The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-04-20

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would join in the prayer, let 1t rest In peace!
but many unite In the supplication, let it rest
IN perditisn!
New Revelation in spain-Tsndenoy
OF Spanish Affairs.
A Geographic despatch to Paris paper Of
the Sd of April announces that General
Ortega, at the head of 5000 men, has pro-
nounced at Tortota, near Valencia, for the
Pretender to the throne Of Spain; and the Eng
lish journals look upon the affair as the re-
opening of the old Carlist civil war and the pre-
lude to stirring events in the Spanish Peninsula.
Though we do not doubt the fact of the revo-
lutionary movement that is announced by the
telegraph, 1t is possible that there Is some
error as to its being Carlist pronunciamiento.
The Carlist element is pretty well worn out in
Spain, and in the Province of Valencia, where
General Ortega is said to have pronounced, it
has never existed to any great extent, the prin-
cipal strength of that feeling having been in
the Basque Provinces and Catalonia 1t may
be, therefore, that the movement Of 0rtega is
the result of the intrigues and conspiracies that
overthrow the O'Donnell Ministry. Revolution
is the normal mode in Spain, as well as in Spa.
nish America, of effecting change in the per-
sonnet of the administration, just as are vote
of want of confidence in the British Parlia.
ment, and Presidential election in this coun-
try, the normal mode of bringing about the
same result in them. 1t is well known that
strenuous efforts have been making to GUST the
O'Donnell Ministry ever since the chief of 1t
got up the war in Morocco and took the COM
mand of the troops there, in order to attain for
himself the rank of Duke and Grandee of Spain;
and no sooner were these obtained by the cap
ture of Tetuan than he forced peace arrange
ment on terms unsatisfactory TO the court and
the people.
But whatever may be the result of the Or
tega movement, or of the intrigues against
O'Donnell, the effect of the Morocco war upon
the Spanish nation is enc that will yet produce
some effect on the foreign policy of that coun-
try which will not make her one of the most
amiabe of neighbors. The martial spirit and
pride of Spain, which had been looked upon
as pretty nearly burnt out with her long
and fruitless struggle with her colo
MES, and her own civil wars, have
received new impulse, and from her victories
over the half armed Moors she will now aspire
to the position of great military nation. This
aspiration is peculiarly consonant with the
proud character of the people and with the
personal wishes of the Court. The Queen, who,
in her personal conduct, proves that extremes
touch, is now disposed to be saint, and is en-
tirely under the influence of her confessor, the
Archbishop Claret, an unprincipled and in
| triguing priest. At his solicitation the Queen
is exceedingly DESTROYS of sending an army to
help the Pope in his present straits, and then
her family affections lead her to wish to sup.
port her cousin, the King of Naples, in his ia
matte and tyrannical course. These leaningt
bring the Court Of Spain into conflict with the
Napoleonic policy, and Louis Napoleon ha'
thus far succeeded in keeping her out of the
Italian complications by ministering to O'Don
nell's African aspirations.
These are now satisfied, and some new bau
BILE must be found to keep the Spanish Court
out of mischief in Europe. Perhaps Mexico may
suffice for this purpose; and it would
be difficult to imagine any other rea.
| son for the support of the course of Gabriac
in Mexico and Of Almonte in Spain by Louis
Napoleon than wish to fatter Spanish pride
and keep her from meddling in European
affairs by giving her occupation elsewhere.
This reawakening of the military aspirations Of
Spain is not likely to be productive of any par
ticular good feeling towards ourselves, and 1t
will certainly 60 long way to prevent set
Element of the Cuban problem and perhaps Of
our claims upon her. 1t may be that in want
of some better quarrel to pick, she may be
urged into picking one with us on the tender
point of naval supremacy in the waters of the
Gulf Of Mexico. Spain has largely increased
her navy of late years, and the only region
where this costly bauble can be exhibited in
active service is around Cuba and near our
shores. Spanish pride and Spanish vanity are
equal to any enterprise, however Quixotic may
be its nature, and recent events have brought
these national qualities strongly into play.
The QUESTION OF OFFICIAL CLOTHES
print to-day some very curious and entertain
ing correspondence between Mr.. Marcy, when
at the head of the State Department, and the
diplomatic appointees of poor Pierce at seve-
raj of the European courts. The correspon-
dence was called forth by resolution of the
Senate, and is now given in full for the first
time. The question was first started in 1858,
in the famous Dudley Mann circular. Mr..
Mann land the Cabinet generally, we pre-
sume,) became suddenly affected with an idea
that the question of clothes had an important
bearing upon our national reputation abroad,
and that the American Eagle would soar a
great deal higher, and the Star Spangled Ban
ner would wave much more proudly if our
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