4 OCTOBER 1856, Page 17

DEATH OF ENGLISH INFLUENCE IN SPAIN.

_Paris, 16th September 1856. The healthy appreciation of general events which characterizes your weekly view induces me to bring the present actual and correlative positions of England and Spain more particularly before you. I look upon English influence in Spain to be lost for ever. Far be it from me to say anything against the alliance between free England and despotic France, on however different bases the united fabric reposes. The circumstances may have been inflexible, and the absorption of one influence by another an inevitable result; but so it is, and so it must be regarded, disagreeable as it may be to look the fact in the face. We are giving advice, that monomania of Downing Street, after during two years not having dared to say or do anything at Madrid that was dis- pleasing to the Emperor Louis Napoleon, and after having formally and de- liberately reduced the English Minister there to a zero. In the middle of this advice comes the highest distinction France can bestow as a reward to Marshal O'Donnell for having gagged the press, up- set the stupid but honest Espartero, and having at one deadly swoop de- stroyed the Cortes and the Militia. The upshot of this naturally is that England only irritates; and her un- fortunate Minister finds that he has not so much power as the third secre- of the French Ambassador. e English Government gives its faith and shapes its course by what Count Walewski says to Lord Cowley. The sensible part of the world (and I trust of the English public specially) will judge by what the French Go- vernment does, and very particularly by its opinions, and even its menacing intentions, promulgated by the Journal de Madrid, a French periodical aid by a "subvention," and proclaiming itself the Napoleonic organ. 111.55 paper keeps intervention dangling over the country, and fairly says that every Spanish question is a French question. This is true, for Spain will soon be a French department.