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London, England, 1867-08-26 00:00:00

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LONDON, MONDAY, AUG. 26, 1867.

The affairs of Spain seem likely to excite atten•
tion, now that other matters are becoming dull, no
that an insurrection in that country causes so much
disquietude as in any other in Europ, for one is
always expecting it to take place, and yet nothing
of any moment beems to arise. Taking ad rantage
of the opportunity thus afforded, some of the old
rebel chiefs have hurried to the scene of
action, and thus infused more energy and en-
thusiasm into their friends and followers. The
account given a few days back in so pompous
a manner as to the probability of the insurrection
being speedily put down was proved to have
been an incorrect ouc, for it has gained in
strength and increased in importance instead of
dwindling away and shrivelling up. It was said at
the time, by competent judges, that the official
intimations were not borne out by facts, for that
troops were assembling and preparations being
made all the while that the promise of peace and
quiet was held out. We are told now that tran-
quillity prevails in Madrid, but bow long that
state of things will last it is, of course,
impossible to say, and very doubtful, we should
presume, in the present aspect of affairs. One
thing is certain, and that is that the insurgents
appear to be increasing in numbers. The official
statement tells that the insurgents in Arragon are
marching towards the French frontier, closely
pressed by the Royal troops. Private accounts
state that a regiment of infantry had been entirely
defeated by the insurgents of Arragon, which is
rather inconsistent with the previous description.
It certainly appears as if the authorities did not feel
very secure about the matter, for they despatched
from Madrid to Arragon 700 infantry, and a
regiment of Cuirassiers. General U!anson was
killed in the affray that took place in Arra,goo, but
his death did not affect the fortunes of his friends,
for the rebels retreated in all directions. Different
reports concur in declaring that the insurgents in
large numbers surrendered to the Royal troops.
From Perpignan, dated yesterday, we learn
that the insurrection has gained ground, and
th It the local authorities have lost their
influence in proportion, In Catalonia the inour-

gents are very numerous, and, under the command
of Baldrick, they destroyed the Alcantara regiment,
and put a squadron of cavalry to flight. It cer-
tainly appears very incongruous to those not well up
in these affairs, and forgetful how they manage
these things in Spain, to notice how complete tran-
quillity is said to reign while the Government are
proclaiming the state of siege. This is, how-
ever, exactly the repetition of what has taken
place many times and oft before, when
disturbances, and revolts, and whatever term
should be applied by polite political phraseo-
logy to those outbursts which take place, that a
few more or less exaggerations are of trifling im-
port.. The chief thing to consider is, what do
these disquieted spirits want ? or if by any possi-
bility that could be determined we might go on to
ask, if Spain would benefit by a change ? The
answer to this seems easier to give than to the former
query, and it is in the negative. Unsatisfactory
as the condition of affairs at present unquestionably
is in Spain it by no means follows that it will be
improved by a change of rulers, or that these eager
spirits, supposed to be rushing to the rescue, will
ameliorate the state of the country.

The Spanish people will not be deceived or led
astray in this way ; they have bad ample experience
of the evils of revolution, the losses they entail, and
the confusion they cause, with no corresponding
benefits to point to as compensation or consolation.
Whatever be the extent of this insurrectionary
movement, it is not to be supposed that Spain is on
the eve of a change. After a period of contention
and strife, we shall hear of the usual finale taking
place, and the martyrs will undergo the usual ordeal
of shooting and transportation, as it happens to be.
The age of progress has as yet done little or nothing
for Spain, and it is certainly mortifying to the pride
of those who expect so much to take place in the
right direction to notice how much at a stand still
is that land, once so famous in the history of nations,
and of so much importance and influence in the
councils of Europe. However it may have come
to pass such it undoubtedly is, but is is also true,
however unsatisfactory it may be to realise the
truth, that no certain and effectual remedy is before
us, and the most experienced and acute of judgment
cannot point to a cure for the evil. It seems then
that the best thing to be done under these most dis-
couraging and unpropitious circumstances will
be to take things quietly, and to let ill
alone until it appears more probable that to
make a war will be merely to substitute one
evil for another. It is no secret that the Royal
family of Spain is in great disfavour and most un-
popular, but if that family were at once driven out
of Spain who should say that a better condition of
things would ensue? We must trust to the agencies
of that great reformer, Time, to work some cure for
the unhappy country of Spain, which now presents
indeed a deplorable aspect. Another difficulty that
lies in the way of improvement is that there is
no one at all likely to work out a salutary
change. There are plenty dissatisfied spirits,
plenty officers and meddling parties, but it would
be another thing to say that any one of these, or
the whole combined, could effect the desired re-
generation. The best advice that can be given to
the Spanish Government just now is to be mode-
, rate in the discharge of its duties. Any undue
' exertion of authority, any excess of zeal in the
wrong direction, may do incalculable mischief,
• and create difficulties that it may take months
to get over. Precaution will be the best
and surest mode of effecting the desired end, and as
it is idle to disguise the fact that the powers that
be are not favourites, there can be but one course to
pursue with wisdom. Since nothing of a decisive
character is likely to follow from these disturbances
it will be well for the interests of Spain in general
that they should be checked as speedily and as
quietly as possible, and that in all cases the law
should be restrained within due limits, instead of
exceeding its usual severity.

The public will learn with regret that the opera-
tive tailors of London have not yet learned wisdom
from experience. They have been treated with un-
expected leniency, they have been warned, advised,
and reasoned with, in vain. They have already lost
many weeks' pay, and are no nearer their object
than they were at the outset, in fact they are further
off, since the masters are recovering from the
temporary depression consequent upon the strike,
and are rapidly organising their resources. No one
can believe that the whole tailoring trade of
London will collapse even supposing Mr. DRUITT
and his followers to preserve their resolution
for ever. There is no inscrutable mystery in the
art which restricts its performance to a certain
number of workmen. What man has done man
may do is a well known adage, and we should
hardly suppose the making of coats and waistcoats
would prove the exception to the rule. Broadcloth
in plenty will be forthcoming, and hands will not
be lacking to make it. However resolute the men,
however wide extended their association, they will
find the world too wide and circumstances too
strong for them after all. They cannot govern
or regulate the wishes of the whole body politic,
and the law, which provides every loud and
general demand with a full supply, is older and
more forcible than any Trades' Union regula-
tions. Such ill-directed and mischievous attempts

to carry a point of private interest in opposition
to the public good always end in their own de-
feat, and we fear the tailors' strike will only be
another instance of the causeless suffering
inflicted by perverse and mistaken theories.
At the full meeting of the Operative
Tailors' Association, held on Saturday, the present
position of affairs was considered and discussed.
We regret to find that the result of this discussion
was that the strike should be continued even if it
were necessary to do so through the coming winter.
It is only fair to the association to add that they
have no intention of infringing the law, and they
appointed a sub-committee to devise some effectual
mode of action which should keep within the
bounds laid down by Baron Bramwell. So far
then it is their own affair and their own loss, but
it is impossible not to regret the trouble they are
bringing on themselves and their families, a whole
winter's inaction and loss of wages. What that
signifies is only too well known to the wives and
children of men on strike. however rich the hoards
of the association, they can hardly afford to allow
each man from 365. to 425. per week, which was
we believe the average of wages before the strike.
If indeed the funds in reserve can keep them in
anything like comfort during a prolonged strike,
it can only say that it proves the tailors' case
to be not a very hard one since they can
afford to subscribe so much. When we think of
the hosts of men and women, too anxiously looking
out for regular employment in this overcrowded
London, it is aggravating to see men quarrelling
with what no one can deny to be an ample provi-
sion for their position in life. At all events, if it is
not, thousands of educated men, clerks, and medical
officers, and even curates, contrive to live on it with-
out raising such a chorus of complaint. If all the men
of various ranks and degrees wlioa:. annual earnings
amounted to less than £lOO a-year were to strike
work to-morrow, the Operative 'Tailors would
find themselves the centre of a goodly coin-

pany. But we; may seriously ask what moral right
these men have thus to defraud their families and
risk actual want by their perverse adherence to
their demands? It is possible that by the time they
have made up their minds to an inevitable conces-
sion their places may be no longer vacant. Their em-
ployers may have removed, have retired, have changed
their business, have got new hands. Besides all
this, there is the steady rivalry of machinery, that
dangerous enemy to all monopolies. No one in
these changeful days can guarantee that he will
be able to take up his work at an indefinite time
just as he lays it down. Others will rush in to fill up
the vacancy ; the course of events will have altered
his position ; the last opportunity will not wait. It
is easy to carry wholesale resolutions in any mo-
ment of temporary excitement, but a six months'
strike means something more than words, and we
trust that the Operative Tailors will be wise in

Lme.

The correspondence from America shows that
President JOHNSON has acted wisely in the decided
step he has taken with respect to his insubordinate
Secretary. It will have been observed that Mr.
JOHNSON suspended Mr. STANTON, instead of re-
moving him, and this was done with a reason.
Mr. STANBERRY indeed gave his opinion that the
President had a clear right to remove any official
not appointed by himself, but it was certain that
Mr. STANTON would contest that right on
the strength of the Act which prohibits re-
movals during the Senate's recess. had he done so
the case must have gone before the Courts, and
during the interminable legal delays Mr. STANTON
would have retained his office and his power of
making mischief in and out of the Cabinet. Mr.
JOHNSON'S exercise of the President's undoubted
right to suspend any officer removed all difficulties,
and put the troublesome Secretary at once hors de
combat. Mr. STANTON was forced to submit to be
superseded by General GRANT, but did so under
protest, and has since been actively declaring his con-
viction that Congress would reinstate him in his office
so soon as it reassembled. The Radical journals,
as might have been expected, are bitterly attacking
the PRESIDENT, and even the popular GRANT
Comes in for a share of their reproaches. SHERIDAN,
they say, would not in his place have acted so, and
certainly considering General SHERIDAN'S contempt
for orders in the South, we may easily believe that
he would not have scrupled to disobey his com-
mander. The PRESIDENT, however, has disposed
of him too, and has replaced him by the less fiery
but more reliable THOMAS. Mr. JOHNSON'S troubles
in the Cabinet are, however, not yet over. Mr.
SEWARD has thought fit to show a very ill-timed
sympathy with his suspended colleague, and they
have been driving about Washington together, in
token of their new alliance. Mr. JOHNSON has
shown that he knows how to vindicate the dignity
of his position, and it is not likely that he will
allow himself to be overridden by any presumptuous
' or contumacious associate. What the Congress
will think of these events remains to be seen, but
there is time enough for many changes before that
' noisy and troublesome assembly resumes its ill-
directed labours.

CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
PAIS, Sunday Evening.

The Emperor and Empress reached Strasbourg
on Friday evening on their return home. They
passed the night there, and yesterday morning left
for Paris, where they have arrived. Their reception
at Strasbourg was most affectionate and enthuA-
astic. The city was hung with flags, and there was
a general illumination. While at Salzbourg their
Majesties went to the theatre. The two Sovereigns
were saluted on arrival by the band playing " I ar-
tant pour la Syria," the whole audience rising. The
Emperor of Austria wore the uniform of a General
of Chasseurs. The Emperor Napoleon was in
evening dress. Baron de Beust occupied a side
box. lie also was in evening dress and wore the
star of the Legion of Honour. The Princess Hohenlohe
wore a rich diadem of diamonds, among which were
some large brilliants which d fizzled the eyes
of all. The Princess Kinsky was by her side.
She was ornamented with a magnificent neck-
lace of brilliants. Count Jules Andrassy wore
the ribbon of the order of St. Stephen. The
Empress of Austria and the Empress of the
Fronch did not arrive till a late hour, but they came
at a very interesting part of the piece, which in-
creased the enthusiasm. The Emperor Napoleon
had the Empress Elizabeth at his left, and the Em-
peror of Austria sat to the right of the Empress
Eugenie. The two Empresses were dressed in
white. The Empress of Austria had a very rich
diadem of diamonds, and on the splendid blonde
hair of the Empress were remarkably rich clusters
of brilliants. " These ornaments, however," says
the account, " did not eclipse the remarkable beauty
of the two empresses."

The Moniteur contains a long report from the
Minister of Fareign Affairs and the Minister of
Commerce relative to the sanitary condition of the
East, which, thanks to the sanitary commission
which was recently appointed, is iu a very satisfac-
tory state. The pilgrimage to Mecca, which causes
periodical alarm, has been accomplished this year
under very satisfactory conditions as regards the
public health. The tone of Djeddah has undergone
a complete transformation ; the streets and houses
have been cleansed, and all the former causes of
disease removed. The Turkish Sanitary Commis-
sion have.been to the entrance of the Red Sea with
a view to select the best spot fur a lazaretto and a
sanitary station. The French Government, it is
stated, will hereafter come to an understanding
with the foreign Powers relative to the police and
navigation of that sea, " which is incontestably an
international question of first-rate importance."
The Federal Council of Northern Germany has
assembled under the presidenly of M. Friesen.
Prussia presented the postal law, and also a pro-
position that Prussia should be charged to negotiate
with France, in concert with Bavaria and Saxony,
the arrangement of the Franco-Mecklenbourg

Treaty of Commerce, and to renew with Austria
the negociations relative to a customs and com-
mercial treaty.

The King of the Netherlands has remitted to the
Prince de la Tour d'Auvergne, the French Ambas-
sador in London, as well as to all the Ambassadors
who signed the Convention of the 11th of May last
relative to Luxembourg, the Grand Cordon of the
Order of the Golden Lion of the House of Nassau.
The Ministers of Belgium and Italy, who also took
part in the Conference, have received a similar die.
tinction, the Order of the Oak.
Accounts from Constantinople state that the
Turkish Government has resolved to give the
greatest possible impulse to public works, and pan=
titularly to improve the means of counnunieation
of the Empire. Efforts Wii). also be made shortly
to halterl the Conztruction of railways in Anatolia.
The Sultan has determined to create a Connell of
State, composed of members, one half of which are
to be Mussulmans and the other half of Christians.
A letter from Livadia (Crimea) states that the
Czar, on the 21st inst., received Fuad Podia, who
remitted to him au autograph letter from tho Sultan.
The provincial papers state that grey partridges
will be very scarce this year in France, as the eggs
were hatched at such a late period that the nests
have been. destroyed, particularly in the meadows.
Hares, however, will be very abundant, and so many
snipes were never seen as there are this year. There
are also plenty of red-legged partridges, the hatch-
ing having been favourable.
There are more last words about the woman Fri-
gard. When she was urged to appeal, she said,
" I shall submit to the decision of justice, and I hope
that this example of submission to the law will be
followed by everybody." Towards the conclusion of
the trial she said to one of her companions in cap-