SPAIN.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 11, Issue 824, 5 February 1867, Page 3

SPAIN.

The state of terrorism in which the country is held by the government, is growing more, and more awful, and inspires the most serious fears. It is expected that the telegraphic wires may at any moment announce a general rising throughout Spain. The Siecle says ; " Never has such a state of things existed. Everything is in paralysis. Commerce,' trade, and agriculture are at the last gasp — and the severity with which the immediate payment' of taxes is enforced, terrifies the population. In the great centres of business there remain some resources, but in small towns .there is desolation. The prisons are full of innocent citizens. Neither age or sex is respected. There is grief in families, disgust in the army, and fear everywhere, but greatest in the government, which is expecting a. revolution on all sides. Private letters are opened and the provincial Governors seize on all correspondence that is suspected by them. This state of things cannot possibly last, and a catastrophe is momentarily expected, for despair and misery have exhausted all patience."

The Nord says that a report prevailed in Paris that the Queen intended to abdicate, and that the French Government was concentrating troops on the side of the Pyrenees, in order to be prepared for any insurrectionary or revolutionary movement that might arise.

On the Ist inst. the Queen left on a visit to the King of Portugal. Her Majesty will return on the 8 th.