The death of Marshal Concha seems to have roused both
-Carlists and Republicans to new energy, and, we must add, to new acts of violence. Don Carlos has issued a proclamation, in -which he promises not to resume the Church /ands and not to -revive the Invisition, but threatens to treat as conquered all who continue the rebellion. His officers, moreover, Dorregaray -especially, though probably not guilty a many atrocities laid to their charge, are evincing the old savage spirit of Spanish war, and shooting soldiers who have surrendered on unproved charges -of burning villages. On the other hand, Serrano's Government, excited by the fall of Cuenca, a town only eighty miles from Madrid, captured by Don Alphonso, the Carlist Murat, and held for forty-eight hours, have placed all Spain in a state of siege, -ordered a levy of 125,000 men, and decreed the confiscation of all property belonging, not only to Carlists in the -field, but to ell persons who sympathise with Carlists,,-a rule which would, if strictly applied, strike the largest properties in Spain. Of course, the effect of all this must be to envenom the contest, without influencing the result, except in one way. Soldiers when .shot for surrendering do not surrender,—an advantage to the Republicans, who only burn houses, and a disadvantage to the -Carlists, who refuse quarter.
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