AFFAIRS IN SPAIN.

Globe, Volume II, Issue 125, 24 October 1874, Page 3

AFFAIRS IN SPAIN.

The Pall Mall Gazette of the 21st of August gives the following summary of the news from the seat of war : The news from the seat of war in Spain is, as usuil, of vic f ories on both sides. The accounts from Madrid state that on the 11 t.h instant General Moriones attacked the enemy under General Mendiri, who, with eighteen battalions of infantry besides artillery, had fortified himself in Oteiza, a town of Navarre, and after four hours' hard fighting took all his positions. O i the 14th General Zabala, who had effected a junction with General Laserna at Miranda, left that place with 22,000 infantry, 1800 cavalry, and 47 guns, for Vittoria, which the Carlists bad surrounded. Zabala succeeded in relieving the town, but after supplying it with provisions he had to return to Miranda, " in order to check a threatened movement of the Carlists." A telegram, dated the 17th iustant, says:— "The Republican army of the Centre will operate against the Carlists in Aragon General Zabala is at Miranda on the Ebro. General Moriones at Larraga between Oteiza and Tafalla, and General Pavia at Lira." On the other hand, the Carlist, military representative iu London has published the following official despatch . August 18. —A great victory was gained yes terday by the Royal army under Ge' era! Don Tristany, who took the important fortnss of Leon de Urge!l, after a most clefermined resistance. A great quantity of war material has fallen into the hands of the Royalists." The Carlists are also said to be making great preparations for a fresh attack upon Puycerda. An appeal addressed by Don Carlos to the Chris'ian Powtrs, dated August 6th, and writteu in French, has been published. It sets forth that the writer is King of Spain by right, and that he reigns as a mntter of fact over a vast portion of the kingdom, H< •alls on the Powers to judge him by his acts, ami not by the calumnies circulated aEraiusi him, and points to the willingness of so many thousands of Spaniards to shed their blood for him. He denies the accusations brought against him of barbarity. His enemies, he says, have indeed been guilty of such atrocities that he has been obliged to condemn to death murderers and. incendiaries,

but of those condemned only one in ten has been executed. If the Governments of Europe wish to know the truth, let them send Iheir representatives to the scene of hostilities, that they may judge tor themselves, ft has been alleged that a German has been shot for acting as a newspaper correspondent. " That is false." The person in question was taken with a revolver at. the head of a band of incendiaries, and was condemned by n council of war. The same course would be followed again if an incendiary or a spy had to be dealt with. A foreigner who takes part in a civil war places himself outside the protection of the international laws of war, aud must take the consequences. In order to avoid international complications. Don Carlos declares that he has refused the services offered to him by foreigners. He does not believe in foreign intervention to support a regime based upon treason, and whose motive is rapacity. Still, if it should come. " we should await it with the same serenity as we awaited at the beginning of the war the battalions of the Republican army." He and his army will conquer, or die to the last man beside their guns, crying " Vive I'Espagne." " But no !" the manifesto concludes, " there will be no intervention ; my conciliatory sentiments assure me of it. I am full of faith in the Christian Powers, and I feel in my heart that God is with us. I desire to entertain with all nations the most cordial relations, and as guardian of the honor of Spain I shall seek to preserve the dignity and the greatness which I desire to restore to her, and which arc the surest guarautee of the peace that she needs."