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Madrid Journals of the Ist instant have been re-
ceived. They bring no news of interest, except that
the QUEEN has agreed to the dissolution of the Cortes
—a measure regarded in the capital as an Ultra-Liberal
triumph. In the Madrid Gazette of the Ist, we find
the following bulletin from General ESPARTERO to the
Minister of War, giving an official account of his re-
cent expedition :

Head-quarters of Nestosa, April 27.
You will have learnt by my previous despatches that the
trenches dug by the rebels to hinder my march commenced
at the heights of the road of Tornos. After havipg
destroyed five of the carriers, I made several reconnois-
sances in sight of the forces concentrated by Maroto
to choose the best mode of insuring the communications,
and to execute my second plan should the enemy refuse
the battle I offered already in two advances. Three
roads lead to Ramales ; this day the troops under my com-
mand with heroic valour triumphed over the seven bat-
talions who occupied the steep heights and the depth. On
the royal road, the enemy had fortified a position in the
cavity of an elevated and almost inaccessible rock, a piece
of artillery raking the defile. I ordered eight pieces
of artillery in front of this position, which, under the com-
mand of the Commandant-General of the Artillery,
Joachim Ponte, kept up a fire for seven hours, and then
the surviving defenders of the defile, almost all wounded,
surrendered at discretion, with their arms and other effects.
Gen. Don Leopold O'Donnell, Chief of the Staff, directed
the attack on the right, General Don Ramon Castenada,
that of the centre, General Don Francisco de Paula Al-
cala that of the left, General Don P. Rivero, with the
division of the Royal Guard, forming the reserve. I send
yuo a copy of the order of the day. You will be able to
form an idea of our glorious triumph until I am able to
send you a detailed deport.

Count de LUCHANA.

To the Minister of War.

The Carlist General MAROTO, in a bulletin of the
same date, admits the victory claimed by ESPARTERO,
but asserts that it cost the Christinos 1,000 men
killed and wounded. In another bulletin, dated the
29th ult., he says that the QUEEN'S troops maintained
their ground on the hills of Übal, which they were
fortifying, despite of bad weather, and his efforts to dis-
lodge them. The bulletins of the Carlist Commander-
in-Chief conclude with the following, which shows that
there is some hard fighting at present in Spain. It is a
new feature to find ESPARTERO in every instance,
assuming an offensive attitude. As to the
success claimed by the Carlist Chief it is too equivocal
to be regarded as at all decisive. It is, however, but
just to observe that MAROTO'S bulletins are more mat-
ter-of fact documents than any of the same kind which
have appeared since the commencement of the civil war
in Spain. Rebel as he is, MAROTO appears to possess
the modesty as well as the courage and coolness in ac-
tion of a true soldier :

At day break the enemy attacked our right, on the front
of Ramales, supported by the 3d and sth of Guipuzcoa, the
sth Navarre, and the troops under Brigadier Andechaga.
The enemp was not only charged, but were forced over the
parapets which they had constructed the evening before,
and sustained a severe loss. Our loss was also severe, and
rendered doubly so by Brigadier Tarragual being severely
wounded, as also the Commander of the sth of Guipuzcoa,
Ybero; but only slightly. We have made a number of
prisoners, but I am not yet informed of the precise number.
The King's troops begin to show their intrinsic value.
They have not only repulsed the enemy which surrounded
them in such large numbers, but have taken the first line
which the enemy sustained yesterday. I beg you to make
this known to the King. RAFAEL MAROTO.
Head-quarters of the Camp of Manranera, April 30.
To the Secretary of War.

The Moniteur Beige of Wednesday devotes ten co-
lumns to the publication of the indictment against the
Editors of The People's Friend, for sedition ! Verily,
the Law of Libel requires simplification in other coun-
tries as well as in England.

HAMBURG BORSEN HALLE, MAY 3.
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The Rev. Frederick Anson is appointed Dean
of Chester.