New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-09-25
SPAIN.
REPUBLICAN MEETINGS SUSPENDED.
MADRID, Friday, Sept. "a, lS

pended by the authorities because resolution was
| adopted condemning monarchy Since the return of
Gen. Prlm to Madrid the language of the American
Minister has been more cOncilatory.
| Ex-QUEEN ISABELLA-KING sERRANo-FAILURE
OF THE NEW ADMINISTRATION AND CONSTR
TUTIoN-AN MOTHER CRISIS IMMINENT.
IRON OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT
MADRID, Sept. ct was lately affirmed that Isa-
bella, yielding to the opinion of Napoleon had pri-
vately abdicated but it is not In speaking of the
matter. her own words This crown is q burden
to me, and would willingly rid myself of it forever
to retire into private life but my dignity as Queen
will not allow of my resgning it while exile in
foreign land. wish TO return to Spain its Queen,
TO set myself once on the throne that is mine
and then and there with the revolution PROSTATE at
my feet will place the crown on my sons head"
The lsabeinos of late to be in excellent spirits
and in their turn are made free of the frontier for
their own and purposes. There great deal of
going to and fro among them, and they are evidently
in active preparation for seine greater undertaking;
while the army that obliged the Queen and her
court to fly from Spain, with the cry of Down with
the Bourbons," may very possibly escort her back,
repeating the words of the myrmidoms of Ferdinand
VII. "Fetters and chains forever"
The present state of affairs cannot last. Black
spots begin 10 appear in the horizon, clouds roll
ing up from all directions, and tempest of some
kind seems about to burst over the land There has
been real revolution yet. The battle of Alcoea
alone, could not purge the most degraded and de-
morazed nation in Europe of the effects of centuries
of despOtism. 1t could not at purify
the land of the miasmas Of corruption
and mmoTaties that infect it from the very throne
down to the least of its hamlets The new COnsttu-
ton, apparently ultra-liberal is so filed with
clauses, exceptions and reservations that the yerest
IL. E,,I
visos justification for his most arbitrary acts, and
ample restriction of the very rights it proclaims.
Not one of the great reforms that would raise Spain
to a level with other nations. has yet been effected
by the revolution of September last Slavery ex-
listed and still exists in Spanish territory. Spain in
itiated this commerce in human flesh, and for two
centuries her ships have stained the ATLANTIC with
the bloody trail they have left in their wake in cross
ing and re-crossing the Middle Passage with their
grooming cargoee, and Spain yet continues this
shameful crime. The abolition of Slavery should
have been one of the first acts Of the Revolution and
yet the Government Systematically avoids even the
mention of the subject.
Capital punishment for political offenses existed,
and still exists, in Spain. Nine persons, unarmed
and defenseess said TO be Carlists, taken and
shot Immediately not long ago, at Montealegre, in
Catalonia and of them was boy only 10 years
of age The Liberal papers all Spain have pro-
tested against this baTbarous act. Consumption ex
listed and still exists in Spain, and unhappy youths
are yet torn from their homes and sent TO die under
the burning sun of the tropics. Administrative CEN
trsization the of SPAIN still continues, with
all its Government monopolies, It's nnumerabe Gov
eminent Offices with their legion OF employees, who
alone absorb almost the entire revenue The stand
ing army whose pay lie the ruin OF the nation laying
the country waste for want of hands to cultivate it,
its industries dead for lack Of operatives still con-
tinue part of the regime of the new ADMINISTRATION
Among the many parties there is one IN favor OF
making serrano King with strong probability of
his being accepted for his remarkably winning man
ners coupled with his extreme modesy and aversion
TO public honors make him universal favorte; but
he with wholesome fear of the fate Of Massannello
before his ewes utterly refuses to enter as candl-
date This resolution is not by any means to the
lkngof his beautiful wife. who quite in contrast to
her husband, would gladly exchange her ducal coro-
net for that Of Queen consort. slgnih-
cant demonstration in favorA of Serrano
is however to be recorded Recently a
number of editors and writer's of the liberal papers
went TO La GraDa for the purpose OF presenting the
subject to the Regent who invited them to dine with
him 1t seems that without the idea beng formally
broached Serrano gave them to understand that IL
yould meet with no encouragement, much so that
of presenting the plan so as at least to get 1t near
ing. Finally, one of their number boldly attempted
introducing it in toast, but became enDar-
rassed and was so ambiguous that the Duchess
De La Tore 1.-THE Regents wifel, sprang 10
her feet and filing her glass, her very
fine ewes glitterng with prophetic fire, proposed,
8" The idea the gentleman was unable to express
II is needless to add that the toast was accepted
with enthusiasm.
In the mean time the Republicans make waiting
race of it; they wisely refrain from any iI-timed
demonstrations of their confidence OF success, and
wait quietly on their oars until they receive the sig
nal 10 dash into mid-stream The impossbty OF
the Monarchiss coming to any sort OF agreement as
a the monarch seems a guaranty to them Of their
ultimate triumph.
The Queen is taking abaths at Irouvlle, very
near Havre, where Queen Christina has her Chateau
Mondesr. and it seems that in one OF their recent
interviews the latter lady soundly rated her august
daughter for coming to visit her in the little steamer
that plies between the two ports as well as Tor taxing
her baths publicly with the rest of the baher Whoh
she shonld have constructed clearinghouse ior her
own especial use, and have chartered steamer ex-
clusively for herself during her stay at lrouvile'
To tins Isabel gaily replied Dear mother, do allow
me the pleasure of playing out my part as citizens
wife TO the end" implying no end of hopes Tor the
future
THE GCUMENICAL COUNCIL.
FATHER HYACNTHE.
LONDON. Friday. Sept. a. ls6s
The Times to-day, in an article on the letter OF
| 1T is N the pODe and his