The Spanish army has left the Lines of Ceuta, and
is re- ported to have approached within a few miles of Tetuan. The troops have suffered severely from wet, cold, exposure, disease. Instead of 40,-000 they amount to only 32,000; and instead of taking the field with 35,000 men, Marshal O'Donnell has only been able to muster 22,000, being compelled to leave 10,000 in the Lines. Every step of his march from the Lines has been contested by tI4 Moors and the weather. The most considerable combat took plate on the 1st of January. The Spanish cavalry, excited by a misconceived order, madly charged the Moors. The two squadrons of Hussars effected. a Balaklava charge—in minia- ture. They were dreadfully cut up. General Prim, stretching a point in his orders, pursued the Moors ; but, meeting with com- pact masses and. a heavy fire, lost many men, and had, to be re- leased from his position by O'Donnell and reserves. After this fight at Castellijos the army advanced. What happened to them we know not. The telegrams are vague, but their tenor is that the Spaniards had passed the defiles and reached the neighbour- hood of Tetuan.
