The Sun.
London, England, 1868-09-25 00:00:00

LORD isT,AFTER OF MAGDALA,AT-

7HE RISING IN SPAIN.

EDINBURGH.

(Prom the Times' Correspondent.)
PALLS, Wednesday, Sept. 23, 6 p.m.
Notwithstanding the difficulty of obtaining
authentic intelligence from a country in a, state of
revolution, and in which some important lines of
telegraph are broken, every succeeding day contri-
butes its quota of news tending to prove beyond a
doubt that the insurrection spreads and flourishes,
and that the Bourbon dynasty is at an end in Spain.

On Tuesday the Lord Provost waited on Lord Napier of
;ffagdala at M`Gregor's Royal Hotel, and by request drove
him to various parts of the city. The party went first to the
High School, thence to the University, where they went
through the several class-rooms and visited the court-room
and library. They then proceeded to the Museum of Science
and Art, after a cursory inspection of which they went to
the establishment of the Medical Missionary Society
in the Cowgate. In the whole of this excursion through
the city, Lord Napier, as we understand, expressed great
anxiety to have information respecting the condition of
the humbler classes, and the means adopted for their
social and religious elevation. His lordship had in the
morning visited the castle in order to inspect the accom-
modation of the soldiers in garrison, and, it seems, wasnot
greatly pleased with various matters which fell under his
attention. He made the observation to the Lord Provost
that the means for recreation, including the arrangements
of the reading-room, were greatly inferior to what be had
noticed in France. The Lord Provost stated that he had
noticed the same deficiency, and that as regards Edinburgh
the consequences were deplorable. The commander of the
regiment which had lately left the castle mentioned that on
arriving the privates in the corps had owned the sum of
£5,000 in the savings bank, every shilling of which was
spent in dissipation during their stay in town, some of
the men spending as much as from £2O to £3O a piece in
two or three days ; facts which spoke strongly as to the
want of healthful recreation in the castle, and the tempta-
tions to vice in the city. On hearing these circumstances,
Lord Napier adverted to what in various ways might be done
to elevate the soldier. His lordship, along with Lady
Napier, left Edinburgh for Glasgow at two o'clock. In
parting from the Lord Provost, Lord Napier said that he
hoped to be able on his return from India to revisit
Edinburgh, in which he now takes a lively and peculiar
interest.—Scotsman.

The telegraph last night took you the important
information that the Queen, after actually getting

into a railway carriage to go to Madrid, got out

again and remained at St. Sebastian, deterred by
the intelligence of fresh risings in important cities

and fortresses, of agitation in the capital, and of

danger on the road through Castille. The move-
ment is extending to every part of her king-
dom, and must before long reach Madrid. Iler
sole reliance now is on three or four Generals little
noted for energy and very deficient in prestige.
It is not the Conchas, or Pezuela, or Pavia, or

Calonge who will carry with them either the army
or the people. Everybody else has fallen away
from her, and who knows how long some of those

may remain by her side ? Concha, we hear, is pre-
siding over a council of Ministers consisting of him-
self alone, the other Ministries being temporarily
filled by the Secretaries-General or Under-Secre-
taries of the respective departments. Gonzalez

Bravo was driven to make up his Cabinet with men

previously unknown, but Concha has not even that
resource. One significant sign of the times is the

passage of the frontier by M. Bravo and his late
colleagues, who, the telegraph informs us, passed
yesterday through St. Jean de Luz, flying from the
vengeance their iniquities have provoked. There

seems little doubt that by this time most of the

seaport towns and several large inland cities have
hoisted the banner of the insurrection. Yesterday

evening some slight uneasiness was expressed by
partisans of the movement of the apparent inaction
of Galicia, where General Zabala, detained at Lugo

by order of the late Government, was expected to
take the lead. Ferrol was believed to have pro-

flounced, but no other places had been named as
following the example. A Paris paper last night

said that all Galicia was in arms, and that Corunua

and Santiago appear ready to pronounce. Before
closing this letter I shall know whether that news
be confirmed. The papers give a proclamation by
the Madrid Revolutionary Committee, which claims
to represent on the one hand the Generals returned
from the Canaries, and on the other M. Olozaga
and General Prim. Two reports circulated this
morning are to the effect that Espartero ha 3 de-
clared for the insurrection, and that the Duke of
Montpensier and his wife, the Infanta Maria

Louisa, were preparing to return to Spain. It is
quite natural that the Duke and Duchess should de-
sire to return to their home, if they think they can
do so in safety, but if it is with the idea that they
have a chance of the throne which seems likely

soon to be vacated they may spare themselves dis
appointment by keeping away. You will have
seen by the proclamation to the Catalans; yesterday
forwarded, that the programme of the insurrection
repudiates the whole Bourbon dynasty. On no
terms whatever will they accept any member of the
family. The idea has been timidly advanced of the
Prince of Asturias for future King, with a regency
until his majority. Anybody who has been lately
in Spain, or in much intercourse with Spaniards,
will feel how impossible that is. Besides the broad
decision to get rid of all Bourbons, there are other
reasons for the exclusion of the Queen's children.
You may, perhaps, not know—for there aro certain
things one writes but unwillingly—that every one
of the Queen's children is considered to belong to a
different father, and that they are known and com-
monly spoken of in Spain by nicknames founded on
the names of their putative progenitors. Whether
this scandal be true or not it is believed in Spain,
and Spanish pride would ill brook the sovereignty
of a prince supposed to be of such extraction. The
present revolution, which is altogether of a different
character from any that has occurred in Spain since
Ferdinand's death, is decided in its object. It has
been promoted by men—and especially by one man
—long bent on the expulsion or tho dynnoty, uull
with nothing less will it be satisfied, The dynasty,
says the proclamation to the Catalans, " has per-
sisted in the fatal path of immorality and hypocrisy.
The nation can no longer endure so much scandal
and so much infamy." And thus it is that the
measure has been filled to overflowing, and that one
of the most loyal and monarchical nations in Europe
has been brought to abjure its traditions and expel
its Queen. Any compromise between the Bourbons
and the insurrection is, I am thoroughly persuaded,
quite out of the question.
Failing any likely and popular candidate for the
throne that is expected presently to be empty, the
directors of the revolution propose an appeal to the
nation, and the election of a Constituent Cortes to
deliberate as to the nature and formation of the
new Government. M. de Girardin, who is always
ready with advice, even to those who neither seek
isuggests that Spain should
takeamendment proposed in the
French
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norn a n
National
Assembly on the 7th of October,
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from value
an
1848, by M-. Grevy, to the effect that the Assem-
bly should delegate the executive power to a
citizen who should receive the title of President
of the Council of Ministers, and who should be
elected for an unlimited time, but should be always
liable to be deposed by another vote of the Cham-
ber. Had the Grevy amendment, he says, been
adopted, France would have enjoyed all the ad-
vantages of a constitutional Government without
the superfluity of Royalty or of a President of the
Republic. He advises the chiefs of the present
Revolution, should it succeed, to convoke the ordi-
nary Cortes, and let them elect, by secret voting
and by the majority of the suffrages, a President of
the Council of Ministers.
The attitude assumed by the semi-official Press,
and especially by the Constitutionnel and the Patrie,
at this crisis in the affairs of Spain is exceedingly
reserved, and decidedly favourable to the Queen.
Perhaps it is not considered decorous that journals
supposed to derive their opinions as well as their
information from the Ministerial offices should ad-
mit, until it becomes an accomplished fact, the pro-
bable downfall of a friendly Sovereign, whose
daughter only the other day was caressed and,
feasted at Fontainebleau. The Moniteur of to-day
is nearly mute. " Madrid continues tranquil ; Ad-
miral Estrada has accepted the Ministry of Marine;
the news from the provinces are confused and con-
tradictory." That is all. Apparently the Govern-
ment has very little news to give. It is noteworthy
that at the time when the Government despatches
were being returned from the frontier on account
of the interruption of the line to Madrid, those
wonderful people the telegraphic agents continued
to tell us what was going on. And it is also re-
markable that their information was generally
favourable to the Royal cause, even when they were
obliged to relate facts of a most alarming nature :
" The greatest tranquillity reigns in Madrid and the
rest of the Peninsula." But just above that we
read that there is a military insurrection at Cadiz,
seconded by General Izquierdo and the garrison of
Seville. The Constitutionnel of to-day might have
gathered its Spanish intelligence in the chancery of
the Spanish Embassy. It says :
" Concha has taken most energetic measures to
stay the progress of the insurrection and localize
the movement ; the capital was tranquil, and the
Queen by that time (last evening) must have
reached Madrid. According to the last accounts
from London (it adds) Prim had not left Eng-
land."

nate for her cause.

The Pattie is equally oracular and well informed.
From the information it gives—
" Our readers will see that not only is the Cadiz
movanent nut of the magnitude announced, but
there is not a word about the generals exiled to the
Canaries any more than about the return of the
principal insurrectionary chiefs of 1866. And:the
Spanish L2gatiou has received a despatch to the
effect that General Prim is still in London." 7F.
You were told in a recent letter how cleverly the
Countess de Reuss contrived to conceal her hus-
band's absence from Signor Vistahermosa's spies.
Some of the Paris papers contain reports of dis-
agreements between the ModerAdo,And.Proiresista

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generals, but such reports are quite unfounded. It
was no easy matter to bring about a coalition of the
various political shacks, but I think we may rely
on their holding together, at least until their com-
mon object is attained. Besides, how do these pur-
veyors of news get their intelligence about the pri-
vate differences of men whose own friends are with-
out other news of them than rumour supplies.
After the rising at Cadiz there was a vast deal
urgent to be done, and the generals went their dif-
ferent ways in order to do it. They have no time
for bickerings.

6.30 r.m.
The official news, proceeding from the Spanish

Government, is that Ferrol, Santona, and the im-
portant city of Santander have all declared for the

insurrection. The French Government hears from

its Minister at Madrid that the state of that capital
is such as cannot be expected to last. From other
sources I learn that although the state of siege is
proclaimed in Madrid it is not enforced. The

streets are full of people, the cafes remain open all
night (a thing unprecedented), the police do no-
thing and are scarcely to be seen. In a letter of
the 19th from Madrid I find the following passage,
showing the misery that prevails in and around
that city :
" For some days past the rain has rendered it im-
possible for the beggars and unoccupied workmen
to sleep in the fields. They have sought the neigh-
bourhood of habitations and have penetrated into
the towns. Madrid is full of them, and it is impos-

sible to give au idea of the rags that cover these
unfortunate wretches. It is a very aggravating
circumstance, with the insurrection threatening to
invade Spain at any moment."
The Queen is not likely to leave San Sebastian.
There were three ships of war in that port; two of
them have left, in obedience, no doubt, to orders
from insurgent chiefs; for, as you were lately told,
the whole navy goes with the insurrection. The
report that Espartero had pronounced seems un-
founded. Whatever his intention may be, under

the circumstances he is likely to keep it to himself
for the present.
Count Girgenti has arrived in Madrid. An in-
surgent man-of-war presented itself before Corunna
and invited the garrison and town to join the move-
ment, but the General commanding refused and the
ship withdrew.
There are grounds for believing that in high
official quarters here the Queen's cause is looked
upon as desperate. The conviction of the public is
becoming decided in the same sense. The stay of
the Queen at San Sebastian and the appearance of
Gonzales Bravo and his accomplices at Bayonne are
looked upon as very ominous signs.
The Spanish frontier may now be said to be un-
guarded ou this side, as regards the passage of
Spaniards. All police surveillance has for some few
days past been suspended. There is the amount
of military observation usual when an adjoining
country is in a state of commotion.
The proclamation sent to you yesterday appears
in several of to-night's Paris papers. It is signed
by Col. Baldrich, well known as having figured in
former insurrections in Catalonia.

The Patrie this evening is perplexed with doubts,
and knows not what to believe. It considers the
Queen's resolution to stay at San Sebastian uufortu-.

" The French Government,"

says, "is not indifferent to the events in Spain,
but it has not yet to act, it only has to watch the
course of events. The policy of the Imperial Go-
vernment protests against the supposition of an in-
tawention. This evening's 7 e»zps declares that,
after studying and comparing all the despatches re-
ceived, it cannot doubt of the triumph of the insur-
rection.

The Siecle publishes a violent article against the
Spanish Government and the conduct pursued by
it for a length of time past. After some very un-
complimentary observations addressed to the Queen,

the writer goes on to say :
" Where now is Sister Pa,trocinio ? Of what use
has bcen the fact of the Pope's sending to Isabella
the golden rose, the emblem of virtue? What !
Spain is Catholic ; she has 100,000 monks, bishops,
and priests innumerable, and revolution penetrates
there as in heretic countries ! The fact is incredi-
ble, and the Quell did not at first believe it. But
the iutelligence arrived more and more alarming,
and the reality forced itself to be at last credited.
In these supreme moments crowned heads lkcoine
flexible as reeds. Her Majesty, so haughty an Iso
hive:mom, is now softened, and willing or unwil-
lingly agrees to act. The Ministry must be changed,
she is told, and at once she charges Marshal Concha
to form a new Cabinet. It is in that way that conces-
sions in extrenzis always commence. The programme
of the revolution is perfectly clear ; it proclaims
the deposition of the Bourbon dynasty, and thus
utterly destroys the hopes of Don Carlos as well as
those of the Infanta Maria Louisa, good and honest
relatives who ardently covet the succession of Isa-
bella, and would ask for nothing better than to fish
up a Crown out of troubled waters. Afterwards,
a Provisional Government is to be substituted and a
Constituent Assembly convoked, which should de-
cide finally on the destinies of Spain. Their scheme
is a prudent one ; and we hope that all sensible
men, all good citizens on the other side of the
Pyrenees who love their country will support-it.
is the doctrine of the Spanish Revolution, of the
national sovereignty, and we repeat that if it is not
executed to-day, it will be to-morrow. The force
of things is NO‘at proclaims and wills it, and
not we. The Peninsula has two great faults :-
1, The monks, an intolerant clergy, who carefully
cherish ignorance, fanaticism, and the most ridi-
culous superstitions ; 2, an unbridled soldiery
without any counterpoise. These must absolutely be
cured or the patient will die. But nations do not
expire with their own consent. As to the Bourbon
Monarchy it is struck to the heart, and we sin-
cerely hope. that the present movement will rid the
peninsula of it. This first step will be decisive. The
principal obstacle will be overthrown. The reac-
tion of which the centre is at Rome had three head-
quarters—Vienna, Naples, and Madrid. The first
has burst its bonds, the second threw itself into the
arms of Garibaldi, and the third is now going to
emancipate itself from its long slavery."
The Debats expresses the opinion that the King
of Prussia's language at Hamburg cannot admit of
any intepretation whatever but that of peace. The
writer says :
" On this occasion it seems to us that the most
decided pessimist could not, even with the aid of the
most ingenious commentator, find in the short
statement forwarded by the Havas Agency any
threatening intention or sinister prognostics.
When King 'William declares that every one has
need of peace, and that he has the strongest hope
of its not-being disturbed by what process could the
necessity and imminence of a great war be deduced
from these words ? When he affirms that he cannot
possibly comprehend how in his speech at Kiel any-
thing could be discovered except the most energetic
expression of his confidence in the maintenance of
tranquillity, how can that allocution continue to be
treated as a programme of approaching hostilities ?
The Paris and the Vienna journals must give the
case up, for they have lost a convenient subject of
declamation. The King's words seem to deprive
of all opporttineness the gossip written by the Paris
correspondents of foreign journals on the measures
taken or in preparation in France with a view to
war. We have never thrown away our time in
looking at these statements, and we are surprised
to find the Epoque thinking it necessary to notice,
even in order to declare improbable, the alleged
project which two Belgian journals attribute to the
French Government—of suspending by the Senate,
in case of an armed conflict, the laws on the press
and on public meetings. The Assembly in ques-
tion has the right of rejecting bills voted by the
Legislative Body, or of sending them back for fur-
ther consideration ; but once it has declared its
determination not to use this privilege, and that
the laws are sanctioned by it and approved by the
Emperor, the.. Upper Chamber can neither abrogate
nor suspend them by its sole action ; in virtue of
the-initiative accorded to it, that Assembly can do
no more than request the Government to propose
to the Deputies another bill to modify those
already passed.. The measure spoken of would be,
'therefore,' purely and simply a coup d'etal. Besides,
it would be still more impolitic than illegal.".