The Sun.
London, England, 1836-05-03 00:00:00

MADRID.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
MADRID, APRS. 23.—Since the easy capture of Lequeitie,
the Cal.lists have directed their attention principally to
Portugalette and Bilboa, places before which they have often
been defeated, and that will not now so easily fall a prey to
them. The steamer Isabel H. left Santander on the 19th,
with 120 British marines of his Majesty's ship Castor, car-
ryine; with them four pieces of cannon, viz., two 32-poun-
ders, and two of 24, to garrison the Convent del Derierto,
in the vicinity of Bilboa ; and on the evening of the 18th,
100 artillery-men, and 40 marines of the same frigate,
sailed for the same destination i❑ the Reyna Gobernadora,
all anxious to avenge the British blood spilt by the atro-
cious Carlists. The Chapelgorris battalion, now under the
command of a British Colonel, entered Santander on the
19th. It is dressed in scarlet jackets, and highly prized
by General Evans, who reviewed it previous to its embar-
kation on board the James Watt steamer, accompanied to
the quay by a large portion of the population, notwith-
standing the shower that fell. Clothing, provisions, field
artillery, bombs, grenades, &c., were embarked all day
(the 18th), on board of different vessels, which immedi-
ately set sail.
General Evans arrived on the 17th at Santander, the
staff headed by Brigadier Iriarte, the Civil Governor, the
officers of different corps, such as those of the Lancers and
of the British Legion, and the Cantabrian free corps, the
National Guard, &c., going out to meet him, as well as
immense crowds. On arriving at the promenade of Isabel
11., he alighted from his carriage at ten in the morning, and
entered the tow❑ on foot, amidst the cheering multitude.
General Evans displayed at his inn the standard of the bat-
talion of National Guards which he commands. _

The engagement which took place on the 16th at Minano
Mayor, between Colonel O'Donnell, commanding the regi-
ment of Gerona and one battalion of Castille, with double
the number of Carlists under Villa Real, himself, proves
the superiority of the Queen's troops, as one squadron of
the sth Light Horse, formed only two years, and which
had never been before the enemy, cut down the Carlist in-
fantry like cabbage-stalks.
Eighteen hundred cavalry, from the vicinity of Madrid,
are to march this day to the army. Among them is the
regiment of Allwanzar, now of Castille, which, in 1823,
escorted Ferdinand VII. to Seville. They are all newly
clothed and equipped from top to toe.
The rebels have evacuated Valencia and Lower Aragon,
and are withdrawing to Catalonia. General Briton had
pursued the factions of Mario, Seizeta, Grisot, and Lebu-
dera, through the mountains of Selma, and killed and taken
a number of them.

Colonel Nimbo, with the 6th brigade, had pUrsued the
faction of Borges to Cartels, whilst Pepe del Oli was on
the Soo, dispersed them, killing 70, without counting those
who perished in the river, according to Mina's official re-
port ; and Brigadier Gurrea has chased the band of Or ten
from Taleirs to the Dudes.

At Corunna, Sir William Dillon, commanding his
Majesty's ship Russell, of 74 guns, and the naval forces on
that coast, on the 10th instant, gave to the Captain-Gen.
Lutre, and the other authorities of the Queen, a grand
dinner on board his ship, displaying the standards of• the
Quadruple Alliance, and communicated the orders he re-
ceived from his Government to co-operate with the troops
of her Majesty the Queen of Spain, at any point where it
might be necessary.
The rebel cavalry under Villaverde, which infested
Galicia, had likewise been destroyed by Captain Don Fran-
cisco Buar, of the Provincial Regiment of Molltercy, their
commander being among the number of the killed.
The Bishop of Palencio is expected here from the prison
of Burgos, to be tried for high treason : some say he has
arrived already. You have heard no doubt that his friend
the Most Rev. Father Albureo, Ex-Bishop of Leon,
travelling through France with false passports, under the
name of Morel, was discovered by the French police, and
by a telegraphic dispatch, arrested in the vicinity of Bor-
deaux, and carried as a prisoner to that city. All his
papers were seized, by which means important disclosures
were expected, as he was on his way from London to
Onate. M. Godinet, a banker, who failed some years ago
at Paris, accompanied him. The Bishop had letters of
credit on Messrs. Yuingo and Espeileta, of Bordeaux, who
being great Liberals, and having largely subscribed to the
armament in Spain, ref Used to call on him whilst in custody
of the gens d'armes, but sent him the money he wanted on
the strength of his letters of credit. His detention is
deemed here the best proof of the sincerity of the French
Government, which was called in question when the Pre-
tender, and afterwards Don Sebastian, were allowed to
traverse all France unnoticed.

The Morning Herald of the 9th inst., with an account
of its Correspondent M. B. H.'s expulsion from Madrid,
dated Lisbon, March 22, was received here a day or two
ago. It is in so few hands that even the Ambassador can
only by great favour procure a sight of it ; but probably
we shall have a translation at least published, when I shall
be able to remark the sort of impression it produces. The
accounts I hear of it are not very favourable to the author's
veracity—more of which hereafter.
The Government proceeds triumphantly in both Cham-
bers ; the Peers have approved the Address without a
single division, but not without some very aristocratical
farces.