New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-10-13
SPAIN.
r,1r LATE CONFUSION.
LONDON, Sept. -, 1855.

p.,haps when the tempest IA past IT'S anthors
.A.,,.e,yes Will be surprised at ito effects boh IN
Tie sphere Of political consequences and IN the
.,eat social movement which sgitates the Spanish
resp)e A, well az the rest Of Europe.
W,hout pretending TO appreciate here all the mag
,;tude. all the elements or all the Formidable ha'uro
~ this great change, which Constitutes indubi'Aoiy
onr Of the most decisive epochs OF Spanish history
Twill call your attention 10 one OF ITS most potent
.,a Immediate effects, and certainly not the least
significant.
refer to the disappearance the humiliation aud
Sissolution of the great "Progresista" party.
The crisis of July, 1866, has contaminated this,
INIT the fact comes from further back-comes from
fbe time WHEN the Transformation and modification
of Nautical parties in Spain began some ten years
since: il has followed various phases, was been
urepared amid the debates and disputes OF the
Constituent Cortes, and was contaminated, a.
was foreseen the day on which the old frogreslsta
party went down in tempest when j, could no.
prevent demonstrating all us MUMMY ana Ill Us
impotence cc
ih,s i The great party which for fifty years past,
with varying fortune, has been sustaining the flag
OF progress in SPAN. m 49,
II is the party which, till within short time
mast has gained everytl ing-whch really has effect
ed all the pr, gress Spain has made since the days
sfNapoleOn aud G0dOy.
II Is the party which has been petted by Eng
hand and which in Spain believed that the British
constitution was the ne plus ultra of political good
which has been labOrDg to plant an Imitation Oi
that constitution in Spain aud which has plaIfd
It repeatedly, aud has seen 1T overhr0wn, and set IL
mn again undismsyCd full Of faith III It's sOve.
reign virtue TO heal the evils and bolster up the de-
erepitude of the Spanish State. This party has
done great good in its time. 1t has broken the
eceper of legitimacy and absOutlsm, abolished the
inausition, turned the mODasteres AMI converts
inside out, released the best part OF the Spanish
aoil from the grasp Of the Church. curailed entail
ments, made the clergy dependent upon the state
instead of the State dependent upon The clergy, oe
gun to govern by other means than by prestcrait
purified The tribunals of Justice abolished the PRIV
ilepes of classes made all Spanlards equal before
the law 1t has worked the press, sent the school,
master into the villages, unrhai ed the Spanish peo
ME. All this it has done and It's mission Is iul-
filled Ii has disappeared from the scene OF affairs.
do not intend here 10 explain this Tact. i 90
not estimate its consequences. do not attribute
II to this or that person, or set OF persons The
kct-the naked historical facts what wish TO
have you understand. The old Spanish 'prcgles-
iss or liberal constitutional, party has ceased to
exist.
Called to power by the revolution of July, ISL
having the whole authority of he State IN It's hands
the throne a suppliaht at Its feet-the people, ODE
hands the sweet bread of Liberty; abdcatlng, III
favor Of this party, the power which themselves
had conquered Mt the point of the baJ onet but
knew not how to use; asking az a favor that the
famous old men Of the Progrcsista party would be
GOOD enough to Just take all authority and give
them good and liberal Government no matter
what might be its ferms-this party, thus placed,
has been as it were struck with palsy. During
two years it has held all power, and done nothing,
absolutely nothing until the nation, dishe artened
and discouraged, tired OF waiting Tor hgs from
thistes, has allowed military dictator tO take up
the power which fell from the feeble grasp OF the
venerable and dying Pr"gresstaS.
O'DOnLell, with 5000 men, has been able to dis
arm u PrOgresiSta force OF 25UOO III Madrid, ana
Hi army of 40 900 men has disarmed in tHo weeks
10000 men thr ,ughout Spain, as well armed and
equipped as Themselves; and this IN Crisis lore
seen tor mOnths previous.
There has been no Pr0gresi.a leader who would
fight for his principles or his party. few OF the
new Democratic party who had gained ADMISSION
into the rank and file Of the PrOgresista force OF
national militia are The only ones who have shown
fight anywhere and they have fought well, both at
Madrid and Barcelona. The PrO9ressta parry,
with the whole power Of the State in their hands,
legal commanders of the army, and, beside the
army having in Madrid force Of y, 600 men and
IN all Spain $50 600 men of their own creation, has
gone down without a struggle--resigued their
places of authority, surrendered their arms, died,
and been buried
Il is this result-this fact which already belongs
to histOry-which wish to state clearly and posi-
lively in order to examine the political situation
Of Spain and the play and mechanism OF Its polit-
zeal parties.
This result has long been forcseen by thinking
men in Spain. II will have surprised you, only
because you did not know what was passing there
Ten months since an able icle in one of the
Democratic journals tod the history beforehand
Said the Discussion:
In the bosom of the Cortcs is being verified the
dtfntve transformation of the various elements which
formed the old Progressta party. Apart from small
differences and tSnS, II must resolve ITSELF so IN speak
s most distinguished leaders going of in oopos'te
directions. Some little by little, without knowing II
and without wishing it at 6rst-perha~ knowingly and
willingly noware going TO lose themselves IN ,he ranks
Of the Moderado party, into which indsputaby they
carry their element of modification and transformation.
Others rmpelled by circumstances and the movement
of ideas-continulDg, in a word, the true work OF
progIess-come little by little, drawing every day
which advance, no matter by what course, must haay
to lose themselves, like rivers in the ocean.
Thus is explained what have called in former
srticle the democratzing Of the Prosresista party.
In this double and contrary movement we have
sAd, the fractions Of the Progresista party carry with
them elements of modification and Transformation.
The Conservative party will tlnl
itself transfomedthe liberal aud retOrma,ry spirit of
the epoch penetrating into il deeply while at the
saE-e time the Democratic party will hnd itself
vtated into practical pary-capable Of action and of
overnmeAt.
Well, that is precisely what has happened this
Summer The movement Of ODOnncll has simply
ccnsummated this work, and brought the thing TO
a conclusion, laying the dry bones Of the Progress
ista party--out of which the spirit had already
departed-in their grave, and firing farewell