30 AUGUST 1873, Page 2

The siege of Carthagena itself does not appear to advance.

Admiral Lobo, with three wooden vessels, cannot risk the fire from the forts, while the Republican army still remains about twelve miles off, waiting for heavier artillery. The governing body has ordered all men into the ranks, and has apparently, by seizing the silver mines at Lerida, found the means of paying every- body two francs a day. A considerable number of cattle have been 13rought in, and there is no lack of biscuit stored up for the sailors. Carthagena, therefore, can hold out if all within are trust- worthy, but there must be a considerable body of citizens who detest the Irreconcilables, and we distrust strongly Red modera- tion towards foreigners, should the Numancia return from a successful trip.