The Sun.
London, England, 1857-04-15 00:00:00

SPAIN.

A Madrid newspaper, the leading organ of the
Liberal party, was lately prosecuted for au article
which it published on the voting list on the occa-
sion of the late elections in Spain. The _lberia (the
journal in question) was defended by M. Olozaga,
(late Ambassador from the Queen of Spain to the
Court of the Tuileries,) who may be justly regarded
as the Erskine of the Spanish bar. The trial Came
on on the 7th, and excited greater interest with the
Madrid public than any similar event for some time
past. To the eloquence and skill of the advocate it
is indebted for the signal triumph it has obtained in
iti complete acquittal. In the course of his speech
M. Olozaga alluded in these words to the efforts
made to establish a representative Government izi
his country :

" We desire—and I speak in the name of my politicol
friends of the Iberia, and of the whole liberal press,
said the orator,—" We desire to see representative
government in all its force and in all its truth. We
have indeed passed through 143 any unhappy circum-
stances ; but in the conduct we have pursued he who
would say that misfortune and suffering have turned'
us aside from that cause, or disgusted us with it,
would be greatly in error. The husbandman ivbo
sees his fields laid waste by the tempest desolated
by storms of hail, or parched up by the beat, accepts the
visitations of Heaven ; and, with pious resignation, Faye
to himself, My sins, perhaps, have brought on ine
these disasters.' But the patience he shows under sot'
fering does not affect his philosophic and Christian
courage ; and, with renewed energy, be returns to bit
labours, though with the conviction that the produce os
that year is lost to him. We, gentlemen, are those
resigned hnsbandruen ; and we believe that, whether
we have or have not contributed vurselves to oar
disappointments and our reverses, we become not 01311
worthy of a better fate by our resignation, our peva'
verance, and our firmness for the future, but we render
an essential service to our country by combining together
all the means which the law places at our disposal to
constitute a legitimate electoral body of which our Par-
liainents are to be the issue, and by so enlightenieg
public opinion that future Cortes shall be the genuine
expre.4eion of the will, the wishes, and the necessities, of
the Spani,l3 people.

.
" dentlemen,—Representative Government is a mag
nificent compromise between ancient institutions and
modern requirements. It is useful to the people in,their
social and politic.tl progress, in elevating their dignity,
improving their education, in securing their welfare, and
in teaching them the difficult science of self-governmente
To the Throne it is indispensable as a safeguard against
revolutionary shocks, and even against those other dor
gers which are less- violent and less apparent, but more
to be dreaded, and to which it is exposed by certain tee'
dencies it may not be able to resist openly, but which
merit careful attention, as the complications they involve
would affect all Europe if prudence did not conciliate
the conflicting interests and opinions which divide it•
Representative Government, moreover, enables the
Throne to disembarrass itself of its treacherous friends;
of men whose only ambition is wealth ; of men who
poverish it ; of men Who corrupt because they adulate it,
and of those who are at the same time ambitious and
cowardly ; of those creatures who first bring 'danger
around it, and then basely abandon it in the hour of
peril I Such is the system of government that
_some
persons are now pleased to calumniate, but which
defend with all the force the law gives us ; and which,
confident in the purity and excellence of our doctrines,
we shall continue to defend with perseverance and coin'.
age ; and to obtain the triumph of such a cause we will
employ all the legal means that are still left us, what'
ever be the attempts to cheat us of them."

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