The Intransigente revolt by land seems to be dying away,
but it involves in appearance several very serious complications. The President, who has released the Deerhound and sent back the Murillo, and implores English aid against insurgent vessels manned with convicts, is obliged by Spanish feeling to seem to demand his ships back with something of menace. They will go back when Cartagena has fallen, and meanwhile the British Government has evidently, in a very quiet way, paralysed the insurgent fleet. Its commander, Galvez, while lying opposite Alicante, was ordered publicly to give the city four days' grace, and privately ordered to go back again, for he went back without any other reason. Being back, his vessels were very quietly imprisoned for good, the engineers having deserted in a body. If, as is most probable, they were Englishmen, they got. a hint from the Admiral ; if, as is possible, they were Spaniards, they were " got at " somehow or other ; but in either way, there is an .end of the Intransigente fleet. You can improvise some things, but not an engineers' mess fit to drive the Numancia. At present, therefore, Cartagena waits ; her soldiery will probably slip away, and General Pavia will have little to do, except capture the mad postman who governs the fifth fort. They should not hang him, :for he has killed the cantonal system, which would have been fatal to any kind of federation in Spain.
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