WHY WEYLER WENT TO CUBA. 215 its progress the ruin of the colony of Cuba, wholesale destruction of property, and the hlowingup of troop trains with dynamite. An English general who dealt in rose-water fashion with a black revolt in an English colony would not be very popular at home. In the same way Martinez Campos had ceased to be popular in Spain, and the party of resistance a autrance, which was now in the ascendant, called for a general who w7ould teach the rebels a severe lesson. So Weyler was sent. Of course this Spanish view of the situation in Cuba, and of the best means to remedy it, was a mistaken one. But then, in practical politics extreme views seldomare anything else.

the Carlist civil war and of the old Ten Years' War of Cuba, seemed to be forgotten. He was hootedin the streets of Madrid, and a man who attempted a personal attack upon him having been struck down and killed by a gendarme, the mobtried to parade the dead body through the city in order to provokeageneral outburst of violence, and it was with difficulty that a dangerousriot wasprevented.

Meanwhile the recall of MartinezCampos, the abandonment of the policy of conciliation,and the appointment of Weyler had been the signal for anoutburst of anti-Spanish agitation in the United States. TheSenate introduced a resolution calling on the President to recognise the Cuban insurgents as belligerents. But President Cleveland, then in office, was opposed to the reopening of the Cuban question, and anxious at least tokeep things quiet till the end of his term in the Presidential chair. He took no notice of the resolution,and the Cuban Junta at New York and its friends in the United States had for a while longer to trust to the efforts of individual Americans for help to carry on the struggle. 1 On the 28thof January, just ten days after his appointment, Weyler sailed from Cadiz, taking withhim six generalswhom he had selected to act as his lieutenants in the repression of the Cuban rebellion. A few days after his departure Martinez Campos landed at Corunna. The silence with which he was received presented a strange contrast to the plaudits that had greeted him when he set out for Cuba little more than a yearbefore. Allhis past services, the endingof GENERAL MARTINEZ CAMPOS.