The Sun.
London, England, 1836-12-06 00:00:00

SPAIN.

MADRID, Nov. 25.—We have had no news from Anda-
lusia for several days, and nothing is known either of Go-
mez or the three Generals that are pursuing him, beyond
the contents of a letter which Narvaez sent by express,
dated Berlanga, the 16th. He had arrived at that place
by forced marches of from 25 to 35 miles a day, a labour
and endurance, perhaps, impossible for any other troops
than Spanish ; and of Spaniards only such gallant veterans
as Narvaez carries with him. He has unfortunately not
met with the cavalry of Alaix, which he 'was empowered to
take, so that his brigade, for it can scarcely be called a di-
vision, is deficient in that arm so efficient against a numerous
host. This is much to be lamented, for if he comes up with
Gomez, and attacks him, as he certainly will if he gets
within sight of him, the blow can never be an efficient
one. The cavalry Narvaez has does not amount to above
250 men, not more than is necessary to perform his scout
in;; service ; and which never could form a body of
sufficient force to produce an impression on 11,000 or
12,000 men, 1,200 of whom are cavalry. Narvaez, on the
day of the (late of his letter, proceeded to Guadalcanal :
he had heard that on the 13th, that is three days previous
to the time of his writing, Gomez was at Ecija; Riben,
with Rodil's division of th Guard, at Cordova ; and Alaix
at Fuente Ovejuna. This position of the troops of three
different corps, each in pursuit of one almost in the centre
of them, would, in any other country, imply a decisive ac-
tion within a few days. It is now, however, eleven days
since, and we are not aware in Madrid that anything has
taken place. It is true that it is most difficult to transmit
intelligence, of whatever nature : the communication with
Andalusia has been stopped for the last week. Small fac-
tions abound in La Mancha, and now, since•Rodirs exploits,
they exist on the Estremadura road. And where factions
are not, robbers abound. On the Badajoz road, the other
day, the diligence was robbed by a party of 16 scoundrels. '
General Doyle and his nephew, Captain Doyle, were pas-
sengers. Every thing was taken from them, and they were
led into a forest blindfolded, but not beaten, nor yet shot,
as has been reported. _

On the other road, by La Mancha, Cabrera has been
wandering about with some five or six hundred vagabonds
on horseback, ever since he parted with Gomez near
Truxillo, about the beginning of this month. He is joined
and escorted by all the faccioncillos through whose country
he passes, and, of course, partly contributes to increase
their strength and keep up their courage. This party hav-
ing been opposed, and driven oway from Quintanar de la
Orden, a town on the road to Valencia, on the 20th inst.,
have had the impudence to come within a few leagues of
Madrid. The whole of the garrison has left the capital--
during the last three days we have been left without a sol-
dier of the line, and yet this capital of a country devoured
by civil war is as quiet as the quietest village in Yorkshire.
• And yet we have had our arrests and captures, our cross-
examinations and enlargements ; all those persons, save
one, whom I mentioned in my last as having been taken to
prison, have been liberated, and all, save one, have been re-
captured. This is very bungling work, but has produced
no sensation here, preying that this is the country easiest
to be governed in the world : but for the same reason it is
the country ravaged and run through and through with im-
punity. There is much mortification in this limb of the
Peninsula, and, as such, it will bear much cutting and slash-
ing without apparent pain. The ready remedy is amputa-
tion ; but this is not an easy geographical operation.
The Cortes are in the best disposition, but while there is
no money in the Treasury, while there is little communica-
tion with the provinces, and that little liable to be inter-
cepted, and while there are half a dozen armies wandering
about without any order from the Minister of War, if there
was one, which there is not, what can you expect? The art
of governing is not known by the Liberals. In Spain the
-Carlists have known how to accommodate themselves to
their own system of corruption, and they really can and do
govern according to their plan. But the emigres do not
work in the material ; they give excellent orders, but they
are like Munchausen's frosty blow in the trumpet, heard
more feebly at the time than a month afterwards. There
is a vast complaint here, that in this revolution no man
has arisen. The fact -is, that on our side there h&s been
no revolution. It has required the same interest, the
same intrigue, the same forms, and even more, to get a
grade in the army, or to rise into any notice any way,
that it did before. The change has been in the men, and
also in the public voice of t4lO Government. The men
employed have been all emigres, to the utter disgust of all
Spain. The public wnce of the Government has been on
the whole enlightened; but it has fallen upon the country
like oil upon a river—shining to the eye, floating down
the stream, but of no earthly use. The only men that
have proved of any value are the men who were brought
up under the Government of Ferdinand, but who, i3.!ing
voung, and reading, or mixing with the rest Of. Europe,
had grown out of mere Spanish practices and. prejudices ;
as for the army, its follies and failures car: never be under-
stood until the old system of promotion is well known ; a
good deal of it may be s,..‘.en in a book lately published in
London, called " Madrid ie. 183.5," by a Colonel (an Eng-
lishman) in the Spanis'a army ; but, in one word, army-
service was a mere etnecurc---ihorough place-hunting ; and
in ease of any promotion, it was by intrigues in the War-
office (as it continues to be) by a large net-work of patrons,
mistressess, relatives, comrades, fellowships, and
clerks, such as cannot be understood in England, or per-
haps in any other country of Europe. Whereas these stu-
pid, selfish, cowardly Marloncs, alias tax or pay-grinders,
continue in the command of what is, without doubt or com-
parison, the finest peasantry of the world.--Morning Paper.

(From the Madrid Papers received to the 26th—ult.)
In the sitting of the Cortes on the 22d of November the
Chamber took into consideration the report of the Com-
mittee on Senor Nervares' proposition, that the War Mi-
nister should be required to furnish the Chamber every
week with an account of the military operations. The Com-
mittee reported, that as the Government had agreed to
communicate to the Chamber all the despatches received
from the army, the proposition was unnecessary. The
Cortes approved of the Report. of the Committee. Senor
Caballero desired to have some information from the Go-
vernment respecting the movements of the rebels in La
Mancha. It was not known, he said, at what distance they
from the capital, and whether they were under the com-
mand of Cabrera or Pacillos. The War Minister said that
the Government was in the same state of uncertainty on
that point.—(Murmurs in the public tribunes.) The only
official despatch which had reached the Government, came
from the director of the post at Tarancon, who announced
that the rebels had attacked Quintana ; but that, having
been repulsed, they bad taken the road to Tarancon. The
Government had adopted measures to obtain positive infor-
mation.

In the Sitting of the 23(1 of November a proposition was
made to call upon the Government to submit to the Cortes
the budget for 1837. The discussion of the proposition was
postponed.
Senor Cardero, who was charged with a commission of
the highest importance, has returned to the capital. While
on his way back to Madrid, at the beginning
e 1 .
is o..as. wet',,
• ,
after having been at General Rodil's head
ceived at Na,valmoral fresh instruntinos from '..) he re-
,ie Govern-
nlqnt ‘",reeting him to proceo to
a, Andalusibut, as Ge-
neral Ruda had snmandered
the command to General
Ribero, it heame unnecessary for him to comply with
these instructions. We are informed by this brave sol-
dier that many opportunities had presented themselves
for defeating the I'ellol%. and that now the most fortu-
nate results may he
expected from the enthusiasm and
discipline of our soldiers, which are the more remarkable
when contrasted with the disorderly manner in which the
enemy marches.—Eco of the 2:3d of November.
The province of La Mancha, which a y
short .
time ago
was only infested b one rebel hand, is now by
four, which spread terror wherever t uevastated !",
commanded b the bandit cis'' a, and ,ey go. The first,
from 300 to 400 men
n! ,
strong io infaqtrir bpd cavalry, occupies the neighbour-

hood of Calatrava. The second, under the command of
Morago, consisting of 140 horsemen, ravages the country
from Santa Elena to Santa Cruz de Muclela. Palinos,
with 300 infantry and cavalry, occupies Sierra de Fur•nte
el Fresno, and Fernan Caballero y Calabazas, as far as El
Corral de Calatrava ; and the chieftain Tercero occupies
the neighbourhood of Benojas. •So that these four rebel
bands In La Mancha, by extending their ravages to the
frontiers of Andalusia, intercept the communications, inter-
rupt the regular course of commercial relations, and thereby
inflict the greatest injury on the country.— Eeu of the 28d
of November.

BADAJOS, Nov. 17.—Letters from Sirucla of the date
of the 9th state, that on the 7th Cabrera and El Scr..
rador passed by that place with about 200 foot soldiers
and as many horse soldiers, worn out and lame from
fatigue. They spoke very ill of Gomez, from whom they
said they had separated in consequence of a dispute,,-,...
Espanol of the 23d of November.

ilAnAJos, Nov. 19..=—1t is reported, and in h way
which has obtained for the rumour some or,dit, that
Narvaez has completely routed Gomez near Osuna and
Ecija, and that the rebels have in consenuence repassed
the Guadalquivir, and gone to the monastery of El Tar-
don. If this story is true, the ravels must have lost all
their booty, for it would not have been easy for them to
carry it to that monastery, which is situated in the wild-
est part of the Sierra Morena. God grant that this
telligence may be confirmed.—Espanolof November 23.
MERIDA, Nov. 19.—Gomez is still in Andalusia. The
troops of Rodil, in passing through this province, com-
mitted th,c greatest excesses, and were in a state of the
greatest insubordination.

The Madrid Gazette of the 24th of November contains
a Royal Order, dated Nov. 20, establishing several regula-
tions with regard to the mode of collecting the " forced
loan." The public functionaries charged with its collection
are instructed not to admit of any excuse for the non-pay-
ment of the contributions, and to oppose any resistance that
may be offered to the collection of the debt. 100,000,000
of reals are to be furnished in the course of the month, and
the money will be received by the provincial intendants.
The dispersion of the rebel bands, which was expected
to follow the capture of Cantavieja, has not taken place.
Several bands still traverse the country in the neighbourhood
of Mosqueruela and Mingaloo, and the moveable National
Guards are afraid to leave their quarters in the castle of
Villamacejo. Toqueruelas with 800 men occupies Ruhiclos,
where he is allowed to remain quietly enough. A. Carlist
conspiracy is said to have been discovered at Valencia. Or-
ders have been sent to the division of Grases to protect
the Ribera, in consequence of 20 soldiers of the cavalry of
the National Guard, having been surprised by Cabrera in
Albacete.

Letters From Castellon de la Plana, dated Nov. 14, state
that the rebel band of Tallada has joUled that of Pomadell,
who was on he 11th at Calig, with 2,300 men, menacing
Benicarlo. Ile refrained from attacking the city, because
he knew he would have met wits► an obstinate resistance.--
Espanol of the 25th.

TURKEY:
CONSTANTINOPLE, NOV. 9..---TllO ViTC9I British mer-
chant vessel,, bound for the coast of Circassia, has arrived
here from London. This vessel will profit by the present
southerly wind, to proceed on to its destination. It is highly
probable that the Mischief will sail in its company, Cap-
tain Lyons being desirous of revisiting that interesting
country. This first attempt to re-establish commercial re-
lations with the extensive and populous tract of country be-
tween the 'Euxine and the Caspian has excited the most
lively satisfaction among the merchants, and many among
the 'English are already preparing to venture once more on
this formerly most lucrative field of speculation. They
are the more disposed to do so now that they have acquired
the conviction that fears which hitherto prevented them
from carrying on trade with Abasia and Circassia have been
but Russian scarecrows. The right English subjects always
possessed of trading with the inhabitants of those countries
has continued unimpaired ; and should any doubts be enter-
tained as to its validity under existing circumstances, the
assurances riven by the President of our Board of Trade, as
well as by Lord Ponsonby, in answer to the queries addressed
to them by Mr. Bell before undertaking this enterprise, must
completely remove them. As to the blockade of the
eastern shores of the Black Sea, the Cabinet of St. Peters-
burgh has formally declare',', it not to exist. 'With regard
to the right Russia is assuming of preventing all foreign
vessels from frequenting the coasts of Circassia, because by
so doing they infelne.e both her sanatory and custom reg-r,la-
tions, it is one so absurd and ridiculous that it is impossible
Russia should, upon its being called into question, 'seriously
attempt to maintain it.
Meheniet Ray Pasha, Governor of Tripoli, arrived here
last week as prisoner on board a frigate. The charge
brought against him by the Capitan Pasha was no less a one
than that of his having used every means in his power to
prevent the submission of the insurgent's in the Regency.
The proofs of his innocence were so satisfactory, that the
Divan unanimously acquitted him. The Sultan conferred
upon him fresh honours, and has ordered him to return im-
mediately to Tripoli. The Capitan Pasha's disgrace is
looked upon as inevitable.

The Egyptian cutter sailed yesterday for Alexandria
with the Porte's answer to Mehemet Ali's l'ate application.
The corvette on board of which the BeyKkdjee Effendi is
to embark is getting ready with great activity.
Lord Ponsonby has, it is said, acquai-dted the Cabinet
with his intention of returning to Er,gland. His Lord-
ship, according to all accounts, prwoses leaving Constan-
tinople in January next. Mr. D, -Urquhart would in that
case act ad inttrim as his sur,c!ssor. Ever since his ar-
rival this gentleman has kept, aloof from affairs, and spent
the greater part of the su:nmer at a Turkish village in
Asia, Mal Tepeh, devi,ting his attention to the study of
the Turkish languagel and cultivating the acquaintance of
the natives.

Saturday *Rill be the birthday of the King of Bel-
gium, who was born in the year 1790, and will he observed
with mti.ch ceremony by his royal relatives, the Duchess of
Kent and the Princess Victoria, at Claremont.
The state-room in the Duke of Sutherland's man-
sion in St. James's Park will be, when finished, one of the
most magnificent in the kingdom ; the decorations are of
the most splendid description. The paintings are chiefly by
Stanfield, who is to superintend that department, and the
whole of the embellishments will harmonize so as to give the
whole the finest effect possible.
The Duke of Newcastle has been entertaining a
party at Clumber Hall, Nottinghamshire.
Garblett, a
.journeyman bricklayer, of Grunley, was
killed last week-in a pugilistic contest,--Worcester Herald.
On Saturday week, Thomas Gill, a groom in the
service of Sir Gray Skipwith, Lett, of Newbold Revel, was
proceeding from the park into the back yard of the mansion,
where the large door was open, when a buck, unobserved,
came into the yard, and suddenly jumped over some rails
near the door, and with his head and antlers struck Gill just
as he was passing ; both fell, when one of the servants,
seeing the occurrence, immediately assisted Gill up, who
was bleeding profusely at the left eye and mouth. On ex-
amination, it appeared the buck's antlers had been forced
above the eye-ball into the brain. Medical assistance was
immediately procured, but he died.-11Tarwick Advertiser,
On Wednesday evening Mr. Jeffries, formerly an
actor at Covent-garden Theatre, under the management of
Messrs. Harris and Kemble, but latterly a private box-
keeper, at Drury-lane Theatre ; and who has occasionally
shown strong symptoms of mental derangement, went to the
theatre as usual, but returned soon after, evidently under
much excitement, and stabbed himself six times in his right
side, with a large carving-knife. He has the best medical
aid, but faint hopes are entertained of his recovery.
Last evening an inquest was held at Westminfeer
Hospital, before Mr. Higgs, Coroner, upon the body of
Caroline Jones. Considerable interest bad been excited as
to the result of the inquiry in the neighbourhood of the
Hospital, and in Chelsea (where the deceased resided), in
prevalent rumour that she was poisoned
bcoynsseoqmueenocfethof a
e bacon which became impregnated with ar-
senic at Fenning's Wharf, on the occasion of the late fire
at London-bridge. After hearing the evidence, the Jury
returned an unanimous verdict, " That the deceased came
by her death from eating unwholesome bacon, but that no
blame was attached to the venders." .
The storm of Tuesday last appears to have spc:nt
its fury before it could reach so far north as this; townor
neighbourhood, but the falls of rain have been heavy
and numerons.—Manchester Guardian.
The spinners at about 16 cotton mills belonging to
employers in the Masters' Association ceased working on
Saturday last, the masters having, declined to work teir
between
Hague (
mills any longer, in musecinewee of the difference
the Messrs. %members of the Association) and their
spinners, who were not inclined to return to their work on
their employers'
i conditions. The number of hands thus
y
employment on Monday morning, through the
polof3'e rs'
disputes of other parties, is not less than from 5,000 to 6,000..
La France gives the following particulars of an
event which occurred immediately after the death of Charkw.; X. :—" The Duchess d'Angouleme lost no time in wriVng
to the Duchess de Berry to acquaint her with the. melan-
choly event, and to inform her that the Duke d'Angouleme,
as head of the family, would retain the guardianship of the
young Prince and Priu':;ess, who were styled in the letter
our dear children' This communication was forwarded
by an exkrcs, to the Duchess de Berry, who replied to it.
in a I°l'4 letter, worthy of her high rank and the solemn
wleasion, and expressive of her resignation to the will el'
Providence, but, at the same time, of her regret that she
had not witnessed the last moments of the dying KiK, and
received his last blessing. The letter terminated with a
hope that the ties which connected the Princess with the
august family of Charles X. might be cemented inure
strongly than ever,