The intelligence from Madrid comes down to the 29th of
last month. The Ministry had been completed. RODRIGUEZ LEAL, a Deputy in the Cortes, is Director-General of the Public Treasury, and Jose MARIA PEREZ Under Secretary of the Finance Department. These Ministers are described as men of ability and strict honour : if there was any thing for them to do, they would do it well ; but the charge of the Spanish treasury is a mere sinecure—it does not contain a dollar.
ESPARTERO has performed nothing in a military line since his march to Madrid ; but General BUERENS, at the head of a considerablebody of the Queen's troops, was defeated by the Carlists, with whom was the Pretender himself, on the 24th ultimo, at Villar de
los Navarros, near Herrera, in Arragon. The Carlists were about 12,000 strong: BUERENS had not much above half that number
of men; but, in order to prevent the Carlists from joining a large body of insurgents in the mountainous region of Soria, he thought it necessary to make the attack, which resulted in his severe
repulse, with a loss of about 1,000 men. his defeat is attributed to the want of cavalry, with which, it is said, Es r ■RTERO could but did not reinforce him.
The important post of Pencerrada was taken by the Carlists on the 26th of August : the garrison consisted of 375 men. A duel has been fought in Madrid, between old General SEOANE and an officer named MasrzeNo. The General had hi the Cortes
spoken contemptuously of the officers who were bullied by the
soldiery at La Granja, and in the more recent seditious in and near Madrid. MANZ ANO, one of those officers, challenged Sec•Astit;
who agreed to fight him. It seems that they had but one pistol,
and drew lots for it. MANZANO got the pistol, awl aimed as deliberately at the unarmed old man who stood to receive his fire, as if lie had been shooting at a target. SECIANE was severely wounded, but it is hoped not dangerously. We wish with the Standard that there were some good law in Spain by which the cruel and cowardly ruffian MANZANO might be hanged.
