King Louis of Bavaria has made a demonstration, and so
has the Seilora Lola Montez : the King has been to the theatre with his Queen, and has been received with a touching exuberance of applause; the lady has appeared, by letter, in the columns of the Times. She writes in good round English ; for, it seems, this country has the honour of having given birth to the Terpsicho- rean stateswoman, though she bears the name of a celebrated bull-fighter of Spain. The dancer's epistle has a vigorous aplomb. Lola Montez emphatically repudiates the meddling in state affairs imputed to her ; but admits that she is the sworn enemy of the Jesuits—head instigators of the anti-regal and anti-popular party in Bavaria. It appears to be a fact that the rise of her influence in Munich is simultaneous with a sudden freeing of the King from shackles to which he had before yielded. How mixed are human motives and their issues I The new regime is unequivocally applauded by the public of the Bavarian capital : how impossible it must be for King Louis to analyze that multitudinous sanction so as to apportion it duly to his poli- tics or his erotica
