The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-06-27
Our Madrid Correspond encc.


Our Madrid Correspondence.
MADRID, June 6, 1857.
Dctoed account Of the Grain Crops Spain-TAe Rios
Granada and the ACTON Of the Authorities Subsequently,
The Debates the Senate and Depuies-Naruaes Msistry
Mortauy Wounded by o Doneu and TIE Vicaloariss-Tn>
Qae'so~ With Aexico-Sr. Aludre: and his Lea.r-span
ISL Gor~rmmen! Yedins-7he Qiesson Of Peace Sailed
The Etaric Telegraph bet,oeen Hapdna and Ne,O York
Your correspondent has been travelling and although
he might have continued his letters from Spain during the
last two months they would not have been worth printing
far political concerned. As for all the rest
what do the readers Gf the HERALD want to know about
the Spanish provinces and their local nteressS There
only question which for the life OF l imagine
to be Of any importance to anybody In the United State
connected with the condition Of spain, outside OF It's
great po al centre and that the question OF the crops
have them and speak from personal kno Wedge
Throughout CASTLE and Arragon, and all the northern part
OF Spain, the crop OF wheat and barley more than
an average ont-in some districts the crop fully up
The mark of exceent-and by the heavy rains the
past week I. Is now past injury from drought The
Their for three four days past has bees One and drys
what needed 10 harden the grain and there Ia
no prospec, for wet weather, that the
summer has fairly set In, the crop may be-
sdered secured. In EAtremadura where the crop
contrary proportionaby richer and finer than In any
other part Of Spain. have the wheat Standing
heavy and strong higher than . mans head, and the
country people confess they do not remember any such
crop In nteen years before Tho vega OF tho Gusdana
great Of wheat fAr the reach the
horizon hecounry about Almendraleo and do~n 70 the
mis OF the province the mountain chain of the Sierra
horepa, near Seville, Ia covered also with
ordinary crop. The northern province b said 70 be
equally sbundapt from CAceres up towards GahciA
The harvest Of barley from Toledo and TAAveri south
has already begun with the One weather. and the crop
immense The wheat barvest IL about month later; but
repeat, the crop Ia already secure.
About Abscste, and In parts OF the old kingdom
Of Valencia, and 10 districts OF Andausa, there
below average yield but this precisely the portion
OF the peninsula least adapted 10 the production Of grain
aborers In those sections yin sens ply Affect the gene
You may take for certain that the crop Of grain in
Spain this year will be very considerably beyond
rage CROP and should be surprised II II might
called, taking the whole country together extraordi
nary yield have myself seeu leagues afer leagues Of
waving grain on hand where twelve fifteen bushels OF
wheat 10 the esteemed average CROP aud
which this ear will give twenty ase and thirty bushes W
Meantime the high prices Of grain, though somewha,
sbated BY th general appearance Of abundance to come
really great lack Of grain 70 meet the demand
for oonsumpuon from day TO day; but this
logger The new whes. win begin to enter the market 10
Estremadura ~thin three weeks, and throughout the
country within seven weeks at most the people may
be eating the vheaien bread OF this years growth Tell
your subscribers not 10 send any more wheat 70 spain
There w be surplus for expectation from this country
before the Let Of september next
sturbance has taken place In Granada on account Of
the high price Of bread Some thousands OF women and
boy win Tee hungry en-, assembled, crying oa. or
loaf The authorities paraded the military, proclaimed
martial law, and finally fred upon the crowd. Doe
was killed. and few wounded when the frightened
ropulsce dtstersed, and the Affair." far they
concerned, ended The authorities seized upon the ocra
province several OF Il. most Influential men, whom they
kpe~ be favorable 10 the ideas OF tue much fearei de
mocrac party There no reason 70 suppose that these
men I'd anything 10 do Nth the demon traton OF
hungry populsce which In fact enurcy scted
With politics. but the occasion too good be los and
10 even suspected that the whole thing 20, up by
the al Of agents Of the government order have
this shes Of prsex for laying their hands upon worthy
ana spec,aOe men, Ans, whom there Was no cause or
accusation possible 10 any ether way
You ~ul lave some account OF the debates upon
the address 10 reply to the Queens speech, which nave
was battle royal In the Senate between oDonell and
Nsrvsez in which the former displayed mastery ability
uinsr Of state Pda endes vored TO bolster up the trem
bling fortunes VI the Premier and made 10 hts turn 20
rious charge upon 0'Don. he is man Of ability, AMI
produced come impression; but the reply OF o'DOael
70 Pida q effort which cut him up ompletely
and drove him clear out OF the ned O'Donen has
proved bey opd question, and indeed forced his al
versares 10 ooufe-s in open Parliament that hey
themselves engaged and parcel with himself aud his
followes 10 the same great consprsoy over,arn me go
raj sy,em In 1854 and that they only fsered when Il be
came pese~sary play their hands In the and rise
open reheon but that though theJ did not appear 70
battle Nicalvaro, nevertheless they celebrated thai
rising At the time and Afterwards, maintaining CORES
popoence encouraging and uppsuding those Who did rick
themelves or In the enterprise 10 which they we're
all secretly partcipaiors.
This been fully proved by 0Donell; and ~ said
has driven present sdversaries 10 confess before
the country But the whole force OF Nsrvaez
Prime Minister nov lay in his character Of defender
Of the throne, In his loyalty, never before suspect,
"a and
dynasty. Thus the blo~ which ODonell has given
him and other members OF his Cabinet II terrible He
destroy ed the basis which they Stood and there
little doubt that they must come down.
A little sooner, or a little later, everybody Is nov
expecting the fall Of he actual ministers aud mes
ODoue doing In the Senate b" been performed
Congress Of deputies by Rios Rozas powerful ora
TOR and Minister OF the Interior under OD,nel
PIdaI again as Minister OF State, and Gonzales
Bravo, actual Minister OF Spain At LONDON, bat
now here defending the government IN the
Chamber Of Deputies, have been the opponents OF Rios
Rsas bu, this also the force OF the arguments
and The eec, produced been the side OF the op
The question OF the difficulty with Mexico has also been
alluded 10 10 these debates and Rios Rozas especially hs
heavy charges against the government tof We
management Of those affairs but nothing clear has been
10 light either side The secrets OF dplomauo
business are nowhere 90 ealousy kept from the knos
edge ~ the public and especially from discussion 10 the
,ment they In SPAIN Nevertheless the puphc
gathered the impression that In TACT the Spanish
government discovered examination that there was
something more In the affairs riih Mexico than ws sup
ps~ed first, and their srdor fcr v1 has materially
sbaied
V even hnied that perhaps Mexico has no, been 20