The intelligence, which reached London yesterday, of a fresh revolt
which has just broken out in Spain, is confirmed and elucidated by the news of the morning. It began at Alicant, on the 27th January, with a public riot, marked by cries of "Down with tyranny !" "Live the constitutional Queen I" Don Pantaleon Bonet, a Commandant of Cara- bineers, backed by several soldiers, placed himself at the head of the movement. The local authorities were cast into prison; a Junta was formed, with Bonet for President and Manuel Cabrera for Vice-Presi- dent; and revolution was proclaimed. Valencia and Santander are sup- posed to have joined the movement The French telegraph reports movements at Alcoy, Elche Cocentoina, and Muro, to have failed. The intelligence reached Madrid the 31st; when Ministers are said to have intercepted letters that compromised the leaders of the Progresista party : the house of Joaquim Lopez was first searched ; Cortina and others were lodged in prison ; Lopez and Miguel Ors could not be found. It was also stated that General Serrano and General Concha had been put under arrest ; but that is doubted. Troops were detached from Madrid ; but, as they were leaving the town on the night of the 1st instant, the officer in command, General Cordova, was arrested ! The conduct of the Government appears to be furious and rash. The most deadly measures had been threatened, in the Queen's name, against the revolt: the peaceful St. Sebastian was provoked by the gratuitous disarming of its National Guard ; Navarre was menaced with an invasion of 6,000 men to compel the levy of a contingent towards the Government army ; the liberty of the press was annulled, by prohibition to report the proceed- ings of the revolutionists ; and Narvaez had drawn upon himself the rage of the Grandees, by appointing himself Lord of the Bedchamber to the Queen, with privileges of constant attendance heretofore reserved for that noble body. Narvaez was "in a continuous rage." Mean- while, the Progresistas were certainly making great advances in strengthening their influences among the Municipalities. So stood matters at Madrid on the 2d instant. By some, the outbreak at Ali- cant is blamed as premature : the headlong anger of Government seems the most likely of all things to reconcile the country to prompt rebellion.
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