New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-12-02

eiare themselves for the Cons,tuttn of l-l2.
So far w.s Spao matured for revolaton. thst
even false news sufiiced 20 produceit 80, TOD, il
az flse news that produced tie hurricane Of
Is;s.
In Gsllicis, Valensis Slrago-ss Barcelona sod
Psnpeluna, successive in'urrect:ons nroEe our.
Henri ODcDnell, alas the CJun. OF Abi.b4l. be-
inc ,unn,,., ~ the t;-- to "n-ose the expedi-
top OF Riego not only offered 90 take arms against
him, but 10 annibilate his little army and seize Oh
lis person. He only demanded the command OF
the troops cantoDed IN the Province OF Ia han;ta'
and morey for bis personal necessities Inc A'ns |
biuself gave him purse OF gold aud The /
requisite orders for the troops OF ia Man |
cha. But on lis arrival at Ocais, Aois-
bal put himself At the head Of the troops sld
proclaimed the Constitution Of 1912. The news
Of tbs detection reused the public spirit oil Mad
rid where the revolution bust forth imnt d!ately
On The incl igepce N this event. The Govern
meni began then To DegoIste with the Revolution.
In decree, dated March 6, the King offered to
conyoke the onctest Cortes, assembled in Esd
ma,os Estates, decree saitipg no party, Dei-
the that Of the old monarchy nor that Of the rev.
Outjop. Oh his return from France, be had held
out the same proni.e aud failed 10 redeem MS
pledge. During the night o. the 9Th, revolution
AIRY denominations having tasen place in Mad
rid, the Gaoeia OF the 9Th published decree by
which Ferdil ard VII promised 70 Swear U me
Constitution OF 1872. LET all OF us " ne sail,
in that decree aDd my self the f'st, taicy enfer
upon the path of the Constitution. The peo-
pIe having GOT possession OF the palace on the 9tb
be saved himself only by reestaollrhDg the Md.
rid AyuntameDtO of 1914, before whlch ne s@ore
to the Constitution. He, for mis- part, dsd not
care for false O8tbs, having always at hand con-
lessor ready to grant him full rem .sion of al pos
sible sins. Simultaneously Consultative Jutta
was established, the first decree OF which set
free the political prisoDers and recalled the 20
! litcal refugees. The prisons, now opened, seat
the frsg Constitutions Ministry TO toe roy PAL
ace. Castro, HeueIos, and A. Argueliss-who
: formt d the first Ministry-were martyrs Of 1914,
( and Deputies of 1912. The true scarce Of the
enthusiasm which had appeared on the accession
Of Ferdinand TO the throne, was JOY at the re-
moysl of Charles w., bis father. And thus the
source of The general exultation at the PROCLAIM
ton Of the Constitution of 1872, was joy az tue
rem oval of Ferdinand V III. As to the Consntu-
ton itself we know that, when finished, there
were there 10 territories in which TO proclaim t.
For the majority OF the Spanish people, 1t vas
| bke the unknown god worshlped by the ancient
Athenians.
In our days it has been affirmed by English
writer's with sn express allusion to the present
Spanish Rev OlutOn, on the one bsnd that she move
Debt of 1c20 YVES but military conspiracy, and
on the other that it was but a Russian Intrigue.
Both assertions are equally ridiculous. A TO the
military iDsuTrectioD, We have seen that, not
witbsiandpg its failure, the revolution proved
victorious; and besides the riddle 20 be solved
would not be the conspiracy of 1900 soldiers
but the sanction of that conspiracy by an army of
$1,000 men, and by a most loyal nation OF twelve
millions. That the revolution first acted through
the ranks If the army is easily explained by tue
fact that, of all the bodies of the spanish mon.
arcby, the army was the only one thoroughly
transformed and revOlutlonzed during the war of
independence. As TO Russian intrigue, It is not
to be denied that Russia had her hands IN the
business Of the Spanish Revolution; that of all
the European powers, Russia first acknowledged
the Constitution of 1872, by the treaty concluded
in Weleski Luki, on July -, 1sl2; that she first
kinoled the Revolution Of $50 first denounced 10
10 Ferdinand VII, first lighted the torch of
counterrevoluton on several points of the PENN
suls, first sOlemDly prott sted against 1t before
Europe, and finally forced France into an armed
Intervention against it, Monsieur de Tatischef,
the Russian Embassad0r was certainly the most
prominent character at the Court of M1drid-the
invisible head of the Camsrilla. He had sue
ceeded in introducing Antonio Cgarte, wretch
of low station, at Court, and making him the
head Of the friars and foOtmen who, in their back
staircase council, sway ed the scepter in the name
of Ferdinand VII. By TatischeH Ugsrte was
made Dire ctor General of the expeditions az iinst
South America, and by Ugarte the Duke OF San
Fernando was appointed Foreign Minister aui
President of the Cabinet. Ugarts effected from
Russia the purchase of rotten ships, destined for
the South American Expedition, for whch the
order Of st. Am was bestowed upon him.
Ugarte prevented Ferdinand and his brother
Don Carlos from presenting themselves
to the army at the first moment Of the
crisis. He was the mysterious author OF
the Duke of st. Fernando's unaccountsble
apstby and OF the measures which led S(alish
Liberal to say at Paris in 1875; One can hlrdly
"Iesist the conviction that the Government was
rendering itself the means Tor the overthrow
"of the existing order of things" Ii W. add
the curious fact that the President Of the United
states praised Russis IN his message for her hsv-