The Sun.
London, England, 1856-07-28 00:00:00

are all on the side of the reactionaries, and that
they will be prepared to throw off the mask, and
to hanrd a direct interference, should there be
any necessity for 'so decided a step, and should
O'DoNNELL int be enabled to succeed with the

merely moral support that has been p:' w=ised.
The formation of the so-called army of observa-
tion of 25,000 men, on the line of the Pyrenees,
bears a very significant aspect. It cannot be re-
garded in any light save as a menace of interven-
tion, and assurances have doubtless already been
riven, both at Paris and Madrid, to show that
the O'DONNELL party have nothing to dread from
the demonstration.

But if any doubt could be entertained on this
point it must be completely set at rest, by a
senii•ofl'icial article that appeared in the Moniteur
of yesterday, and which will be found in another
part of this day's impression. The disguise

hitherto maintained has there been deliberately
cast aside. There is an affectation of a desire to
witness "the establishment of a constitutional Go-
vernment, on a firm basis," but the cloven foot is
speedily exhibited in all its naked deformity, by

the assertion that "as the ESPARTERO Ministry
did not seem to possess either the power to pre-
vent excesses, or the requisite energy to lead a
great country, it is natural to hail with sympathy
a change of a nature to conselidate the Throne of
ISABELLA II."

This is mounting the O'DONNELL colours with '
a vengeance. There can no longer be any mis-
take as to the nature of the instructions for-
warded to the discreet and obedient editor of the
Ministerial organ. Louis NAPOLEON has damned
himself for ever in the ofhion not only of every true
heartedl Englishman, but of every friend
of civilised and religious liberty in the
world. The credit(!) given to Mar-
shal O'DONNELL for having attempted, without a
coup d'etat, to restore order in Spain—
" the first and indispensable basis of liberty"
—is unfortunately too decisive. It is
needless to say to any English reader that
the disorderlies were those invoking the name of
order—that matters were perfectly peaceable at
Madrid and throughout Spain until the vile pro-
ject was hatched of setting aside the Constitution
—the only foundation on which rested the Throne
of ISABELLA. If.—and establishing a despotism on

ruins.

It was, however, scarcely becoming on the part
of Louis NAPOLEON to permit the mouthpiece of
his Ministry to speak quite so contemptuously of
public opinion and the vox populi. It is
to one of those baneful " pronunciamentos,"
no* „'"to --earnestly deprecated, - that he
.owes 'the ,position which he occupies,
and the power of exercising the most trivial info
etito,s:aver, the affairs. of Europe. He is, indeed,
,greatly changed since the time when the plaudits
uf,„_,tho assembled myriads greeted his visit to the
Briti'Sh metropolis—
.
"ileu, qudatum mutatus ab illo Hectare."
Ho is now the ally of despotism, the earnest oppo-
' rent of Constitutional liberty. He has apparently
aspired to play the role formerly filled by the
Czar Nrcnoras, and to render himself the sup-
porter of every would-be Autocrat. It is well,
however, that the true state of affairs should be
recognised—that France and Europe should be
awakened from the delusion so long indulged in,
and that Lours NAPOLEON BUONAPARTE should
be exhibited, even at the eleventh hour, in his
true colours. The sneer at "Republics" scarcely
comes well from him, or from those professing to
act under his inspiration ; but still it is well to
know even the direction to which his wishes
tend—that Liberals and Constitutionalists may
learn that in place of a friend and well-wisher,
they have in the Emp..-tor of the FRENCI a foe
more formidable than either Czar or Kaiser,
and one against whose machinations it is neces-
sary to guard with the utmost vigilance.