The Intransigentes at Aleoy are stated on all hands to
have committed endless atrocities, the best proven of which is the murder, under revolting circumstances, of the Mayor, an ardent. Republican. General Velarde is said to have put them down, but from the terms of the telegrams we suspect a transaction, the Militia giving up their arms on condition that the murderers should escape. At all events, they did escape, and it is stated that Pi y Margin cannot be cured of his dislike to attack the Irreconcilables and the mutinous troops with hearti- ness. Even Emilio Castelar presses more energy, but without success. Castela.r keeps talking very able stuff, but takes no portfolio ; and the Minister of Finance, after an able speech on the duty of paying the national creditor, has discovered no plan of paying him, or of lightening the unfunded debt, which now presses daily on the Treasury. The orderly Republicans find no leader, and even the Irreccmcilabies obtain only momentary success. They had Malaga in their hands, for instance, but the workmen hissed them, and gave their assistance to the troops. Ten thousand men would set affairs all right, even now, but the Government seem to have no means of getting them.
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