The Express.
London, England, 1852-02-10 00:00:00

narehy is to be absolute, the right to the throne is
not ISABELLA'S, but belongs to the son of Dos CARLOS.
In France Louts NsroLeos, they say, Batters the
legitimists with the promise that he will establish
absolutism, will not marry, will not make any one ofl
his family his heir, but will make over, by will and die-.
position, the crown to the legitimist heir, keeping out
the Oemois, and with them tho constitutional
principle, as long as he lives. One can
comprehend, however difficult it may be to
credit, the gullibility of the French legitimists,
who are won even by such a tale as this. But the
Spanish legitimists are not so easily bamboozled.
'I hey would never consent to allow Queen ISABELLA
and BRAVO MURILLO to reign, on any remote under-
standing of being made residuary legatees of the
kingdom. Any assumption of absolute power by the
Queen of SPAIN or her government will, therefore,
not conciliate the real absolutists of Spain, whilst it
will disgust and render permanently disaffected that
large class of modtrados who arc still constitutional,
and who comprise the more intelligent of the citizens
and even of the army.
Nothing could be more easy to Queen ISABELLA
than constitutional government. The elections
throughout Spain are managed in towns where the
municipul spirit and liberties have been put down,
the national guards disarmed, and the royal and mili-
tary authorities so dominant, that nothing can mist
them. Take away the incubus of administrative in.
teepee in Spain to-morrow, and there would no
doubt be an cralludo Cortes. But there is not au
exaitado in the Cortes. Every member of the Cortes
is a moderate constitutionalist of exactly such
principles and tendencies as the QUEEN
herself would choose. All she has to do
is to make fitting choice amongst the mem-
bers of the chambers to entrust the govern-
ment to, and let there be a fair distribution of
and promotion, and no country in Europe
hhuis to for tranquillity in Spain. But if a per-
verse, capricious, and disrespected individual like
BRAVO kluatt.to gets possession of power, disgusts
the majority of their moderate Cortes, and is unable
to keep his hold of power constitutionally, nothing
can be more easy than for the Que.EN to
let go BRAVO MURILLO and take Bravo Any-
body Else. But, unfortunately, the easy work-
ing of the constitutional system is not understood
in Spain. BRAVO MURILLO not being able to keep
himself up in the Cortes, stretches oat his Making
heed to the Qintex. He merely demands that, in
order to his support, the constitutional government
be done away with, the Cortes sent about their busi-
ness, and ho himself made another XIXENES, in all
but tke virtue and the talent. The demand is not
more preposterous than that of the lovers who asked
for the annihilation of time and space.
But however the court may have hitherto resisted
the demand of absolutism put forward by BRAVO
MURILLO, this recent criminal attempt will give
great support and credence to all plans of what is
called strengthening the government, or in other
words, rendering it absolute. •
That BRAVO MURILLO will not profit by the scheme
of which be is the cat's paw, is plain enough. If
an absolute government has to be restored in Spain,
and not in favour of the Carlist Prince
nobody but NARVAEZ can undertake the task.
And a coup deka by such bands would be merely
attaching the car of Queen ISABELLA to that of the
BONAPARTES. This would be joining it to all that
is most uncertain and ephemeral in Europe, and
thereby sewing the seeds not of one but of a score
of revolutiocs. The man who should do this in
Spain would deserve to lose not one, but ten heads,
if he possessed them,—so enormous is the fully, and
so incredible the crime. But the political folly of
men in the Peninsula certainly does exceed that of
all other nations.

AU this folly will, however, now be veiled with
loyal indignation against the regicide,—and with
anxiety for the QUEEN'S life. Whoever the exe-
crable assassia in the ecclesiastical garb may prove
--a maniac probably—for no cause could be served
by the assassination of a woman or a child—he will
no doubt be pronounced to be a socialist in disguise, I
and we shall have the thunders of the Elysie against
those bugbears of the day re-echoed from Madrid,
where the artisan class is rare, and socialism simply
impossible. We shall, however, have the hydra do-
nounced there as everywhere else. And IssexuA
or CHRISTINA may Satter themselves with the
thought that by adopting the jargon of the
great absolutist monarchies, they will have made
an advance towards acquiring their sympathies
and support. Their Majesties will find out
their mistake. The courts of Russia and
of Austria have a deep objection to any dynasty_
of regime at Madrid that is dependent on France.
TI e restoration of the Carlist branch can alone
waist', them. And if the Spanish constitutionalists
give up the constitution, and grasp at absolutism for
their own Quxem, they by the very act sanction and
restore legitimacy, and render it inevitable.