The Sun.
London, England, 1855-03-31 00:00:00

SPAIN.

MADRID, March 29.—The evening before last
several superior officers of the militia assembled to

demand of the Government a modification of the
Ministry faYourable to the democratic party. Mar-
,4l 3;,.F gave timra no
played great firmness. A bill forbidding the national
militia to deliberate on politics was presented last
evening to the Cortes. Madrid is tranquil. On
the 24th great disorder was manifested in the Cortes
upon the question whether M. Heros, intendant of
the palace, should be required to produce the will
of Ferdinand VII, before the committee to inquire
into the conduct of Queen Christina. Deputies in-
sulted one another. The President made several
attempts to establish order, but the tumult- con-
tinued to increase. At length he ordered the pub-
lic to be removed from the tribunes, and suspended
the sitting. The public resisted the officers, but
were finally removed. The Queen left Madrid yes-
terday for Aranjuez.

The Archduke William of Austria arrived at
Vienna in the morning of the 26th on his return
from St. Petersburg, and was immediately after
received by the Emperor.

It is stated in a letter from Vienna of the 26th,
that the Archduchess Mary Dorothy, the mother
of the Duchess of Brabant, who had been getting
better, has had a relapse, and that, in obedience to
a telegraphic summons, the Archduke Joseph had
left for Pesth to see her.

A letter in the Independance of Brussels an-
nounces that the new Grand Council of Ticino has
decided that all political trials and those for high
treason, now pending, shall be abandoned. This
decision is equivalent to a general amnesty.

The Giornale di Roma states that, on the 23d,
the Pope held a secret consistory, in which he
announced the death of the Patriarch of the Maro-
nites of Syria, and the election of Mgr. Massad,
archbishop of Tharsus "in partibus infidelium," in
his stead.

The Genoa Gazette states from Modena, that the
fresh recurrence of premeditated murders and in-
fliction of wounds in the district of Carrara has
obliged the Government again to declare it in a
state of siege ; for which purpose Lieut.-Colonel
Casoni has been invested with full powers. From
the 22d all public places are closed an hour after
sunset, and nobody is allowed to be out in the
streets after that hour.

THE OVERLAND MAIL.

INDIA.

We have received our despatches in anticipation of
the Overland Mail, a summary of which appeared in our
edition of Thursday. The dates are :—Calcutta, Feb.
24 ; Madras, 28; Galle, March 3 ; Bombay, March 5 ;
Shanghai, Feb. 6 ' • Hong Kong, 15 ; Singapore, 23 ;
Sydney, Jan. 27 ; Melbourne, 31 ; Adelaide, Feb. 3 ;
Mauritius, 18.

The following is from the summary of the Bombay
Times of March 5 :--

India. continues tranquil throughout, with the excep-
tion of some slight marauding. on our frontier. On the
9th ultimo a robbery was committed by about 200
hill men near Peshawur, on a camp close by a
police station, where some thirty people lost their lives,
the robbers escaping.—Oude and the Nizatn's dominions
continue filled with disorder.—The education despatch
arrangements ara beginning to be put in force, and forty
thousand a year will, it is said, henceforth be allowed for
the supervision of an educational system which has never
hitherto cost more than eighty thousand altogether.—
The Calcutta Military Board has been extinguished, and
those of the other Presidencies are about to encounter
the same fate ; a separate department for public works
is to be brought into existence in their room. The Secre-
taryship in the Revenue Department is about to be abo-
lished, and the department itself is to be conducted by
three commissioners. Mr. Henry Young, the late Corn-
miesioner of Customs, has been appointed foe the pre-
sent revenue secretary, in succession to the late Mr.
Goldemid, with a view to his becoming Commissioner.
A large body of reforms are in process or in contempla-
tion in the rural police, of which there is a force of
70,000 in the Bombay Presidency, in the Land Re-
venue, and the Customs and other departments. The
first of the transports with troops from Bombay for the
Crimea left us on the 10th of January, and reached
Suez en the Bth of February, occupying 29 days on the
way. The last of the 10th Hussars having been de-
spatched, steamers and transports left Bombay on the 24th
to carry the 12th Lancers from Mangalore, and as they
have no such conveniences for shipment there as we
have here, they can scarcely well have got embarked
and be ready for sea earlier than the 10th inst., reach-
ing Suez on the 14th proximo, and Constantinople, at
the rate assigned, about the 7th of May, or about a
month later than by the Cape. The orders for troops
through Egypt reached India early in November, and
considering the immense amount of tonnage at this sea-
son always at our command, every man that could have
,day,bl and 90 days on the'A 1;;;;;;"; Gibraltar would s 've
greatly exceeded the average of time taken. With
steamers in readiness to receive them on the Ist of
March, the whole of the troops might have been
in the Crimea by the let of April. The horses
just despatched through Egypt are undersized for
home service, they are unfitted for the climate of the
Crimea, and will have cost the country 2001. a piece
by the time they reach their destination. Ne blame
attaches to any one in India for these blunders ; the
orders from home were peremptory.—The nomination of
Sir Henry Somerset to the Commander-in-Chiefship of
Bombay, now daily expected, is a popular one.
The Governor-General has left Calcutta for the Neilg-
berry Hills, and is said to have asked permission to
return to England next year from this Sanitarium with-
out revisiting Bengal. Lords Harris and Elphinstene
are at their respective seats of Government, both in
the enjoyment of good health. Mr. P. W. Le Geyt left
Bombay yesterday for Calcutta, to take up the appoint-
ment of Bombay Member of the Legislative Council in
succession to Mr. A. Malet, who goes into the Bombay
Council in place of Mr. Warden. Trade dull, and
freights low.