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Show The speech of King Alfonso is quite sanguine enough as to the Spanish situation. He refers to the diplomatic questions between this country and Spain as under nego-giation, nego-giation, dismisses the Carlist insurrection insur-rection as about finished, and dwells with emphasis on tho necessity of restoring financial prosperity. He aays that 02,000 Spaniards have been sent to Cuba since hia accession to the throne, but fails to allude to the terrible devastation made by tho insurrectionists in-surrectionists of that island in the great sugar estates, which have baen the source of the wealth of tho Spanish Span-ish government from time immemorial. imme-morial. The scene which King Alfonso Al-fonso and the cortea has to confront is by no means a pleasing ono.though the government seems disposed to make the best of it. |