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best is but rude, and every thought is subordinate
to the duties of the time and place.
" Here everything speaks of war. The place in
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generals, and yet headqu'irters are bat a deserted
negro htit, where a single apartmeht, divided by a
strip of canvas, serves the purposes of offices, cham-
ber, and dining-room.

" Just in our front is the continuation of the outer
iine of intrenchments which encompass Richmond,
and now hold the enemy at bay. A few hundred
yards distant gleam the fires along our picket line,
And a corresponding row of lights beyond mark the
presence of a YAnkee division. The woods have been
'evened for miles, unl the ground covered with an
abattis that has been already unsuccessfully explored
by the Federal's, Across this space occasional
glimpses are effirded of the intretichments of the
enemy, but for several days no demonstration has
been made by them which indicates vigorous life.
Still, we know they are there.

" Our men are rapidly getting into winter quar-
ters, building walls, putting up log huts with
thatched roofs, end preparing for the inclemency of
he season.

" The most interesting portiOn of the entire line
le around Petersburg, where the two armies have
lug and dug until tha,entire_fcce of the country
between them resemles a lehyrnth, which to the
uninitiated has neither beginning nor end. Neces-
sity, the mother of invention, has taught our men
how to protect themselves, They live in caves, holes,
chambers, ingeniously constructed, with bunks and
fireplaces, end in a word, except in time of action, are
completely sheltered, Sharpshooting, the pest of a
soldier's life in the trenches, continues incessantly;
but beyond 30 or 40 men daily killed or wounded
along the lines—men only missed by the loved ones
of the home circle—all is quiet,
" rhat this comparative rest will not continue
long is a general impression. In spite of our aheli
and shot the Dutch Gap Canal is supposed to be
nearly completed, and the gathering of the mammoth
armada and arrival of General Sheridan at City
Point with a portion of his forces, are indications
which certainly point to a grand combined land and
naval attack within a few days. If Grant is unsuc-
cessful—and no one familiar with our preparations
doubts the fact—it is surmised that with his usual
promptness he will move southward and commence
a winter campaign somewhere else.
" Among all the antagonists that have confronted
General Lee during the war none have given that
great chief more trouble or occasioned more anxiety
than General Grant. Although he has been re
peatedly brought to the ground, beaten and discom-
fited, like a reekless prizefighter covered by his own
blood, and blinded by the blows that were raided
upon him, he has dashed again into the fray, and
again and again suffered the mortification of defeat
without once acknowledging that has been whipped.
And he still clings with deathlike tenacity. The
resources of an immense power are at his back. He
calls for reinforcements to take the place of the tens
of thousands over whose graves he stalks like the
demon of death, and they are furniabed. Nothing
is wanted .to make his success complete but sheer
,human inability to stand before the superior
prowess of Southern men. With his peculiar
obstinate, bulldog nature, General Grant is a firm
believer in the attrition ' process, which wears
out by repeated blows what is not accomplished by
one. Hence the necessity of keeping our own army
fully up to a proper level of strength. Hence
the revocation of details ; the recommendation of the
President concerning negro labour, and the mea-
sures about to be devised by Congress for a general
reorganisation of the army."

The Spanish Ministerial Crisis.

MADRID, Dcc. 18.

The Contemporaneo gives the following account
of the failure of Senor Isturilz to form a new
Ministry and the recall of Marshal Narvatz and his
colleagues to power :

" Yesterday morning it was doubted in political
circles that Senor Isturitz, notwithstanding all his
efforts, would be able to satisfactorily fulfil the
mission with which her Mejesty had intrusted him
the prev'ous evening. Some hours passed away,
when at about five o'clock in the afternoon it was
positively stated that Senor leturi!z had succeeded
in forming the following Ministry, of which it may
he said that it was nndoubedly incompatible with
the recently elected Cortes :—President, Senor
Isturiiz ; Foreign Affiirs, Bormudez de Castro;
War, Res de 0!ano; Grace and Justice, Naudin ;
Interior, Calderon Collantes; Finance, Salaver-
ria ; Colonies, Di: z Arguelles ; Marine, Ibarra.
It was added that Senor Alonzo Marti.
nez positively declined "to accept the Ministry
of Grace and Justice, which was urgently pressed
upon him, and that General Celonge also refused
the Ministry of War. Nevertheless, it was expected
►hat tLe new Ministry would present themselves
before the Q seen at 6 o'clock to take the oaths.
But while these rumours Were circulating as per-
fectly authentic, metiers were settled quite in
another manner. The Queen was doubtless fully
sensible of the gravity of the circumstances, and,
rising above them with that admirable and ever.
getic judgment and perfectly constitutional spirit
which characterises her, her Mijesty sent to the
Duke of Valencia to present himself with his col.
leagues at the Palace, In obedience to the Royal
command these gentlemen presented themselves at
the Palace at 6 o'c:ock. After a brief conference,
in which her Majesty expressed her opinions, and
stated in the most emphatic terms that she had re-
solved not to accept the resignations remitted to
her under the impulse of patriotic duty, the Mini-
sters felt they could not refuse the high proof of
confidence afforded them by the Crown, and retired
from the Royal presence to immediately assemble
in council. During the short period in which this
took place the Queen returned to the Duke of Va-
lencia the resignations which the latter had de-
livered in writing to her Mejesty at the commence-
ment of the crisis. The Ministry, therefore, continues
the same as formed last Monday. We believe it
unnecessary to add a single worditnore on this event::
The _Espana considers the crisis to have termi-
nated in the most satie4otory manner for the
country, and says :
. _

Richmond and Petersburg in a State of Siege.

The army correspondent of the Columbia Caro•
Union, writing from the intrenclgtnents around
Richmond, under date of Nov. 16, furnishes an in-
teresting letter, from which we make the following
extracts :

"Among all the cities of the Confederacy none
can more justly lay claim to the title of metropolis
than its beautiful capital. Although invested by
100,000 enemies, whose besieging guns morning,
noon, and night roar out their hate—although
girded around by a line of battle that may at any
moment burst into flame, such is the faith reposed
in those brave defenders, who have so often On
Death's scythe dashed with force that turned its
edge,' that one may look in vain for sign of
doubt or trepidation. Day breaks, and hungry
thousands are reeking their way to the wellefilled
markets. Later the stores open their sleepy lids, and
every window displays tempting goods that tell a
story of busy enterprise and broken blockades. The
restaurants, of which there are scores kept in a
style of magnificent abundance, hang out their
venison, birds, and turtle, and expose long shelves
freighted with the choicest liquors that tempt the
bon vivant to certain financial ruin. The hotels and
boarding-houses pour forth their living contents,
and by 9 o'clock Mein•street and its tributaries be-
gin to witness the grand processional movement
which continues through the day. Ladies and
clerks are wending their way to their several posts
of duty; men with official business plainly written
on their faces are harrying in the direction of the
departments; mothers, Rives, and sisters applying
for the details of furlough of some loved one, or
perhaps eager to learn the fate of a missing hus-
band, son, or brother, are also there ; officers gal-
loping from the front to bring reports to the heads
quarters in town; quartermasters, with their accus-
tomed energy, are looking up the day's supplies ;
soldiers from camp on a few hours' leave of absence
begin to arrive; men on crutches hobbling forth
from hospitable roofs to breathe the fresh air; the
fair sex, attired with a richness and elegance, and
to raiment that you will see nowhere else in the
Confederacy, add to the attractions of the street;
and thus, gathering its contributions from a thou-
sand channels, the population out of doors grows
and diversifies until you lied yourself plunged into
one of those cosmopolitan ground swells that exist
only in the great cities of the world. By noon
the tide is at its flood, and you may elbow the best
and the worst, the highest and the lowest, the
greatest and the meanest people in the lend.
Night comes, and the lights flesh merrily
from a thousand parlours', where reign peace,
pleasure, and content. Hospitality abounds, and
with graceful hand the good citizens dispenses its
rites, not more among themselves than upon the
passing stranger, whose only claim may be that
he is a soldier. The transient visitor has
offered to him the temptations of the theatre and
concert-room, while a score of hells are ready to en.
galph those whose baser tastes best fit them for
their enjoyments. Such is Richmond.

"Any other Ministry, particularly if it had not an
unionist tendency, would not only have had to deal
with the great questions noiw pending,but with those
of public order and the Cortes. With regard to the
first of the two lattar it is most fortunate that the
crisis has resulted in the manner in which it was
erlved last night, since it is difficult to calculate to
what point the eff.ifveseFnce would have arisen on
the mere announcement of a certain Ministry. As
regard tl.e Cortes, it is well known that the Isturitz
Cabinet would have encountered an adverse ma-
jority, that it would have failed in the question of
the Presidency, and would have had recturse, per-
tiLps on the 231 inst., to a suspension of the sit.
tings, and shortly afterwards to a dissolution of the
Congress—a necessary measure for its existence,
but the gr.lvity of which in the present state of the
country could not be disguised.'
The DiairoEspanol characterises the result of the
crisis as one of the greatest humiliations, and as the
most unworthy political solution ever adopted by
the Moderate party, It says :
"The Lturitz Ministry, complete end ready to
take the oaths before her Majesty, had to dissolve
itself last night, because the Duke of Valencia and
his eight eolleagues suddenly changed their opinion,
reformed their judgment, and agreed to think the
contrary of what they thought on the 14th inst.
What has happened ? What causes have Wks
enced the strange transformation undergone by the
late Cabinet ? Time will clear up certain mysteries
which may be divined in all this, and meanwhile
we shall see in wha:, situation the Throne, the
country, and its institutions will be placed after
the feigned withdrawal of the Narvaez Cabinet."
After a 'violent attack upon the Naryaez Ministry

"And it is a strange contrast that one experiences
in passing from these metropolitan scenes, where
dross and faikhion are the presiding deities, to the
sewre associations of the camp, where comfort at

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both on the grounds of its policy in the San Do-
mingo question and its action towards political par.
ties and the press, the Diario says, in conclusion :

"If what has now occurred erects itself into a
system, we ally be assured that the consti:utional
regime is extinct, that representative theor'es are a
and that the public power defined by the fun -
damental Cade are nothing more than shadows of
inEtitu'ions."

Tae Iberia has d ffiaulty in considering the pre-
sent solution a serious one, and says :
'•The Minietry.that appears to day in the Gazette
will be transitory. It will be a substitute that will
last a longer or shorter time, but which will only
live through its own insignificance and the disdain
of the public and of parties."
The Epoca of to-day makes the following an•
nouncement relative to the asserted recognition of
the San Domingo insurgents as belligerents by
England :
"In consequence of the effct produced upon the
public mind by this announcement, Sir John Cramp-
ton, the English Ambassador at this Court, felt
bound to request explanations from his Government
upon a matter in which he waa without official in-
structions. Earl Russell lost no time in replying,
and his despatch reached the English representative
yesterday evening at the same time that the First
Secretary of State received the de3patchea from our
Minister Plenipotentiary in London, previously an•
nouncA by telegraph to the Spanish Cabinet. These
despatches contained ample details of all that had
occurred. Oo account of certain questions arising
from events that have taken place in consequence of
the blockade of the Dominican coaats by the Spanish
squadron, the English Government considered it
necessary to take the opinion of the legal advisers
of the Crown, following its practice in all matters
of this kind. Their opinion was favourable in a
certain manner to the recognition of the Domini-
cans as belligerents, Spain being bound, according
to their view, by the maritime laws laid down in
the Treaty of Paris, to maintain a real and effective
blockade of all the points of the island where she
undertook to prevent the entry of supplies des-
tined for the rebels. Earl Russell communicated
this opinion to our representative in London, who,
in his turn, considered it urgently necessary to
acquaint the Spanish Wvernment with the same.
Hence the origin of news which, having come to
the knowledge of the telegraphic agents of various
periodicals in this city, was transmitted by them with
the urgency which its importance dictated, although
the want of the details above mentioned causedsome
exaggeration in their communications. The reply of
Earl Russell to the English Ambassador could not
be expressed in more satisfactory terms. The Eng.
lish Minister confirmed the explanations given by
Senor Comyn, and wishing to afford a proof of the
friendly attitude of England in questions so greatly
affecting the prestige of our country, he authorised
the English Ambassador to acquaint the Spanish
Cabinet with his determination to indefinitely post-
tone any act which might be considered hostile or
as tending to exercise any sort of influence in the
settlement of our interior affairs. We, who cannot
be accused of being ardent admirers of the English
policy, hkve satisfaction in declaring that its con-
duct in the present circumstances has beer worthy
of a great Power, and therefore merits our moat
sincere eulogies."