Show CONDITION OF SPAIN IF WE wr ina lna max may v believe our telegraphic dis patches pat ches chea aplin ii im at rt pres lim ipg ent cent in a pitiable condition ondi tion mo t of the efi tej e me in e through the chanbers chan ehan beis bels of the I 1 men inen and oAd odd oarth th ey the e cond conj t tin tan in n of it H probable that not lne ine une hali half iskold is told one sided statements with regard to battles and victories are seldom very credible and in the case of spain less so than usual to lie like a spaniard or to boast like a castillan castilian are almost as inu much ch proverbs as to sw swear like ilke or drink like ilke ilke like a fiddler this habit has been largely indulged in during the present reb rebellion e ilion in cuba anh and and the republican outbreaks ks in the mother coun country try it is evident however from our latest dispatches that the republican party are gaining strength in various parts of the country disturbances have occurred at the capital and another outbreak is hourly expected malaga one of the principal cities of spain has declared for a republic at valencia desperate fighting between the republicans and the government troops has been going on over since friday last and at the latest advises advices ad vices was still being continued with unabated vigor notwithstanding the government was crow crowding dinc dInv reinforcements to the front while in other parts the fire of freedom was shouldering ing requiring but the passing breeze of transitory success to the republican arms to nan fan it into a aflame flame that will spread from the mediterranean to the atlantic and from the straits of gibraltar to the bay of biscay the revolutionary movement seems fr from the tho names of the cities implicated in outbreak outbreaks sto to be strongest along the eastern coast and in the interior of tho the peninsula malaga is situated on the mediterranean sea sa I 1 I 1 in a the extreme south of spain valencia I 1 is another seaport of the mediterranean a considerable distance to the north while saragossa Is ret yet further north not far from the base of the pyrenees Pyre nees from froin this it is evident that the republicans are in force all along the mediterranean sea board and from the fact that many of the expeditions of the republican soldiery being organized on the french border it is also probable that the greater portion of the northern provinces are in favor of a republic for spain madrid the capital is situated in the tho centre of the peninsula at almost equal distances from every coast here it is probable that the riots or disturbances were more of a sectional nature though possibly fermented by the republicans than are the movements in malaga and valencia As an index of the excited state of feeling in that country the simple statement that two of the republican deputies to the cortes have had to flee to portugal for fear of assassination is not without its value spain we fear is drifting through the arrogance and self sufficiency of its temporary rulers and the ignorance and big bigotry try of its people into a troubled sea of bloodshed bloodshed and anarchy of which we cannot see the end but isope ppe and believe it will be for the go good of the people of spain and the spread of civil and religious liberty throughout the world |