23 AUGUST 1873, Page 2

There is little news from Spain this week, except that

the Cortes have resolved to suspend the Constitutional guarantees and themselves within the next few days, and that a General has been found to shoot mutinous soldiers. This is General Pavia, who is said in places to be the " coming man," who can certainly make soldiers obey, and who as certainly has that kind of firm- ness which insists on surrender at discretion. The defect in him, according to the accounts as yet published, is that he is too Spanish, that he exaggerates his pose of soldier, and that he meets treason by descriptions of his own severities which are far in excess of the truth. The pictures of him, however, are still far from perfect, and a belief that somebody will slay for mutiny is certainly required in Spain.