Vermont daily transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1868-1870, 1868-08-05
EurOpe0n Correspondence.
BERLIN, July Is, 1868.

Ine frustrated conspiracy III SPAIN
forms the principal topic of conversation
in this city, so much more because our
Government is supposed to have been
implicated in the matter. n French |
paper has first spread the rumor of the
consprators having acted in concert
with, or at least with the knowledge of
Count Bismarck Il fact which is solemn
" contradicted by the Government or
gans. How much truth may be in the
assertions of the said French paper it is
hard to decide at all events the French
Emperor has placed himself in more
odious light for having degraded him
self to the office of spy for the Cabinet
of Madrid, than Bismarck would have
DONE even if all that the French press
reproaches him with should turn out to
be true. 1t is argued by some papers
that the Russian Prime Minister, pre-
pairing for the eventuality of a war with
France is seeking for allies among the
nations of Europe, and has therefore lent
his assistance toa scheme, which would
make him master of situation in the
borders of the Rhine, the friends of Ca
tholicism flatter themselves with the
expectation of the pious Queen Isabella
of Spain sending an army of occupation
to Rome to take the place of the French
troops, which might then have 10 be
used elsewhere. Spain, under the lead
ership ofthe Duke of Montpensier would,
Of course, do nothing to uphold the I'M
perial throne in Paris, and liberal Gov
eminent, congenial to that of Prussia,
would have been successful ; but others
again say that Bismarck is not the man
) to look for alliances abroad and that he
bases his ope 'ations entirely on German
unity. There are, lastly, such persons
: as lay no Importance to the Spanish
movement whatever; they say that the
, worst Napoleon could do was to be the
| means of his enemy, the Duke of Mont
; pensier, acquiring suddenly so much
J celebrity. AS for the Inhabitants of
: Spain, it is impossible to deny that there
f exists widespread discomfort and dis
. satisfaction, not merely among military
} chiefs, but among the better classes OF
: civilians, who have nopolitical bias, and
2 among those who have and whom mis-
g government has at last recOnciled. There
i, is good reason to believe that politicians
= of divers shades have suspended their
differences, are resolved to practice for
!, bearance and to meet each other or COM
| mon grounds and that, though the
I Spanish Government may not have in
D its hands proofs of it, a combina ton
G does now exist with view of effectlng
that momentuous change to which
: Count de Peste did not venture to allude
y On this they seem agreed, and the only
4 difference still existing is whether, in
s case of the Throne becoming vacant
t the Regency of the Duchess of Mont
. pensier should be proclaimed or whether
n an appeal should be at once made to the
o nation by means of universal suffrage
t to decide as to the form of its new Gov.
eminent, as well as the person who
should be placed at its head. The choice
is not so easy as may be supposed. Nc
one can be more respected in Spain than
the Duke of Montpensier, but he is &
o foreigner, and the old feelings towards
n that is againt-France have survived
& all the revolutions of the Peninsula
e not to say that price Of the House OF
e Orleans would, as regent or king, have
e by no means well-disposed neighbol
> in Bonaparte. How all this vii
e end, it is difficult to say. The
d official kilograms that come from
e Madrid continue to repeat thai
o complete tranquility reigns Throughout
! the country and has not for mo-
d ment ceased to reign. The country must
T indeed, be peculiarly constituted wher
t not the slightest emotion is produced by
: the arrest of a dozen or two of Generals
/ and the Punishment of the sister anC
: brother-in-law of the Queen, without
o cause assigned, without even the form
II of trial or judgment of any kind. Most
s people have heard of the legend, which
e represents her patron saint, asking and
It obtaining for Spain every blessing in
: the power of Heaven to bestow except
d one-good government. Hitherto, in.
n deed, the boon has been withheld But
r there is one blessing which the legend
d does not'speak of-that of whole peo-
L pie remaining unmoved while such
G things are done in the midst of them
= How long this perfect serenity will last
= is another question. c.
G The Boston Post, the leading Demo
: cratic newspaper of New England, said