The Sun.
London, England, 1864-09-08 00:00:00

SPAIN.

A Madrid letter of the 3d says :—`' M. Salaverria
was in a great embarrassment yesterday, four
capitalists having presented themselves at the de-
posit office to withdraw a sum of money amounting
in all to 5,000,000 reels (1,000,000 francs). The
Treasury was not in a position to meet this appli•
cation, although the sum was payable on demand.
An arrangement was come to, the parties agrees
ing to accord a period of 90 days for the payment.
In certain regions, generahy well informed, a
project of marriage between the young King of
Bavaria and the Infanta Isabella, eldest daughter
of the Queen, aged thirteen, is spoken of. The
Spanish Bishop of Seo de Urgel, under whose pro-
tection is placed the small republic of Andorre,
has just committed, during a pastoral visit, an
act of intolerance which deserves being men-
tioned. Having learned that one of the inha-
bitants of the valley had in his library the
greater part of the novels of tho day, the prelate,
with his attendants, entered the residence of the
person in question, ordered the books to be put
into sacks, and carried to an open square in the
town. The inhabitants were then summoned, and
the obnoxious volumes burnt in their presence by
the bishop's own hand. The lottery brings annually
a large sum into the public treasury, and the prizes
are payable to bearer on the day following the draw-
ing. The Treasury has not yet, however, been able
to pay the great prize of 60,000 piastres (300,000 f.),
which was won at the commencement of July last
by an inhabitant of Onedia. At the Ministry of
War, preparations are being made to aend a rein.
forcemeat of 25,000 men to St. Domingo.

The Southern Confederacy.

A private letter from an English gentleman re-
siding in the southern capital, contains the
following ;

"Richmond, Va,, Aug. 5. 1854.

"I observe, either by accident or desigu,' you
do not say anything of 'the war.' Perhaps you
are right ; but as my situation is different I need
not be so reticent. What the opinion or intention of
the French and English may be at present I, of
course, know not, but they may rely on it that
eventually they will have to acknowledge' Southern
independence,' and may wish, some day, they had
not done it sooner. Eight millions of people, who
have ' held their own' vgainsi, such odds and ap-
pliances as have been brought to bear on then,
cannot be subjugated. We all here have a sort of
feeling that peace is not for off, but, on reasoning,
no one can tell why. As for the confidence of the
people in their 'tilers, the rulers in their army, and
all in God and their just cause, it is unanimous and
unbounded. At least 150,000 men are within 25
miles of us, panting for the licence to plunder,'
which we know has been held out to them, yet a
stranger would walk our city, and save the sight of
a number of crippled soldiers, would scarcely see
anything to denote the situation, Certainly on no
one's face would ho see the shadow of G fear. At
our churches he would ace an unusual proportion
of worshippers in black ; but on the countenances
of those who had lost their nearest and dearest
would he see noble resignation and firm determinal
tion to endure ail sooner than give up."