The Sun.
London, England, 1870-10-06 00:00:00

THE YELLOW FEVER IN SPAIN.

A telegram from Madrid on September 28th says the
yellow fever is on the increase. In Barcelona several
doctors have fled from the city. The malady has
spread tb two seaports in the province of Valencia. A
vessel which has arrived at Port Evedra has three of
the crew dead and seven sick of the fever,
which has suddenly manifested itself. The panic is
beginning to manifest itself in the towns of the west coast
of Spain. The inhabitants who fly from the infected
localities are refused admittance into all other towns, and
sanitary cordons are being established almost everywhere
except round Madrid, where the authorities have still power
enough to prevent such odious measures being taken.

AMERICAN NOTES.
THE NEW AMERICAN MINISTER.

Our correspondent at New York, writing on September
sth, says :—Mr. Motley's high position as an historian
gave him an influence in America that Mr. Morton, the
recently nominated Minister for England, has never
obtained. He adds :—" Although the desire of
the Administration to secure the services of
an ambassador who will insist more vigorously
than Mr. Motley upon the payment of the
Alabama claims may be gratified in the appointment
of Mr. Morton, still, such a policy, it is feared, may
more likely serve to widen existmg international dif-
ferences than to lead to a peaceable solution of the unfor-
tunate question. The Herald endorses Mr. Mortal's
appointment. This is in itself an untoward sign, but public
opinion is not loud in his favour as the most fitting of repre-
sentatives. It is generally thought that Mr. Morton's capa-
bilities as a diplomatist and a politician have heretofore
had little of that exercise and growth which the English
mission—more especially if the mission is to entail more
than ordinary statesmanship and impartiality, demands.
Whether Mr. Morton is likely to add dignity to his high
and responsible office is, to say the least, questioned by
Englishmen in America, and not in a few cases by the
most friendly of his own countrymen also.
Referring to musical and theatrical matters, our cor-
respondent writes : The great German tragedienne, Mlle.
Lubach, has made a most successful deb& as Marguerite,
in Goethe's " Faust," at the Fourteenth-street Theatre,
late and significantly the Thatre Francais. The house
was crowded in all parts on the opening night, and Mlle.
Lubach's reception was most enthusiastic and floral. The
management have the habit here of contracting for a
shower of bouquets with which such artistes as Nilsson and
Lubach are manifestly disconcerted. Mlle. Nilsson's popu-
larity continues, but the hall was not quite so well
filled on the second as on the opening night.

CHlNA.—lntelligence from Shanghai, dated the
15th of September, is to the effect that the Chinese are
threatening foreigners in Kiu-kiang, Chin-kiang, and
Chefoo.

A scholarship of the annual value of £5O, with
free admission to the lectures, and chemical and metal-
lurgical laboratories, tenable for three years, in the Roy al
School of Mines, London, has been awarded to Mr. J. A.
Bennion, of Owen's College, Manchester.
THE CORPS OF COMMISSIONAIRES.—The commit-
tee for the relief of the sick and wounded have despatched
six commissionaires to the seat of war. These men are
placed under the immediate superintendence of Captain
Brackenbury, and will be chiefly employed in looking
after the valuable stores of the association.

Two high tides, on the 24th and 25th of September,
have been turned to account by the engineers at Cher-
bourg. The inundation of the swamps has been com-
pleted, so that Cherbourg has become an impregnable
island between the sea on one side and the swamps on the
other, It was quite time this design should be carried
out, for the inhabitants were becoming uneasy. A series
of red crosses of uniform design were found on the bar-
riers of several little roads to the town. The Cher-
bourgeois immediately suspected that these were marks to
indicate the road.

TSB LONDON DEMOCRATS.—The deputation who
waited last week on Mr. Gladstone to obtain an
official recognition of the French Republic, met on
Tuesday night to review the situation. Mr. Albert
Solomons expressed himself as strongly dissatisfied
with the explanation given by Mr. Gladstone, which he
thought evasive, and moved a resolution that it was
generally unsatisfactory." Mr. George Potter moved
an amendment to the effect that the explanation of the
Prime Minister though not in every sense satisfactory,
sufficiently indicated the desire of the Government to act
in a friendly spirit towards the existing Government of
France, and also to exert its influence for an equitable and
speedy termination of the war. The amendment was
carried by a considerable majority.
A ROCKET TELEGRAPH.—The inventor of a new
nocturnal military telegraph, Captain Papafy, a Hun-
garian officer in the United States service, has just sold his
invention to the Prussian War Department. By means
of this telegraph, which consists of rockets of different
colours, a communication can be established between two
armies stationed at a distance of twenty miles from each
other. It would enable Bazaine, for instance, to cora-
raunicate with the Commandant of Thionville. Each rocket
represents six words, and an order containing 300 words
can thus be conveyed by 50 rockets. The key to the tele-
graph, which may be altered so as to make it unintelligible
to the enemy, contains all the words used in strategy and
tactics. The price of one of these rockets is about two
shillings.—Eastern Budget.
CHESTER CATHEDRAL.—When the members of
the British Association dispersed from Liverpool, one
party of them visited the City of Chester, where a lecture
on the History Architecture, and Reparation of the
Cathedral was given by the Dean. The same afternoon
was chosen for the placing of the top-stone of the last
pinnacle of the tower, which is now fully re-
stored. This was done in the presence of
General Badeau, the eminent historian of the recent
American Civil War, and now Consul-General
of the United States in this country, and of a few others
who found standing-room on the small platform erected
for the purpose. The Dean, after saying that much thank-
fulness was due to God for the preservation hitherto of all
the workmen from serious injury, expressed his hope that
the cathedral would ever fulfil its functions as a place for
the reverent worship of Almighty God, for the faithful
preaching of the Gospel, for the maintenance of a school
di sacred music, and for the Christian education of the
young.—Guardian.