The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-09-24

The Revolution In Spnin-A European Crisis.
| Our latest news from the different European
| centres in regard to the revolutionary move
ment in Spain is of quite an alarming charac-
ter. Gonzales Bravo, the late Prime Minister,
with all or most Of his colleagues who were
known to have fed from the scene Of danger,
had arrived in France. Queen Isabella, in
consequence of the excited condition of the
country unable to pursue her way to Madrid,
has been compelled to return to st. Sebastian,
and has offered to abdicate on condition that
the Prince of Asturias was made King and
she was retained as Regent. This offer was
refused by the revolutionists, who demanded
nothing less than the expulsion of the
Bourbons and a provisional government.
Township after township and province after
province were giving in their adhesion to the
movement and erecting the revolutionary
standard. In Madrid the excitement was in
tense. Everywhere republican principles
seemed to be in the ascendant, and by uni
versal reclamation the veteran liberal Espar-
tero was proclaimed President.
uineness Of this movement. At last Spain
seems to have been thoroughly awakened.
Drowsy, inactive for many years past, although
sullen and disaAectcd, she has at length grt
her armor around her and put forth her
strength 1t does not seem to have been q
sudden and unlocked for movement On the
contrary, it appears to have been arranged
nd xvitl, mi,
ness of deIa 1t is difficult now to resist the
conviction that the meeting of Queen Isabella
with Napoleon at st. Sebastian furnished the
signal for the outbreak; nor is it difficult to
understand why such a meeting should by
Spanish malcontents have been invested with
such Importance. 1t has long been known that
the liberal and disaifected party in Spain were
waiting their opportunity. General Prim is
known to be in the confidence of that party.
| General Prm has of late made one or two
unsuccessful attempts TO hasten the general
rising. The non-success of the General did
not prove that he was fooled-did not prove
that his countrymen did not sympathze with
not sufficiently favorable-that the pear was
not yet ripe This time, so far at least as we
are warranted to judge from the evidence
before us, General Prim has not miscalculated.
Directly the first symptoms of revolution made
| themselves manifest Prim hurried to Cadiz,
where he was joined by the exiled generals,
the victims of Bravo's recent tyranny The
Spanish ron-clad Saragossa, then in the bay
of Cadiz, welcomed the exiled generals and
without delay opened fire on the royal bar
racks, compelling an immediate surren-
der 1t appears that Prims arrangements
were complete, for the generals sailed
forthwith to the stations already assigned them.
What with fourteen thousand soldiers already
al their service and the whole army i'm SYM
pathy; what with the help of eleven ships of
war and the number constantly incrcas-
ing; what with the revolutionary fame flying
with almost lightning speed over the entire
kingdom, township after township and pro-
vince after province unfurling the rebel ban
ner; what with the Queen locked up in st. Sc
bastian and Bravo and his colleagues out of
the kingdom, the insurgent leaders seem at last
TO have found their opportunity. If Spain does
not now prove herself equal 10 the occasion the
world will have good cause TO cease to believe
in the possibility Of her resurrection.
The great question which naturally arises in
the mind of every one who is at all familiar
with the course of events in Spain, and
indeed, with the politics Of Europe dur
ing the last fifty years, is, what will
France do in the circumstances? The
question is all the more natural and, indeed,
all the more pertinent because of the recent
interview of the two sovereigns. II is incon-
ceivable that the state Of Spain and the help
lessncss Of the Spanish government did not