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London, England, 1858-07-13 00:00:00

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LONDON, TUESDAY, JULY IS.

SPORTING INTHLLIORNCIL

A SPECIAL EDITION of the " EXPRESS,"
eentaining the veinilta of the day's Ranee, ie pub-
lielied emery evening daring the Sporting Season, at
six o'clock.

WITILS? the oonvulsions of Southern Italy, and
time constitutional Government of Piedmont, have

given birth to a host of eminent men in the various
walks of knowledge and of life, Spain, with the
acme and semblance of a Constitution, shows, at least
intellectually, all the decrepitude of an Absolutism.
The cause and the tenth are, that the Representa-
tive principle in that country has been falsified,
under the auspices of French Conservatism ; that the
Qtats roles far more by the support of her
Army than by the goodwill of her People ; that
through its instrumentality she is to a certain de-
gree mistrial, of the elections ; that by the dearso•
tion of municipal liberty and provinaisl psivi.
leges, public life is almost exclusively confined to
the capital—remote regions, and even chief towns,
participating little in that movement and activity to
which the struggle of parties gives birth. In this
state of things it is the Court, not the public,
which bestows character as well se place.
And the chiefs of parties succeed each other
in power, net because the public approves or
calls for them, but limply because the (ark= finds
it snit her interest or caprice to make a change. If a
Minister thwarts 18.4861.1.4 she insteatly commences
relations and intrigues with that Minister's rival,
who of mane makes promisee and terms, and In
good time seconds to office, not by virtue of Parlia-
mentary bat of Court success.

It was lisr.saralo's desire to put an end to this
state of things, so dangerous to the throne and the
QCSIX'S title as well as unjust to the nation.
O'Dontratt himself had taken up arms against it,
and at first joined ENPARTRRO, and promised to
second him in the great and difficult attempt of
bringing beck true and constitutional government.
The Qualm, however, had the astuteness to separate
the two generals, to wean O'DoxNEtt. from the
Duke of VICTORY, and to induce the former to
betray his colleague. For this impolitic act of
treachery the Quivs gave O'DONNLLL but • few
more weeks' hold of power, and then dismissed him,
to resume her wonted system of favouritism and
Court Government.

It is needless to observe how much the establish-
ment of Imperial Despotism in Franco has tended to
strengthen the personal influence and power of the
Spanish QUINN. The Spaniards, unfortunately
accustomed to look to France as a model, have
many of them begun to despair of truly constitu-
tional government. The French EMPEROR, it is
@apposed, would be unscrupulous in putting down
even the most just revolution ; and the Liberal
party have abdicated its hopes and its activity. The
Moderados have indeed continued the struggle for
the maintenance of representative government ; but
they are bad °Darden, and indeed are worn out as a
party. Demurs was in this respect no bad repro-
asntative of them.

O'Dortnett. is the chosen Minister of the French
Court, and this is the least derrable part of the re-
cent change. It might have been thought that
NtIIVAZZ, married to a connexion of the BCONA-
PARTE% would have been preferred at the Tuileries.
But it is not so. NAIRTAEZ, ■midst a host of great
defects, has the one virtosof being eminently national.
As Minister of Spain, he would have set his own foot
on his country's neck, but he would aid no foreign
potentate in assuming such a position.
O'Dowsztt is much more flexible. It may be re-
marked that the constant advice of French ambas-
sadors at Madrid of late years to the Spanish
Government has been to re-constitute their naval
power, repair their arsenals, rebuild their fleets, and
in time resume their old place upon the ocean.
Isrustrx rather neglected this advice, and seemed
to think that Spain had more need of rail-
roads than of men-of-war. Still some efforts
haw been made to get ap a Spanish naval force,
which, Imbed, the state and neighbourhood of Cuba
imperatively demand. The worst of a new Government
in Madrid will be the despatch of a new and hungry
commander to that island, where O'Dogsett himself
set the notable example of making his fortune by
the toleration of negro importation.

Now that the French ENPEROI has taken this traffic
under his protection, and has at the same time installed
his recliner triads in power at Madrid, we may
expect to see Frisch peculiarities of apolicy and lan-
guage adopted and employed South of the Pyrenees.
We have Weed had already one or two samples.
For there it in every continental country a squad of
journalists prom, to barn incense before the French
throne, whoever occupies it, and laud French sys-
tems, however preposterous and retrograde. Soak
organs, however, are no more the voice of the
Spanish people than M. }taxer is the echo of the
French. We should do well to distinguish the voice
of a people from the braying of u.e animals that are
hammed to the car of Power.

WITLX the Americans in London celebrated their
Fourth of July, amidst much unbind exultation at
the greatness and promise of their Republic, many of
them must here seen the most recent newspapers from
home, and among them the Peterabwrg Express of June
10th. That journal brought with it from Virginia a
frox'al story. Virginia still ranks first among the
States of the Union in the affection and admiration
of the Southern citizens ; and in the North then is
it strung tenderness for the old State which gave to
the Commonwealth its early and most noble Presi-
dents. In wealth, in population, in promise and
aspiration, Virginia has sunk, from the first place in
the seal*, till, in lAA It was only the fifth State in
point of wealth, and fourth in population; but