The general ferment of the political system throughout the. C4.
tinent is making itself appqoot in some quarters that have fora time ceased to attract our notice. The Danish, otirt perseveres ih its mad attempt upon the capacitY of, endurance in the Itenna'; and the King has just made a journey into Schleswig, as if for t11e purpose of playing off the Duchies against those subjects who he formerly la ed off against them. In Spain,' there are signs that the plots are thickening. The Queen is coquetting With , the National Griards,—volmiteering gracious favours to their officers, in a manner which implies a de- sire to compete iiY the popular favour with EsPartero: and so tthhe• sullen Guards' construe the Royal manoeuvre. The Dictator d s not find everything smooth; the extreme Liberals trouble him as much as his decided opponents ; and General Salazar has been de-
livering an incendiary speech to the ' Biscayans ati violent in his easel.lit& 'of Fuer° rights as if thellinisterof State were a rePel. leader. Moreover, there are reports from Venice, probable enoukh', that great Carlist conspiracies are hatching even. ,so far East as 'eity.
A very different movement in Italy has, attracted notice. Duke Ida has gone froia Milan to Vienna,to urge his suit for the com- :plete restitution of his property. He was one of the few nobleli that accepted the amnesty; but his property has only been in part returned tohim,—the current rents, without arrears or oeoupation. The Lombard' nobles, who are firm in moderate Liberalism and in adhering to the Sardinian alliance, are said to be indignant with the Dnlie. We have aleriiYa. expieSsed our sympathy with lie moderate Liberals of Northern Italy, whose policy appears at once beneficial and possible ; but we are not sure that in this condemna- tion of one of their own body they are exercising • their usual good sense., „The p2sitien of Austria has changed' materially ; and if the'diffetenCe is not perceived from Milan er Turin, we410/Eng land,surveying it from a more commanding Point of view, ea* clearly estimate it. New responsibilities, new occupations for her military, strength,-mere reliancFs on the political and com- mercial aSsistanCe ,the West, new influences strengthened in the Cabinet by 'these extraneous circumstances-, must have made a great change in the feeling and pros eats at head-quarters and it is not at all certain that anything like a movement towards an accommodation onthe part of the moderate Liberals, might, not prove to be the beginning .of a betterreimie for the Italian pro. vinees—a ..revolution for them none the worse if brought about peacefully.
