Don Carlos to come forward and call them to arms.

The mass of the people in the northern provinces are strongly in his
favor, and believe that if he were placed on the throne peace and
prosperity would be restored to Spain.

The attitude of the Carlist party is now considered so threatening that
the prime minister, Señor Canovas, is reported to have said that the
most serious of the many troubles which Spain is now called upon to face
is the probability of a Carlist rising.

In the mean while Don Carlos, the leader of the party, remains quietly
in his house in Lucerne, Switzerland, and appears to be making no effort
to secure the throne of Spain.

[Illustration: DON CARLOS.]

The representative of a Swiss newspaper asked him his opinion of the
Spanish situation.

He replied that he considered it very grave. Speaking of the Cuban war,
he said that it had been frightfully mismanaged, not so much by Weyler
as by Gen. Martinez Campos, who was the first general sent out by Spain
to conquer the insurgents.

In the opinion of Don Carlos, General Weyler is the right man for Cuba.

He refuses to believe that he has done all the cruel things he is
accused of, but says that his sternness and severity were necessary for
the occasion, and that Spain should be very grateful to have found such