The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-03-19


Ma Irid (Feb. l0l Correspondence Of the Lendo
Times.
King Alfonso.professes to belong to his age
and has done away with many of the usages t.
which the Spanish court has cluog for cen
turtles, and which were, perhaps, merely rem
nants of old Moorish patriarchal life. HI
does not, like his mother address his sub jects
as slaves with the familiar Thou" he does
not suff'.r them to kneel at his feet or kiss
his hand; and, by a decree published yester-
day. be has signitied his pleasure that his
name alfonso shall henc forth be signed
at the foot Of all laws and edicts instead OF
that RuJricl de II Real Nuno the King
bis mark which was, since Charlemagne, the
undigniied expedient Of illiterafc monarch5.
| Even King Alfonso, however, seems aware Of
the necessity OF observing toward diplomacy
all the forms prescribed by immemorial Ell
| quette.
| sEERAEos ATTITUDE TOWARD THE KING.
Among the many visitors one might ex-
pect to at the Alcazar there is one who
has not as yet made his appearance there, ana
that is the late head Of the Executive. Mar
shall Serrano, Duque de la Tore He came
back IRON France some weeks ago, but he is
still musing or sulking at La Granji, and
seems DESTROYS to impress upon the public
the notion that his public career is at an
end, and that he must now close his days in a
dlgnlhed repose and retirement For my
part however, / have not forgotten that a
declaration to the 5 lme effect came from this
same Serrano as he stood, with a NoI0 Episc0-
par shipper addressing the multitude from
the balcony Of the Palacio de la Gubernacion,
IN the Puera del Sol, very few days after
the battle of the Bridge of AlcOea. Serrano
owes himself to his country and his party, |
and there IS no doubt that he has it in his |
power to strengthen the Kings government |
as he would have had power of establishing |
II, had he not so completely thrown away his |
chance al the crisis Of the pronunciamiento Of
last December.
THE PLACE-HUNTERs' PARADISE; But no PEACE. |
There is little doubtthat an alliance between |
the Serranists and the Liberals in the Kings |
Council IS by most sensible Spaniards consld-
cred great deSderatlm, and Serrano will |
incur no little blame if he remains brooding
at La GranJa instead Of at once showing him
self to Madrid, where in his capacity Of Cap
tam General, he might be expected to do HON
age t. the new sovereign. The general opn-
ion IS that either himself or his friends for
him are driving a bargain and hggling about
the terms on which their fusion with the gov.
eminent is to be based. Unfortunately, the
Ministers have already shared as much as they
had to give among their friends, and possibly
there remains but little for them to dispose Of
1 he greed of Spanish politicians for place has
suffered no abatement, and as many desruct-
We locusts are swarming about the Ministerial
offices in monarchical times as ever devoured
he presypueSto or budget in republican days
There will be no order or well being in Spain
y truce to revolutions, no hope OF financial
n administrative reform till the Puerta del
sol is swept of its throng of hungry place
hunters Carlists and Cantonalists are evils
hat may pass away, but the scramble for office
all never allow the country any rest.