Year: 1867

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Parts Correspondence London Times, august 10.


Although the report that General Prim had
entered Spain has been contradcted and is
apparently untounded, the Paris Liberte never
tbeless insists that an insurrection has by this
time broken out in that country. We still await
telegraphic confirmation of the Liberties con-
VictOn; but there would certainly be nothing
surprising in ITS proving true. The tyranny
and gross mlsrue of successive Governments,
and especially of the present one, have long
been rlpening revolution. And this is the
season of the year when such things generally
break out south of the Pyrenees. The last
attempt-that of Prim-was made in winter,
and turned out signal failure, not from want
of sympathy on the part of the people, but
because many who were to have taken proml-
nent part in it were either lukewarm or cowed
and broken down at the last moment. Since
then the atrocities committed-the wholesale
shOOtings and transportations and innumerable
acts OF injustice and oppression-have exaspe-
rated the nation to such point that 1t is diff
cult to believe the summer will end without an
outbreak. No man, however aloof he may
keep from politics, is safe from prison and even
sonal insecurity the nation is eager to escape.
This it can only do at the price OF rebellion,
which we may reasonably expect to prove the
most serious that has occurred in Spain since
the death of Ferdinand


This time it is not the overthrow of the Cabi-
net, but that of the dynasty that will be aimed
at, and doubtless achieved. The days of the
reign of the innocent Isabel =" at il was the
fashion to call her in her infancy, may be looked
upon as numbered The difference of views
not long ago existing upon that head among the
members of the liberal party has given way
under repeated persecution, and the cry will no
longer be Down with the Minister and long
live the Queen" but away with them all.n
The most knotty point to consider is, who shall
succeed her. The idea of an Iberian empire,
long cherished by q considerable party in
Spain, has become less and less practicable.
The Portuguese are naturally little inclined to
union which for them would be absorption:
their King, Notwithstanding his good qualities is
hardly the stamp of man to smooth away, by his
personal energy and sagacity, the difficulties in
the way of so great scheme; II will probably
be necessary to look elsewhere. Pretenders will
not be wanting. French legitimist paper has
Just INDUCED In glowing panegyric of the chief
of the younger branch, Don Carlos de Bourbon,
whose high qualities and noble intentions 1t
Vaunts as peculiarly adapting him to grace a
crown and insure his country happiness. Many
will probably think, however, that it will not be
worth while to expel the reigning Bourbon in
order to put another of the same family in her
place. Such may be expected to be the feeling
in Spain, where the name of Don Carlos is pain.
fully associated with long wars and much misery.
1t is difficult to suppose that If revolution
occurs in Spain its leaders will be unprepared
with substitute for the power they design to
overthrow. That the throne of the present soVe
reign is highly insecure admits not of doubt to
any who are acquainted with the present state


OF things in Spain.