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LONDON, SAT( AZ DA Y, NOVEMBER 24.

IT has passed into a proverb that the Bouasobts
neither forget nor learn. The present condition of
stairs in Spain supplies a forcible illustration of I
this dynastical aphorism, for neither Queen Isa-
BELLA 11. nor her political advisers appear to have
forgotten the traditions of their country nor to
have learned the smallest particle of wisdom from
contemporaneous events. These personages dream
of the possibility of governing sixteen millions of
people in the middle of the nineteenth century
precisely as their predecessors ruled in the dark
ages. It would not be surprising were an attempt
made to revive the Ile iiiisition. Is this moral
blindness peculiar to the BoumsoN race, or is it
simply an idiosyncrasy of despotic power ? In
either case the result is the same, for oppression
and misrule usurp the place of freedom and
liberal institutions. Ignorance and misery at

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home, and loss of credit and political considers,
tion abroad, are the inevitable consequence. The abdication of Maximilian, Baron Ricasoli's
At this moment the whole country is under circular to the prefects of Italy, the yellow fever in the
martial law. NARVAEZ rules by the sword, and i Atrato, and' the discussion concerning the conscience
no man's life is safe. The press is gagged ; clause, are the topics treated of this morning in the
meetings fur the tli:,..easssion of political or other i Tines. Assuming it to be true that the Americans will
subjects are prohibited under the severest penal- e the protectorate of blexico, which the French vacate,
theheve T
many advantages
tih,ougtlhieirthefavAutrneritcthins will
ties ; opposition is silenced by terror; many of the
leading politicians have fled the country, and sure itself'. will be the same as before. It will
those who remain yield a reluctant acquiescence to be intet:ention for the government of a people who
the decrees of the powers that be, or maintain an have proved utterly incapable of governing themselves. It
ominous silence. Meanwhile the army is sullen, and I will be the establishment of a for. ign protectorate in the
conspiracy is rifer than ever. Ere long an tapir,. place of a native administration, nominally independent,
! but expressing only anarchy and violence ; and as this will
Mon must take place, and no one is bold enough
be fur the
cheap bargain the advantage of the worldeat large, we vosh the
to predict that it will not overturn the throne of Alun
ISABELLA 11., and terminatA3 the rule of the Than the circular aorftn and speedy
Italian minister success
n more a noble,
BOURBONS in Spain. wholesome, and earnestlecture, inthe opinion of the Times,
This system of misgovernment caused the colo- was never adtressed to a people, nor was it ever so sorely
nists of the Spaniali possessions in America to needed. We lay the circular down with a hearty hope that
Baron Ricasoli maybe the man destined to carry into effect
revolt, and if Cuba and Porto Rico yet belong to
Queen Lauri-La, it is not that the people are aatis- the beneficent measures which he has so distinctly ex-
fied, butliecal Ise, tinder the pretext of preparation for 1
Plati;odtingopinions Dr.
the of Simon respecting
a possible metro insurrection, a large army is main- I the non-contagiousness of yellow fever and which
tained there, ready at any time to suppress poli- ' are said to have the concurrence of the most
tical excitement or the smallest manifestation of eminent practitioners, it seems to the Times beyond a
disaffection on the part of the Cubans and l'orto ' doubt that the course taken with the Atrato was not that
which was most consistent with science. The passengers
Ricans. In spite, however, of this Darnoclesian .and crew were kept on board the infected ship with the
sword, the colonists of the Spanish Antilles have
constant chance of new seizures and a fresh radiation of
from time to time asserted their right to be ga- . the disease. The proper treatment would undoubtedly
verned as citizens, not ruled as slaves. Many of ! have been to have set them at liberty as soon as possible,
their leaders were in consequence driven into exile ' sending the sick to a lazaretto, and allowing the healthy to
and poverty, hat their speeches and writings found 'go at large. On the other hand, the ship itself should be
their way into the i.dands, and continued to pro- ii kept from contact with other vessels, perhaps for a longer
I can duce fruit by raising Imp new advocates of solo- time
ethanili the
‘trae to has remained
madienebdtin e quarantine.
M rms al refo. But the Spanish Government per-now that th
and e Em
tperuis
r
ro
' Maximilianh-as"really left the city of 31e
slated in turning a deaf ear to the remonstrances ferred his authority to Marshal Bazaine. He has been
and petitions which poured in upon it from the I sufficiently the dupe of stage illusion, and it is to be
colonial reform party, and began to consider the belied he may come back to Europe to be useful to hi,
movement serious only when the abolition of the own family in restoring the fortunes of au empire which
slave trade and slavery was mooted as an imlia-
has so much need of the devotion of all its children as that
1 of Austria.
pensable preliminary. to all other reforms.
considering
I Premising that the natural course in 'd •the
The slaveholders' war in the United States, and . question of recruitingarmy for the would liceofiteto g
deter-
its results, imparted to this phase of the colonial mine the permanent strength we desire to ma • , and
reform movement a significance not tobe mistaken, ' the special occasions on which we might need to make
and probably with a view to postpone indefinitely . further efforts, the Daily News reminds those who
the solution of this grave question the NARVAEZ . have based terrifying proposals upon the rapidity
Cabinet, assuming the initiative, promulgated a ' and decisiveness of the late campaign in Bohemia
that t p of history of 50 or 60 years back
decree bearing date the 25th of November, 1865,
would he
showage that the campaign of Sadowa has not
which announced the intention of the Government been the first in which a single battle changed the fate
immediately to consider what political, financial, of Europe. Wars now a-days are not more capable of being
and social reforms should be conceded to the citi- unexpectedly declared than they formerly were, nor are
zees of Cuba and Porto Rico. In accordance with the standing armies or trained reserves larger now than
this decree, they were required to send delegates they were on the Continent in the first years of the cen-
from the various districts of these islands to meet tury. Hence wo may safely draw the conclusion that even
in the case of our being called on to defend an ally by
an equal number of representatives of the Govern-
sending troops to his assistance, we shall have several
meat, selected from amongst those of its officers months of notice in the obvious preparations which the
who had been personally engaged in the aggressor must make. In the course of these months, if
administration of the Colonies, the two we only have an efficient military framework, we can raise
sections to form a Commission of In- such a number of men as we may think the emergency calls
quiry, to confer as to the reforms to be in- for, and as we are prepared to pay for.
stitutud, and the means of carrying them into Discussing the new recruiting question, the Star insists
effect. This Commission assembled at Madrid on that the abolition of flogging is a necessary part of
any measure of military reform. Soldiers, moreover, must
the 30th of last month, and has held three meet- be paid at rates corresponding to the wages of labour, and
ings. have the handling of their own money like any other
The opening address of the Colonial Minister, class. They ought to be Ina under the care of officers ape-
Senor CANO\AS DEL CASTILLO, was redundant daily tminel for the purpose, and not under puny boys