The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-05-24

Oranges Consul, beating Sardaigne (sccond)
and Pandour Cthird).
MADRID, May 22.LThe Republican news
papers of this city assert that the recent vote of
the Cortes has only deferred the scheme for a
federal republic, and has not defeated il. and
that republic must come, sooner or later TO
want OF monarch and the absence of unan-
NIFTY on the part OF the majority in the Cortes.
Isabella has proposed to abdicate i'm favor of her
son, the Prince of Asturias, against the advice of
Gonzalez Bravo, her former Prime Minister and
others In the Cortes yesterday article "a of the
National Constitution was adopted. Adelando
resigned.
LONDON, May 22.-The Pail Mall Gazette, an
independent newspaper has u leading article on
the Alabama claims question. The writer says:-
Whatever England did in respect to the Ameri-
cans, France did, and ten times more; for nothing
but our refusal of her invitation to recognize the
Southern Confederacy saved the North from
more trying and doubtful contest" The Weekly
Spectator (Whig), published to-day, also dis
cusses the question, and says "the truths told
by Mr. Foster an old and staunch friend of
America, must teach the Americans how uni
versal resistance would be if Mr. Summers de-
mands were seriously pressed One of the
largest meetings ever assembled was held i'm
Belfast, Ireland, to-day, to protest against the
disestablishment of the Irish Church. 1t is esti-
mated that nearly twenty thousand people were
present.
News has been received direct from Cespedes
by Cubans i'm Washingtons confirming fully the
defeat of the Spanish forces in attempting to
open the railroad from Nuevitas to Puerto Prin-
cipe The date and channel of receipt are kept
private for prudential reasons. The loss of the
Spaniards is set down at 1000 killed and wounded.
The Cuban force is stated to have been $500 men,
under Quesada, entrenched on the road and
about the same as the Spanish.
The fighting was by far the severest which has
taken place during the war. The battle was de-
cided by the arrival of the Marquis of Santa
Luca, with four thousand men, n large number
of whom were mounted but who, though poorly
armed, made desperate and successful charge
on the flank of the Spaniards. OF five hundred
colored troops, little over four hundred shot
their officers and went over to the Cubans and
the remainder, being neither with the insurgents
or Spaniards are supposed to have taken to the
woods.
All the baggage, provisions, and ammunition
of the Spaniards carried in ten cars, and drag
ged on the rails by oxen, together with the dead
and the chief part of the wounded, were aban-
doned to the Cubans, who, after the BATTLE ad-
vanced six miles to San Miguel, where they de-
stroyed the barracks and quarters in sight of the
retreating Spaniards. The loss of the Cubans is
given at several hundred, but Cubans here ridi-
cule the idea of its being equal to that of the
enemy, who attacked entertainments they did
not carry. A vessel since returned to the United
States had few days before safely landed arms
and ammunition. The Spanish General Latona
is reported wounded, but whether in that action
is not stated. Cespedes and the insurgents feel
confident of success.