New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-03-10


too conservative to be popular, into mon
archy where CASTELAR, is the only Liberal. Inc
changes the last few months have witnessed
in the Peninsula are as destitute OF gradations
and logical transitions as the dreams OF fever.
No one who values his reputation 10r sagacl,S
will care to say what changes in the immedi-
ate future are improbable. AS to impossiDil-
ties. there is but ono in Spain-and that Is
good and peaceful government.
We have not by q great deal seen the last
of Carlism. The present pretender is young
and vigorous; of great personal strength ana
courage; of rather deficient intellect, ii is true,
but this in connection with his other qualities,
only makes him the better fitted to carry on
an endless war. He has no heart nor brain to
appreciate the mseries he causes. lie If never
so happy himself as in the field, and 1t Is APP
parently without fear or annoyance that lie
looks forward to u lifetime of civil tumult'
No appeal to his conscience would have any
effect upon him. He believes, with an earnest
ness of which sensible people can form no
idea, that he is the rightful King of Spain, md
that it il his sacred duty to rescue his realm
from the hands of usurpation. His notions OF
religion are az severe and simple as his ideas
King of Spain for the extirpatiOn of heresy, as
much as for the vindicatiOn the SalIclaw WIN
such views IA this, he is not likely to give the
contest finally. He has not mind enough to take
in the idea of giving ny his claims, and Ii he
had, every impulse of his nature, all his hopes,
desires and convictions would forbid 1t. Ills
kinsman. Henry of Chambord, would not COM
promise hairs breadth of his caprices to
insure his possession of the crown OF France
II is not likely that Don Carlos will give mp
his claims, when they agree with the religion
of his soul, and with every passion OF Ills me-
He is not driven into any paupers exile, no.
into the degrading choice which some adVen-
turers must make between submission to de-
feat or the service of a foreign power lie Is
enormously rich, through the legacy OF the late
Duke of Modena, and so possesses the means
either to live in retirement in princely style, or
TO foment intrigues and cOnspiracies at the
court of his victorious cousin. His family have
never especially distinguished themselves by
spending their own mon'y in public causes,
and it is not likely that Don Carlos will waste
his substance more than is necessary. He Will
more probably fulfill the promise OF his part
ING manifesto, and rest, and watch Ills hOnr
for beginning again his intcrminable struggle
for the crown of his Esreputablo ancestors.
He will not lack for opportunities. Before
he has spent year III this philosOphlc obser-
walton it is highly likely that the music will
begin once more in Madrid. 1t ia true that for
the moment the lethargy which follows eXhaus-
ton has seemed to possess the country, and
Don Alfonso, after he has properly celebrated
the overthrow of Carllsm, may count upon
some months at least of peaceabie enjoyment
of his sovereignty. His Ministers have Sue
ceeded in electing for him an almost unani-
nous reactiOnary Congress. The Pope has
thought best to suspend his warfare against
the provision of the Constitution authorizing
niggard liberty of religion. The army officers
are ut present too busy in intriguing for pro-
motions to care to 90 at once into new
trcasOns But this state of things will not
endure. There il the material for instruction
dormant in each regiment Of the army, and
each apartment of the royal palace. The pres
ence of the Queen, if she comes, will be enough
TO quicken the Camarilla into mischievOus life.
Every crisis in the Cabinet, every uproar Iii
the Cortes, every pronunciamentO in the bar
racks, will be carefully scanned by Don Carlos
and his stipendiaries and sooner or later he
will find encouragement in the disorders OF
the country to raise his furled banner anew in
the Biscayan hills.