New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-02-11
FOREIGN CORRESPONDENCE.
SPAIN.

SPAIN.
TIE POLITICAL PRISONERs-QUEEN IsABELLAs IN
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. AND PERFORMANCE OF
THE CLERICAL PARTY-THE WAR WITH CHILL
AND PERU.
From Our Special Correspondent ,,.,,, ~ :, ,oe,
The inhabitants Of the great cities in this country
TIE in appearance at least gradually recovering from
The panic which has spread through all ranks OF So
Eiety during the recent arbitrary mprisonings and
killings of the most active political agtaors in the
Ereat centers of population The effects of these I'M
Seremonious proceedings tell heavily on the lndustri
bus classes, whose customers are rendered fewer
md farther between because the Broed absence OF
81 many members of the wealtbier branches Oh So
N6ty has caused the voluntary absence Of many more
$ho arc conscious Of being mixed up in political In
Efaos. and who naturally prefer choosing their own
Baces Of residence in foreign countries to having
hofhicile elected for them in incommodOus country
Towns, by political enemies, who are too often
BefS6nal foes. The authorities Of the towns
to which these eXiles have been sent have
received orders to treat them with every social dis
linction, but at the same time to inform them that
they will not be allowed TO talk politics, under
penalty of being Immediately submitted to solitary
confinement in military prisons, pending Her Catho-
lie Maestys pleasure. Some of them, on these con-
Billions having been made to them have lost no time
have done without any very great difficulty, for the
Provincial authorities, half ashamed of their new
fu6ctions of taller and spy have not used any very
AVAILABLE means to prevent their departure. The eX
Ministers Sallaverria UllOa, Canoyas de Castillo,
no are lodged in Provincial Governors palaces, and
Zine with the Provincial powers that be- and star
IT, at country tbeaters; and Marshal SeTano who is
risoner at larsSfn the citadel of MahOn, receives
Syery military honor accorded to men OF his military
rank In the absence of members of the Royal family
The Royal March is played at the military posts he
passes by in his prOmenadcs and by the
orchestra when in the evening he deigns
% visit The Mahop opera. But even this
nce oil powerful palace fayorite has to submit to
the same condition as his felOw-exiles he must not
Touch upon Spanish politics, unless he would fain
change his luxurious quarters in Mahon citadel for
The damp vaults of the citadel dungeons. He can
I5e from his windows the esplanade where twenty
four years ago these very Gonzalez Bravo and Mar
.faez who now lord it over the peninsula had military
Recution done on 20 national guards, champions OF
That constitutional liberty which he Gen SelI9nol
Betrayed for the Establishments OF then youthful
Queen, and short bnt runous tenure OF ill.obtaned
bower One little detail concerning ms interview
with the Queen beOreals arrest proves mat iWhat-
bver future historians may allege 20 the contrary
her Catholic Majesty of Spain IS the tre and lawful
Tho,ob ~, S4rrSnS had been refused private
Sudonce with the Queen, he availed himselt
bf al opportunity Of speaking 10 her when ne was
On duty as Genteman-at-AIms, and warned her
HAT abe was rflng with the liberties of the country.
The conversation then taking the familiar tone OF
hava of vore when SeTTanO basked in royal sunshine,
he asked the Qneen whether he was in danger of
being arrested like his political friends, reminding
hor that gTandee of Spain he could only be arrested
tOr political causes uncOnnected with his military
Huties by an order signed by her Maiestys royal
hand. That royal hand was graciousy extended 10
bin TO kiss and he was kindly smiled upon as ne
look bis leave and told 10 80 home without fear On
his arrival at his residence he there found the Cap
tanGeneral OF Madrid duly furnished withthe order
for his arrest and subscribed with 70 la kelna t'l
bhe Queen"l in her Majesty's own pOt-hOOks and
hangers. The readers of Spanish contemporary his
kofy are aware that King Ferdinand the Seventh also
bayed " fair and false like the Maccuum More
whom Walter Scott has inmOrtaLed. In short, he
had ty0 favOrite pursuits, namely, emDr0ldeing pet
hcOats for the Virgin, and playing feline tricks upon
those who gave him real OF imaginary olenSe; lheIe
are still living h0ary gentlemen OF that Kings bed
chamber, and octogenaTy usheis OF MS palace VINO
talk Of the uneaSness they used 10 feel whenever the
King gave them cigars Of bis own royal smoking or
eyincss any other little marks OF favor preludes
TO disgrace and ruin. Queen Isabel too, pIOYesn TINS
her imitation of her father the purity Of her Bourbon
desco t. and her capabilities OF keeping up the family
traditions.
cities vet there does not seem to be any immediate
probability of the overthrow CT the Government,
who have considerable advantage, the possession
of large sum of ready money, with which they may
keep the army paid for some time 10 come, unless,
Ike their greedy and unthtltty predecessors IN pow
g. they fitter away their resources before the public
creditreeOvers from It's late panic. Yet rs Spain is
essentially the country OF he atOicsccR II may hap
pen that before this letter Of mine has been carried
over the Atlantic and has borne YOU the assurance
that the Government gazette publishes day after day
The loyal addresses OF the regiments of tho royal
army last as they arrive, IN reply TO the Circular
Of the Minister Of Wan, addresses in which the mill
tary writer's vie in their graniloquent declarations OF
fidelity to the throne and OF their cageness 10 shed
every drop Of their blood IN defense Of the queen the
electric Cable may flash across the the tidings
that tie last Of the BourbOns has ceased to reign,
and that Spain, Wtrammelcd By miseoyeument. has
nc last, under happier auspices ard purer rulers,
taken her prOper place i'm the ranks OF European
civilization. superficial Wow of things wouldmakc
one infer that the downfall OF the bourbon dynasty
Is probable and approaching event the political
takers in all the great cities pr0phcsy t and their
wish is father to THEN thought" but my own con-
yiotion is that Queen Isaclias throne IS rs firm as,
III not hrner than, that of most European mOnafchs
The Spanish peasantry directed by all the most
big0ted and fanatcal among the peninsular clergy
luStained q seven years civil war against Queen
sOwardly uncle Don Carlos, and were only sUbducd
through the detection OF some of their generals
They showed themsevc willing, whenever an OppoT-
tunity Offered 10 do battle again IN favor OF the
oldest Of his three heayy-Hitted sons But both ne
and his second brother died most OppOrunely for
Queen Isabella.and the third brother, Don Juan fall
Ing into the hands Of needy ill-infoned adventucrs
EenOuuced his absOlutiet aud leiIGgElde ultra
Catholic principles, in which the chief
strength Of his party lay and published 50 gro
tesquely impractcabe plan Of exaggerated liberal
politics that he lost al hs clerical parans and their
rural supporters without allmng tobs cause single
Pdherent among the cOnstituiOnalists who dcspised
him o. q turn coat and lnistfuStcd him as Bourbon
The corgy, aware Of Queen lsabcllas abSOlutsl ten
aenclcs and blind adhesion 10 the advice Of the P2pa
W9galy t9llled TO her aud 50 neatis Their influence