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

ELECTION INTELLIGENCE,

(From the Times' Correspondent.)
PARIS, 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.
The telegraph last night took you the important
information that the Queen, after actually getting 6.30 P.M.
into a railway carriage to go to Madrid, got out The official news, proceeding from the Spanish
again and remained at St. Sebastian, deterred by Government, is that Ferrol, Santona, and the im-
the intelligence of fresh risings in important cities portant city of Santander have all declared for the
and fortresses, of agitation in the capital, and of insurrection. The French Government hears from
danger on the road through Castille. The move- its Minister at Madrid that the state of that capital
talent ..is extending to every part of her king- is such as cannot be expected to last. From other
dom, and must before long reach Madrid. Her sources I learn that although the state of siege is
sole reliance now is on three or four Generals little proclaimed in Madrid it is not enforced. The
noted for energy and very deficient in prestige. streets are full of people, the cafes remain open all
It is not the Conches, or Pezuela, or Pavia, or night (a thing unprecedented), the police do no-
Calonge who will carry with them either the army thing and are scarcely to be seen. In a letter of
or the people. Everybody else has fallen away the 19th from Madrid I find the following passage,
s
from her, and who knows how long some of those showing the misery that prevails in and around
may remain by her side? Concha, we hear, is pre- that city :
siding over a council of Ministers consisting of him- " For some days past the rain has rendered it ina-
self alone, the other Ministries being temporarily possible for the beggars and unoccupied workmen
filled by the Secretaries-General or Under-Secre- to sleep in the fields. They have sought the neigh-
taries of the respective departments. Gonzalez bourhood of habitations and have penetrated into
the towns. Madrid is full of them, and it is impos-
Bravo was driven to make up his Cabinet with men
sible to give an idea of the rags that cover these
previously unknown, but Concha has not even that
unfortunate wretches. It is a very aggravating
resource. One significant sign of the times is the circumstance, with the insurrection threatening to
passage of the frontier by M. Bravo and his late invade Spain at any moment."
colleagues, who, the telegraph informs us, passed The Queen is not likely to leave San Sebastian.
yesterday through St. Jean de Luz, flying from the There were three ships of war in that port ; two of
vengeance their iniquities have provoked. There them have left, in obedience, no doubt, to orders
seems little doubt that by this time most of the from insurgent chiefs; for, as you were lately told,
seaport towns and several large inland cities have the whole navy goes with the insurrection. The
hoisted the banner of the insurrection. Yesterday report that Espartero had pronounced seems un-
evening some slight uneasiness was expressed by founded. Whatever his intention may be, under
partisans of the movement of the apparent inaction the circumstances he is likely to keep it to himself
of Galicia, where General Cabala, detained at Lugo for the present.
by order of the late Government, was expected to Count Girgenti has arrived in Madrid. An in-
surgent man-of-war presented itself before Corunna
pro-
pounced, but no other places bad been named as
take the lead. Ferrol was believed to have pro-
and invited the garrison and town to join the move-
ment, but the General commanding refused and the following the example. A Paris paper last night
said that all Galicia was in arms, and that Corunna ship withdrew.
and Santiago appear ready to pronounce. Before 'There are grounds for believing that in high
closing this letter I shall know -whether that news official quarters here the Queen's cause is looked
be confirmed. The papers give a proclamation by upon as desperate. The conviction of the public is
the Madrid Revolutionary Committee, which claims becoming decided in the same sense. The stay of
to represent on the one hand the Generals returned the Queen at San Sebastian and the appearance of
from the Canaries, and on the other M. Olozaga Gonzales Bravo and his accomplices at Bayonne are
and General Prim. Two reports circulated this looked upon as very ominous signs.
morning are to the effect that Espartero has de-
The Spanish frontier may now be said to be un-
clared for the insurrection, and that the Duke of
guarded on this side, as regards the passage of
Montpensier and his wife, the Infanta Maria
Spaniards. All police surveillance has for some few
Louisa, were preparing to return to Spain. It is
quite natural that the Duke and Duchess should de- days past been suspended. There is the amount
of military observation usual when an adjoining
sire to return to their home, if they think they can
country is in a state of commotion.
do so in safety, but if it is with the idea that they
have a chance of the throne which seems likely The proclamation sent to you yesterday appears
soon to be vacated they may spare themselves dis- in several of to-night's Paris papers. It is signed
appointment by keeping away. You will have by Col. Baldrich, well known as having figured in
former insurrections in Catalonia.
seen by the proclamation to the Catalans, yesterday
forwarded, that the programme of the insurrection. . The Paine this evening is perplexed with doubts,
repudiates the whole Bourbon dynasty. On no' ai3d knows not what to believe. It considers the
terms whatever will they accept any member of the Queen's resolution to stay at San Sebastian unfortu-
family. The idea has been timidly advanced of the nate for her cause. " The French Government," ii
Prince of Asturias for future King, with a regency says, "is not indifferent to the events in Spain,
until his majority. Anybody who has been lately - but it has not yet to act, it only has to watch the
in Spain, or in much intercourse with Spaniards,. course of events. The policy of the Imperial Go-
will feel how impossible that is. Besides the broad vernment protests against the supposition of an in-
decision to get rid of all Bourbons, there are other tervention. This evening's Temps declares that,
reasons for the exclusion of the Queen's children. after studying and comparing all the despatches re-
You may, perhaps , not know—for there are certain ceived, it cannot doubt of the triumph of the insur-
rection.
things one writes but unwillingly—that every one
of the Queen's children is considered to belong to a The Siecle publishes a violent article against the
anish Government and the conduct pursued by
different father, and that they are known and corn- Sp
monly spoken of in Spain by nicknames founded on it for a length of time past. After some very un-
the names of their putative progenitors. Whether complimentaryobservations addressed to the Queen,
this scandal be true or not it is believed in Spain, the writer goes on to say :
and Spanish pride would ill brook the sovereignty " Where now is Sister Patrocinio ? Of what use
of a prince supposed to be of such extraction. The has been the fact of the Pope's sending to Isabella
present revolution, which is altogether of a different the golden rose, the emblem of virtue ? What 1
character from any that has occurred in Spain since Spain is Catholic ; she has 100,000 monks, bishops,
Ferdinand's death, is decided in its object. It has and., priests innumerable, and revolution penetrates
been promoted by men—and especially by one man there as in heretic countries ! The fact is incredi-
-long bent on the expulsion of the dynasty, and ble, and the Queen did not at first believe it. But
with nothing less will it be satisfied, The dynasty, the intelligence arrived more and more alarming,
says the proclamation to the Catalans, " has per- and the reality forced itself to be at last credited.
sisted in the fatal path of immorality and hypocrisy. In these supreme moments crowned heads become
The nation can no longer endure so much scandal flexible as reeds. Her Majesty, so haughty and so
and so much infamy." And thus it is that the impetuous, is now softened, and willing or unwil-
measure hasbeen filled to overflowing, and that one lingly agrees to act. The Ministry must be changed,
of the most loyal and monarchical nations in Europe she is told, and at once she charges Marshal Concha
has been brought to abjure its traditions and expel to form a new Cabinet. It is in that way that conces-
its Queen. Any compromise between the Bourbons sions in extremis always commence. The programme
and the insurrection is, lam thoroughly persuaded, of the revolution is perfectly clear ; it proclaims
quite out of the question. the deposition of the Bourbon dynasty, and thus
land popular candidate for the utterly destroys the hopes of Don Carlos as well as
throne that any likely
is leixkpeected presently to be empty, the those of the Infanta Maria Louisa, good and honest
directors of the revolution propose an appeal to the relatives who ardently covet the succession of Isa-
nation, and the election of a Constituent Cortes to bella, and would ask for nothing better than to fish
deliberate as to the nature and formation of the up a Crown out of troubled waters. Afterwards,
new Government. M. de Girardin, who is always a•Provisional Government is to be substituted and a
ready with advice, even to those who neither seek Constituent Assembly convoked, which should de-
it nore
ad
hintoul front value
an
amendment proposed in the it,
suggests that Spain should tide finally on the destinies of Spain. Their scheme
k
is a prudent one ; and we hope that all sensible
taw rve e
French National Assembly on the 7th of October, men, all good citizens on the other side of the
1848, by M. G'-revy, to the effect that the Assent- Pyrenees who love their country will support it.
bly should delegate the executive power to a lb is the doctrine of the Spanish Revolution, of the
citizen who should receive the title of President national sovereignty, and we repeat that if it is not
of the Council of Ministers, and who should be executed to-day, it will be to-morrow. The force
elected for an unlimited time, but should be always of things, is what proclaims and wills it, and
liable to be deposed by another vote of the Cham- not we. The Peninsula has two great faults :
ber. Had the Grevy amendment, he says, been 1, The monks, an intolerant clergy, who carefully
adopted, France would have enjoyed all the ad- cherish ignorance, fanaticism, and the most ridi-
vantages of a constitutional Government without culous superstitions ; 2, an unbridled soldiery
the superfluity of Royalty or of a President of the without any counterpoise. These must absolutely be
Republic. He advises the chiefs of the present cured or the patient will die. But nations do not
Revolution, should it succeed, to convoke the ordi- expire with their own consent. As to the Bourbon
nary Cortes, and let them elect, by secret voting Monarchy it is struck to the heart, and we sin-
and by the majority of the suffrages, a President of cerely hope that the present movement will rid the
the Council of Ministers. peninsula of it. This first step will be decisive. The
The attitude assumed by the semi-official Press, principal obstacle will be overthrown. The reac-
and especially by the Conststutionnel and the Patte,
• tion of which the centre is at Rome had three head-
at this crisis in the affairs of Spain is exceedingly quarters—Vienna, Naples, and Madrid. The first
has burst its bonds, the second threw itself into the
reserved, and decidedly favourable to the Queen.
arms of Garibaldi, and the third is now going to
Perhaps it is not considered decorous that journals
emanci pate itself from its long slaver "
supposed to derive their opinions as well as their y.
information from the Ministerial offices should ad- The Dgbats expresses the opinion that the King
mit, until it becomes an accomplished fact, the pro- of Prussia's language at Hamburg cannot admit of
bable downfall of a friendly Sovereign, whose any intepretation whatever but that of peace. . The
daughter only the other day was caressed and writer says :
feasted at Fontainebleau. The Moniteur of to-day •" On this occasion it seems to us that the most
is nearly mute. " Madrid continues tranquil ; Ad- decided pessimist could not, even with the aid of the
miral Estrada has accepted the Ministry of Marine ; most ingenious commentator, find in the short
the news from the provinces are confused and con- statement forwarded by the Haves Agency any
tradictory." That is all. Apparently the Govern- threatening intention or sinister prognostics.
merit has very little news to give. It is noteworthy When King William declares that every one has
that at the time when the Government despatches , need of peace, and that he has the strongest hope
were being returned from the frontier on account of its not being disturbed by what process could the
of the interruption of the line to Madrid, those necessity and imminence of a great war be deduced
wonderful people the telegraphic agents continued from these words ? When he affirms that he cannot
to tell us what was going on. And it is also re- possibly comprehend how in his speech at Kiel any-
markable that their information was generally thing could be discovered except the most energetic
favourable to the Royal cause, even when they were expression of his confidence in the maintenance of
obliged to relate facts of a most alarming nature :-__. tranquillity, how can that allocution continue to be
" The greatest tranquillity reigns in Madrid and the treated as a programme of approaching hostilities ?
rest of the Peninsula." But just above that we The Paris and the Vienna journals must give the
read that there is a military insurrection at Cadiz, case up,
for they have lost a convenient subject of
seconded by General lequierdo and the garrison of declamation. The King's words seem to deprive
Seville. The Constitutionnel of to-day might have of all opportuneness the gossip written by the Paris
gathered its Spanish intelligence in the chancery of correspondents of foreign journals on the measures
the Spanish Embassy. It says : taken or in preparation in France with a view to
" Concha has taken most energetic measures to war. We have never thrown away our time in
stay the progress of the insurrection and localize looking at these statements, and we are surprised
the movement ; the capital was tranquil, and the to find the Epoq'te thinking it necessary to notice,
Queen by that time (last evening) must have even in order to declare improbable, the alleged
reached Madrid. According to the last accounts project which two Belgian journals attribute to the
from London (it adds) Prim bad not left Eng- French Government—of suspending by the Senate,
land." in case of an armed conflict, the laws on the press
The Patrie is equally orecular and well informed. and on public meetings. The Assembly in ques-
From the information it gives— tion has the right of rejecting bills voted by the
" Our readers will see that not only is the Cadiz Legislative Body, or of sending them back for fur-
movement not of the magnitude announced, but ther consideration ; but once it has declared its
there is not a word about the generals exiled to the determination not to use this privilege, and that
Canaries any more than about the return of the the laws are sanctioned by it and approved by the
principal insurrectionary chiefs of 1866. And the Emperor, the Upper Chamber can neither abrogate
Spanish Legation has received a despatch to the nor suspend them by its sole action ; in virtue of
effect that General Prim is still in London," the initiative accorded to it, that Assembly can do
You were told in a recent letter how - cle eiv r y the no more than request the Government to propose
i-n t
Countess de Reuss contrived to conceal her tae. 1 e.„
..he Deputies another bill to modify those
nassed. The measure spoken of would be,
h
band's absence from Signor Vistahermosa's
spies. I alreeet), a,
-Iv and simply a coup d'etat. Besides,
Some of the Paris papers contain reports of s- therefore, me* di i
agreements between the Moderado and Progresista, it would be still ' v • impolitic than illegal."
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corned by many of the gentry, manufacturers, and
colliery proprietors. Captain Egerton took the
opportunity of defending his relative the Duke of
Devonshire from an attack which had been made
upon him for his views respecting the Irish
Church.

TOWER HAMLETS.—Last night a meeting was
held in the Greencoat School, Stepney, for the pur-
pose of hearing Mr. J. D'A.. Samuda, M.P. for
Tavistock, and one of the four Liberal candidates
for the borough, express his political opinions. Mr.
Harrison occupied the chair. Mr. Samuda's rising
was the signal for great uproar, mainly created by
a small but determined body of men at the end of
the room. A scene followed that almost defies de-
scription. The meeting rose and stood upon the
benches, and a labouring man climbed up to a shelf
near the ceiling and posted on the wall a large pla-
card announcing an open-air meeting in support of
Mr. E. Beales, one of the rival candidates. In about
half an hour it became evident that no business
could be done, and the chairman, having declared
the meeting to be dissolved, vacated his position.
The meeting, however, ref used to adjourn, and
continued to hiss and cheer. The man on the
shelf essayed to address those present, but
nothing could be heard, though his gesticulation
was highly energetic. At last he gave up the at-
tempt to make himself heard, lit his pipe, and
pointed to the Beales bill. Several attempts were
made to drag him from his position, but they
were strenuously resisted by a compact body of his
supporters. Some posters of Mr. Coope, the Con-
servative candidate, were then exhibited, and were
received with some enthusiasm, followed by a dis-
play of physical force on the part of those to whom
they were not agreeable. The room was still
crammed to suffocation when Mr. Samuda, sur-
rounded by his friends, forced his way out of the
hall, pursued by alternate groans and cheers.
HACKNEY.—Last night Mr. C. Reed addressed
meeting of the electors at the Shoreditch Town-
hall, which was much crowded. Mr. Samuel
Morley took the chair, and congratulated the elec-
tors that it was not a class which was about to vote,
but, in a large sense, the people of England. He
felt confident that Mr. Gladstone's majority would
be at least doubled in the new Parliament.
He considered that the electors of Hackney would
be perfectly safe in entrusting their repre-
sentation to his old friend, Charles Reed. No public
man could be competent to give an opinion or ex-
ercise an intelligent judgment upon questions con-
nected with Ireland without visiting that unhappy
country. He had recently seen the condition of
the people, and it was a disgrace to a Christian
country. He had visited a large number of what
he could not call the cottages, but must call the
dwellings of the poor, in comparison to which his
own pigstyes were palaces, and that on property
which ought to be made to do its duty. Should
he be fortunate enough to obtain a seat in the
House of Commons, which he expected he would,
he should feel that, next to this prominent
Church question, which could not and ought
not to be delayed, he was bound to unite in
any reasonable effort to compel property to do its
duties. Same means must be found by which men
who were our own flesh and blood and our fellow-
countrymen should all be lifted out of the
state of misery and wretchedness in which they
were living. (Cheers.) The great curse of Ire-
land was an obsentee proprietorship. He saw in
the measures of Mr. Gladstone hope for the coun-
try at last. Mr. Reed gave a general exposition of
his political opinions, dealing chiefly with the Irish
question. Ireland, he said, was the Poland of Eng-
land. This country had ruled Irishmen by penal
laws, and had goaded them into disloyalty. They
had forced Popery on the Irish people centuries
ago, and now they wanted, by the bayonet and the
sword, to force Protestantism upon them. But he
felt it possible, before Mr. Disraeli went to the
Mansion-house dinner, that he might yield to public
opinion and give up the Irish Church. (Laughter.)
He (Mr. Reed) should give a hearty support to
the policy enunciated by Mr. Gladstone. A
number of questions were put to Mr. Reed and
answered by him. A resolution pledging the
meeting to support his candidature was passed.
Mr. John Holms addressed a meeting of the electors
last night in the school-room of the Methodist
Chapel, in Packington-street, better known as
Britannia-fields Chapel. The place selected for
the meeting is just without the boundary of the
new borough ; the reason assigned for holding the
meeting out of the borough was inability to obtain
rooms sufficiently large within its limits. Mr.
James Martin was called to the chair. In reply to
questions, which were freely addressed to him, Mr.
tiolms said he had nothing to do with the dis-
turbances created at the meeting of the Conserva-
tives held a few nights since at Shoreditch Town-
hall. Ile wished the contest to be conducted in
a spirit of generous and gentlemanly rivalry.
He would like all trades' unions to have the
same [protection extended to them and their
funds as was extended to benefit societies.
He was not in favour of long Parliaments, and he
believed that so many great questions would
have to be decided by the voice of public opinion
that without any legislative action whatever
the duration of Parliaments would be shortened.
Upon the motion of Mr. Andrews, seconded by Mr.
Bull, a resolution pledging the meeting to support
Mr. Holms was unanimously agreed to.
ANGLESEY.--Mr. Richard Davies, of Benarth,
Conway, is now the only candidate for this county.
He is a Liberal,:and was opposed till lately by Lord
Clarence Paget, commanding Mediterranean fleet,
also a Liberal; but the latter gentleman, finding his
chance of being elected during his absence exceed-
ingly small, has retired. Mr. Davies is a Noncon-
formist, and very popular in Anglesey. The Hon.
W. 0. Stanley, M.P., Peurhos, Holyhead, a Radi-
cal, is so far the only candidate for these boroughs.
BIRMINGIIASI.-IVard meetings are being held
nightly by the candidates on both sides. On Wed-
nesday evening Mr. Sampson Lloyd and Dr. Evans
addressed an important meeting of the gun trade.
The interest and excitement incident to the election
increase daily. It is expected that Mr. Bright will
take part in the strife about the second or third
week in Otober. It has been suggested that he
should address four or five divisions of the consti-
tuency, that mode being regarded as more suitable
to the occasion than set speeches in the Town-hall,
but on this point nothing definite has yet been de-
termined.

HALIFAx.--Mr. Stansfeld and Colonel Akroyd
addressed another meeting of electors on Wednes-
day night. A vote of approval of the conduct of
the sitting members was agreed to, but not unani-
mously.

BLACKBURN.—At Blackburn, on the evening o
the 23d inst., the Irish Church question was ap
proached from a point of view differing from that
in which it has been treated of late in the majority
of Parliamentary boroughs. A. meeting, under the
presidency of Mr. R. Hutchinson, D.L., assembled
to hear a statement on the subject by the Rev. S.
G. Potter, rector of Duncermack, Ireland.
The rev. gentleman attributed the attack upon the
Irish Church directly to the machinations of the
Jesuits, and called upon those whom he addressed
to join the only organization that had shown itself
able to cope with them—the Orange institution. So
many who formerly held aloof from their body had
joined it since the recent agitation commenced that
Mr. Gladstone might well be called " the Orange
recruiting sergeant."
CARNARVONSHIRE.—There is a very prevalent
rumour that the lion. G. D. Pennant, the Conser-
vative M.P. for this county, and eldest son of Lord
Penrhyn, will be opposed by Captain T. L. D.
Jones Parry, of Madryn, Pwllheli, in the Liberal
interest. No address has yet been issued by Cap-
tain Parry. Tke election for the Carnarvonshire
boroughs, which comprise the city and borough of
Bangor and the boroughs of Carnarvon, P wllheli,
Cricuith, Conway, and Nevin, promises to be a ra-
ther severe one, and the Hon. T. J. Wynn, son and
heir of Lord Newborough, standing in the Conser-
vative interest, and Mr. William Bulkeley Hughes,
M.P., again soliciting the honour of re-election as
a Liberal. The supporters of the latter candidate
held a meeting in Bangor on Saturday evening, at
which Mr. Hughes appeared. Many attended who
evidently did not share the opinions of the speakers,
who were all local, but the meeting was orderly to
the end, and resolutions in favour of the candida-
ture of Mr. Hughes were carried. Both candidates
are pursuing an active canvass.
DERBYSHIRE (EASTERN DIVISION).—The Liberal
candidates, the lion. Captain Egerton and the
Hon. Henry Strutt, attended at Chesterfield on
Monday evening a meeting of the county electors
in that neighbourhood, and they were heartily wel-