New-York tribune., 1870-12-06
GENERAL FOREIGN NEWS.
SPAIN.

SPAIN
FORMAL ACCEPTANCE OF rIrB CROWN BY THE
DUKE OF AOsrA-WHAT HE PROPOSES TO DO.
LONDON. Monday, Dee. lsTo
The Dake of Aosta has formally accepted the
spanIsh Crown rendered to him by the bpansn deegn
ton now la Florence The Duke, In receiving tne
them the fact that Spain had
in reconciling order with liberty He promised 10 nam
tain the constitutional traditions OF his family ana Do
heved that his conduct would DC suon ens' @' p"S'
would admit his honesty OF purpose.
Itis said 20 be the intention Of the Duhe 70 return
Spain with the spaniah delegation.
CASTELAR, ON THE CAEDIDATUHE OF THE DohS
OF AosTA.
In reply to Prim's speech in the CorteA IN
Producing the Aosta canddsture, CASTELAR, moved Voo
of censure He commenced by remarking they had all
heard the piiul relation given by Gen. PIN OF hiS seps
through all the Courts Of Europe. He passed on tuS'
snow then TO the candidature. Measuring the grand
eur of the point as compared TO my weak forces II my
conscience did not impel me- wonid renounoe my ynd
mn IN one eran6io Of the
sonal policy Of Cen Prim for the dynase pooy yS Sa
Isabella H. This has brought series OF eVns IN ue
interior ohaOs In tho exterior, war; were gwen 10
recrimnauons there would now spring rom my hps % she
attempt secure foreign King would result IN iea.
full csastrope Sad were nay presenments but iaI ssa
tions Of widows and orphans-when contemplate me me
rn ns S5 S the nd Sss n Of bood into the air ied
with tears-When see half million OF unburied oorpses
great capital of mankind threatened, like Rome, by
AlarioI cannot comprehend you Monarchical Ministers
Of spain, how IL Ii you have not disappeared from view,
buried beneath the weight OF your own remOrse."
The orator went say that the origin Of all their
evils consisted IN their trying to produce Monarchieal
State while the revolution had really produced Repub
Hcan State.
OF CASTELAR, did not omit nllusion 10 Maxmian
of Mexico. Here he brought his mpasoned eloquence
into full play.
"I will present TO Gen. Prim example he ought 70
reooleet az TO how diplomatic monarches exist The
America, land without king. as they SEQ now with
horror another land on this side Of the ocean without
called Old Spain. In both Gen. Prim had q promment
% Aa fe a Sf e
thereto by European dPo@aeS behind tnoD the @ SSSz
promised in a Trightful war, as now the Republic
OF France is also compromised In fightful war.
accompanied the Prince to Mexico What tragedy
Aeschyus and Shakespeare have not written better Ia
iican bas-was coTpso; and that Enpress-her heart
pierced by bitter gTief-became worse than corpse,
SfeS sro @ people over whom % Tue great to
wear the Palace OF Madrid in which TO dwell the throne
ter 1 5a Pde msge seats IN o heart Of the Guaa
mountains, OF by the banks OF the majestic river
spanish glories as for his shed and the Esco
rial for his tomb but beyond all these grandeurs oned
two figures Of the Emperor and Empress OF Me xo0 IKE
the two figures OF the Inferno OF Dante sheddng rivers
Of tears aud rivers Of blood and teaching by their sad
example, how, under the same aDtecedents, the same
eatastropbes Iepeatedin the pages Of history"
With Gen Prim CASTELAR, wIs very severe. lie said:
what they trying TO bring would not be the King
Of the 9aST or PSr o s SSt council
the respOnsbe editor OF their poltcsthe shadow OF
Gen. Prm reflected from the throne This was personal
government with q yengente. Was Gen. Prlm one Of
those grand politicians Ike Gladstone, who renew soci-
ETY. because they have faith In idea Certainly not
Was Gen Prm of those great statesmen IKE Cayour
and Bismarck, who attempt high enterprises and aRran
portuntes anSrded him Of following such policy but he
had lost them both His only God was chances his only
onY faith force mis- only IDEAL present chaos and
only aspiration for the future the retention Of power 70
"He Qaselar) could not comprehend how any spanish
politician should wish to bring them foreign king lie
eSpabe Of coming there II any sentiment was stronger
than another In the bpanards was their love OF moe
oombatted the Arabs 700 years gave full fling
little display of orAtory and Spanish national pride at
This great sentiment dndependenee) is the creative
the same degree their fanatosm for spanis independ
enoe. The Basques believe themselves sprung from
antoSy q as and they solg IN having mixed
theif blood with other blood The Cantabans and the
ancient Csesars aud the arst to declare war against
the modem CSsn the d1Ss, AnSS aSS tsss as
pixies rescued Portugal To all people their sreas
s ass ps ssss DE- 70 che
mountain of Las Nayas and 20 the cities OF Baen and
liZ itA artlSc JeWbjb. Nalehclh
OF its Bagunta AraeOn s Zaragosa and Catalonia OK
It's Gerona. When other nations suner-the Hnseians IN
MOSCOW French Psris-F1cbte exciting the Ger
mans against Napoleon, and Victor Hugo excihnR tho
French against King William and Byron Win the Tyre
in one hand and sword Of LeOndne In tho other de-
tending Greece against the rke-a all turn their eyes
to country and pointing thOee who night Tor their re
spectiVe smoking ruins show them how 70
overthrow their cOnquerors, and how 10 night and de
for country loud applause And you are going TO
9iye to this land foreign king IL Spain does not
srugge against this before conseDttng TO sueh ignomny
shall weep for Spain, and we shall MOURN ike mo.
ah mn
our race viii have died, and the spirit OF our country
viii have become eXtiDguishod In the world"