23 FEBRUARY 1867, Page 2

General Pezuela, Captain-General of Madrid, published on the 16th inst.

a decree ordering that all persons printing, editing, or writing in clandestine journals, or supplying fail& for their main- tenance or circulation, should at once suffer death, the penalty which Mohammed inflicted upon his satirists. General Pezuela does not add that remark, having probably never heard of Moham- med, but that is, we imagine, the most recent precedent. Napo- leon only sent such people to Cayenne. It is considered in Paris that the cause of the dynasty is hopeless, that no concession will now avert a revolution, that it may commence almost at any moment, and that it will end in the establishment of a new dynasty, whose first act must be the release of the 20,000 political prisoners said to be now working in chains.