THE REVOLUTION IN SPAIN.

Westport Times, Volume III, Issue 488, 8 April 1869, Page 3

THE REVOLUTION IN SPAIN.

j , The Timet correspondent at Madrid t gives a shocking account of the fighti ing at Malaga, which, he says, exhibii ted all the best and worst features of t the national character, and was re- • markable for that headlong and fero- • eious contempt for life of which the ) Spaniard is more capable than any other • race in Europe when his blood is up. i The hopelessness of the contest Beems to have struck some of the popular i leaders from the beginning. The volunteer battalions were forsaken by their superior officers, and the consequence was desertion from the barricades almost en masse. It seems that a priest, by name Don Enrique Bomero, went among the people, and by his words, spoken and written, prevailed on the popular combatants to go forth again. No less than three priests were conspicuous at the barricades. We hear of one firing upon the troops from a window in the Church of the Carmen ; of auother whose weapon was an air gun, with which he was enabled to do great execution before the attention of the soldiers was directed against him; we hear of children 10 years old being raised by their fathers above the barricades, holding mere toy pieces which, however, they managed to discharge at the assailants; we hear of young girls with cartridge-boxes at their waists and pistols in their Lands. We hear of soldiers advancing under shelter of the prisoners they had taken, and the bullets of the volunteers finding their way to the soldiers' bodies through the bodies of their sacrificed companions. We hear of girls rushing forward to clasp the soldiers in their arms, that their lovers might despatch them by stabbing them in their backs. Nothing but despair could suggest the insane resistance which took place. Instances are mentioned in which, as in some of the narrowest lanes of the district of Perchel, a handful of volunteers held their ground against 300 soldiers. Most of the wounds were inflicted by the bayonet ; not a few were dealt in cold blood after the conflict. The greatest number of the dead belong to the most abandoned class of society. The government reckons the killed on its own side at 48, and the wounded at 150.