New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-04-29
SPANISH dFF1IRS.

the Spanish news which comes to us from
London. There is in England strong feeling
of distrust and opposition to the Republic,
partly because it is new and partly because OF
an indefinite impression that ii is not quite
respectable The same feeling of cold hostility
is evident at every court on the Continent
Even in the Republican Government of France
there Is no friendlincss toward the young Re-
public beyond the Pyrenees. NJ. Theirs evil
IDENTIFY feels that an intimate relation at this
moment would be compromising. When some
one in conversation with him recently referred
to the Spanish Republic as "our younger sis
" terr the cautious and witty old statesman
rcjoincd, Yes-a younger sister who may
possibly commit some indiscretion which
"will prevent the elder from marrying we'll"
But nowhere is this injurious distrust
so openly manifested as in England, where it
takes on the foTm of overt sympathy with
Carlism. In a county whose chief boast is its
civil freedom, where suspicion of the influence
of the Catholic Church is G national character
istic, we see the curious spectacle presented of
active and OstentatOus adherence to cause
which meaDs nothing but despotism IN the
State and nothing but obscurantsm and blind
bigotry ID the Church. A Carlist Committee
is fully organized and in operation in the City
of London, calling upon the people of England
for contributions to assist in Overthrowing
republican government and religious liberty
in Spain, and placing upon the throne young
prince whose model would be Philip II. as
nearly as he could be reproduced in the
present age. Their circular is a singular
appeal to be addressed to a free and
enlightened people. 1t states that Charles
VII. is, by the law of succession
and the law of Inheritance, entitled to
the throne of Spain; that the abdcatiOn of
King Amadeus has made the throne vacant
and left Don Carlos the only legal claimant
that his accession would end revolution and
tumult and promote business; while the es
adjustment of the Republic would bring the
International into power. There is no talk
even of the popular choice; of the national
representation, and of that ordinary ma
chinery of politics of which even reactionary
parties are, in modern times, forced to avail
themselves. 1t is a frank statement of the
royal right to rule; a calm and sincere denial
of the popular right to decide upon the fern
of government; taking it for granted that
this dull young gentleman, on account OF his
descent, in the male line, from Philip ", is
better fitted to govern the Spanlards than are
the Spaniards themselves. This unlawful
subscription goes on under the very eyes of
the Government, and it is only within a
day or two that we have heard of any inter-
ference with it. 1t is now reported that the Re-
publican Committees in London have under
taken tho prosecution of the Carlists for this
violation of law There is q certain grotesque
fitness in the fact that the only organization
which could be found TO attack this open
monarChical conspiracy against the Republic
in Spain, should be an open republican con-
spiracy against the monarchy in England.
The Figueras government is of course strug
Cling against terrible obstacles and discour
agements. But it is by no means certain that
it is as yet in its agony The Carlists are
clearly making no Roadway. The latest intel
ligence is that Prince Alfonso has gone back
into France with his entire staff, which would
indicate that he regarded the campaign in the
North az q failure. The Federalist disturb
ances, though they are certainly grave and
serious proof Of an unwholesome state of pub
lie opinion, are nothing new, and they are not
considered so formidable in Madrid as TO
make it necessary to postpone the elections
for the Constituent Cortes. The unfortunate
disagreement which arose last week between
the Government and the Permanent Committee
of the COrtes, was only what might have been
expected, and ended in the only practicable
way The crisis and its termination afford a
useful suggestion TO NJ. Theirs for the period
which ia rapidly approaching In French affairs.
The late Cortes, Ike the French Assembly.
consisted in great part of men who were really
monarchists and who only accepted the Republic
from necessity. When they dissolved, they
elected a Permanent Committee, nomnaly to
advise but really to watch the Government.
In this attitude of dormant hostility, it was
not difficult 10 find causes for quarrel. Senior