Washington sentinel., 1854-07-21
REVOLUTION IN SPAIN.

AAtOLOIION
e Several months ago we received information
from respectable and reliable source, that
revolutionary movement of more than ordinary
importance was on foot in Spain. 1t was directed
by leading men, some of whom held high po-
sitions under the Crown and had the command
Of vast resources We were also informed that
the vices Of the court and the undisguised wan
tonness of the Queen had rendered her exceed
ingly unpopular with the masses Of the people.
Their sympathy was relied on in the contem-
plated revolutionary movement
Our information has proved to be correct. A
revolution has broken ont in Spain. Import
ant men head it and substantial citizens sym
pathise with it. The Queen, as odious as she
is profigate, is threatened with ignominious
dethronement. If the movement of the revolu-
tonists has been skilfuly managed, there is
but little room to doubt it, success. They may,
however have trusted too much to the enthu-
siasm of the insurrectionists, and too little to
the business and to the details that are essen
tial in all such undertakings Spontaneous
combustion will do very well in sentimental
point of view, and universal sympathy between
patriotic hearts is no doubt highly romantic.
But spontaneous combustion and patriotic SYM
pathy when unarmed, unofficered, unorganized,
unsupplied, can accomplish but little against an
established government available resources,
and standing army. However, we await the
news by the next arrival There is one aspect
of this Spanish revolution that has peculiar
interest for our country. 1t is that which re-
lates to Cuba. A change of the Spanish gov
ernment, the Inauguration Of new rule, and
the installation of new rulers, would throw Cuba
without n regular war and without fllibuster-
ing expeditions, right into our lap The new
dynasty would need money and would need
friends. Cuba being the brightest jewel in the
Spanish crown, would command good price,
and we would be willing to pay that price.
The means thus raised by the sale to us of the
Qneen of the Antilles, would enable the new ru
lers to maintain themselves against an ancient
but demoralized royalty and profigate no
bility.
1t is thought by some, that both England
and France have winked at this revolutionary
movement. This, in the case of England, is
inferred from the fact that the must influential
journals of that country have, for some time
past, devoted their columns to the exposure Of
the Queen. Her proaigacy, her corruption,
and abandonment, have been published with q
minuteness of detail, in which coarseness
struggles with malignity. It was supposed that
the object of these publications was to disgust
the subjects of her majesty, to lead to her de-
thronement, and to secure to the insurrec
tionists the sympathy of Europe. What might
be the ulterior designs of England, VIC will not
undertake to say.
France is not without strong inducements to
aid the revolutionists by secret sympathy and
secret means. Queen Isabella is of kin to the
Duke Of Alba, and he is an aspirant to the
Spanish throne. The Emperor Napoleon re
members the fate of Louis Phillip, and he
would naturally desire a pleasant place to re-
treat to, in the event of disaster in France. To
aid the revolutionists, would be to secure that
retreat, and would also enable him to control
Spanish politics, in the event Of successful
revolution. A revolution in the nineteenth
century against the profigacy of a Queen is
novel and strange event Such things were
known in the olden times; but we doubt if
even in those dark days, when unprinciped
women ruled the kingdoms of France and
England, there was any woman more corrupt
more shameless, and more debauched, than is
the Queen of Spain in this, the enlightened
nineteenth century.