Ramon Cabrera, Conde de Morella, has, it is stated, started
for Spain, to arrange a " convenio " between King Alphonso and the Carlists. As the most successful leader of the party from 1833 to 1839, he has great influence with them, and he has now declared, in a manifesto published in the Univers, that he accepts Alphonso as legitimate King. He intends to offer to the Navarrese and Biscayans their fueros or provincial liberties, to the Carlist officers commands in the Army equal to those they hold in the Carlist forces, and to the rank and file an amnesty. He himself is to receive authority to watch over the fulfilment of these pledges. It is stated that King Alphonso has agreed to these terms, and many of the Carlist chiefs, but up to Friday evening no acceptance of importance had been announced. It is difficult to condemn any arrangement which gives peace to Spain, and a similar transaction in 1838 gave the country thirty years of peace, but the example will be a dangerous one for the Spanish Army. They are told once more that the quickest road to high command is insurrection, and that even when insurrection does not succeed.
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