The Sun.
London, England, 1864-12-30 00:00:00

SPAIN.

The Chamber of Deputies at Madrid has com-
pleted the organisation of its bureau by the nomi-
nation of vice-presidents and secretaries, who all
belong to the Ministerial party. In the Senate, of
the four secretaries named, two are supporters of
the Cabinet, and two belong to the Opposition. In
the Senate it is that the new Ministry must expect
to meet with the greatest resistance. According
to the Epoca the votes of that assembly as at pre-
sent composed are divided as follows, without
taking into account the members who may arrive
at Madrid befere the division on the address and
that on the Santo Domingo question —.Ministerial
majority, 104 ; Opposition, 58 ; doubtful, 16. In
the Chamber of Deputies the Count de San-Luis
and M. Nocedol are mentioned as the most con-
spicuous leaders of the Opposition—but, says the
Correspondencia, those ex-Ministers can only count
about 20 deputies. The Consultative Junta of
War at Madrid has held a meeting to examine
the project of abandoning Santo Domingo, and the
Correspondencia makes the following remarks on
the sitting
The Marquis de Pezuela voted against each a
measure in a military point of view, making that
decision, however, subordinate to any economical
or political considerations which might induce the
Government to adopt it. The other members of
the Junta, while not denying the possibility of
suppressing the insurrection, declared in favour of
the abandonment of the island, where the soldiers
were falling without either :glory or benefit to
their country, not before their enemies, but as
victims of a climate which could not be supported.

BANK OF FRANCE.

PARIS, DEC. 29.

The following is the return of the Bank of France
for the week, together with the corresponding
figures of the previous account :
Dec. 29. Dec. 22.
Dlt, f. c. f. c.
,
Capital of the Bank 182,500,000 .-182,500,000
Profits in addition toCapital
923 6
Reserve ( A r t.B
ilna w
theßank
June 9 18a5n7d) ,915 08 6,912,460 91
its branches
Reserve in landed property 4,000,000 4,000,003
Notes in circulation 726,212,275 721,487,475
Bank notes to order and re-
ceipts payable at sight 7,427,596 04 5,774,783 36
Treasury sec. cur. credit0r122,312,552 55 103,359,256 06
Current accounts—Paris 146,645,897 84 136,089,007 48
Do. branch-banks
Dividends payable
Discounts and sundry
interests 789,931 57 21,660,290 29
Re-discouna of the last
six months 2,789,444 58 2,588,735 17
Sundries

1,270,310,13.5 86 1,237,991,159 61
CR.
Cash in hand and branch-
banks 359,969,767 16 364,008,378 83
Commercial bills overdue 620,025 69 708,763 66
Commercialbillsdiscour.ted _ _

not yeiclue-----:::303,839,895 33 274,518,191 83
Do. branch-banks 293,317,935 287,085,185
Advances ou deposits of
bullion
Do. branch-banks
Advances on Frenchpublio
securities ..
Do, branch-banks 7,931,350 7,595,650 --
Advances on railway shares
and debentures 26,743,900 26,543,800
Do. branch-banks..., 17,250,550 16,787,150
Advances on Credit Fon-

cier Bonds 534,800 548,500
Do, branch-banka . 401,950 414,750
Advances to the State

(Conven. June 10, 1857) 60,000,000 60,000,000
Govt. Stock Reserve 12,980,750 14 12,980,750 14
Do. disposable
Rentes immobilisees (Law
June 9, 1857) 100,000,000 100,000,000
Hotel and furniture of the
Bank
Landed property, branches
Expenses of management 2,756 2,849,239 24
Sundries 5,916,711 18 6,083,115 83

1,270,310,135 86 1,237,994,169 61
Certified, the Senator-Governor of the Bank of France.
(Signed) ROULAND.

RIVER POLICE FOR THE MERSEY.—For some
time past the advisability of establishing a river police for
the Mersey hss engaged the attention of the local autho-
rities, who are anxious to " put down" crimping and
other notorious evils peculiar to large seaports, and which
have too long flourished at Liverpool. Yesterday, at a
meeting of the Mersey Dock Board, a report, prepared
by four officials of the board and the corporation, was
read. The report recommends the appointment of an
educated nautical man as a superintendent, with two or
three boats' crews of water constables, The estimated
cost for two boats and their crews is £948 a year, and
£1,400 for throe, exclusive of the superintendent's salary,
which it is recommended should not exceed £l5O per an-

THE EAST,

We extract the following from the Levant
Herald of December 21 :
KIJSTENDJIE, Dee, 17.

The harvest in the Dobrudja has this year been
above the average, and the grain market has been
unusually active. It is crowded with carts by hun-
dreds. full of corn, so as positively to impede the
circulation in the streets of this flourishing new
town of ours. The great fair of Medjidie, esta-
blished by the energy and activ,ity of Nusret
and Sabri Pashas, was almost deserted, the fare
mers being all occupied in getting in their har-
vests. Oar general prosperity is in great measure
due to the intelligence of Nusret Pasha, who is
Imperial Commissioner for the colonisation of the
emigrants. New buildings are rising up on all sides.
The Commissioner has established a hospital at
Medjidie, in a highly salubrious situation, where
the sick emigrants are received and carefully tended,
and a normal school, on a large scale, end under
admirable arrangements. He has farther appointed
a municipal council, under whose supervision the
paving, lighting, and cleansing of the streets are
carefully attended to. He has cut dykes for the
drainage of the environs, heretofore extremely un-
healthy, and thus turned the marshes into market
gardens, and has planted more than 100,000 trees in
front of the town. Woodmen have been despatched
to llatchin and Babadagh to procure trees of the
most fitting sorts to be planted round the villages of
the Dobrudja, and 100,000 mulberry trees have
been sent for from Broussa, which are to be planted
at Medjidis itself.

The works of the canal in course of construction
under the direction of the Commissioner from Med •
jidie to the Danube have been suspended till next
spring, This is in consequence of the ground being
frEzen and the non-arrival of tools ordered at Con-
stantinople. The railroad company has engaged to
take immediate steps for draining the land along
the Hue, where at present the water stagnates in
abundance, and produces the intermittent fevers
known commonly as the " Dobrudj fevers"—a
disease of a sad celebrity, and which hitherto has
yearly decimated our population.
We have had severe storms during the past
month. The packets for Odessa and Constantinople
were detained in port, and the postal service was
repeatedly interrupted. Notwithstanding the ima
portant works constructed by the company in our
harbour, it gill affords refuge in bad weather only
to small boats, and that by no means certain. In
prospect of the stormy weather which always pre-
vails in the Black Sea at this period of the year, the
Commissioner begged the Russian authorities to
prevent any embarkation of the Circassian emi.
grants after the 13th of November. Not withstand•
ing this prudent precaution, we hear that more
than 30,000 mountaineers, with their arms and
effecte, have reached Novorasysk (Joondiak). It was
impossible to leave these poor wretches without
home or food on the desert, shore ; Nusret Pasha,
consequently, sent immediate advices to the Admi-
ralty, and five frigates were forthwith despatched to
the rescue. It will depend upon the weather whether
they are brought to our port or that of Bait zik or
Bourgas. In either case, the Commissioner has sent
word to the authorities to provide lodging, cloth-
ing, and food for these ill-starred strangers. He
has obtained a promise from the Russian General
Babitch, that so many of the 30,000 as cannot be
taken off at present shall be provided for till next
spring, when the emigration will re-commence as
before. The expense of their maintenance in the
Russian territory, strange to say, will fall upon the
exchequer of the Porte, a fresh proof of the humanity
of the Sultan and his advisers. In prospect of
the growing prosperity and great capabilities of
this town Nusret Pasha has called a meeting in the
konak of the principal inhabitants, both Mussul-
man and Christian, for the purpose of form-
ing a municipal council, as at Medjidie.
The project was warmly approved, and Messrs.
Negroponti, Nrcolets, and BendEzli are seconding
the plans of the Commissioner with all their influ-
ence. I must not omit a trait of hospitality un-
fortunately less common among the Christians than
the Musanimariu. When the Toona arrived here,
half dead with cold and hunger, M.lNegroponti,

who is ous of the largest traders is the town,
ordered all his magazines to ba thrown open for
their reception."