The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-04-06
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MADsID, March Z, 1858.
temporary quiet in the Country Question of a
Right IN Corfe,- Treaty Of Boundary Limits
nth Frdnce- Unsatisfactory dsped oftte Ques.
ticn-Spanish bishops oad Cardinals HITS.
Madrid is calm, and there il a lull in the great DO
litical strifes Of Spain. II is neither winter now
nor summer but the time bet ween the word and
the blow. The men Of name are silent and not
heard in the halls of the Cortes. The extremes
liberalism ard absolutism-are quarrellng each
within itself. and the common thought IL that about
July there will probably be q violent political con-
vulson here, the last. or one of the many such
shocks that seemingly to come, to loosen and at
last Law PROSTATE the throne. For week or two
the opinion has been gathering Of a return of the
government 20 an administration under ODonnell:
but the people and the Queen often think differently
and order differently; and there IL as yet no out
ward mark that this course will be acceptable TO her
Majesty, unless an extreme necessity should make
it 50 in the dreaded nclihing 10 repubcanism which
Is periodical In Spain when the cold is gone and the
weather not wet or otherwise uncomfortable.
The Senate has just had an important lucubration
presented before il from one Of it, commttees-the
RICH, Of member twho holds his place for life) 10
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the negatives. but the great body presenting q va
ricty of opinion on every aspect Of the subject has
by vote, returned IL to find resolution more con
sonant 10 its WISH The consequences will he
nothing; the results, thus far, some filings at the
Duke Of Victoria who, after the fall Of his Presi
dency by the act Of the Queen and O'Donnel in
1856, directly withdrew to Dogrona, and by this
resignation ventued hope 70 retire from public
life.
Spain is immensely scandalizcd by the
consequences OF treaty she has cele-
trated with France. From time immemoria
II seems the people the other side Of the vidasoa
have had the exclusive right Of navigating its
waters the use of the entrance and The anchorage
without; but now the guard boats withdrew under
the 22d article, they have no rights superior TO
the vessels Of France, which with no interruption
carry on their contraband trade from bank 20 hank
in the moments that they are not watched. This il
not the least, IL IL considered of important conces
sions. IL IL allowed 10 the people Of the other side
10 cast their nets and 20 fish freely in the waters Of
the rivera privilege not 50 important in itself IL u
thought, as in the outward appearance 10 the world
that the limits Of the Peninsula already too small
have become abridged by the slender capacities of
Governors and the inattention Of the Cortes
The journals Of the country express the hope that
his Holiness will very name from affection for
the Queen and the Spanish people those bishops of
the Peninsula 90 he cardinals in seats-more than
dozen Of which have lately been left vacant by the
demise Of those princes Of the church-few being
now alive--who were raised 90 those stations by
Gregory XVI, and n favorable moment presenting
now in which Spain through the Pope, may regain