The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-09-23
Tho Spanish Revolution.


The Spanish Revolution.
The news from Spain, by way of Paris and
London, reporting the progress of events on
the peninsula to noon yesterday is apparently
contradictory, but yet sufficiently explicit in
utterance to show that the insurrectiOn against
the government was extending, assuming
shape and distinct line of action and becom-
ing hourly more revolutionary and republican
in character and sentiment. ''The sovereignty
of the people" and appeal to the nation
have been adopted both as the war cry of the
Queen Isabella remained shut up in San Sebas-
tian, until midnight on the 2lst instant the
condition of the country rendering it unsafe for
her Majesty to travel towards Madrid, and our
latest special kilograms do not account for her
progress on the journey after her departure
from the fortress. General Espartero was
named President of provisional government
which had been declared in Seville. The rev.
olutionists counted in their force fourteen
thousand soldiers and five thousand sailors
serving in eleven vessels of war. Gene
rails Prim and Roda, indeed, are said to
be on the march to the capital, from which
Gonzales Bravo, who resigned the premiership,
had fed with the intention of leaving the
country. A rumor was current in Paris to the
effect that the revolted sailors serving in the
squadron off Cadiz had opened fire on the
city. The Queens Minister at the French
Court acknowledged the existence of very
alarming state of excitement, but claimed that
Madrid remained tranquil. Martial law was
proclaimed in the name of the Queen all over
the kingdom; but as the telegraph lines
were thrown into disorder we have no
account of the effect if any, produced by the
resort to this governmental extremity. The
advices are, indeed. from this latter cause,
uncertain, but, taken in a group,
must be regarded generally as reliable.
The Spanish news, which has thus become
sufficiently lively, forces upon our attention the
Of affairs In the Peninsula in 1928.
In 1922 an alarming revolution broke out
in the kingdom of the Two Sici-
les and in Spain. The dynasties again seemed
n danger. The Holy Alliance had not yet
given up its mission. A congress of all the
great Powers assembled at VERONA con-
rress which fully represented the sentiments
of the Holy Alliance, with Alexander or Rus
STA at its head; and the principal result of
that congress was the authorizing Of French
invasion of Spain with view to put down the
Early in 1928 the Due dan
gouleme, at the head of some hundred thou
sand men, crossed the Spanish frontier. The
royalists, or the party of the faithful, as they
were called, joined the French forces, and the
cause of liberty, already successful in Spain,
was cruelty crushed out The blow struck in
Spain killed the cause of liberty in Europe at
that time.
Again we have Italy disalfected. Again we
have Spain in revolution. We have no Holy
Alliance. We can have no congress of
Verona. But Napoleon the Third, the incar-
nation of the revolutionary principles Of 1889,
is the friend Of the reigning dynasty in Spain.
II will be curious thing to find the child and
heir of the revolution figuring as the defender
of the Bourbons and as the destroyer of the
hopes of Spanish liberals in 1868. History
does not always repeat itself. The Spanish
question is much more vital to the continuance
of peace in Europe than some few weeks ago
some of the readers Of the HERALD imagined.
Insurrcction In Italy.
At an early hour this morning we received
by cable telegram from London the very
important intelligence that the people of Italy
have been excited to insurrection against the
monarchy and that the inhabitants of Gala
bria and Sicily have pronounced in favor Of an
Italian republic. Advices from Paris confirm the
news, adding that there is rising" in the
southern portion Of the kingdom against Vic
tor Emanuel and the monarchy. Some Of the
Paris journals assert, however, that the repub-
lican idea is merely Swallowed forth to cover
reactionary movement in favor of the ex-
Ring Of Sicily.
Be this as !. may, It is quite evident tina!
the fire which has been lighted on the lberian
Peninsula is inflaming, as in former years,
the Italians, and bids fair to warm
up the Latin masses of the Cont
nent-a contingency which will prove
exceedingly critical to the thrones and may
bring danger to Napoleon. The crisis will in
any event require the exercise of all his tact
and energy France can scarcely remain
STILL How will she decidep Reaction, pro-
gress or war?
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