The Express.
London, England, 1868-10-22 00:00:00

PRUSSIA.

BERLIN, Ocr. 21.

The Prorin:ial Correspondent of to-day, in an
article upon the deficit in the budget of 1869,
says that it is to be expected that the government
will endeavour to cover this deficit, as it is only of
ati milorary nature, not by fresh taxes, but by
measures of an equally temporary character, and
if possible without further increasing the financial
burdens of the yeople..

The time of Cjunt von Bismarck's return to
Berlin is still unsettled.

The King of Prussia leaves Baden on the 23rd
inst.. and will attend a military fke in Darmstadt
on the same day, arriving in Berlin on the 24th inst.

NORTH GERMANY.
BERLIN, Oct. 21, Evzsrixo.

At this afternoon's sitting of the Congress of
Representatives of German commercial interests a
debate took place upon the establishment of tri-
bunals of commerce. During the discussion Herr
Dessauer, of Asehaffenburg, on behalf of all the
Bavarian members of the Congress, declared em-
Thatically in favour of enlarging the competency
of the Customs Parliament.

DENMARK.
OOPENHAGEN, Oor. 21.
The reply of the King to the addresses in
answer to the .perch from the throne was read
to-day in both chambers. His Majesty notes
with satisfaction the agreement of the national
representatives with the views of the government
on foreign affairs.

GENEVA, Ocr. 21.

Yesterday the supplementary articles to the
convention of the International Sanitary Congress
were signed.

AMERICA.
THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.
NEW YORK, Ocr. 21.

The Democratic National Committee have an-
nounced, in refutation of the rumours that a
movement bad been started to substitute
Chief Justice Chase for Mr. Horatio Seymour as
candidate for the Presidency, that no change will
be made in the Democratic ticket.
The committee have also issued an address
urging that earnest support be given to the De-
mocratic candidates.

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journed inquest upon Arthur Thompson, the driver of the
Irish mail on the 20th August, when the disastrous col-
lision took place, and who died on Thursday, the 15th in-
stant, was resumed before Mr. Wen. Morgan, coroner,
yesterday, at the Railway Inn, Newtown, Stafford. At
the termination of the evidence the court was cleared, and
after consulting about thres-quarters of an hour, the jury
returned the following verdict, which was rend to the
coroner by Mr. Edwards, the foreman :—" That the de-
ceased, Arthur Thompson, died from uloandion of the
bowels, and that his death was greatly accelerated by in-
juries n ived and shock sustained by his system by the
accident which occurred to the Irish mail at Abergelt, on
August 20, 1868."
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I trust that we have at last arrived at tho end
of the triumphal entries of statesmen, politicians,
and party leaders into the city of Madrid. That
Serrano and Prim should be welcomed with all the
honours of a popular ovation was natural and
appropriate enough ; but since their arrival there
have been a Fuecession of small meeptioas of small
men, which have become rather wearisome. The
ceremony, not very original or attractive in the
first instance, has become quite intolerable
by repetition. A crowd, larger or smaller
according to circumstances, at the rail-
way station; a crowd oomposod of na-
tional guards, students, deputations from juntas,
&c.; a band of music playing the hymn of Itegio ;
a procession through the streets—the band always
playing, and always playing the same tune—to
the Government-house; a speech from the balcony
which is quite inaudible to any one in the Puerta
del Sol ; some embraces among the distinguished
politicians above, and a good deal of shouting
from the people below. There is nothing very
attractive in all this; and when it is repeated
every day, or every other day, it becomes decidedly
monotonous.

The entry of Don Salustiano Olozaga, who
yesterday at last reached Madrid, was an event of
more importance than many of these arrivals;
and preparations upon a larger scale had been
made to surround it with all the evidences of
popular honour. Although Olozaga has not taken
en active part in the revolution—having remained
in Paris during all the time that it was in progress
—he is regarded as a great authority by all se-
tions of the liberal party of Spain, and no pains
have been spared by Prim and Serrano to secure
his support for the provisional government. So
far as inducing him to render any active assi.t-
ance to the administration goes, these efforts have
for some time been unsuccessful. Ms brother, at I
"nforrncd you at the time, went to Paris expressly
to bring hint to Madrid, but his persuasions wero
aPogether in vain, and he had to return without
him. At last Don Saluittiano was induced to meet
rrano and Topete at Zaragoza, and the result of
what took place there was that he consented
to come to Madrid with, I imagine, the un-
derstanding that he, and probably Itivero also,
wall enter the administration. Their accession to
t See will greatly strengthen the hands of the
government, and will heal the soreness which the
democrats still feel at the absence from the council
I oard of any member of their section of the revo-
lutionary party. It was unfortunate for the effect
of Signor Olozaga's entry that yesterday was ono
of the wettest days that have been known in
Madrid for several years. At the time of his
arrival the rain fell in steady, cold, uncompro-
mising streams, and all the proceedings of the re-
ception were conducted more or less under um-
brellas. These are conditions which are calculated
to damp the most ardent enthusiasm ; and although
the admirers of the day's hero bore up against
them almost butter than could be expected,
their depressing influence was clearly perceptible.
More than an hour before the arrival of the train
a large crowd had collected within and without
the Atocha railway station, and the surface of the
station yard was covered with umbrellas of many
shapes and of still more varied hues. Within,
General Prim and Signor Sagosta River°, as well
as various committees and juntas, and many dis-
tinguished members of the liberal party, awaited
the arrival of the expected guest ; without were
collected a goodly company of the citizens of
Madrid, several companies of the national guard,
and about half-a-dozen military bands. Most of
the windows of the houses in the neighbourhood
acre occupied by ladies and gentlemen, and in
many instances the coloured cloths, which had
within the last few days been removed from the
balconies, had been restored to their positions.
Between one and two o'clock the train
arrived. Signor Olozage, t, who was accompanied
by a commission of the revolutionary
Junta of Guadalajara, was at once recognised and
was received with loud and general acclamations,
the bands striking up the strains of the usual
patriotic hymn. Among those who were in the
station were a party of some thirty or forty young
priests, who raised a cry of " Viva la union Ca-
tholics!" a demonstration which seems to be re-
garded as an indication of their willingness to
abandon the supremacy of Rome, and act as the
clergy of a national Spanish church. There was a
brief delay in the booking office, where several
crowns were presented to " the firm and conscien-
tious liberal," Olozaga ; and then the whole party
proceeded to the carriages which had boon pre-
pared to convey them from the station. The pre-
sentation of crowns appears to be a necessary ele-
ment in a Spanish welcome. Every distinguished
man who has entered Madrid during the last three
weeks must have received at least a dozen of theta,
and what they do with them I am at a loss to
conceive. They are generally speaking enormous
structures of green and silver leaves, far too large
to be borne by any human head ; and when re-
quiring to be transferred from place to place are
carried upon a tea-tray by two stout porters.
As the carriages drove off the multitude who
had assembled outside the station formed into pro-
cession in regular order, and marched after them
headed by their banners and bands. The banners
unfortunately were so completely wetted by the
heavy down-pour of ruin that they flapped damply
and drearily about their poles ; and it was almost
in vain that the thoroughly soaked musi-
cians endeavoured to breathe anything like
fire or spirit into the strains of the patriotic
hymns of Ouribaleli mud Regio, which they played
alternately or together. Notwithstanding these
drawbacks a good deal of enthusiasm was dis-
played, both by those who composed the proces-
sion and by the spectators on the side walks and
in the windows ; and Olozuga was kept well
engaged in acknowledging the shouts and saluta-
thme which greeted him as he passed by. Arrived
at the Patel, of the (fortes, he and his friends
alighted from their carriages and passed into the
vestibule. There was more presentation of crowns,
and then Signor Olozaga, canning out under the
addressed the people at some length. In
this speech, which wits listened to with profound
attention, and frequently interrupted by applause,
Olozuga, Loving first salutes' the people of Madrid
and of all Si • , reminded them of the hostility
veld. h be had lung exhibited to the late sovereign,
Niel congratulated them upon the circumstance
that now that the Bourbona had been expelled,
the majesty of the people, already repro-

seated by the provisional government, would be
able to assert itself. In order that they might
reap the full benefit of the change, ihey must
preserve the meld intimate union with all the men
who had contributed to the glorious result; and
by supporting the provisional government must
maintain the same order which had boon preserved
in the very hour of the revolution, and which had
made them an example and an honour to all free
people.' For himself, said Olozaga, he had be-
lieved that the fall of the dynasty would have
mailed him to retire into private life, but as he
found that his cervices were required by the state
he had determined .to renounce that intention.
This patriotic announcement was received with
loud vices; and at the same time Prim, Sagosta,
and Riven, embraced the orator with enthu-
siasm and effusion. After referring to the
general identity of opinion which had
always existed between himself and Riven),
Olozaga devoted a few more sentences to enforcing
the necessity of order and toleration, and concluded
with the words " Liberty and order; because
without order there is no liberty. Viva la
lAbcrtad "—a cry which was taken tip and re-
peated again and again by the crowd. The pro-
cession was then re-formed, and proceeded in the
same order down the Carrera San Geronimo to
the Government-house, in the Puerta del Sol, from
the balcony of which (Homo delivered another
address. There were not many people in the
Carrera San Geronimo—the rain was still falling
heavily, and the sound of the music brought only
a few persons to their balconies. Those who formed
the procession were beginning to yield to the de-
pressing influence of the weather; they had ceased to
shout, they did not care to keep any particular
order in their ranks, and straggled on a confused
mass of dump and dripping patriots, imperfectly
shielded from the elements by umbrellas and
greatcoats. The umbrellas were indeed the great
feature of the day. Looked at from above, either
in the Carrera or in the Puerta del Sol, they com-
pletely concealed their bearers, and spreading fur
and wide their undulating and mony-coloured
surface all cared to move and sway wi:h a force
ud impulse of their own. It must have been a
runons sensation to address an audience of um-
brellas—they were so closely packed that I
am sure the orator could not see whether
there were any men under them or not;
Lut Senor Olozaga proved hint-elf equal
to the occasion. Stoutly built, with a good
presence, a largish face, iron grey hair and
whiskers, his voice is well adapted for addressing
large assemblies, and his words yesterday pro-
duced a very marked effect. The substance of his
speech from the balcony of the Government-house
was almost identical with the purport of that
which he had delivered from the portico of the
Palace of the Cortex. He again congratulated the
people upon being freed from the shameful yoke
of the Bourbons, complimented them upon the ex-
cellence of their conduct during and since the revo-
lution, and urged them to continue the support
which they had hitherto given to the Provisional
Government. Finally, he tendered to them this
wise and appropriate recommendation, that
they should retire to their homes, and
should continue to exhibit the same gene-
rosity and forbearance which they had
hitherto shown. The unfortunate state of the
weather detracted a good deal from the warmth of
the reception which was afforded to Senor Olozaga,
and prevented the assembling of any great crowds
in the streets ; but there can be no question that
his welcome was a very cordial one, and was quite
sufficiently general to indicate the high esteem in
which his abilities and his character are held in
Madrid.

Yesterday afternoon two meetings took place in
Madrid that deserve at least a word of notice.
The first of these was held on the Bourse, and
its object was to congratulate Senor Fiver°la
upon his accession to the office of the Minister
of:Finance. The meeting was held under the aus-
pices of the " Aasociacion Araucelaria ;" the chief
and primary object is the complete liberation of
ccmmerce, and the proceedings were characterised
by the delivery of a series of free-trade speeches.
lie other assembly of which I ought to take
notice was the meeting of the Democratic Associa-
tion, held by adjournment from t heprevious Sunday.
I should not like to assert that the result of this
meeting is any evidence of the growth of a re-
publican sentiment, or of the increase of the re-
publican party ; but it certainly indicates no
diminution of either one or the other. The
general effect of the discussion of yesterday week
was to indicate, even on the part of the democrats
themselves, a balance of opinion in favour of a
monarchical form of government. Yesterday tho
inclination of opinion was decidedly tha other
way ; and the result of the deliberations was tho
adoption of resolutions in favour of a federal re-
public, as being the form of government peculiarly
suitable to a democracy.
There was a trifling disturbance in the quarter of
Toledo—the St. Giles's of Madrid—yesterday.
which I only mention in order that I may not
appear to represent the condition of the city as
more peaceful and orderly than it really is. As
far as I can gather, it seems that during the
afternoon some members of the old police fore—a
force which had rendered itself very obnoxious to
the inhabitants of Madrid by harsh and arbitrary
conduct—made their appearance in the Calle do
Toledo, as they have prev. sly done in other
parts of the capital. The inhabitants of this
quarter are, however, less accustomed to control
their feelings than are their neighbours in the more
respectable parts of the town ; and they speedily
manifested to the obnoxious officers the disesteem
in which they are held. I cannot learn
who was to blame for the first act of violence, but
I believe that blows were struck on both aides, and
at one time them was some appearance of a serious
riot. When intelligenee of what was going on
was received at the Government-house, Print and
some members of the Junta proceeded to the
spot, and having promised that the old police
should be withdrawn, suceeeded in quieting the
people, before anyone had sustained serious in-
jury. Ido not know whose fault it is that the
members of this force are allowed to appear in
situations which excite popular hostility ; but if
their services are to be dispensed with, care should
be taken that they are not permitted to provoke
disturbances which they are not allowed to quell.

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