The Carlist insurrection in Spain seemed at the beginning of
the week to be formidable, but all the reports of Friday indicate that it is dying away. Don Carlos's proclamation, promising to restore the fueros or provincial liberties, excited great enthusiasm, which was fostered by the rural priests, who in Navarre and Biscay put themselves at the head of armed bands, stopped trains, and cut the telegraph wires. The strongest force was commanded by General Rada, and the different bands are said at one time to have numbered 15,000 men. The Army, however, remained faithful, General Serrano himself took the command in Navarre, and on the 1st May attacked Rada at a point some miles from Fampeluna, defeated him, and drove him over the French fron- tier. It is believed that Don Carlos himself has not left Geneva, fearing arrest in France, and that the movement will be speedily at an end. It has not been serious beyond Navarre and Biscay, and its main result has been to strengthen the King's hands and drive the Radicals to accept him.
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