Another change has taken place in the Spanish Ministry. AMARILLAS,
Minister of War, is succeeded by CASTRO DE TORENO, a worn-out old politician, aged seventy-five; ALAVA, Minister of Marine, makes room for SARATORIO, who seems to be a person of very little note ; and ALVAREZ GUERRA, Minister of the Interior, is replaced by HERRERA, a Deputy from Burgos. TOREN& is Still Prime Minister. LATRE, QUESA.DA, RODIL, and MANSO, are appointed respectively to the Governorships of Ar- ragon, New Castile, Catalonia, and Old Castile.
It is not likely that these appointments will give satisfaction to the distracted country. In Cadiz, Barcelona, Saragossa, Granada, Malaga, and many other places of the first importance, Juntas have been chosen, who act independently of the Government; and while they profess loyalty to the Queen, demand the convocation of a National Cortes, a sort of States-General, for the establish- ment of a new order of things, and thoroughly Liberal principles of government. An article, said to be official, published in the Gazette of Madrid, opposes this proposition; and it is believed that compulsion will be necessary to obtain the Ministers' consent i to t. The is seems to have fallen into general con- tempt, and s suspected of relying on promises of French assistance tie put down the Movement: this suspicion is quite enough to i render t odious. It is rumoured that the voluptuous Queen Re- gent has left her retreat at La Granja, where her conduct has been Re- Lent from decorous, and escaped to Burgos, on her way to France: but this rumour does not rest on good authority. In the Northern provinces, the Queen's troops are compelled to act on the defensive. A considerable body of Carlists are pressing closely on Bilboa. The communication between the British Consul at that place and Lord JOHN HAY, who commands the frigate Castor, now cruising off the coast, has been interrupted. Lieutenant Puce, who attempted to pass up the river to Bilboa, was seized by the Carlist General MAROTO ; and the men in two armed boats despatched by Lord JOHIV HAY to obtain the release of Lieutenant PIKE were fired upon from the shore by the Carlists, and some of them killed. The Lieutenant, however, was subtle quently given up. When the last accounts came away, a considerable body of the British auxiliaries were on their way to Bilboa, where their aid was deemed necessary. 11 There was a smart action on the 30th of August, between the Queen's troops, who were ordered on a reconnoissance, and the Carlists, in which the British auxiliaries under General Evart' were engaged, and behaved with great firmness and gallantry. In reference to this affair, General Evaes says, in an order of the day- 4, The movement had no more important object than that of exercise to the men, and seeing the progress of the enemy's intrencliments on the mountains
near liernani. It was unexpectedly converted into a species of almost military Wain, by the sudden abandonment by the enemy of their lines on the Ventit-hill. " Some of the troops engaged on this occasion were scarcely above ten days embodied, none above six weeks. The Lieutenant-General much doubts whe-
ther such steadiness, 8014, and formal iegularity under fire, in very extended movements, were ever before displayed by troops so recently brought together. It is a subject of astonishment, and reflected the highest honour on both officers and men.
"The retirement of the column, which is a much more difficult operation, was conducted in as otderly a manner as the advance."
The loss of the British in this affair was 33 killed, wounded, and missing ; of the Spaniards, 99. The Carlist General makes the loss of his assailants between 700 and 800.
MERINO, it is said, has again apreared at the bead of a formi- dable band of Guerillas.
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