The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-05-07

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the ONCE OF the Secretary or the Interior
as well as the telegraph ONCE, from which
all dispatches are sent to the HERALD. We
march around into the open square. the Descant-
Sddes cfngtng to their dropping banners, the cor.
respondents swaying their umbrellas ana the rain
falling rapidly. We reach the wide entrance and
find guard or soldiers, who inform US that depu-
tation OF twenty may enter, but for the main body
there are no accommodations and we must
demonstrate" outside In the rain, and listening
to the splash ofthe cooling gentle fountain around
which the beggars sleep through the warm June
nights. SO party OF us enter and see Mr.. Pi
Margall, the Secretary-a strong man In
Spain, with studious reflective face, q reso-
lutte nose, and beard and Eyeglasses resembling
Mr.. Oakley Hail. ri Margall reads our manifes-
tation and is civil about 1t, and has kind wishes
for the patriots who are out in the rain listening
to the fountain and will take our humble requests
into consideration. He gives us no hope, however,
that they will be granted. SO we return to our
damp and dripping brethren, and, after all
manner OF counses, violent, temperate and
judicous we yield to the manifest presence OF the
rain and go home-carrying our Gags in q dragged
condition, meaning to come again and see PIP
Margall If matters are not mended.
CASTELAR, AGAIN.
So ended the dem0nstrati0n-a modest damp
affair, showing that the patriots and descants0d0s
have life and motion and reserved elements OF
activity. Madrid goes back to rumors and specu-
lations In this city everybody appears to be
talking at the same time, and all talk politics.
To-day the question concerns sehor Don Emilio
CASTELAR,. 1t will not down quiet itself nor pass
from our tongues He will resign and he will not
He Is angry and he is pleased. He quarres with
In
every shape, with this as general Impression
that Don Emilio Ia not in the best temper of mind:
il, on the contrary on the rack and would like to
leave the Cabinet and make tour Of Spain to exc
hort the people and preach the Republic.
NwILL CASTELAR, REsIGN3
1t Is not we confess an exhilarating business,
this being Foreign Minister of Republic which
no one will recognize. Nor is the Council Cham
Der, with Its REFRESHING, narrowing influences, the
eyrie for an eagle who scars to the sum- and wings
his way into the empyrean, like Don Emilio Cas-
telar. His genius lacks the stimulating air OF "the
opposition" Then, we are afraid, he has had so
many dreams OF an ideal people suddenly spring.
Ing into political life as an ideal Republic, with
all its virtues, and wealth, and vaor that now,
in presence of "the people as he finds them
.1rreconcllables." desconaasados and other forms
unloyey and uninvitng; 'the people" for whom he
has given the bright years of young and glorious
life not free from demagogues and conspirators, but
actually swarming into the Prado to demonstrate
and manifest and embarrass the Republic because ie
will not show in the second month OF its existence
the power and resources Of America In the ninety
seventh year OF uninterrupted prosperity-his heart
grows heavy and he the cloisters OF his uni.
versity and his Lectures literature and history.
Nor Is the rude, harsh work OF government
attractive to an exquisite poetical and rhetorical
mind. But with all this, think lew things are
more improbable than the resignation Of Castelar,.
To leave the Cabinet except for motives appealing
to his patriotism and selfrespect, would be an act
OF cowardce, resulting In political suicide He II
largely responsible for the Republic. He is its con.
spicu0us member-the one Minister with world
wide fame. His influence with his party is almost
absolute. He has made pleasant impression upon
the SILENT sullen European Powers And the crisis
may come at any time when his gifts win prove Q
blessing to Spain.
NO CABINET RESERVATIONS PROBABLE
Furthermore-and this, think, settles all ru-
mors OF Cabinet dissenson-ft Is known that the
members Of the government have resolved to nd.
journ all measures on which individual members
may have differences OF opinion to the considera-
ton Of the Cortes and to enforce those upon which
all can agree. OF these there are enough to tax
the zeal ofany government. The Cabinet will hold
together until the Cortes meets. govern the coun-
try II 1t can, and certainly not divide. And
II you ask why, this being the case, and so
logical and just resolution adopted, you
should have daily teegraphic dispatches about
Carlist troubles-remember that this capital is q
vast political club and that political specuations
and the invention Of political rumors have become,
like beggary, gambling and banditism, recog-
nized and nourishing industry. Remember, also.
that the Spaniards are credulous people, and the
history Of the two last generations is record Of
ministerial intrigues; that Minister has lost his
portfolio because he was awkward in quadrille;
that whispered words in Queen Is bedchamber cost
q Duke his honors and emoluments and sent
him to exile; that nothing has been mora
frequent than crisis and conspiracy. When you
live in London you carry an umbrella, because you
never know when 1t will not rain; and this Is why
our English cousins will insist upon carrying their
umbrellas in California, where 1t does not rain for
six months. So our Spanish mind will carry ita
umbrella, because 1t has done SO for forty years.
yet, II we hopefully read the signs and take coun-
sci from our hopes and wishes and the courage Of
the men in power, our Political skies will continue
to be as bright as those that bend over California
until the meeting Of the Cortes in June.
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