The Sun.
London, England, 1868-10-24 00:00:00

THE REORGANISATION OF SPAIN.

The Central Revolutionary Junta has dissolved, the
provincial juntas are following the example, and the Pro-
visional Government alone will now be left to complete
the work of the revolution. Nearly all the correspon-
dents at Madrid testify to the harmony with which the
Junta and the Ministry worked together. It was feared
that two sets of authorities would inevitably result in con-
fusion, jealousy, and perhaps open antagonism, particularly
as the Republicans, who were excluded from the Pro-
visional Government, were well represented in the Junta.
These apprehensions have proved to be unfounded. Some
of the local bodies have failed to conduct their proceedings
with the discretion of the Madrid Junta, but the difficulty
has been very trifling. Never was a successful revolution
so peacefully followed up. The Times correspondent
observes that many of the local juntas have exceeded
their powers, and in the enthusiasm of freedom have
abolished taxes and duties, suppressed monasteries, and
pulled down churches, besides other foolish things. But
this excess of zeal is largely owing to the want of commu-
nication between the provinces and the capital. The fact
that these local governments are dissolving all over the
country shews that no opposition to the central authority
was intended.
Marshal Serrano's letter to the GauloiB is a decided
manifesto in favour of monarchy. The choice of a Govern-
ment will be left to the country, but the writer adds :
"For my own part, I think a constitutional monarchy,
fenced round with all the liberties compatible with that
form of government, might be the form most in accord.
ance with the spirit of the present time and the special
position in which our country is placed."
The complete text of the manifesto of the Provisional
Government of Spain has been published. It is not
quite explicit, the obscurity of the telegraphic sum-
mary not being altogether dissipated by the
original. It is, however, evident that the Ministry
has abandoned the idea of a plebiscitum, and
has resolved to decide the question of the future govern-
ment by a Constituent Cortes elected by universal
suffrage. The manifesto is not so clear on this point as
could be desired, but this is evidently the course which
will be adopted, The question of freedom of worship the
Ministry declines to entertain. It is to be left to the
Cortes. The tone of the document is remarkably dignified
and temperate.
Co-operative societies are being established in the large
Spanish towns. A large number of the Jesuits expelled
from Spain have arrived in Belgium. The abolition of
the octroi duties has resulted in a considerable fall in the
price of all kinds of commodities. Messrs. Baring are
openly mentioned at Madrid as the firm which has offered
the Provisional Government a considerable loan on easy
terms. It is thought that the Church property may pos-
sibly be made the security. General Novaliches, the only
partisan of the fallen Government who is spoken of with
respect, is at present in a precarious state : hemorrhage
has set in, and has been stopped only with great difficulty.
The Liberte thinks the hesitation of the monarchists has
rendered the proclamation of a republic inevitable.
The Pope has announced to the Provisional Govern-
ment, through the Nuncio of Madrid, that his Holiness
is opposed to the proclamation of freedom of worship.
The statement that such a proclamation bad been made
is not correct,

NEWS PAPE
GROUSES
ate Russian St. Petersburg jouOnalZ /
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founded with the Journal de St. Peter rg)itinnotbien
that the Minister of the Interior has addressed a
circular to the governors of all the provinces
of the Russian Empire, asking their advice as to the best
means of checking the progress of drunkenness among
the people. The following information has since been
collected on this subject :--In 1862 there were 400
public-houses at St. Petersburg; there are now 2,500;
Six years ago there was one public-house for every
1,080 inhabitants ; there is one for every 200. Several of
these houses are also receptacles for stolen goods. It is

now proposed to close 2,162 public-houses in the capital,
and a similar proportion in other Russian towns

ADVICE TO NON ELECTORS.

A Dublin correspondent writes that there are no special
features to be noticed in connection with the e:ectioneering
movement in the provinces except in one instance, that of
the county of Wexford. There, it seems, a special battery
is to be prepared to aid in defeating the Conservative can-
didate. It is to be Tr:finned by the non-electors, and its
effectiveness may be judged from Me observations of the
rev. gentleman to whom is due the credit of employing
such a political projectile. At a meeting held in New
Toss to promote the return of Messrs. D'Arcy and
Power, it was advocated in a speech which is thus
reported in the Daily Express :—" The Rev. William,
Murphy, P.P., Cushentown, said he had to say a word to
the non-electors, for the power of the non-electors was
nearly equal to that of the electors. The electors only
represented a community among whom they lived. They
represented the non-electors, and the non-electors should
make them vote as they wished. He remembered an
occasion on which the non-electors exercised their power
to good purpose—in the famous rotten-egg electionof Wex.
ford, when the electors were made to vote for the Liberal
Candidates by the power of rotten eggs. And he thought
tat the power of rottie eggs, ought to be as potent
as ever to make the electors vote as they ought. He saw
about 100 electors going with their agent—the agent of
an Orange Tory—to vote for an obnoxious candidate ;
but they were met by the power of the people. They
13howered upon the agent a literal shower of rotten.
bggs. The agent was dressed up primly, tin white vest, S
hat, coat, and pantaloons of unexceptionable cut and colours;
but the shower of rotten eggs totally disfigured him. (A
Voice : ' Devil's cure to him.') What was then done?
Why, in order to put him in good condition again by a good
Washing, Tom and Jem Neill, from the Black Cow, and
a couple of boys from Billy's•alley, by way of compassion,.
after his clothes being destroyed, sopped him in the riven;
The tide happened to be in full at the time, and they had
i3lenty of water to wash him ; but he lost his shoes in the
ducking, and then they sent for a pair of brogues
by way of compensation. The brogues were well,
paved with hob-nails, and had irons on the heels like
asses' shoes. They put the hobnailed brogues on him and
said ' Henceforth you will be known as Bill Hobbs ; ' and
Bill Hobbs he was called ever after. There's an example of
the power of rotten eggs. But now about Pat Hare. He
will be bringing up his tenants dressed in nightcaps, in the
New Ross steamer, to vote for Orange ascendancy. When
they came here he (Rev. Mr. Murphy) would say to the non.
electers, meet him as the Wexford men met the a,geet,with
a shower of rotten eggs ; don't break his bones, don't touch
a hair of his head, but give him a shower of rotten eggs.
If they would do that, Pat Hare's tenants would skedaddle
home again. This was the most important election they
ever had in this country, for if they were beaten now,
they would be beaten for ever, and they should
hang their heads in shame. Here, he would say, let all
Liberal electors vote for Power and D'Arcy, and let all
Orange electors stay at home. Let the non-electors be
well provided with rotten eggs, and let them use them.
If they do, the victory will be theirs in the triumphant
return of D'Arcy and Power. He would not speak of the
persecution of the Catholics for the past 300 years. He
need not refer to the time when that street ran with
human gore ; the blood of their uncles and fathers. He
himself had an uncle shot in that street. He would not
refer to those painful memories at greater length but
they could not forget them."

ELECTION INTELLIGENCE.

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WESTMINSTEIL—Another candidate has appeared in the
person of Mr. Bury Victor Hutchinson, who describes him-
self as a Radical Conservative. Ho thinks that the state of
the Irish Church is unsatisfactory; he advocates manhood
suffrage under a revised mode of registration; approves of
Lord Stanley's foreign policy; and concludes by saying that
if returned to Parliament he will use his utmost endeavour
to further the interests of the nation.

BRISTOL.—A meeting of Conservatives has been nem

"yeslerday in Bristol, when it was unanimously resolved to
request. Mr. John William Miles, the late member, to come
forward for the city in the Conservative interest. There is
every,prot:ability that Mr. Miles will consent.
_____Man.u.t..;TEß.—Mr. Henry Gartside, of Ashton, who was
invited to become the colleague of Mr. Ifoare in the Conser-
vative interest, has respectfully declin-. d the proffered
honour.

BnroirroN.—Messrs. White and Fawcett, the sitting Libe-
ral members, have addressed a crowded meeting of their
constituents, and were received with acclamation. No Con-
sc rvativo candidate has yet come forward.
EAST STAFFORDSHIRE.—In Mr. Bass's address to the elec-
tors of this division be puts the following question :
" Will you stand still to Mr. Disraeli or co-operate with Mr.
Gladstone in safe and indispensable progress?" The other
Liberal candidate is Mr. M‘Lean, and the only Conservative
iu the field is Mr. Hartley.

NOTTINGHAM.—Professor Fawcett has consented to under-
take the duty of arbitrator on the part of the Liberal Associa-
tion as to the claims of the Liberal candidates. Mr. Bright
bas declined to interfere.

OXFORD COUNTY.—Mr. Henley and Colonel North have
issued their addresses. Mr. Henley believes that Mr. Glad-
stone brought forward the Irish Church question for "Party

Durposes."

SOUTH SHROPSHIRE.—GeneraI the Hon. Percy Herbert
(C), Treasurer of her Majesty's Household, and Mr. R.
JaFper More (L), hove issued addresses, soliciting re-election
for South Shropshire.
WARIVICK.—The Liberals have decided not to bring for-
ward more than ono candidate. It is therefore expected
that Mr. Peel and Mr. Greaves will be returned without op-
position.

WORCESTER.—It has at 'length been settled that each of
Lhe three Liberal candidates shall severally make a separate
canvass of the electors solely on his own behalf, each un-
dertaking to retire from the contest on its being proved to
au umpire, on an examination of the several canvass books,
that ho has the fewest promises of support:
SCOTLAND.—Sir Sidney 11. Waterlow, of London, has
come forward as a Liberal candidate for Dumfriesshire, in
Opposition to Major Walker, the present Conservative mem-
ber—Mr. Charles Stuart Parker has issued his address as a
Liberal for Perthshire, against Sir William Stirling Max-
well (C.).
NEWCASTLE - 'UPON - TYNE.—Tho sitting members, air.
,iowen and the Right Hon. T. E. Headlam, have issued
thair addresses seeking re-election. Mr. Cowen will vote
for the repeal of the ratepaying and minority clauses of the
Reform Bill, and the equalisation of the franchise in
boroughs and counties. He is heartily in favour of the
disendowment and disestablit.hment of the Irish Church,
and will support a measure for amending the land laws of
Ireland. Mr. Headlam purposes "to act heartily and
cordially upon the resolutions adopted in the last session of
Parliament." Opposition to both Lon. gentlemen is talked of.
BEVERLEY. The Eastern Morning News says it is re-
ported that the Hon. Marmaduko Constable Maxwell, eldest
son of Lord fierries, and Mr. Anthony Trollops, will be the
Liberal candidates for Beverley.

The Independance Beige says the opinion is general
in PruE.aia that the Government can meet the deficit of the
year only by contracting a loan.

The Bishop of Chester delivered his visitation ad-
dress at St. Peter's parish church, Liverpool, on Thursday, in
the presence of about 150 of the local clergy, amongst them
the venerable rector of Liverpool, the Rev. Augustus Camp-
bell. There has been nu episcopal visitation in Liverpool
for six years.

The trial of Mr. Doulton, M.P., which has been
adjourned from time tc time on account of the hon. mom-
bees ill-health, began on Thursday at Brussels, in the defend-
ant's absence. The Echo du Parlament states that Mr. Doul-
ton disputes the competence of the court before whica ho is
cited, and does not intend to appear.

it is reported (says the Nottingham Journal)
that the Bunny zstate is about to change hands, Mrs.
Forteath having, it is said, agreed to dispose of it to
Messrs. Clayton. Shuttlewortb, and Co., of Lincoln, for the
sum of £200,000. It is believed that there is coal under the
estate, and that it has been bought for the purpose of work-
ing the coal.

The anniversary of the Canynge's Society was held
on Thursday at Bristol. This society completes the task of
the restoration of St. Mary Redcliffe, supposed to be the finest
parish church in England. There were services morning
and evening, at which the Dean of Chichester and the
Archdeacon of Taunton respectively preached, and between
these services there was a luncheon, at which the Archdea-
con said that no one in his senses ever imagined he (the
Archdeacon) had the smallest leaning to the Church of
Rome. He exhorted High and Low Churchmen to combine
9gether in defence sk the Church _

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