New-York daily tribune., 1856-08-18

sar,co.sa surrendered on August /, at II P. m.,
and thu. "a sied the last center Of resistance to
tie Spanish counter revolution. There was, IN
military point o. view little chance Of success after
the defeats at Madrid and Barcelona, the feeble
ses, Of the i.surectonaIy diversion in Andalusla'
and the convereiDg advance Of overwhelming FORCES
from, the Basque provinces, Navarro, Catalonia,
Velencis, AID CASTLE. Whatever chance there
might be was paral!z BY the circumstance that
II Was Esparte,o's old aide de camp, Gen. Falcon,
who dire cted the forces Of resistance that . Es'
"psrtero and Liberty" was given as the battle
CIV aud that the population Of SAragossa had be-
come eware of Espartero's incemmensurably rdic'
ulorp fasco at Madrid. Besides, there were direct
o,de,s from Espareros headquarters to his bottle
holders at Saraeossa that they we're to put an ehd
TO al resistance, as viii be seen from he lowing
eztract from The Journal De Madrid of July %
Gone of the Esparterist ex.ministers took part in
the negotiations going on between General Dulce and
the authorities Il Sarsgossa and the Espanerlst mem
Der of the Cortes u al MARITIME Alonzo accepted
the miseion Of informing the Isusent leaders that the
Queen, her ministers and her generals, were animated
by most cOncilistoiy spirit.
The revolutionary movement was pretty gene
rally epresd over the whole of Spain. Madrid and
La Msncha in Cas,ie Granada, Seville, Malaga,
Crdiz, Jatn, etc. in ALdausia; Murca and Car
thngena ia Murca Valcrcs, Alicant, Alzira, ETC.,
in Valencia; Barcelona, Reus, Figuerss, Corona,
in Cat.lonia Saragossa, Teruel, Huesca, Jaca,
etc, In ArrssOn Oviedo In Asturias; aid Coruna
ir Calicia There were 10 msves in EsIemadura,
Leor ard old CASTLE, where the revolutionary
party had been put down two months ago, ander
the ort auspices of EslarterO ard ODonnell-
the Basque provinces and Navarro also remaining
quiet The sJmpathies of the latter provinces,
however, were with the revolutionary cause, sl-
tkourh they might not manifest themselves n sight
Of the French army Of observation This is the
more remarkable if it be considered that twenty
yesre ego these very provinces formed the strong
hold Of Carlism-then backed by the peosansry of
Arrasor and Catalonia but who this time, were
most ras stionatsly siding with the revolution; and
who would have proved most formidable element
Of resistance, had not the imbecity of the leaders
at Barcelona and SaIagossa prevented their ener-
gies from beIg turned to account. Even The Lon
den Morning Herald, the orthodox champion OF
Proteetantism, which broke iances for the QuixOte
Of the Auto -da.N, Don Carlos. some twenty years
$40, has stumbled over that fact which it is fair
enough 70 acknowledge This is one Of the many
symptoms Of progress revealed BY the last revOu-
ton il Spain, a progress the slOwness of which
will astonish only those not acquainted with the
peculiar customs and manners Of country, where
"a Ia uanana" ia the wstch-word of every-days
life ard where everybody ia ready to tell you that
"our forefatheis needed eight hundred years to
"dIiyc out the Moors.'
Notwithstanding the general spread of pronuneia-
rniestos, the Revolution in Spain was limited only
to Madrid and Barcelona. In the South it was
broken by the cholera morbus, in the North by the
Esrartero nurrain. From a military point Of
view, the instructions at Madiid and Barcelona
offer few interesting and scarcely any novel fea.
ture,. On the one side-ihe army-everything
Was prepared beforehand; IN the other everything
was e1temporized the offensive never for mo-
ment changed sides. On the one hand, well.
equipped army, moving easily in the strisgs Of
its commanding generals; on the other, leaders
reluc antly pushed forward By the impetus of On
imperfectly ARMED people. At Madrid the re-
volutionists from the outset committed the
mistake of blocking themselves up in
the internal parts Of the town, on the
ire connecting the eastern aud western ex-
tremitie:-ex.reuit tiles commanded By ODOnnell
ard COachs who communicated with each other
and the cavalry of Dulce through the external
boulevards. Thus the people were cutting of and
exposirg themselves TO the concentric attack pre-
concerted by ODonnell and bis accomplices.
O'Donnell ind Concha had only to effect their
Junction ard the revolutionary forces were dis.
persed Ito the moth s-d south quarters of the
town, and deprived of al further cohesion. 1t
was distinct feature Of the Madrid insurrecsion
that barricsdes were used sparingly and only at
promir ent street corners, while the houses were
made the centers of resistance; and-what is un.
heard of in street wsrfare-5ay opet attacks met
the assailing columns of the army. But, if the in
surgerts profted By the experience of the Paris
and Dresden insure ctOns, the soldiers had learred
20 less by them. The walls of the houses were
broken through ore BY ore, ard the insurgents
were taken in the haIk and rear, while the exits
into the streets we're swept by cannon-shot.
Another distir cushed feature in this battle Of |
Medrid Has that Pucheta, after the junction Of
Corcha and O'DcInell, when be was pushed into |
the southern CToledo) quarter OF the town, trans
planted the guerrilla warfare from the mountains OF
Spain into the streets of Madrid. The insurrec-
ton, dispersed faced about under some arch OF
,lurct in some Dauow lane on the staircase Of |
Rouse, and there defend cd itself to the death.
at Barcelona the fghtirs was still more intense.