SPAIN.

Colonist, Volume III, Issue 263, 27 April 1860, Page 4

SPAIN.

SPAIN AND MORROCCO. —CAPTURE OF TETUAN. The Spaniards have captured Tetuan, and Madrid is in ecstaeies. Pursuing the same line of action which he indicated at Ceufca nearly three months ago, Marshall O'Donneli secured his communications with the sea on his arrival iv front of Tetuau. His army, weaked by the loss of 1(>"000 men, was reinforced by a fresh division, and tlie Spanish navy brought him provisions, stores, and a siege train. T-he Moorish camp lay over against Tetuan, There were but comparatively few Moorß within it, but the brother of the Emperor was there to command. On the 4th of February, all his preparations completed, O'Donneli attacked the camp, and powerfully aided by artillery, drove out the Moors, with a loss to himself of some 900 men. The effect of this victory was the surrender of Tetuau. Thus, in little short of three months the Spaniards have fortified the approaches to Ceuta, marched from that place to Tetuan, aud lost nearly a third of the army landed in Africa. The Count of Lucena has bleu made Duke of Tetuan; his new estate is the battlefield of the 4ih; a sign that the Spanish Queen reckons on Tetuan as her own. A despatch from Madrid says that the Spa* niah cabinet will listen to no proposals of peace from Morocco until Tangier has been taken, against which place military operations are to commence immediately. Marshall O'Donneli announces in an order of the day that he will continue offensive operations until the enemy shall ask mercy of Spain, and until reprisals have been taken for the insults of the enemy, aud an indeminity obtained for the sacrifices of Spain. The. trophies from Tetuan have arrived here, and have been received by the inhabitants with enthusiasm. The Spanish government, in conformity with the authorisation of the Cortes, is-about to issue notes to the amount of £200,000,000 reals, the payment of which is to be insured by the sale of national property. From Tetuan we have a telegram dated February 14, which says :— An important engagement of the Spanish squadron is expected. Marshall O'Donneli has ordered a recon^issance of the Riff. The inhabitants of this town have fraternised wito the Spanish soldiers. The police of Tetuan has been intrusted to a municipality composed of the principal inhabitants.

The report that the Queen of Spain has, in an autograph letter, invited the Pope to accept an asylum in Spain, should be be compelled to leave Rome, is confirmed on different sides. This step seems to have been taken by her without the Ministry being consulted about it. It is, however, affirmed tnat Marshall O'Dounell, to whom the fact was communicated by telegraph, at once replied that he altogether shared the feelings of the Queen.