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t, 'o a; £ anirBai> to LONDON, DEC. 10. BY accounts from Cadiz and Gibraltar, we iiavo at lentil :t report of a (,'hristino victory. According ta the f••lowing statement the Mitotan- Commandant of the Province of Xeres, who professes to have received itis information from Count ,\1 irazol, an officer of Nar- vaez, that General has come up with Gome. and defeated him: — Yesterday, the "2"th of November, at two o'clock in the afternoon, the division under the Command cf Narvaez encountered the faction under the command of the rebel Gomez, near Arcos. The rebels were to the number of three battalions of Aragon, five of Valencia, and four of Castile, with 900 cavalry. Brigadier General Narvaez attacked tiieni without their strength, and d)-.ve them fiom position to position as far as the Sierra of Aznar, which position the enemy, already benighted, also lost. The cnlv cavalry under Narvaez, which consisted hut of 210 horse, did prodigies ofvatour and the panic-stricken enemy, dispersed o:i every side, re-assembled about half-past twelve at nighi, to the number of2,000, at V illamartin. Drigaciier- Generai Narvaez, with a thousand horse, marched after them on the 2Gth at three o'clock, to consummate his work, and will proceed this night towards Moutellano, followed by General Hivero, with 0,000 infantry. Those who are ac- quainted with the Sierra de Azner will appreciate the great merit of the division of Narvaez, in having carried by night this position, which was defended by three battalions, The itioii, wilieli defended I)- tlire troops of Narvaez saw perfectly the convoy of their plunder, which consisted of an immense quantity of baggage but the troops of her Majesty the Queen had only to seek out the elemv and exterminate them." We hope that this victory will prove a real advantage not like the one by which Alaix. exterminated" Gomez some weeks ago, leaving the marauding Chieftain to continue his pillage at pleasure. From the above ac- count, it is evident that Narvaez only "saw perfectly," but did not recover, the plunder and baggage from Gomez and we learn from the Courier, that letters from Cadiz mention the arrival of the plundering Chief at Algesiras, no great distance from Cadiz, with his usual luck, withnnt encountering any resistance. It is ob- servable, too, that the cavalry of Narvaez is increased, in the despatch, from 210, with which he attacked Gomez, to 1000 after the battle. We suspect it will turn out that there has been an engagement, and that Gomez, has actually gained the advantage, inasmuch as he has escaped with his plunder. The Paris papers of Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday have been received since our last. These of the former day state that Bilboa continued to hold out on the 1st instant, against the utmost exertions of the Carlists to make themselves masters of it. As fast as the Carlists succeeded in battering down one wall, they found that the Christinos had raised another immedi- ntelv behind it. Nor have the garrison acted wholly on the defensive. Their sallies have been frequent and well conducted. They re-took the Bruzegua point, from which they had been at first driven by the Carlists; and they have so defended the part of the town exposed to the fire from the Convent of San Augustin, as to render the occupation of that fort of trifling importance to the besiegers. In these papers we find an allusion made to an offer of Marshal Molitor to put down the insurrection in Spain with 2;J,00.0 French troops—to which La Presse assures us the Government will not concede. The King has, how- ever, thought proper to reward the valour of the Marshal hv giving him the command of three military divisions on the French frontier, by means of which he will be enabled to observe more minutely the aspect of alfairs in Spain. Should the French Chamber of Deputies press the necessity of active co-operation on the part of France, Ministers have determined to ground their defence upon the plea of a r'gid economy, and all un willingness on the part of the King to in- crease the pecuniary burthens of his people. The Chamber must be composed of fools indeed, if such a mockery be for an instant attended to.-The papers of Wednesday contain disastrous accounts of the French expedition against Constantine. They state, on the authority of letters and papers from Toulon, that Marshal Clausel, after cationading Constantine for several days, was compelled, owing to the great scarcity of prjvisious, and the sallies of the besieged, to retire from before the city on the 22d tilt. The failure of an expedition which was to have covered the Duke de Nemours with glory has cast a deep gloom over the Royal Family. The despatches received by the Government have not been published, which is a bad omen. The Ministerial prints, however, are slow to admit the truth of rumours so inauspicious. They surmise an abundance of reasons for doubting the cor- rectness of the intelligence communicated by the arri- vals from Africa. Be this as it may, we see no cause for excessive regret, should the accounts received prove as correct as the enemies of France could desire. The Bey of Constantine cannot long hold out against France. The conquest of his territory may be delayed by the valour of the Arabs, but it cannot be wholly prevented, unless he obtain the assistance of other than Numidian allies. The French cannot fail to make themselves masters of the country, if they will only allow themselves time. Ministers are as busy as bees preparing to meet the Chambers. The idea of coalition of parties is given up, and preparations are on foot for sustaining an open contest with M. Thiers and the Opposition. For this purpose the subject of an inter- vention in Spain is again brought on the tapis. This is the point upon which the Government is most vul- nerable, and it is feared that it is against this point Thiers will direct all his most powerful attacks. Should he expose the hollowness of the King, all would be lost. This the King is well aware of, and. it is said, that the Princess Adelaide, the King's sister, is charged to come to any terms with the Ex-President, if in his visits to her Royal Highness he betrny a design of laying bare the policy of the Court. This Princess is the soul of her Royal Brother s councils. We regret to state that the distress which prevailed among the workmen of Lyons is rather on the increase. One hundred thousand poor families are in want of bread. The Prefect had authorized a collection to be made for the sufferers, but the result of this appeal to the humanity of the nation is not mentioned. The poorer classes in every part of France are in a very wretched condition. Intelligence had been received in Paris on Monday from Madrid to to the 30th ult. from which it appears that the tranquillity of that city had been disturbed on the 28th and 29th November, but that on the 30th it had been perfectly restored. A battalion of the 4th regiment of the Royal Guard had revolted. The in- terference, however, of the National Guard put an end to the disturbance. The affair had nothing political in it beyond the fact that the principal grievance com- plained of by the mutineers was their not having been paid. Thirty of them were condemned to be shot, but three condemned men only were decimated the Queen's pardon arrived in time to save 27 of them. A letter of M. Lopez (Minister of the Interior) had been sent to the authorities in the provinces, informing them of the revolt, its complete suppression, and of the ex- ecution of tiiree of the soldiers comprised JU if. One hundred and twenty-three Deputies, who were present at the sitting of the Cortes on the 27th ult., unanimously voted the perpetual exclusion of Don Carlos from the Throne of Spain, conformably to the conclusions of the report of the Committee, on a proposition to that effect from M. Baeza. In the course of the discussion Mi- nisters declared, through the President of the Council, that Government would have considered it superfluous to start this question, but that as it had been proposed it should be supported moreover, that the Cortes, as the representatives of the nation, ought to remind Spain that no possibility existed of a compromise between the nation and Don Carlos, and that the Pretender must either prepare for a war of extermination, or consent to lav down his arms, quit the kingdom, and recognize the rights of Isabella the Second. The Member of the Interior (M. Lopez), addressed the Chamber in nearly similar terms, and after a unanimous vote ratifying the exclusion of the Pretender from ali claim to the Crown, an additional clause, proposed by M. Caballero, was referred to the Legislative Committee. The clause was to the effect that—" All civil and military authorities who may arrest the traitor Don Carlos shall apply to him the punishment due to the crime of high treason, as soon as the identity of his person shall have been sufficiently established." It is also understood to be the intention of the Cortes to exclude from the succession to the Spanish Throne, not only Don Carlos, but the Infant Don Sebastian, the Princess of Beira, and Don Miguel (of Portugal).

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