Another revolt in Spain ! MARTIN ZURBANO, the popular leader,
experienced in revolt and civil war, is up in arms ; he marches at the head of a growing army ; and the disaffected gain courage. Spain has too much inherent strength, baffled but not destroyed by
too much exhaustion, is too much wearied with an impatience that has worn itself out and has sunk into a still madder passiveness, to leave room for useful speculation as to the resuiteg this new attempt—we can scarcely say to restore order, but to substitette anarchy for a more intolerable tyranny.
At Cadiz, a conspiracy among the tailors has been The pretext for a Government offer of blood-money—a lavish reward to soldiers who denounce conspirators—a premium on false accusals, backed by the assurance that " traitors " will be shot off without trial.
While such symptoms of the Ministerial treatment appear, Go- vernment pursue their preposterous course of retrograde legislation. One of their own supporters has furnished the most telling commen- tary on their project. Senor TEJADA, a man who has lived through the recent history of Spain without knowing what has really passed around him—a sleeper awake—supported their measure, because be wished to revert to a despotism, without popular representa- tion, without any thing but the absolute will of the Crown. S. Tx amia thinks that Europe is where it was in FERDINAND'S day, and that the speech which he pompously read can set up that irre- vocable tyranny ! The decorous MARTINEZ DE nit ROSA, who wants to make NARVAEZ'S dictation pass for something popular, was startled at this exposure : but, luckily for the time, the Cortes were not so easily startled ; and the new" Constitution" was adopted, clause by clause, as easily as if it had been a road-bill.
