, 1875-05-29

nv kAAltpNttA III OCSb pItiIOlS az b CfJUu@
maud. "P~"plr," he says, " met MORT
ZONES CONCHA, and other able Gene ais
siding about Ia til" NJ l'irId streets. They
"s'e Their places filled with QUESADA, y
mere m%'rtinrt, BAssoLs, u spi. ituaIist
" nj the Question arises whether the IN.
efficiency If the War Office is owing to
:" want OF goodwill. or Of capnciry." A ru.
m"ur, which our Correspondent transmits
to W this morning. inspires nS with the
hope that thu Madrid War Office is ut last
disposed to acknowledge the bInnder it
committed III laying its on y two capable
frn"r"ts on The shelf; but we are not
over sanguine hat the Influences which
Inspired that ftlaI resolution may not gain
Tue upper han once more. The cause Of
s"ch preferences aud such rriecriops il,
unfortunately, but too obvious. 1t arises
from those political diff ulties which weak
en- every Spanish Government. Just as
The Ministers of Qnrvn CHRISTINA were
"fr"ll t" emp ~ c rain Genera $ whom
Ii1ey suspected of being r pnblicaus or
Cd' Is :, So thps- ct KING ALFONSO ,GnaliV
ar al some ut the Soldiers who are ready
TO Ott'r him their swords. 1t was foudiy
hop d tia the young Monarch would 50
tar profit by thu errors OF his mother as 10
pa hlmSe t Al the head of the Nation, in
stead OF Il Party; but i is imp,>sible to
dO so when thee IL no uuit,d Marion TO
lead. The KING has fnu "a by this time
mat he must lac precisely Ihr same i~aI-
Ou>ifs, enmirie>, and riva ri.s IA thos. W llch
m de bis m,fhr,'s reign u series of Pronun-
ciamicntos, ft'y closed by a Reyo urpon
Spain hh~ l"aInt uorhing sine the Iethroue-
IN mt Of Q pu I>AB lila. Were the Car
lIS'S put low ! 10 morrow, The politicians
"t Madrid WO I'D instantly SEEK to turn tbpIr
wis aud lnr G nnrAls heir swords, aga nat
each other. Such plrtisAn>hip as that If
NARvAEz, who said o. his alh b,l HIT he
could not forgive his enemies becaus- he
had Killed them all, IS not to be Stihrd in a
t"w years. But We might certainly have
exp ctrd the Young KING 10 be better ad-
vISed than ia fling bllnSr.t iota The arms Of
that Clerical and AbSolutist Party which
nrv"r gains "a triumph without running it.
self by blind exercises. The punishment of
the Madrid Professors for uttering some
mild y Liberal opinions is one OF those arts
which raise mon" rnmiti-S even than cruel.
~ itstl Il, aud il will do more than disgust
the whole OF the Liberal Pa'ry in the
Peninsula. Were the Cortrs sitting the
Mlnis'ers would scarcely have dared to
commit so wantOn an act of tyranny and
tin y show the terms on which they stand
with the nation by the postponemtnt of a
General Election. although the f st thing
a CUnStitu ianhI Government might be
expected to do after the accession of a
King woul b. to summo a new Parlia-
ment. On the other hand, it is a su-
p%eiiiclal inference that the Government of
KIM ALFONSO must continue to be the foe
OF rational liberty brcause he has fallen for
the moment into the hands of the Par
ty which helped to ruin his mother.
Az h. cannot support himself without the
aid of the Liberals, they will dictate terms
to him in the long run. The CarIists on
the other hand, are 80 dependent on
the good will of the prizes hood, and so
hated in all tn" centres Of SpaniSh l~Gtelli-
gencr, that, it they were to triumph, they
would b. obliged to di>daln even on appear.
anc OF respect for The Parliamentary insri-
tutiOnS, and to keep down the critics by
main force. Such an event may. no doubt,
be dismissed as b-yOnd The bounds Of pro-
liability ; bur, meanwhile. the partisanship
of the KINGS Ministers, the disunion of
the nation, and the want Of money rob his
armies of energy. The Generals at the