Year: 1868




Revolution In spain-Reported Abd,cntior


Of the Queen.


From Madrid, by way of Paris and Lon
don and through the Atlantic cable, we
have the highly important intelligence
that the revolutionary movement which
has excited the Iberian peninsula actively
for many months past eliminated on Satur-
day in an insurrection against the throne
of Queen Isabella of Spain-the entire feet
\ serving off Cadiz with its commander, Adnsral
Topete, and the inhabitants Of Andalusia and
several of the towns in the provinces of the
south rising in active opposition to the Crown.
The Spanish generals who were arrested and
sent into exile in such summary manner
during the months of July and August have
returned from, as they allege, their several
places of banishment and take part in the
work of change, headed by Marshal de la
Tore. and an intense panic prevailed at court
in Madrid; on which city. it is said the in
surgents were marching in force, under
General Prim, yesterday


| TWAS rumored, indeed, in Paris on Saturday
evening that after the order of a hurried march
of troops to the South, under the command of
General Concha, the Queen of Spain had abdi-
Gated the throne. We are not, however, in
formed whether her Majesty had returned
to Madrid from San Sebastian, where
fact worthy of remembrance-she met the
Emperor and Empress of France in imperial
interview last Friday, or whether the royal
manifesto was issued from this strongly forti-
fed position, near to the French territory and
almost in the presence and under the protec-
ton of Bonaparte. 1t may have been accom-
plished on the soil of France, for the ad-
vices state that the Queen crossed from San
Sebastian to Biarritz, following almost imme-
diately after Napoleon, but was again in Spain
and on her way to the capital.


The news reports received from Spain dur
ing considerable period of time just passed
have alternated spasmodic excitements and
lulls towards the affairs of the kingdom
by announcements of rebellion, followed
almost Immediately by assurances of peace
and loyalty. Should the contents of
the kilograms published to-day prove
more accurate and reliable should the system
of reaction, compression and public terror in
augurated or at least attempted in Spain,
particularly since the death of Narvaez, have
produced their natural, almost inevitable, re-
suit in fusion and outbreak of the discon-
tented of all factions for the overthrow of the
monarchy in the person of Queen Isabella, and
if that movement has induced, or is likely to
induce, her abdication, then, indeed, may we
prepare to hear of the initiation in the south
west of Europe of that vast movement of
POLITICAL executive and dynastic change by
radical reform, popular vote, and mayhap
war, for the commencement of which the
public eye has been lately turned toward Cen
trail Europe, as between Germany and France.


Queen Isabella's evident recent approach
toward pleading to Napoleon for support must
have been highly gratifying to the Emperor; but
if the Queen has abdicated, and should Spanish
revolution assume the form of tumult, it
may be that French soldiers will be employed
as the pacifcators of the peninsula, and that
the Bonaparte will be enabled to found
new throne for the Prince and Princess
Girgenti on the new principle of ple5escite or
universal suffrage. Should this not be prac-
ticable, why not annex the disorganized terri
tory to France and "rectify" with the free
dom of the Mediterranean before turning to
the Rhine? It is difficult to conjecture from
what quarter aid by "divine right can come
to the Bourbon Of Spain. So it may be that
the dynasty of France, parcenu since Water
loo, may befriend its most ancient neighbor
in the hour of misfortune, and to its own
gain. The news from Spain is exceedingly
interesting and most probably true.