“_June 16._--Horrible assassinations at Bande (Orense). Sixty unhappy beings of all ages and both sexes fell victims to this savagery.” After three days’ fighting the international incendiaries and assassins were expelled from Seville, leaving the city stained with blood and injured by fire. “_September 23._--General Don Manuel Pavia was appointed Governor of Madrid.” Carlism was rapidly gaining ground during these months. There were 8,000 Carlists in Aragon and Valencia, and as many more in Catalonia, 12,000 in Navarre, and more than that number in the Basque provinces, thus making more than 40,000 Carlists in all Spain. “_November 7._--Señor Castelar, the President of the Republic, was daily losing power in the Congress, where neither eloquence nor good sense seemed to have any sway over the turbulent spirits.” When the Corporation of the city became disaffected from the Government, it seemed to the Governor of Madrid that it was time for him to assert the power of military rule. So on December 2, when the chamber of the Congress was nothing but a scene of riot and disorder, each deputy striving by his loud voice and violent actions to overpower his fellow, the cultured Castelar, the head of the republic, whose orations would have reflected honour on the Areopagus of old, was met by a vote of want of confidence. Then was the time for General Pavia’s action. Arthur Houghton, correspondent to _The Times_ at Madrid, gives, in his “French History of the Restoration of the Bourbons,” the account of this _coup_ in the General’s own words; for, favoured by the soldiers’ friendship, Mr. Houghton had the opportunity of hearing the story first-hand, and the smart General, looking spruce and trim in his well-cut black frock, would often talk to the Englishman, when he met him in the salons of Madrid, of the way he took matters into his own hand when the republican Parliament could not manage the Congress.