Spain, like Italy, had a Cabinet crisis at the end
of last weak, but has not been equally fortunate in solving it. Seiler Date, the Conservative leader, who brought the country through the industrial disturbances of August, was invited by the King to resign. The dissatisfaction of the Army with the Spanish political system is understood to be the main cause of Seiler Date's retirement. The " Defence Committees " formed among the infantry regiments have published a violent attack on the two Constitutional parties, who are accused of entirely ignoring " morality, justice, equity, and respect for law," and of leading the country " to min, and perhaps to dishonour." German mischiefmakers have probably accen- tuated party passions in Spain, but the discontent in the Army is of old standing and has nothing to do with the war. It is Ws- probable that the usual shuffling of portfolios from one party to the other, on what the Spaniards Gall the "rotativist" principle, will remove the military grievances.
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