The Sun.
London, England, 1853-11-01 00:00:00

SPAIN.

Our accounts from Madrid are of the 26th ult.
A Cabinet Council was to be held on that day t°
decide the railway question.
The Diario Espanol announces that the Oplxr
sition Senators, who met in the salon of the Mar"
quis del Duero, resolved to oppose the present
Ministry, as its political system was the same as
that of the last Cabinet.

According to the Espana, M. Jose de Zaragort
was to assume the government of the province or
Madrid. M. Zaragoza occupied that post during.
the administration of Marshal Narvaez, and re-
signed with him in 1851.
The Gazette publishes the following decree
"Considering the bad state of health of M. Jose
Nebiet, I relieve him from the functions of my Env°l
Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Coasts!'
tinople. Being satisfied with the zeal he displayed in
that capacity, I reserve to myself the satisfaction of al"
teriorly utilising his services.
"Taking into consideration the services and other
qualifications united in the person of M. Antonio
Riquelme, Under Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs, appoint him my Envoy Extraordinary 3.??
Minister Plenipotentiary at Constantinople, with the
salary attached to those functions in the estimates.
'" Considering the services and other qualification°
united in the person of M. Antonio Caballero, member
of the Royal Council, I appoint him Under Secretary °
State of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs."
These three decrees, signed by the Queen, are
countersigned by the Minister of Foreign Affairs'
M. Angel Calderon de la Barca.
A battalion of engineers had been ordered t°
Mahon.

We read in the Clamor Publico
It appears that the necessary orders have bee'
given to call out all the reserve. We are assured 00,11
independently of the six ships about to be constructs
u
in the arsenals of the Peninsula, the Minister of Marine
has directed that two screw schooners of 90-horse povie,r.,,'
named Santa Teresa and Isabel Franciscana, should '
laid on the stocks at the Ferrol and Carthagena." The municipal elections throughout Spain were
to commence on the Ist inst.
Count de San Luis, to whom the Municipal:,
of Cadiz had forwarded a petition demanding a
construction of a railway between that city an
Seville, replied—

"As a Minister of the Crown, I am bound to
courage every project of public utility. As a native of
Cadiz, the establihment of that railway would realize
one of my most sanguine wishes. I take the deepest
interest in that important undertaking."
The Three per Cents. were done at 404 ; the
New Three per Cents., at 214 ; the Debt of th
first class, at ; and that of the second, at 0.

NEW LIVERPOOL ALDERMEN.—Yesterday a special
meeting of the Liverpool Town Council was held, wu-0.,
Mr. Thomas Bold was elected an alderman, in the teem
of Alderman Holmes, deceased. The mayor (Sir.
Holme, Esq.) was brought forward, but upon a poll s.
Bold was declared elected by a majority of 30 to 'r
The term of Mr. Bold's aldermanic honours, hovel:ill
expires at the end of the municipal year, when he -
require to be re-elected.
CLOSING OP GRAVEYARDS.—We have great satieoc
tion in noticing the closing of another great Wei!'ufai
rcl
graveyards, and while the public feel grateful to et
Palmerston for his sanitary energy, let them not ferL
that to George Alfred Walker the chief honour of
promises to be a great triumph of' public health over )6
norance and sordid interests is mainly due.-4t/aB,gull
STRIKE OP THE HULL FISHERMEN.—The d re-
fishermen (a very numerous body) have struck, a° or
fuse to go to sea in any of the ships belonging to a Ilia
ber of the Smackowners' Association. The followavi
is a brief outline of the cause of the strike :—For
years past it has been the custom of the owners t° rge
charge the men on tide-sail, and for the men to diseha'
the
themselves also on tide-sail. About two years —vc'eorr
men struck, and this point was then the bone of scic.
tention. Certain rules were made by the Fishing Sin was
owners' Association at Hull, and amongst there
;hip
one setting forth that any master or man leaving hisiety's
SO
e 0 tide-sail should not be permitted to sail in a ,e 0 pre-
ship for one month ; but there was no rule made 1, thef
vent the owners discharging the men at any tim:these
might think proper. The men would not agree t them.
rules, but they were literally starving, and weiroevrevery
fore compelled to go to sea. Tuis rule was, 1 Force'
never put in force ; but a fisherman named G6O. ovnet
having left his vessel on tide-sail last week, the, odea'
determined to bring him before the magistrate, ar;io rose
your to have the law on the subject defined. -I. Wed-
was brought before the Hull magistrates on they
nesday, and, after a lengthened discussion,
ow,
decided in favour of the owners and against the
of
0m
they held to clime within the oper:;ue.:/;.efl
the Merchant Seamen's Act. The men then
an d tble
they would not go to sea in the society's ships,
resolution they have acted up to. •