The formation of the new Spanish Ministry, which Seilor Isturitz
undertook, is still hampered with difficulties ; but the chief Minis- ter has taken one bold and decided step—he has sent Narvaez out of the way, exiled him. The manner in which the dictator lost his power is still involved in mystery ; and the reports which profess to account for it offer no adequate explanation. If con- jecture were permitted to the distant foreigner, it might be guessed that Queen Christina, having as far as possible warped the young Queen Isabella to her views, and finding that Nar- vaez could no longer be of use, has suffered him to drop; and without her he has no substantive influence. He probably felt as much when he called her home from Paris; and since that time he has perhaps lost more by alienating the good-will of all who came near him, with his rough and crooked temper, than he has gained by the unscrupulous exercise of power. He was offereld, it seems, the embassy at Naples, or exile : he chose simple exile—perhaps that he might be the freer to pursue his own in- tereste. He has gone to France. On his way he had an inter- view with Don Enrique, whom he himself had just sent into banishment. He is now in Paris,—a convenient placer for Spanish plotting.
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