A Hundred Years Ago
" THE SPECTATOR," DECEMBER 3/1:6, 1136.-
The Foreign intelligence this week is made up principally of rumours and speculations.
Beginning with Spain, it is said that the siege of Bilboa has been raised by the ()artists ; anti on the other hand, that it has not been raised, but that the assailants are determined to take the city. The weather, however, has been so extremblyunfavourable, that the Carlists find great difficulty in keeping up their works. Of course they experience greater hardship than the garrison, which is under cover. The last active operation of which we have intelligence, was a sortie of the garrison on the 22d November it was sustained with little loss by the Carlists, who repulsed the enemy with considerable slaughter ; but this is the Carlist account. GOMEZ is everywhere and nowhere—that is, nobody can tell his position at any given time ; it is hoped, though, in Madrid, that NARVAEZ will " find him " somewhere, and retakirithe pffinder he has amassed. Bands of Carlist marauders have advanceA within a short distance of Madrid, and the last battalion of -the-garrison has been sent out to drive them back.
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