. Since our first edition went to press, we have
beard that the news from Spain, embodied in the following passage from- the- Globe of this
evening, is fully credited by some intelligent members of the British Cabinet.
IMPORTANT FROM SPAIN.
A telegraphic despatch has been received by the French Government, dated Bayonne, the 9th.
A Spanish King's Messenger had passed Bayonne. He reported every thing to be tranquil at Madrid qe the 6th. Nearer the frontier, by Vittoria, the roads had been occupied and the diligences stopped. Biscay and Alava were insur- gent. One of the " Deputies Generaux " was at the head.
The troops sent to Nihon had proved insufficient, and had retreated to To- losa. The monks at Bilboa were fortifying this convent. The cry of the in- surrection was," Vive Don Carlos V. ! Vive l'Inquisition !" A letter from Bayonne, of the 5th October, states that the inhabitants of the neighbouring provinces were in general favourable to Don Cellos. The con- ducteur of the Spanish diligence, which arrived there that day, states that the Queen's authorities at Bilboa had been driven out of the town ; and the brother- in-law of the deputy of that province, who assisted at the recognition of Donna Isabella H., had been assassinated. The troops of the line being inconsiderable in number, the greatest disasters might, according to the opinion of the writer of the letter, be expected.
Numbers of French officers' had passed the Spanish frontier on their way to join Marshal Bourmont, who was supposed to be levying troops for Don Miguel, or rather Don Carlos. This last intimation, which is mere opinion, is, we believe, doubted by the French authorities.
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