The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-04-24 00:00:00

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

AFFAIRS OF SPAIN.
• (From a Correspondent of the Standard.)
With the return of the whigs to office, we have the prospect
of an immediate entry of a French army into Spain. Months
since, even in January last, many head clerks and government
agents in and about the French War Office declared, that
should the whigs once more return to office, and should Lord
Palmerston once more become minister of foreign affairs, a
French army should "finish" with the affairs of Spain in less
than a month. It has even been reported that M. de Itigny has
said as much several times, both in private and diplomatic
circles, during the last three months. The treaty of quadruple
alliance, as extended and even altered by the additional arti-
cles, is thus to receive an immediate and decisive execution.
But should a French army cross the Pyrenees, and occupy the
Basque provinces, would that event decide the war iu the. north
of Spain? 1 should think not; and my opinion is founded—
not only on the character of the warfare, on the geography of
the country, on the material and physical difficulties which the
French would have to surmount, and on the enthusiasm of the
Basques for the cause Of Don Carlos and the provincial
" Fueros"—but my_ opinion is based still more on the fact, that
such is the horror felt for the French in Spain, that even Mina
has himself declared, "If the French troops shall ever again
dare to enter Spain, I would place myself at the head of the
first Carlist battalion near me,. and fight with and for Don Car-
los against our common foe." The promised and threatened
French intervention would -perplex and annoy, rather than
serve or strengthen the queen's partisans.
BOURG MADAMS, April 12.-1 informed you last month that
the Carlist party in Catalonia was about to commence vigorous
proceedings, and in my last letter I stated that the events at
Malaga and Saragoss would increase the difficulties attending
the government in this province. The events of the last few
days justify my anticipations. The bands are increasing and
appearing withlar inure boldness in divers points. Some have
made their appearance In Lampourdan and Cordagiiii. while
others are acting their part in that portion of the province
which borders on-Arragou.
On the 7th inst. 500 men entered the environs of Ripoll: the
militia-men and the Urbanos, seconded by a detachment; came
out to repulse them; the baud, contrary to what had hitherto
been seen, awaited them in order of battle, attacked them with
swords and with the bayonet, and forced them, with the loss of.
twenty men left dead on the field of battle, to enter Ripon in
great disorder, and with a great number of wounded.
Tristama, at the head of several bands, forming a total of
1500 men, has fought a serious engagement, with the Urbanos
and the queen's troops in the neighbourhood of Solsona, killed
50 of their men, and captured 100 muskets.
This affair, iu which several bands were formed into a corps,
denotes that a superior chief is directing the movement, and
announces the first developments of a general system, in-
iustead of the irregular and isolated excursions which have
hitherto taken place.