A hundred years ago From the 'Spectator', 3 October 1868—The
Bour- bons have made their exit from Spain--4.e., from Europe. In the last days of September, Isabella's ministers, the brothers Concha,—the Marquis of the Havannah and the Marquis of Duero.—hav- ing announced to her that as she would not give up her favourite, Marfori, and come to Madrid, they would no longer "guarantee the situation", she left Spain for Pau, in France, on the 30th ult., carrying away with her, says an uncharitable re- port, the Crown jewels. At the time she left there was no situation for the Generals to guarantee. General Novaliches engaged the revolutionary troops in a faint battle at the bridge of Alcolea, on the Guadalquivir, near Cordova, on the 28th or 29th of September,—it is not easy to tell which,— and almost the only serious fighting seems to have been done by General Novaliches in person, who has.since diecrof his wounds.
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