The Express.
London, England, 1866-06-26 00:00:00

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LONDON, TUESDAY, JUNE 26.

Tax history of Spain is in a fair way to shrink
to the history of its army and navy. For the last
seven years the world has scarcely heard of that
country except iu connexion with wars of aggression
and conquest, varied with military plots and
insurrections at home. The war with Cochin
China in 1858 began the series of foreign expedi-
tions, and was soon followed by that of Morocco,
which resulting in victory, and being followed by
payment of a large sum of money as indemnity,
unfortunately confirmed the propensity of the
nation for similar adventures. In 1860 San Do-
mingo was seized and occupied by a Spanish force,
before ever the inhabitants had any suspicion that
their independence was in danger. The next year
saw the intervention in Mexico, which General
Ppm had the sense and spirit to cut short
before his country was too deeply engaged to re-
cede. In 1864 a quarrel was suddenly fastened
on Peru, which lasted nine months, and
later became the cause of the recent war between
Spain and Chili, in which Peru was the ardent ally
of her sister republic. A notification to the foreign
consuls at Callao has just informed the world that
that war has terminated, without the conclusion of
any treaty of peace, and simply by the retirement
of the Spanish squadron from the scene on which
it had figured so much to its disadvantage. The
notification of the Spanish Admiral merely states
that the blockade of Callao is raised, and that the
Spanish fleet is withdrawn from Peruvian waters.
The notorious fact is, that the naval forces of Spain
have left the Pacific coast without having accom-
plished any of the objects to which its Govern-
ment committed itself before the world. The
Spanish have not extorted the humiliating condi-
tions which they went to require ; they have for-
feited their claim to the money which Peru agreed
to pay under the convention of January, 1865 ;
they have lost the war-ship Covadongs, and they
have been fairly beaten off Callao, which
they undertook to bombard, but which, on
account of the efficiency of the Peruvian
batteries, they were unable to approach. Nor is
this all, for the barbarous policy of the Spanish
Government in bombarding Valparaiso, an unde-
fended commercial town, has not only lowered it
in the eyes of the world, but has facilitated the
formation of a league among the South American
Republics, which have increased their armaments
and banded together for mutual protection. If,
as seems probable, this alliance should be consoli-
dated, the result may appear at no distant date in
a renewal of hostilities, the initiative of which will
not belong to the Government of Madrid. Spain
can only lose, while the Spanish American Re-
publics have all to gain in the new world.
Marshal O'DONNELL will find it difficult to give a
satisfactory account to the Cortes of this the last
of the foreign expeditions which have distinguished
his political administration.
The last news we hear from Spain is, that
another military revolt has broken out at Madrid.
The mutinous regiments brought twenty-six guns
into action, anddistributed muskets tothe disaffected
inhabitants, who threw up barricades and maintained
an obstinate resistance, which was only suppressed
after great loss of life. At Gerona, in Catalonia,
the garrison revolted and marched out to meet
General Palm, who was expected to arrive by the
French frontier. The southernmost province of
Spain appears to share the disorder of the centre
and north-east, for we are told that under the
apprehension of further insurrectionary attempts,
precautionary measures have been adopted in Anda-
lusia. This is the eighth conspiracy or revolt of
importance which the Madrid Government has had
to stamp out since the beginning of the era of the
foreign expeditions we have enumerated. The
Carlist enterprise of General ORTEGA, Governor
of the Balearic Isles, at the head of 3,000 men ;
the conspiracy of the Conde de MowrEmourr, and
his brother FERDINAND, at Tortuga; the insurrec-
tion at Loja ; the conspiracy for which General
Plum was exiled in 1864 ; the riots at Madrid,
the conspiracy at Valencia, the military insurrec-
tion at Aranjuez, and the riots at Barcelona, all in
1865, bear witness to the disorganized state of
political affairs in that kingdom which the
Emperor NAPOLEON only six years ago proposed to
recognise as one of the " Great Powers" of Europe.
Foiled in a foreign policy opposed to the whole