New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-01-18
The Spanish Court and It's Morals.

The London Times, in a recent article on the
ayerse reception given to the Queen Of Spain at
the opera, takes occasion to point out the cause
of it in this wise. We have itaIicised a few pas
sages that the meaning may be more clear,
though it will perhaps be clear enough without
that device:
We arenow witnessing the spectacle Of the de-
which the imbecility of the Fourth Charles and
the selfish brutality Of Ferdinand VII. could not
effect, has been accomplished by young wo-
man, and Queen. The task Of extinguishing
SO remarkable a feeling as that of the loyalty Of
the Spanish name, was no easy one. Misgov-
ernment would not have done it. Queen Tsa-
bella might have laughed at law, order, Justice
ana humanity, and her subjects would not have
missed her IN her opera box, as they did the
other day Ii was on the 18th of the present
month that Spanish Queen endured this last
ihuigniey AZ 1he hands of her people. There had
not of late been more than the nsual amount Of
corruption IN the various departments of Gov
ernt What has happened in the last few weeks
had happened twenty times before hut ut the
bull-fght and the opera, at the Almeda and ut
the gates Of her palace, the Queen had er,ioved
immunity from censure-for censure was insnlt
So great had been her offense-so deeply had
she wounded the punto dhonor of the Spanish
race--that they had no alternative but 10 re-
of the past eight centuries with breath
The Queen entered the royal box with hel
consort-with the eonsort of Louis Philippe
finding. She stood prepared for the usual loya
demonstrations. The splendor of the scene wa
mechanically suspended that the Royal March
according to custom, might give time and har
mony to the glad acclamation of her subjects
But from all sides of the hall--of hall crowdet
with the most illustrious personages of Spain
a cry of aversion resounded. There should b.
no march played. There should be no glad CIT
| OF welcome. Where the Queen of Spain Iooket
for cheers, her ear was greeted with Kisses ant
expressions of disgust: 'sBasta, Basta, de esot'
"We have had enough of this p ss Que ron
tinue la opera p &c Let the opera proceed |.
Was 1t insensibility--was it scorn The Queer
did not change countenance. Not so the hus
band of the Queen by registry and in name
Not SO another in that house, lrlso at the y,re
sent moment occupies a post at Madrid foJ
1ehich no name IS given IN the hierarchy o.
Spanish dignities, although a Spanish mule
teer tcoutd be at little Toss to supplg the requi
| site denomination. There stood the successor
of Charles v, glancing down upon the people
who were cursing her in their hearts, and hiss
ing at her with their lips, with no one to rel7
upon save the person who for the moment has
succeeded to her favor. All this passed in Mad
rid on the evening of Tuesday, the 18th of th
present month.
No single act Of imprudence could have
produced such a result. The loyalty of th
| spaniard wasso deeply seated that it could no
be obhterated by passing folly or a passing
crime. IL acas necessary TO drag the Spanisi
crotcn uerg long through very miry spots, in.
| deed before the nation would have risen agains
the repose of private family This is not the frs
time that the nation had witnessed the specta
Gle of notorious profigacy in the highest station