10 DECEMBER 1836, Page 8

It was reported at Bayonne on the 3d instant, that

General Evens- would immediately throw up his command and return to England. The houses and streets of Bilboa have been fortified; and it is said that the besiegers have done little towards taking the place by de.. molishing the outworks and gaining the suburbs. The inhabitants threaten to make another Saragossa affair of the siege, before they surrender.

Letters are in town from officers in the Curlist camp, which describe the situation of the besieging army as very miserable, without pay or necessaries. The writers have no expectation that Bilboa will be taken.