The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-11-18

taon of grain and -four from that the
country may to great scarcity and want encoun-
tiers serious opposition among the grain dealers, espe-
ca in sanander and in the provinces along the coast
who imagine that they should be seriously injured by
such restriction In Spain there is plenty of and
-four, what is lacking is the of transporting 1t
from province to another. This lack of communca
ton and good roads is one great the backward
ness and poverty of Spain. We are yet waiting the
result OF the investigations making by the Governors of
the provinces concerning the quantities OF grain exist
ngmeantime articles OF the first necessity keep goiog
up price, whilst the lack Of occupation for the poorer
augmens the bad state of the nation every day
The asthma of the treasury has been relieved little
by the produced by the sale of the lands of the
clergy FAR has been effected and by tn. loan of
ST., 600 by the taxpayers, to the budget of
the current year. But this is like the Spanish adage
which says bread fer to-day and hunger for to-
row" The question continues unscived. The prob.
lem is to see how spend less The nation is paying
host Of useless servants and maintaining multitude
o. ecers and so long as this cancer Is not
expenses mcst be evelled with the income and that is
not done yet, has anything been done towards it.
The Catalan operatives insist in demanding OF the
Cortes the right association which Is tenacousy denied
them by the authorities of good government,
they say seeing that the character OF these working
mems associations that province is apt to be turbulent
The other operatives of the kingdom also will unite with
them ia demanding this right
Political parties arc noisy The democrats are at
work but they get slowly The moderados divided
into factions, and impoent. The Carsts making
great noise among he Pyrenees One band Is beaten
by the Queens orces another appears within few days.
is beaten, and another in less than wees is foot
again securing the province with the troops upon its
heesnever making head against the troops, but always
giving them plenty of work to do to catch them The go
must make haste to be ting Off these hun
ded heads of the hydra the Carss may get to be an
evil difficult to
Nothing is said lately of the Palace ntreues The
scandals which told you oil, having passed by ALL has
settled down into silence again If anything going on
it secret but the servants of the royal personages
new, IL is probably difficult for them to find
for ntrigues at present.
The Spanish clergy receives the instructions Of the
Who on hs paTt K seems Is Jealous in the
Vaccinations and celebrating the rathoe operations of
the gentlemen of the Cassock.
The question of the alliance with the Powers allied
against Russia Is silent
The torrents of rain continue to cause
injuries in the country and to everything like
trade in the interior.
The ravages of the cholera in the capital the last
week have put damper politics general parayza-
ton of business is noted and the bad aspect of things
the neghborng empire keeps things some What in
pense here also.
Russia begins TO lament and TO deny her supplies to the
Emperor. This affects ALSO to extent,
cial interests and there is al pause in all
things at this usually busy of the year.
The National Militia National Guard OF Madrid
and artillery batteries with $50 artillerymen mounted
seated the carrages $40 sappers ST. engineering
corps, and company of 2s5 veterans.
The whole force, completely armed and uniformed, is
1887 men. They are enthusiastic in training and drill
ing, and certainly present very fine appearance.
the proo 'He wiz or not yet to S TO
Our Berlin Correspondence.
BERLIN, Oct. 80, 1885,
The Elections for the Second Victory Of the w.
ds- Expected Secession of the Constitutional Iary-7He
Kings Healh-7he Filibusteyirg Expedition against
Lreland-ROmantic History Of Prince Leo Of Armnia-
Postal Convention B,ceen Prussia and The United States.
The opinion expressed in my last communication about
the probable result of the elections for the Second Cnam
Der has been fully justified by the event. Though vic
torous in Berlin and two other large Cities the
constuonals have met with almost unbroken series
Of defeats in al the rest Of the country while the uras
thanks to government influence, the clumsy tactics Of
their opponents and the absention of the democratic
party have carried everything before them Out of $50
members composing the Second Chamber at least two
hundred officials staunch adherents Of government
and Of the KIeuzzetung who may be depended upon for
any introduced by NJ. de Monteufel aud his
colleagues unless what is not very likely should have
a liberal tendency. About fifty more are trmmers,
sensible people who invariably side with the powers that
be- and to support the press mt ministry long
they remain in Office The Catholics, who maintain
kind Of desultoy opposition against government long
they think the claims OF Holy Mother Church not
sufficiently attended to- but who, in every other pec
reactionary than the reaconsts themselves,
viii muster about fifty sixty strong. Last and least
the unfortunate constitutional, corporals
by defeat and when reinforced by the Catholics,
totally unable to make head against the overwhelming
government majority.
The ultras who excessively mortified at the i'll
Of the candidates in this city, proportionaby
eated at the splendid triumph that has resulted from
inauspicious beginning, and are only at loss how
to improve II sufficiently Their favorite scheme of
verng the Second Chamber into Assembly, repre-
senting the various classes, orders of society
the gentry, clergy, the civic population, and
the agricultural nterest-after the pattern of the
diaya Prorinnltdde, will probably be taken in hand,
and with every chance Of As to the constitu
tonas understand they have serious thoughts of with
drawing from the Chambers in corore leaving the
jory work their will unresisted and unoppoed, AM
hoping TO annoy them by their secession than by
their presence The example has already been set by
Of their leading members NJ de vncke the elegant
speaker among them, and man who, with greater
sisency and Of purpose and less OF aristocrac
prejudice might have played part in the history of Ger
many honorable to himself and beneficial to his country
Whether the whole constitutional party will resolve upon
such step may however, be considered doubtful as 1t
would require seltdenal and inexibiy Of determ ma
ton essentially foreign to their nature; and besides
forego opportunity of displaying their oratory,
though convinced beforehand that it will remain
without the slightest practical effect. When, in 1919,
the democrats concluded upon ahstaining from any
participation in the Chambers constituted by the
royal 6at they acted upon principle and have there
fore with but few exceptions remained faithful TO their
resolution the secession of the constitutionas would
only be by spite az the success OF their anita
gonsts vexation the results of their short
sighted policy and the p,ucity Of their numbers would
deprive such demonstration Of the imposing effect pro-
duced by the keeping soof of the democratic party of
whom it may truly he raid qis bilte par teur absence.
Like Achilles they have retired to their tents and Wait
with gloomy patience the val of the strife.
The King has returned frem his journey to the Rhine,
much improved in health that he has been able TO take
part grand tdttae which of last week in the
royal forest OF eznger and at which all the RUSSIAN
and quite a number Of petty German princes pre-.
sent x.I'resident Fillmore, who has been travel
ling the Continent FOR the last two three
months, introduced TO him the other day, and
is said 10 have met with a most cordial recep-
ton. I believe Mr.. Fillmore Is the first President Of
the United States who has been In tis city. 1t de-
Ire mentioned, trait credsbe to the Kings
good that he ordered number Of the London Times
containing most violent and scurrsous attack him.
sef his family and government and which had been
conscaed by the police to re given up Immediately after
having read it, thus itsng the conduct of his ances-
tor, Frederick the Great who gave orders for lampoon
against him. that had been stuck up opposite the palace,
TO be pasted lower down that the people might peruse
IL their This very sensible behavior of his
Majesty n striking to