Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1854-09-23

poleon who eyinced his interest IN the matter by
tograph letter communicated to the Ministry This is
not improbable for both the Emperor and the Empress
known to have felt strong interest in the fate Of the
exQueen and since Isabella and her late Ministry have
been prevented by the of the instruction July
from overriding the Constitution, Ia Napoleon, and
ablishing despotsm in SPAIN French influence at the
Court Of Madrid is known to have preferred the main
enance of the constitutional throne of Isabella H. hedged
around by largely liberal reforms and attended by an
honest and economical administration, any of the al
ernatves which the various parties ready OFFER
namely regency with the Princess of the Asturias and
Espartero substitution Of the Queens sister, the
Dutchess OF Montpensier, for Isabella ii; unien with
Portugal under Don Pedro return to legitimacy under
the Count Montemon; or, finally the Democratic Re-
public under Mr. SouLEs protege citizen Orense, Tex
Marquis OF Abaida letter published in the Moniteur
of Paris, dated Madrid August 80 says that the Queen
Mother left Madrid the morning of that day for Poru
g accompanied by her husband the Duke of Riauzarcs
Cher present husband She was escorted by squadron
Of lancers under the command Of Gen. Garrgo This is
the same officer who five six weeks ago. just after the
breaking out of this revolution, tried by court
martial for his participation in it, and being SEN
fenced to DEATH pardoned by the Queen In CRATE
full recollection of this act of royal cleency Gen. Garr
said to have solicited the command of the troops APP
the frontiers. The letter in the Moniteur adds:
"a regiment of cavalry was sent yesterday on the
road of Estramadura to protect her passage aud the
cavalry of the garrison ut Badaoz the Portuguese
frontier has been ordered to 90 upon the road to
Madrid to meet the exQueen and her through.
The Queen Mother will thus be efficiently escorted through
out her whole journey, which will be made very eisurey
so that she may reach the frontier the end Of about
week from her departure from Madrid"
The Government however, was compelled to accom-
pany this decisive measure the dismissal of the Queen by
the announcement of others taken against her. and in
tended to conate and pacy the people and the clubs
who were exasperated against the Queen Mother and
who two or three weeks ago had extored from Espartero
the formal promise that the Queen Christina shall not eoue
Madrid, neither by day by night secretly until the
meeting Of the Cortes" Yet Christina has left Madrid and
the Cortes will not assemble until the 9Th November We
shall see presently how the punctiliousy honest and
scrupuous Esparero has twisted the spirit and letter Of
this promise in order to justify the departure of the 2s
which took place under his auspices The conciia-
tory measures alluded to announced in the official
cular signed by all the Ministers and addressed to the
Governors Of the Provinces The circular notifies the
country of the departure of the exQueen, and at the
same time of the suspension of her pension Of three mil
lions reals (abou $200000) and the sequesraton of
her property until the Cortes should assemble and decide
defnitvey with regard to it. But these measures did
not satisfy the Observation-Disclosures the Democratic lead.
ers Their prey had escaped. They knew that in the
person of the odious exQueen they retained powerful
means of revolutionary action The disposal of per-
could not but give rise before the public the Cab
net and in the Cortcs angry discussions which would
hardly fail to give to their cause increased chances Of
success She had been snatched from their grasp It
known therefore, that she had really left
the city under Governmental protection than an omnous
agitation observed in all the popular quarters of the
capital During the whole morning numerous groups
were observed reading the official circular, and then
moving sullenly away The Democratic leaders, pro-
fessors Of insurrection, noticed minging among
the groups, acting evidently in concert and with the
air of who meditating the play of their last
card. Presently it was rumored that the people were
armng that the barbados rising again in the dis
ant quarters At four o'clock in the afternoon the rap
pei was beating all over Madrid, calling the National
Guard to arms The streets became animated with
the members Of the National Guard (ctzen mitia has
enng to the rendezvous and groups the lower orders
armed and ready take their places behind the
The aged and popular and liberal Gen. San Miguel has
tenng in discharge of his official duty the Puerto del
SOL stopped in dense mass of the agitated people
lie was surrounded and angy questioned by the lead
ers upon the subject of the exQneens departure We
neent ana ABUSIVE protestatIons addressed him.
He excused himself well he could by throwing upon
the Minister'S who in council had resolved upon the
sure, all the responsibility involved in it, Down with
Espartero!" " Down with San Miguel!" "Down with
O'Donnell!' was now the cry. "We are betrayed To
the barrcades! To the barricades!" The shops were
shut up all the city doors and windows closed
in instant expectation Of the re-commencement of civil
war; The soldiers Of the line suddenly disappeared from
the Streets not OF them was to be SEEN They had
ALL by order of Government retired to their barracks
Esparero and ODonne preferred in this fearful crisis
trusting the of order and of society to the citizens
who had family and property at stake rather than to
protested soldiers who the great Of them had not
those powerful motives for the defence of Government
against anarchy Besides the appearance of the regular
side of Government, WOULD it thought, exasperate
the popular masses and render reconciliation more diff
cult At this juncture deputation, composed of six
leading members of the famous Union Club of which Es
partero himself had recently accepted the honorary Pre-
sdency, but of which the woud-be Spanish Mirabeau
citizen Orense, Marquis Of Absda was acting Presi-
dent called Espartero at the Ministerial residence to
inform him of the dporabe effect upon the popular mind
produced by the departure Of Dona Maria Christina,
and of the emnenty precarous situation of the capital
The Duke of Victory received his colleagues of the
Union Club and replied firmly, not allowing himself to
be intimdated tha faithful n,w rs ever to his colors
of which the motto was, Let the will of the nation be
done, he desired that all the popular corps Of Madrid
that is to say the Consultative unta the Provincial De-
putation, the Ayuntamiento and the National Guard