The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1849-04-25
EDITORS CORRESPONDENTS.
Correspondence of tAe Umion.
Nav YoRA, April Il, 1919.
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! like keep eye upon the wodd it wsgs Old
Spain. What queer country she is 10 be surel While
the people of all the OF Europe, herself and beot
ted Portugal have OF late rapidly learned 10 be men Ia fact
as well as in name 10 all appearances Spanish pride and
prejudces famous in song aad story for centuries past
have prevented single demonstration going to show that
the sPanards have caught the Infection OF Liberalism
which, experience proves spreads IN spite oil preventive
regulations, fast the small pox where vaccination
may not be practised Byiheby, those who formerly
managed the Pope thought Iepres the spread Of the
ang Italy by vaccinating the people with Of
republican cowpox-a granting of the slightest possible
approx maon to the rights of the people But this remedy
instead of proving preventive, tnrned be stimu
liant the disease. Having much Italians
demanded full draught from the cup OF liberty
! May they drink OF IL forever
The rulers of Spain have been willy than those of
the OF Europe for not ot ittle OF liberty have
they accorded their people in all the last years
Nought but the ignorance inertness secluded nationality
and dotish pride of the who them however,
have far enabled them carry out this willy policy
The question arises Spain much longer stand sill in
the centre of progress It's solution evidently look
ed 10 with litle anxiety by the antagonist nilu-
pervading the hearts and minds OF almost every
in Europe now-he spirit OF absoatism The one
hand and of republic anism The other. The Europa
brings from Madrid and the of the kingdom
going far convince least, that in few short
months its solution In favor OF the OF eternal justice
will be of hsorys fixed facts Plots and couner-pots
under the law, and of its minons; ntrigue
political and personal poverty and pomp &c, usual
mark the details OF the Spanish by this arrival The
/ announcement
government OF Narvaez and Christina prime minister and
prime mistress of the realm, has the conclusion
that IL Is nexpcden To send the beggary aid Of 5000 Span
ish bayones assist forcing the Pope the Italians
their temporal master IL has, apparently, well nigh beg
CARED the Spanish treasury make only the preliminary
preparations Tor sending forth this handful of needy adven
iurers
The alleged by Narvaez for thus breaking a,
with the Pontih, probably, for wonder The
vexatious trouble which Montemon's robber lieutenant
general Cabrera, giving in quarters infested by his
brgands, and the serious symptoms of general in
surrecton in the Immediate vicinity of the capital, go
show the truth of this As remarked pre-
letter. oiore, Spanish rebeions the
emes, and progressed the of power This, on
the contrary. (Which probably has occurred now to
begin Madrid itself But before writing that let me
remark that Bep del Oil (Pons) has been doing nothing
his mistress since the sailing of the Niagara, the
putting apun Carlisn in Catalonia. Cabrera active
ever, and Il seems, be bought the of
the Queen. Pon hss proved the ables commander the
government, has Jet opposed to him for, as was but
few months siRce that lie hnself deserted Monenon's
cause he knows the businesses, recsse habits, &c OF
Cabcras guerIas well their reuubabie leader
Yet the Bgade Pons appears almost unaLe TO elect
the capture Of his rival (Cabrera) his death, eer
Of his MANY predecessors These vexatous Car troubles
skirmises evet3 three days. which from five
killed taken prisoefsare proving burden up
the treasury Of the kngdom. The budget of tho Minister
of Finance, Sgnor Mon proves this fact irconiestaby
That unctonay, by theby has succeeded in making large
reductions III shs expenditures of the government, and
promises others 70 tno extent OF three millions sterling
questionable whether, in the threatening OF
things, Narvaez will permit him 10 ntemp, any such
form, the miserable condition Of trade all over The PEN
nsua forbids the idea that additional levy OF taxes
would be responded by the people in Carst
troubles and formidable bsrslist Instruction (Which
together when coInng) make necessity for all
the money that may by tile sesefest exorton be ground
Of TIE people Of Spain Indeed the iabong classes OF
the peninsula afe just now stepped in misery-wreched
enough make their generous Spanish blood boil against
their expressions The thousands OF half employed and
ploy ed artisans and abotes the pa becoming
through wants revoutiouisls to and already pant
for opportunity to fake mp abase government
and Institutions under which they hardly sustain life
itself Narvaez well Of this revolutionary mine
der his feet doing his best be prepared To meet Tie shock
when does His spies RED in every
Of the city and kingdom One now hardly daes
public affairs with friend in Madrid for fear Of arrest
for his spies kept lurking around all the coffee houses
of the city, and two of the garrison regiments Gin urn)
kept always with in their hands night be ready
fire upon the people in the streets at the first alarm
Narvaez has recently had quarrel with Christina, which
embarrass his preparations for defence against the
threatened outbreak. lie caught her in political intrigue
against hljnselO with ODonnel, Pavia the Baron de
Meer Others of his He still desires
from e cabinet and if permitted to do the progsstas
Qibcras) will into power under Olozaga His col
leagues IF he in) VIII be Cona Madoa. Mendoza
bal, &C. who, though not republicans far liberal
than the present ministry. Like those who recently
aged the Pope they would grant enough TO give
the people of progress, which would be followed by
vigorous and Is to be hoped successful effort to help
themselves The ministerial organs by way of
REFRESHING the insurrectonay spirit rife hold forth the
promise that Narvaez will be permitted by the Qneen
retire in which all know, the lest OF the
cabinet (nere ciphers, politically speaking) will at
once be compelled give place to the liberaists,
a. Mon and Pidal could by manage the
tremendous engine of tyranny which the Duke OF Va
lcnca has erected without hourly risk of being them
selves crushed under its Wheels reeking with blood, and
moving onward to the music of nation mourning un-
der accumulated expressions If the hberaists do
again into power their first act will Of necessity be
the establishment OF the national guard, they
odious the standing as the influences paramount
with the latter with them As in France it will then
be found in Spain that despotsm, in thus putting in
the hands OF the has indeed armed the people for
the prostraton of lis vested rights The poor silly Queen
idea of the revolutionary danger surrounding her
throne In her estimation, popular outbreaks are
demonstrations against ministry not directed In any
against the soveregn for such, for past has
substitute for elections by which parties in Spain
have into and lost power. This young woman is
If accounts b. true profoundly ignorant OF the
history of Europe for the last years She has
the distant idea that OF her kingdom the
dictionary fashion has changed revolutions being
made heretofore, rid suffering people of ha ted par
ties dynases, but of corrupt and odious systems
principles in governments.
Her mother, Christina, however, knows better Cunning
she is she is deceving herself to the
condition of popular sentiments in Spain She knows that
the OF those vino, three only craved
n lls progress-sgh reforms in detals-arc now rcpub
cans at heart, becoming hourly more open in the dec
araon OF their sentiments, and bold in their newspape
demands Of liberal grants from the throne. Christina is
doing her best ready the ey oil be