The limes has a correspondent at Madrid, who appears deter-
mined to justify his mission. According to him Spain is on the brink of a revolution, which will dismiss Queen Isabella to in- dulge her peculiar tastes in private. The people, who have -abstained at this election from the polls till the members were really returned by the office-bearers, are resolved on a radical change, and proposals for dethroning the Queen, and substituting either a Regency, or the King of Portugal, or Don Ferdinand the Coburg Dowager-King, are freely discussed. The Queen is ,enceinte, and very ill, being worried to death by priests, nuns, Marshal O'Donnell, and the popular outcry for her abdication ; while the Premier orders the garrison of Madrid to remain for days under arms. There is something in it all, we suppose, but .Queen Isabella has been menaced before, and is a Bourbon. Bourbons do not abdicate, and dethronement by a military decree is a very daring game for any man to play who cannot himself mount the vacant throne. There is Napoleon, too, looking on, not uninterested, for is he not in right of his wife a -grandee of .Spain?
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