The intelligence from Spain is of the same dark complexion
ail we have been now for some time in the habit of receiving. RODIL and ALA1X, having proved themselves unable or unwilling; to cope with the few soldiers and the numerous band of inaumuders and ragamuffins who follow Gomez in his career of pillage, re- ceived orders of dismissal from the Queen; which orders they refused to obej. RODIL threatened the messenger who brought him the despatches from the Government with death; and told him that he would not resign until " he should have beaten GomEz, and that then he would return to Madrid and wreak his vengeance on his enemies." ALAIX, who was to have been superseded by NARVAEZ, laughed at the order • and in reply to an official de- spatch, wrote—" Instead of sending me two thousand contradic- tory orders, you would do better in sending me two thousand pairs of shoes, two thousand rations, and, above all, some money." This disobedience of the army to the civil authority, is the fore- runner of a military despotism, or of anarchy. The people seem to care little to which state they are brought. We hear of no popular risings—no enthusiasm either for CARLOS or the Queen ; but the poor, degraded, dejected people, suffer themselves to be plun- dered without resistance; and would probably purchase peace on any terms, and under any Government. Of the movements of' Gomm nothing certain is known. SANZ having returned from the Asturias, was moving in the direction of Bilb3a, probably with the intention of joining the besieging force of EoutA, or uniting himself with VILLAREAL, who kept ESP ARTBRO in check. There seems to be no prospect of die defence 4.)f Bilbao being,iotig main- tained. The Carlists, indeed, according to the latest urnours, were said to have taken the lower part of the town. Nothing has been done near San Sebastian ; where the British Legion is ingloriously penned up. To return to England and never hear a word more of the expedition, would be the height of happiness to its betrayed, and misled, but still gallant officers. As for General EVANS, he must console himself with the reputa- tion of that sagacity which enabled him so recently to announce to the Electors of Westminster, that the cause of Don CARLOS was " absolutely and completely hopeless," and that the "devoted love and attachment of all true Spaniards remained as firmly bound as ever to the benevolent authority of the Regent !"
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