The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-01-23 00:00:00

SPAIN.

PARIS, Jars. 18.--Thu truth will come out at last, though
slowly and reluctantly. The ",victories" of the christians are
now admittied to, have been defeats; and the "successes" of
Mina to have tetininated in his being replaced by Llauder.
The Journal des Debats of this morning contains a letter
from Madrid, dated 7th instant, of which the following is an
extract:—
The reports of a change of ministry have subsided, and
more serious matter occupies- attention. The news from
Navarre is unfavourable; a council of ministers has been as-
sembled. Mina's health wAI. not allow him to cpntinue the
command. His inability.to head his troops or to. exert him-
self produces the worst effects on the army and discourages the
soldiers. General Llauder is to take the command, with the
fullest powers to act as be may think fit."
There can then be no longer any doubt as to the revocation
of Mina by the Queen, as I announced to you, last Thursday.
This resignation or dismissal (I think the latter) of Mina, is
a very great event in the history of the Spanish civil war! If
any one in Spain were capable of competing with Zumalicarre-
guy, it was unquestionably the man wigs on a former occasion
ruled all the hearts and attached to liEnself all the zeal and
energies of the whole Basque population. But now, how great
is the change ! Mina, who in former times was thel rallying
cry of the Basques, defending as they did their " Fueros,a is
,now regarded not as a liberator, but a despot, who comes to
take away at the point of the bayonet the very privileges and
liberties he formerly aided the Biscayans and the Guipuscoans
in seeming. Thus " Mina," who was named commander-in-
chief, against the wishes of the Queen, court, and even against
the desires of the French government, but who was so named
in order to secure beyond a doubt the success of the Christinos
forces, this same Mina is now wholly defeated, and the last arid
best prop of the Queen's cause is utterly broken down. He,
against whom were so many antipathies—who was named as
being the " dernier resort," and who was to purge away his de-
mocratical antecedents by his zeal and devotion to the royalty of
the Queen, he is now proved to have done nothing for the cause
he espoused, and to have left the Cristinos forces even snore re-
duced, disheartened, and demoralised than when he took the
command.

What will the Queen do,next? What can she do? She will
call out the militia at Madrid, leave the peace of the city to be
defended by the civic guards, send off the garrison of the capital
to the northern provinces, and, aided by Llauder, will make
yet one more effort to preserve the crown of her daughter. Will
this effort be successful? We have good reason for doubting
that it will be so. lam disposed to say no.
Then what will Don Carlos do ? '1 o remain in the Basque
provinces erring and wandering Nom mountain to valley, and
from valley to mountain, is not becoming the King of Spain.
Will he then venture to proceed onwards? Will he leave the
Basque provinces for the cities of Castile and the plains which
surround Madrid ? It is impossible to say. We must wait
and see..
Letters from Madrid of the Bth state that a battalion of in-
fantry of the royal guards had left that day for Arragon. It
was stated that the greatest portion of the garrison would leave
the capital for the north, and that this resolution had led to or-
ders that thy- Urban militia s!• nild begin by occupying several
important-posts. It wds proposed at Madrid to suppress the
order of-the Jesuits, the fathers of whom were 250 in number,
and possessed 700 million of reaux de vellon in property, bene-
fices, &c. It was also proposed to introduce a law allowing the
monks to secularise.

Letters from Bilboa are full of details of the obsequies of M.
Maze. the French commandant of the Hirondelte, who had been
assassinated iu that city. Every sort of civil and military
honour *as renderedlo his remains.

Letteis from Bayonne of the 15th instant state that a battalion
of provincial militia of Grenada (troops of the line in the ser-
vice of Christina) had been surprised at Medina de Pomar, in
Castile, on the 7th instant, by Eraso, who made them all, pri-
soners, so that not even one could escape. Eraso is said to have
asked or Zumalacarreguy if he should shoot the prisoners; and
on receiving an affirmative reply, the whole were shot. I hope
for the 'Credit of human nature that this is not true; though it
must not be forgotten, that the Carlists vowed, wben Santos
Ladion,. their chief, was the first victim to the Christinos deter-
mination to shoot prisoners, that his blood should be atoned for
by many a victim. '