Show madrid Gett 1119 alarmed armea Al kill london aug 25 A dispatch to the standard byway by way of F france rance bays says A very unfavorable impression has been caused in madrid by telegrams attributing to president mckinley the intention of instructing the peace commissioners to insist upon the cession cession of luzon that american commerce shall have the same footing as spanish in the philippines and that spain should plede itself that none of the spanish colonies should be ceded to european powers it such are the intentions ot of the united staffs government the negotiations are very eure sure to be laborious laho riou the spaniards consider neider co the cession of Luzon their best and met important island to be a deathblow to their prestige prest iee and bove in aboto regions and thai that it would be irretrievably weakened by ly the pree presence ence of americans in the heart of their colonies commercial equality with the united states in the archipelago would annul the only advantage and compensation which they might have expected to y hava have derived from the coet cost and daerl acts which bata been nece necessary oury to maintain their rule in the archipelago the separation ot of church and state would bo be the most unpalatable to most spaniards and would create grave difficulties in their relations with the vat lean an and d the church let alone the power ot of religious or orders derain in spain which are always disposed to side with don carlos against the present dynasty last list but not least any pledge to retrain from ceding coding any part to the po powers W would displease many statesmen and people of all classes who are daily more and more inclined to advocate the sale of the spanish archipelago to the highest bidder especially to continental powers most likely to be in position to arrest the growth of american political and commercial influences in the far east to the madrid correspondent ot of the times says I 1 the recent article inobe in the times recommending the annexation of the philippines by america are attracting much attention here they are regarded as confirming current rumors about ase a secret agreement between the cabinets at london and washington for joint action in the far east in any case it is feared that the rap ment which unquestionably exists contains the germs of great international complications three months ego ago when spain suddenly found herself alone face to face with a powerful antagonist tag onist such a prospect would have been balled bailed with delight because it was believed that in a general imbroglio she would be sure to find allies now the political situation is better understood and fears aro are expressed that in a general conflict of the great powers whatever the result spain would have to pay les iles pot pots casses 11 el liberal publishes a significant article in this sense trying to forecast the immediate future it says two contingencies are possible either the areat great powers will come to an agreement about their respective spheres of influence or there will be a great war in which england will play a leading part against russia and franco in the former case spain would loee lose the philippines because they would bo be included in the partition in the latter case england would basin begin by an attempt to get got possession of the keys to the mediterranean including ceuta ceata and the belmarie Be Bel learie earic islands wands which may way be regarded as thia this possibility of ft a struggle tor for naval supremacy in the mediterranean at some time in the near future gives certain importance to reports of new forta in the vicinity of gibraltar and diplomatic correspondence there anent neither spain nor england however can be supposed to have any aggressive designs and if we read between the lines of certain very guarded semiofficial statements we must conclude that the spanish government has recently received from london somo positive assurances on this point spain must it said maintain her elementary rights to national self defense but she has at present sufficient diplomatic difficulties on hand to prevent her creating additional complications IP |