Marshal Serrano has given great offence in Spain by offering
and granting a complete amnesty to the Carnets, chiefs and priests included, on condition of their surrender, and by recognising the rank of the chiefs in the convention for their surrender. It seems that this leniency excites so much exasperation at Madrid that it will not be possible for Serrano to retain the Premiership, and yet, as the Administration was formed expressly as a Serrano adminiatration, and as many of the ministers accepted office only on condition that Serrano should be at the head, his dismissal would involve a complete reconstruction of the Ministry. Indeed, it is asserted that he will not even be tolerated at the head of the Army, unless a good reason for his leniency can be given. Might it not be the best reason in the world that Spain really does not as yet know her own mind about the throne, and that this being the case, no dynasty can take good root which does not deal generously with the hereditary adherents of the old pretenders?
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