The Sun.
London, England, 1869-01-06 00:00:00

lIAIR-WASIL

Beware of hair-wash, or at least of such as is used
to prevent the bair from becoming grey, and is
declared by the vendor to be perfectly innocuous.
" W." writes to the Times that several of his friends
having
complained of indisposition which they con-
nected with the use of a new hair lotion, he caused it
to be analysed, and found it to contain rose-
water, sulphur, and sugar of lead, the latter
in sufficient quantity to cause either para-
lysis or painters' colic. That is to say,
the purchaser of this precious stuff wishing to
destroy one sign of age, is in danger of exhibiting
another and far worse. Better be grey-headed than
paralysed ; hoary hairs are sometimes a crown of
glory ; it is difficult to imagine the palsy to be so.

FOREIGN NOTES,

SPAIN.

The fight at Malaga shews that the confidence of the
Spanish people in its own force is diminishing, and that
this second triumph of the Provisional Government will
go far to secure the quiet of the country. The rising has
been less general than at Cadiz. Indeed, when General
Caballero de nodes arrived at Ala,laga to disarm the
militia, after successfully accomplishing that task at
Seville, the majority of the volunteers consented to submit
to the reorganisation peacefully, and a strong body
even offered their assistance for the preservation of
order; but about 700 held out. These would not
deliver up their arms, and General Caballero would take
no other terms. The insurgents raised barricades, and
the commander of the Government troops declared the
place in a state of siege. Proposals for a surrender were
made, but they were inadmissible ; and on New Year's
Pay the struggle began. It was exceedingly desperate.
The insurgents were amply supplied with weapons and
ammunition, and fought well, as Spaniards invariably do
in an irregular conflict. The barricades were most of
them carried at the point of the bayonet. The slaughter
was great on both sides, and though the attack commenced
at ten in the morning, the regular troops had not com-
pleted their victory when darkness stopped the fighting.
An American family escaping from the place under their
national flag were fired upon, attacked, and plundered by
the insurgents. They were, however, rescued by the
troops, and the fullest satisfaction was given by the
Government authorities to the American Consul. Next
day served to finish the work. These abortive attempts
to resist the Government only strengthen its posi-
tion. The possibility of resistance diminishes with each
defeat. The general opinion is that the remaining work of
reorganisation—the disarming of the mob-militia and the
enrolment of a new force—will be accomplished with
little difficulty. The wonder is that the resistance under
the circumstances should have been so desperate. It is
still matter of doubt how far party influence has prompted
these risings. The Independence Beige still maintains
that large sums were distributed amongst the Cadiz insur-
gents by the agents of Queen Isabella,.
The Times correspondent gives a gloomy account of
the anarchy in the rural districts, especially in Anda-
lusia. The olive harvest has been good, but it seems
to have been regarded as common property. There
is no security for horses and cattle ; not only are the
herds of wealthy people robbed, but even the cows which
supply the only means of sustenance to poor cottagers
are stolen or forcibly taken away from them. The public
revenue fares no better than private incomes. Tobacco is
freely and openly sold in the streets, as if it were mere
fruit and- vegetables, in contempt of the Government
monopoly.
Household suffrage in England is a trifle compared with
universal suffrage in Spain. The total number of Spanish
electors is now 3,600,000, whereas under the old franchise
it was only 166,000. -Formerly the payment of £4 a year
in direct taxation was the minimum qualification ; now
anyone may vote, provided he is not less than twenty-four
years of age. One province, which had 300 electors before
the revolution, has now 24,000. Madrid has risen from
9,100 to 131,000, and the Seville district from 6,000 to
122,000. The young men under 25 clamour for the
suffrage. To reduce the age qualification to 21 would in-
crease the present enormous total by 600,000.
The Madrid papers are jubilant at the chance of
England exchanging Gibraltar for Ceuta.

The Emperor of Russia is said to be an attentive
reader of American books.

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