The Sun.
London, England, 1868-10-01 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 1, 1868.

THE RISING IN SPAIN.

(From the Times' Correspondent.)
MADRID, Sept. 27, Evening.

In order to set to rights the reader's mind, which
must needs be bewildered by the crowding together
of a vast farago of telegraphic intelligence, it may,
perhaps, be desirable to give the shortest possible
chronicle of the events connected with the Spanish
insurrection from the beginning. General Prim left
London on the 11th of this month ; he reached
Cadiz on the 17th, and was received on board the
frigate Zaragoza. He had been preceded by Gen.
Milans del Bosch, who had chartered a steamer at
Gravesend, and sailed for the Canary Islands. Upon
Prim's arrival, on the same 17th, a Council was held
on board the frigate, in which Prim advised that the
outbreak should be put off till his friend should ar-
rive at Cadiz with Serrano and the other Generals
from the islands. Prim's wishes were, however,
overruled, as it was thought that there might be
danger in delay, and on the 18th, at noon, the sig-
nal for the insurrection was given by the flags and
guns of the frigate, and by the " Hymn of Riego "
sung in chorus by the crew. One hour later the ex-
ample of the Zaragoza was followed by the San Fer-
nando and Carraca, under the command of General
Primo de la Rivera. During the night the cry T.-:as
taken up by the Regiment Cantabria. The Artil-
lery regiment joined in the morning. There was
no resistance on the part of the authorities, no
struggle, not a drop of blood shed. On the 19th the
steamer conveying the banished generals hove in
sight; one of the insurgent men-of-war went to
meet them, and they landed in the evening. In the
afternoon of the same day, the 19th, General Izqui-
erdo had pronounced at Seville, amid the unani-
mous acclamations of the people and the whole
garrison. On the 20th there was a general confe-
rence of the insurgent Generals at Cadiz. On the
21st Serrano, De Rodas, and Lopez Dominguez left
for Seville. Da Rodas was destined to the com-
mand of the vanguard. The proclamation to the
Spaniards, signed by these Generals, was published
in Cadiz on the 21st, though it bears the date of
the 19th. I have also before my eyes a proclama-
tion of Admiral Topete, commander of the Zara-
goza,
of the 17th ; another of General Prim to the
nation, bearing the date of the 19th ; and another
by Prim, of the same date, announcing the appoint-
ment of a Provisional Junta for Cadiz, and another
for Seville. The Cadiz Junta is presided over by
Don Juan Topete. The President at Seville is Don
Antonio Aristequi. Each Junta consists of 17
members besides the President.

The official chronicle does not go beyond the 21st,
but the subsequent operations of the insurgents
can easily be made out from common report. The
insurgent men-of-war began to cruise along the
coast, and endeavoured to rouse the various sea-
ports, but not always with the same success.
The movement was favourably received at Ferrol,
at Santander, at Santona, and other places; it failed
at Barcelona and Valencia. Everywhere, however,
the decision came from the spontaneous impulse of
the troops, not of the citizens. These latter do not
seem to have ventured on the initiative, however
enthusiastically they may have fraternized with the
soldiers after the event. Collision seems to have
been infrequent, but chiefly, if not wholly, among
the military. In the meantime the land forces of
the insurgents came forward from Seville to Cor-
dova. Malaga, Velez-Malaga, Almeria, Algesiras,
• and all the cities of Andalusia were easily and ra-
pidly won, and bands sho we 1 themselves here and
there almost throughout the peninsila. On two
point=, at Bejar, in the kingdom of Leon, and at
Alcoy, in the Province of Alicante, manufacturing
places, the movement was both spontaneous and
self-sustained. At Carthagena and Corunna the
men-of-war repeatedly summoned the garrisons to
surrender. At Carthagena it seems that General
Prim was in command of the three vessels, and that
at the second summons he threatened the place with
bombardment, when all the vessels in the ports,
boats, launches, a few gunboats, and a steamer,
joined the insurgent squadron. This is all that was
known previous to the interruption of communica-
tion with the place to which I allude I in my last.
At Corunna, also, the frigate Victoria and the
steamer Buenaventura have threatened the garrison
with bombardment.

However, the main interest is concentrated upon
the movements of the hostile forces in Andalusia.
The Marquis Novaliches, Commander of the Royal
forces in Andalusia, had already crossed the Sierra
Morena, and had reached Baylen on the 23d. Bay-
len is 48 Spanish leagues (the league 34 English
miles) from Madrid, 18 leagues from Cordova, and
43 from Seville. On the same day, the 23d, the
main force of Novaliches advanced to Andujar,
leagues further. On the 24th, at Andujar, Nova-
liches had with him the Regiment Mallorca, the
Cazadores de Madrid, and the Principe Regiment,
with one regiment of mounted artillery and two
cavalry regiments. Opposite to him, to the best of
his knowledge, he had the Baylen and Cantabria
Regiments, one battalion of Asturias, the Caza-
dores of Tarifa, those of Segorbe, and others, be-
sides a regiment of siege artillery, a battalion of
marines, a regiment of mounted cavalry, a cavalry
regiment, and a company of condestables —possibly
a local police. At the head of evidently inferior
forces Novaliches came to a standstill at Andujar,
and sent for reinforcements, which can, however,
only have reached him on Saturday or this very
day, as the passes of the Sierra Morena were
strongly beset by armed bands of peasants till very
lately, and are hardly altogether free at the present
moment. It seems, nevertheless, that the Marquis
pursued his way towards Cordova, and his van-
guard had got as far as Alcolea with nothing but
two leagues of country and the broad stream of the
Guadalquiver between him and the city: His very
latest advices, however, bearing date of this day,
are that " it is impossible for him to attack Cor-
dova."

September 28.

The news to-clay is serious. Concha, the Prime
Minister, upon receiving Novaliches' telegram that
"it was impossible to attack Cordova," sent back
word that "if he himself or any one of his compa-
nions were on the spot, he would march on Cordova
at all hazards ;" whereupon Novaliches insisted that
" Cordova was not to be taken without shedding
streams of blood, and that he would not attempt it,
except on receiving most positive orders." The
whole of this was immediately communicated to the
Queen, and her answer was that they should pro-
ceed on the plan laid out by herself the day before
yesterday—viz., that " all the loyal troops should be
gathered together and concentrated upon the Basque
Provinces." If such are, indeed, the Queen's orders,
and if they are obeyed, all the rest of the country
will have to be abandoned, and we shall soon have
Prim and his friends in Madrid.

Apropos to the Queen and the Basque Provinces
it appears that during her stay in Lequeitio the
deputation of the Fueros, or Estates, the only sha-
dow of ancient constitutional charters in Spain still
subsisting in those said provinces, pressed the Queen
to swear her constitutional oath to the Fueros, by
way of a formal recognition and sanction of local
franchises and liberties, which the Basques have
at all times claimed, and often vindicated, but
which many of the recent Spanish monarchs have
disregarded. Upon the advice of her then Mi-
nister, Gonzalez Bravo, the Queen refused to
accede to the wishes of the deputation. But
her Majesty comes forward now and asks for a
levy of 8,000 men from the provinces, whereupon
the deputation, falling back upon their rights and
privileges, refuse to entertain the demand of the
Queen, and only consent to vote a subsidy of 200
men for each of the three provinces, GOO men in all,
and these are to be destined exclusively to the pro-
tection of the person of the monarch.
Another heavy blow seems to have fallen upon
Queen Isabella. It appears that the only man-of-
war which continued to hoist the royal flag, and
only because it was at San Sebastian, within reach
of the fire of the land batteries, received sealed
orders from the Queen to sail for Carthagena. But
on leaving the commander left a sealed packet for
her Majesty, in which he said that " he no longer
recognised the Government of Isabel IL, and would
make his best way to join the insurgents."
All these tidings come to me from private sources
on which 1 ought to place implicit reliance. A dis-

ti action should always be drawn between what I
give as a mere rumour and what I state as trust-
worthy information. There seems to be no doubt
that the insurgent bands are everywhere increasing
in number and strength The interruption of cor-
respondence with Carthagena, both postal and tele-
graphical, still continues; there is every presump-
tion of that city having surrendered to Prim. On
the other hand, Alcoy seems to have been aban-
doned by the insurgents, it is said, to spare the in-
habitants the horrors of a siege. A force of 2,500
armed peasantry quitted the place on the advance
of the Royal troops. Gijon is said to have pro-
nounced. This, as you know, is the seaport of the
Province of Oviedo, Asturias, and has in frequent
instances been foremost in revolutionary movements.
General Moriones, with 800 men, passed through
Cenizeros, Navarra, on Saturday. The band of
Rojas have torn up the rails and cut the wires at
Santa Elena, near Despenaperros.
The Civil Governor of Madrid has ordered the
banishment, within 24 hours, of Don Juan Moreno
Benites, Don Ricardo Muniz, Don Eduardo Gallet,
Don Carlo Rodrigo Navarro, Don Ramon Goicor-
roeten, and others. It is not expected that the
order will be obeyed in any instance. The gentle-
men who have received it will simply hide and await
the hour of deliverance.

SEPT. 28, AT NOON.
Grenada has risen. The impression produced on
the Government by this new check has been so
great that orders have been immediately tele-
graphed to Novaliches to attack Cordova at all
hazards. IVe shall see the result. Au attack. is
also to be made upon Bejar. The inhabitants have
rejected all terms of surrender, and declare that
" they will die to a man rather than again sub-
mit to the iniquitous Government of Isabella II."
I think I have the best reasons to give a flat con-
tradiction to the statements of the Madrid Gazette
with respect to any horrors or atrocities committed
at 'Malaga. Up to the 24th that city had gone
through no such scenes as the Gazette describes, and
the very best order prevailed. The good will and
harmony between the troops and the people could
not have been more complete. Large contributions
to supply the poorest inhabitants with work and
work's wages were forthcoming. More lately thieves
and other criminals who attempted to ply their
several trades have been shot.

The impression made on the Madrid public by
the report, now fully confirmed, of the execution of
Senor Valhn by order of Col. Cevallos-Escotera,
nephew of Marshal Pezuela, Count of Cheste, is so
great that the Government endeavour to excuse it
on the ground of madness. The plea, however, is
not admitted. The colonel went through the form
of a council of war, but the sentence was not
submitted to the approbation of the general in
command, as the law would have required. There
is no other word for such a deed than assassination.
Novaliches is said to have been furious when the
wanton murder was made known to him, and Mar-
shal Concha is dismayed at the probable conse-
quences. It will for some time bring no luck to
the Royal officers who may happen to fall into the
hands of the insurgents. The man guilty of the
first bl.oody crime in a civil war must be held an-
swerable for all the subsequent deeds of retaliation
which he provokes, and it is remarkable that the
first signal for bloodshed should have been given
by a relative of that notoriously truculent Marquis
of Pezuela.

P.S.—The national lottery, which was to be
drawn today, has been suspended till the 3d of
next month, obviously because it is not convenient
to the Government in its distress to make the
payments. People familiar with Spanish affairs
assure me that such an incident has hardly ever
occurred before.

BIRTH-PLACE OF THE BONAPARTES.

It will always be the chief pride of Ajaccio that
she gave birth to the great Emperor. Close to the
harbour, in a public square by the sea-beach, stands
an equestrian statue of the conqueror surrounded
by his four brothers on foot. They are all attired
in Roman fashion, and are turned seaward, to the
' west, as if to symbolize the emigration of this fa-
mily to conquer Europe. There is something ludi-
crous and forlorn in the stiffness of the group—
something even pathetic, when we think how Na-
poleon gazed seaward, westward, from another is-
land, no longer on horseback, no longer laurel-
crowned, an unthroned, unseated conqueror, on St.
Helena. his father's house stands close by. An
old Italian waiting-woman, who had been long in
the service of the Murats, keeps it and shows it.
She has the manners of a lady, and can tell many
stories of the various members of the Bonaparte
family. Those who fancy that Napoleon was born
in a mean dwelling of poor parents will be surprised
to find so much space and elegance in these apart-
ments. Of course his family was not rich by com-
parison with the riches of French or English nobles.
But for Corsicans they were well to do, and their
house has an air of antique dignity. The
chairs of the entrance saloon have been lite-
rally stripped of their coverings by enthusiastic
visitors : the horse-hair stuffing underneath protrudes
itself with a sort of comic pride, as if protesting
that it came to be so tattered in an honourable ser-
vice. Some of the furniture seems new ; but many
old presses inlaid with marbles, agates, and lapis
lazuli, such as Italian families preserve for genera-
tions, have an air of respectable antiquity about
them. Nor is there any doubt that the young
Napoleon led his minuets beneath the stiff giran-
doles of the formal dancing-room. There, too, in
a dark, back-chamber, is the bed in which he was
born. At its foot is a photograph of the present.
Prince Imperial sent by the Empress Eugenie, who,
when she visited the room, wept much—pianse molto
(to use the old lady's phrase)—at seeing the place
where such lofty destinies began. On the wall of
the same room is a portrait of Napoleon himself as
the young general of the Republic—with the citi-
zen's unkempt hair, the fierce fire of the Revolution
in his eyes, a frown upon his forehead, lips com-
pressed, and quivering nostrils ; also one of his
mother, the pastille of a handsome woman, with
Napoleonic eyes and brows and nose, but with a
vacant simpering mouth. Perhaps the provincial
artist knew not how to seize the expression of this
feature, the most difficult to draw. For we cannot
fancy that Letizia had lips without the firmness or
the fulness of a majestic nature. The whole first
story of this house belonged to the Bonaparte
family. The windows look out partly on a little
court and partly on narrow streets. It was, no
doubt,w thehen
memory of this home that made Napo-
leon, Emperor, design schemes for the good
of Corsica.—Front " Ajaccio," in the Cornhill
Magazine for October.

PROP3SED REDUCTION OF WAGES IN THE
GENERAL POST OFFICE.--A crowded meeting of the
auxiliary newspaper sorters was held on Monday even-
ing, at the Post Office Tavern, Noble-street, E.C., to
take into consideration what further steps, if any,
should be taken to appeal against the proposed reduc-
tion. It appears that about a week since a notice,
signed by the assistant-supe►intendent, was posted in
the office, stating that the hours of duty (4 to 8 p.m.)
were intended to be changed to 5 to 8 p.m., and the wages
reduced from 10s. to 7s. 6d. per week. This created
great dissatisfaction, and at a previous meeting the men
resolved not to sign for the reduced rate. The document
was put forward for signature on Monday evening, and
out of 130 men only four signed. The chairman con-
gratulated the meeting on the response which had
been made by the men, and iu the course of the dis-
cussion it appeared that under the pew system
most of them would bo away from their homes for five
hours per day for the sum of 15d., and although many
were men with large families, they would rather chance
what they might earn at their various trades than submit
to the proposed reduction. Some had been seven or eight
years in the service. It was finally resolved that no fur-
ther action be taken in the matter till the issue of some
further order from the Post-office authorities, but the men
were unanimous against any reduction of wages in what-
over form it might be presented.
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SPEECH OF MR. ATKINSON ON THE
NATIONAL £ EBT OF THE UNITED STATES.

Mr. Edward Atkinson, of Boston, a gentleman
now well known for his sound views on finance and
their lucid exposition, delivered a long and impor-
tant speech on the 9th instant to the Massachusetts
Republican State Convention on the National Debt.
He commenced by stating that he justified; not de-
fended, the fiscal policy of the Republican party,
which, instead of needing defence, ought to be to
many a proud record. Though he bad arranged
the plan he proposed to lay before them, the data
had been furnished by the Hon. David A. Wells.
His first point was, that the statement commonly.
accepted of the maximum United States debt was
erroneous, as the debt exceeded by some hundreds
of millions the highest statement ever given by the
Treasury, which was that of the Ist of August,
1865, when the amount was $2,757,689,571.
These figures only represented the debt entered on
'the Treasury books, while a large liability remained
since recognized and paid, but not at that time
passel The true liability in the year 1865 was
$3,287,733,329, and since that date over
$800,000,000 had been paid off, or one quarter of
the sum total, besides paying the interest. Mr.
Atkinson personally knew of large sums due in
excess of the debt, as then shown by the Treasury
returns. The manufacturing corporations with
which he was connected held claims for army sup-
plies amounting to millions of dollars, which were
paid in 7 3-10 Notes, and they went to the savings'
banks from whom the manufacturers had obtained
the advances, to aid them in fulfilling their con-
tracts. After showing that his figures were official,
and not to be controverted, he proceeded to prove
the truth of his assertion, that from Ist April,
1865, to June 30th, 1868, the ruling party in the
United States bad paid over $800,000,000 of the
principal of the debt, reducing it by that sum :

REVENUE.
The receipts from the customs have been as follows:
April 1, 1865, to June 30, 1865 530,014,387
July 1, 1865, to June 30, 1866
July 1, 1866, to June 30, 1867
July 1, 1867, to June 30, 1868
Total . 5548,978,848