Constantine republican. [volume] (Constantine, Mich.) 1836-1838, 1836-10-19
LATE FROM FRANCE.


The packet ship Erie, capt. Funk, ar
rived on Friday from Havre, whence she
sailed on the 25th ult. We have received
by her Paris journals to the day preceding.
The most interesting. intelligence they
contain is that in relation to Spain, some OF
which we extract. The distracted state OF
that country is such that it absolut, ~ de-
fies all speculation as 10 its eventual terml-
nation.
There appears to have arisen some seri-
Gus difficulties between Switzerland and
France, originating in the ASYLUM afforded
| in the former country to refugees who
have quilted Italy and France for political
offences. 1t is not probable, we should
think, it would lead to any important con-
sequences.-Cour. and Eng.
Extract Of letter from Madrid OF the
10Th inst -" Our communications with
La Grania are surrounded by such mystic
ry, and are so slow besides, that this Capt.
tai, alarmed ut all the excuses committed
during the last two days, might almost be
tempted to believe that there is at this mo-
ment no longer any. Royal authority in
Spain. The dominant influence is that OF
terrorism supported by military revolt
| 1t is certain, according to the opinion OF
every body, that the Queen, intimidated by
the cries of death uttered by soldiery in
a state of the most brutal drunkenness, has
been forced to abdicate as it were, her sove-
reign power for the time being. Some SOL
ders, the blind instruments Of the secret
societies, have hewn in pieces with their
swords the constitutional compact We
will say more, the social one. The con-
sttution of 1912, by virtue ola Royal De-
cree, torn from our sovereign rather than
granted by her, is to be considered TO day
as the object of kind Of worship. Al
, five, this afternoon, an immense crowd
, rushed to the Plaza Mayor, where pro.
visionai stone had been brought, inscribed
, place of the Constitution"
The fixing ofthis stone took place amidst
salvos of artillery, and acclamatons uttered
with the ivelicst enthusiasm. Tomorrow
the constitution will be proclaimed with the
! usual formalities. From eleven this NOR
, ming all the balconies of the Capital were
covered with rich carpets, and this evening
there will be general illumination. 70
. morrow the Queen, brought from La
} GraEia by the troops that beleaguer her
! will enter the Capital, where hideous sys
: tenn of terror is going to be established
already all persons attached to the lsturlli
; administration, or known for the modera
, tou of their opinions, have been forced, ii
, order to escape from outrage or the blows
, of hired assassins, to fly from Madrid, or tc
keep themselves carefully concealed
> There is no more security for the citizens
. Quesada, who had fled from Madrid in the
D morning, was massacred yesterday at Hor
taetza, two leagues from the Capital, by
some national guards, who thus cruelty re-
venged themselves for his severe order o
$ the day. He was shot in cowardly man
5 ner by murderers in the uniform OF the Ur
ban Militia. M. Isturitz and his colleagues
!, would have suffered the same fate if som
D generous friends had not given them shel
4 ter. All the state ftInctonaries connecte'
r with the late government have descrte'
a Madrid and it may be well believed tina
they have not been replaced.
: What Ministry in the midst Of this popu
!, lar effervescence, this bloody reaction
9 would preserve uninjured the deposit o
: public order? The possibility OF the new
: cabinet existing is not credited here; it i
: impo:ent from its very birth, and unable t.
n repress the thirst for private vengeance
r which seems to have got hold part of tin
f population. Insurrection rears her hea
t loffily, and with her feet in blood, she pre-
D pares to dictate laws. In, the streets tn
/; most menacing groups circulate quite free
d y; disorder is every where, the authorize
+. alone do not appear. This state Of thing
y is too violent to last long,. The band o
j Barilio being in possession Of Aragou
: complicates our embarrassments and in
}, creases our uneasiness.