MENDIZABAL has published a decree restoring the family of the
gallant RIEGO to its honours and pensions, and declaring that his daughter is under the Queen's especial protection. This is a just, popular, and well-timed measure.
A correspondent of the Morning Herald, who writes from the seat of war in Spain, sent a flaming account, headed " Victory, victory, victory I" of the total defeat of CORDOVA by the Carlists on the 28th of October, near Vittoria, with the loss of 6000 men. The story seems to have been a complete fabrication. There was only a very trifling skirmish, in which CORDOVA lost about half-a- dozen men, killed, wounded, and missing. Not one syllable that comes from the Carlist quarters is to be believed. There are ru- mours, which are not confirmed, of a battle having been fought on the 3d instant. It is said that the British legion is on its march to join CORDOVA near Vittoria. The Morning Chronicle suggests the propriety of making re- prisals on the person of Don CARLOS, should he fall into the hands of the Liberals, for any one of their troops executed in conformity with the Durango decree. "Such a proceeding," says the Chronicle, "would check the eagerness of royal saplings to cut themselves off from the humanities of civilized war, and form an admirable precedent for the future." It is a good sug- gestion; and we should not be very sorry to hear of the first ex- periment on the person of the Don, or the "murderous outlaw," as he is called by the Chronicle.
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