The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1874-08-02
The Results From Estella.
From the Liverpool Times. ]

the Republicans of Spain ard their English
adherents fallen most profoundly. Concha
boosted that Estella must fall, and with it the
entire Carlst power; the rabid English
journnlist-ever equally on the qui rire to sup
port Red Revolution or Imperial Despotism
against the Church-prophesied an immediate
end to the hopes of Don Carlos and both have
tumbled into the Slough of Despond Concha
has died like brave soldier in endeavoring to
carry out his portion of the programme; the
| English journalists pitifully strive to brazen
out their miserable forecasts, in the face of
| facts that have made those notable penmen the
| laughing stock of all Europe.
We are now enabled, in our news column, to
present our readers with very full accounts of
the battle before Estella, and can say
without a little of vanity that our anticipa-
tions of last week have been borne out to the
minutest particular. The Republicans were
hopelessiy beaten; their falling back was q
rout;" their strength, judging from the
latest kilograms which tell us. of nothing but
continued successes of the Carlists, seems to be
broken in every quarter; and, like most failing
powers, they have in their rage and despair
resorted to the most atrocious crimes, yelled
by the most atrocions falsehoods in hopes of
revenging and smothering the anguish and the
shame of total defeat. We do not take the
version of the affair solely from forei gu sources
though wa might do SO with perfect justice !;
we prefer, for the greater discontinue OF
vicious newspapers, to adopt the narrative of
the Times correspondent; aud we corroborate
and confirm it with French and Spanish
accounts, 80 as to leave no loophoe of escape
for the systematic deceivers of the British
public. Concha's famous army has collapsed
like balloon through which rifle bullet has
passed and it is evident from the letters of
correspondents on both sides that all the fine
stories we have been treated to about its won
derful organization, it's spirit, it's elan. its de-
votion and all the rest of it were as false as
Madrid kilograms themselves The excuses for
Concha's defeat are the most utterly ridiculous
that have ever been put forward by routed
army One convoy went astray; it came on to
rain, on the Republicans but not on the Carlists
ana nfty thousand with eighty
(kindly supplied by Prussia, and of the newest
PATTERN fled heller SHELTER before eighteen
guns! Concha has been cried up as a great
general. bnt to us, judging from this very
battle of Estella, he seems not ouly to have
been immensely overrated, but to have been
the 10th June. predicted the results of tho
attack on Estella in a most remarkable manner.
The Republicans would appear to have been
regularly entrapped, and when they found the
jaws of the trap closing on them they turned
and fled, " leaving the field covered with vic
Tins exactly as the Carst leader had fore
told. Then comes the most painful and hu-
initiating episode of the whole war. Defeated
and humbled, the English synpathisers of the
Republicans-not the Republicans themselves
for they have had the decency to telegraph
nate the wouhded-resurt to accusations of
revolving barbarities on the part of the
querors, aud English papers are full of dia-
TRIBES that are absolutely false, against the
IioopS u lho Mug. COuCua Qeclareu ne wOulu
make war without mercy, and plainly said
how he would carry out that threat. Dorre-
CAREY, on receipt of that news, announced that
if the Republicans behaved like savages, he
too would have to make reprieals :; the latter
document has been quoted everywhere without
the qualifying if, while Concha's brutal
sltimat4n has been completely ignored. The
we have it recorded in the Times that they.
burnt, sacked, aud utterly destroyed every
innocent village they passed through " to
punished them by decimating his prisoners,
which he has not done, he would have had
ample precedent for his conduct, and would
besides have been but carrying out the terms
of the public bargain settled between Concha
and himself. But even Madrid gives him
credit for clemency, and that being SO, there
is no need tor further reference to the stnpidly
malicious articles that have appeared in the
Times and in its thousand and one wash ont
shadows throughout the length and breadth of
England.
Now, as to the political outcome of the bat
tie The moral effect of it, less than the
physical one, has been enormous SO great in
fact, that we find the Carlst arms everywhere
Triumphant since the event and we may rea-
sonablg look for Il series of SUCCESSES though
most assuredly we shall hear nothing of them
from Madrid. But beyond the li,uits of the
physical struggle, we find results that are of
the very Sravest Importance to the peace of
Europe aud we are sorry TO say that again we
must aLtrlbute gross turpttnde 10 the English
Press Furgctful of the fact that the Spanish
contest IS (ride their own news-headlu9) Il
- civil war" forgetfnl of the shameless manner
in which England has ever and always aided
Continental Revolutionlsts, so long as their
cry was made up with II sufficiently strong
element OF " Nu-Popery," and forgetful of the
fact that the eighty guns of the Republicans,
the rifles the money, the best of staff officers,
and IN fact the better aud larger portion of the
animate and inanimate organization of the
Serranist troops have been supplied by for
eisn countries, notably by Prussia-forgetful
OF these things, the English Press from the
Times down to the most Insignificant local
sheet, now urges on the Madrid Government
the necessity of picking quarrel with France
on the grounds of not maintaining a sutfi-
GENTLY powerful neutrality, and thus the same
Press is doing the very utmost that could be
done to promote u European war that would
be absolutely appalling in its effects. If the
Times and its coadjutors succeed in stirring up
such u war; and they seem intent on doing SO,
there can be no question TO the mseres
which 'nnst ensue; but there is very serious
question To DE answered on the other side,
VIZ Would not Don Carlos benefit by it
more than any other party, at least in the long
run
For the rest, while calmly surveying the bat
tic OF Estella and what has already arisen
T.. q huf SI,ao &b.,