The Ministerial war now raging in Madrid is as momentous
to
Spain as the fighting which lately devastated its provinces ; and it is likely to have even more marked effects. LUIS GONZALEZ BRAVO having produced in the Cortes a formal statement, signed by the Queen, incorporating the story of OLozAwes unmannerly violence in forcing her to sign the decree of dissolution, the Deputies have adopted an address to the Queen, " resenting " that "indelicate act" of OLOZAGA. In the long and earnest debate on that ad- dress, OLOZAGA regained much of the ground that he had lost through his own ill-contrived manoeuvering and the story put forth against him. With a good deal of tact in treating so awkward a subject, he plainly told the Cortes, that the Queen had been trapped into putting her signature to a false tale; that it was one of many intrigues of a cabal in the Palace, who were hurrying the Queen beyond the verge of constitutional monarchy, and plotting to marry her to a son of Don Caapas : and he sanctioned the address, as a preliminary to the trial which he challenged. He was supported by an increasing body in the Chamber ; and two Vice-Presidents, elected to replace the Moderados BRAVO and MAZARREDO, who have been appointed to the Ministry, are Progresistas; to which party OLOZAGA has now altogether returned. He is gaining strength in the Spanish Parliament. On the other hand, Minis- ters, after vainly offering to let him off with honour on his tacitly pleading guilty by not saying any more about defence, are said to pursue the impeachment with a view to his actual "condemnation" and imprisonment or death ! It is said that his friends are ac- tually in fear for his life, and that the French Government have sent an express to their representative to prevent so tragical an issue to the affair. Short of that, OLOZAGA'S troubles are not only a just, and indeed a natural and inevitably-rising retribution for his vacillation and double-dealing, but they assume a shape calculated to alarm all Liberal parties in Spain into something like unity among themselves, some reflection for the country and its destinies, and some mature and determined policy. Such a result seemed hopeless a few weeks back ; but none could have contem- plated a national disaster so humiliating to Spain as the discredit- able brawl in which the Crown is involved, and the appointment of the Bravo Cabinet—well named !
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