The Express.
London, England, 1868-10-21 00:00:00

AUSTRIA.

VIENNA, Ocr. 20, Evanico.
In to-day's sitting of the Lower House of the
Reichsrath, the Minister of Finance brought for-
ward and explained a bill for reducing the capital
of the National Bank to 20,250,000 florins. Ho
expressed hopes that a subvention from the State
would not be necessary.
Count Taafe presented bills relating to the mili-
tary forces, and particularly to the Landwehr
and Landsturm. He stated that the proposals sub-
mitted by him were based upon principles of free-
dom. The term of service in the line
would be three years, and in the reserve seven years.
The strength of the army and navy on a war foot-
ing would be 800,000 men, and ho showed that
these figures demonstrated the unity of the two
portions of the empire. The minister concluded
by recommending the speedy consideration of
the proposed measures in view of the general poli-
tical situation.

DENMARK.
COPENHAGEN, Oar. 20.
In to-day's sitting of the Folkething, the
amendments to the address in reply to the speech
from the throne, proposed by the agricultural
party, were rejected, and the address in its ori-
ginalform was adopted by 62 votes against 31.

BELGIUM.
BRUSSEL.% Oor. 20.
A bulletin, published to-day, announces that the
Prince Royal has passed a tolerably good night—
s better one than, the night before.

INDIA.
BOMBAY, Oor. 14.
The markets are closed, owing to native holi-
days. The latest London date is 12th inst.
CALCUTTA. Oar. 14.
nb. shirtinge, sr. ; 811 b. ditto, 6r. ; 40's
mule twist, 51—market depressed. Cotton, 191,
nominal. Exchange on London, Is. 11/d.
Freights to England—Rice, 325. 6d.

(Yid Brindisi.)
CALCUTTA, Barr. 28..

The cholera has disappesiod from Calcutta. It
is stated that the Viceroy will leave Simla for the
Madras Presidency on the 25th October.
The uncovenanted service pension rules aro now
before the Viceroy, and are very liberal.
Grain riots are said to have occurred in some
parts of Central India. The went of ruin through-
out the upper provinces had created apprehensions
of famine both in the British territory and the
native States of Rs,jpootana, in Central India.
Instructions have been issued to all the authori-
ties as to the course to be pursued. Rain, how-
ever, has fallen in many planes, and the prospects
are much better.

measures necessary for securing the continued en-
joyment of the rights and liberties which have re-
cently been asserted on behalf of the people ;
then, according to these persons, will be the
Proper time to deal with affairs in the
colonies, and to take such steps as may be deemed
advisable for the emancipation of the negroes. The
mother country has at present plenty of business
of her own upon her hands, and it would be worse
than foolish if she was at such a time to go out
of her way to adopt measures which may offend
her colonists, and perchance lead the planters of
Cubs to throw themselves into the arms of the
United States. There are others who take a
diametrically opposite view of the question, main-
taining that the Spanish people are bound to be as
careful of the rights of the negroes as of their own ;
and asserting that it is contrary to the very essence
and nature of a democratic revolution that anypor-
tion of the inhabitants either of the country or its
dependencies should continue in a state of bond-
age. The proposition of the Junta, as you arc
aware, proceeds upon neither of these extreme
views. That body recognises the importance, in-
deed the necessity, for the honour and advantage
of Spain, of immediately adopting measures for
the ultimate abolition of slavery; but, having
regard to the evils and inconveniences which
have arisen in other places from the sudden
and unreserved adoption of such a measure, de-
sire that in the Spanish colonies it shall be carried
out under safeguards and restrictions which may
prevent the recurrence of these ill-consequences.
Therefore, for the present they only aak.that all
children born after the 17th September last shall
be declared free. There are considerable differ-
ences of opinion as to how such a scheme as this
will be received by the two parties most interested
in the question, the slave-owners and the slaved
themselves. One set of talkers are confident that
it will give satisfaction to neither one class nor to
the other. The planters, they say, will oppose it
as a measure of confiscation, a proposal to de-
prive them of their property, either actual or pro-
spective, without giving them any compensation ;
while the negroes will regard it with hor-
ror and aversion, because it will establish
a difference of condition between their offspring
and themselves, and not content with leaving
them subject to all the hardships of their present
lot, will place them in a position of inferiority
towards their own children. The effect must be
to produce in their minds feelings of envy, of irri-
tation, and of discontent, which will ultimately
result in risings and revolts. Gentlemen well
acquainted with the island of Cuba have assured
me that in this latter objection there is no force
at all, and that the negroes would not be likely
to be actuated by any mean jealousy of their
children. On the contrary, they tell me that the
knowledge that their little ones were free and
could never be enslaved, would thoroughly recon-
cile them to any hardships which they might ex-
perience in their own lot, and prevent them ever
sighing for freedom on their own account. I
must confess that my own slight acquaintance
with the character of negroes hardly leads me to
credit them with so much disinterestedness,
and so sublime an idea of parental virtue as would
seem necessary to their adoption of this view of the
subject; and even if in this I judge them too
hardly, it is obvious that, if the proposal of the
Junta is accepted and acted upon, there will be
room for a good deal of jealousy between the
children of the same family, some of whom may
have been born before and some after the 17th
September. I do not mean to start this as a fatal
objection to the plan—there in probably no scheme
of emancipation against which some objections
might not be raised—but merely to show that
everything is not so clearly aied certainly is its

The papers this morning contain only brief and
unsatisfactory accounts of the doings at Zaragoza.
The principal part of the proceedings of yester-
day seems to have been the holding of a meeting
of the local Junta, which was presided over by
Serrano, and at which Topete and Olozaga
were present. Signor Olozaga, in addressing the
meeting, reminded them of the opinions which ho
had long entertained as to the incompatibility of
the rule of the Bourbons with the liberties of the
country, and pointed out the necessity which exists
for the union of all parties against them. Serrano
expressed a strong desire to see power placed in
the hands of Rivera and Olozaga. and declared
that the provisional ministry were determined to
resign their offices into the hands of the Consti-
tuent Cortes as soon as they met. in the hope that
they might be replaced by a definitive ministry'
under the direction of those two statesmen. who by
their alliance and high intelligence would place
the administration of the country upon a liberal
and indestructible basis. These sentiments were
loudly cheered by the Junta. They are in
entire accordance with the declaration made by
the Duc de la Torre from the balcony of the Go-
vernment House, on the day of his entry into
Madrid ; and allow us to infer that, so far as ho
at least is concerned, the power which he has
recently enjoyed has excited in his breast no feel-
ings of personal ambition, and no desire to pro-
long his individual authority.

Jot-millers WairrED.—A letter from Madrid,
in the Constitidiamel, says : " The liberal journals of this
city are all at this moment deprived of their usual editors.
At one moment even some of them were on the point of
suspending their publications for want of writers, all of
whom or nearly all have been appointed to situations in
the ministries. The Iberia has been able to persuafe Y.
Sangninetti to renounce the poet of Governor of Alia/at.
to which he had been named, in order to take on himself
the chief editorship of that journal."
SPANISH PSNSIONe.—A Madrid letter has the
subjoined There is some idea here of impending.
until after revision. certain pensions called charges of
justice. Amongst them are some very legitimately ac-
quired for services rendered, and they will be maintained;
but there are others, the cause of which is fantastic, and
the origin lost in the night of time. Some day or other,
in a good humour, the king or queen accorded an annuity
to him who opened their carnage door or held their
stirrup, and that was called a • charge of justice,' and
perpetual. On the list there is one who receives every
year a sum of more than 20,000 f.. because he is a de-
scendant of a nurse of a former Duke of Parma!"

A 81.911,1C10136 DERELICT.—The report of the
captain of the ship Moskwa, which has arrived at Ant-
werp from New York, was received in Liverpool yester-
day. The captain reports that on Sept. 9, m lat. 40 N.
long, 60 W, fell in with a vessel painted white, partially
dissuaded, and abandoned, which on closer examination
proved to be a new French brig, mirrored high up. name
on the stern obliterated by black paint. The cabin as
well as the sail-room was blocked up, the hatches were
open. and a portion of the cargo removed. Found the pump
gear destroyed, and 13 inches of water in the hold. As it
was impossible to tow the vessel into any port, brought
away a portion of the cargo in the Moskwa s boats, sad
placed it en board, viz.,-19 casks of sugar, no mark ; 4
casks al ruin, narked "D. A., 31. 33, 37, 39 ;" 7 casks
rum. "P.C. T. C., 7, 11, 16, 17, 23, 26. :Di ;" 2 omits
wares, .' C," letter " R" reversed. " 113, 116," and " R
underneath ; 1 cask et wares, " F;" 3 casks coffee, no
mark ; 6 framed looking :glares. Ou the 26th September,
during a heartgale, fell in with • ship with a flag of dis-
tress lying. Rammed by her, and next morning, the
weather having abated, took off all the crew, 16 iu num-
ber. The vessel proved to be the Disraeli, bound from
Bathurst(Canada), with a cargo of dcala The crew were
afterwards landed at Dover.

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