The Sun.
London, England, 1862-05-29 00:00:00

(BY SUBMARINE AND MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.)

GRAVESEND, Thursday Morning.
Arrived, May 28—Margretta, from Gottenburg ; Vor-
warts, from Trieste ; Freemad, from Kraproe ; Richard
and William, from Lagos; Johanna, from .Uddewalla ;
Catherine, from Beyderfleth ; Wave, from Dunkirk ; Eliza-
beth, from Memel.
Arrived, May 29—Wanderer, from Jamaica.
DEAL, Thursday Morning.
Passed in Tow--Adamante, from Calcutta, for London.
Anchored—Maria Hay, for Calcutta ; Diana, for Cardiff;
Sparkling Wave (of New York), to the westward; Gloire,
for Brest; Elizabeth Ann Bright, for Liverpool; and East
Lothian, for Victoria—all from London.

At the annual meeting of the United Kingdom
Providentlnstitution the report stated the policies issued for
the year 1861 to have been 2,730 for £453,223, producing in
premiums £15,082. The accumulated capital was £409,000,
and the annual income 122,000. _ _

At the annual meeting of the Great Britain
Mutual Life Assurance Society the report stated the policies I
issued during the last year to have been 352, assuring
£168,078, and yielding in annual premiums £5,079,
SPECIAL SUNDAY EVENING SERVICES IN WEST-
MINSTER ABBEY.—The following is the list of preachers
during the month of June : —June I, the Rev. Eyan
Nepean, Canon of Westminster; June 8, the Bishop of
Fredericton; June 15, the Rev. H. P. Liddon, Vice-Prin-
cipal of St. Edmund-hall, Oxford ; June 22, the Rev. the
Master of Trinity College, Cambridge; June 29, the Bishop
of Oxford.
It has been decided not to fill up the Under-
Secretaryship of State in the War-office vacant by the death
of Sir Benjamin Hawes, but to revert to the original orga-
nisation of the department before the appointment of Major-
General Sir Edward Lugard as anUnder-Secretary of State
—that is to say, there will bo two Under-Secretares and
an Assistant-Under-Secretary, in the place of three Under-
Secretaries ; and Captain Galton, F.R S., who is now in
the department, has been appointed by Sir G. Lewis to fill
the office of Assistant-Under-Secretary of State for War.
MIINIFICEN T_BEQUESTS.—The late Mr. A. Pixie,
merchant, Dundee, who died last week, leaving property
to the extent of about £36,000, has left the following muni-
ficent legacies to the local charities of that town, viz, :—To
the Royal Infirmary, £2,000 ; to the Industrial Schools,
£2,000 ; to the Royal Orphan Institution, £250 ; to the In-
digent Sick Society, £250. The residue of his property,
after judiciously providing for other parties who had
a
claim upon him, is left to the families of his two sisters
A curious and important explanation regarding
French and Spanish movements in Mexico reaches us on
good authority. The Spanish General Prim (who is either
brother-in-law or son-in-law of Doblado) was sent to
Mexico with the design, on the part not only of himself but
of the Spanish Government, to be setup
thetup as President; and
pave once in that position he was toway, as opportu-
nities might serve, for the advent of a Spanish prince.
This design became known to the French, and was openly
charged against Prim at. a Council, and an intimation made
that France would act independently of Spain, though she
had no objection to have the aid of Spanish forces in so
t acting. General Prim, not denying the charge, assumed
indigzation, and Withdrew his forces.