, 1875-10-16

themselves for the spoils Of Office and the
l~uxuries of power.
The capture of SEQ de Urgel is the
climax of a series of movements begun
months ago, when Jovellar and Martinez
Campos started forth to graple with Dor
regaray in the Teruel. Almost for the
first time deliberate plan seems to have
been formed, and worled ont with en-
couraging steadfastness, Which OF the
two Generals furnished the brain and
which the hand may be uncertain, but
whatever share JovelIar has had in the
business, it is pretty plain that Campos
is q daring, stubborn, and vigorous leader.
BY acting ia close concert, as well as.
towards a definite aim, the Carlists were
expelled from Cantavieja, the famous
stronghold of Cabrera forty years ago,
deprived of much fighting m%ateriel, and
gradually but surely pushed northward
back over the Ebro. D~orregaray, indeed,
was forced to display all his adroitness
in slipping past the columns, and although
he is reported to have found a temporary
resting-place in the province of Lerida,
which is doubtful, recent events have
made it plain that his opponents success
fully cut him off from SEQ de Urgel and
the bands in northern Catalonia. He
seems to have gone northward, and to have
lowered about the spurs of the Pyrenees
in Northern Aragon, but not to have pass
ed the Noguera. Thus isolated, Lizarraga
and the Bishop of SEQ de Urgel had no
choice, except to make a desperate defence
or surrender. Neither Saballs on the side
of La Cerdana, nor Dorregaray under the
peaks of the Pyrenees to the westward,
could help them. Tie action of the
French Government in permitting a con-
voy to pass through their territory aud
reach Campos by way of Puycerda, and
in maintaining a strong frontier-guard,
shows how materially they could have
helped to crush CarIism at the outset, had
the parties dominant in Versailles been
reasonably loyal to Spain. She owes,
IN great part, a protracted civil war to the
intriguers who preferred a Chambord, or
even o B0naparte, to a national republic.
These politicians have been somewhat
Modified by the restoration of Monarchy,
and constrained by the remonstrances of
Bismarck, who in opposing Carlos certain
ly expresses European opinion. Thus by
following out a deliberate plan, acting
in masses, or by weIl-articulated but wider
movements, and also being aided by
France, the AIfonsist Generals paralysed
the marauding CarIiSt bands, and fairly
Melted the chivaIrous Lizarraga, and
the bold prelate who has al least
risked his neck for his King, in the
old city and castle, which, sitting between
the BoIira and the Segre, above the point
where the mountain torrents'rush together,
blocks up one OF the roads into France.
The siege has been resolutely pressed,
the resistance has been soldier-Iike, aud
the surrender, although a successful as
sault might'h ave been delivered, has been
effected by famine. The chief merit in
the operation seems to have lain in the
skill which rendered relief impossible, and
in the prompt seizure, at all costs, of those
points of vantage whence absolute COM
mand of the castle, its water-supply, and
means of active defence could be obtained.
Martinez Campos, the K%ing-maker, de-
serves the credit, at least, for this work.
He more than paved the way for the up
shot-uncouditional surrender-which the
arrival of Jovellar made inevitable. Lizarra-
ga seemst to be a Spaniard of thenobler type,
and, respected alike in both camps, one
cannot be surprised that, while he was
liberated on parole giving his word, like a