30 AUGUST 1845, Page 1

While Queen Isabella is travelling about Spain, feasting the eyes

of her subjects with her pale face and her own eyes with seeing horses disembowelled and men gored at bull-fights, her capital is in a state of insurrection. Senor Mon, the Finance Minister, devised a plan for redistributing the taxes over the towns and provinces, expecting that they would be more fruitful. They are proportionately more oppressive ; falling with peculiar severity on the mercantile classes. All Madrid resorted to pas- sive resistance : the shops were all shut, riots began, the soldiers were astir, blood was shed ; and the worthy citizens were fright- ened out of their obstinacy. But still Ministers have not recon- ciled the Spaniards to the payment of taxes, which have been rendered more odious by their violence ; and more trouble is probably in store for them.