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Show INTERFERENCE TALKED OF. .Xcw York. 21. Tiie Mini's Washington Wash-ington special ays: "I am able to inform in-form you with positive certainty that the Spanish legation here has recently recent-ly been instructed from Madrid to approach ap-proach Hamilton Fish with the inquiry in-quiry whether the United States will be disposed to intervene with an armed force in Cuba, with the view of ascertaining whether the people of that island really desire or not to separate themselves from the mother country. This propoiiiuii eames iu a certain connection with an intrigue which it seems for some time has been maturing in Europe, by virtuo of which ". Germany and .England were to intervene in Spain itself, and by means of succinct bodies ot troops put a stop to the civil war now bchiir there, and lao. Prince -Vifonso on the throne. Thia scheme has been managed especially by Prussian Prus-sian diplomacy, and as the money which Marshal Serrano has had tor some time past for the purpose ot paying pay-ing troops and carrying on his government, gov-ernment, has been furnished to him from the Prussian, treasury, it is clear that the proposition to make Alfonso king is not to be approved by him, although common decency would forbid for-bid his taking a leading part in putting put-ting it into execution. When it is done, however, by foreign armies, he can submit to it without incurring the special " odium of" his countrymen. Part of the project is "that Prussia shall have some small island in the West Indies for a watering station, and the consent of the United SUteo (.o this ib to be compensated by giving to the United States Cuba." . Secretary Fish denies that there is any ground for the "iWs assertions. Thero is no Spanish minister in this country at present, and Uie Spanish charge d' allahs U not in Washington. |