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ROYAL THEATRE ADELPHI
Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Wet ster.
Directress, Madame Celeste.
THIS EVENING.
IRELAND AS IT IS.
Followed by
DOMESTIC ECONOMY.
To conclude with
LUCIFER MATCHES; OR, THE YANKEE - !

STR IND TKEATRE.
Manager, Mr, T. Payne.
TIPS EVENING,
THE MILLER OF DERWEiIT WATER.
After which,
A Ballet Divertissement.
Followed by an original Burlesque, entitled
BELPHEGOR.
Mesdames Thirlsvall, Wooßidge, and Cuthbert; Messrs. IL J.
Turner, Herbert, Clarke, &c.
To conclude with
TIIE MARRIED BA.CHF,LOR.
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ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE.
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THIS EVENING,
STILL WATERS RUN DEEP.
To conclude with
THE MST NIGHT.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.
• Lessee and Manager, Mr. Wm. Cooke.
THIS EVENING,
k63d Night !) Shakspere's Tragedy of RICHARD THE THIRD
Richard, Mr. J. He/noway. Mr. W. Cooke's Equestrian Illustrations,
A. success unprecedented.

After which,

The attractive SCENES in the CIRCLE, combining skill, daring
and elegance.
To conclude with a Milange of Amusements._
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',ONDON, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1856.

The arrival of NARNAEZ at Madrid was the
signal for the downfall of O'DONNELL. He found
that, according to American parlance, he was
fairly " cornered," and that he .might as well
surrender at once without even attempting to
defend the position for the attainment whereof
he had made so many and such serious sacrifices.
During his three months of office he succeeded in
alienating every former friend, without gaining a
single new one, in Spain. He recklessly yielded
to temptation, although the slightest considera-
tion might have convinced him that treachery
similar to that which he displayed towards
ESPARTERO would, on the first convenient oppor-
tunity, be exhibited towards himself. He is now
in the position of a traitor deprived of his antici-
pated reward—a signal instance of retributive
j ustiee.

He was necessary to the carrying out of
Queen ISABELLA'S project against the Constitution
which she had sworn, to observe. Unless a traitor
could be discovered in the Cabinet it would have
been impossible to get rid of ESPARTERO, whose
acceptance of office had within a few years pre-
served the Crown of ISABELLA. 11. An Absolutist
Ministry could not at once be proclaimed without
exciting a revolution, of which it was impossible
to predict the results. Extraordinary preparations
should be made, an overwhelming military force
concentrated on the capital, and O'DONNELL was
enabled, by virtue of his office, to make the
arrangements, without which the Bourbon Dy-
nasty might have ceased to reign in Spain.

O'DONNELL at once fell into the trap so
artfully laid for his reception. Cunning as he
was, he had one still more cunning to deal with—
one profuse in promise, but stingy in performance.
Ho could not appear to doubt the pledges of his
SOVEREIGN, and, in an evil hour, yielded to the
temptations so lavishly displayed before him.
It was, however, obvious from the very commence-
ment, that O'DONNELL was but a mere " warm-
ing-pan," to hold the situation until a greater
favourite at Court—one more ready to carry out
Absolutist doctrinel, and to yield implicit
obedience to every whim of the SOVEREIGN—
could be procured. Every possible blandish-
ment was exercised the most unbounded
favour was displayed towards the instrument, the
soothing system was clatinuecl till the very last ;
and when every one else knew that the ground
was giving way beneath him he fancied himself
Imore secure than ever. He should have profited
better from his former experience of the charac
toristics of the Bourbon race. The only advantage
which he received daring his brief tenure of office
was the adhesion of the Emperor NAPOLEON, who
uudisguisedly mounted his colours. It is, however,
difficult to say how the further change will be
received at the Tuileries. As a further movement
in the absolutist cause it could scarcely be dis-
pleasing
to the Emperor, who, it is said, regards
Constitutional Government with no very favour-
, able eye. He may, however, see that IsABELLA,

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as a true niece of BOMBA, is going a .e too far
—that she is determined to do as she likes with
r
what she considers her ol n, even if she sacrifices
her throne in the attempt,
We shall witness the, j )laying out of the game
with comparative indifferei ice. It is scarcely pro-
bable that NARIAEZ will l ong retain his position.
He may continue to r e nder himself more ob-
noxious than he has hit hi 3rto been, to identify his
name with the most unpopular measures, the
restoration of the plr alder accumulated by the
QUEEN MOTHER, and the extension of her power
and influence—a larg e infusion of the sacerdotal
element into the Guy ernment, and an unresisting
submission to every caprice of the SOVEREIGN,
however unreasona.bl,e. But even he must stop
somewhere, and a, more unscrupulous agent will
yet be discovered, la whom NARYAEZ must yield

his position.
Then, indeed, 4° ' will be the tug of war."
The question will no longer be of a change
of Ministry—but of a Dynasty. The Spanish as
well as the Neapolit. In BOURBONS seem to have
nearly accomplished heir destinies. They have
hardened their hearts
against the signs of the
times. They have de: ;troyed the Constitutions
o-
which were the firmest foundations of their r
spective thrones, and trey ted with gross ingrati-
tude the nation to whose disinterested efforts they
owed the power of displaying the attributes of
their race. Well, the day mast hour of retributive
justice is rapidly approaching:. Whatever may
be the errors of Spaniards o r Neapolitans, they
will not perpetually submit to, the despotic domi-
nations of ISABELLA or of 803 EBA ; although they
may not hare merited a direct 4:interference in their
favour, they may still be assure 11 that any energetic
efforts to obtain freedom will r beeive the sympathy
of every true-hearted Engli Elhman, and that if
not with them we shall certaiaily not be against
them, nor shall we suffer any
,undue interference
by other nations. All they require is a clear
stage and no favour, and that -they shall receive !
For all beyond they must look to their own
right arms. The " hereditai y bondsmen" must
themselves strike the blow th It will break down
the barriers of oppression, < tnd open the way to
liberty and Constitutional Go vernment.

Another of those miserable shams and mockeries
of Justice, called Courts of I nquiry, has just been
appropriately consummated. An investigation
growing out of an unfortunate fracas which took
place on the 11th ultimo, at the Royal William
Victualling Yard, Plymouth, ►between Dr. BUDD,
one of the most eminent physicians of South
Devonshire, and Captain NIAS:, the local Superin-
tendent—has resulted in au official judgment,
which for its perverse fatuity has seldom if ever
been surpassed. The circumstances of the
wretched little contretemps from which the Board
of Inquiry may be said to have emanated we care
not here in any way minutely to recapitulate.
The whole affair simply being nothing more nor
less, as it appears to us, than. one of those melan-
choly exhibitions of irrascibility consequent upon
the sudden collision of two men of the most incon-
gruous temperaments—one of them morbidly sen-
sitive of anything at all bearing the faintest con-
struction of a personal slight or indignity, the
other no less morbidly puffed up with an extrava-
gant sense of the most egregious self-importance.
The abrupt clashing of which same glaringly an-
tagonistic temperaments produces—hardly less ,
inevitably than the bringing together of fire and
gunpowder—an instantaneous explosion !
It is perfectly comprehensible, therefore (re-
membering the frailty of human nature), that
when an amiable gentleman like Dr. BIDD, of
Plymouth, an eminent member of an eminent pro-
fession, approaches an impulsive gentleman (to
say the least of him) like Captain NUS, the
Superintendent of the Victualling-yard already
mentioned—lt is perfectly comprehensible, we
say, that when an unoffending Physician (hat iu
hand) approaches a petulant Superintendent (cap
on head) only to find his courteous advances waived
off with an irritated and irritating movement of
the hand, and an order to the bowing Doctor to
follow his High Mightiness into some adjacent
office—lt is perfectly comprehensible, we say,
that all this should somehow, on. the instant, and
without' the smallest opportunity for premeditation,
be resented. Particularly if the incident happens
to transpire, as it actually did transpire, on the 11th
ultimo, in the presence of a group of ladies, the
friends of this same courtly but repulsed physi-
cian ! The sequel is soon told—almost as rapid
and inevitable a sequel as that resulting from the
application of the lighted match to the train of
gunpowder. Wincing under such unexpectedly
cavalier treatment Dr. BUDD declines to have
anything to do, either with the office or the Cap
tain-Superintendent. The latter, thereupon,
"incontinently" orders a policeman who is stand-
ing hard by and gazing with astonishment at the
two wonderfully choleric interlocutors, to turn Dr.
BUDD out of the yard ! Without any more rea-
son for so doing than we have here mentioned--
, without any more ado—in the presence of Dr.
BUDD'S friends, the ladies who are looking on from
a little distance at this most extraordinary treat-
ment of their companion. Naturally, very natu-
rally, tho worthy doctor hears the order for his
being thus summarily ejected from the yard by
a policeman with absolute amazement. He
pauses. The " Peeler" takes him by the arm in
order to carry into execution the command of his
superior officer, the Captain-Superintendent.
Thereupon, goaded by these indignities, quoth
Dr. BUDD turning upon Captain NlAs—" You
aro the greatest brute I ever saw " Having
relieved himself of which pithy expression of Ellis-
gust, the doctor (who had come with an Admi-
ralty letter, authorising him to conduct a party
of French gentlewomen, lion-hunting, over the
dockyard) is walked through the gate, in presence
of his companions, and under the eyes of the
policeman. Such, briefly, was the lamentable
little fracas between Dr. JoHN BUDD, M.D., of
Plymouth, and Captain JOSEPH Nies, C. 8., Su-
perintendent of the Royal William Victualling
Yard—the fracas upon which an Admiralty
Board of Inquiry has just been sitting, and upon
which that same hoard has but very recently pro-
nounced its judgment, after all due delay and
deliberation. A judgment, we are bold to say,
at once the most perverse and the most prepos-
, terous.

Let it be remembered that, according to the
declaration of Captain NIAs, it was after Dr.
BUDD had called him a brute, that he ordered the
doctor to be turned out of the yard by a police-
man I Whereas, according to the statement of
lir. BUDD (a statement, it must be added, sup-
ported upon oath by all the evidence brought to
bear upon the matter before the official Court of
Inquiry), it was in, conserptenco of his being or-
dered to be ejected from the yard, as already
related, that the doctor, in a sudden outburst of
exeitenaont, indulged himself by blurting out thu3
significantly his disgust at the extraordinary.
course pursued by the Captain Superintendent.
"It is clear, then," as our very plain-spoken
physician wrote, in a letter addressed by him on
the 18th ult. to Mr. PHINN., of the Admiralty,
"It is clear, then, that either Captain NIAS or
myself must be before their Lordships -a con-