THE CARLISTS IN NAVARRE-INCIDENTS ON THE MARCH.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume I, Issue 36, 3 January 1874, Page 9

THE CARLISTS IN NAVARRE -INCIDENTS ON THE MARCH.

(Special correspondent New York ' Herald.') At Labaen another original sight presented itself. The phee, which is so s-tull that it could not even be called a village, was all at once crammed as it lias certainly never been before It was utterly impossible even for Don Carl >s and his staff to move a single step before tue vanguard was marched to its quarters, consisting of a couple of little huts ontside the village. The loud talk of about two thousand men, for several hours kept silent and now set at liberty, the neighing of horses, the ro ir of doukevs an I mules, the burking of dogs— everything liad its place in this original mise en scene lighted by mjans of every bit of thick and thin wax candle that could be found in the vilhee church. It took us two hours before every one of the officers men i and horses had a shelter. Of food there could, of course, be no ques- , turn at such an hour ; but a sound sleep and a little cup of everlasting chocolate, which you find here when nothing else can be found, rendered us quite fresh and bright next morning. j A BRAVE LADY. Don Carlos, who is invariably entert lined at the prie3ts' housos j which, as a rule, are the best in the villages, had lure an opportunity,' quite unexpectedly, to show his courtesy aid mike room for a lady. The Mu-chioness of Viniilet, whose young am \\x\ baen most severely woanded at the last b tttle near Lecumberri, and for a time left as dead on the field, came to see him at the ambulance of this place, and was on her way back to Biarritz when he met her at L*baen. The brave lady had travelled on horsobick, with a couple of gui les, all the way from the fashionable seiside pla:e to tin frmtin- of GUipuzcoi, and the boat bed in the priest's house was of course, given to her anl already occupied when we reached the vilkge. E need not say how Don Carlos and his staff weiv touched by the lady's courage, nor what sort of demonstration of respect she was made the object of next morning when the troops inarched off again and passed before her window. MERRIMENT ON THE MARCH. But you would be wrong in iraigiumg tint bjcause there are constantly great exposure and fatigue, and now and th^n some danger, the men arc not merry. Whenever there is no prohibition, singing an J 1 milling are going on all day long, and when there is an hour to spare alter dinner or before nightf ill the fandango is siu-j to be seen danced somewhere in the village squaw. A.t Erasun, where we dined, hill way between Labaen aud Leisa, the body guards of Don Carlos gave us quite a performance in that way. A brass band, recently formed, which plays not only on entering" und leaving the villages, but also takes advantage of every lult, begin to play a national dancin" melody, and nearly the whole of the horsemen forming the body guard ol Don Carlos, a-id numbering twelve men, sot at once to dance tho fandango, with tumblers half full of wine on their heads. The great thing is to dance so as not to spill a single drop out of the tumbler, which grand result was attained with full success on this occasion to the great delight of the population of Erasun, and to the apparent satisfaction of the Pretender himself, who «ras looking all the timo out of the v indow, and threw several dura: (or dollars) to the most clever ot the aancers To march twenty miles over mountains, and to dance and sing as soon as an hour's rest is given, seem quite natural to the

nii-n , ngajjed in tin* defence of Don Carlos' cause, and the republican* of ih- in )re sou I hern parts of Spuin will Imve a long time to wait In fore tiny «-qunl them in agility, endurance oi gaiety SPiUNG CHICK KNS FOU THB HEtULD CORttESPONDENT. O.i reiii-'nng Leis >, Him lir^st of tho villages o>i our way, we had a regular triumphal entry. The pl.ice vas gaily decorate!, and the village square being h r<ith<r larjfe one a march past had been got up of all the troops we po-se-sed, with the bind playing, church bed ringing, and " Viva Carlo Septimo !" shouted accordingly. In fact, thn impression produced on the inhabitants of Leisa must have been particularly strong, for the landlady at whose house I had my quarters cut the throats of two Spring chickens and presented me with them at dinner, supposing, probably, that I had something to do with the grand sight she had just witnessed.