1868-10-06 00:00:00

VITI7 KILNS All ROUX.

The Zehgraph says that if the promise to run trains
from Liverpool to London in four hours had been an.
nounced before the Abergele accident, we should have
hailed it gladly and sung a song or two about our enor-
mous superiority to our forefathers. Now, however,
there corns qualms and ugly doubts. For the train
is to run over the London and North-Wostern
Railway, with its immense goods traffic at Minuet
every station ; and the starting of a faster " fast
train" on a hue already under a severs pressure
of traffic does look formidable. It is all very
well to set out at great speed, to reach Liverpool iu four
hours— but we may go further and faro worse: we may
be hurried into eternity in half the time. How about
goods trains creeping slowly before us! Hoar about
eluding at intermediate stations ? How about exc ur-
sionsi How will signals and brooks act when a train
sweeps on at a speol exceeding that of all other trains sues
the line i The difficulty seems serious: but to recuitiiimo it
is the fist "top towards overcoming it.

The town of Stanislaw, near Lenin% g, in W-
ilda, bas been almost totally destroyed by ttre. The town
ball, prison, several ellunlen, and some hundredi of bowel
have best heist deem.

10 0R El Gi'N NEW S.

(THIS DAY.)

THE SPANISH REVOLUTION.

LETTERS FROM MADRID.

The letters of tho special oorrespondonts of the
Time. and Daily News at Madrid add oonsiderably
to our knowledge of recent important eventa.
When the movement commenced the groat
majority of foreign ministers wore absent from
Madrid. Sir John Crampton was at L (hand's do
Ban Ildefonso, Mr. Lytton, the son of Lord
Lytton, having the care of British interests.
Tho Time. oorrespondent gives some parti-
culars of " General " Esoalanto, who has been
mentioned in the telegrams as having been placed
in command of the armed citizens. It appears
that he had been arrested by Concha about twenty-
four hours before the defeat of Novaliches :
Proud of its power to break prison doors no ken than to
storm palace windows, the mob lifted the freekoaptive on
its shoulders, bore him through the already pudgy de-
corated streets, cheering, or "videreasesh," as the expres-
sive word is here, sad, stopping before a military haber-
dasher's shop, they "borrowed" a gamer s scarf, bound
it round a liberated prisoner's loins, and out of their own
full authority promoted him then and there boom the rank
of a liseteoant-colonel, of which he Mill wore the elan

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and stripes co his coat, to that of an officer three or four
degrees further up in the wale, of which the scarf was
the badge.

Ono of the main acts aaoribod to Escalante was
the opening of the royal arsenals, and the dis-
tribution of some 50,000 stand of arms to the
populace.
The correspondent of the Daily New. states
that the whole of the insurrectionary movement
has been under the direction of a committee,
most of whom are members of the Freemasons'
Society—of which there are not less than 49 lodges,
numbering 21,000 members, in Madrid—and who
have for months past been drilling and arming
the people in preparation foe this outbreak.
Ho successful had been these efforts, that for the
last few days there have been in Madrid no less
than 20,000 men, all armed with muskets or re-
volvers (the latter the most common weapon), and
ready to act at any moment against the govern-
ment. Nor was the influenoe of this junta, which
of course acted in combination with Generals Ser-
rano, Prim, and the others, confined to the
people. They had friends in many of the public
departments ; and every telegram which was
received in Madrid was mid by them as soon as by
the President of the Council, General Concha.
The change was not accomplished entirely at
Madrid without loss of life.