The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-09-30
SPAIN.
Queen Isabella's Urgent Appeals TO Ma.
pOieOn--The Pride of the Nation InsuIted-
Revolution at Hand.

N"SSh AsuoShHs CE8Cut AppeuiS 10 i~us
poieon-The Pride of the Nation InsuIted-
Revolution at Hand.
Paris Sept. 1s) correspondence of London Times.l
The queen OF Spain has carried her point, after .
fashion and at the cost of her own huma.
ton. We already know that q very bad
impression has been caused In Madrid by
the news that she Intended going to Biar-
ritz to see the Emperor. when by the rules of ETH
quette the visit should be from him to her.
courtier named Count Ezpaeta was sent to Biarritz
TO negotiate the affair and found the support
OF the Empress, who must be rather amused by her
former soveregns eagerness for imperial patronage.
count Ezpaeta was still at Biarritz on We'd
be Interchange "a VISITS aas snsss
beginning. or course when her Catholic
Majesty sued for permission to go second time to
Biarrltz 1t could not well be refused her. could
the Emperor. being within two hours rail OF st.
Sebastian avoid returning the visit. But the ann
will not be attained-not even the moral erect,
which probably was all that the Queen and her coun-
sellers really hoped for. Unpopular and even de-
rested though she be throughout Spain she is stlll
on, and Spanish pride Is bitterly chafed at seeing
her pay her court to Napoleon. The step she has
taken will certainly not retard for single day the
catastrophe OF which the date Is uncertain but the
occurrence inevitable. AS regards any solid advan-
tage to be reaped from the interviews probably
the Queen herself does not venture to hope
for that. II while she and the Emperor were to.
gether to-day at Biarrtz, tomorrow at st. Sebas
tian, news were to come Of o revolution ut Madrid,
and that half Spain was armng and rising the En-.
peror We may be well assured, would deeply SYM
Pathize and condole and might express every wish
but would not further that triumph by the aid Of
single bayonet not even though the bait were held
out to him Of half the Spanish army to garrison
Rome In the event OF Prussian war. The Emperor
knows too well what such an offer would be worth.
The reports spread Of the readiness Of the Spanish
government TO send troops TO Rome have already
caused discomfort in Spain, and especially IN
m, shnrs mn country S DO sSh %,c ,oS @
tary service OF the Pontin IL in less es-
teen than in Spain: When the Italiaus took a
great part Of Lamorciere's army prisoners IN $780,
and swept into their net French and Austrans Bel
gians and Bavarians, Irish and Dutch and many
other nationalites In large numbers they got only
five Spaniards. Cavour had inquiries made about
these men, and out OF the five three proved to be es
capped galley slaves In the present Papal army there
are scarcely any Spanlards.
General 1uron man OF no mark, but who has
never taken part in any pronuncidDl,ejto, goes as
Captain General to Catalonia and General Cal0nZe
assumes the same post In Madrid The designations
OF Marshal PezueIa and Novaliches have been &C
cepted. II must be owned that the Queens marshals
do not stick very closely her In the hour Of difi-
Guilty. Marshal Manuel Concha IL on his property
near Malaga only his brother Marshal Pepe Is, or
was very lately at ST. Sebastian.
The former editor OF the G,tti'tgdD NJ. Gonzales
Bravo, will grace with his presence the interview Of
the sovereisns. NJ Mon has gone to Biarrtz.