The Sun.
London, England, 1860-12-04 00:00:00

" SANITAS AC FELICITAS."

Just published, 71st thousand, price ls., post free for 13
stamps, sold by Mann, 39, Cornhill, London ; or direct from
the Author.
DR. LA'MERT on the Treatment and cure of
NERVOUS and PHYSICAL DEBILITY, resulting
from pernicious habits contracted in Youth, excesses in Man-
hood, or residence in Tropical Climates. With Cases and En-
gravings from Life, representing the various Organs in
Health and Disease,
The extensive circulation of this work may be attributed in
great measure to the fact that the Author is the only duly
qualified and legally registered Practitioner who for 20
years has made the Diseases arising usually from
Imprudence the peculiar objects of his attention. The im-
pediments which so often either prohibit wedlock, or embitter
and render it a state of misery, by disappointing its fondest
hopes and marring its highest objects, are, though varied in
form, closely, analogous in reality. The mischief may arise in-
nocently, from deleterious influences devolved from the
necessities, of position—from circumstances which occurred
years before the sufferers were born, from accident or the in-
fluence of tropical climates, but chiefly from Self-incurred
Afflictions, dating back, in too numerous instances, to a period
long preceding that at which reason could be matured by ex-
perience.
A professional prejudice, which happily is now fast disap-
pearing, though it still lingers with no little obstinacy in
some of the more antiquated medical schools, for a long time
almost ignored the morbid affections comprised under the
general designation "Nervous and Physical Debility," though
these affections are probably more destructive and widely pre-
valent than any others.
The consequence of so important a department of pathology
being neglected is, that sufferers from the infirmities in
question, virtually repelled from consultation with prac-
titioners of standing and character, are thus liable to fall into
the hands of unqualified Empirics, sometimes assuming titles
of Physicians and Surgeons, whose names are not to be found
in the Medical Register (whereby they incur serious legal
penalties), whose ignorant meddling with the treatment of
these cases render these disorders a standing reproach to the
medical profession. Those who may have a suspicion
that any of the observations here made have peculiar applica-
tion to themselves, may consider that cases are indeed rare
in which practised science cannot fully realise long-deferred
hopes, remove all causes of mutual reproach, and replace
chronic embitterment by permanent content.
Dr. Lallert. M.D., Honorary Member of the London Hos-
pital Medical Society, Atz., is the only legally qualified regis-
tered practitioner who, for 20 years, has devoted his attention
to the treatment of these disorders. At home for consulta-
tation daily from 10 till 2, and from 6 till 8.
Jo, BEDIFORD_OQUARE. LONDON,

The able manner in which Mr. Beresford Hope
has advocated the cause of the hop planters, his
exertions to procure a postponement of the Novem-
ber instalment of the duty, and his efforts to obtain
a final settlement of this long-vexed question, have
(says the Maidstone Journal) naturally aroused
feelings of gratitude on the part of those for whose
advantage he was working, and it was suggested
some means should be taken to show how the hop
growers appreciated his disinterested services. The
proposition was warmly supported, and it was
resolved that a few of the prominent planters from
the most important parishes in the Weald should
be invited to form a deputation to convey to Mr.
Hope the thanks of the hop-growing interest—a
compliment which-derives the greater significance
from its rarity, Friday last was appointed for the
ceremony, and on that day the deputation, number-
ing about fifty gentlemen representing planters in
various parishes, waited upon Mr. Hope, at Bodge-
bury.

Mr. HARTRIDGE introduced the deputation by
explaining that they had come to tender their thanks
for the very able assistance Mr. Hope had rendered
them at a most critical and perilous crisis. At a
juncture of great urgency, when the interests of all
classes in the hop-growing c1444--not only, of
the planters, but of the trade and the TatOuring
population—were threatened with service peril, he
had come forward to assist them, and they could
not but feel grateful to him fpr the manner in which
he had taken up their cause. Not only in his capa-
city as a country gentleman, but as one intimately
acquainted with public life, he had given to it a
weight and influence which it did not before possess,
and in thus publicly offering him their thanks for
for what he had already done for them, they hoped
that he would still favour them with his counsel
and assistance.

Other members of the deputation having spoken,
Mr. BERESFORD HOPE, in reply, said—The
spontaneous thanks of those with whom one has
been working—not for the sake of popularity, but
because he honestly believes that he is working in
the fulfilment of a sacred duty—is the most solid
satisfaction a man can have. (Cheers.) This matter
of the hop duty and the hop cultivation generally
has now for many years past engaged my atten-
tion. Since the time that my late honoured relative,
Lord Beresford, became a Kentish squire, more
than twenty years ago—during the long period I
lived with him—during the time I represented in
Parliament a Kentish borough, and during the
fewer number of years that I myself have been a
landowner and a hop grower in the Weald of Kent,
this subject has come home to me ; for I can assure
you that I am not one of those who think that my
own concerns and the concerns of my neighbours
are the last things to which I should pay attention.
(Cheers.) Resident in a hop-gro wing district, I
considered that it was my duty to make myself
thoroughly acquainted with this question, and the
result was that I conceived an interest, which has
yearly grown stronger and stronger, in the matter.
I feel more deeply interested in this question now
than I did three years ago, and at that time I cared
more for it than nine years previously. (Cheers.)
The unanimity to which the hop growers have now
arrived, after great diversities of opinion, is the
most convincing proof that a remedy is urgently
required, as well as the best assurance that we shall
obtain what we demand. (Hear, hear.) When the
hop-growing interest was split up into numerous
sections—some strong freetraders, others less so,
some sturdy protectionists, others advocates for an
artreage duty—our strength was diminished, and it
is no great wonder that the Treasury snould Par°
little for an interest so divided, except to squeeze it
to the utmost. (Hear, hear.) But the time has
now come when our position is totally changed.
We are united, and being united, we shall prefer
our demands with a weight and influence such as
we have never before possessed. (Cheers.) As one
of the hop-growers of England—for I would not
confine this movement to any particular district—
every day confirms me more and more in the con-
viction that the only straight and direct way before
us to obtain the total repeal of all taxation on hops
—(cheers)—that as the English farmer grows and
harvests his coin without having the exciseman
knocking at his door, and competes in the market
with the free imported corn of other countries, so
must hops be placed upon precisely the same foot-
ing. As to postponements, there can be no ques-
tion that in principle they are indefensible, but
they are a necessity of the vicious system under
which we live. Our last application, lam sorry
to say, was only partially successful—three
months' respite has only been granted us, with a
rate of interest which makes the Government a
harder money-lender than private individuals
might have proved. But still it is a concession—
is an admission on the part of those in authority
that we are not a body to be snubbed and turned
with contumely from the Treasury door. (Hear,
hear.) The whispers of an agitation for free trade
were not without effect, and the Government, no
doubt, thought it better to grant some assistance
rather than provoke a determined cry for repeal
from the whole body of the hop planters. (Hear.)
We have accepted what has been offered us—it
would have been wrong and impolitic to have
refused it—but we have done no more. Go on
we must. The pressure will come in March ;
and what shall we then do ? My own conviction is
that no further concessions will be given, and
though I fear a great deal of distress will follow,
yet that distress will prove the crash of the whole
system, and it will be the means of bringing to pass
that good end for which we are aiming—the aboli-
tion of all taxation on hops. (Cheers.) No time
of the year could be more fortunate for our cause
than the Ist of March. At that, time Parliament
will have met—it will then be discussing the pro-
visions of the budget for the forthcoming year—
members generally will have become acquainted
with the subjects engaging public attention, and if
our cause come before the house then it will stand
a chance of getting a favourable hearing. (Hear.)
We must continue to agitate, but we must not be
too hasty, or else it will go off like a puff, and by
the Ist of March the hop-planters' grievance will
be forgotten. We mast work steadily and perse-
veringly, so that on the let of March we may
prefer an unanimous demand, and one which, if not
at first successful, will at all events command the
the respect and attention of Parliament. (Cheers.)
You are aware that a society has recently been
formed, founded on the intelligible basis of getting
rid of both excise and customs simultaneously.
(Cheers.) Of that society I have been appointed
chairman, and I am happy to tell you that so far as
our private canvass has yet gone we have been very
successful in enlisting the sympathies and good-
will of members of Parliament—(cheers)—and
already we command a strong and influential party
in the House of Commons. (Cheers.) I am not
permitted now to state what peers we may count
among our supporters, but I may say that there is
every reason to hope we shall have no insignificant
party in the upper house. (Cheers.) There must
be no compromise, no vacillation, but a strict deter-
mination to compass what we know to be just, what
we know to be possible, and it will be our own fault
if we do not win it from one Government or another
within the next few years. (Cheers) To do this we
must not be lukewarm, and at the same time we
must not be impatient. We must agitate legally and
constitutionally, and in that manner by which we
can best bring our influence to bear upon the House
of Commons, for, after all, it is in the House of
Commons that our battle will have to be fought.
(Hear, hear.) My services are entirely at your
disposal till success is earned ; and again I thank
you for this high and unexpected compliment
(Loud cheers.)

Public interest is still concentrated on the siege
of Gaeta, which goes on far too slowly for the
general expectation and the general desire. It is
now nearly a month since the once Sardinian, and
now Italian, army invested the fortress, and yet so
much remains to do that if great haste be not made,
and the fleet be not allowed to help Cialdini, three
months may pass without our getting rid of Francis
11. and of the shred of an army he still owns. The
road and trench operations are carried on with great
activity, but the bad weather on the one hand, and
the serious difficulties our working parties meet
daily on the other, makes it impossible to proceed
with greater rapidity. The park of siege guns, which
are called by the name of the inventor, Cavalli,
reached us last Saturday evening, but the question
is when our artillerymen will be able to mount it
on the batteries. The guns invented by Major
Cavalli are on the breech-loading principle, and
their range is so great that they will throw a ball
into a circle a yard in diameter at a distance of
5,000 metres. The precision and power of these
new implements of war were to have been tested
against the bastions:of the Malakoff, but when they
arrived in the Crimea Sebastopol had alseady fallen,
Ittinrd- bc'oto3ion tb iploy has since presented
itself An officer of the Sardinian artillery told me
that if these guns are fired against the walls of
Gaeta he was sure that a breach would be made in
less than 24 hours. The question now is when our
engineer will be able to have the batteries ready.
The day before yesterday, General Cialdini was
suddenly summoned by telegraph to Naples, and
the rumour soon spread in our camp- that Francis
11. being seriously ill, General Salzano had made
propositions to surrender the place. Although one
part of the report is true—for the young King,
who is consumptive, has been spitting blood—the
other soon proved to be false. Cialdini's sudden
journey to Naples had no other object than to assist
at a council of ministers in which important mili-
tary arrangements have been discussed before his
Majesty's departure for Sicily, which, as the tele-
graph will have informed you, has been fixed for
to-morrow. If I am correctly informed, in the
council of war held at Naples it was decided that
the Italian army shall be henceforth divided into
two great corps. General Della Rocca will remain
in Naples at the head of the southern army, while,
when the siege of Gaeta is at an end, Cialdini will
proceed to Milan, and take the command of the
northern. The reserve of the two armies will be
commanded by General Della Marmora, to whom
the organisation of the new regiments will be
entrusted. By these means the new state of Italy
will soon be able to muster an army of 300,000 good
fighting men, with which it will be ready to meet
emergencies either on the banks of the Po or on
those of the Mincio.

You have been already informed that in spite
of priestly intrigues it has been decided at Paris
that the 16,000 Neapolitans who had entered the
States of the Church should be restored to the
lawful Government of their native country. To
carry out the necessary arrangements Major San
Martan, of Cialdini's staff, left this place for Ter-
racina yesterday morning. The men will be sent
by sea to Genoa, and on their arrival there they
will be enlisted in the regiments of the reserve
above alluded to. Nothing has been as yet decided
about the 5,000 horses and 22 field-pieces seized by
the French, but I have reason to believe that Louis
Napoleon has recognised the principle that it would
be unjust to detain the property of a State which
not only did not order the crossing of the frontier,
but which was, and still is, at war with the Govern-
ment which did order it.

Since my last the fire of the Neapolitans has
become less brisk than it was. A shell or two is
regularly fired from the Regina Battery and from
the northern bastion of the city at dawn, and this
goes on till ten o'clock with intervals of half an
hour or so. Then it ceases, and is not generally
resumed after three o'clock in the afternoon.
During the night scarcely a shot is fired either
against our outposts of the Borgo or against those
of Montesecco. The whole of the population of
the Borgo has now decamped, and since Friday last
a numerous emigration has been going on at Gaeta.
The majority of the emigrants from the last-named
place have gone to the islands of Ischia and Casa-
micciola, where they are sheltered and fed by
Farini's order. Nothing can give an idea of the
sufferings endured by those unhappy creatures
whom the Government of Gaeta had packed like
sheep in small vessels and launched into the stormy
sea, without knowing whether they would be
allowed to land upon the Neapolitan shores. The
vessels thus loaded had no provisions, and they
were tossed about for 48 long hours. Some were
allowed to land at Ischia, some were carried by the
gale amidst the dangerous rocks of Cape Niise-
num;and one boat was wrecked off Pausilippo,
and most of those who were in it were drowned.

Nov. 26.

It seems as if the diplomatic corps had had
enough of Gaeta, for I hear it left the place
the day before yesterday, on board of a French
steamer. Senor Bermudez is the only foreign
minister who has not as yet left; for, according to
all appearance, he is waiting to the end of the
siege, in order to accompany the royal family to
Spain. The family of Francis 11. is now reduced
to the unhappy young Queen, to his brother Don
Luigi, and to the Count of Trapani. The Queen
Dowager left Gaeta on Wednesday morning, with
all her children and female attendants. This step
on the part of Francis 11. is a proof, I think, that
he was decided to defend Gaeta for a long time to
come, and contradicts the rumour which was
suddenly spread here last evening, that he had
fled on board the Spanish man-of-war. The
Spanish vessel had really steamed away to the
northward, but she has just come back, and is now
re-entering the harbour of Gaeta.

General Miorolawski, so well known for the part
he took in the Baden revolution in 1849, has
arrived here. I have beep. told that the Polish
patriot brought to Victor Emmanuel a letter of
Prince Napoleon, in which the son-in-law of the
King strongly recommends the formation of a
Polish Legion. I doubt whether Miorolawski's
proposal will be accepted by the King, for the
acceptance of it would dangerously provoke both
Austria and Russia.

(FROM ANOTHER CORRESPONDENT.)

TURIN, NOT. 30.

I have positive information that the. Princess
Clothilde has written to her younger sister, the
Princess Maria, but does not speak of any visit to
Turin as being in contemplation. Either, then, the
rumour of Prince Napoleon's intended journey to
Italy with his wife was erroneous, or the idea, if
ever entertained, has been dismissed. So far so
good, as far as the Prince is concerned. There is
something else, however, of a far more positive
nature, and that is the pretension of Lucien Murat
to the throne of Naples. A letter of his, dated the
25th of November, introduces him as an unsolicited
giver of advice, as a partial judge, and accordingly
without authority; as a pretender who is at once
both presumptuous and ridiculous. This letter
of his, with which you must be already
acquainted, has produced a feeling of disgust.
Three
months ago I wrote you word about Muratist in-
trigues ; the Government knew all the tricks going
on, and knows now that a part of the difficulties it
is encountering at Naples have been created by the
Muralist party, a party insignificant itself in num-
bers, but aided by some old Mazzinians and muni-
cipalists, and by a few Neapolitan generals, who
have been promised for their adhesion both honours
and wealth, two things they can never obtain from

the Italian Government. I remember also having
mentioned to you that some of Murat's agents were
at Rome, and that these met with support from a
cardinal or so.
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to disturb you until everything is going on more
smoothly. A declaration of this kind is quite laugh-
able. What then is Lucien Murat going to be,
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upon ceasing to be a mere spectator ? An actor ?
If theatricals were on the tapis, why yes, but if he
means that he intends putting himself at the head
of a revolution or of an army, then the case is very
different. Hitherto he has given us no specimen
of military valour. The Emperor Napoleon 111.
showed at Magenta and Solferino no deficiency of
military courage, and he had already shown that
his head was capable of maturing the boldest enter-
prises ; but Lucien Murat has shown nothing of
all this. When the Neapolitans were tortured by
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tionary measures taken by the new government to
vanquish the Bourbon and clerical reaction at
Isernia are a mild imitation of those taken by the
French general, Manhes, to subdue the Calabrians,
who 60 years ago espoused se warmly the Bourbon
cause, a cause they now so thoroughly abhor. At
that time Manhes paved the way for Murat to the
throne by shooting the Calabrians by hundreds ;
whereas all that is being done now is to defend
property against those convicts whom Francis 11.
liberated from their dungeons and then armed.
Murat never appealed to the popular vote in order
to become King of Naples, and if he did enjoy some
popular favour, that was because he had displayed
personal valour in many battles, and valour always
captivates any people. Now Monsieur Lucien
Murat does not possess this valour, but Garibaldi
and Victor Emmanuel do, and yet he comes inso-
lently and demands the condemnation of the acts of
the new government. He copies too the phrases of
the Giornale di Roma, and paraphrases the Austrian
journals.

Our generals, especially General La Marmora,are
much perplexed what to do with the Neapolitan
prisoners of war, who want to be enrolled in the
regular army. But they are so unfit for war and so
demoralised that we despair of doing anything with
them. Moreover, they are nearly all of them suffer-
ing from disease. We are afraid they would create
scandal and disorder amongst our well-conducted
soldiers.

The health of Count Cavour has improved, but he
stands in need of a month's rest at least. Far from
taking it, business grows upon him, notwithstand-
ing his incessant and really prodigious activity.
Three days ago, notwithstanding the bad state of
the weather, he went to witness the experiments
with the new guns, rifled in a particular manner,
on a system of his own, by our talented General
Cavalli. Much is expected of these new batteries.
In war, you know, as in law, it is good to be first in
the field.

The Garibaldians are beginning to. return in
larger numbers. The bravest of them complain of
the bad comr any they have been thrown into.
They say that only a fourth of the whole force
actually fought, and went through all the hardships ;
that the other three-fourths did more harm than
good by their presenee, and often endangered the
success of Garibaldi's enterprise; that many of
them, pretending extravagant enthusiasm for Gari-
baldi, are now at Naples doing all they can to pre-
vent a return to order and the consolidation of
liberty.

To-day we have had something quite unusual, a
meeting of women who are engaged in the manu-
facture of tobacco and snuff; they want to work
less and to be paid higher wages. Tobacco has
become dearer in America, and the affair at present
is producing uneasiness.

BIRMINGHAM CATTLE SHOW.

BIRMINGHAM, MONDAY EVENING.

The " private view" at this exhibition took place
to-day. Soon after 11 o'clock Bingley-hall began
to fill, and from that hour until late in the after-
noon the place was one dense crowd. The com-
pany comprised, not merely the nobility resident in
the neighbouring counties, but they came as usual
from all parts of the country. The Duke of Marl-
borough, the president, arrived about 12 o'clock.
He was accompanied by the duchess. The Earl
of Shrewsbury, the president elect, was also pre-
sent. We noticed in /the hall, too, the Earl and
Countess of Lichfield, the Earl and Countess of
Dartmouth, lord Leigh, Lord Hatherton, Lord
Aylesford, and a vast number of others.
The exhibition is considered a complete success ;
the short-horn classes were generally thought to be
the best fatted in the hall—the Duke of Beanfort's
animal, which took the gold medal, being a re-
markably fine specimen ; the Hereford was scarcely
inferior ; the Devons were also good ; the Scots
were small in number. The number of cattle
entered for competition was 110. The Shropshire
sheep was a numerous class, and the animals very
meritorious. Mr. Edward Holland, M.P., took
the first prize. Considering how bad a year this
has been for sheep, the animals in all these classes
were excellent.

The poultry show was not so large as usual, but
its excellence was not diminished on that account,
the feathered tribes generally being well repre-
sented.

To the attractions of the exhibition this year is
added a show of dogs. It was tried on a small scale
last year, and was so successful that, under the
auspices of Lord Curzon and other gentlemen, it
has been this year attempted on a larger and more
complete scale, and, so far as the collection of dogs
goes, with entire success. Sporting animals are in
the greatest number, but there are very many other
varieties of foreign and English breeds. There are
the dogs from the kennels of the nobility and
gentry all over the country ; and the fancy prices
placed on some of them to prevent a sale are some-
thing fabulous. The Repository in which the dogs
were exhibited was literally crammed all through
the day, a large number of those present being
ladies. Such a collection of these animals has never
before been witnessed in this country. The prizes
include a dozen or more of silver cups, and money
' prizes from ten guineas downwards. This part of
the exhibition being away from Bingley-hall, was
an inconvenience, which, it is to be hoped, will be
avoided next year; and the management needed
improvement, which experience will bring about.
The weather has been wretched, as usual ; yet
the town has been crowded with visitors from an
early hour in the morning.

ARTISTIC DESIGNS FOR WATCRES.—" A number of
now and artistic designs for the embellishment of watches
have been invented and exhibited by Mr. J. W. Benson, of
33 and 34, Ludgate-hill, who has exerted himself with
commendable success to provide, in this particular branch
of manufacture, the union of taste and usefulness so strik-
ing in the productions of the French artificers. The recent
progress in the art of watchmaking in England is owing to
the enterprise and industry of several gentlemen, who are
now reaping a just reward for their ingenuity. Amongst
these Mr. Benson holds a prominent position, and his de-
signs may therefore be recommended to the notice of the
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con
public."—Daily Telegraph. Benson's Illustrated PanTil_uter.
post free for two stamps, is descriptive of every
Lion of watch now made. Watches safe by post to All p arts
of the globe.

CITY OF MEXICO, OCT. 28.
Her Majesty's Charge d'Affaires, with the rest of
the Legation, left this capital for Jalapa on the'
morning of the 21st, and Baron Wagner, the Prus-.
sian Minister, started the following day for Paehuca,„
where he will remain a short time, and then pro-
ceed to join Mr. Mathew at Jalapa. The French.
Charge d'Affaires has suspended all diplomatic re-
lations ; so that the present central faction, aban-
doned by the representativrs of all the respectable
Powers, are now thrown upon the support of the
Spanish Ambassador, who still continues to stick
to his proteges.
It is clear, from private letters of Almonte, that
Spanish intervention is still uppermost in the mind
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better judgment, for whatever might have been
his chances of success some three months back, now
that the plan has been fully exposed, and ;the
I Government of the United States made acquainted
with its details, its accomplishment becomes no
longer an easy matter. A strong American force
is now at Vera Cruz, numbering some 10 or
12 ships, and any attempted interference by Spain
would at once provoke a war, and as certainly be
followed by the annexation of Cuba.
The atrocities, lately committed in the capital, of
which I gave you by no means an exaggerated ac-
count in my last, via the United States, have natu-
rally excited the fears of all classes, and foreigners
subjected to the rule of this sanguinary faction feel
no security against the perpetration of the worst
outrages. That this feeling is very prevalent among
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themselves ought to have been made personally
responsible, there can be no security for foreigners
resident in this country ; but personal responsibility
once enforced will convince these self-constituted
and hitherto irresponsible rulers that British sub-
jects are not to be plundered and murdered with
impunity.
A fresh impost has just been decreed, and we are
now called upon to pay to this Church faction,
within eight days, not only another half per eent.
upon capital, but one month's additional rent, one
half to be borne by the tenant, the other half by
the landlord. Ruinous as these repeated exactions
have become, resistance is out of the question ; un-
less complied with, enormous fines are superadded,
which, together with the original amounts, are en-
forced by bodies of armed men. The money col-
lected is at once appropriated by the chiefs, who,
while their subordinates are starving, are enriching
themselves by the plunder of a hardworking and
industrious set of foreigners. In fact it is quite out
of my power to give you an idea of the state we are
in. Conceive the worst, and you know the half; it
is clear that unless the Liberal party triumph, the
ruin of every foreigner is certain.
Mr. Mathew's exertions on behalf of the English
who had money in the conducts seized by order of
Degallado have been crowned with success-
-400,000 dots. have been restored and will be em-
barked at Tampico. Other foreigners are much
piqued at this preference being shown, and allege
that the amount recovered ought to have been
divided pro rata among all the sufferers. Mr.
Mathew, in the first instance, did all in his power
to obtain restoration for all, but, finding that unat-
tainable, very properly confined his demands to the
losses of his own countrymen.
From Guadalajara we have no reliable informa-
tion. Castillo still appears to maintain himself
within his inner lines of defence, which, according
to all accounts, are of great strength, and it is the
opinion of many that the besiegers will endeavour
to starve him out. Gonzales Ortega, who is now
Commander-in-Chief of the Constitutional forces,
appears to inspire much confidence. He has already
been successful in three pitched battles against
Miramon and his chiefs, and, should he succeed in
his present attempt upon Guadalajara, prestige will
' do much to accomplish the rest.