The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1869-01-02
PARIS LETTER.
Correspondence of,hc Richmond Dispatch.

PARIS LETrER.
Correspondence ofthc Richmond Dispatch.
PARIS, December Is, 1868.
-. SPAIN.
The honeymoon " Of the Spanish revo.
luton is over. Already the sound Of civil
strife il heard. Andalusia ID on IRE; tight
ing has been going on for days in the streets
OF Csdiz the Workmen of Madrid grumble,
and march to the national workshops with
musket on shoulder. Other provinces are
preparing. The middle classes hang like
Mahomet's coffin, but between constisu-
tional monarchy, whose drawbacks they
know, and republic, to which they are
strangers, and timidly approach. The army
alone is Indifferent to the digputants-re-
manning faithful to Prim and Serrano-
at least till some bold colonel Gomez
to the front, and spirits away its aneG'
tons by Offering batons 70 generals
some seventy days. existence the Span
ish revolution is in danger, because the
oonouerors have not known how to use the
victory-hy following course OF indeci-
sion ever ruinous to statesmen. How have
the victors passed their time ? for the mo-
ment has come for the friends OF freedom
TO demand an account of their stewardship.
dRlacing their friends in power and driving
otout their enemies - organizing national
workshops, which France has shown TO be
10 fatal-the Frankenstein difficulty to con-
lure way-borrowing money from Jews
and Gentiles--proclaimin that Spain is to
pronounce on her form Of government, and
z beating up for king among the. royal
families Of Europe--declariDg with o high
voice the sovereignty Of the Cortes, but
ospostponing its election, and in the mean
time secretly negotiating for o KING;
si,Prim and Serrano have failed TO NIL
I the sSIs of Pericles and Washington
to overthrow Isabella was not their
difficulty so much as to organize a gov
eminent to succeed her. 1t is only the
! Republicans that have kept in view def
mite end-who have no half measures in
- their programme, but liberty in thousand
things that freemen, love-hence why
opinion follows them with it's God speed"
4 Soon the Provisional Government will have
2 no other support but the army; no other
foe but the people, who must be shot down.
Z Already they have commenced it at Cadiz.
1t is the sabre, the mitraile, that begins
and ends Spanish revolutions. At the ex-
pense of the nation, Prim and his coadju-
d tors must caress the army. They have hest
7tsted to disband or to reduce it; they must
now fatter it to support themselves. They
are doomed to become saviors Of society
! like Ferdinand VII, Espartero, Narvaez,
and O'Donnell-by canons and muskets.
These are the panscea with Governments !;
the dose varying according to the climate
and the authorities. 1t is to be hoped that
ZONE man will arise in Spain, and ".speak
to the people, that they 60 forward"
aE2'E GREECE AND TURKEY. q
y The rumors are that Greece will not yield
to Turkey, but the Bourse does not reflect
this opinion, as the funds fell but fifteen
centimes. More thoughtful persons believe
!. that Russia does not find the pear to be yet
!. ripe, and that the Gear will order his SON
in-law to eat-for this occasion only-hum.
BILE pie. Greece goes in, like France, for
rectifoation of her natural frontiers-pos
bly, as intended also by Providence. But
the time has not come. Russia is not 80
sure of Prussian support the latter wants
to be free to carry out her Pan-Germanlc
ideas as soon as France would be engaged
in the East. But this time Napoleon will
not move without Austria, to check any fire
in the rear. Austria wants peace, and an
army at the same time to know how to pro-
tect it. EDgland's new Cabinet desire
"peace, retrenchment, and reform of Re-
FORM" But the standing peace armies of
millions Of men continue-willing to wound
but afraid to strike. 1t is this malady of
gros 5ataiAonS and armed peace that keeps
Europe sick, and, above all, France agi-
tated. The day when military budgets are
reduced, public sense will be no longer in
tcredulous; till then it will believe in the
Emperor's statement, that the peace of Eu-
rope is safe for day.
= ABDICATION OF NAPOLEON III. ID.
Among the "small beer" to be chroni-
cled is the report set going of the Emperor's
intention to abdioate, which his Majesty
learned no doubt for the first time, not from
the opposition, but his own journals.
More serious is the discussion as to the best
means of rallying the young talent Of the
empire to the side Of Napoleon the Fourth.
The opposition brings forward its coming
men," but young statesmen are not ranging
under the flag of the second empire. There
is no harmony between Napoleonism and
young = France-principle divide them.
When the Emperor puts himself in sym
pathy with the Liberal party, then, and not
till then, can he hope to secure the talent of
h the rising generation. - i
THE EMPEROR FEEBLE.
The gaities at Compiegne ended with the
review dadieu of the troops quartered
about the castle, and the distribution of
/ medals, and the announcement of promo
tions. 1t must be stated that his Majesty
has not thrown himself SO actively into the,
pleasures reserved for his guests this as
he did on other occasions. He is becoming
less capable Of bearing fatigue; even leng
councils enfeeble him; and angry discus
sions make him ill and irritable. On hunt
ing days, he always managed to be occu,
pied with ministers, and in the evenings
no did mot keep up late hours with ms
friends. He found amusement IN the
dsnces-particularly the. Scotch jigs, now
the mode. Once he tripped on the hgnt
fantastic toe, but only to his pet Mazurk'a-
Bella when an able hand can MAKE
: Il. piano discourse it eloquently. ine
Prince Imperial has won golden opinions
from all who have come in contact with hlm:
!, He is growing q fine, healthy" manly !"
bow. with manners to win friends, like his
father, and growing shreWoness " Ae0p
Thorn. sor
- STsabella's hopes must be running high as
her late subjects begin to fight among them
selves. She goes everywhere. This week
shs visited the Palais de Justice, and in one
- tba courts where trial was going on