Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1854-10-14

tiers Of Portugal II is said that several refugees Of diff
erent countries have left London for Madrid with pass
ports from the Ambassador of certain Power not very
friendly to We believe that the Government Is aware
Of this movement"
The Count DE SAN LUIS ex-Presdent Of the Council of
Minister'S and his nephew, the Chevalier D'AsDRADE,
late Secretary of the Spanish Legation at Turin have
Gently arrived in Paris from Barritz. Gen. BLAsA,
Minister of War; and Count VISTA HERMosA, Director
General of the Staff have also arrived from London.
Letters of the 10th announce that the elections
not to postponed in compliance with the suggestions
of provincial papers They viii take place on
the days appointed by decree several weeks ago. These
elections form the engrossng topic throughout the
peninsula The last letters give alarming account Of
electoral meeting recently held at the theatre
del 0riente, in Madrid. 1t is of the most notable
signs of the times that this meeting which pre-
sided over by Gen. MANUEL CosoHA, the ex-Min-
ster Gen. GONZALES BRAVO, who addressed the meeting
in support of his candidacy, felt constrained to de-
clare himself an ultra Democrat The extreme Repubi
party showed unexpected vitality at this meeting
An assertion that the ModrGdos alone had shown them
selves capable of governing Spain raised whirlwnd Of
disapprobation sentiment warmly expressed in favor
Of the preservation Of the throne of Isabella IL
ceived with significant perssting silence One of the
this stormy night alluded to the active and
ocous conduct Of the French refugees, and exclaimed
that Spain not to receive lessons in repubicansm
from France "Span MEANS" he added, to teach
Europe how to be free!" proud boast that myself
often heard made in the clubs Of Paris in the early
months of l848.
Queen CHRISTINA has arrived at Bagneres, where she
proposes, it is said, remaining some time.
The Gazette du Midi of the 21st says: an. SoULE,
Minister Penpotentiary of the United States in Spain,
passed the whole yesterday Marseles, where he
| iyed from with N American
Embassy at London, who had been sent from that ca
pita Castillon, (Aregc,) where M. Soue has been
stopping little time Last evening they bath left
for Paris" learn in fact that Messrs SouLE and SON.
with Mr. Sckes aud perhaps two or three other Anne
rican citizens who hold diplomatic Offices are at this
moyent in Paris. Mr. SoULE, states that imnedi-
atey upon his into France from Spain he found
himself annoyngly observed by the French police,
an employee of which lost sight of him whenever he
left his room. He thinks am informed that the same
unceasng vigilance has followed him to Paris and that
literally step is taken by him without the door of
his hotel but is the subject of note and report to this
Government through the police.
The Debats has long article on the state of affairs
in Spain According this journal the spirit of commun-
ism has developed itself to considerable extent in that
country. This is not surprising when we consider the
degraded state of large portion of the population to
been nculcated the habits of labor which, by Civ
ing means of honorable subsistence prevent the de-
sire of the acquisition by violence of the property Of
Others 1t is easy thing for political emagogues in
moments of excitement and revolution to lead such per-
astray The following is the concluding portion of
the article of the sDebats:'
q 1t would be vain to deny that communism has mani
tested itself by acts 1t has destroyed the manufactures
at Barcelona and ruined that great city which just
y considered the industrial capital Of Spain From
Barcelona it extended in Catalonia in the provinces of
Valencia Malaga Cadiz, and Andalusia In certain
places the property of has been seized and d
yided and the estates of great personages who
visited them, and who represented by stew
ards have been seized in spite of all remonstrances The
habits of the great Spanish landowners favor it must be
admitted these fatal dispositions These personages are
known all that is known is that they rich and
that they spend their Madrid Paris Lon
don. In Andalusa told that the estates of thu
Duke of Ossuna have been shared OUT and every day
Of the like kind is received at Madrid to the great
CONSERVATION of the Ministry and all honest people The
latter demand nothing better than to rally round the Gov
ernmen because tits considered the best of
order and the salvation Of ALL Communism has shown
itself even Madrid An attempt has been there made
large onethe journeyman printers induced to
rise against the presses but this movement had
success"
The cholera, says Madrid letter of the 18th, has
red off at Barcelona six thousand persons, nearly FIVE
per of the whole population, which is hundred
and twenty three thousand Whole families have persisted
by the epidemic. Fortunately, the last accounts state
that it is diminishing sensibly. ,
Gen. BopIsoo the Russian Governor Of the isles Of
Aand arrived Sunday Evreux and took apartments
in the Hotel du Grand Cert lie accompanied by his
wife, who is Swedish lady and still young, and by
child four years of age.