• The change of Government at Madrid evidently did not
mean so much as we were disposed to anticipate when first hearing of it last week, and the new Ministry, so far from being more Conservative, is rather more Liberal than its predecessor. Indeed the drift of the change appears to be that for the pre- sent the Alfonsist element in the Government and the Army is to be put off with vague hopes, while the Republican, or at least the dilatory element, is to be somewhat reinforced. Senor Zorrilla, the Radical Monarchist, is returning to public life, and it is said that he has now declared himself for a Republic, as the only reasonable solution of the difficulties of Spain. In rela- tion to the Carlist struggle, nothing has happened since the relief of Puycercla by the Republicans ; but a letter published by the Times on Wednesday, from an English correspondent, evidently a military man, who had just been staying with the Carlists, gives a more formidable account of the discipline and accoutrements pf the Carlist Army than any which we have yet had from a trustworthy source. It is supposed that Moriones is to receive the chief command of the Republican Army in the North.
