The turn which affltirs have taken in Spain, seems to
indicate that the nobility and the great mass of the people are ready to give effectual support to a vigorous and thoroughly Liberal Go- vernment. Our readers are aware of the promptitude with which the Provincial Juntas dissolved themselves on the ap- pointment of MENDIZABAL; and it now appears that the grandees have backed their professions of loyalty by liberal sub- scriptions of money to aid in the equipment of an army for the suppression of the Carlist revolt. Among the contributors, we see the names of Don FRANCISCO DE PAULO, the Dukes of RIVAS, OSANO, SAN CARLOS, and SARAGOSSA; altogether there are thirty-seven nobles on the list. Subscriptions were also com- ing to hand from the principal provincial towns ; and the Spanish merchants in Bordeaux were collecting a sum to remit to Madrid. These spontaneous efforts in behalf of the Government are symp- tomatic of a better spirit in the country than till very lately could be supposei to exist. MENDIZABAL has extraordinary difficulties to contend with, and we shall not be surprised at some reaction in
the popular feeling; but in the mean while, it is satisfactory to per- ceive that he knows how to take advantage of favourable circum- stances. From the seat of war there is no news of and what little there is consists of mere rumours, tradictory and scarcely intelligible. It is said that the Portuguese auxiliary force "etitasisi of - • • • ( ortance, Pterfeibt
thousand men, in the first instance ; to be increased, if required, to ten thousand.
A correspondent of the Times, who writes from Bayonne, states that the inhabitants of the Basque Provinces have become weary of the war ; and that many of them would gladly emigrate to America, if they could procure the means of conveyance.
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