Considerable uncertainty prevails as to the movements of the opposing
armies in the insurgent provinces of Spain. Don SE- BASTIAN. who had moved towards the Ebro, is said to have marched back to the North, to reinforce the Carlist positions, threatened with an attack by ESPARTERO and EVANS. The force at Sebastian had been reinforced by about 8,000 men; and it was expected when the last accounts were despatched, that Irun, Hertiani, and Fontarabia would be simultaneously attacked on or about the 5th instant. Letters from Bayonne mention, that sick- ness, mutiny, and desertion, have rendered the Carlist forces all but contemptible : which remains to be proved. It is rutnoured in London that the ranks of the Legion will be recruited, and that Admiral NAPIER will supersede General EVANS: which is,scarcely credible.
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