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      id rpHE plot thickens , " in the outward appear-JL ance ; but if " the plot" means that -we are approaching nearer to action , and to that happy end which tlie public anticipates , we are not so sure that it is not diluted rather than thickened . The plot is perhaps a scheme amongst certain

      people who are in high positions to defraud the public of real results , and to accomplish the grandest game of thimble-rig which the universe ever -witnessed . There are , however , some great facts -which look interesting . The Queen has come to town ; Napoleon had already arrived ia Paris ; General Nakvaez has arrived in Madrid ; Admiral Dcndas has probably by this time arrived at Naples ; and brdei's , 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 , a profios 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 bis duty ; " but he must point his gun so as to do no harm : that is the moral of the Times commentary on the announcement that the British fleet has gone to Naples , and the French fleet is going . " Grand bombardment at Cremornc . "

      The plot certainly does thicken in Spain . No intrigue was ever more ludicrously transparent than that of O'DoNNjEiii ,. After Nauvaez was dispossessed came a succession of G-overnments not provisional in name , but in fact , — wretched attempts to keop up an arbitrary rule , which they had to maintain by rendering it more arbitrary . On defeating that Government , O'Donnell found that ho had obtained military possession of Spain ,

      O Donnell , however , was well known as intent simply upon making his own fortune . He had been associated with the Generals of . the Conservative party—men of the Serrano and Coxcha stamp . His character was perfectly understood fromany point of view ; they knew it as Well in Paris , ot even in Madrid , as we . were able to do in London . The consequence was that lie was patronized by the' Queen Tsabeixa , the Trench Government , the Queen-Mother , and Na . rvaez .

      He was , in fact , at once perceived to be the locum tenons for the reactionary party . He attempted to assert an independent existence as a Minister . The line which he 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 part }' , sank to be the mere agent for the subordinates for the reactionary party , and nothing remained for it hut to recal Narvaez . 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 Esi > auteho ; the representatives of the English Government had even managed to becoine implicated in the intrigues and insurrectionary movements of the Espaitcrists . On the other hand , the French Government rather lent its influence to the Conservative party , at times even to the Carlists ; and Narvaez was

      ment 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 proceedings of the 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 ; Lord Clarendon and Count Cavour will not be present , while Count Wale wski 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 very questions that ought to have been settled by arms : —even the Greek-Christian point .

      Our contemporaries , too , are glorifying over the speech , of M . Ivokobeff , a gentleman who was once a peasant and is 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 Itussian Government permits or forbids what it pleases , — -while other European Governments fritter away public intex-ests in 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 hi chifiauce of Governments .

      decidedly considered to possess some sympathy in Paris . No doubt certain jicrsons in the French capital , and perhaps in the French Government , put a sincere faith in O'Donnejvl ' s probabilities , and speculated in tliem 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 Narvaez than any public man in Spainsimply because he is the ablest man in the party which lias always leaned upon France .

      Some official 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 the necessity for leaving nlone the property of Dost Mohammed on the northern frontier of India .

      It is characteristic of Narvakz , that no sooner is he at home than a report is circulated of an ' affair of honour . ' He meets one Sefior Guell y Rente , husband of the Infanta Josefa ., whose portion had been misimpropriatcd by her father and her father's son , the present King-consort , and G ueli , continues an action at law against the King to rcstoro his wife ' s property . So ISauvakz is no sooner at home , than he is playing hravo on behalf of imbecile King Fkanciscio . These are the matters that engage Courts at present : anything like a downright public

      settle-Another species of conflict i . s becoming more critical . Nahvaez finds in Spain an enemy that he never yet has conquered—the- 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 ? Nor can Spain expect any assistance in this line from the ... ¦ -. ; ( I ' oi'K , poor man ! who can hardly make both eu < rs *;> - ^ v' ' , \ moot for himself , —or from France , wlios ( f . * £ i <^> ,, ' ¦;' - \\ ' y $ ' y ; -r capitalists are labouring to meet their engin gfe ^ , r ¦ : ' . , f : / ~ . T ' '' "l . - * .-: : / "i '";' - r . ..- > ' : " . ;;¦ . V :: " , - >¦ . ; ' ¦ . •¦ < - - > - , •'• : ¦ . ¦ : > 4 .. v ; . . . . .-.. ; . ,. <*> , V-. « tf ' '" , - •' . /¦¦ • ¦ ¦ ¦ # ¦ ' i " . *> . - ¦¦ ; - . i . -i ' > " - . - - *' : ¦•;• ¦ ¦¦ - ' - £ yc

      but that ho altogether lacked the qualifications for obtaining the political possession of Spain ; and not being nblo 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 ' patriotic sentiment . He sent for Esp artero to assist him ; and the patriot who had retired upon his private fortune and his fnme , was patriotic enough to leave the Regent ' Park in London for a comfortless campaign in Spain .

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      R ^(! E ^ w T" ? ^ " ^! T ™? Obituary ., 992 British Expedition to the Persian The Ago of Louis XIV 1005 The Subscription for Italy 08 G Miscellaneous yj 2 Gulf .. S 9 D i Retrosnects of Hunaai-v ions Accidents and Sudden Deaths ......... 986 Postscript ............................:. ; ::..: ^ aS ^> Ifw' ^^^ T : " . "" Z" 099 TheSat ^ esf ^ LZZ ' Z ' . Z 18 S otQitic or . i _ rcicL& . , ..,,... ( ,, ., < , «/ o 7 ' * ^ ' - . - Ireland . ; ......... 987 PUBLIC AFFAIRS— ^ OPEN COUNCIL- THE ARTSThe Orient 987 The Movement .. 990 Tho inim ' e "Rntti-fnii nm m-t * . •• ¦ ,-. Ti , „„ - America ,. 9 S 7 Bishops , Foreign and Domestic . ! . 9 % Chartism andiSocialism v" - iooo ' Theatrical Kotes . 1005 The American Dance of Death .. 988 Dissenters Painted by Themselves 997 - Bow * iis . ni ...... iuju _ _ ¦ ., - . ¦ . ¦ Continental Notes 98 S The Literary Association of tlie LITERATURE— The Gtazette 1005 A Drunkard ' s Death . 990 Friends of Poland .. ; ............ 993 Summary 1 O 01 Naval and . Military 990 Vane Tempest , as a « Oliieer , a Animal Magnetism " '""""'""" 1001 COMMERCIAL AFFAIRSOur Civilixation .............................. 990 Gentleman , and a Lord 99 s Wordsworth : a-BLpgraphy " . " ::. ' . " .:: 1002 City Intelligence , Markets , &c ...... 1005

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 18, 1856, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2163/page/1/