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• T ^ HE plot thickens , " in the outward appear-X ance ; but if " the plot" means that we are approaching nearer to action , and to that bappy end which the public anticipates , we are not so sure that it is not diluted rather tlian thickened . The plot is perhaps a scheme amongst certain people who are in lrigb positions to defraud the public of real results , and to accomplish the grandest game of thimble-rig winch the
universe ever witnesse cl . There are , however , some great facts > vhich look interesting . The Queen has come to town ; Napoleon had already arrived ia Paris ; G oneral Narvaez has arrived in M adrid ; Admiral Dund-s has probably by this time arrived at Naples ; and orderB , it is said , have arrived at Toulon for the French squadron "to weigh anchor . " All this looks like business ; but what does the oracular explanation of the Times look like ? That wonderful journal began its leading articles , yesterday , with a very long paper
apropos of Naples , written in the spirit of " England expects every man to do his duty ; " but ending with an assurance that " the most timid lady visitor at Naples will not have to make the least alteration in her arrangements . " " England expects every man to do his duty ; "" but lie must point his gun so as to do no harm : that is the moral of tUo Times commentary on the announcement that the British fleet has gone to Naples , and the French fleet is going . « Grand bombardment at Cremorne . "
The plot certainly does thicken in Spain . No intrigue -was ever more ludicrously transparent than that of O'Donnem .. After Na rvaez was dispossessed came a succession of Governments not provisional in name , but in fact , — wretched attempts to keep up an arbitrary rule , which they had to maintain by rendex'ing it more uil > lt * nry .
On defeating that Government , O ' -Donnell found tliut he had obtained military possession of Spain , but that lie altogether lacked the qualifications for obtaining the political possession of Spain ; and not being able to get on with the Absolutist machinery , ho fell back upon the Liberals . This is the old trick in Spain—to fall back upon the ' outs' and patriotic sentiment . Ho sent for
Eap to assist him ; and the patriot who had retired upon his private fortune and his fame , was patriotic enough to leave the Regent ' s Park in London for a comfortless campaign iu Spain .
O'Donujgjll , however , was well kno > yn as intent simply upon making bis own fortune . He had been associated with the Generals of the Conservative party—men of the Serrano and Conciia stamp . His character was perfectly understood from any point of view . ; they knew it as well in Paris , or even in Madrid , as we were able to do in London . The consequence was that he was patronized by the Queen Isabella , the French Government , the Queen-Mother , and Narvaez . He was , in fact , at once perceived .-to be the loemn tene ? is for the reactionary party . He attempted to
assert an independent existence as a Minister . The line which lie . drew lay in the law for the sale of ecclesiastical property , which he -was for maintaining . The piety of the Queen overruled him ; he thus completely lost anything like confidence in the national party , sank to be the mere agent for the subordinates for the reactionary party , and nothing remained for it but to recal ISTarvaez . That energetic man had become reconciled to the Queen , and to the Queen-Mother . During the disturbance in Spain , the English Government had always rather lent its patronage to Espartero ; the representatives of the English Government had even
managed to become implicated in the intrigues and insurrectionary movements of the Esparterists . On the other band , the French Government rather lent its influence to the Conservative party , at times even to the Carlists ; and Nauvaez was decidedly considered to possess some sympathy in Paris . No doubt certain persons in the French capital , ' and perhaps in the French Government :,
put a sincere faith m O'Donnjeix ' s probabilities , and speculated in them so far as to get up something like a political demonstration on his behalf ; but there is reason to believe that the actual head of the French Government is more likely to favour Nabvaez than any public man in Spainsimply because he is the ablest man in the party which has always leaned upon France .
it 13 uliavcio tovietfft of Nauvaw ., tlifit , im sooner is he at home than a report is circulated of an affair of honour . ' He meets one Sefior Gueijo y Rente , husband of the Infanta Joseita , whose portion had been inisimpropiiated by her father and her father ' s son , the present King-consort , and GuELti continues an action at law against the King to restore his wife ' s property . So Nauvabz is no sooner at home , than ho is playing bravo on behalf of imbecile King Fjuancisco . These are the matters that engage Courts at present : anything like u downright public
settlement of national interests appears to be impossible . What is possible of the Russian affair , — -which some of our contemporaries are reopening in the most wonderful style of public enlightenment ? Russia has totally thwarted the proceedingsi ofthe Commissioners who were specially sent out to ' rectify the Bessarabian frontier . They find they . must go back to the conference at Paris , but
that conference will consist of the Ambassadors resident in Paris ; Xord Clarendon and Count Ca . vo . u-b- will not be present , while Count Waxewski will , — -and Russia therefore will be well represented . The French Government is in difficulties , and Russia- will have the opportunity to begin again from the beginning , in ' negotiating ' all the vezy questions that ought to have been settled by arms—svon . the Greek-Christian point .
Our contemporaries , too , are glorifying over the speech of jVI . Kokoheff , a gentleman who was once a peasant and i 3 now a merchant , and who was allowed to make a speech during the Moscow festivities . He spoke , very intelligently , on . the progress which Russia would make if she were taught by intercourse with more advanced commercial nations . It is a showy display of Russian intelligence ; but , we say , it is permitted ] and while the Russian Government permits or forbids what it pleases , —while other European Governments fritter away public interests i" sham wars and thimble-rigging conferences , we can put no faith in evidences of Russian progress , or any other progress except that which the people make for themselves in defiance of Governments .
Some ollicial persons have discovered a new ' question '—namely , whether Herat is respected by Persia . It seems that our Government has a bond from Persia not to attack Herat , and an expedition has been ordered from Bombay to make a blow at Persia in the Persian Gulf ; by way of a lesson on tho necessity for leaving alone the property of Dost Mohammed on the northern frontier of India . Another species of conflict is becoming more critical . Nahvaez finds in Spain an enemy that he never yet has conquered—tho desperate want of money , which must cripple any Government , but is fatal to an absolutist Government : for how
can it pay its agents without cash P Nor can Spain expect any assistance in this line froinjjitt ; --: •¦ 1 'oi'E , poor man ! who can hardly make both ' chili * - " - " -- ' - ^ " 'v - .. meet for himself , —or from France , wl ^& i ^& tajai . ' . ' ,.- ¦> \\ i > i 1 (¦ r capitalists are labouring to meet tbei * H iiMfi $ fc ; -. 'k > , f' £$ . -- ' c ss ^' fetij : - , . r . v .- ^ -t at . " ' ' **•< .--. V- " ¦ 1
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 18, 1856, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_18101856/page/1/
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