Very little has occurred in Spain this week, but it
is stated that the Republican troops under General Solier attacked Carbajal, the Irreconcilable leader, on the 25th July, and after an engagement which lasted all day remained victorious and masters of Malaga, one of the richest towns in Spain. The number of the slain is reported at eighty-seven, but Carbajal escaped, and the importance of the victory is diminished by another struggle in the Cabinet. General Gonzalez and three other Ministers are strongly in favour of extreme measures,—that is, we presume, of declaring the Irreconcilables out of law, and treating them like brigands ; but S. Salmeron refuses to go so far. He is right. The way to war down rebels is to conquer them in the field, but make every man think that if he throws down his arms he has still a chance of pardon. Extermination is silly as well as wicked, for if one must die, why not die fighting ? An able government never wastes men.
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