The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-10-03 00:00:00

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SATURDAY, oc-rom.:n 2, 1803.

TH-E: INSITRIIIICTION IN SPAIN.

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-; dente cell In Tdaeml on the enperent
proeress .•f events. any one who &alums at the
history ef the country dnrime the lest imerter of
a century eannot fail to see what a troublons life
she lots ha I. It is little inure than e quarter of
ti centnry sinee the ()mem Regent aleliceted. and
Kspartero whose mime oiler a LT9III 11.2411111110nt
in the remelt history of the country, woe de-
clared Regent during the minority of the pre-
emit Qaecn. Her mother, Christina, had for a
I.llg I In, previensly been ereenged in intrigues.
311e1 1.1 IS-11, nn insurrection in her tavour broke
out-, and the eenntry was ihrown into a stete of
c'vil war. For two or three years afterwards
Snein wos torn with el :it commotion, amidst
which, Espartern, one of the most uneeltish and
truly natrietic statesmen she ever possessed, lied
to sec.'s refuge hi exile from the vengeance of
the partisans of a ()Irrupt Court sod a proud
arietncracy.
The present Queen, against whom personally
the revolutionary feeling now rife throtigh the
country is chiefly directed, was. ter Stete pur-
poses, declared 'to be of age when she was but
thirteen years old, and the ex-Qneen Christina
has' from that time (18 Ili) exerted a great deal
of direct and indirect influence in the affairs of
the State. (nit intrigues, military disaffec-
tion, had government, and popular discontent,
have chars-tensed the history of the country
for many years past, end the present revolution
—or insurreclion, as it can only be called at pre-
sent —is hnt a development and manifestation of
the had feeling which has been accumulating
between governors nml governed.
As is the case nsnally when an insurrection
breaks met in any country, there are verinties of
demands arisimg from dirferent parties in the
conflict, but the prevailing feeling is one of an-
tagonism to the ruling powers, on heconnt of the
tyranny under whiell the people have so long
suffered. The glen especially is en Ilbjeet of
popular anger, and the race to which she belongs
is anathematised. The insurgents, whatever
may be their local feeling, at leaei agree in the
main in these partieulars--that they are weary
of, and disgirsted with, the Bourbon dynasty,
and they think it high time that they should
have it sovereiga who will g .vere the country for
the ipeeple mli ii ,t f st-•';i-tt et,t,attaalistetnent,
're y Vntratf e•• f -t •: !' 't tt tett4, reve-
-1 . ••• ery, Iprovi-
•,i e• - .• ,o, ate taken for
pl ati-tt; t •, ttt •nt ttf ;:at ..ountry on a firm
and 1t,,• The people and the
army,- e Mot Misery committee of Ma-
drid, tin iv vie n has risen against the
tyranny which oppresses us, the immorality
which degrade:: no, the insolenee which humild,
t!S li." Tide is strong language, and facts,
p rhaps, scarcely warrant the sweeping terms in
in which the extent of the insurrection is spoken
of ; bet undoubtedly this revolntionary move-
ment 1115.1 very widely spread, anti is (.::teaciilig
still wider .Ind deeper. We will not here essay
to es; ianite the exact position and probable suc-
eese of the immrgents in the repressive power
if the royalifit,z. Oar readers must form their
two opinion by means of the latest new. we can
oetain on the subject; but at the moment of
weiting, the balance of probabilities is decidedly
in favour of the insurgents. Very littlereliance
can be placed on the government or iffilci a re-
ports that come from Spain, and it is remarkable
that the Frenela .Itwitertr, always accustomed to
glom one-sided reports of occurrences in France,
has adopted the s tine unfair tactics with regard
to Spain. But the misrepresentation of facts
does not essentially alter the facts themselves.
if the insurgents are progressing, which we be-
lieve they are, ell the official misrepresentation
in the world will not lessen their chances of suc-
cess. 'Meanwhile, there are rumours of French,
intervention, bat there is at present no ground
for any belief in each intervention in the ordi-
n try sense of tie term. 'Fits Emperor of the
French has too many cares at home and is too
trinch clneerne I with the arrogance, if not ag-
sr.), London , W. • . . .
gr,ssiveness of rivsia, to mix himself up with

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