, 1875-03-07

Present Condition Of the Principalities,
Prelacies, and Peoples.
Silent Struggle of the Democracy
with the lmperialis1ns.
The Pressure Of Taxation and the Mill
tary Armaments.
Chinese Liberaism--Its Mode Of Political
Action and Purpose.

| ,C0rrtsnondenee Of ths Ne1e York Herald
PARIS, Feb. Sit is on Spain that the eyes Of
Europe have been fixed during the present
month. The young King is firmly seated in the
eadd1e,-eyen Senior CASTELAR, having given in his
adhesion to the new monarchy. The restoration
has had good, though slight, effect On the
value Of Spanish securities. The truth is till
the statesmen OF the Peninsula adopt very
vigorously that policy OF retrenchment for which
the English Radical party has been content to in
cur so much obloquy, Spanish budgets will con-
tinue with scientific ce.tainty to exhibit year
after year, succession OF deficits. Tho PEN
sion list especially requires revision. Not unfre
quantity Spanish official receives pension OF
$4,000 or $4,000 for not more than q months
service in his department Worse than this, the
ex-ofiiciAl has not oven the poor patriotism to
spend the earnings Of bin jobbery at home, but
prefers to a1nusa himself abroad.
THE CURSE OF SPAIN
is absenteeian- You may drive for hours in the
heart Of the country over uncultivated land be-
longing to al emigrant noble. A false political
economy, too, has stided commerce by the undue
taxation OF wealth. Another serious impedi-
ment to industrial development lies in the cir
cumstance that tho priests are opposed to the
use OF machinery. Prices, Of course, are con-
stant1y increasing articles OF luxury alone being
cheap, as there a1a 80 few persons to buy them.
4 diplomatist recently sold fine Irish horse,
worth about 81 goo, for 9125. Generally speak
ing, the expenses Of living at Madrid are as great
as at New York.
THE cAnL1sT REBELLION
is dying out, through the diainclinaion OF the
Carlist officers to bear arms ngainat Alfonso XII.
But the flower OF the Spanish population is still
a1rayed under the banner Of Legitimism. The
southerners Who fought for the Republic, and
are now fighting for the constitutional monarchy,
arc described by those who should know them as
miserable soldiers. One Of the Republican Gen.
erals who fell not long since is believed to have
met his death at tho hands Of his own soldiers
Who vera furious at his in1icting On them the
hardship Of real fighting They evidently
dreaded their own commander as much as the
enemy.
good instance OF the altered relations be-
tween European States since tue last war is fur
nished by the fact that :.
ia said to be unwilling - to recognize the new Gov
ernrnent OF Spain lest abe should give o1ense to
Germany by appearing anxious to take the lnitia-
tive. L il not to be wondered at that the Inter
Power should be somewhat oVerbearing, when
everywhere she hnds the nations PROSTATE at her
feet. Recently her Consul-Gensral IN serVia
claimed precedence by right OF seniority over
another Consul-G General. who, however, WAS also
3 political agent from his Government. diff
Guilty cnsued. and the Cabinet OF Berlin an
uounced that it could not recognize the rank Of
"agent," az it had not been recognized by the
Congress- Of Wanna in 1915. Thereupon all the
Consuls-General Of the Great Powers at Bel
grade, who were also agents, agreed to drop
their diplomatic titles to humor the Consular
representative OF Prussia The consequences
may be extremely inconVenient to themselves;
for the SerVian Government will, in all proba-
bility, refuse hencaforth to treat with them on
political questions and refuse them political in
formation.
GERMANY.
But, If reports from Berlin are true Germany
is about to lose her right arm; for Bismarck ia
tottering to bis fall, and his power is no. even
expected to last out the year. The Court the
aristocracy, the independent press, the Catho-
ica, are ali against and too strong for him. The
bankers, on the other hand, support him,-thus
showing how intimately they consider the
material prosperity Of the Empire to be
bound up with the domination Of its iron
Chancellor It still remains to be- seen
whether the principle OF Federalism will sue
ceed in Germany. Thus the Bayarian Bishops
have presented to their King q protest against
the introduction of the civil marriage law into
Bavaria but the Imperial Government is not
likely to allow King Ludwig much liberty Of
the Bava1ian Parliament would be q victory for
the Church over the Empire. and the Empire is
not in a mood to brook defeats, least OF all at
the hands Of the Roman Catholic clergy. Herr
Won Traitscke the celebrated German pub1icist,
has Just put forth volume, in which he advo-
Gates the
MORE COMPLETE ux1r1cAr1ox OF THE HAguEn-
LAND,
and hints that he would not be sorry to see all
the tributary Kings and Grand Dukes swept
away, In conjunction with Herr Treitackes
proposals may be taken the refusal Of Emperor
William to sanction the succession OF the Crown
princn Of Hanover to the Duch crown of Bruns-
wick, which will be his, or rather his father's
ing Duke. The next heir, by the salic
law, after the family Of ex-king Ernest
is the Duke of Cambridge; and it is
believed that the claims Of the English Com
mander-in-Chief wero at one time 1avorabIy con-
sidered ut Potadam. But public opinion will
probably urge the Emperor-King to annex the
province to Prussia. Whether such public optn~
ion viii be- manufactured or not is another al
fair. The 'reptile fund.-" as Prince Bismarck
terms the secret-setyice money placed ut bis dis
posal for the corruption Of journalistic amounts
to $75O.000, with which good deal may be done