There are some points of interest in the Continental gossip.
The pliant Cortes of Spain have been dissolved, and simulta- neously the new " constitution" has been proclaimed; so that the last revolution will be consummated during the recess, by way of holyday amusement.
It is said in Paris, that Don Carlos has abdicated in favour of Ins iion' —acknowledging, at last, that he is not King of Spain, though he is imprisoned by Louis Philippe at Bourges, and pa- tronized by Lord Ranelagh and Mr. Peter Borthwick ; and that the young Prince has avowed himself a good subject of Queen Isabella the Second. If so, as Spain indulges a charming fashion of converting blessings to curses, one foresees some new civil war in this extinction of the Pretendership.
The Emperor of Morocco refuses to accomplish the treaty with France; and accusations of bad faith fly all round, like slaps on the face in a pantomime : the Emperor has flown from his royal word ; M. De la Rile, the French Envoy, tried to overreach the Moorish negotiators ; and the British representative, most ig observing the comity of nations, exposed the attempted ft) as France with the " perfide Albion." Some- /4:: h all is as yet in a fog of obscurity.
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