The Sun.
London, England, 1834-01-23 00:00:00

MADRID, JAN. 11.

(From a Correspondent of the Times.)
The state of the northern provinces is still such
as to excite anxiety, and, in the absence of matter
less paittfully interesting, to engross public attention.
In sending you the details of the battle of Nazar and
Asarta Icalled your attention to the fact that the
three General officers who reported on it avoided
with equal care the specification of the number of
their prisoners, and spoke, to all appearance, with
concerted circumspection of the other casualties of
the field. It was clear, in fact, that the insurgents
had been so little pressed as to be able to carry oil
their wounded, and probably also many of their dead/
from the ground,and although defeated and separated,
their retreat and dispersion had been effected with so
much order and regularity that few prisoners had been
made,—so few, that it was thought better to avoid
their enumeration. The view which I took of the
matter, on comparing the various reports, has been
confirmed by subsequent intelligence. It was with
6,000 men that this determined resistance wan
offered to the Queen's authority on the last days of
the year. This force was composed of distinC bo-
dies of insurgents, assembled for a common bu,
temporary purpose from the four disaffected pro-
vinces of Biscay, Guipuscoa, Alava, and Navarre.
Their bond of union consisted, as you know, in their
oast immunity from certain fiscal exactions, much
more than in any real attachment to the cause of
Don Carlos. They are lighting, in fact, for their
personal privileges, and not for the prerogatives of
'he Pretender. We must not expect, therefore, to
hear of this northern insurrection being easily or
speedily put down. Unfortunately for the success
of General Valdez, to whom no blame has yet been
attached, the winter has hitherto been open and
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severely at Nazar and Asarta. Don Manuel Lo-
renzo, whose column was reinforced by a part of the
garrison of Pampeluna, had been sent in pursuit of
them, but nothing is yet known of his success.,
It was predicted several months ago that the ins
surgent forces would soon be as well disciplined,
and as fit for the duties of a regular campaign in the
open field, as the regiments of the line. It does not
appear, however, that much progress has yet been
made in the fulfilment of the prophecy. The con-
test is still marked, as strongly as ever, with all the
characteristics of guerilla warfare. The movements
of the Queen's troops are constantly exposed to in-
terruptions and annoyance; but whenever a regular
engagement is hazarded it is sure to end as did the
battle of Nazar and Asarta. Thus so late as the 7th
of January Don Joaquim Vara de Rey, the com-
mander of a battalion of infantry of the line, writes to
Don Geronimo Valdez that he had been sent by the
Governor of Old Castile to reinforce the army of
operations in the north, but that in the course of his
march he was attacked by a body of 600 insurgents,
45 of them mounted, near the town of Zirate, at a
point where the high road by which he passed was
commanded by the neighbouring heights of Agurdin,
and he ascribes his success in driving them from
their position to the firmness which his men had
displayed in attacking them with the bayonet. The
fact, however, that reinforcements were thought
necessary from Old Castile so soon after the en-
gagement, represented as decisive, of the 30th of
December, joined to the boldness of the insurgents
in attacking this fresh column on its march, appears
to justify the apprehension that we are still to be
exposed to a long period of uneasiness and disquiet.
Even here, in the capital, we are not without
occasional alarms. This morning, for instance, a
fresh Carlist conspiracy has been the subject of ge-
neral conversation. During the night a number of
prisoners were brought to the barracks of one of
the regiments of body guards, and as several of
them ate persons of note, the plot in which they
are implicated is regarded as somewhat serious.
Among the documents seized, it is said there is a
proclamation in the name of Charles V., commissions
for the officers of his army, and others of a similar
character. It is also whispered among the people
of the Court that a most gross and infamous pas-
quinade was found affixed yesterday morning to one
of the doors of the Queen Regent's private apart-
ments in the interior of the Palace, as if to warn
her Majesty of a fact which is otherwise very well
known, that the precincts of the Court have not
yet been sufficiently purified, and that many of the
bitterest enemies of the present order of things are
in daily attendance on the Royal. person. Not a
few of the employers of the Curt milliner, Terasita,
should have been sent to bear her company on her
late visit to Bayonne, as the Duke de Bayles), the
President of the Council of Castile, is said to have
hinted very plainly, when seated on his privileged
taburete, and offering his compliments to the Queen
on the first day of the year. T.

On Tuesday last, T. Overton, of Brocklesby,
for many years a carpenter in the employment of Lord
Yarborough, attained the age of one hundred years ! He
is in the perfect enjoyment of all his faculties!—Stamford
News.
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FernandoTheted
following
May Yesterday
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were discerned, which proved to be his Majesty's
anchor at New Calabar, the day after the slaves bad been
put on hoard. She was literally crammed with people,
naving 290 slaves on board."

We learn from Ciudad Rodrigo ,that " Mo-
rino, Cueviilas, Balmaseda, and some other chiefs, have
succeeded in joining Don Carlos and his family at Villa
Real ; they have 200 men with them, principally vine•
dressers. They are waiting for 3,000 men from Don Mi-
guel, but how can he supply them when be can scarcely
defend himself ?"

We learn by the advices yesterday from Car-
thagena, that matters were far from being settled with
r spect to the dispute with France, for although the Su-
preme Court at Bogota had declared the Consul possessed
immunity from arrest or molestation, unless for atrocious
crimes, yet no order bad been received frum the capital to
proceed against the Magistrates who had caused tie Con-
Jul to be arrested and sent to gaol.