Affairs in Spain remain in Mau quo as far as
the movements of the hostile armies are concerned. The influenza has laid up about 3000 of General EVANS'S troops; and ESPARTERO seems to think that he can live some time upon the reputation he ac- quired by pet mitting the British soldiers and marines to drive the Cellists from before Bilboa. It is staled, but hardly authenticated With aufficient distinctness, that Gottsz the marauder, having been :Hated by a court-martial,wasshot on the 17th of last month,accord- ing to his sentence. His special offence is not named; though it is supposed that he was charged with disobedience of orders, in making his incursion of last autumn into the Southern provinces —the result of that expedition having been, on the whole, dis- astrous to the Pretender. Another report—as yet it is nothing more—is that CABRERA has created employment for the Queen's troops at a distance from San Sebastian, by an incursion into La Mancha, at the head of 3000 infantry and 50) cavalry.
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