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London, England, 1856-07-24 00:00:00

been so frequently proved fatal to his predeces-
sors, and led to repeated changes of dynasties in
France. It would scarcely be necessary to trace
back beyond his immediate predecessor, whose
dethronement and exile were mainly occasioned
by the intrigues relating to the Spanish o arriages.
To these intrigues, and the disgust thereby created
both in France and England, NAPOLEON owes his
throne, and he should beware lest he may, in
turn, become the victim of a similar mistake.
Louis PHILIPPE himself had ample warning.
He must have seen the effect produced by the
ill-omened intervention of the elder branch of the
BOURBONS, which led to the judicial murder of
the patriot RAPHAEL DE RlEGO—and CHARLES
X. had witnessed the fatal results to the Great
NAPOLEON, of playing the Spanish King and the
heir apparent against each other, for the purpose
of transferring the Crown to one of his own
family. Why, then, will he not profit by the
salutary lessons ? Why will he endanger the
dynasty he has taken so much pains to establish,
and which tke birth of the Imperial Prince afforded
a chance of perpetuating, by intermeddling in the
perilous cause. Should the struggle between
the principles of absolutism and constitutional
freedom once commence, and nothing is more cal-
culated to render it inevitable than the untoward
state of affairs in Spain and Italy, it will be im-
possible to say when or where the contest may
terminate, or what changes may occur during its
progress. He himself may be one of the chief
sufferers. It is unnecessary to say that whatever
he may do he cannot gain the confidence or good-
will of the banded despots. They will readily use
him as a tool to advance their own purposes, but
they will still regard him as an usurper, and
yearn for the opportunity of restoring what
they consi.clor the legitimate line to the
throne of France. His Sovereignty is based on
the popular will, and the indisputable right of a na-
tion to select the form of Government which its
People may consider best suited to the national
welfare and prosperity. Every blow inflicted on
constitutional liberty and representative Govern-
ment must weaken his own title ; and the pre-
cedent which he may assist in establishing would
necessarily operate powerfully against himself and
his successors. As we have already stated, it is
not for England to interfere. The battle must
be decided in Spain, and by Spaniards only. We
shall not only observe a strict neutrality our-
selves—but, to the best and utmost of our ability,
endeavour to enforce it on all others.

Horribly vulgar though the Court may deem
our dear old friend Punch to be this week—the

mere " people" the of 70XXot in the streets iv

stand opposite the shop windows and grin at it in
very despite, nevertheless. That glorious, highly -
strappT,d-up, highly-strapped-down, military game
of Leap-Frog ! His Royal Highness—Lieutenant-
General that was, Full General that is, and Field-

Marshal that is to be—the Duke of 0931

BRIDGE, K.G., K.P., G.C.8., Grand Cross of the
Legion of Honour, Grand Star of the Med-
jidie, (almost "My Lord High Everything"

ike HARLEY in the Extravaganza), AND now

"last but not least," Commander-in-chief 1 There
h© is—high in mid-air—with a hop, skip, and a
jump—flying gaily over the head of his Royal

Highness the Prince Consort : Saying, with a
chuckle, as he soars in one hilarious ricochet over
the princely shoulders—" Now then, ALBERT,
Tuck in your Tuppenny I" Horribly vulgar, to
the Court. Eminently ludicrous, appropriate,
and laughter-moving to the mere, common, herd
of the population. The old dowagers (of both
sexes) who doat upon Princes will shudder, of
course, over the profanity of the Fleet-street
Droll. But the "people," the mere " people,"
as we have said, will grin at that profanity, never-
theless. As our good friends across the water
were wont in the days of the Citizen King
(when the crown was a "shocking bad hat,"
and the sceptre a gingham, and very Garupy,
umbrella) precisely, we say, as our gocd
friends . across the Channel used in those very
pleasant times to grin over the famous
pear-head pencilled week after week by the ini•
mitable PHILLIPON, with the most preposterously
whimsical expressions ever conjured up by the
imagination of a caricaturist ! Horribly vulgar
—Yes ! no doubt of it. But, ludicrous—very !
Laughter, more or less, Punch contrives always to
elicit—as poor Tom HOOD had it so comically—
" Laughter from Year to Year !" Sometimes with
a sudden outburst in its way quite inextinguish-
able. As when there appeared upon a memo-
rable Wednesday forenoon that celebrated cartoon
in which Lord JOHN was seen in the form of a small
London boy chalking up No Popery on Cardinal
WISEMAN'S Door, and then—running away ! Or,
again, as in that other renowned tableau where
DAN, in the shape of a squalling Irish Brat, seated
on the knees of Britannia, was blubbering for the
Moon labelled "Repale !" Or as now again in the
" royal game," not of Goose, but of Leap-Frog.
When the Consort gives the now Commander-in-
Chief a back, to the tune of " Now then, ALBERT,
Tuck in your Tuppenny !" What is it Sir
FWEDEWIOK BLOUNT says in BULWER'S comedy
of Money—" Thai fellow COWPER says vewy
odd things !" And so is it, doubtless, with the
Sir FWEDEWICK BLOUNTS of the Court in regard
to "that fellow Punch," who, also, now and then
(a little more frequently perhaps than the demi-
semi-religious-mad Poet, with the tame hares
and that everlasting nightcap !) contrives in his
turn to say such " vewy odd things !" Here is
one of them—very much to the point—but, of
course, horribly vulgar ! What you call rude !
Positively shocking ! To think of the dear Prince
"giving a back" to anyone, even to his Royal Hig-
hness the D uke of CAMBRIDGE I And above all, to think
of his being addressed by the new Commander-in-
Chief (even hypothetically) with—" Now then, AL-
, BERT, Tuck in your Tuppenny !" We can fancy
d the courtly Mr. CRESTERS of Society dusting the
mere sense of Punch away from them with a
whiff of embroidered cambric, calling faintly the
while to their favoluite groom-of-the-chambers
for the counter-flavour of the scent-bottle, a deli-
cate, disinfecting sprinkle of the genuine parfum
de la cour.

We must have Ito second " botch"—ofNew
Westminster Bridge. Already 42,0001. have
been swallowed up very recently in the muddy
bottom of the river, at the old fatal site where we
have been patching, and cobbling, and propping,
and shoreing up, until the thing has become abso-
lutely ridiculous. Don't let us any Luger, in the
name of Common Sense and in that of the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer !—don't let us any longer
be Banging perversely about the locality which
has been the scene of all this fruitless and ruinous
expenditure. Another bridge, it actually appears
now, will have to be commenced from the very
foundations—another bridge, crossing the Thames
at that particular quarter of the town, and so
connecting together Lambeth and West-
minster. Seeing that the enterprise must
be begun afresh let us not allow to
Flip from our grasp the narrow chance
of this abrupt and unexpected. opportunity.
It is quite obvious, we conceive, by this time that
the old place, and the old pianos and the old Wow