NEWS OF THE WEEK.
THE foreign event of the week has been the death of Margin.; Concha, on June 27, while rallying his troops for an attack upon the Carnets. The accounts of the event are con- tradictory to the last degree, as are also the biographies of the Marshal, in most of which his feats are inextricably con- fused with those of his brother, Jose, Captain-General of Cuba ; but the most probable one is the following :—The Marshal had arranged a plan for carrying the Carlist positions before Estella, but was. delayed by commissariat mismanage- ment so great that his troops were three days without food. On the 27th, wearied out by delay, he ordered the troops to carry Pena Muro ; but they were twice repulsed, and in the third attack two battalions, hungry, tired, and it may be daunted by the day's repulses, " craned " at the work. The Mar- shal, a man of singular courage, rushed forward to take the lead in person, and was shot dead. General Echague, the next in command, being still without commissariat, found himself compelled to retreat and entrench himself, while await- ing reinforcements and supplies. Some 3,000 men, with twelve more guns, have been sent to him ; and General Zabala, the Minister at War, has taken the command. It will cost him, perhaps, some weeks to supply his force and put his men _onne more in spirits, but Estella should be carried. It is doubtful, however, if this is of much use, unless the Carlist retreat can be cut off, and for this Zabala has not men.
