12 SEPTEMBER 1874, Page 1

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

TCarlists have made one attempt, perhaps two, to irritate the Germans into intervention in Spain, but they have not succeeded. The first was by deliberately firing on the German gunboats ' Nautilus ' and 'Albatross' at Guetaria. The gunboats, however, promptly shelled the Carlist batteries, and there the matter will apparently end. The second attempt is as yet only rumour, but the Spanish authorities say that the Carlists attacked a train at Nave, hoping to catch in it the German and Austrian representatives to the Government of Marshal Serrano, but for- tunately attacked the wrong train. The German official papers all laugh at the notion of a German intervention in Spain, and for reasons explained elsewhere, we may well believe them.