The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-11-18 00:00:00

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

SPAIN.
(From the correspondernce of the Standard.)
" Madrid, Nov. 3.
" On the 31st of October the general-in-chief of the army of
the north was with the greatest part of his forces at Villalaras,
and had the intention of constraining the factions to raise the
seige at Bilboa.
" The faction of Gomez was, on the let of November, at
Truxillo. The Marquis de Rodil had, the same day, his head-
quarters at Peralada de Mata; and the General Alaix, who was
at Almodovar, was about to undertake his march on Estrama-
dura.
" The faction of Sanz, after having been beaten, has return-
ed into the Asturias, passing by the defile of Vegarada."
A letter from Bayonne, dated Nov. 7, says—" The siege of
Bilboa was not raised on the 3d of November, although the fact
has been inferred from the arrival of a letter from that town ;
it being thence concluded that the river was free. This letter
may have been brought from Bilboa to Portugalette by land,
the bearer having contrived to elude the vigilance of the
Carlists."
The There de Bayonne of the Bth instant says that " on the 11
28th ult. the Carlists raised the siege, and, the navigation being
open, 1,500 men arrived as a reinforcement from Santander.
'I he Carlists of Catalonia, commanded by lies d'Erolles and
Borges, to the amount of 1,200 or 1,500 men, entered the valley
of Aran in the night of the '2sth ult., and surprised 50 Christine.'
at Esterry. Six of them only escaped; the rest were either
shot or burnt to death in a barn, which the rebels set on fire.
On the following day a battle took place at 'Nein', another
village in the valley, and the Christinos were obliged to retire
into the fort of La Vielle, where taey are blockaded by the
rebels."
Letters of the 2d, from Saragosa, state that the Carlists, hav-
ing evacuated Cantavieja, carrying their arms and baggage with
them, the revolutionary general, Evariste San Miguel, took
possession on the 31st at eleven o'clock in the morning. The
revolutionists found the General Lopez, forty officers, and some
hundreds of soldiers, all prisoners made by Gomez in the action
cf J.sdraea. Villareal is occupied in observing Espartero in
the Intercaciones,
AINHOA, Nov. 10.—It is astonishing that, notwithstanding
the infamously false intelligence given by the Paris telegraph,
faith should still be placed in its reports. Thus we find, be-
cause this vehicle chooses to promulgate "that the Carlists have
raised the siege of Bilboa," a large portion of the public ac-
tually believe that the Carlists have renounced getting posses-
sion of that place, and that the inhabitants are once more in
safety ! The reverse is, however, the fact, and, or lam greatly
mistaken, Bilboa ere long will belong to the Carlists. It is true
that Villareal mismanaged the attack—it is equally true that
the garrison has been reinforced by 1000 men, but the command
is now in the hanck. of Count de Casa Eguia, and that general
has declared that Bilboa must fall coute qui coute
By letters from the royal head-quarters, and dated the Bth,
the most active preparations were being made for continuing the
siege; fresh batteries had been erected, parapets thrown up,
and an immense quantity of ammunition and bombs collected.
It ‘-ae aa-oeeted that the fire would be opened against " La Ban-
deros" the same afternoon or the neat morning.
Espartero finding it impossible to force the Cellists line has
returned to the valley of Mena.
Colonel Wylde. who was sent by Espartero to General Evans,
with orders for 2,000 of the legion to march instanter to the re•
lief of Bilboa, has returned to the head-quarters of the Christino
commander-in-chief, greatly dissatisfied—Evans having refused
to send a singe man.
The French Foreign Legion is all but disbanded.
( From the Correspondence of the Morning Herald.)
BAYONNE, Nov. 10.—On the 4th inst. Don F. Garcia ad-
vanced upon Lodosa with four battalions of Navarre, and two
squadrons of cavalry, to destroy the fort of that town. He
ordered the garrison to surrender on pain of being attacked by
him, and with the more success, as ho had positive information
that General Iriburren had advanced with his cavalry on the
valley of Mena, in Biscay, to join the head-quarters of Espar-
tero. The Captain-General, ad interim, of Pampe:una having
been informed of this movement, ordered 3,01)0 infantry and
100 cavalry, ,:onitnanded by General I.ebeau and Don Leon
Iriarte, to march from Parapeluna for I.odosa. On arriving at
a short distance beyond the bridge of Obano, this column was
divided into three corps, which advanced by different roads on
the fortified hermitage of Santa Barbara, situate on the heights
by which Maneru is crowned, and which were defended by four
battalions of the Carlists, who commenced their fire on the ap-
proach of the Christinos. The efforts of the two enemies were
nearly balanced, but General Garcia having received a rein.
forcement of two battalions, the Christinos were obliged to re-
treat upon Puente la Reyna. Nothing is known as to the losses
sustained by them.

Ou the 7th a quantity of plate, from the churches of Navarre,
arrived at St. Jean Pied de Port, escorted by some companies
of Chapelgorris. This and some other plate, which may arrive
in France, will be sold there, and the produce sent to the king-
dom whence it may have been sent.
According to the journals, the siege of Bilboa has been raised
more than mice, but the contrary is the fact, as the Carlists still
surrsiund the place, and are more than ever disposed to carry it.
Ou the 7th inst., a quantity of projectiles were sent to them,
and that circumstance compelled the Governor to write to
General Espartero that unless he cause to the relief of the place
it would be unable to hold out. The bearer of the letter was
arrested by the Carlists, and though it produced no effect—as
Espartero had been ordered, in the apprehension of a catas-
trophe, not to measure his strength with Villareal—the Carlists
were, nevertheless, satisfied to learn that if the place could still
hold out for a few days, it must, in the end, infallibly fall into
their power. To expedite the moment of the surrender, they
have just opened some covered ways round the town and under
its walls, and have commenced battering the only gate which
can resist them; so that, in a few days, the town will fall into
the power of Don Carlos.
SAN SEBASTIAN, Nov. C.—Here we are, the most miserable
wretches in the shape of soldiers in existence, penned in on all
sides by the Carlists, and, like school boys unable to go one foot
beyond bounds.. It would seem as if we had taken up our quar-
ters here for life, for as to our moving in any direction it is quite
out of the question ; unless, indeed, we would wish, as in the
Fontarabia affair, to return discomfited. Winter is fast ap-
proaching, and it is more than probable we shall experience
once more the same privations, the same hardships, disease, and
starvation, to which the legion were exposed, (and they bore it
without a murmu►) at Vittoria, where no house afforded to the
poor soldier a blanket, or a covering, and where the cold coo-
vents alone, and alike, contained the living and the dead.
What are we to do ? If we look back we can only trace all
the treachery•, all the heartlessness of the authorities, to the
want of spirit amongst ourselves. From the very outset this
was perceptible, and I fearlessly state that the whole loss sus-
tained by us from fever at Vittoria, and around it, may be laid
at the sliur of those who were mean enough in the beginning to
permit Englishmen to be degraded to a level with brutes. Did
General Bernelle allow his legion to be so treated? No! he
forgot not their characters as soldiers,—nor his own,—neither
did he forget the honour of his country. General Le Merchant
(Adjutaut-General,) left, a few days since, in the Ithadaman-
thus, to talk over at home the prospects we enjoy; and General
Godfrey is about going to Madrid to complain and to remon-
strate once more with the Government as to our arrears of pay -
" Oh, that we may get it."
Bilboa has beers nearly destroyed by Villareal and Eguia, the
Bishop of Leon planning, 'tis said, the operations. You have
no doubt heard that the factions, as they ure courteously term-
ed here, were beaten from thence wills considerable loss. Now
the fact is quite the reverse, for by the official statement of the
Governor, Aaroz, to the Minister of War, liodil, the town was
li'erally a heap of ruins, scarcely a house escaped damage, and
one whole street was completely demolished. The truth is, that
Villareal, having gained his object, which was the destruction
of the place, withdrew his force after, I am free to admit, souse
hard fighting ois both sides, and he is now with his staff at Her-
nani.

The move of Villareal was both a wise and judicious one ;
fur learning thatiEspartero was on his route to succour Bilboa,
and Out ehoosing to run any risk after having succeeded in his
attack, acted the part of a good General, and his army retired.
It is a little laughable to hear of the total annihilation, about
once a-week (wheu bonfires prevail, and music parades the
streetsiw all night,) of the rebels, and yet Villareal is at Bilboa,
a
Gomez travelling through Andalusia, his followers and
booty increased at every town he passes.
'There seems to be no scarcity of money or cannon among the
C,!rlists, as they brought into play 16 guns and two mortars at
Bithou, and still offer rewards to deserters from our ranks.
The James \Vatt steamer arrived here yesterday from San-
tander. She brings intelligence from Portugalete that the com-
munication with Bilboa by the river is cut off ; that the whole
of the right bank and the country, including Zurossa, is in the
possession of the Cartists ; and that the crew of his Majesty's
frigate Castor, and others of our vessels of war, are busily em-
ployed fortify lug the opposite shore. Thus, so far as matters
are concerued in other parts of Spain : and now for a few words
as to the spot in which the "British" legion " move, live, and
have being."
We are still at our lines, es, every man at his loop-hole, or on
fatigue, and there is chance of our being able to do any
tatis.s the skeleton of the legion against the force now be.
fore us. With mseff,etion in our ranks—a disaffection justifiable
and warranted, from the treatment we have received—faith
broken with us on the one side, our wattle unheeded, and unat-
tended to on the other, promises made by the Spanish Govern-
ment only to be violated, the positive antipathy to the English
by the inhabitants of this filthy town, are circumstances so strong
and so convincing, that it ••••,..,,, la- a matter of especial
wonder if aught else save that feeling could be found in either
officers or men.
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stances sanction—namely, that of taking from
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people that which should have been given without u
or threat.
Those who love good order, and we hope in
all denominations of Englishmen, would not was
to be pursued : but if it should happen, what will be thought of
the British Government giving their countenance and consent
thisl such clar course come
to men being entrapped into such a service, and leaving tlreni
to the tender mercies of the intriguing ministers of the Spanish
nation—men without hearts, and, it is too well proved, P. without.
honesty.

TURKEY.
CoNsTaNziNoPtE, OCT. 19.—The Porte, in its efforts to hu-
mour the Sultan (who has set his mind upon having a quaran-
tine, so as to drive the plague before him, as the Albanians,
Tripolitans' and Kurds have been driven before his victorious
arms,) has been frightening us all to death by its reports of the
appalling effects of the malady. The Seraskier gave it out that
last week the number of cleat& which occurred in all quarters
amounted to upwards of 5,600! Nearly every one believed it,
and it was quite amusing to see even the boldest tucking up his
coat tails, and steering through the thinly-peopled streets with
as much caution as if he were visiting a 300 horse power steam-
engine, and was fearful of being caught up by the fly-wheel.
They who are in the habit of asking for news, got only one uni-
versal answer—plague, plague, and snore plague ! A poor
newspaper correspondent may be seen here and there—
" Seeking the jewel information
Even in the plague's fanged mouth;"

and, like the soldier who seeks the t• bubble reputation" in that
of the cannon, it is about ten to one if he finds it, or anything
half so agreeable. I may be wrong, but I strongly suspect that
the exaggeration embraces the whole of the 5,000; and that the
600 and odd alone represent, not the deaths of last week, but
the cases. During that pet iod 153 patients were all that were
admitted into the Greek hospital; and last Monday, I happen
to know that the attacks in all Constantinople and its environs
amounted to 43 and no more ! It is hoped that ere long the
precautions adopted, and the advanced season, will have their
effect in diminishing the malady. In the mean time the wea-
ther continues pluguy fine, and we cannot get a drop of rain.
The Sultan ordered lazarets to be constructed, and a quarantine
en re,* to be commenced; but the ministers first objected to
the plan, as repugnant to their religion, and that argument hav-
ing been overturn:A, they said they could not do such a thing
without first obtaining the consent of the foro7n powers, which
means Russia, who will certainly oppose the plan, from motives
of personal interest. The Sultan has offered 1.:200,000 towards
•t out of his private treasury. J. H.