Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1847-11-13


county only by their bayonets. The army knows
and cells this it is quite aware of the Kings
siren tn and OF its own. The army will submit to
no erroachment upon its privileges. 1t was estab-
lishel al the revolution and confirmed by NAPo-
LEO, that merit alone should be the passport 10
rankin the army--and the soldiers may well ask
whamartial merit has entitled the Duke dAumae
to tn yiceroyship of Algiers There is scarcely
sopier in the ranks who does not feel himself in
iuredand nsulted by such promotion. The storm
is terrific the plot is thckening. The King has
withdrawn the sop to Cerberus (the monopoly of
promotion for merit) that bound the dogs of
war to his interest and he may yet suffer the fate
Of Ataon, and be devoured by his own pack.
Aver all, however, Algiers, which has swallowed
up s. many millions Of French money and been
the gave of so many thousands of brave Frenchmen,
mayprove of great service to the world at large
maybe the means of preserving the peace Of Europe.
All he flower of the French army, its bravest vete-
rams its ablest commanders, are there They cannot
be Withdrawn. Abd-el-Kader is on the watch. His
con,tant activity makes it necessary, indeed that
they should be continually reinforced.
france, with dissatisfaction among the sodiery
at bme, and the best part Of the army employed
abrad, will not think of involving Europe in
wa, about the Spanish succession, even if England
was foolish enough to 90 to oggerheads with Louis
Philippe upon such (really non-important) SUBJ
ject. Suppose war begun, what would become of
French Africa The fleets of England would
sweep the Mediterranean in spite of that chvalrous
hero, the Prince de Joinville No supplies, no re-
Inducements could pass from France to Algers.
The Arabs would be up and doing. Napoleon was
once in Egypt under similar circumstances. Could
the Duke d'Aumale expect to do and fare better
than Napoleon did. Louis Philippe must be fully
aware of this issue, should he venture upon war
with England. Therefore, although there is plenty
OF smoke arising from diplomatic collision in Spain
and Italy, there is no fire to be apprehended from
it. Louis Philippe sometimes plays his cards very
oddly and illnesses very acutely but he will not be
guilty of reuoking with his eyes open. He is too
old player TO be guilty Of SO yo,nag trick.
There are other reasons why war, on account of
Spain, need not be apprehended, which we will no.
tice when attending TO Spanish affairs France has
been, you will have seen, interfering with the
concerns of Switzerland. The 81
news of INTERCHANGEABLE wanting in France:
nation which has to borrow ten millions of pounds
sterling in year of profound peace lat least far
as respects Europe) is not likely to dare an inter-
minable war with all Europe for so proftess gew
gaw as the crown of Spain.
A few words about SPAIN. Spanish Ministers
have of late numbered their existence by weeks
but Salamanca has counted his by days There
are many reports respecting the mode by which
interests of the Queen mother Christina and Louis
Philippe for those of the reignng Queen Isabella
and the liberal Spanish party. The uneducated,
but not ill-dlsPosed Girl QUEEN, who has just com
peted the seventeenth year of her age and the first
of her marriage has been duped and cajoled into
the appointment of Narvaez as her Prime Minis
ter /; Christina is again in Madrid the star Of Louis
Philippe is once more i'll the ascendant; and the
probability at present seems to be that ISABELLA
broken down in spirits and wearied with fruitless
opposition, may resign, and the Duchess De Mont
PENsIER succeed to the crown of Spain Narvaez
is said TO be disposing of all those who might
thwart his plans by sending them to distance.
Serano is TO retire into Punishment the governor
OF some distant Spanish province. Esparero is to
be appointed Minister TO London Mons is TO be
disposed at Cuba, &c. But the next news from
Spain may upset all this arrangement. Ii is known
that Narvaez is personally disagreeable to the
Queen that she shed tears as she signed the decree
ordering the change of Minister'S that she did not
vouchsafe single word to two of Narvaezs asso-
clates, Arrazoa and Orlando, when they were
sworn into Office, but slightngly turned her back
upon the dscomhtted grandees.
England, like France, has no money for war: and,
if she had, it would not be for a war to put down
Power which, if let alone, would fall of itself No
war will grow out of Spanish affairs. Austria and
Prussia would be more likely to become the oppo-
nents of France, N any strife which might arise
respecting Spain, than England. 1t her interest
to keep at peace, and she knows it, Neither her
national honor nor her commercial relations could
suffer by the Montpensier family occupying the
throne Of Spau but she would be materially bene-
flied by any change which gave peace and tran
guilty to that fine country and enabled il to be-
come one of the family of European nations, and
to fraternize with them in all the great social poll
teal and commercial questions which engage the
attention of their people.
Of Portugal nothing can be said that is worth
saying. Her history consists in ru,norS, and her
doings of to-day are the undoings of the deeds of
yesterday.
Austria is acting wisely, because she is retread-
ing the steps she took regarding Italy-her troops
have been withdrawn from Ferrara. Austria NAV
have work to attend TO nearer home there are Sc
rIous apprehensions Of disturbances in Venice ffty
thousand persons had assembled in ST. Marks
Square, and the next morning there was written,
with charcoal, on the walls of various parts Of the
city, such significant phrases as " IRA Pic *"
. IRA Italia" II NAV be as well to mention, I'M
der the head of Austria, because il rebounds to the
credit of her capitalists and their spirit of enter
PRISE, that company has been formed BY public
spirited individuals in England, France, and Aus
ira, ior' the construction Of canal through the
lsthmus OF Suez, with the entire concurrence in
deed, at the instance, of the Yiceroy OF Egypt
That enlightened man, after applying in vain TO the
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