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London, England, 1862-12-30 00:00:00

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SPAIN.

IMPORTANT MINISTERIAL DECLARATION.
MADRID, DEC. 29.

In to-day's sitting of the Senate, Marshal O'Don-
nell, in his speech upon Mexican affairs, said that
the Treaty of London did not imply any interven•
tion for upsetting the Government of Juarez. The
allies, he said, were to take possession of Vera Cruz
and the fort of San Juan d'Ulloa, and to wait until
satisfaction should be accorded them. Spain had
never spoken of intervening in the internal affairs
of Mexico. The plenipotentiaries of the other
Powers found the claims of France excessive.
Marshal O'Donnell farther stated that it was
not General Prim who caused the rupture. The re-
embarkation of the Spanish troops became indis
pensable on account of the general state of things.
The real cause of the rupture was Almonte, who
had deceived France. In conclusion, Marshal
O'Donnell censured the conduct of the Government
fo Juarez, and made an appeal for the union of
parties.

His speech produced a great sensation.
The address to the Throne was then adopted by
95 against 23 votes.

FRANCE.

PARIS, DEC. 29."

It is asserted that a conference of representatives
of the protecting Powers of Greece will shortly be
held in London to settle the question of the cession
of the lonian Islands.

Letters received here from Madrid hint that a
modification of the Cabinet may be expected.
La France of this evening says,—

" After the defeat of the Federals on the 13th
President Lincoln had a long conference with the
Minister of France. The peace party consider this
step to betoken a desire for conciliation."

News from Mexico states that General Forey will
commence operations in the middle of January.
BOURSE, Dec. 29.—The assurance given by the
Minister of Finance that there would be no loan in
1863, has inspired confidence and given firmness to
the Market, but without causing any very material
advance in prices. For the Account, Threes
opened at 70fr., and the business done up to the
present time has been at about that quotation. Rail-
way Share Market quiet, but firm. The market
closed as follows :

41 per Cents. 97 95
Do. end month
3 per Cents
Do. end month 7O 05
New 3 per Cents
Do. end month —
Credit Mobilier..., 1155
Do. end m0nth...,1157 50

Bank Shares 3310
Credit F oncier 1387 50
Piedmontese Fives 7l 75
Italian Loan 72 50
Russian
Austrian
Spanish Threes 54
Home Debt

RA ILWAYB.

Cash. Account.
Orleans 1072 50 .. 1072 50
Northern
New ditto
Lyons and ➢lediterranean 1157 50 .. 1160
Genava 377 50 .. 372 50
Southern 822 50 .. 823 75
Western . 532 50 ..
Eastern ....
Sardinian
Austrian
Lorrberd -
North of Spain
Saragossa ..
Ditto to Barcelona .... 330 .. 320

ITALY.

TURIN, DEC. 29.

A cii cular has been issued by the Minister of the
Interior, desiring the Prefects of the Southern Pro-
vinces to report to Government the municipalities
who do not give sufficient assistance in suppressing
brigandage, that measures may be taken for their
dissolution. The Minister, while stating that he
reckons upon the co-operation of the NatioJai
Guards, wishes the Prefects to complete th 9 organi-
sation of these bodies. The Minister is determined
to use every effort to put an end to brigandage.
In the Electoral College of Averse, in the pro-
vince of Terra di Lavoro, General Pallavicini, who
commanded the Royal troops at Aspromonte, has
been chosen deputy.

PRUSSIA.

BERLIN, DEC. 29.

A royal decree, dated the 22d inst., has been
published to-day, calling together both Chambers of
the Diet for the 14th of January next.

AUSTRIA.

VIENNA, DEC. 29.

In to-day's sitting of the committee elected by
the shareholders of the Bank of Austria, the motion
of the directors of the bank to accept the agreement
between the State and the Bank which had been
voted by tho Reichsrath was passed after a long
discussion,

POLAND.

(PROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT

WARSAW, DEC. 27.
After numerous announcements of the official
organs, the trial by a court-martial, under the pre-
sidency of General Kornilonitz, of the 66 political
prisoners, commenced on the 11th inst., with all the
eclat of a public judicial proceeding. The court
is held in the large hall of the palace called Pac,
but the admission to it by tickets has been limited
to the Russian officers and civil functionaries, and
rendered almost impossible to people who naturally
take a lively interest in the matter.
As the accused, who are all young men, between
18 and 25 years of age, were conveyed from the
citadel in long vehicles, under a strong military
escort, through the streets, they were respectfully
saluted by the population; and their feelings dis-
played on this occasion were the stronger, from the
haggard looks and emaciated faces, fully denoting
the sufferings and privations which those fresh
victims of Russian tyranny have undergone during
their long detention and examination by a com-
missio❑ of inquiry. The prisoners have been divided
into six categories, and one counsel to each category
has been ahowed, a task most difficult to effect, in
spite of many eminent lawyers, who tendered their
services gratuitously.

The charge brought against the prisoners con-
tains four distinct counts :-1. To have formed part
of a secret society, whose object. was to free Poland
and to re-establish it, such as it existed before 1772.
2. To have taken an oath contrary to the rights of
the Emperor and the laws of the country. 3. To
have contributed to the distribution of the clandes-
tine joarnals inciting to insurrection. 4. To have
levied contributions of money, or enacted subscrip-
tions in order to procure means of carrying out the
above objects. It is superfluous to add that
there does not exist any positive proof to substan-
tiate those charges, and the whole bears on hear-
say and suspicion. Although th 9 date of the for-
mation of the secret society is stated by the autho-
rities to be as far back as the commencement of the
present year, yet even this fact cannot be satisfac-
torily etablished in the open court. According to
the reports of one of the spies, it is said that the
members of the society used to meet at the period
just mentioned in the street Krzyioe Koto, at the
house of one named Oborski, considered as the
principal conspirator, and in some other place in
the Faubourg of Cracow. Nothing, however, was
found in the latter place, and in the former, when
the police made its appearance, it found Oborski in
his bed fast asleep. Disappointed in its expecta-
tion the police agents employed a novel trick worthy
of imitation by French and English detectives.
They carried away Oborski to the citadel, and one
of the agents got in his bed, without any one know-
ing anything about it, and all persons who next
morning came to see Oborski in his room were at
once arrested, as belonging to the secret society.
In reference to the charge of organising a revolu-
tionary army, this turns out to be bosh, as be-
sides a few models of muskets made of wood, two
old and rusty swords and one flask of powder, I
nothing more was discovered. The count charg-
log them with taking an oath is simply imaginary ;
the poor fellows, when once in the citadel, wers.,
by starvation, flogging, and every other ill-treat-
ment, coerced in acknowledging that they tarok
the oath, but as soon as they had a counsel assigned
judges
to them, they all and each denied before the