New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-12-31

quoted at Madrid on the 2lst Of November Beet,
lowest psice, 10 cents and the good pieces 10
csnts mutton, I2 cent?; veal. Is 10 "a cents,
frs.h pork, IL cents salted, 20 cents; ham, 70 70
81 cents; wheat I, 45e bushels sold "a bsshel;
barley used for horses and CATTLE % 65; potatoes,
"a cents a pound; charcoal the only fuel for cook
ing used at Madrid, cents pound. II viii read
iy be .een, BY comparison Of these prices win
the rate of wsees, that the laborer who has fam
,y 10 support, even if be have employment, viii DO
hardly able TO maintain them alive. Thus tits Tact
that already in Madrid, and in vanous provinces
families are slowly and gradually dying OF hunger.
II sucb he true ct this season, when the fruits OIL
tia earth ara all gathered and abundance ought to
n,.v,;l what will it be in the Springtime and
ear, Summer There is still wheat in the PENN
suls; but, within four five months, what will De
the price Of bread, with the old stocks OF grain
exhausted and but tile hope in the coming crop
TIE Government is doing all in its power to pre-
vent the famine; but the treasury is without funds,
and the measures of the Administration thus far do
not promise to repleDish it. Nevertheless, on the
goth inst roy al decree (the only kind OF eg'sla-
too existing) sppropriates the sum Of S3,ooo'ooo
for the purchase Of grain to be brought into 'ne
Peninsula on account of Government. In" NUM-
cipal authorities throughout the kingdom nave Also
appropriated large sums to the purchase OF gram,
especially in those districts and towns where the
Government supposes it has the most to fear from
q movement of the people. The city authorities OF
Madrid are making and selling rather poor quality
Of bread for ten cents the loaf the bakers selling
for fourteen, and the price in ordinary times being
FIVE or six cents. Apropos: we advise the Spanish
Legation at Washington to advise theic Govern
ment TO have Berdan's Ausomaton Ovens
put up in each of the principal Spanish cities.
But in spite of all these efforts the resul. is thus
far trifiDg and the price Of bread in Spain is still
rising. With an impoverished treasury and
famine ahead, the Queens Government has thought
proper to double the force of the army; anG ne
new battaons are out in flaming new uniforms, and
eouipments of new pattern-an done by Royal
DEGREES.
On the 22d of October and the 18th Of November
her Majesty signed DEGREES making the army in
time of peace: Infantry of the line, 1000; Chas
seurs, or riAemen $1,000; Civil Guard, or gems
d'armes, 2,OOO Artillery, 1900; Cavalry 1900;
Engineers, 3,6OO-making 10 all $4,000. Beside
these there are corps of Carbneers under the drec
ton of the Custom. House authorities to prevent
smuggl pg; fixed regiment at Ceuta; municipal
guards in the great towns ard other corps destined
TO special services, which with the corps of the
staff and officers unemployed, but who draw pay
raise the military force of Spain at present to not
less than 16O 900 men. Of these there are captain
generals, or field marshals 6; lieutenan'-generals
70; narshals of the camp, or major-generals, l79;
brigadiers, 359-being of general officers GIG, aud
officers Of Lesser grades in the same abundance. 80
that there is one general for every 24O men, or
thereabOut.
Such are the means reli upon by the Spanish
Government to prevent the evils of q famine among
the people and to preserve the throne.