The Sun.
London, England, 1856-08-15 00:00:00

PRUSSIA.

ways show itself worthy of it. Your Imperial Majeety's
affectii hate brothbre
" lopkititit WILLIAM.

"Sans Souci, 6th August."

A letter from Berlin states that the number of
Voss's Gazette which was lately seized by the policb
for an article it contained against Russia has been
allowed to circulate again, in consequence of a
decision of the law courts declaring that offences
committed against friendly Governments can only
be punished when they attack the head of the state
or his envoy, and when that state or its envoy at
Berlin complains of the journal which has committed
the offence.

FRANCE.
PARIS, THURSDAY EVENING.

The Emperor has given a-reception to Baron'
Brunow, who has brought him, from the Emperor
of Russia, the order of St. Andrew.
A Council of Ministers, at which the Emperor
presided, was held yesterday morning at St. Cloud.
A decree in the Moniteur nominates M. Rou-
land, Procureur• General of the Cour Imperiale of
Paris, to be Minister of Public Instruction, in the
place of M. Fortoul, deceased.
The Monitcur publishes a decree fixing the ho-
nours to be paid by the navy when visited by the
Emperor, the Empress, the Prince Imperial, or
the Princes and the Princesses of the Imperial
family.
On the occasion of the fete of the 15th, 584 mili-
tary prisoners have experienced the clemency of
the Emperor. Of these, the remission of the re-
mainder of their sentence has been granted to 274,
land the remaining 310 have had their periods of
imprisonment reduced. The Emperor also, on the
occasion of the same solemnity, has extended his
clemency to 493 civil prisoners, who had been
pointed out to his Majesty's notice by the Minister
of Justice as having acquired a claim to this indul-
gence from their repentance or from the situation
of their families. Out of the above number, 240
have received full pardon, and the others have re-
ceived commutations or reductions of their punish-
ment. The whole number of prisoners who have
had
.their position ameliorated on the recommen-
dation of the Minister. of Justice on the occasion of
the accouchement of the Empress, the baptism of
the Prince Imperial, and the fete of the Emperor,
exceeds 2,300.
The Imperial exequatur has been granted to the
following consular agents :—M. Ferrari, as Con-
sul- General for the Holy See, at Marseilles ; M.
Ravan, Consul for Portugal, at Algiers ; M. Gevers
Van de Vyver, for Belgium, at Havre ; M. de Jove
y Hevia, for Spain, at Perpignan ; and M. Poyde-
not, for Saxony, at Bayonne ; M. Postel, Vice-
Consul for Sardinia, at Cherbourg ; and M. Rossi,
for the Two Sicilies, at Bonifacio.
The following was the situation of the Bank on
Thursday, August 14
CR.

Fr. c.
Cash and ingots
Cash at the branch banks
Bills due yesterday to be paid to-day 390,177 10
Bills becoming due in Paris
Bills in the branch banks
Advances on coin and ingots 1„ 200 400

Do. in the branch banks
Do. on public securities of France 90,246,336 10
Do. in the branch banks
Do. on railway shares and bonds 40,055,900
Do. in the branch banks
Do. to the State by treaty of
June 30, 1848
Advances on Treasury bills 40,000,000
Rentes of the reserve fund 12,980,750 14
Rentes of disposable funds 52,190,792 93
Hotel and furniture of the Bank
Real property of branch banks
Expenses of administration 465,874 8
Premiums on the purchase of matieres 1,145,986 35
Sundries 64,547 11

DR.

1,043,077,898 29

Capital
Reserve fund
Reserve immobiliere
Notes to bearer, in circulation
Do. of branch banks
Do. to order (Post bills)

.. 91,250,000 -
.. 12,980,750 14
4,000,000 -
.. 562,965,900 -
76,481,200 -
5,785,979 62

, .
Bills payable at sight
Account-current of Treasury Creditor 102,139,314 2
Various accounts-current

Do. branch banks
Dividends to be paid
Discount, interest, and expenses
Charge for safe keeping of securities
Re-discounts of the last half-year
Overdue bills
Sundries

26,821,876 ---
1,310,027 25
5,111,261 63
33,724 75
1,629,993 9
14,113 31
4,694,579 77

1,043,077,898 29

PREVIOUS MONTH'S RETURN.

Cash and ingots
Cash at the branch banks 143,024,784
Bills due yesterday to be paid to-day 401,376 66
Bills becoming due in Paris
Bills in the branch banks
Advances on coin and ingots
Do. in the branch banks
Do. on public securities of France 103,982,236 10
Do. in the branch banks -
Do. on railway shares and bonds 45,536,500 ---
Do. in the branch banks
Do, to the State by treaty of
June 30, 1848 55,000,000
Advances on Treasury bills
Rentes of the reserve fund 12,980,750 14
Rentes of disposable funds
Hotel and furniture of the Bank 4,000,000
Real property of branch banks 4,706,621
Expenses of administration 116,944 57
Premiums on the purchase of matihres 332,679 78
Sundries

Capital
Reserve fund

Reserve immobiliere

DR.

1,058,94G,337 2

91,250,000 -
12,980,750 14

4,000,000 -

_
Notes to bearer, in circulation -
Do. of branch banks 80,571,400

Do. to order (Post bills)
Bills payable at sight 3,580,646
Account-current of Treasury Creditor 90,182,253 37
Various accounts-current 173,811,139 11

Do. branch banks
Dividends to be paid
Discount, interest, and expenses
Charge for safe keeping of securities
Re-discounts of the last half-year
Overdue bills
Sundries

28,242,452 --
4.755,391 --
25,244.096 23
9,536 40
1,629,993 9
11,483 71

8,221,592 59

SPAIN.

The Madrid journals of the 10th contain no
political news.
The Espana says that the French authorities
had arrested General Ruiz, chief of the insurrec-
tion, at Gerona, " for reasons which have nothing
to do with politics." The battalion of volunteers
formed at Madrid had been dissolved.

Two dili,gence3 had (says the Novedades) been
stopped and robbed atAranda by two men only.

Letters from Manilla of the 4th state that a
terrible fire had broken out in the cigarette manu-
factory of Arroceros, but they do not say how it
occurred, nor the amount of damage done.

The Deutschland of Vienna, of the 10th says:—
" As soon as the Cabinet of Vienna was informed
of the grave conflict which was about to break out
by the refusal of Russia to restore Kars, and by
its occupation of the Isle of Serpents, it addressed
a most energetic note to the Cabinet of St. Peters-
burg, demanding that those islands should be
given up to the Porte without condition. The
charge-d'affaires, M. Balabine, was able to convince
himself, from several conversations with Count
Buol, that the protest of the Cabinet of Vienna
was very serious. The reply of the Cabinet of St.
Petersburg arrived here a few days ago. It has
produced a very good impression ; Russia not only
promising to restore Kars, but recognising the
right of the Porte to the Isle of Serpents."

A letter from Berlin, of the 12th, says that the
Dowager Empress and the Grand Duke Michael of
Russia, together with Prince Frederick William of
Prussia, had left for St. Petersburg ; the King had
accompanied them as far as Stettin. The King
had addressed the following to the Empress, his
sister :
" Most High and Most Powerful Princess, Madam,
my beloved sister,—When, on the 17th April, 1817,
the King our father, who reposes in God, made known
to the regiment which was then. the 3d Cuirassiers—a
regiment which before the enemy had distinguished itself
by its bravery amongst the brave—that 11.1. H. the
Grand Duke Nicholas Paulowitch had become its chief,
his Majesty recommended the regiment to remain always
worthy of the benevolence of its august chief. lI.M.
the Emperor Nicholas maintained his favour to the regi-
ment during nearly 40 yen-3, and he deigned to send it
a salutation at the hour of his death—which salutation
must pa.s from the lips of the hero prince into the an-
nals of the military history of Prussia. Oa that ac-
count that regiment is intimately united with your im-
perial heart, and therefore I have thought myself war-
ranted in begging of you to be kind enough to take at the
head of the regiment of Cuirassiers Emperor Nicholas I. of
Russia the place which the late Emperor occupied.
Your Imperial Majesty will graciously accord my prayer,
and in consequence I nominate you by these presents
chief of the 3d Regiment of Cuirassiers Emperor Nicholas
I. of Russia, which in all time shall continue to bear
that glorious name, and will, with the aid of God, al-

A letter from Scutari of the 28th ult., in a
Trieste paper, says :—" In Albania a new attack
on the part of the Montenegrins is expected. All
accounts agree in saying that, in the affair of Kuci,
the Montenegrins showed the greatest barbarity.
The whole country was devastated, 200 Turks
were massacred without regard to age or sex, and
13 Catholic families were robbed of all they had,
and their church was pillaged. It is said that
Abbi Paella has received orders to march into
Albania at the head of a large force, and that be is
to be followed by another body of 10,000 men.

---
A telegraphic despatch, dated Bonifacio, the
12th, at half-past two in the afternoon, states that
the electric cable had not been then got up, but
that no doubt was entertained of the success of the
efforts made. Hopes were entertained that the
vessel would be able to resume its course towards
Algeria the next day,

dA# A D A.

LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY, AUG. 14

The Quebt,t. and Montreal Royal mail screw
steamer Canadian, Cart; Ylallarrine, has arrived
with advices from Quebec to file Al inst. She had
on board 05 passengers, among whom the Rev.
Thomas Marsh, 8.A., of Trinity College, Toronto,
who was accidentally poisoned during the voyage
under circumstances detailed below.
On the sth inst. the Canadian, off the Straits of
Belleisle, passed several icebergs, and on the 6th,
in lat. 53, long. 61, passed the 'loyal mail steamer
Anglo-Saxon, hence for Quebec. The British and
North American Royal mail steamship Arabia,
hence, was at Boston on the 30th ult.
Capt. Mayo, of the schooner Pomp, at Plaister
Cove, Strait of Canso, on Monday, the 28th of
July, reports that during a terrific gale on the Ist
ult. 31 fishing vessels, British and American, were
wrecked within a distance of about half-a-mile on
the coast of Labrador. The crews, numbering 360
men, were all saved.
We see it stated that the Secretary of the United
States' Navy has recently imposed fines upon the
Collins line to the extent of $30,000 for failures of
time, under their contract, owing to the employ-
ment of the Ericsson as a substitute for the Arctic.
The exaction of this penalty has led to some sharp
correspondence.
There is nothing new in connection with com-
mercial affairs.
The Rev. Thomas Marsh, 8.A., one of the pas-
sengers, died on Tuesday, and on the arrival of the
steamer to-day an inquest was held upon the body
before the borough coroner. It appears from a state-
ment made by the deceased before he died that on
Saturday last, a little before eight o'clock in the
morning, he asked George Harrison, the bedroom
steward, if there was any Plantagenet water on
board, Plantagenet water being a mineral water
generally drunk in Canada. A negative reply was
given, when the deceased inquired if there was any
mineral water on board. The steward answered,
" Oh, yes, I will go and get some." He went
away and returned with a bowl containing about
a quart of fluid, whicn he handed to the Rev. Mr.
Marsh, and immediately withdrew. Mr. Marsh
swallowed a mouthful of the liquid. He found that
it burnt his throat very much, and went upstairs.
He presently became very ill, and the surgeon, Mr.
\Vhittenbury, was called to him. Inquiries were
instituted, and it was ascertained that the liquid of
which he had drunk was chloride of zinc, used for
disinfecting purposes. The usual remedies were
a,dministtred, but the deceased gradually sank,
and after enduring the greatest agony, died on
Tuesday night. Before his death the deceased ex-
pressed a belief that Harrison did not know the
deadly nature of the liquid. The steward's state-
ment is that Mr. Marsh first asked for Plantagenet
water, and that he told him there was none on
board. He then inquired for some mineral water,
and the steward informed him that there was some
disinfecting fluid called chloride of lime, or chloride
of zinc, and that the deceased told him to bring it
to him. The deceased's widow, who was on board,
corroborates, however, the evidence as to the state-
ment made by the deceased, and further observes
that chloride of lime could not
in have been men-
tioned, as he was the habit of using it in Canada
for disinfecting purposes..
A verdict was returned " that the deceased died.
from the effects of a certain poisonous fluid taken
by mistake."

ANOTHER FEARFUL COLLIERY EXPLOSION,
LOSS OP TEN LIVES.

DUDLEY, THURSDAY

A frightful accident occurred in this neighbourhood
yesterday, by which ten men were in a moment sacri-
ficed. The catastrophe occurred at the Ramrod Hall
Colliery, at Oldbury, belonging to Lord Ward, who is
now at St. Petersburg, and from information which
has been gathered on the spot the circumstances under
which it occurred were as follow :
The works at the Ramrod Hall Colliery had been sus-
pended for a short time, but yesterday the miners were
about to resume operations. The men had assembled at
the pit's mouth, and a party of nine had descended in
safety ; but finding indications of the presence of fire-
damp, they called to their fellow-miners at the pit's
mouth to provide themselves with lamps, and not to
bring lighted candles down with them into the pit. Un-
happily this caution was disregarded, and six men,
accompanied by an overseer or " doggie," named Baker,
got into the skip, or basket., at the pit's mouth, to be
conveyed down the shaft, carrying with them a lighted
candle.
The skip proceeded down the shaft with its living
freight, and nearly reached the bottom of the pit, when
the candle ignited the foul air, and a fearful explosion
took place, blowing the unfortunate miners, skip and all,
to a great height out of the pit. Of course every man
of those in the skip was killed, and their bodies were
mutilated in so frightful a manner as to be hardly recog-
nisable by their friends. Three of the men in the pit
were also killed, making ten men dead, and an eleventh,
missing, is supposed to have shared the same fate.
Tne occurrence bas created great sensation in this
ininin; district, and the most searching investigation is
called for. The deceased have left behind them several
widows and children.

MARKET NEWS.—(lbs Day.)

CORN EXCHANGE.

To-day's market was very scantily supplied with home-
grown wheat coastwise and by land carriage. The attend.
ance of millers was limited, and the demand was in a slug-
gish state, at about Monday's currency.
Over 31,000 quarters of foreign wheat have come fresh
to hand. That article moved off heavily ; indeed so little
business was transacted in it that the quotations were
almost nominal. In floating cargoes very little was
doing.
New barley was firm at full prices, but dold qualities
wore a slow sale.
There was only a small inquiry for malt on former
terms.
0 its, the show of which was tolerably good, wore steady
at Monday's currency.
Beans and peas were very dull at the late decline.
Flour sold slowly, yet prices were supported.

ARRIVALS THIS WISER.
Wheat. Barley. Malt.
Lngllsh .. I 830 290 760
Irish •• •• , 100
roreign 1 34,460 1 10,670

Oats. I Finn;
90 I 440
2,610
30,970
19,630 Lats.

METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET.
We had only a middling show of beasts in to-day's mar-
ket, both as to number and quality. Most breeds were in
moderate request, at Monday's prices. We have no change
to notice in the value of sheep, in which about an average
business was transacted. Tho supply was rather limited.
Lambs were in short supply, and fair request, at Monday's
currency. Prime calves rulcd. steady ; but other kinds of
1,058,946,337 2 veal were dull at late rates. In pigs scarcely any sales
BOURSE, Aug. 14.—The following were the last tol‘oikuipclhacceo.ws
quotations : sold slowly, at from 141. to 191. each, includ-
ing their small calf.
each. tr. a. End of Moutn. Per Sibs to sink the offait.
4L per Cents.. ...... 95 50 —f. —c. s. d. s. d. I s. .1. .
3 per Cents 7l 71 10
New Loan ' 70 93 Interior Beasts.... 3 2to 3 6iPrimeSouthdown 410 5
Bank Shares
Credit Mobilier 1,625 Austrian
Prime Scots, &c. 4 8 4 10,Large hogs
Belgian Fives. ..... .. Spanish Threes 44
Piedmontese (5) 9O 50 Home Debt ....«.-. 393 Inferior Sheep ...3 83 10 Small porkers ... 42 4 8
RAILWATS-103 CASH. Second quality ...4 0 4 4 Suckling calves.. 23 0 30
Primo crse.-wlled.4 6 4 8 Quarter old pigs= 0 18 0
fr. o. fr. o Lamb, 4s 8d to 6s Od.
Orleans ... ..... 1,425 Western 972 50
Northern 1,067 50 Strasburg
Lyons ....1,442 50 New Ditto
Rediterranean 1,830 Grand Central
Lyons Geneva Bl5 Teste
Cette

NEWGATE AND LEADENIIALL.
The supplies of meat wore moderate, and the trade gene
rally was steady, at late rates.
Per Sibs by the carcase.
0. d. s. d.
Beef, inferior 2lO 3 2
Do., middling 3 4 3 6
Do. prime large 3 8 3 10 '
Do., do. small 4 0 4 4
Pork, largo ...... . 3 6 4 0
Lamb, 4s

a. d. a. ri
Mutton, Inferior 3 4 3 6
Do., middling 3 8 4 2
Do., prime 4 4 4
Veal 3 4 4 8
Pork. small 4 4 4 6
d to 5s 6d.

BOROUGH HOP.

The accounts from the plantations are favourable, and
the duty is called 250,000/. For all kinds of hops lie have
a very dull market, and prices ere barely supported.
Mid and East Kent pockets, 31 8s to 6/ 6s per cwt ;
Weald of Kent, 3/ 5s to 5/ Os ; Sussex, 3/ Os to 41 15s.

LITERATURE,

Fashionable Life ; or, Paris and London. By Mrs..
Trollope. 3 vols. Hurst and Blackett.
The name of the popular authoress of " The,
Barnabys,' and many another novel of equal vi-
vacity and satire on the follies of society, is certain
to command the attention of the world of novel
milers, and to excite their curiosity on the an-
nouncement of another work from her indefatigable
pen. Her literary efforts are nearly as continuous
as those of Mr. James, who has told us so many
tales of the adventures of the " solitary traveller."
Nevertheless it must be admitted by Mrs. Trol-
lop's warmest admirers that her later works bear
no comparison to her former ones, and some may
feel it a matter of regret that she should peril
her well-earned reputation by the publication
of works which would be pronounced ex-
tremely indifferent were they the production of
an unknown writer, instead of bearing the
name of one whose success in the world of fiction
has rendered her independent of passing criticisms.
The work before us is in no degree superior to her
last, and very little better than the " Life of a
Clever Woman." The plot is improbable, but
that is a fault that is readily excused in the plea of
novelty. No excuse can be made, however, for the
apparently interminable conversations that occupy
the greatest part of the three volumes, and which,
we fear, most readers will be tempted to miss.
The point on which the story turns is not likely
to excite much sympathy for the hero whose ab-
surd scruples nearly render all parties miserable.
The heroine is a great heiress, her for tune being
entirely under her control, and aniounti.ng to up-
wards of a hundred thousand pounds. She falls
in love with the youngest son of an earl, of whose
affection for her she has no doubt, but finding that
he considers her wealth an insuperable obstacle,
she sends an old friend to hint to him that she
does not consider it so. This, however, has no
effect on the gentleman, who forthwith de-
parts for the antipodes. The lady there-
upon goes to Paris, hence the second title
of the book, and sets up housekeeping there with
a middle-aged friend and her daughter. In en-
deavouring to arrange matters for this daughter's
marriage she becomes involved in a mining scheme,
and by some complicated transactions loses all her
fortune. The young Frenchman, who has been
the innocent cause, shoots himself, leaving a widow
and child to deplore his loss. They accompany
Clara, the heroine, to England, and take up their
residence with her old friend and unsuccessful
ambassador, who is a clergyman and has a country
living. A friend of the Earl's son writes to tell
him of the wonderful change in Clara's fortune, ancll
he returns, being convinced that comparative po-
verty is sufficient to secure happiness. The lady
quite agrees with him, and all is satisfactorily settled,
when, lo l the head of the mining company re-ap-
pears and restores the heiress's fortune in as expe-
ditious and mysterious a manner as it had been
removed. This does not give much comfort to
poor Clara, who expects her lover will depart
for Australia at once. However, he has become
reconciled to the inevitable misfortune of marrying
an heiress ;so all ends well. Those who expect
much of fashionable life in Paris will be disap-
pointed, for there is very little about it—the inte-
rest chiefly depending on the domestic part. There
is, indeed, an amusing description of an assembly,
where every one smokes in full costume, but there
are not many descriptions of general society in
Paris. A long account of the mediums is given,
and from its tone we should conjecture Mrs. Trol-
lope to be at least half a believer in the wonders of
spirit-rapping. Many of the characters are interest-
ing. Annie and her child are among the most
attractive ; nor is the heroine herself at all a dis-
agreeable sketch, though not always discreet in her
speculations. The work has certainly some novelty,
and occasionally some touches that remind the
reader of Mrs. Trollope's former style. The picture
of the Brixbourg family, for instance, is cleverly
drawn. Notwithstanding, we trust that when we
again meet Mrs. Trollope on the field, where she
has won so many triumphs, it will be in something
more worthy of her talents and successes.

MANITFPSTO OF THE MARQUIS

D'ALBAYDA, ORENSE.

We publish, almost in its entirety, an article sent to
the Madrid press by the recognised chief of the demo-
cratic party in the Cortes. It is a remarkable fact that
those who have published the doctrines of democracy to
the greatest extent are members of the high aristocracy :
it was formerly Count Neves (recently deceased) ; it is
now Orense, a grandee of Spain and Marquis of Albayda.
After stating that he is on the point of starting for
Yalencia on " urgent private business," the Marquis
sketches, in rapid outline, the leading features in his own
political career since 1832, and then proceeds to develop,
as follows, the principles of the democratic party in Spain.
"My present opinion is that the partial movements
excited in so many different quarters are the work of
our ancient oppressors, and are designed to produce a
panic among capitalists and the wealthier classes— a stale
plagiarism of the French farce acted out from '4B to '52.
It is clear enough that disorder, and not triumph, is the
object in view. And this is the solution of the enigma.
" Now we democrats are not a secret society, or a
school of levellers. We want a simple cheap government,
a government carried on at half the expense it costs us
row. Far from wishing, like the Communists, that all
property should pass int) the hands of the state, we
would even have the mines and wastes converted into
individual property, a true source of national wealth.
" Far from wishing, like the socialists, that the state
should be all in all, constituting itself the universal ma-
nufacturer and the universal cultivator, we contend, on
the contrary, that it ought to leave every department of
productive industry to the energy and enterprise of in-
dividuals, whether isolated or combined in free associa-
tions.

" In our opinion government ought only to concern
itself with those collective interests, which, as they pro-
duce no surplus of profit, would in consequence be
g!ected if left to the exertions of individuals. Of this
kind are the army, the navy, a,id the police ; the law
tribunals and central offices of administration ; the dip-
lomatic service, and the management of the Customs ;
the Post-office, the Mint, and the standard of weights
and measures. For the maintenance of all these
branches of the public service 600 millions of reals is
amply sufficient. .
"Public charities, prisons, highways, fountains, &c ,
ought to be committed to the manageulent of provincial
or municipal administrations.
" With liberty of action in respect of banks, credit
establishments, joint-stock associations, fairs and mar-
kets, and theatres, with unrestricted education and a
free press, with an absence of state interference in regard
to many other things which Uovernment now takes into
its own control (to the great detriment of all), a vast
saving would be realised, new professions would start
,nto existence, and half our present laws would become

use' esq.
"The rent of the present mines and wastes would re-
lieve us from the burden of the public debt, their value
being estimated at 2,600 millions of reals.
" The church being separated from the state, the
clergy could no longer persecute nor be persecuted ;
they would have no authority except over the conscience.
" This system is so simple that it requires only to be
discussed in order to be approved. If established, it
would be hailed with enthusiasm, for among its imme-
diate benefits would be these : the abolition of conscrip-
tion either for the land or sea service, of indirect taxes,
the excise, patents, aed stamps. Direct taxation would
be reduced one half. If there were no more exceptional
tribunals, military or ecclesiastic, the number of func-
tionaries would be vastly reduced. If the councils of the
province or commune should oppress the inhabitants
with excessive rates, they would have the remedy in
their own hands by virtue of universal suffrage, and
would not impute the blame to the central government.
"In a word, there would be liberty in all and for all,
and as a consequence a rapid increase of wealth, the im-
mediate and inevitable result of freedom.
" Let us never be weary of repeating it ; our desire, is
not to impoverish the rich, but to enrich as farm- pos-
sible the poor. We have voted in favour of railways,
roads, works, establishments of credit—of everything, in
a word, calculated to improve the general prosperity;
and this alone it is which justifies us in having supported
the financial projects of the Moderadoes, with their system
of restriction and centralisation. Our bureaucracy in
Spain has not known how to imitate the aristocracy of
England, which was wise enough to yield in time in order
co avoid impending revolutions. And God grant that
those who are in Paris may not make use of the present
discontent of the nation in order to advance those sinister
projects with which their organs are now menacing us.
" Never, come what may, will we unite ourselves to
those who were our oppressors and destroyers from 1844
to 1854. They know this well ; and that is why they
are incessantly attacking us. According to their
own account it is they who are the victims ; they cannot
appreciate our generous patience. But let them beware.
If this patience should be at length worn out, they
may yet see us assume the attitude which, in dealing
with enemies like these, we ought to have assumed in
1854.

" I implore the democratic portion of the press to give
all the publicity in its power to this communication. I
thank it for the energy and talent with which it has de-
fended the sacred cause of reform, for it is by this word
that we ought to designate the revolution accomplished
by organised powers, reserving the word revolution for
those reforms which the people accomplishes in the hour
of its triumph. In Spain, unfortunately, we have no-
thing but pronunciantento% and that is the reason of the
well•grounded mistrust which the masses feel for the
politicians."

The accounts from Oporto yesterday regarding the
prospects of the coming vintage in the Douro are dis-
couraging. The American vines, which up to a few
days back bad been free from any bad signs, had sud-
denly manifested the blight to an extent which had de-
stroyed the hopes entertained from the introduction of
those descriptions. This year the disease is said to have
attacked the fine vineyards beyond the factory demarca-
tion, and an instance is quoted of one on the frontiers of
Spain which last season yielded 60 pipes of the best
wine, and which will not now produce six pipes, From
Madeira the Ad I?ice4 describe,a total failure. -