The Sun.
London, England, 1868-09-30 00:00:00

FRANCE.

BoußsE,lSept. 29.—Three o'clock.—The market
closed as follows :-
41. per Cent.
End of month... ItaFan Loan
3 per Cent
End of month 69 71 Mexican Loan ... 22 75
Credit Mobilier 271 Do. Bonds

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..._
End of month... 2,2 io Spanish Threes —
Credit Funnier ...1412 Home Debt -
Ead of month... Deferred —
RAthwAts. Cash
Orleans
Northern . 1173
Lyons and Mediterranean
Southern..... 5BO
Western
Eastern • • 567
Sardinian
Austrian
Lombard 4OB
North of Spain =s7l
Saragossa
Roman 43}

THE RISING IN SPAIN.

(From the Time.' Correspondent.)
MADRID, Sept. 26, Evening.
If I were to say that I, a perfect stranger to this
country, and no less inclined by nature than bound
by the duties of my office to the strictest impar-
tiality, am apparently the man in Madrid most
deeply concerned in the issue of the present politi-
cal movement, my assertion would bo taken as a
paradox ; yet it would only convey the impression
produced upon my mind by the aspect of this city.
If you trust the evidence of your eyes and ears, you
will never imagine that such a change as the
substitution of one dynasty for another, of
one Government, good, bad, or indifferent, for
another having at least the charm of novelty,
is impending over the Peninsula. The Spaniards,
you would gay, arc convinced that no ass-driver can

wake or.e and the same beasc of burden carry two
loads. Not that the tall: about Prim and Serrano,
about Cheste and Calonge, is not general, loud, and

vehement. The drama has an interest
.for the pit
and the galleries ; but it never seems to strike the
spectators that they ought to count for something
in the action. " Open your mouth and shut your
eyes," is the motto, " and see what good the Queen
or her enemies will bring you." And yet the

Spaniards are a noble race, gifted with as much
physical and moral courage as any of their
neighbours. But faith in themselves and in their
leaders has been shaken by nearly a cen-
tury of hope deferred. Bad government, they
seem to think, is for them to be the rule ; a pronun-
ciamiento a passing and deceitful, but pleasurable
excitement. A struggle for mastery between the
Blacks and the Reds is only a tamer kind of bull-
fight, not by any means as exciting as the real
thing; certainly not an exhibition for which the

,rue national sport should be given up. There were

to be Toros to-morrow (Sunday), no matter how
dear the pan might be or threaten to become. The
Ring was to be opened, the police nothing loth, and
it is only by the unsettled state of the weather that
we are spared the disgusting spectacle of a popu-

lace, in rags and finery, gloating over the blood of
four-footed animals, while the blood of those who
would wish to rescue them from the most de-
grading tyranny is being spilt at a few leagues' dis-
tance from them.

By way of amends for real inaction, however,
the Madrid. people indulge, as I said, in a prodigi-
ous amount of talk. As if they alone were unworthy
of the name of Spaniards, they fancy that the
people in all other parts of the Peninsula are up
and doing. They feed on the garbage of stale,
absurd, impossible rumours. They describe their
native soil as everywhere breeding swarms of pa-
triotic combatants, but it never occurs to them
that they should go forth and join any of the bands
said to be scouring the land in every direction.
They tell you the names of battalions and tegimenta
falling off from the Royal standards and making
common cause with the insurgent ranks, but they
never feel disposed to try the temper of the soldiers of
their own garrison ; they never assume an attitude,
which, by compelling the Government to concentrate
their forces about the capital, might operate a
diversion in favour of the insurrection, pressed by
superior numbers in the provinces. Throughout the
day trains full of men and arms have been forwarded
by the Southern Railway line, with a view to dis-
engage Novaliches from the awkward position in
which he had rashly entangled himself in the south
of the Sierra Morena, and to force open that Pass
of Despenaperros which the brave mountaineers of
that inhospitable region were stoutly disputing in
his rear. No less than 31 special trains have gone
down to Andalusia within the week. As they
convey on an average a force of 560 men each,
it is :computed that no less than 17,360 men
have marched from Madrid alone, either with
Novaliches or of ter him. It is difficult to conceive
how Prim and Serrano can muster up sufficient
troops to withstand the onset of so overwhelming
an army. Yet the issue of the contest depends on
such resistance as Cordova or Seville may offer.
If the insurgents are driven to the seaports of
Cadiz and Malaga, their total dispersion and
escape on board the friendly men-of-war is only
a question of time. Circumscribed within the
limits of Andalusia, the struggle seems to me to
present but little chance of success for the insur-
gents, and it is disheartening to see that the appa-
rent impotence and certain inaction of the pate Tots
in Catalonia, Valencia, and other provinces allow
Concha to turn with all his combined efforts against
devoted Andalusia.
It is true that it is always on the cards that
Novaliches' battalions may go over to Prim, but
the example of the savage resolution with which
the royal troops fought for their sovereign at Sau-
tander ought to be a damper on the sanguine
temperament of those who trust to the defection of
the soldier for the triumph of the citizen's cause ;
and if we may rely on the correctness of the report