25 SEPTEMBER 1847, Page 2

The Spanish Government is deplorably in want of a master

spirit to animate its laudable intent. Its weakness is painfully visible. It sits in dread of hostile conspiracies which it knows, but it dares not grapple with the reputed author of those treasonable intrigues. Its arch enemy, Narvaez, remains in Madrid ; yet it neither seizes his person nor dismisses him from his post of Ambas- sador at Paris, which he leaves unoccupied in defiance of order. It has been reported that Espartero will return to his country— not before he is wanted. The fear is lest these miserable weak- nesses should so spoil the passing occasion as to make his return too late. And in the tribulation of the time, hope seems to centre in the "pluck" and gamesome audacity with which the young Queen has been reproached.