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 hazard a direct interference, should there be

any necessity for so decided a step, and should
O'DONNELL not be enabled to succeed with the

merely moral support that has been pr,,mised.
The forination of the so-called army of observa-

tion of 25,000 men, on the line of the Pyreneei,
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
given, both at Paris and Madrid, to show that
the O'DONNELL party have nothing to dread from
j the demonstration.

But if any doubt could be entertained on this
point it must be completely set at rest, by a

semi-official 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 consolidate 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 theopinion not only of every true
hearted] Englishman, but of every friend
of civilised and religious liberty in the
world. The credit (1) 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 ll.—and establishing a despotism on
its ruins.

It was, however, scarcely becoming on the part '
of Lours NAPOLEON to permit the mouthpiece of
his Ministry to speak quite so contemptuously of
public opinion and the vex populi. It is
to one of those baneful "pronunciamentos,"
now so earnestly deprecated, that h,
owes the position which he occupic,,
and the power of exercising the most trivial influ-
ence over the affairs of Europe. He is, indeed,
greatly changed since the time when the plaudits
of the assembled myriads greeted his visit to the
British metropolis—
" Heit, quantum mutates ab illo Hectore."

He is now the ally of despotism, the earnest oppo-
nent of Constitutional liberty. He has apparently
aspired to play the role formerly filled by the
Czar Nicn.on.ts, and to rend©r himself the sup-
porter of every would-be Autocrat. It is wcII,
however, that the true state of affairs should bi
recognised—that France and Europe should le
awakened from the delusion so long indulged in,
and that Louts NAPOLEON BIIONAPARTE should
be exhibited, even at the eleventh hour, in his
true colours. The sneer at "Republics" sctrcely
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 tn,y
learn that iu place of a friend and well-wisher,
they have in the Emperor of the FRENCH a fo&
more formidable than either 61::cir or Kaiser,
land one against whose machinations it is neces
slay to guard with the utmost vigilance.