The Sun.
London, England, 1853-12-22 00:00:00

SPAIN.

Our accounts from Madrid are of the 16th inst.
Some improvement had taken place iu the health
of the President of the Council.

General Count de la, Canada and M. Escario,
Civil Governor of Ciudad Real, had repaired to the
frontiers of the province to receive the Duke and
Duchess de Montpensier, who were expected in
Madrid on the 20th.

The Spanish flotilla, consisting of the 30-gun
frigates Villa de Bilboa and Ferrolana, the corvette
Colon of 18 guns, and the transport Marigalante of
six guns, sailed from Cadiz for Carthagena, on the
11th.

A Council of Ministers was held on the 14th at
the Foreign-office, which was attended by all the
members of the Cabinet, except the Count of San
Luis, who still continues indisposed, but is stated
to be improving. The other Ministers paid him a
visit after the council. No decrees have, however,
appeared ; and the continued silence of the Gazette
is interpreted unfavourably for the Ministry in
some quarters.
There is some ground for hoping that Sir Robert
Gardiner's threat of sending away the Spaniards
resident at Gibraltar will not be carried into exe-
cution. It appears that the Spanish Government
have consented to facilitate the provisioning of the
fortress ; and the expulsion of the Spaniards from
it would very likely lead to measures of retaliation.
A duel took place'yesterday, at 4 p.m., near the
Pardo, between the Duke of Alba and Mr. Soule,
jun., son of the United States envoy at this Court.
The seconds of the duke were General J. de la
Concha and the Count of Punonrostra ; and those
of Mr. Soule were Colonel Milans del Bosch and
Mr. Perry, secretary to the American Legation.
The parties fought with swords, but fortunately
without either being wounded ; and it ended in
the seconds drawing up a minute of the proceedings
as having been conducted in a manner satisfactory
to the honour and reputation Df both parties.
The Three per Cents. were done at 431 ; the New
Three per Cents. at 22k ; the Debt of the First
class, at 8/ ; and that of the Second, at C.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.- (THIS DAY.)

LONDON, Dec. 22.—Wind this day at Noon, E. to N.E. ;
fresh breeze, and dull weather.
PLYMOUTH, Dec. 21.—Wind, E.N.E. Arrived—Minerva,
iroin Mactras. ror Boston.

PORTSMOUTH,. Dec. 21. N.E. Arrived—Doxis,
from Callao, for Antwerp ; Louisa, Bahia, for Bremen ;
Brewer, New York, for London, with part of cargo thrown
overboard.

FALMOUTH, Dec. 21.—Wind, E., strong gale.—Arrived
—lndefatigable, Buenos Ayres, for Antwerp ; Eclipse,
Paraiba, Havre.—Sailed—Brothers, Barbadoes.
DARTMOUTH, Dec. 21.—Arrived Concordia Julia,
Nova, for Antwerp, very leaky ; six mon sent off to assist
at the pumps.
COPENHAGEN, Dec. 16. The Phoenix, Cronstadt to
London, stranded at Barnholm, sth inst., has been got off
and taken into Ronne, where she will discharge and repair.
LLANELLY, Dec. 20.—The Ann of Liverpool, Hayti to
this port, was wrecked on the Hooper Sands, 18th inst.,
and wont to pieces—part of the hull remains on the Sand.
ST. DAVID'S, Dec. 20.—The Farmer's Delight, of Sal-
combo, is on shorn to the westward of Ransay Island ;
crew and passengers saved ; the vessel is expected to be-
come a total wreck.

GLUCKSTADT, Dec. 17.—The Queen of Scotland (s) has
been got off shore.
QUEENSTOWN, Dec. 20.—The Elizabeth (brig), of New-
port, is being towed in here dismasted and abandoned, in
sinkinga state ; crew saved by the Robina, Clyde to
Havre, which has put into Kinsale.
MILORD, Dec. 20.—Two pieces of wreck, marked respec-
tively Albion and Genens, were washed ashore ; crews
supposed to be drowned.
DUNGANNON, Dec. 19.—The Kirwan, for Dublin,
grounded in the Pool, and was abandoned in a perilous
situation, the sea making a complete break over her ; crew
saved. Tho schooners are riding heavily, and in much
danger under Helwick Head, one of which is supposed to
be the Sally, of Youghal.
DROGHEDA, Dec. 20.—The Dolores, Bilbao to Liverpool,
is on shore N. of the bar ; crew saved. It was blowing
fresh from the Eastward. (Not the Agnes, of New York,
for Liverpool.)
WEXFORD, Dec. 20.—The Niagara (ship), of New York,
is on the rocks off Greenore ; cargo expected to be saved.
BELFAST, Dec. 20.—The Black Prince, (schooner), of
Carnarvon, is on Burr Island, and likely to become a
wreck ; mate drowned.
PEM B REY, Dec. 20.—The Grace Darling, from Cornwall;
the Harmony, of Penzance ; the Ann, 01 Livefpool ; and
the Sophia, have been wrecked in the gale of the 18th inst.
The crews of the former saved; crew of the latter re-
ported to be lost.
GRIMSBY, Dec. 20.—The coast is strewn with oak
trees, &c.

(BY SUBMARINE AND EUROPEAN TELEGRAPH.)
GRAVESEND, THURSDAY, 10 A.M.
CUSTOMS RETURN.

Wind, E. cloudy, and strong breeze ; five hour's obb.
Arrived—Bullfinch, from Gothenberg ; Echo, Cronstadt.
Sailed—City of Rotterdam (s), for Rotterdam.
DEAL, THURSDAY, 9 A. 31.
Wind, E.N.E., blowing very strong. -
No arrivals.
Remain—The Young Turk, for the river ; St. Patrick,
for do. ; Elizabeth, for Newcastle.

THE RUSSIAN SQUADRON IN THE CHINA SEAS.—
The Hamburg News, under date of St. Petersburg, 9th,
says :—" Accounts from the Russian squadron in the
China Seas state that on the 6th of August all the ves-
sels of which it is composed (the Pallas frigate, Oliwaza
corvette, Wostok schooner, and the Prince de Menschi-
koff, belonging to the Russo-American Company)
assembled in the port of Loid, and sailed on the 16th
of August for Nangazaki. On the 22d they anchored
there, and the crews were received by the Japanese
with cordiality. On the Ist. the commanding officer of
the squadron sent the Prince de Menschikoff to Shanghai,
to obtain information as to the state of affairs in China.
She arrived there on the Bth September, the day after
the place had been taken by the rebels. Ou the 15th,
the Menschikoff sailed to rejoin the squadron at Nan-
gazaki."

COUNTERFEIT FLORlNS.—Yeaterday morning, notwith-
standing the apprehension of five persons on Saturday
last for attempting to pass counterfeit. florins in New
Oxford-street, some of the same party paid another visit
to that neighbourhood with the same object, at the shops
of the new Bazaar. They had commenced dealing with
a shop girl, who had some misgivings of its genuineness,
which being observed by the female, a part of the gang,
she requested to be allowed to substitute another; instead
of doing so, however, she ran away with the counterfeit
coin, and escaped.
How SOLDIERS ARE MADE IN RUSSlA.—Letters from
St. Petersburg state that, on a recent occasion the Czar,
having remarked that the number of men raised among
the serfs in the neighbourhood of St. Petersburg was
smaller than in any part of hie dominions, asked the
reason. He was informed that the landowners round St.
Petersburg were in the habit of permitting their serfs to
take service in the capital on paying a portion of their
wages to their masters ; so that, in point of fact, the
majority of those registered in the neighbourhood were
actually in the capital. Two days after, the gates of
the city were closed, and a regular razzia was mieie on
all the coachmen, footmen, &c., of St. Petersburg, a
large proportion of whom were forthwith removed from
their good places, and sent off to the army to fight the
Turks.

DEPLORABLE FATALITY.—Isaac Jewels, a young man,
arrived from London at Devonport on Friday, and on
that evening he fell in company with a young woman
named Sarah Rundle, who induced the unfortunate
young man to accompany her to a house in Francis-
alley. On the following morning the woman found him
lying by her side dead. A surgeon, Mr. Baldy, was
called in, and on examination of the deceased it was as-
certained that he had lain with his face on the pillow,
and the pressure of his body on his chest so cumbered
his lungs that they had no room to play and suffocation
ensued,—Flyrrio4