NEWS OF THE WEEK.
THE "dumbfounded Spaniard" has risen again,—let us hope not to subside this time till he has laid the foundations of a government so liberal and strong, that even in Mr. Roebuck's eyes he will cease to be dumbfounded. On Friday week, 18th September, the whole fleet stationed at Cadiz rose under Rear- Admiral Topete against Queen Isabella's Government. It appears that Gonsalez Bravo's happy scheme of deporting the disaffected Generals to the Canary Isles practically caused the revolt. The friends of the deported Generals, Marshal Serrano, General Dulce, and the others, sent a couple of steamers to the Canaries to fetch them some weeks ago, one of which certainly sailed from a Spanish port without attracting suspicion. These steamers on their return seem to have met again at Gibraltar, and, as it is said, to have en- countered General Prim (who had secretly left England some ten days ago) and his staff at Gibraltar. Captain Malcampo, the com- mander of the iron-clad Saragossa,—whom Isabella is said to have courted personally, both directly and through his wife, within the last few weeks, as if she had had forebodings of his formidable hos- tility,—began the revolution by bringing his iron-clad just opposite the Cadiz barracks, on which the artillery submitted and joined the insurrection. The returning exiles were received by the fleet with all due honours, and are believed to have distributed themselves at once over the disaffected ports on the Spanish coast, Malaga, Car- tagena, Alicant, Valencia, Barcelona, &c., Marshal Serrano tak- ing command in Andalusia. Thus, Sefior Gonsalez Bravo—who, with his family, both political and domestic, that is, with his wife, children, and late political colleagues, fled across the frontier into France on Tuesday,—happily contrived, by suppressing the dangerous humours of political independence in the Army, to bring on the first inflammatory symptoms in the Spanish Navy, —which had escorted the proscribed Generals into exile !
