New-York tribune., 1872-07-08

lie instruoton: but the priest opposes horai Nc'o
TO the influence of the schoomaster' lhe uhioiVu
nate Basoue provinces so strong 30 vigorous WIN
high moral sentiments, great energy Oh char"o'o.'
free in their institutions and thelr nature III 'no'i
osso,ce and In their traditions Republican provinces
and still bewitched by the religious spirit Oh the
middle ages! c,H
While / regret the object TO which these hghung
men have consecrated their faith, cannot but ad-
mire il, Believing as firmly they do, the act OIL
compromise seems TO them an act of weakness ana
they imagine themselves superior to the spirit oi Tue
age No man of heart criticise the cemehey tih-
ploved with the Carlists, nor the words OF paruon
aud ,ro,cstv But IL is incomprchensibie that the
Ministers Of Gen Serrano should decree an amnesty
in favor of rebels and dictatorship against those
who obey the law. The Government 80 clement
toward the Carliss, prepared to take the se'ereSO
measures against the Liberals. The majority OF tno
Congress- were ready to vote the Dictatorship buV
the King conscious of the coming OF the tempest
and advised by instinct of sef-preservatlon supe
ror TO that of his ministers refused to sign tho de-
cree which submitted to the Cortes the sus-
pension of the habeas corpus. At this point
the Conservative party fell at the same
time with the most distinguished of IFS leaders Inc
first impression was one of terror among the con
aorvative classes No one believed, no one imagined
that the Ministry presided over by SO formidable
chief could tall after only Is days IN the Govern
mont
The accession TO power of the advanced party was
inevitable This party is composed Of two groups
which together bear the name of the Radical party
One of these divisions embraces the conslo-
cradle group which proceeds from the
old Progrcsistas. and the other a group which
came from the old Democratic party. Inc
Progresstas brought to the 'present situation their
-, fI., md Ia ole
who are attached to the modern revolution. The
Democrats brought their ideas of natural rights and
universal suffrage The leader Of both, who stands
bv common consent at the head of all. is Don Man
mel Rniz Zorrila who succeeded Gen. Serano IN the
| presidency of the Council.
Senior Ruiz Zorrlla is certainly not a man Of the
highest Intelligence nor of remarkable eloquence.
You will find in the Congress many superior to him
in poitica foresight and in dialectc force. There
are i'm Spain many pubic men who, from their works
and ther speeches, would seem TO have higher GAINS
than Ruiz ZorIila for the position which he occupies
But if he is not man of the most brilliant lntelh-
gence he is certainly an eminent man OF Srtion.
lie organizes forces with remarkable cclerty,
and directs them with undeniable ,power.
! Highly impressionablc, he regards recent
services with profound gratitude and forgcts old IN
| iuries with equal facility His energy i'll accomplish
ing his political purposes is only comparable i0r IT'S
intensity with his activity in attaining power and In
preserving it afterwaTd. He has an unusual love oi
popnlarity, and he is remarkably faithful to his
friends and enthusiastic for his party and pertisans
The leadership of the ProGressta party has always
| tempted him, and he hoped to obtain 1t oven
during the lifetime of Gen. Prim. Wien he
| died there was no one who could rca-
! sonably dispute it. Neither Riyero nor Martos
| could pretend to il, by reason of their democratic
| antecedents, which rendered them suspected OF
| Repubioanism in the eyes of the Prcnasistas.
Nor could Sagasta claim il on account of Os conser-
vatve tendencies which were still more G'iious to
! the Proucsistas The chief of the Progresistas
has many of the good qualities OF his p9rty,t2gethar
| with It's defects H. il frank, honest. tnd Gin
cere He has few ideas; but on the other
| hand he has an instn3tve, and like
all his instincts perseyeIng love of liberty When
! ever he finds himself in situation in which his
presence is Indispensable ald where he does not at
tain the fulfllmcnt Of his political plans Ruiz Zor
| Iilla has recourse to abstentiOn. When the two
| Generals Prim and Serrano, were maneuyeying to
present candidaturc to the throne after tbe dis
aste1s brought on by the fatal idea OF the elsctOn of
! Hohenzocrn, Ruiz Zorlia retired 70 the EscOTial,
| and with his retirement imposed upon the
| two sGenerals the new candidate U King
| Amadeus. When the coalition Of the three ele-
ments which contributed to the revolution was
maintained by a Ministry of fusion, az whose bead
was Ger. SerranO, Ruiz Gorilla broke the coalition
with another retirement. And now, since the last
retirement, has occurred the fall Of the Conserva-
tive party and the nomination of the Radical party
to position which it had thought of obtaining only
| through the perlOus resort of revolution
In spite of this appointment Seiior Run/Eor-
rilla does not maintain aI especially benev-
4 lf4ul
think they have not accepted hut have conquered
| the Government. long series Of sad dissppnnt-
ments has persuaded them that the King is lie all
Kings, conservative, the friend of privilege and
rank the enemy OF justice and Of democracy. His
sentiments the education ho has received the natu-
raj bent Of his disposition are conservative. man
of great cObage be has little intelligence and does
not comprehend anything OF the current of IDEAS Uni
forms reviews targets tshOOtings absorb his time nd
give no oppor tunity to devote himself to study. Some
time ago they took him to the new library Of the
Military Academy, hoping that he might assist by
some contribution TO the collection Of books Pass
ing with wondering eyes by the almost vacant
shelves, when some one complained of the scarcity
Of volumes, be said, There are TOO many it lis"
If il is dicult even for the deepestpenetraiOn,
consecrating hours to study and toll 10 comprehend
entirely the spjrt Of modern politics, in their
richness and multiform variety how can they
be comprehended by king who gives no stndy
whatever to themf The Transformation Of this
absoutist society into Democracy those mysteri-
Gus ways through which the Republic has
arrived among a people so monarchical and so united
as the French the deadly struggle, nov btterer than
ever between the perisiiing English Gistocracy and
the working classes retaining their incontestible
rights the forces of decomposition which are dis-
solving the Austrian Empire, and the forces OF re-
construction which are founding German unity /;