The two Spanish marriages have been solemnized ; Spain has
looked on in silence ; the journalists that threatened to prevent the match, driven from any tenable position in the present, rush into impressive vaticinations for the future ; and Lord Palmerston has so far recovered his self-possession and good-humour, that, we see, Lord Normanby is to dine with M. Guizot. The nine-days won- der is already- declining in interest. Some console themselves with the reflection, that even if the match have no worse results, it will have impaired the mutual confidence and cordiality between France and England. Possibly : Louis Philippe's desperate push for his unendowed son, his youngest boy, may not without reason have scandalized English diplomatic etiquette in such matters ; and there may be a coolness—to disappear at the first occasion for mutual service between the nations. As to the feeling in. Spain,—" enthusiasm" and affection for the French Princes, according to the French Ministerial writers ; dogged sullen dislike, coerced by armed power and bribes, according to British antagonists,—it is to us most evidently that of perfect in- difference. If the Spaniards had any more positive and stronger feeling, they would not hesitate to express it pretty loudly.
