On Monday, persons, number unknown, for some reason not stated,
under some banner carefully concealed, raised the flag of insurrection at Cadiz. They were put down immediately, where- upon the Civil Governor fled. Two ironclads then anchored out- side the town and threatened bombardment, on which accession of force the military Governor granted or asked an armistice of 48 hours. Then of course order was restored, and Prim himself set out for Andalusia. That is the account given in the telegrams, the truth being apparently that Cadiz has risen, has defeated the troops, and must be conquered from the capital. The Treasury is at its wits end to find money to move the troops, disturbances are reported from half the provinces of Spain, and S. Sagosta invites tenders for an Atlantic cable to Cuba, where General Lersundi cannot hold his own, and has lost the Eastern Provinces. All that can end only in a Dictatorship of some sort. Note, as a strange fact, that Portugal, with all her financial difficulties, is arming as if for dear life, and that at the very outset of the move- ment the idea of conquering the unity of the Peninsula was seriously broached.
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