The Sun.
London, England, 1868-09-05 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER E, 1868.

SPAIN AND THE REVOLUIION.

Not a stone is left unturned by the Revolu-

tionary party in Europe to bring about a com-
motion in Spain. Their aim is to bring Spain
down to the level of Italy, and since the Queen
is identified with the cause of religion and

order, nothing less than her dethronement can
satisfy the disloyal conspirators. And who are
these conspirators ? Are they of the people
of Spain ? There is not a single man who
has the confidence of the people in their ranks.
Do they belong to the Grandees or to the Car-
lists ? There is not a name of note among
them, not a man of influence of Spanish birth.
The Church and the immense influence which

it justly exercises throughout Spain is not on
the side -of a revolution as ungodly as it is un-
patriotic. Its only strength is in the army,
which has been for the last forty years the

constant instrument of revolution- in Spain.

Ambitious, disappointed, unprincipled soldiers
of fortune are the stuff out of which Spanish
revolutions are manufactured. From Espartero
to Prim, a succession of military adventurers
has tortured unhappy Spain. The plague of a
lawless army is the malaise under which the
country suffers, and not, as the Duke of Mont-
pensier insinuates in his mischievous protest,
the rule of a Queen who knows how to support
religion and order if needs be with the sword
against foreign traitors and against native sol-
diers who have dishonoured the commission
they bear.
General Prim's abortive insurrection was a
purely military pronunciamiento. The people
had no share or sympathy with it. Soldiers
are bribed or induced to follow a General who

pretends that his object is to free the Queen
and country from a rival General who holds
both in unwilling thraldom; his success de-
pends upon the number of dupes he may
secure among the military commanders. These
military revolts have been too successful in
upsetting a Ministry, and in installing in power
and wealth and honours the leaders of such

plots, not to induce unprincipled and ambitious
Generals in the Spanish army to cast in their
lot with any conspiracy which may be set on
foot. The late plot was one of this nature : a
few Generals who had influence over certain
regiments, a garrison in this town or that,
together with a certain number of the troops
in the Capitol, conspired to march upon Madrid
and declare the deposition of the Queen, and
in the alleged interests of the throne and
dynasty to proclaim the Prince of Asturias
King under the regency of the Duke and
Duchess of Montpensier. But the Govern-
ment, by seizing upon a half dozen generals,
and simply shipping them out of the country,
frustrated the plot. It had no.substance apart
from these generals. On their arrest the con-
spiracy collapsed. There was no popular move-
ment—nothing to indicate that the nation bad
heart or hand in the treacherous design of seiz-
ing upon the person of the Queen, and of
setting up a Prince of the House of Orleans
as virtual Regent of Spain. If the country
is suffering under a grave malaise, caused
according to the disloyal 'allegation of the Duke
of Montpensier by the misrule ..of the Qiicen,
why is there no expression- of popular
at the failure of the plot of the six generals,
or still more, at the banishment from Spanish
soil of the aspiring Duke, kinsman of the
Queen, whom he was willing to betray. It
cannot be alleged that the nation is terror-
stricken, and dare not show sympathy with
the six generals who betrayed their Queen; for
never was there a plot of so treasonable a
character followed by so slight and con-
temptuous a punishment. No blood has been
shed, no terrorism exercised, and the Spanish
people, whom the half dozen conspirators and
the agents of the Revolutionary party in
Europe, declare to be ground to dust under
the foot of an ignominious tyranny, quietly
and carelessly acquiesce in the transportation
of its half dozen would-be deliverers. The
conspiracy, detected in time, has an ugly look
about it, It looks as if it were 'got up not by a
" tortured" people, to use again the Duke de
Montpensier's words, against a tyrannical Go-
vernment, but by a traitor army against their
Queen. It is a private plot, not a national
rising. Its leaders avowed or concealed are
not known or popular men, but half a dozen
perjured generals, and a foreign Duke.
Such being the facts of this latest Spanish
plot, the aim of the Revolutionary party is to
conceal its true character. Accordingly, ever
since its detection, the Revolutionary press has
spread by means of false telegrams and mis-
leading correspondence, the most alarming
intelligence of risings in this town, and bom-
bardments in the other, until hasty readers
were led to believe that Spain, convulsed
by popular outbreaks, was on the eve of a ter-
rible catastrophe ; then followed a mysteri-
ous silence. The Spanish Government, it was
alleged, in possession of terrible news, allowed
no report of the calamities which either had
already befallen or were impending over Spain,
to reach the outer world. At last it had to be
acknowledged that none of these supposed
horrors had come to pass. There had been no
towns bombarded, no risings in the country,
no burnings of churches, no manifestations of
ill-will against the Queen of Spain, no expres-
sions of sympathy with rebellious regiments.
It is now the tactics of the Revolutionary party
to say that if all these things have not taken
place they are on the eve of being accomplished;
that a " grave malaise" exists in the country,
caused by the Government ; that the Queen is
execrated by the mass of the people ; that they
are ripe for change, that is for revolution
such as now rules in unhappy Italy. It is with
regret we see that the Paris correspondent of
the Times lends himself to this conspiracy
against truth. He cannot broadly. deny, having
more regard for facts than more hardened ad-
herents of the Revolution, that wherever the
Queen goes in the country she is welcomed
with manifestations of fidelity and attach-
ment, but he insinuates that the hurrahs
and vivas, the eager crowds and lusty hand-
clapping, " are not genuine expressions of
loyalty, but are supplied, doubtless, as in some
other countries unnecessary to name, by " un-
dertakers" of enthusiasm, persons who pro-
vide triumphal arches, and laurel wreaths, and
loyal inscriptions in coloured lamps, and bands
of blushing virgins, clad in book muslin, and
bearing bouquets." The insinuation that the
enthusiasm which the people of Spain show
towards their Queen "doubtless" is " got up,"
is followed,' as the writer warms with his topic,
by the broader assertion, that "if the Queen
meets applause when she drives abroad, it is
from hired clappers or servile Government de-
pendants. By the macs of the nation she is
despised and execrated, and deep is the regret
many feel that she was not expelled the coun-
try in 1854."
Here we have the full flavour of the revolu-
tion ; n 9 longer insinuations, but the broad
statement, as a matter not of inference but of
fact, that the Queen of Spain is execrated by
the mass of the nation. We have no hesitation
in stating, on evidence capable:of standing the
severest cross-examination, that this allegation
is a calumny against the loyalty of the
people of Spain, a glaring misstatement of
a public fact patent to every man familiar
in the least with the actual state of things
in Spain. It is a falsehood industriously cir-
culated by the Revolution, and heedlessly re-
peated by a writer so inexact as the Paris cor-
' respondent of the Times.
Whatever else may be called in question' by
the Revolutionary press, which for years has
propagated the grossest calumnies against her,
this is true, that the Queen of Spain is beloved
as the friend of order and of religion—we do
not say by a clique of conspirators in the
army, or by a certain class in some of the
larger commercial cities, or by the secret socie-
ties—but by the mass of the people in every
order and rank of life in town and country.—
Westminster Gaeette.

There is a species of fir in the Sierra Nevada,
the gum from which, when distilled for turpeutine, yields
a highly fragrant substance, having a balsamic odour
something like lemon peel. It possesses all the usual pro-
pertio of turpentine acept the odour.

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

(From the Anglo-American Times.)
The Royal mail steamer China has arrived with
news from New York to August 26. From Canada
we learn that the Nova Scotian delegates who have
returned from London represent that the Home

Government regards its recognition of the Union
Act as paramount to the colonial objection, but that
that recognition was based on the apparent con-

sent of the people of Nova Scotia, to whom, never-
theless, the right of appeal remains. The other
items not noticed elsewhere are that Senator Sher-

man, ipt a speech at Columbus, Ohio, declared his
belief that the bonds are payable in Legal-Tender.
Advices from Cuba state that the Captain-General
has ordered that no passenger should be allowed to

Land on the island without a passport certified by a

Spanish consul.

Grave apprehensions exist that Mr. Bayard
Clarke, an American gentleman, was among those

rence.

killed in the accident to the Irish mail train at

Abergele. It appears that Lieutena'it-Colonel
Wickham, of 11. M.'s 33.1 Regiment, wrote to Colonel
_ _ _ _ _ _

Rich, stating his fear that his friend had, as he in-
tended, travelled by that train, as he had not since
been heard of. He carried a revolver, a gold hunt-

ing chronometer watch, with hands of a peculiar
colour ; nn his finger was a blood-stone ring en-
graved with his arms. This letter induced Colonel
Rich to have the debris again sifted, and a revised

ist of the property made out, and we believe that

the remains of a revolver have been found.
The strike continues in New York, and the loss
during the five weeks is estimated at $300,000.
The strikers are sustained by the workmen of other
trades; who recognize their own cause in the fight
between the bricklayers and their employers, and
anxiously await the result. The heavy drain on the

funds accumulated in anticipation of the movement
is rapidly consuming the resources of the men ;
they are, however, encouraged by the partial suc-
cess of the colliers in Pennsylvania, most of whom
have returned to their work under the old ten-hour

system, having split the difference with their em
ployers. Ten hours' pay for eight hours' work
really means an advance of 20 per cent. in wages,
and they have compromise) for an advance of 10
.per cent. In Springfield Colonel Benton informed
the men working in the armoury and water shops
that he had orders to cut down their pay in propor-
tion to the two hours deducted from their labour.
The men continue at work, taking their chance of
getting fall wages. The case has been submitted
to the Attorney-General for an opinion by the Go-
vernment workmen general') —whether the law of
Congress reducing the hours of labour to eight
daily in the Government sboPs may, as affirmed by
Government agents, be interpreted to, authorise.
corresponding reduction in salaries. -- • •
Salnave, who is holding on to Hayti by his eye-
lids, is said to have ceded the Bay of St. Nicholas to
the United States. It matters little, we suppose, that

he does not control the territory, as the bay forms a
good harbour only 40 miles distant from Cuba, and
easy of defence. He is said to meditate an early flight
captured
However atondthseomUenoitfedms3Straetleast,ivaens,d has sent off his effects
on shipboard by the
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desiiable
might be the imichase, the_t4e will scarcely be a
good one derived front Salnaiee
Among the crimes and casualties which the last
mail brings from the United States we find that we
were premature in announcing the destruction of
D. Appleton and Co.'s publishing house. The fire
broke out in Green-street, in the next residence,
and the building where it originated was consumed,
with loss of property to the value of $123,000. The
adjoining printing-office of John F. Trow had as
narrow an escape as the premises of the Messrs.
Appleton. The record of crime is unusually large.
Messrs. Thomas, Howard, and Johnson, partners of
a wholesale stationer's house in Buffalo, have been
detected in defrauding the- Government out of
V 50,000, in collusion with A. F. Lee, late of the
Post-office in a contract for furnishing that depart-
ment with blanks, envelopes, &c.,which were never
supplied. Both Lee and several wembers of the
firm have been arrested, and in each case held to
bail in the sum of $lO,OOO. Mr. Lavot Cabol,
member of a New York and Philadelphia firm of
brokers, and president of the Allentown Iron Com-
pany, Philadelphia, has absconded, leaving a vast
deficiency in the company's accounts. He appears
to have speculated with the funds entrusted to his
care, and it is feared that the loss will amount to
half a million dollars. Many railway collisions have
been attended with fatal results. On the 15th August
one occurred in Pennsylvania, near Rouserville,
when five men were killed and fifteen injured. On
the same day two railroad employes were killed at
Rhinebeck, New York. Alexander Green fell a
victim in New Jersey, and seven men, besides ten
wounded near Fremont station, by a train of the
Union Pacific Railroad thrown from the track.
After that eventful day two men were killed, and
twelve badly injured, on the 18th August, near
Galena, Illinois.
We are not surprised at the following special
telegram sent to the limes from Philadelphia, Sept.
2 :—" An Indian massacre is reported in Colorado.
Nine persons have been killed. United States troops
are being sent to the western border. An Indian
war is impending." The intelligence by mail left
no doubt that this was threatened. Solomon River
Valley in Kansas was the scene of some shocking
outrages, for the most part_committed on defence-
less women, though twenty persons have been
killed, and property to such an extent destroyed
that 200 settlers have been deprived of everything,
and compelled to apply to Leavenworth and other
places for relief. The reports have been con-
firmed by General Sherman. The Indians on
the war-path are said to be the Cheyennes and
Arapahoes, and one. of their victims is a well-
knownwhose body was re-
covered, scout,his pCaonmiosntosckb,eing
rescued, badly
wounded. A party of 80 Cheyennes drove away
110 mules from within a mile of Fort Hayes. The
reports estimated the Indian strength between 600
and 1,500. The people were flying from their
homes in every direction, and the town was full of
refugees. A skirmish had taken place between the
Indians and the soldiers, who were compelled to
retreat. Active measures were taken throughout
the State, the militia enrolled, and troops pushed
forward, and the result was that the savages
were driven from the Solomon River Valley.
The pursuit was so hot, the Indians retreat-
ing towards the Arkansas River, that seve-
ral of the settlers' children they had stolen
were abandoned and found in the woods, but six
women were known to have been carried into cap-
tiviry. The cause of the trouble is supposed to
have grown out of a recent fight between the
Cheyennes and Pawnees, the former getting the
worst of it, and they are Supposed to have attacked
all the settlements from revenge. General Sheridan
had sent plenty of troops and gone in person to the
place of hostilities. The news from Colorado shows
that the movement is general among the tribes,
and we fear that Uncle Sam will be compelled to
undertake a war of extermination. President John-
son has ordered the forcible expulsion of hostile
Indians from Kansas.
A newspaper entitled L' Independence Canadienne,
professing to be a people's journal, has been started
in Montreal by a French Canadian named Mederic
Lanctot. Envious, we suppose, of the fat livings
secured by Fenian editors, who thrive on a denun-
ciation of England, he wants to cut in for a share
in the new field offered by Lower Canada. The
tyranny which has marked the British yoke wher-
ever established has galled the soul of this patriot,
who has arisen like a Bruce or a Tell to reeleern his
country, and comes forth absolutely bursting with
eloquence. M. Lanctot braves the lion in his den,
and writes his publication in the largest of Cana-
dian cities, flaunting it under the nose of the British
mercenaries with that disregard to personal safety
which has so eminently characterized such patriots.
He finds that in independence English m mufactur-
ers won]. I be prevented from making a tariff to
lit themvlves, and the capitalists would at once be
enabled to withdraw their funds now tied up in
banks to invest with profitable results in industry,
maoufactures,-and commerce. The patriot fails to
inspire in the United States that interest in his
proceedings which he considers is his due from a
free people ; bat the Americans are satisfied with.

the progress of Canada, which they are persuaded
when the time comes, if, as they believe, the Union
must embrace the Continent, will peacefully take its
place in the Federation even without the action of
the patriot Lanctot, who is desired to moderate his
transports, and requested, in consideration for his
countrymen, not to make himself and them ridicu-
lous. Indeed, even Nova Scotia has failed to arouse
any sympathy in its appeals to the United States.
Americans have quite as much territory as they can
manage for many a long year to come, and, al-
though they would like to reform that blot on
civilization to the South of the Rio Grande, they
have no desire to meddle North of the St. Law-

The Colorado arrived at San Francisco on the
16th August, from China and Japan, with 80 cabin
passengers and 800 Chinese in the steerage, having
made the passage in thirty days from llong Kong:
liar cargo consisted of twenty thousand packages
of silk and tea for the United States and Europe.
A telegram had been received from San Francisco
" Civil war is raging in Japan. The native
Christians are persecuted, and one thousand were
sent to the mines, the foreign ministers remonstrat-
ing. Gold hts been discovered in China, causing
great excitement among the celestials." The steam-
ship marine of San Francisco is rapidly increasing
Six round trips are now made with Panama every
month, and one to the Sandwich Islands every
twenty days. In the same period the voyage
is made to Mexican ports, a semi-monthly
line to British Columbia, a tri-monthly to
Oregon, and a coast line to the California
ports north and south of San Francisco ; the
fleets required for the work number 40 steamers
and aggregate 60,000 tons. This is independent of
the river fleet,"eqUalling in equipment that of any
'country, and a sea-going sailing force entering and
departing from the port of 350,000 tons annually.
The City of Baltimore carried from Liverpool on
Wednesday for New York the cricketers selected to
visit the States to play a series of matches. Their
names are—Willsher (captain), Griffith, Row-
botham, Humphrey, Jupp, Pooley, Smith, Tarrant,
A. Shaw, Charlwood, Freeman, and J. Lillywhite.
A large number of cricketing men assembled to bid
them "good bye." Nine years ago a great inter-
national match came off, the All England Eleven
being pitted against an American Twenty-Two. It
was then that Americans first learned as a nation
that cricket of all games requires most training.
The Americans were mere children in the hands of
the All• England Eleven, and were surprised and
even. mortified at a result any one who knew the
-game could have told them was certain: Although
we have little doubt that the English players
will win, they will find that the--game is now
much better Understood in America; and. they
will not pass over 'the country as they did be-
fore, beating their adversaries with scarcely an,
effort. During the first week they will play matches
against two selected twenty-twos from various clubs
in New York and vicinity; the second week they
will play matches in Montreal with a twenty-two
selected from officers of her Majesty!s regiments
and:various Canadian cricket clubs ; .the third week
they-will play two thi.tches in the neighbourhood
of Boston against ;ii_-twenty-two selected frOna
Maisachtisats cricketers-; the fourth week will be
given to Philadelphia, where they will meet Ameri-
can cricketers ; and the fifth week will be given to
New York, when, possibly, they may be induced
to enter into a contest with an American nine at
the American game of base-ball.
The limes publishes the following telegram,
dated New York, Thursday night :—" Mr. J. T.
Hoffmann has been nominated for Governor. Re-
solutions have been passed in favour of the pay-
ment of the United States debt in paper money, the
early resumption of specie payments, a general am-
nesty, and the taxation of the National Debt. Re-
solutions have been passed against negro suffrage
and the Congress Reconstruction plan." The New
York Times says that according to a telegram from
Washington the friends of President Johnson de-
clare that he will embark for Europe on the sth of
next March, and seek relief in foreign countries
from the arduous duties he has had to perform
during his term of office.
General W. S. Rosecrans is to start on the let of
October for Mexico. He is well known in the
Pacific States, where be spent some time in mining
and engineering examinations, and owns much pro-
perty in mines. He will be attended by General
Kautz, a famous cavalry officer, and his instruc-
tions have been given most minutely by the Sec-
retary of State. It is announced that the project
is revived of establishing a United States Protec-
torate over Mexico, the Washington Government
taking a position somewhat similar to that held by
the British in India over what are there called Pro-
tected States. Juarez, if the story now denied be
true, was to receive some money and certain gua-
rantees, while he cedes Lower California and sanc-
tions a rectification of the Southern boundary line.
Although now denied, as the report is said to have
emanated from speculative citizens to forward their
railway, mining, and other interests in Mexico,
there is fire in this smoke, for Romero did not tra-
vel to Washington for nothing. In Vera Cruz the
insurrection is spreading and extending to other
States, Ortega being named for President; and the
last advices say that the forces of Juarez, under
Alatorre, have been defeated by the insurgents
in the State of Vera Cruz. 'While on this subject
we may add that the French holders of Mexican
bonds are, as fixed by the commission, to receive
an indemnity of 30 per cent. of the amount of their
shares as a first instalment from the capital ap-
propriated for the liquidation of claims.
Commissioner of Internal Revenue Rollins is in
Washington holding tight to his appointment
against Burbridge of Kentucky. The President, it
is reported, is above to vault over Attorney-General
Evarts' opinion, and at least suspend Mr. Rollins
pending investigation into the charges affecting his
honesty. A considerable number of appointments
are controlled by this officer, who desires to use
them, so says rumour, in the Republican interest,
while the President is equally anxious to forward
by their means the Democratic interest. The super-
visors lately authorized have not yet been appointed
as Mr. Rollins claims and acts on the right of re-
jecting Mr. M'Culloch's nominations. Mr. Evarts
has given the opinion that the Collectorship of New
Orleans is vacant, and may be filled by the Presi-
dent, who can also appoint a Collector of Customs
for Alaska, and a Federal District Attorney for
Eastern Pennsylvania.