Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1866-01-20 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

THE SPANISH INSURRECTION.  MADRID, JAN. 15 (Evening).—lt is stated that General Prim is now on the heights of Merida, on the Guadiana but it is thought that a column of royal troops will succeed in preventing the escape of the insurgents into Portugal. The Correspondencia says :—" That Government will continue to act in a spirit of legality, toleration, and liberty. Measures of economy will be proposed, the taxes will be reduced and every liberty will be granted compatible with order." The Ministry enjoys the entire confidence of the Queen. Madrid is perfectly tranquil. No confirmation has been received here of the reported suicide of Admiral Pareja. MADRID, January, 16—Official intelligence announces that the insurgents under Prim forded the-Guadiana, near Villanueva Serena, yesterday evening at six o'clock, and arrived at Villanueva at seven o'clock. They left that place at eight o'clock, marching hastily towards the Portuguese frontier. General Prim is taking a very long time indeed to reach the Portuguese frontier. On the Sth inst. he was reported at Urda, on the north side of the Toledo range ; and telegrams, dated the 10th, reported that he was making precipitately for the Portuguese frontier, a theory of his movements which they have repeated ever since. But if Prim had been marching for the Portuguese frontier precipitately, or at the rate of thirty miles a-day, as some accounts say he marched, he ought to be in Portugal on Monday last. The distance down the valley of the Tagus, by the Puente del Arzobispo, which was said at first to be his direction, would not be from Urda, allowing for deviations of the way, much me than 200 miles, so that Prim oughtto have reached the Portuguese frontier by the 15th. But there is no reason to believe he ever moved precipitately or ever intended to go by Arzobispo. On the contrary, he has to all appearance moved leisurely down the s alley of the Tagus, then turned southward into the mountains of Guadaloupe, were we hear of him it; the Madrid telegrams of the 14th. It was stated at the same time that he would be kept  to the mountains, Zavala escorting him in the valley of the Guadiana, and Echague in the valley of the Tagus. The meaning of the late telegram is that Prim must haveevaded Zavala's column. He has descended into the valley of the Guadiana, forded the river at Villanueva, near Serena, and is again said to be making precipitately for Portugal. Villanuevo, however is adjacent to Medellio, a point which has already been indicated as likely to be taken by Prim on his way, not to Portugal, but to Andalusia. As yet in the course of eight days—from the Bth to 15th—he has gone a very little way to the Portuguese frontier, but has doubled hack upon the hills, to which he has kept, unless the report is true that he has crossed the Guadians. What has become of Marshal Serrano's column? Since Prim recrossed the Toledo mountains to Urda it has not been heard of. It is curious to read in the Madrid Correspondencin of Jan. 14, " General Echague has gone from Torrecilla to Campub, while, hastening his march, General Zavala is ready to fall upon the rebels, if. in their disordered and precipitate fight, they should descend the mountain towards the Guadiana, which they certainly will not do, for all the news agrees in the representation that they consider themselves completely lost." They have reached the Guadiana, but General Zavala has not fallen on them. Can they be so "completely lost ?"