The Government of Madrid is apparently about to make another
effort to terminate the Carlist war. General Jovellar, the Minister of War, has been sent into honourable exile as Cap- tain-General of Cuba, and is succeeded by General Ceballos ; while General Quesada takes the chief command in the field. General Moriones, moreover, is again employed, and is to command the actual attack upon the Carlist positions in Guipuzcoa, which are now hill-camps, most formidably defended. The meaning of these changes is said to be that the Alfonsists must win in this cam- paign, or -the monarch will be overthrown by the Republicans. Their chiefs, therefore, are seeking for good Generals, irrespective of political opinions, and the Generals will probably act without the arr4re pens& hitherto felt by some of them that complete success is undesirable.
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