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brought the Carlists to the very gates of Madrid, while
the British auxiliary legion occupied the rabbit-warren

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__ Sebastian. The Carlist forces failed to get pos-
session of the capital and the Queen's person, because
the chiefs quarrelled among themselves, and mutual
jealousy and dissension lost them the advantages which

.arias h-ad won

, Carlist vanquishers of Evans and his legion
e themselves vanquished by the treason of Maroto,
hose cold--blooded murders of distinguished chiefs
'as a subject of great triumph with the Globe—a jour-
,al that claimed for Lord Palmerston all the honour
and glory of Maroto's treachery and crimes.
Nobody envied Lord Palmerston his position on the
political platform where the Globe had pilloried him to
imperishable disgrace. Even we felt some compassion
for the unhappy secretary thus awkwardly immolated
by a friendly hand. We thought that no British states-
man could have condescended to work with such an
ensanguined tool as Maroto. But the Globe insisted
that the whole merit of the policy, which substituted
murder and treason for open and manly warfare be-
longed to our foreign secretary. He, and he alone,
was the PACIFICATOR of Spain
Well, Spain is now in the midst of another revolu-

i'he usurpers of the Queen's authority have got
possession of the Queen's capital city, and, by the title
of a successful revolt, have taken the cares as well as
the profits of government on themselves. Such are
the fruits of the " quadruple treaty of the West" in
pacifying the kingdom of the Spanish peninsula. Is
not Palmerston then a successful pacificator
The quadruple treaty

" of the East bids fairly to pro-
duce as much confusion and bloodshed as the " qua-
druple treaty" of the !rest has already done—probably
a great deal more. It is a treaty which, as Lord Pal-
merston says, is to afford " a solution of the compli-
cations of the Levant." We see already how it ham
begun to simplify those "complications." It operates
by entangling all Europe in the meshes of Eastern
policy. But it has a great resource for cutting away
all difficulties in reserve. It is the same instrument
that was formerly used to cut the " Gordian knot"—

thing In him, but alas ! his attempts were miserable
failures. He spoke often and long, and his speeches were
at first listened to with attention ; but his hearers soon got
tired of them, until eventually he was either coughed down
or left alone in his glory, talking to empty benches. His
style of delivery was affected in the extreme, his gestures,
the tone of voice in which he spoke, the matter of his
speeches, and the self satisfied look of profound wisdom in
which lie delivered the most trumpery, common-place re-
marks, all conspired to create positive disgust this continued
for some little time, until at last Bulwer found his level
amongst the very small fry of the ministerial benches. He
is now nobody. No one cares a rush for his opinion on any
public question ; no one ever thinks of asking whether he
spoke, and on what side, or whether he voted, and on what
side, when any important subject is under consideration in
the house. He is no use whatever to his party, except to
assist them in their many great emergencies with his solitary
vote. Yes, there he sits, the author of many clever works,
the man who fancies himself equal to any undertaking, the
man who writes, and writes about every imaginable subject,
and who does really and truly possess some ability—there he
sits, we say, like an automaton, acting and moving exactly
as he is ordered, doing what he is bidden, without daring to
murmur—a mere tool in the hands of a Whig minister. Oh
what a monstrous degradation !
It would be out of our province to dwell upon Sir Lytton
Bulwer's literary demerits. As an author he is of course
known, mere or less, to every one of our readers. His
novels are cleverly written, and his plays are cleverly con-
structed ; hut, as for his poetry, ye gods ! it is sad stuff.
Had Sir Lytton Bulwer confined himself to that sphere
for which his talents fit him, he might now be in a more
distinguished position than he is, in spite of his baronetcy.
It is to be hoped that for the future he will cut statemanship,
and philosophy, and poetry, and stick to novel writing : by
so doing he may become a great man.
Do my readers want to know what sort of a looking fellow
Sir Lytton Bulwer is ? Look at every one of his works and
you will there find a description of himself in some shape or
other. Read Lady Bulwer's " Cheveley," and you will
find what she, who knows him well, has to say of him ;
unfortunately she says not much in his favour, either as a
father or a husband. If you are too lazy to look in Bulwer's
works or in " Cheveley' for a description of Sir Neddy's
personal appearance, I beg to tell you that he is one of the
most outrageous dandies in existence, that his hair is frizzled
and perfumed like that of the Marquis of Normanby : he is
rather pale, and the ladies say he is handsome, perhaps he
may be ; but for all that 1 think he is pretty much of a
spooney._ A. T. T. Y.
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A. T. T. Y. feels that the preceding sketch is very im-
perfect. As, however, it is written in the midst of severe
indisposition, he trusts it will be excused.