New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-12-08

ey es glow like FIRE.
lie leads you through no labored process; he
gees to the heart Of his subjeet and probes IL se
sword His speech is terse with al the terseness
of Arabia. He talks conclusions. HI. periods
strike home, and his voice rings out like the voice
of prophet.
II would be difficult. for any man TO resist alto
gether the influence Of eloqueoce like his, po' an
assembly Of men so impressioRable as spaaisrus
must be- electrified. On the occasion SPEAK OF,
they elowed under bis hand like metal made soit oy
FIRE. And when he denounced the great Cortes ~
the hight Of their power and sovereignty ~ pody
OF dead men, their labor. iBsuity, aud their cohsa,
tutiun castle in the wind, which gus, Would
sweep away before they could nhsbt L, predicting
eight months bef rehaud all that has come 70 pass
tbs SUI mer-that terrible Remuneration "t then
own inepi:ude provoked no angry interruptions
il struck them like doom and they received IL rs
sheep bow 10 a tempest.
But perhaps the brightest flower OF lassarae
reputation among literary men is his laurel as
poet. Some smaller and earlier pieces only nave
been putlrhed, aid have sufiiced to legitimate Ms
claim To- that title. But bis great work Is yet un-
finished and unknowD, except to those VINO hsVe
been admitted 10 his manuscript or to listen 70
his recitation. That hiss been enough, however, 70
make il famous.
The Attila Of Tassara is one of those poems
" bich will mark an epoch. Keen as Dante, deeper
than Byron, and less mystical than Faust, 1t takes
the cover of and lays bare before the reader the
great papitatDg heart of Europe as it is and as IL
his been. II is full OF beauty and full OF phllos0-
ply Atrila, Charlemagne and Napoleon, who have
all possessed Europe (Europa) or ravished her.
talk to you and to each other. They sup together;
they are jo'ia gTOtesque, sublime.
Attla is beast, and gets drunk on beer; ou' 10
the rawlings Of his nebrety lies the hey TO the poll
ties and philosophy of barbarian Europe. SO Char
lemagne so Napoleon bring out great epochs IN tue
lie Of humanity. Lucifer is the moderator oil TINS
strange session. and holds the genius OF the imperial
shades in check by bis superior knowledge.
In one of his own bursts, if / remember rightly,
al the II enilOn Of liberty, our own country Is al
luded to in terms which, if translated, would run
something like this:
Liberty &c.
On. tbiiher stretch thy fight secure,
Where in the arms OF young Americs,
The happy siren Of Atlantic
Sings the hymn of the Gun which rises
Sun Of the future peoples
Sun OF the Peep brothers,
Nor slaves, nor tyrsnts but world,
Twill be the name OF one great people.
But can give you neither correct idea OF tie
poem nor much less, of its merit. | speak OF one
scene only; he whole of it is long, and perhaps no.
body but the author has seen heard II as far as 1t
is written.
Tassarais somewhat out of health and indolent.
For long intervals be does not touch IT, nor ever
except he is spurred to the work by the impulse OF
his thought. But il is undoubtedly great poem,
and his friends are right In calling 1t IN Its essence
tnInently democratic.
Diplomatic missions have repeatedly been offered
to Tassara by different cabinets, but he has never
accepted any until now. He might also have been
Minister Of the Crown; but nothing which would
in ally way sbate his ewn independence has been
pleasing to him. After the Revolution of July,
lc54, the Government of EsparterO named him
Minister to al Italian Court, but he preferred to
remain at home. After the fall OF EsparterO IN Ju-
", 1856, the Government OF O'Donnell offered him
q mission at Berlin at ConstantinOpe, or in Italy,
but unlike most Of his countrymen, he preferred
that Of the United States Since the fall OF
ODOnnell, the Government OfNarvaez confirms him
in this appointment, and his journey will soon be
undertaken.
You will find him, for our own standard small in
stature and passing glance at him as he walks the
streets will, perhaps afford you little indication of
what is in him; but if you him animated in
conversation, his gray eyes fix on you for
mon ent, you will feel him at once
There is no doubt that his acceptance OF tho post
at ashipg ION is principal! attributable 70 his de-
sire of knowing our country and its people. He
goes rather to study and to understand us for his
own saiisfacti en, than for any other motive which
would have tempted him TO make the voyage and
his preference of that place is fatterng to our
selves as it is honorable to him.
On the 1lth inst. royal decree was published
abOlishng the Estate of siege in which the whole
peninsula was declared 10 be on the 14th of July
last and the administration Of civil government
takes its ordinary course since that date.
The Cabinet Of Naryaez teems to be pretty Sc
cure for the moment, nOtwiths landing tho rumors
and reports to the contrary. 1t certainly does not
seem to unite elements Of strength to give it any
great DURATION but the fall Of Naryaez is not so i'm
mediate as il has been reported during the past
few days.
The man indicated to succeed him, whenever his
hour does come, is Don Juan Bravo Murillo, who
succeeded him also in 1851 and 1852, enceavored
10 make coup d'etat in favor Of sbsolutism, aud
did not succeed.
Senior Mogallon, actual Secretary of the Spanish
Legation 1T Washington, and acting Charge Al
faires has received the appointment of Munster to
Mexico
Gonzalez Bravo succeeds PacbecO in the Mission
to London, and there other changes in the
Spanish diplomatic Offices not particularly interest
ing TO US.
Undoubtedly the great question which underEes
every other in the current political affairs Of Spain
is the question OF bread. Already in some prov.
iuces the people have begun to die Of want. In
Estramadura, which generally furnishes large sur
plus Of wheat for expectation or for consumption
in other provinces the price Of that grain has gone
I'D from 81 a quarter, or 81 80 the fanesa its
usual price, 10 81 80 for the same measure. The
amount in store s exceedingly limited, and the
worst of all is that no rain has fallen IN that rich
province since last Spring, and the earth is in such
state as 10 make the sowing Of the crop for next
Summer useless. The people are driven TO the
eating of roots and herbs instead Of bread aud the
immediate result is the prevalence of frghtul cocs
and feyors which are carrying of innumerabe VIE
TINS.
The same is true with slight variations throughout
Spain In the Basque provinces, which, however,