The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-06-18

Louis Phlippe-to be useful to the State, and
il must be admitted that they were useful
Everything promised a long and felicitous
reign of their house, when the Spanish mar
ringes negotiated by their father came an I
ruined him, costing him the moral approba-
tion of the best part of Europe, and casting
serious doubts upon his veracity and his per-
sonal integrity, putting grave argument into
the hands of the French Democracy, and at
last sending him into exile. He had shown,
at last, mean and mousing ways unworthy of
n monarch, and his hold upon the French
people was not sufficient to maintain him
upon his throne.
1t is now stated, upon good authority, that
Montpensier has in Spanish affairs exhibited
an inherited capacity for intrigue that his
money went far to effect the expulsion of the
Queen; and there is in Spain feeling that, to
borrow the words of Rochefoucault he ''wll
promise according to his hopes and perform
according to his fears" That he would make
a better monarch than any living Bourbon is
saying very little; for most of the relics of
that family are foolish by nature, and having
never got the Right Divine of Kings out of
their heads, are unfit to reign either as kings
or queens. One cannot but wonder that the
idea of republic should have been so dis
tinctly dismissed by the Chamber; but we be-
lieve that the dismissal is only for time. In
some respects there is no nation in Europe so
well fitted for republic as the Spanish for
the personal pride of all classes of men which
there exists might, under some circumstances,
naturally tend to democracy. Bad govern
ment, as bad as possible, has never destroyed,
has hardly tanned, the native fetceness of a
people poor indeed but proud, and for long
time accustomed to take decided though
somewhat tumultuous part in public affairs
and yet still people whom the religious
element has accustomed TO all necessary
self-control, except under extraordinary cir
cumstances. We do not believe that this
badly-governed race, which was once felt as
a power in the world, and which is still
mindful of the traditional glories of Spain
and still proud of its noble literature, will
submit always to the enslavement by Church
and State which has been its portion. 1t
has proved already that it will have nothing
to do with an adventurer in search of a crown.
1t refused, in darker days, to submit to foreign
aggression even with ameliorated government
1t has had quite enough of the sort of liberty
which British alliances would bring. In short,
it happens to be exactly in the right position
and with requisite power to act for ITSELF and
if not to-day, then tomorrow, it will 50 act.
''The reason, Sancho said his master, ''why
thou feelest that pain all down thy back, is,
that the stick that gave it to thee was of
length to that extent The Spanish people
know too we'll the length of royal sticks. The
final disposition of the Montpensier notion
goes far toward securing republic in fact,
if not in name. Meanwhile, let us hope for
Spanish independence of Bourbons, and for
Cuban independence of Spain!
PERU AND THE SPANISH COMPLICA-
TION.
From the NJ Y. Herald.
Our very respectable and very slow Secre-
| tary of State, in his anxiety to avoid European
complications, had lost sight of an American
| complication until few days since, when he
| found it had grown to such magnitude that he
took to his bed sick at heart 1t will be re-
membered that not long since Peru and Chill
were in a state of active war with Spain,
during which the latter power sent fleet into
the Pacific, bombarded Valparaiso and burnt a
portion of the city, and then proceeded to
Callao to effect the same purpose there.
Driven off in this attack by the superior gun
merry of the Peruvians, the fleet finally wended
its way back to the Atlantic with small prize
money and scanty honors. The war slum-
bered in state of inaction, and the recent
administration at Washington rendered to the
| belhgerents its good offices a mediator for
| the restoration of peace. These were ac-
cepted, and commissioners from the parties
| were to meet in Washington next month to
arrange the preliminaries.
The only party to the scheme to- whom
| peace is worth more than the value of button
| is Spain. She entered upon the war with the
| aggressive spirit of Quixote, without waiting
| to examine if the point of honor for an imagi-
nary affront in the case of a merchant ship
was well taken, and, having struck her blow,
is now willing to forget and forgive. To add
| to her wish in this respect, it was the Cuban
treasury which enabled her to strike the blow,
| the government at Havana being charged
with the duty of paying the bills incurred by
| the Pacific fleet, and just now it is hardly in
a position to repeat the act But time, who
| does not wait for negotiators or nations, has
meanwhile, brought to the South American
| belligerents the opportunity to strike back
and that, too at the vital part which enabled
Spain to assert her strength as a power on
the American side of this mundane ball
Cuba declares her independence, President
Cespedes requests the antagonists of Spair
to recognize the belligerent rights of the
Cuban republic, and Peru and Chilli do Sc
with expressions of friendliness becoming
nations at war
Here the Spanish Minister comes upon the
scene, and claims from Mr.. Fish that, as it il
the duty of his office to attend TO the peac,
making between Spain and the belligeren
members of the American family of nations
he shall also undertake to keep them from
hitting back while negotiations are going on
He furthermore assumes that the course o
the republics in the Cuban question is dis
courteous to the United States, and to illus
trate his position cites the case of a privat
quarrel between two gentlemen which i
under arrangement by third party, am
which he assumes ends the quarrel from tn
moment the arrangement to enter upon ne
gotiations had been accepted. According t,