The Spanish Ministry has broken up, after a month's short
life. Composed of heterogeneous materials, the new elements consisting of respectables without energy equal to the times it had while it existed no substantive vigour. Narvaez still held the sword over it as Commander-in-chief. The Prime Minister, the Marquis of Miraflores, a man of repute as a diplomatist, turned out to have noyower of coping with the rude politics of his own country. Senor Pella y Aguayo, a Spaniard of high esteem in commerce, was a dead failure as Financial Minister. Perhaps both men were too good for their posts—too rigid in honour, too scrupulous, to succeed among the horde of renegades and adventurers who rule Spain. Narvaez suffered the Ministry to endure while the em- barrassments which had troubled his own Administration lasted : they have blown over—he dismisses the tenants-at-will, and makes himself at home again. He is said to have smoothed his return to office by concessions on the subject of the Queen's marriage— for he wanted to marry her to the Count Trapani—and by abating in some degree that peremptory bearing which had offended his cplleagues and broken up his Cabinet. So the adventurer Ramon Narvaez is in favour again, only on his good behaviour ; and he can again vie with Christina in plucking his country.
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