New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-01-11

and correctly enough denied He is not here 0ffc-
ally but he is here. to translate convenient French
phrase 0tiiclOnsy- officially, say. In the
midst Of such Of specuations that is one rather
considerable solid fact And Cialdini has one point
already decided in bis favor. The King is not to be
Spaniar,i. You may take that a matter settled
in the mind of the present Government. Whatever
influence they have in the Cortes will be welded
in behalf of foreign candidate.
The objection they make TO all indigenous cand-
dates il an obvious one. They would be kings of
parties, not kings Of Spain. Espartero is the favor
tie of the hour. man of some merits, ambitious,
vain rresolute, who has shown in more than one
revolution honest purpose nentralized by his I'M
fitness for leadership Prim himself is OF course a
possible candidate but Prm has his party, as Espar
tero has, and neither would be heartily accepted and
Loyalty obeyed by his opponents. He wonld have
friends to reward if not enemies to punish whether
EsparterO wants the crown cannot say, but frlni
with apparent sincerity gives 1t to be understood
that he does not wish his claims to be pressed. lie
practically valves them by affirming the necessity OF
choosing a foreigner. This OF course excludes the
Prince of Asturias, Don Carlos, and the Duke OF
MOntpenser-the latter of whom is the candidate OF
the Union Liberaie, by whose invitation, 1t Is now
known. the Duke undertook his recent remarkable
expedition to lend his sword to the Provisional Gov
eminent against the Cadiz insurgents. But he mas
no considerable party. Either the prince of AS
turias or Don Carlos is stronger, or might become
stronger but the success of either would be the
overthrow of the Revolution. The Duke of Edin-
burghs name is still mentioned spite Of the positive
dislike with which the offer OF the Spanish throne
would be received at st. Jamess
The father of the King of Portugal who also, has
been put aside for some time by the newspapers IS
not yet perhaps, finally dismissed by the Prm party.
Don Ferdinands aversion to a crown might or might
not be overcome. He wisely prefers his books, his
pictures and his garden to the honor OF succeeding
Isabella on the Spanish throne. He is known TO be
prudent, amiable, and of some capacityperhaps, as
good man personally as could be chosen for the
place. Those who still press his name base their
policy ON something more than personal considera-
tOns. There are men busy i'll this revolution who
have farreachng plans. and who hope to see Spain,
whether monarchy or republic: take something like
horo A,ala in fha Thaua rnplaf IN
ing less than the early remuneration of Portugal.
The suggestion is not new one, but has been met
with so mach opposition abroad that IT has not OF
late been pressed or much talked about. II is
scarcely known to form part OF the policy OF the
Government or of any Leading men in the
Government; but there is some reason to
good deal of influence in their choice of King.
Give Don Ferdinand the Crown OF Spain, say they,
and mt his death its descent 10 his son Will easily
bring about the union Of the two Kingdoms. l do
not understand what becomes of the republic. mean
time but that may have its tnrn perhaps after Por-
tugal has been absOrbed-tempted by the bait of
double diadem for her own monarch, and finding ont
her mistake only when 1t is too late The project is
plausible enough seems much more so to foreigner
who is not of the complete alienation between
the Spaniards and the Portuguese. In the revou-
ton of 1854 the same idea was current. One of the
few Frenchmen who knew something OF Spain then
described it rs an idea enticing in appearance but
chimerical. Spain and Portugal" says NJ. de
Mazade, "are united by "A common frontier, bv their
interests, by their manners, by more than one
relations are less intimate The Portuguese
90 to London TO Paris, to Germany,
almost to Spain; the Spaniards seldom to Por-
tugal. The families of the two countries do not in
termarry. Their most Important commercial r ,
tions on the frontier are kept up by smuggling. The
Portuguese at that day relshed little the plan of
bestowing Spanish crown on their sovereign that
they threatened if he went TO Spain TO proclaim his
brother king of Portugal. Matters may have mended
since then yet il remains true that the idea OF a
union is far less unpopular III Spain than IN Portugal
here is "A manifest
ing to an Atlantic seaboard rs hopefully French
man looks to the Rhine or an American all ever his
own continent 800
Much the most bizarre suggestion yet made is to
invite a United States Senator TO be King over
these kingess Spaniards. This. | believe. has not
got into the newspapers; yet the proposal was made
and discussed seriously enough IN council, and had
its advocates. Nobody deny that they would
lind in the Senate Chamber at Washington sutii-
Gent variety to choose from There is independently
of any such proposition as this, singuary strong
feeling toward the American Republic. Even though
they should not compliment us by selecting an
American sovereign they adopt what is much more
imp0rtant-ideas G.w.s.