, 1875-05-29

agree 10 abide by the practlccS VI CIVilZ5u
warfare. The AlfonNst General BLANC0
istsaid to have ha ! an interview with The
CarIist General EGANA for the purpose OF
coming to some a. rangement as to the way
in which each Of the armies sha treat its
prisoners. It is difficult to believe that
the savage passions even OF spanish G
bat will p rlnit either the Ministers OF the
KING or Don CARLOS to Continue the
senseless as we'll as the atrociOus practice
ot shooting ulmrned men in c'Id blood.
But thirty years ago the very idea OF
mercy did not seem to strike the minds OF
the rival chiefs MIRA ma lie wal for
Queen CHRISTINA more il ire fashion OF
the Spanlar,Is VINO conquered Mexico and
Peru than of a modern slider. tie strung
up peasants to the nearest tree 1t, even
upon compu sion, they had harbourei the
Car isis; and he systc natica ly sho'
t,Oops OF prisoners The Carflst chiefs
ZuMALAcARREGUE and CABRERA were equal,
~ ruthless b tches Of men were SHIT
or bayoner ed hours after the passions Of
a fight had CODED. The sick aud the
wounded were 'tten slaughtered. WO-
men we're put to death as we as men.
Nay, The cruelty was sometimes attend
ed by a Castilian pollteness which made
it m re horrible than tn most brutal
fury 1t was obvious hat nothing could
touch the heart Of a Ca list chief who
would C 'urteously give a p isoner q light
for his cigarette before sending him to
be shot. Such atrocities make the re-
cord of the st Carlist War the most
infamous chapter in recent hi tory. and
the guilt must be pretty equally divided
between the two parties. Were the old
precedents 10 be far her followed, we
doubt whether in he changed temper
OF Europe, neighb 'urlng natlOns
would al ow the contest to be confirm d..
Blu, although there have been many
outbursts of barbarism on both sides
during the present war. there has on
the whole been q CRAFTY ng progress
towards the usages Of civilized mankind.
That fact, however, may be expIainrd
by such "a Iangnor on Doth 81 4 as may
tend to proIong the war instead Of making
il short and f rec. Thirty years ag, the
peo lie If the Basque Provincrs aud Of
Navarro WIRE in The flush y Of nope that thy
would couQ Ter the throne 70, the Lngiti-
mate King, and that he in his turn would
give them back those ancient liberties
which had been religiously respected by
the grent"st Mnnarchs Of Slain. They
were drawn to the side Of Don CARLOS
becaus', when hs was President of his
brothers Council Of STATE, h. had pro-
tested against The design to destroy rhrir
Pow cial rights. r ,sSIonlfeiy attached
to the neutrality-suspicious. which they had
etjoyed for IN re than eight hundr"d y 'ars,
they brew Themselves with all the %tunati-
Cism Of their race round a Prince vino,
as their leaders anl their priests told hem,
was not only their protector, bnr had also
been robbed of his rights by an infamous
conspiracy. ha,ched by the advpn urers of
Mrlrid and ind ,btrd for lis SUCCESS to the
ious imbecility of a dying King. AS
they fought for Dan CARLOS they hA'f lost
sight Of their own Provincial aims in the
contemplation Of his claims, and the an
tique character of their loyalty gavs u
gliding It romance even to their atrocities.
The modern CarIists have not, lndte /, lost
the memory of their liberties, aud Don
CARLOS has been obliged to give a solemn
pledge that those rights shall be Restored;
nor have they ceased TO make loyalty to
their King a pat OF their religion; but
they do not display the old energy and
6rrcenssS. Nor is the rest of the ma ion 80