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Show -.REIGN. SPA IX, I'resHure Ipou Protestants i Cnrliit Advance. Santander, 20. Tho recent detention deten-tion ol Protcotaut books by the customs cus-toms authorities here is bulieved to be part ot a coercive scheme to lorce all active Protestants to leave Spain. Tins plan, proposed by prominent persons in Madrid, is being executed lierc by the clergy and civil government, govern-ment, who nope by indirect pressure to expel the resident American evaiiiielic.il ministers. The impression impres-sion aiHu prevails that ttie Miidrui government hopes to conciliate the papal nuncio and mod er alts Willi mis under n and persecution, while apparently pursuing a liberal policy regarding public worship. Mnilary precautious are being taken in ttie largo eitico against a republican rising. The C.:riitd claim that Gen. Dor-regar.iy Dor-regar.iy Ims reconcentratcd the whole Oariist army and entered the province pro-vince of Lenda, and that the Alton-sisLi Alton-sisLi have rlreaU;d from Viltoria, province of Ala via, with several Oarhsi divisions in pursuit. |