FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VIII, Issue 657, 19 November 1851, Page 4

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

SPAIN. The accounts from Spain are not very satisfactory. Things seem to be in a troubled -state, and there is every probability that the ministry will be forced to resign. At present the government has a majority, but not a single orator exists among their ranks. The Cortes it was supposed would be adjourned to October or November, as soon as the public debt bill had been passed. Considerable dissatisfaction existed in regard to the rapidity with which this bill was being hurried through, despite the vote of confidence. The deficit at the close of the year, will probably be 300,000,000 reals and one hundred millions more before the end of 1852. M. Arbela, the Minister of Public Works, has resigned. CIRCASSIA. From Wilmer and Smith’s European Times we extract the following interesting communication. By it, it will be seen that the Russians have sustained a severe reverse ! Constantinople, June 19. —Correspondence from Circassia will for a time cease to be mere discussion. The period of action has arrived. The recent success of the Circassians has already secured serious results. You have already been informed of the evacuation of all the forts between Tchemer and the Koubau. The guns, mortars and ammunition having been taken out, the castles were blown up. The fort of Haidar was subsequently attacked by the Naib Mohamed Emir. The affair was short. The mountaineers penetrated into the fort, and the whole garrison, two thousand in number, laid down their arms and surrendered themselves prisoners. The Russian General was four hours beyond Tchemer, watched by Sheikh Ibrahim, a Gergil chief, who was posted with his mountaineers within pistolshot ready to engage him the moment he should stir. Daily applications were made to Trillis, by the commander-in-chief for reinforcements, and two regiments of Cossacks were on their way to join the Russian army. The Governor of Souhoum Kale was also dangerously situated : he had demanded succour, and by last accounts from Savastopol, troops were being embarked on board a flotilla of steamers, which bv this time must have reached their destination. Several sailing vessels had been taken up at Odessa, to follow as soon as possible with stores and ammunition. This promptitude is an earnest declaration on the part of Russia that things are wrong in those quarters, and even I have heard it declared on good authority that vigorous tnessurss must bo pursued in order to rescue General Cerebrianoff from his dangerous position. The Naib had excited several tribes long since submitted to Russia, to raise the standard of revolt, and the war-cry was echoing from mountain and valley throughout the whole of Circassia. I caution you against placing any reliance on accounts prepared for publication for the Journal de St, Petersburgh. The above details are somewhat official, and, although I admit, as usual in such cases, they are rather exaggerated, still they can be relied upon.