There is soniething going on in Spain which correspondents there
do not care to desCribe quite fully. • The Navy is in a condition of peaceful mutiny, the officers demanding that the Government should either 'provide for its reorganisation—for which there is no moneyor should dissolve it and sell. the 'ships. The Carnets are expected to rise in the spring, just before the young King is proclaimed ; and there are sharp dissensions between the Liberal party and the Cabinet, Which is also Liberal, as to the necessity for great reductions in expenditure. • Seiior Sagasta, the experienced -Premier, has therefore taken sick leave for the winter, leaving his duties to General Weyler, and General Weyler has made a speech which is understood -to intimate that although he has no wish to be Dictator, he might, if pressed by "circumstances," assume dictatorial powers. As he would almost certainly be followed by the Army; this is a serious menace, and. Spaniards recall with a certain alarm that Marshal Prim used similar expressiOns. There is an idea abroad that the King's health is delicate ; the next heir, the Infanta Mercedes, is Clerical, and has married a Carlist Prince; and altogether -the elements of unrest in Spain are many, and the difficulties in the way of governing the country, always great, are for the moment becoming all but insuperable. The Republicans of France, it must not be forgotten, cannot witness the assumption of power in Spain by a Bourbon _King without a certain un- easiness.
