The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-05-28

gotten villany of other days-some act of tur-
pitude that their own partial reasoning had
almost brought them TO look upon rs a piece of
special virtue. There is a disappointment that
congests the liver and utterly DESTROYS the
temper OF your avaricious old trader doomed to
witness the success of energetic younger rivals in
the same line and there is bilious bitterness of
spirit that makes hang-dog rogue of the cham
pion prize fighter ruled out of the ring for n
trlck OF striking foul. England's present wrath
mas something of all these qualities in it, and it
docs not answer what we have said, but only
gives unconscious utterance to her appreciation
OF her present place among nations.
~, Dlsraeli was more than half right in the saying
that England was rather an Asatic than a
European power. Englands best hold for en-
pre- Is in India and in her trade with China.
She Is at the end of her tether with regard to
development even in that direction, and now
begins to fear that she cannot hold what she
has. She has for a long time seen the growing
power of the United States in that quarter but
did not fear it; for she measured our foreign
policy by the expressions given to it by
such secretaries as Mr.. Seward and by
before the war. Now, for the first
time, in view of such a style towards her
as appears in Mr.. Summers speech, she discovers
that there is another great power i'm the world;
that the people on this side the Atlantic are dis
posed to assume and to hold that place among
nations to which their strength and vigor Justly
Cntltlc them; that There must be change in the
relative power of the nations Of the earth, and
that this change must most especially be made
to her disadvantage. England's irritation at Mr..
Summers speech is excited, not because it states
IA case against her on this old, old argument, but
because il is the first practical illumination
against her traditional policy and power of the
great people of the tuture-bccause it announces
what she feels must be her doom.
THE REGIME AT MADRID.
From the ~ Y. Tribune.
That was happy inspiration of Punch's
Shakespeare when he wrote, doubtless i'm memo
ry of the Bourbon establishment "The labor we
delight in physics SPAIN" Don Gonzalez Bravo,
once the keenest executive of Queen Isabella's
wrongheadedness as inspired by his own iniquity
as a politician, has again come to light an adj
wiser in the house of Bourbon. The more liberal
OF his countrymen seem to estimate him as the
personal quintessence of whatever is adrOit and
dissolute in Spanish statecraft. He is now, if any
thing, a delighted labOrer in the cause of secret
and open mischief against the present regime of
Madrid. Queen Isabella promises to abdicate if
the COrtes will be rash enough to recognize
her son, the Prince of Asturias, as King. The
proposed abdication might be something more
than powerless resignation sent in after rout
and disaster. The Queen means to say that if
the Spaniards will set up the house of Bourbon
once more, she may not be eager to urge the in
vasion of her country by her adherents under
Gasset in the south of France. Her secret
agents may cease trying to excite revolt among
the more bigoted and incorrgibe portions of
the kingdom. She may endeayor to refrain
from keeping it in that chronic condition of
fever excited by the witchcraft of royalty, even
when discrowned, disgraced and be-
draggled. Some might think that with
such self-denial Spain could be saved n
war at home and an island abroad-this, too,
though the Queens eX-Captain-G General, Concha,
is almost in despair about it, and the Queens
organ, the GdutOiS. surrendered the case of Cuba
three months ago. Gonzalez Bravo, on his part,
af,llx
mistress. In short, he vetoes the abdication, if
that be possible. We suppose, then. there is
still fair-seeming field for intrigue in Spain,
and mass of corrupt material fit for the infu-
sion of the poisOns of BOurbOnism; else so cum
ming Il politician as Bravo would not count upon
the shreds and patches of power which are left
to Isabella. We cannot believe that the Spanish
revolution will go backward; but the talent for
retrogession which such men as Bravo possess
is both malign and earnest.
While the COrtes has debated upon monarchy
and the Church we are glad that its tendencies
and feelings rs to the need OF a decided gov
emment have so far consolidated to make
it probable that Marshal Serrano will be made
Regent. This is at any rate, one step towards
decision. The Cortes, after voting the national
sovereignty as a fixed principle of the Spanish
Constitution, elected the monarchy as its form
of government, and now all that remains is to
choose a king. Whether n king shall be made
out of native clay, rs Garibaldi suggests to the
republicans, or whether he shall be bought
from aluOuR lOTClRu wares, Is JllG DDdulSll
problem. The declinatiOn of Fernando of
Portugal discouraged the king-makers, and the
candidature of the Duke of AOsta was likewise a
failure. OF all those who were nominated for
the throne, the Duke of MOntpensicr alone holds
out with any vitality of claim. Since one of his
relatives has publicly described him a cold
| hearted and narrow-minded man, and the Libe-
rails of Spain appear to have no love for one un-
distinguished for prowess or talent, Montpensicr
| hardly offers the material out of which sove-
| reigns of popularity are made. A large and in
| huential element will resist the fatality of his
| imposition on Spain. 1t may be as easy in time
| to make a King out of the Regent, the Duke
! de la Torre as of one who has never
| been Regent and has never been mill
tary, or statesmanlike, or popular, or
| Spanish-the Duke of MontpensieT. Logically,
| Serranos chances for the sovereignty ought to
| be as good as those of Montpensier We are
| aware that the latter is powerfully favored by
of Spain-a very Spanish Farragut at that but
| Montpensier, if chosen by the Cortes will, il
| seems, be forced upon it. The latest dates, how
| ever point to the possible choice of son of Don
| Fernando of Portugal, who is to connect him
| self by marriage with the house of Montpensier
| In any issue it is important that the Spaniardf
shall decide themselves out of all danger OF
| anarchy.
Abelard Lopez de Ayala has resigned from the
| Spanish Cabinet, wherein he was Colonial Minis
| ter. We are rather glad of that Ayala pro-
mulgated the unjust and deceptive law by which
the Cubans were to be cheated of great part o.
| the franchise due them. He was also accused O