Affairs in Spain continue in a most deplorable state. Up
to the 21st of last month, the Ministry was incomplete; ESPARTERO baying refused to take the office of President of the Council, and the applications of the Queen to several others having been unsuc- cessful. BARDAXI, PITA PIZARRO, and SAN Minual., were the only persons whom the Queen could prevail upon to accept office. MENDIZABAL, it is said, was resolved on the restoration of the CALATRAVA Cabinet, and was actively engaged in thwarting all the attempts of the Queen to secure other Ministers. The majority in the Cones was said to be with MENDIZABAL.
The insubordination of the troops was daily becoming more alarming. ESPARTERO had lost almost all authority over them. This officer appears to have exhausted himself by the vigour of his march to Madrid, and to have relapsed into indecision and sloth. His soldiery pillaged the neighbouring villages, and held treason- able assemblies in the capital, threatening to dethrone the Queen, abolish the Certes, and establish a military government. Nobody eould foresee the end of this dreadful state of things. Very little was known of the movements of the Carlists, though ORAA sent boastful accounts of the havoc he would make among the rebels —when he could overtake them. A mutiny had broken out in the Vittoria garrison : the troops murdered fourteen of' their officers, and among them their General. GONZALEs. In another mutiny at Miranda, General ESCALERA was murdered. Want of pay and food exasperated the men. After a successful ma- raudiug expedition, in which lie collected much booty, the insur- gent chief ZARIATEHUI safely repassed the Ebro, on the 27th of August.
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