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♦- (•' BENOB CASTELAR. flEnxtei'.-Press Associsiion— By Electric ■ • . EetegraEb-Copyright. ■ MADJRID, May 26. ; Sector Emilio Casteta:, the Spanish EfiUrainau, is dead, . aged >sixty ; -seven. j^Scdot Emilio Castelar, who for many OTsara has been prominent in Spanish, poli■Mx, and was one of the most eloquent 'Ss?^ da 3 r * was bom "* 18 32, and ijbapame notorious, early in his career, in inpnsraiprence of Ms extreme democratic and ißweyafoac oranJoßs, which he expounded in Ijvsdxsob Liberal. journals. For a time he mas. KBofessoT of BSstory and Philosophy? jtm «» Unaweiany of Madrid, and in. 1866 [iifi took a leading part m the revolutionary prewement, winch was put down by Serj* 300 - On- this occasion, he -was condemned I*o dasa, but he made good Ms escape (and aoasfci afage first at Geneva and |afterwurds in Ftaoce. When the roroluifwn bDt&e out in September, 1868, he re|*atned to his na&ne comxtsy, and was one jot the most enargßfcic feadfire of the rejjHjUican movement. He excited hunsalf jto.the irimost in order to bring about the jestabßdanect of a republic, but at the .general -ejection for the Constituent Oprfces in Udtmnsiy, . 1869, the/iepubficans ! succeeded .in returning only a small pro.poz&on of Hoax candidatea, among whom JhowEwar, -was Senor Ctefcelar.- In the diß[cngaonfl respecting the new' constitution |iof Spain, Senor Oasfadair adrocated, but Inosnocessfnlly,' the principle of 'republican ;anatitartJans. In .fane, 1869, he ■vigorously ;oppoaod i&& project, of a regency, and he lisas also concerned in the republican faiHUirwdapna which occurred in October i«f feat year. In the> €SoronHnerit chosen ,by tiie Cortes after the abdication of jKing Amadeo, Senor; Castetar was Jfinister [of Pnreign Afiairs. On Angnst 24> 1873, ',1k "wass-etected Preadeaxt of the Grates by ! ! 325 votes against 73, but he. vacated that ipoet on Sept, 6, wtien he was nominated {Resident of the Executive Power. His ifiiarf; Ttieaanrft was the pracogation of the iOoartes and the assumption of dictatorial iposser. He next took 'energetic, but in|dfoctoal,_ measures to suppress the Carlisfc linsurrectaon, and despatched ■ the Minister [of Wsc in: person to Cuba to protect i Spanish intensts in. that i«lag»«^ When, jirowsEwer, the Cortes re-essembled on Jan. 2, 1834, it xefnsed, by 120 votes against jIOO, to pass a.yote of confidence in Preifiodent Casbetar, , wJm> TfirigTwd. Thereupon jOeneral Paro, as Captain-fieneraL of jiMadrid, fatnSdy thsacived the Cortes, and [appointed a prwrisioiiai Qovenunent with [Marshal Serrano at its head. Soon after ii^te .prommciamjento in favour of Alfonso "I'XIL., at the beginning of 1875, Senor '.Castelar quitted Madrid and proceeded to : Geneva. While in that city, being disgusted at the educational decree promulgated by the Spanish Government, he resigned the Chair of History in the :;tJnxvßisity of Madrid, March 6, 1875. v&ibsetptQitiy he: returned j to' Spajnj > ..,and L JWcceeded, thongh . not cpnsifer-' ,aWe, diJEficnlty," i^'..pb^EuhJnje; <> a;,'s^t'ni.' >I ' : £^e .iCories . f^--'lieig^''''ioT'''iM^^;'''ab' y: iili.'d' 'tij&kzioDs, of January, 1876: Since • tfiati: hasspt&eii fr^nenflyj^and 'always'^ with effibftt.;. but he hte -been a ppliticia'n' without a "party, tob-'ativanced^forSagastai. '[aiid too moderate for the Zorrillists: • Lj? the spring of 1893 he announced•,his-in-itenlion of retiring once foi% all from i political life, and whilst declaring himr eelf as staunch a republican as heretofore, !eaid he was convinced that Spain could vdnly be. firmly governed under monarchical 'institutions.)
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 6496, 27 May 1899, Page 6
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