New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-12-31

Inc prOcnVltes vi SPdntn dudIs ~ tnis ihoiuchs
strike us as inevitably toward a revolution The
Queen, who was once loved, is now hated: that
young Princess, in whose name the Spanish people
batted for liberal government and equal rights
during twenty years against the priests, the In
ouistion aud the AbsOlutists under Don Carlos, is
now cursed in every corner in every hamlet of her
kingdom. Such is the result because she has played
false to her people and desred to reign tyranncaly,
broken compacts with the nation, trampled on the
Constitution, dismissed the Parliament disowned
the militia and spilled their blood, sent the best
citizens to prison forced them into exile, levied
illegal ta1es, shackled the press, despised her legal
coupseors, thrown herself into the arms of q
esuitcal and corrupt priesthood, aud attempted to
ret up Der owa will simply over every law, every
interest and every stipulation, no matter how
solemn, or how vital to the organization Of the
Spanish State.
In July, 1854, the people, irritated by long
series Of these wrongs, rose in insurrecton, con-
quered the forces of her Government, aud pushed
their barricades up to within pistol-shot Of her
royal chamber. The Queen TINS was in their
hands, but they respected her. She went on her
knees to the people, and they generously pardoned
her. She was young. She said that she had list
ened to bad counselors, and that they had not told
her the truth; but now that her eyes were opened,
she wished to place herself unreservedly in the
power of her beloved people. Whatever they
wished should be DONE and she never again would
be led into similar error. Instead of depOSng her,
they gave her guard Of honor from the barrica1es,
and peace was restored. But folly and falsehOod
on her part succeeded, and there seems accordingly
no escspe for her from ruin. Any slackening
Of tyraDnical authority would be used against her
any concession would but precipitate revolution.
On the other hsnd, every additional act OF repres-
sion adds force to the slumberiDg resistance. This
latter course s therefore, the only one now left to
the Queen and Court. Both roads lead TO the
same result but the course Of repression presents
the advantage Of momentary delay, and perhaps =
deuded Court inspires her Majesty with delusive
hopes.
On the nights Of the 10Th and 2lst of November,
q number of imprisonments were effected in Ma.
drid. On the 22d, the police were in search of Gen.
Prim. The house Of General O'DouneIl was sur.
rounded day and night by police agents. Neither
the General himself nor the ladies of his family
could go out to walk or ride, without one or two
constantly logging them. Onthe nights Of the 10Th,
Goth and 2lst November the troops Of the garrison
stood to their arms all night. The Government mis-
trusts the troops also, and constantly fears the mu-
tiny Of one corps or another; and no doubt it is
right. The sentiment of the bulk of the army now
against the Queen and with the people.
Still, we do not believe that Madrid or Spain is
at this moment upon the eve Of any great move
ment. The little instruction at Malaga, and the
unquiet state of the capital, are merely sympto ns
The Government Of the Queen promises to con-
tinue for some months. One great question, how
ever may come in so forcibly to precipitate the
sction Of the principles in play, and force more
immediate results. This is the old revolution motor
scarcity of bread. The lack Of this is now more
severely felt every day in Spain. On the 22d Of
November, the price of the ordinary two-pound loaf
agan went up at Madrid cent and bali. This
loaf, ordinarily quoted there at six cents and in the
Provinces at four or five cents, is now sold at Ma
Did for fourteen cents and in the Provinces at from
eleven to fifteen cents. This, to people whose
chief aiment is bread, is pretty nearly equiSalen.
to putting the whole Peninsula Oh half rations.
The scarcity of food is by terrible fatality CON-
bined also with scarcity of labor and means. The
unsettled state Of politics has parayzed industrial
enterprise TIE long drouth has made labor in the
fields in great degree useless and impossible. The
powman cannot prepare the earth; the grain, if
sowp, does not terminate. Even the aborer who
can find work does not gain at the highest more
than twenty-five cents day, and IN some districts
'D'y ten cents. With such facts as regards wages
.i'n they caa be- Lad through employment so cat
dowD, LET us look at the prices Of provisions as