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di} | t y ‘j pee Tho Prince of the Asturias Proclaimed King of Spain. Tsabella’s Son on the Throne of His Ancestors. The Army ard Navy Support Him. PROCLAMATION OF THE NEW DYNASTY. The New King Ready to Start for Madrid. A MINISTRY CONSTITUTED. VEx-Queen Isabella's Reply to the Spaniards on Behalf of Her Son. “The Republic Dies with the Year. HIS MAJESTY TELEGRAPHS TO THE POPE The Sword of St. Peter in Youth- ful Hands. SPANISH HISTORY DURING FORTY YEARS. Pants, Dec. 31, 1874, A telegraphic despatch received in this city from Madrid, under to-day’s date, says that Prince Alfonso, son of ex-Queen Isabella, has been proclaimed King of Spain, and is recog- nized by all the forces comprising the.armics -of the North and Centre. ‘THE SPANISH NAVY FAVORABLE TO THE YOUTH- FUL ASPIRANT TO THE CROWN. Sanranpeg, Dec. 31, 1874. The navy is favorable to Prince Alfonso. SERRANO HASTENS TO THE CAPITAL, Marshal Serrano has gone to Madrid. A GOVERNOR RESIGNS. The Governor of Santander has resigned. SANTANDER QUIET. The town of Santander is quiet. +& BOYALIST LADY ENTERS SPAIN FROM FRANCE. Pants, Dec. 31, 1874. The Spanish Consul at Bourg Madame, Department of Pyrenees Orientales, has noti- fied the sub Prefect of Bayonne that Donna Blanca, wife of Don Alfonso, brother of Don “Carlos, has crossed the frontier into Spain and proceeded toward Seo de Urgel. “TIE KING ACKNOWLEDGED RY THE ARMY, NAVY AND SERRANO. Pants, Dec. 31—Evening. Additional despatches from Spain state that ‘Prince Alfonso has been invited to visit the ‘army of the North. ‘¢he ships in the harbor of Santander have hoisted the yYoyal flag. Marshal Serrano acquiesces. THE KING'S ACCESSION ANNOUNCED RY THE MADRID MINISTRY. The Spanish Minister of the Interior has sent the. following despatch to the Governors of the provinces: — “Alfonso the Twelfth has been unanimously proclaimed King by the nation, army and Ministry. A regency has been formed under the Presidency of Conavas Deleastillo, with- outa portfolio, We hope your patriotism will induce you to firmly maintain the great inter- - ests confided to you.” CARLISM DEAD. The Alfonsists consider that Carlism has received a death blow. THE QUEEN MOTHER OFFICIALLY CONGRATU- Ex-Queen Isabella has reccived the follow- ing despatches: — “All the Powers have responded enthu- siastically to the proclamation. “Primo DE Rivera, “Captain General of Madrid.” “We pray Your Majesty to transmit the news ‘to your son. We congratulate you on this grand triumph, achieved without bloodshed.” This telegram is signed by General Primo de Rivera and Canovas Delcastillo, “HE QUEEN'S RESPONSE IN BEHALF OF HER SON, THE KING, Pants, Dec. 81, 1874. Isabella, in response to the despatch of General Primo de Rivera, sent the follow- ang telegram: — 4 “The King proceeds to Spain immediately.” DUTIFUL TO THE CHURCH. Alfonso has telegraphed to the Pope asking his blessing and promising that he will, like his ancestors, defend the rights of the Holy See, His MAJESTY'S MINISTRY. King Alfonso’s Miistry is announced as follows: — Minister of Foreign Affrirs..Casiro, Minister of Justico.........Cardonas. Minister of War........... Jovellar, \ Minister of Finance. . Salaverria, Minister of Marine.... ....Molius. {finister of the Interior. .. .Robledo. Tinister of Commerce... ...Orovio, inister of the Colonies... , Ayala. \ TO THE SEAT OF GOVERNMENT. fomao did not pass through Paris, but has | | States wanted to bu, NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, JANUARY 1, 1875. ALONSO THR TWELRTHL f= rman’ "°°" ‘THE TROOPS IN THE PIELD. General Martinez Campos has entered Valencia at the head of the troops that were sent to oppose him when he pronounced for Alfonso. The Carlist leaders Dorregaray, Alvarez and others have entered Catalonia. WHAT THE KING 64ID TO AN ENGLISH INTER- ‘VIRWER, Lonpor, Jan. 1—5:30 A. M. The Times correspondent at Paris tele- , graphs to that paper that he has had an inter- view with Alfonso, who is in that city. He stated that he was ready to start for Spain, but it was necessary for him to await a de- spatch, which is expected to-day (Friday). He had expected the news of his proclama- tion. His mother will remain én Paris. He concluded as follows:—‘I am not the king of a party. My Ministry will be com- posed of men of all shades,” SKETCH OF ALFONSO THE TWELFTH OF SPAIN. Alfonso the Twelfth, son of the ex-Queen Isabella, who has been prociaimed King of Spain, was born on the 28th of November In the year 1857. He has consequently Dassed the seventeenth year of his age, He was baptized Alpnonse Fravovis d’Assisse Yerdinand Pie Jean Marie de la Conception Gregoire. His Holiness the Pope was one of tne sponsors (by proxy), and honored Isabella and her Jamily by permitung the mrant to nave his own name, Jean Murie. ‘Tue young Prince has been educated in a very careiul and liberal manner, in sirict accordance with the disvipline o1 the Catholic Church and the healtuiui progressive ideas of tne day. He is robust in person, 01 active habits and has enjoyed @ good traiming uuder military in- structors, French and Sugiish. Tne Prince of the Asturias 1s younger thap the Prince Imperial of France by & year and cight months; but it has been aiready inumated by Koglisn juveniles in the Woolwich Academy, woo have known both of the young men, that {! the crowns of France and Spain were set up as the prizes of a fisticuif con- test between tne two the youthiul Spaniard would come off the victor in the “roped aiena,” ond the Engush boys are keen judges of pluck and muscie, ‘The swo Princes are, however, very excellent friends, SEETCH OF THE QUEEN MOTHER, ISABELLA II. OF SPAIN. Maria Lonisa Isabella de Bourbon, ex-Queen of Spain, the mother of the youthful King, was born on the 10in of October, in the year 1830. She is, consequently, forty-four years of aze. She is the daughter of Ferdinand VIL and of Christina, his fourth wife, and owed her throne to the fa- mous Pragmatic Sanction of the 29sh of March, 1830, which suppressed the Salic law in Spain and dispossessed her uncle, Don Carlos. Hence arose a civil war, which continued seven years. Placed, in 1822, under the immediate guardianship of her mother, who was declared Queen Regeut, she was threatened with the loss of ner throne in her vely de Immediately after the death of Ferdinand VIL, in September, 1833, a formidable insurrection broke iorth in tae north, under the leaderstip of Zumalacarreguy, and forced the Queen Kegent to conclude a quadruple defensive alliance with England, France and Portugal on the 22d April, 1834, as well as to make important con- cessions to the liberal party. A decree accorded @ constitution and two chamoers, The Cortes consecrated by a vote the disinnheritance of Don Carios and the rights ot Isabella, which; threat ened by continual revolts and by the successes oi the Carlist generals, were finally imposed on Spain by the victories of Espartero, anda the decisive capitulation of Bergara on the 8ist August, 1839, in consequence of which Don Carlos went into France as an exte, The effects of the civil War rendered internal government extremely" aifficult, Already two grand parties began to ve formed, the Muderados or conservatives, ana the Exaltados or liberals, The Exaltados turned for a time to their own profit the embarrassment of jovernment, To the Miuistry of Murtinez Le La osa had succeeded tie Mendizaoal Ministry, Alarmed by the revolts of Saragossa and madrid, Menduabal enlarged the electoral law and intro- duced other retorms. ‘The mnsurrectionary juntas, excited all Europe. The suitors for her hand Were ber cousin Francis of Assisi; the Count Tra- pani, son of the King of Napics; Count Monte- molin, the son of Don Carlos, who was supported by Russia and by the other Courts of the North: finally, Prince Leupold oi Coburg, who was brougnt Jorward by Engiaud. in consequence of divisions in the Spanish government and between France and “at one French policy triumphed. The Queen married her cousin Franc.s, and her sister married the Duke de Montpensier, King Louis Philippe’s son. The agitation which these marriages caused in Spain gave strength for a time to the Spanish liberals, Tne Queen seemed to incline in their direction, and to shake olf the yoke of ner mother by cailing to the head of affairs Salamanca and Serrauo in September, 1847, but in the following month Narvaez was again at the head of power, This Minis‘er, to prevent any effect trom tie Feb- ruary revolution in Spain, redoubled oppression. ‘Tne Queen made advances to Austria ana Prussia, which had always reiused to recoguize her; she enterec for the first time into diplomatic relations With those Powers; she likewise sent troops to aid in the re-establishment of the Pope. On toe other hand, she broke off her relations wiih England. In Spain itseit anew attempt at insurrection in 1848 and 184) by Cabrera and Count Montemolin ‘Was vigorously put down. A series of palace in- trigues led to nothing but the humiliation o tie | husband of the Queen and the consoldation of tha Narvaez Mtotstry. In January, 1451, however, it had to give way to the Bravo-Murillo Mtuistry, which promised liveral reiorms and vegan vy a concordat with the Pope. On the 20th December was born the Queen’s first living child—sbe hud been confined tue previous year of a stilloorn child, On the 2d of February, 1852, the Queen was sligntly wounded with a@ poinard by an insane priest named Martin Merino. ‘Ihe attempt at assassination, taken in connection with the new despouc policy whicn was then dominating Eurupe, was seized as & pretext ior reactionary Measures, against which the Cortes attempted to fight vy electing as their President @ liberal, Martinez de ia Rosa, The Min- istry dissolved the Chamber and presented | & project for the revision of the constitation. the numver o| Members in the Chamber of Deputies was to be reduced; the budget was to be fixea once for all; the liberties, civil and municipal, of Spain were, directly or indirectly, to be crushed. The Chamber o! 1853, 1n which some of the mode- rados had entered into an alliance with the liberal Opposition, presented an enormous majority against the government. The Champer was dis- solved On the 8th of April, and, as the result of a Jong Ministerial crisis, men representing absolut- ism rose to the head 0: affairs, To the banisnment of many generals belonging to the constitutional party, the army replied by a sedition, at the head of which were Generals O'Donnell, Massina, Serrano, Ros de Vlano and Dulce, the commander of the Madrid garrison. Conquerors at Viculcaro, they calied Spain to in- surrection in the name of the constitution of 1837. At the end of a short War of about a month in An- dalusia & new ministry, called the Forty Hours’ Minisiry, was formes on the 18th July by the Duke de Rivas, and overthrown on the 20th by the in- surrection of Madrid, The Queen Mother fied to France, and the Queen entrusted to Espartero the formation oi anew ministry, A republican insur- rection Was Suppressed on the 30th July, and on the 8th November the Cortes, with Pascal Madus as their President, consecrated by a large majority the monarchical principle. The revolution whico had been achieved pro- | people was issued. ; Marshal by the regulation of the Pyrenean frontiers with | for the succession, which nas continued { France; by @ convenuon with France, Belgium, Sardinia and Switzerland, relative to the organi- ‘Za'ion of international telegrapuic service. iD, Whose Queen had not been wholly recognized by Russia, ned neutral during the Crimean war. There have veen strange reports regarding. the + Queen of Spain’s character and condu On these Teports we pronounce no opinion, The Queen's husband seemed to bé a very insignificant creat- ure, and the court of Spain was regarded one of the most corrupt in Europe, THE EX-QUEEN’S PROTEST AGAINST HER DE- THRONEMENT. Her ex-Majesty, dating at Pau, issued the follow- ing protest against the act of her dethronement by the Spantards:— To Tux Sraxianvs—A conspiracy, for which the his- fory of no European people offers a parallel, has Just fidag Spain into all the horrorsaf anarchy, ‘the army and navy, which the nation so generously kept up, and whose services I have always been so happy forgetting glorious traditions and trampling upon the most sacred oaths. turn against their country and juvolve her in mourning apd desolation, The cry of the rebels raised in Cadiz Bay, and re- peated in a few provinces by purt of the army, Must echo in the hearts of the immense majorit ot Spaniards as the forerunner, of @ storm which peri the interests of religion, ‘he principles of legitimacy and ht, and the independence and honor of spain. The Tetattbleneries pf defections, the acts of incredible disioyalty which bave orcurred within xo shorta space of time, offend my dignity as a Spaniard even more than they affect my dignity as a Queen. Let not the Greatest enemies ol authority themselves, in their in- sane d imagine that a power which emanates from so high'an authority cau be conferred, moditiod oF by the the. impulse of je intervention ot brute ‘force, under i Goer to the first nd the provinces, yielding first, pressure srviolenee submit for a time tothe yoke of the insur- gents, soon’ public feeling. urt in its inmost and noblest Darts, will shake off its torpor, and show the world that soldiers. If the towns the ‘eclipse of | reason of honor im Brain. cannot last long. Un‘ that time arrives have thou a8 Queen i ‘oper, SF prain, and actor due delibration aid sound advice, to seek in the states ofan august aliy the security requisite to enable me to act, under these difficult circumstances, in ‘contormity with my position asa Queen, and with the duty that devolves on me to transmit unimpaired to my son my rights, sanctioned by law, acknowioged aud sworn to by the nation, and fortified by thirty-five years of sacrifice, vicissitudes and tender affection. Wiule siting toot ona foreign soll my heart and eyes turned toward that which isthe land of my birth and that of my children. I hasten to frame my expucit and formal protest betore God and betore mankind, declar- oy ‘the force to which I yield in leaving my king- dom cannot invalidate my rights nor lessen nor com- Promise them in any wav. Neither can those rights be affected in any way by the aots of the revolutionary overnment. aud stil less by the regulations of its assem- ies, which niuse needs be formed unger the pressure of demagogic tury, and under ovvious conditions of vio- lence as regards ‘the conscience and will of the people, Our fathers maintained a protracted but’ successtui struggle tor the religious faith and the imdepeudence of spain. The, present generation has unceasingly toiled to connectall that was great and wlorious in past ages with what modern times contain that 1s sound and fruitful, Revolution, that moral foe to traditions and legitimate progress, wars agaiust all those principles which constitute the vital strength, the soul and the manhood of the Spanish natton, ‘ioerty in its unlimited expansion and in all. its manifestations attacking Cutholle unity, the monarchy and the legal exerci-e of power, disturos family ties, destroys the sanctity of the domestic hearth and Kills virtue and patriot Tt you think that the crown of »pain, worn by a Queen whose fortune it has peen to connect her name with the social and political regencration of the State be the symbol of those sound principles, you will, as £ hope, remain faithful to your oaths and’ to your cree: You Will allow to pass away. as a scourge, ‘the revol tionary vortex, in which ingratitude, felony and am- bition jostle each other, You will live in the assurance toat even in the hour of mistortune } shall omit nothing uphold that symbol, apart from which Spain has not a single endearing recollection nor a single sustaining hope. ‘The insane pride of a tew is for a time upsetting and distracung the whole nation, throws men's souls into a state of confusion and socte Into a slate of anarchy. ‘There is uo room in my heart for hatred, even against that small number. I should fear lest any feeling of petty resentment should weaken the feeling of deep tenderness I entertain toward those loyal men’ who have risked their lives and shed their biood in detence of the throne and public order, and foward all those Spaniards wito witness with grief and terror a triumphant insurrection—a shamet the history of our civilization, In the noble land whence now { address you, and everywhere, I willdeplore, without allowing myselt to be overcome, the misiortunes ot my beloved’ Spain, which are my owm Had I not to support me, among many others, the example of the most venerable ot. sovereigns, a inodel of resignation and courage. also a rey to bitier tribulations, I should derive strenuth to Aovgo from the coufidence in the lovalty of my subjects, from the, justice of my cause, and; above, all, from iny frust in the power of Him who holds the fate ofempires in ards. in itonarchy embodying fifteen centuries of strugcles, atriotism, victories and grandeur cannot be destroyed byifitteen days of perjury and treason, ‘Let us have faith in the ruture: the glory of the bpanish people was ever connecied with its kings; the misfortunes of its kings ever fell heavily on the people. | In my firm and put: riotic hope that right, honor and legitimacy will be maintained, your minds and your efforts will ever. unite with the energetic decision and maternal affection of your Queen, ABELLA. CHATEAU DE Paw 30th September, 1868, THE QUEEN’S LIFE IN EXILE. Reports from San Sebastian and Pau, written goon alter the dethronement of Queen Isabella, gave the following account of her ex-Majesty’s life in exile thus:—Secluded, almost tn soiitude, in her palace, through whose saloons streams of courtiers and guests so lately passed, the Queen is reported to give vent to bitter sarcasms in speaking of her lonely and deserted condition. Her Intendant, Mario’, who—to everybod,’s indignation—is seen rutting about the streets of San Sebastian, appears to be Her Majesty’s only confidant. Now that her reasons for postponing her departure and resisting the Wise advice of the few tuithful triends remaining to her are known, the Queen, as a woman and a mother, is regarded with supreme indifference, The inspector of the North of Spain Ratiway is continually in attendance, awaiting Her Majesty’s pleasure to give a fourth order of departure, the royal carriages still re- maining in the station, MONARCHICAL LEGITIMACY IN SPAIN. Don Carlos is by many regarded as the Henry V. of Spain, This, however, the young King’s friends say, is not the case. Ferdinand VIL, the grandfather of Don Alfonso XII., was the elder brother of Don Carlos, whose grandson is now making war on the Spanish lines of railway. Don Carlos, indeed, lays claim to being the legitimate sovereign in virtue of the Salic law, which preyatled in Spain from 1718 to 1789. This was @ French innovation, introduced into Spain by Philip V., grandson of Lows X1V., who himseli ascenaed the throne as tue heir of Donna Maria Theresa. The rignt ot ie- males to inherit the Spanish crown has, however, been recognized tor seven centuries, The salic law, too, was expunged from the Code of Spain in 1789. The natural successor to Ferdinand was his only child, Donna Isabel, and altnough the King, when dangerously ii in 1832, Jent his hand to the signature of a document which recognized his brotner Don Cartos as his successor, he after- ward, upon his recovery, in 1833, swore fidelity, so his daughter, in the Church of St, Jeronie at Madrid. These are the facts upon whicn the rivat claims are based, and by their ligot the young King-now claims his throne, THE SERRANO INTERREGNUM. On the 4th of October, 1868, General Prim returning trom his last banishment trom Spain, sailed from London for Cadiz, and on the 9th was | received in Madrid with boundless enthusiasm. On the 13th of October his memorable | manifesto proclaiming revolution to the Spanish Provisional government of the Kingdom was vested in the President of the Cortes, The leading spirit of the nation was now Prim, and against his life many | pilots were laid, instigated by the powerlul mem- bers of jealous and secretly opposing factions. He was, however, appointed Commander-in-Chier | of the armies of Spain, and was immediately con- | firmed in tnis supremely important position by | the vote of the Cortes, November9. Under his | orders the Captain Generals declared the provinces of Spain in a state of war, thus’ placing every part of the dominion under the military rule and constituting | Prim its real dictator. Serrano shortly aiterward | declared ior @ monarchical ,overnment and a | popular Teaction tock place, in the course of which | rim was movbed in the streets of Madrid | and there were small riotous demonstra | tions of a similar character in a iew of the other principal cities. Undoubtedly this excitement, insignificant as ic now appears, | influenced the fears Of the police of the Cortes, and on the 1st of January, 1869, Marsbal Serrano was created Regent of the kingdom, In August there was another demonstration in favor of @ monarchy. Queen Isabella, on the 25th ceeced in a ifberal direction, From January to June, 1855, constituuional questions were dis- cussed, Tne appointment o: M, Madoz to the Ministry of Finance Wa8 signatized py the famous. law of desamortization, Wuich excited the hopes of the democrats, But a riot at Valencia and troupies in Andalusia caused, between Kspartero and O'Donnell, disputes, Which were envenomed by personal questions, and which were mani- Jested on the occasion oO: certaia modifications in the Cabinet. The Cortes nad already voted nearly a hundred liberal laws, wheo | the supposed revolutionary actitude of bspariero Was finally condemned by the Queen. On tne 14th Ol July, 1856, ue Was lorced to retire before tue preierence accorded to nis rival. A tormidable insurrection broke forth at Madrid, Malaga, Bar- cclona and Saragossa. Rapidiy suppressed it gave Tise vo rei.ctionary measures, the ierease and | Mtensity of which Jed to the fall of O'Donnell and to the recall of Narvaez in October, 1856, By a contrary effect the excess Of reaction prowzhi, In October, 1857, the downlall qf tae Narvaez Caoimet and the Armero Mom Ministry, which was mod- erately liber A oat held the chief power during a year or two The Queen quitted Spain, having been dethroned by & revolution, on the 80th of September, 1868. Soe went to reside at Pau, in France, and nas con- tinued ner occupauon of the ancient eastle since, ever Asserting ver own claim and that oi her son to the crown of Spain. On the 25th of sune, 1870, | she issued a proclamation in which she abdicated her personai claim in favor of her son, tue | Prince of the Asturias. ‘This fact was formally noted to the surrounding governments, | The reign of Isavella 1. was signalized of late yedrs by Very animated negotiations witn America relative to the Island of Cuba, which the United | and ich Spain icfased to | sell, and against which in 1860 the adventurer Loven made an attempt which cost lim bts iife; | acts of June of the following year, renounced her claim to the throne g! Spain in Javor of her son, Don Alphonso Ferdinand-Pié-Jean-Marie, Prince of Asturias, tu whose favor ihe present revoiution {3 made, The crown aiready had been offered to a prince 01 the House of Portugal, who had refused to accept it, For some time the regal diadem went begging among the royal stock of Europe. Negotiations were opened between the Cortes and the head of the house of Honenzoliern, Em- peror William of Germany, with the object of seating a young prince ot tie family on the throne. Answer was made by the Emperor ihat he would not interiere in the governmental afairs of Spain, but would leave the decision of the question to the voice of the people. This negotiauion gave rise to the protest ol France against the accession of a prince of the Honen- zoliern family to the Spanish sovereignty, which subsequently led to the war with Germany, THE REIGN OF AMADEUS. On the failure o1 the project to procure aking German by blood, the vortes formally invited Prince Amadeus of Savoy to assume the govern- ment, and on the 16tu of November elected him King of Spain, On the 4th of December the deed of acceptance Was signed on beball of the Spanish people and the royal house of Savo; THE DEATH OF PRIM. 1 Marshal Prim had intrigued successfully tn favor of the election of Amadeus to the kingship, and had thereby incurred the intense hatred of the red republicans, who had always been inimical to his against whom he Jormerly proclaimed martial law. In December he was wounded , by the shot of an assassin, in the city of Madrid, and died a few hours afterward, while the new King was entering his domintons. The Spanish Parliament was formally opened by Amadeus in 1871, and his government was immediately organ- ized by the selection of able Ministers, No sooner | was Amadeus seated than the Oarlists claimed the page in | with varyin, fortunes ever ince. The grandees of the king .om now manifested a con- tempt for their lege lord Amadeus, and the Cortes also tmpeached the wisdom and ability of his Cabinet, passing a law which hedged the action ot bis Ministers with such cumbersome aud morti- fying fo:malities ag to renders the situ. ation of the executive branch of tae gove ernment very embarrassing, These unpropitious aiMiculties, growing more complicated and vexatious and tne King receiving continual slights and evidences of a lack of canfidence in his administration, Amadeus, with the advice of his fatner, Victor Emannuel, determined to abdicate the throne, and did so on the 11th of February, in the following message to the Cortes:— Panace or Mapai, Fob. The Spantan nation has conferred on me a wrest honor in choosing me 'o occupy the throne, an honor appre- ciated so much the more by ne in tat it was offered to me Anended by the diMeulties and perils involved in enterprise of ie onterp governing a nation so profoundly dis Sustained by the resolution pecultar to my race, which seeks out, rather than avoids, danzer, decided to in- spire myself solely with the interests of the coun‘ry and to place myself above ali parties, resolved to keep the oath which I had taken tn presence the Constituent Cortes — and disposed to Wake every sort of sacrifice to procure for this jant nation the peace it requires, the liberty it merits and the grandeur to which its glorious Distory and tie virtue and consiancy of its children give It « Just claim, I thougnt, thi commanding would be compensated py the hones! of my character: und that to avert the penis an surmount the difficulties which did not escape my view, should find a powertul aid in the sympathies of all Spaniards who love their country and desire to -put a end to ihe sanguivary and sterile condicts which have #0 ‘ong convulsed it. 1 now find that my good Intentions#led me astray, as during the two long years whicn have clapsed since L assuined the Crown of Spain that country Gks been in a continual contitct, and T each day find the era ot tran comin ore abd ore distant, it ever the enemies of the welfare of Spain were Yallanc soldiers, to fight against such All-d those who, with guage, * pamiat loers: but all the sword, the pen and spoken lan- uggravate the disasters of the nation, are rds; all invoke the name of their count contradictory clamor of partics it is impossable and still more impossible to discover the remedy tor so many evils, but without success: and bi © who swore to execute the legislation which exists cannot have recourse to any course that ix not strictly teal. No one will tax as marked by weakness of character the resolution which [ have determined on, and no peril could induce me to remove the crown Irom my viow the happlices of “the Rpanish nation. f have not been actuated by the danger incurred by the hire of ny auzus: consort, who at this solemn moinent, expresses, like myself, a desire that the perpetrators o vinced that my efforis could be only tutes and my projects irrealizable.”” such, gentlemen, are he motives which induced me to restore to the ‘nation and to you in its name the Crown which had been offered-me by the national will, and [here declare that [ renounce it for mysel!, my children and my successors. Be assured that lu giving up the Crown, Tdo net by any means set aside my at tachment for this Spain. as noble as she is unfortunate, and I feel no other regret than that of not huving been able to Insure to it that happiness which my heart in its sincerity had desired tor it and desires still AMEDEO, On the same evening on which the message of abdication was received is was accepted by the Cortes and the republican form of government was voted, THE REPUBLIC. A very important event in the history of Spain— a history so iruitiul in lessons ta governments of the present day, a perfect epitome of human lite, & kaleidoscope of events in the life of the world and an instructive volume to all—was the proclamation of the republic of Spain at Madrid, on February 11, 1873, The Cortes was then assembled and_ received the hews of theabdication of King Amadeus, That the Spanish Legislature was astonished may be readily understood. But the Cortes of that day appreciated the position in which they were placed, and the motion of Sefior Pi y Margall for the establishment of a republic in Spain was the following day the Cortes elected the follow- ing officers for the administration of the new-born Repubiic; Sefior Figueras, President o! the Coun- cil; Seflor Cordoba, Minister ol War; Sefior Piy Margalil, Minister of the Interior; Seior Nicolas Salmeron, Minister of the Colomes: Sefor bé- ranger, Minister of Marine; Sefior Emilio Castelar, Minister of Foreign Alfairs; Seior Becerra, Minis- ter of Public Works, and Seflor Echegarry, Minister of Finance. Madrid for a time went info ecstacies over the unheard-of sensaion—the establishment of a republic in Spain. » The United States government was the first to recognize in an offictal manner the existence of the new Republic. Tuen came Don Carlos asa pretender to the turone, and a few Gays after the abdication of King Amadeus we find the redoubt- able Don Carlos in the field with a grand pronunciamento, deciaring himsel! King of Spain, and on tuat aay. he leit France with a suite of thirteen carriages The war which bas devastated the north of Spaia until the present day continued. The leading spirit of the new republican government—Seiior Castelar—at once announced to foreign Powers the great change which had taken place in Spain. Our government was the first to recognize the change. Then came a host of political intrigues that left in doubt the actual state o/ affairs in Spain, Switzerland tollowed the example ot the United States im recoguizii the Spanisn Republic. Meanwhile the followers of Don Carlos swelled up toa degree of importance and peril to the Republic that threatened its very existence, The Carlist war assumed formidablo proportions, and victories and deleats on the part of the republican troops were so equally divided that there was little confidence among toreign Powers in the continuance of the Kepublic, Alter ward Sefor Castetar becdme President of the Repuolic, aad during his administration many exciting events took place. First, there was a serious revolt against the constituted authorities at Cartagena, in witch a large proportion u1 the navy took part. Tie “Intransigentes,” as they are. how known, cost the Spanish government a deal of blood and money, They successtuily resisted | all efforts to subjugate them untila regular mili- | compelied them tosuecumb. Just at this time occurred the terrible aifair of the Virginius, in which so many American citizens were butchered in coid blood in Cuba under Spanish law. pain at that time was fighting the ‘“Intransigentes” at artagena, the Carlists and the Cuban patriots, Castelar soon lost his seat and Marshal Serrano became Jictator. Since that time Spauish bistory has been vf a | Kaleidoscopit nature, varying between republican- j ism, Carlism and a score 0! other political ism: @ triamph for the. old Queen that was 80 | ignominiously ejected from the Escurial a few years ago. O ENGLAND. * NAVIGATION INTERRUPTED—RAILWAY TRAVEL SUSPENDED AT SEVERAL POINTS. Lonpon, Dee. 31, 1974. Navigation on the River Humber above Hull is stopped by ice. The harbor of Goole, on the Ouse, is closed. The railways in Western England are blocked by snow. Some local lines have suspended traiic altogether. A dense fog hangs over this city to-day. SIXTY THOUSAND COLLIERS ON A STRIKE. Lobo, Jan. 1.—5 A. M. Sixty thousand coiliers in South Wales have struck work in consequence of a reduction in their wages. THE ELBE CLOSED BY ICE, HamBvra, Dec, 31, 1874, The river Elbe is closed by ice, ASIA MINOR. A VAMINE-STRICKEN POPULATION RAVAGED BY DISEASE AND DEATH. CONSTANTINOPLE, Dec, 31, 1874. Since the famine in in Asia Minor 50,000 persons have migrated irom various parts of the country to the city of Adana, half of whom have | Since succumbed to disease. Toe strange climate, distress and extreme rapa- ciousness of the tax ‘gatherers aggravate the mortality, ‘ THE CITY OF ADANA. ‘This ancient city, to which the famine-stricken population of the neignboring rural districts crowded in their grief and misery, is the capital | of the Pashalic of Itch-Elee, in Asia Minor. It is situated on the right bank of the river Sihoon, thirty miles from the sea, The population numvers | 10,000 persons. The place ts well built, has a castle, a bridge over the Sihoon—said to have been built by Justinian—with a profitable trade in wool, cotton, corn, wine and fruit, BISMARCK AND THE PAPACY, mechan THE LAY SOVEREIGNS CAN NULLIFY A PONTIFI- , CAD ELECTION. BERLLN, Dec, 31, 1874 The circular note éf Prince Bismarck of May bs, 1872, read in the secret session of the Von Arnim trial, stated that a new Pope, if not recognized by @ majority of the Enropean sovereigns, would cease to Ye &@ pope, but would stand in the same position as a bishop appointed withput the con- | torone by the right divine, and began @ iresh war , Sent or approval Of his government, my scanty experience in the art of | | to separate the Senate bill from the other constt- Quillity and happiness which I's0 aruénuly desire be. | 100 be made ior the transmission of Marshal Mac foreirners F shouid be the first, at the head of her | jal | affect to act tor its good, and. in the nisy tumult and | to ascertain which 1s the real and well founded opinion, | Teaveriy endeavored to fina itin the law, | it I could persuade myself that 1 was wearing ittor | the attempt may ve amuestiea. But I feel at present con- | carried by @ vote of 256 yeas against 32 nays. On | tary and naval force, after months of resistance, | | The outcome of all this seems to. be monarchy, | Drift ice hinders the navigation of the Thames, | THE WHITE LEAGU] New ORLBANS, Dec. 3 FRANCE. The Question of a Constitution Discussed | resumed at the United staves District Cou at twelve o'clock to-day. in Presence of the President. General P. N. Ogden ootnm called to th said, 1am a merchant; 1am the comman cer of ali the White League organization city of New Orleans, He presented the ¢ tton and oy-laws of the Crescent Ott MacMahon’s Life the Bar Between the Nation and a “Terrible Crisis.” League as their r of Pp He stated the organization is sin purposes publicly set forth. It was oi ae July 1, 1874; it was called the White Lea What Will Come After the | cause it was thought none but white m Septennate? be depended upon; in New Orleans there tween 2,500 and 2,800 men; since Septem have organized two regiments of infantry of artillery; Governor Penn authorized r ganize miittia, out this was not the League 14th of September I acted under the o Governor Penn; some of these organizati armed; nearly all these men have arms @ lery kept at their houses and in other pla guns captured during the outbreak were ( citizens not by the White League; the Le sumed a military character immediately a ganization. Parts, Dec. 81, 1874, ‘The proposition for the creation of a Senate was the chief subject of discussion at the meeting in | the Palace of the Elysée yesterday vetween the Tepresentatives of the Ministry and those of the various groups in the Assembly. All the Deputies declared that it was impossible tutional iaws, WHAT WILL FOLLOW THE SEPTENNATE ? MM, Dufaure and Léon Say insisted that provis- IT POSSESSES NO ARMS as an organization; guns are kept by indi companies and regiments have regular m and from 2,500 to 2,800 men compose all in the city; we issue no orders witb refe' none of the companie: armories; t meeting was to airect terferenve with the Returning Board; th ings since September 14 bave been after September 14 no resolution passed binding members not to persons who failed to vote the cons tickets; on the day of election I divided into three divisions, with directions to suitaple force at every poll, with instrac preserve the strictest order and see that whatever his politics, was prevented from all organizations throughout the State arate, witn no fixed concert of action; 0 tion was considered necessary, in conseq the acts of the Metropoiltan brigade. back brigade of colored militia; we were called the 14th or Sepvember for the purpose of + our arms; the fight Was purely acciaental simply afforded the OPPORTUNITY FOR REVOLUTION. | A great many of the League did not kn was going to take place; a meeting of demanded the abdication of Kellogg; acting in concert with the committee of : The witness being closely questioned sta he had oped an opportunity would be for revolutionizing the government; but the League were aware of any such int none, in fact, save the members of h the factsare that on Friday, September secret council decided to proceed onthe fi Monday with 1,500, armed. tien to the ate sigsippi and take posvession of the ar ‘sighed to the League; ‘as an after-thongh | Manon’s powers even after tne termination of the Septennate. The Deputies representing the Right replied that | the Septennate was merely personal, whereupon | Marshal MacMahon observed that “should any- | thing happen to him, the country, being without an organized government, would pass through @ terrible crisis.’ HOPEFUL OF A COMPROMISE, The Duke d’Audiffret-Pasquier remarked that , the question of transmission coula be again ex- | amined after 1880, when it might be possible to find some ground upon which to compromise. NOT SETTLED, Another meqting will be held on Saturday. | Phe Journat des Dédais says that an understand- ing between “the two centres is possible, but if effected it wull be indepeuaently of the Right, | AN ENGLISH VIEW OF THE FRENCH MINISTERIAU SITUATION. Lonpon, Dec. 31, 1874. The Times’ Paris despatch says the question of & reorganization of the Ministry, whetber the con- ference between the government and the repre- | Sentatives of the various groups in the Assembly succeeds or fails, has reacted a settlement. In the event of the failure of the conierence the modification of the Cabinet will be legs complete and without political significance, pin as RE Ee OUR FLAG ABROAD. [SPECIAL DESPATCH TO THE HERALD BY CABLE.] | : Lonvon, Dec. 31, 1874. The United States steamer Juniata hag i oncluded to call » meeting of citizens an sella trons tec the sentiment there exhibited, The call was written by Dr. J. Dickson E AUSTRIA. General Ogden’s staf—ReroRTER HERALD.) POLITICS OF THE LEAGUE. Mr. B. R. Gorman, the next witness stated that the White League was organiz a@iormal cail published in the ne ape met at first at Eagle Hall, on the cc bey ana Pyrtania streets; the arms pu by the league are of a very inferior ch they were seized by the police, and witne 1g a lawyez, was employed to defend th which he attempted to do by an injunction appeal to the courts proved futile; the u precipitated through the violence of the the last meeting of the ae ony prior to th was held on Tuesday evening before; wit Beribed the fight an4 capture of the State on the following day; as to the politics league that question Was not pat to any mewbers; ‘ THE ACCIDENTAL COLLISION 1 ve the opportunity tor the revolution ¢ | jowed, and it wes taken advantage of; | | many colored peopie Pai Sari the administration and voter ect | HavaNa, Dec. 31, 1874 | tv ticket; In cOMsequence the | The insurgents in the jurisdiction of Villa Ciara | g@ryatives endeavored, tar more by have burned the Margarita apd Alberiches planta- | ee Frenette mgm ge = Bole | agsa | it the Durel) 3 SRS ages pages military force the Keilogg government nev) | INSURANCE RATES ADVANCED, have sustained itsel!; were the troops | Owing to the recent fires in Havana the foreign band oa pti x pe Di wo bours. insurance companies have raised their premiums attempts of the colored militiamen to ente about forty per cent, and have adopted) unilorm where reiresnments are sold, and partict | Tatea of premium. soca stand on Pryirias street, in the mids\ | SEES ST ETI TAB TR residence section; he attributed the gene | THE VICKSBURG TROUBLES. PUBLIC TRAVEL AND TRADE IMPEDED BY STORM. Visnna, Dec. 31, 1874, In consequence of a very heavy tall of snow many railways in Austria have wholly or partially | discontinued traffic. ca | Freight tra Mic is at a standstill throughout the country. Communication between this city and Prague is entirely interrupted. ‘Trieste is isolated landward and seaward, CUBA. INSURRECTIONIST INCENDIARISM AND ASSAULTS ON TRAVELLERS, © satisiaction to the wholesale corruption @ among republican officeholders, remargi: even the Chief Justice of the Supreme ( stolen a rauroad. A COLORED WITNESS. James Lewis, ex-Administrator of It ments, sworn, said:—I am weil acquaint | the colored people of New Orleans; a larger | of them are republicans; a good many mor | CONGRESSIONAL INVESTIGATION BEGUN—LITTLE | | NEW DEVELOPED. | VIoKsBURG, Miss., Dec. 31, 1874 | The Congressional Investigating Committee ar- * tic ticket tnis election tha rived yesterday and met to-day in the Coort | tome were part for voting, others voted House, the full committee being present, with the! of lusing their places; I know nothing of Chairman, Mr. Conger, in the chair. Quite a num- | league, and have as good an opportunity o ber of prominent citizens were present. | Ing as any colored man in the city; the y . | militia jorce has been very sme Mayor O’Leary was the first witness examined. | years; the white. people nave. no to fear colored people; I have been in thirty-two years, and I know of no ti where the colored people attempred tc the whites; have never known of any: exc) black organization; the police and part colored troops had & parade belore Sepieu in the Third and Seventh . wards are about twenty-two colored democrate | he gave a detatled account of the excitement pre- ceding the negro outbreak, the course of Crosby, | the Sheriff and the precautions taken on | the part of the citizens to repel au attack from the country negroes; there was no- thing new in his statements, and the whoie Btory of tne unnappy affair has long since been published | bth beg me por ‘ eins Reneral Horace Miller was the next and on! witness examined besides the Mayor, He cou | generally carried one ciub about with ¢ manded tne citizen iorces, and bis harrative of | fa ee ae oi aneniecr topartie | ; See Rete. hee - [eniad wa ee | some of the colored men voted the rej | tieket wrapped tn Ao spelligeel he Rt | t one point of the struggle “vigorously | Many whites woul ave Vote ere} | eRe cect tiwale and that ne ekahed Neward’? | tieket had they feit at liberty to do so, and ‘ound the énemy was routed.” Accordingto | The committee here took a recess until t | the last witness and the undertaker’s book only eight o'clock. | fliteen negroes were killed, and this would appear | | to be the only new point developed in the investi- | gation so far. | |. At tour o'clock P. M. the committee adjournea | New Orteans, Dec. 3) | till ten o’clock to-morrow. | “The indications are that the investigation win | General Sheridan and staff arrived | be tedious, owing to the large number of witnesses Te | and documentary evidence to be introduced, The Legislative investigating Committee 1s in| THE WINTER OF 1875 OPENS WITH session With closed doors, aud Have reiused to al- | fect epidemic o1 coughs and colfs, which nothin low the white citizens to be represented by coun- aur's Hoxzy OF LOREHOUND RxD am: sel, Which has caused the whites to publish a pro- | Ptx's Toor#acuy Dnors cure in one minute. test against this ex parte investigauon, a | Tne Election to-day was very quiet. The white AN OFFER WILL Ley RECEIVED FO! | ticket was elected withéut much opposition, | TEX CriinpEn How Rotany Pusssts; wiht BM § owing be Rind) that the bl hel called session Address i eiaillaamcbiosncmne | ature i i ie wing | ry | Special elevtions. ieee A.—HERALD BRANCH OFFICE, BRO‘ corner Fulton avenue and Boerum street. | ‘Open from 8 A. M. to9 P.M. On Sunday trom $to9 P. M. THE COLD. GENERAL SHERIDAN IN NEW ORLEA) THE FROZEN HUDSON. A.—3,000 PAIRS SELF-ACTING OVEF with steel sprinys; put on and off without u POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y., Dec. 31, 1874. lnands: for New Year calls or any other calls, . f Russian Garren; the ia ‘The weather is intensely cold, and for the first | Sartuent of Boors ash S108 in the city a , time this winter the ice on the river at) HOOKS, iath tre this point is fast. The Daniel 8. Miller | 1,196 Broadway, corner Iwenty- leit here to-night ~ for New York, but | A.—PATENT WIRE_ SIG! SIGNS. STO! STORE, she will experience great dificulty in getting | through, After to-morrow navigation to this poins will be permanently closed for the season. and Sign Painting. RUPTURED MEN THE LATE IM cei comtortable Exastic Trusses, 68 | way, which permanently cure rupture, are reg RAILROAD TRAVEL IMPEDED. Lh ALBANY, Dec, $1, 1874, | oe of the miravies of the nineteenth cen:ury. The trains on the Hudson River Kailroad were | 4..-MOTHERS, ogee GIVE we CHL behind time here several hours this aiternoon, | soothing syraps, which contain opium, but owing to an obatraction caused by the falling of a | Magsusia, and you will ever be without iy kK ut Garrison’s station. } 8 bay | A GOOD RESOLUTION FOR THE NEW Y¥ Strength -n and develop your boty oy vigorous THE THERMOMETER IN CANADA. mt WOULs Gymmeatum, No. ® bave twent Toronto, Ont., Dec. 81, 1874, | street. Open day and evening. Send tor cireuli At seven o’clock this morning, at Parry Sound, | or pga Sr cee eae COUGHS AND VOLDS ARE SPEEDILY Ont., the thermometer indicated 35 degrees be- | yy the use of Wistar’s Barsaw or WiLD CHERRY. low zero; at Orilia, 31 degrees gre at Ottawa, | and $la bottle. Large hotties much the cheaper | 20 degrees below ; at Brockville, 16 degrees below; | ” —_$$$$—$—$$——— at Kid : | DOWNTOWN RETAIL DEPOT.—LOW PR | at Kingston, 10 degrees below; at Toronto, 6 e- | | grees below; at Montreal, 17 degrees below; at | Parent Mxprcives, Pxerumrey, Drawonp, &e | | | | Quebec, 18 degrees beiow, and at Halttax, zero. | Powbsus, Hroprictor's” agency, GREENE, «7 * empemnennsce jane. THE WEATHER IN THIS CITY YESTERDAY. | gaQKETT'S MAGIC COLORIS GIVES A The following record will show (he changes In ral brown o ck to the hair, Manuiacture: | the temperature auring the past twenty-four | ‘¢mery. 122 Liberty strect | | hours in comparison with the corresponding date =~ Of last year, as recorded at Hudnuv’s Pharmacy, | | HeRaLd Bunding, New York :— pt SUPERB HOLIDAY @ Thoughts of Charles Dicke N73. 1874 * compiled SA - 18 8:30 P, M. ume of 909 pages; a gem of art and \teratt 6A. ah To 6 P. Ni fnvaluable to every admirer of the groat au 2 ile: Jone worth the price of te boos; ante 3 HH SE sate TALE & SUN, Iv Muctay stoem Now —ORSERVATIONS ON DISEASES OF W late member New Yors Aca Address the s pamphlet s vi Average temperature yesterday ... Average temperature for corresponding last year, . 2 —_——_—— rn BURGLARY IN A STOBE, road by every lady." h . tt LORRDLA, OF 6,422 resect, » by Di Modicine, tmaied Wost Twenty ec | | | 12M 26 12 12 PLM. | | CK's | During the night of the 20th, or the morning of | DASE "rice 88 Ment free | the goth ult. the dry goods store of Gordon & | ea sis ores, haw York. | Scully, No, 603 Eighth avenue, was entered vy ve? burglars, who succeeded in making of with about | $2,000 worth of gooda. The burglars forced an Fs oe are acene wah aR. — ontrance into the store by breaking out a panel | Caiss and sympiiii vee lo opirith from the basement door and then getting up | Recvou haiaauony Sain? Dotty rand line in Mant 4 ,, MANzoeD. zur a u yough @ trap door to thy store, in the same Tithek 80 Ob ae Way they made their escape from ‘tue plage The | author Rr ee See police pave uo clew 49 the Oe aereet Now Wark, ' UPHAM & 00., 39 Brot