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O'DoonelL" says the same authority , "is proved by £ he sapidity -with which Madrid found itself beset by 18 , 000 soldiers and sixty pieces of artillery . The barracks of the capital afford quarters to about 10 , 000 men , and the remainder were held iu readiness at Alcala , Vicalvaro , Leganes , and other adjacent military stations . Everything -was prepared to make the success of the reactionary party certain in the capital ; but we have still to -see how far submission has been secured in the provinces . Atagon is the point of most uterest and importance . Espartero is idolized in that jrovince , especially at Saragossa , where his Uvo former lides-de-catnp and steadfast friends , Gnrrea and Falcon , ire at the head of the combined troops and National jruards , and where eighty-five members of the Cortes more than a third of the whole body ) have assembled , nd will doubtless soon be joined by other deputies . "
The members of the Cortes , still in Madrid , assembled t five o ' clock in the evening of the 15 th . Fifty memers form a quorum ; ninety-one assembled , and of these 11 but one voted that they had no confidence in the )' Donnell administration . The deputies were then disp ersed by the dictator , though their sitting was perfectly igal . " The treachery of O'Donnell , " says the Paris corespondent of'the Daily Neipsy •* is shown in two doculents isdued by him . In the bulletin published in the fazette immediately after Espartero ' s resignation , it is aid that Marshal O'Donnell ' hoped soon to terminate he crisis by the formation of a Ministry of order and Lberty , such as public opinion required and had a right o expect from the Government- ' In the report to the iueen , drawn tip a few hours later , the new Ministry asists upon ' a provisional concentration and inexorable Jiity of the public power . " *
Some details o the struggle are contained in a letter rom Madrid , of the 16 th , the writer of which is eviently apartizan of the O'Donnell treason . He says : — Between hah > past five and six on the 15 th , all the posts l the town , including the Post-office , had been evacuted by the armed citizens . The Plaza Mayor was the nly point occupied , and the firing in that direction was ept up all night . The cause of the desertion of the ational Guard is thus accounted for : —The minority of le Cortes had assembled , and after some discussion they stermined on dissolving themselves , and they instructed leir -President , General Infante , to communicate their jcision to the President of the Council . After that iplicit , bnt conclusive , admission of the legitimacy of Government , resistance -wonld have been illegal , and biefs of the National Guard ordered the men to
dis" The writer adds- that the National Guards were ¦ r t . ¦» ^ . in - « ---tan ; r ^ mg ( BBsu uy tutsieacr ^ i woremocTBtxCRi Tepnwto iag wtalkliflhed , should they remain in opposition to a-aew Gflp venunent , These statements , obviously Icmred b * political feeling , must be received with eat caution- Subsequently , it would seem that the niggle -was \ carried on by the populace under the ftderftfarip of iPtacheta , the torreador ( bull-fighter ) , who as-jetoed by some of the National Guards in plain otfees . These entrenched themselves in the Plaza [ a * er , and were only dislodged by cannon . In the itae letter we are told that the « rst acts of the new overnment are moderate aad conciliatory , and that ii ]) Nutll has adopted the programme of the Liberal rnion ; bat , . if this be the ca » e , it is clear that it must c a bliaid to- further acts of tmachery and despotism .
The ¦ ¦ names of Luzuriaga and Bazarri , as Ministers f Jaetioe « nd Marine in the new Government , were lserted by O'Donaell -without the previous penniaion- * f the gentlemen in question , who were out f Madrid at the > time . O'Donnell desired to give a ol « wr « tf Liberalism to his ministry by appointing these wo ^ adherents -of Empartero ; but Lu zuriaga has pro - eeted agonist the «§ e of hie -name . © azarrl ^ ill serve . Norvaez arrived on Th » T 8 day week in Paris from the > atha « f Vichy , and left in the evening for the frontiers if Spain . It ia thought that he has been in some way oncewwd'ia'l&e recent- coup iVetat , and that ho will offer i »* eerVice » > to the Government to aid in putting down he'XJfcerala . Espartero , it is now atatod , . was at onco arrested ; but le has oince quitted Madrid ha a carriage escorted by ; aval * y , whioh departed through the-gate of Alcaln . to the
O'Donnell has hmued ^ i long address Queen , on hia'asatuttplion of power , justifying his acts by the distutfeed 0 tateof Spain , which to bsM to require martial law , Hn'fetal >« tad ' patriotism of * he Cortee and of the preceding ' -ministry not having availed tocheok the leniency'to disorder and cootettsm . The dlotator writes : — « t "F © the excitement of passions , the trao 4 k < c » f interests , und'IIINk-Atvagglo of parties -whioh'accompany and follow ^ the-apyMMuee of all political revolutions , arc added MadatB , \ . <« lno « nhe >* rianni 1 h of the movement of July ,
1804 , tlM'vbMtice of systematic political and adminiatntftfrve'tegUtatlon , tlwtenewaland « he change of all the pidliBftiftSu « ti « lunrt « 0 . the aoenmalfftion of questions of g »« rt import **** , oilier on 'account of tfedir social or rel % io «»«« p « ot , 'i « ti « AytMUitic war "recommenced in the provtate * 4 fr Awigon > nh « Jeptttomy , scarcity , and conttnci * a > di «« n » baii « e « f pabllo mOer in overy part of 4 he xnonffrthy . " Whan lift- Savernment « ha 11 have secured the tCttupUMty Of 4 h * feaiiMuU , " it < wl » l haeten totfululinio ( tutt"tta ^ r adt'tom *» perioua—that of re ~«
Btablbhing normal order and submitting its conduct to the judgment of the Cortes , religiously practising in the administration of the State and is its relations -with the Parliament those principles of respect for the law and love of liberty which have been the objects of the worship of your present advisers during their-whole existence . " Espartero , in his final tttter to the Queen , attributes his desire to resign to ill-health . Another document emanating from the » ew Government is addressed to the people , and is very insolent in its tone . The writers observe that " the existing ministry accepted this saving commission because the late cabinet , in the most critical circumstances , had left the nation ¦ without protecting support , and
had abandoned the Queen . " They add : — "The blood that will be shed during the continuance of the struggle , the misfortunes . and horrors that may arise , will return upon yourselves , and it is to you that history will impute them . Inhabitants of Madrid ! The great , the immense , majority of individuals bearing arms in your National Guard know well the actual and the awful truth ; they know that the triumph of the means about to be employed by the Government is sure . But , in the extraordinary . situation in which we find ourselves placed , there is yet another and more terrible truth , -which is that the worst calamity of which you could be the victims , and the situation which would hurry you into the lowest ab 3 'ss , the most bloody
anarchy , would be your own triumph . Inhabitants and National Guards of Madrid!—Spare the Government this hard , spare yourselves this blood-stained , disgrace . Distinguish between and separate the pretences of a few deluded and discontented persons from the lawful rights and just liberties , which the Government neither can nor will infringe , and has never wished to infringe , and enable us to save the principle of power without having recourse to the means of force and to the horrors of blood . " This document , which is dated July loth , is signed Leopold O'Donnell , Nicomedes Pastor Diaz , Antonio de los Rios Rosas , Manuel Cantero , Jose Manuel Collado . It will be observed that the signatures of Luzuriaga and Bazarri are not attached .
Immediately after the reception at Saragossa of the neves from Madrid , all the military , political , and civil authorities of the province and city , as well as the chiefs of the National Guard , assembled at the palaoe of the Captain-General of Aragon , and , in a sitting presided over by that functionary , voted a proclamation calling on the people to resist . This address was signed—Antonio Falcon , President ; Feliciano Polo , Vice-President ; Mauuel Gorriga , Joaquira Marin , Jose-Cano Manuel , Lorenzo-Maria Sclnnid , Candidu Oancie , Simon Obmbo , wnmi ^ o Mono . «« wr « l JPaloon * " »« ***» dismissed from his rank by royal decree , and has been summoned before a . court-martial . Troops have been sent against Saragossa , and General Dulce has been named to the command of Aragon , with instructions to put down the insurrection . A rising in Barcelona
has been suppressed after some hard fighting . The National Guard of tiiat city were disarmed on the submittal of the populace . A despatch , dated two o ' clock Monday , and published in the Paris Monitevr , says : — " Santander has attempted to declare itself for the insurrection , but has now returned wholly to order . Naverre and the northern provinces of Spain are tranquil . We are assured that affairs at Saragossa are iu a fair way to be arranged . The troops entered Logrono without resistance . " Pucheta , the bull-fighter , has been shot , though accounts differ as to the precise manner . It would seem probable , however , that it was in tlio course of the struggle . Another bull-fighter , named Chulo , has also been killed . The military tribunal is now sitting at Madrid , and muskets and other arms are being raidly collected . «
p . .. _ Aa a reward to the soldiers who fought on the side of O'Donnell , the Queen haa decreed that " all the generals and officers > vho arc wounded ahull be immediately raised a grade ; tlmt the soldiers who distinguished themselveB shall be decorated with the cross of Mario Isabella Louise , and pensioned at the rato of thirty reala nor month for life ; and that those who are wounded ahall have a pension of nixty reals , and those dwabled for service , eix realn per day . " That part of the National Gunrd which opposed the populace is included in those rowaTds . Tho Queen has distributed 30 , 000 cigars to the troops . ..,, ^ .. . ... . .. ^ tho 17 thpaid viHit to
The French ambassador , on , a the palace to congratulate tho Queen ami General O'Donnell . Several oflicore have been aesaesinated in Madrid . [ The Government is aware that an immense quantity of arms still remain in the hands of tho people , and domiciliary visits are to bo made . A decree posted in tho BtreotB forbldB the assemblage of six persona , and declares that all -whoaro found to'possess any weapons of defence ehall be brougfht'befare a oouncil of war . A . despatch from Marseilles Hays : —" Whole fnmllica of the-inhabitants of Barcelona have taken refuge here . tAt the momentof their ttepartmro from that city , on the a »« h instant , great agitation prevailed there . " The Oazdtto publiahee a number 'of documents emanating from tho Tnentbere of 'tlm new Government . One of thorn ia a circular of tho Ministor of 'Finance , M . 'Cantero , ( stating tfiat it is the will of the 'Queon that 'tho l * ws -voted by tho Constituent Cortos
should he respected and executed , without exceptin the destunortizacion law , " the provisions of which an bo beneficial to the'popular classes . " M . Martinez , the new Civil Governor of the province has likewise addressed a proclamation to the inhabitants of Madrid , appealing to the patriotism and wisdom of the majority of the National Guard , and to the ffoo ' d sense of all , and demanding-their support " to assist him in combating the enemies of public repose , who destrov the factories , render all labour impossible , and burn pr < ivisions , in order afterwards to speculate on the misery and despair of the famished people . " ™
TURKJSY . A robbery and murder have been committed on the road from Shumla to Varna . Dr . Ivalozdy , one of the surgeons attached to the Bashi-bazouks , was passing through a forest in company with his wife , an assist antsurgeon , his servant , and an araba-driver , when the party were attacked by five robbers . The assistantsurgeon attempted to make some resistance with his sword , and afterwards endeavoured to escape ; but he was shot through the body . The robbers , took away about 1000 / . It is said that one of the Zabtecs , or policemen of the Kaimakan of Shumla , has been recognized among the robbers .
THE 1 > ANUBIAJJT PRINCIPALITIES . The Hospodar of Wallachia , under date of the 7 th of July , has addressed a proclamation to the Administrative Council of the Principality , informing them that he has resigned the reins of government , and that a Provisional Administration lias been appointed to manage the affairs of the country until the new organization which has been guaranteed to Wallachia shall have been established . Prince Stirbey appeals to the good feelings of the people generally , and implores them to sacrifice all personal considerations and party interests . The Prince is now , together with hLs wife , at the Convent of Bistritza .
ituasiA . General Todtleben has been receiving a series of ovations at St . Petersburg and Helsingfors , xery similar to those which , in England , havo greeted the return of General Williams . The last named oflicer is now very popular in Russia , owing to the praises which he has showered on General Jlouravieff . From the Caucasus we hear of continued preparations on the part of ilouravieff for subduing the Circassians ; large reinforcements are being constantly sent off to the scene of hostilities . The Invalide ( says the Times Berlin correspondent ) contains a letter of thauks from the liinperor , adidressed to Bruot , General of Engineers , for the euccossful accomplishment of tUe Luak asdigneiiliiui of erecting a series of
Jaxartes ( Six-dajn ) . liy means of these fortresses , Russia now commands the water communication , the trade , and , at the same time , the strategical centre whence she can exercise her influence over Persia . The peuylades that inhabit the steppes in that quarter of the world are dependent on these streams , and consequently on the Power that possesses them , and now the military orga nizution along the Asiatic frontier , extending from there up to Siberia , where the Russians are now very active on the Aawor , may be said to be complete . of
At the instance of General Mouravicff " , the nephew that officer , Bakuuin , who was token al tho insurrection of Dresden in 184 . 8 , and handed over to tho Russiaus , has been liberated . He was at first condemned to labour for life in the Ural mountains ; but this was couuterjnanded , and he was confined in tho citadel at Warsaw . In the course of five months , he was taken to St . Petersburg , and thrown into a eubterraueau dungeon . Here he passed nine month * iu darkness , chained band and foot ; but at length , falling ill , ho was removed to a second-floor chamber , where ho was allowed to have a bed . ukaoo of
The Journal tie tit . i ' cttirsbourg contains an tho Emperor , dated June 21 st , extending to all those persons who ik-d from any of the wertlorn province * ol tho UuHsian Empire , in consequence of the insurrection ol 18150 , the same permission to return home , -without being subjected to any prosecution , upon condition of their taking the oath of allegiance , which won granted by tho ukaac of tho 15 th of May to the rufugeeH Irom Poland . f Tho ceremony of tho coronation of tho -Emperor oi Russia has been definitively fixed for tho OOtli ol August .
ITAl . Y . Tho Auetro-Itnlian journal , tho Specoln < VlUiliu , rflphes to what it calk tho calumnies of the PiedmonteHO press with roepect to tho iuterfurenco of th « Austria !* in Pnrinn . It was tho Duchess of Pnrinn , mid not tno AuHtrian Government , HiiyH tho tUjmcuhi , who rcHUincii the Btuto of Biego , and appointed tho council of war , wbioh was composed of Purinonan , and not Aus trian , ofticore ; and the arrests wore made by tho p » l" «« ° J Pavma , und not by thcimporiul authorities . The l > " « Government merely roriuctttod tho Austrian Oovornniojii to place an Austrian prosecutor nt tlio di » poHftl ot u council of war , because two Parinemin judgen cX " f . with making inquiries hud already paid forfeit with tno » blood for thalr Keal in offloo . Tlio oommuiidnnt ol t Imperial army < convj > liod with this requoBt , but u tribunal did not coaso to bo . Parmcaan on that accow
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Leader (1850-1860), July 26, 1856, page 702, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2151/page/6/
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