The Sun.
London, England, 1856-12-05 00:00:00

TIIE .NEW SPANISH LOAN.

The Madrid gazette of the 29th ult. announces
that the contract has been effected, and it also
gives the conditions on which the loan has been
taken. A friend writes from Madrid ou the same
subject, under date the 30th of November, to the
following effect :
Here is the accurate calculation of the resift of M.
Mires' proposal to the Government for a loan 01300,000,000
of reals cash (3,000,0001. sterling). Reals.
Net proceeds of 1,000,000 Three per Cent.
Stock at 41

410,000,000

Deduct-
-3 per cent. commission to him 30,000,000
Dividend 1i per cent. to be
paid him the 30th Dec., pre-
sent year, though the money
he lends is not paid 15,000,000
June dividend, 1 per cent.,
though he will still have to
pay 120,000,000 cash on ac-
count of his advance 15,000,000
Difference in the value of the
stock given to this operation
as foreign debt, the fixed
rate of exchange being 5.40
instead of the current one,
which is 5.15 per dollar
34 per cent., the usual differ-
ence in Paris between the
prices of the foreign and the
internal debts—the opera-
tion being for foreign debt 47,500,000

137,500,000

Net proceeds, equal to 271-, per cent.,
considered as internal debt, which is 272,500,000
now at 40 per cent.

Sir Alexander Duff Gordon, of the Treasury, is likely
to be appointed to the vacant commissionership of In-
land Revenue.
The enthronisation of the Right Rev. C. T. Longley,
D.D., Bishop of Durham, took place yesterday. Arch.
deacon Bland acted as the bishop's proxy.
We are informed that it was not the Dowagey Lady
Stafford who lately died, but the wife of the present Lord
Stafford whom the family and friends now mourn.
THE ROYAL BRITISH BANK.—Formal notice is given
that Vice-Chancellor Bindersley proposes to proceed on
the 17th inst. to settle the list of contributories of the
Royal British Bank.
Accounts from Munich state that the state of the
President of the Council, M. Vonder Pfordten, is sen-
sibly improving, and that no ill effects are apprehended
from his late accident.
Letters from Nuremberg, of the 30th ult., state that
the commission charged to draw up a commercial code
common to the whole of Germany will hold its sittings
in that city.
Some of the large guns taken at Sebastopol have now
been mounted on their carriages, and placed on the bas-
tion of the Invaliqes by the side of those of Wagrarn,
Austerlitz, Algiers, &c.
The Brussels journals state that a great snowstorm
took place the day before yesterday in the neighbourhood
of that oity, and rendered many of the roads to it quite
impracticable for a time.
ENTHRONISATION OF THE BISHOP OF LONDON.—Yes-
terday morning the ceremony of enthronement, or in-
stallation, of the Bishop of London took place in St.
Paul's Cathedral, in the presence of a large number of
the clergy and laity of the metropolis.
Prince YousEoupoff, attache to the Russian Embassy
at Paris, has taken, for 80,000 fr. a year, the hotel of the
late Baron S. Rothschild, in the Rue de Laffitte, and he
means to expend 200,000 fr. in furnishing it. The Prince

intends, it is said, to give splendid fetes during the winter.

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Accounts from Cronstadt of the 23d ult. state that the
English steamers Adonis and Imperatrice left port on
that morning, and proceeded into thechannel now in the
act of being cut in the ice. The vessels frozen up in the
channel have been able to advance about 1,200 feet.
THE WEATHER IN YORKSHIRE. —Yesterday (Thursday)
morning the frost in Yorkshire was the severest that has
been known for many years past. At Doncaster the
thermometer sank to zero ; at 9 a.m. it stood at 11 deg.
(Fahrenheit) ; at 2 p.m. 30 deg. ; and at 5 p.m. 23 deg.
REGENT'S CANAL.—Yesterday the half-yearly assem-
bly of the Regent's Canal Company was held at their
offices, Maeclesfield-street, Nortb, City-road. A. divi-
dend of Bs. 6d. per share for the half-year, free of pro-
perty tax was declared.
SOUTHAMPTON, Thursday.—Last night one of the
Custom-house officers belonging to this port, named
Goff, made a seizure of 2,6001 b. of tobacco, half manu-
factured and half leaf, at the residence of the foreman of
the Messrs. Ray, millers, residing at Wood Mills, on the
river Itchen, and about four miles from Southampton.
It is not true that Lord Ellenborough, on a recent

visit to Cannes, purchased, for the sum of 10,0001., the
chateau on the hill, the property of T. R. Woolfield,
Esq., m3ved to do so from the fact of its being a fac-
simile of an old mansion of his ancestors, where he had
passed his infancy.
About half-past eight o'clock on Wednesday evening,
a collision, attended with very serious injury to at least
three persons, and injuries, not serious, to about as
many more, occurred at the Denton station of the
Stockport and Stalybridge branch of the London and
North-Western Railway.
ROYAL CALEDONIAN ASYLUM SCEIOOLS.—A. meeting
of the directors was held yesterday, at the Scottish
Hospital, in Crane-court, Fleet-street, which was purely

bf a routine character, and involved no matter of interest
to the public or the friends and supporters of the insti•
tution,

The sanction of the home Government was given 1
yesterday to the arrangements with the Ceylon Railway
Company, under which the company are to receive a
guarantee on the revenue of that island of 6 per cent.
for a capital of 800,0001., and of 5 per cent. on 400,0001.
in ease a further sum should be required.
THE CATTLE SHOW.—The Prize Cattle Show and Ex-
hibition of Implements will take place at the Bazaar,
Baker-street, Portman-square, on Tuesday, Wednesday,
Thursday, and Friday in next week. The private view,
to which exhibitors only have hitherto been admitted,
will this year be open to members of the Club, and will
take place after the award of the judges, at 8 o'clock on
Monday evening.
Advices from Madrid mention that the persons who
who are contracting for the new Spanish Loan are about
to send an agent to London, to ascertain if they can
bring about some arrangement for the settlement of the
overdue coupons confiscated by the Government that
shall have the effect of removing the ban placed by the
Stock-Exchange Committee against all new Spanish
securities.
HionwAY ROBIERY IN LONDON.—Between two and
three o'clock yesterday morning as a young man engaged
in the machine department of a daily journal was pro-
ceeding through the London-road, Southwark, on his
way to the City, he was suddenly attacked by two ruf-
fians, who inflicted a severe blow upon his head, and
robbed him of lls. The thieves effected their escape.
Not a policeman was near the spot at the hour above
alluded to.
The blowing weather, which has for some time past
prevailed on the coast of the Mediterranean, still can.
tinnes. During the whole of Monday, as well as the
preceding night, the wind blew a complete hurricane at
Marseilles, and the sea ran very high. Operations of
all kinds on the quays were suspended, and the outward
bound steamers were compelled to remain at their moor-
ings, as none of the pilots would venture to take charge
of them in the face of such a tempest.
TIIC MAILS.—SOUTHAMPTON, Thursday.—The Pen-
insular and Oriental Company's steamship Ripon, Cap-
tain R. N. Evans, left this day with the usual Eastlndia
and China mails, a good cargo, 118 first-clam and
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second-class passengers, among whom are Colonel
Mrs. Dennis, Colonel Drammond, Mr. Thacke and
ray, &c.
The amount of specie taken out by this steamship is as
follows :—Gold to the amount of 8,620/., for Alex.
andria, 2,0001. ; Madras, 2,4201.;2ey on, 3,2001. ;
Singapore, 1,0001. Silver, 798,721
nviz., Canton,
30,692/. ; Bombay, 448,705. •
ogo.ol. ° ;
; Hon
Calcutta, 157,3441. ;
Madras, 10
24,5911. ; Shanghai, 64,511/,
Total of g
lg ,dsa6i
nn2dg, 7a
s9piBlovlr e
807,341/..er
THE WALLACE AND HUME MONIIMENTS.—The Wal-
lace and Hume memorials have failed. All Scotland, after
innumerable meetings, adovieNr.etnisi2ngos4opluffings, coaxings,
and entreatings, has only odd for the Wal-
lace monument. Montrose, after renewed and prolonged
efforts, has mustered 2601. for a monument to its late
member, one half of which sum was subscribed out
of Montrose. Assume that Scotland is niggardly, and
Montrose
most niggardly, yet we sLa that All England
can only raise 1,300/. for its "Hume Memorial Fund,"
instituted by Earl Fortescue, and helped by a commit-
tee of eight noblemen and 40 members of Parliament.
These experiences should warn men how they essay to
multiply monumental subscriptions, for there have been
too many of them and too ill-advised. If ever any man,
Wallace had his monument in the hearts of his country-
men and of patriots in every land. So, too, Joseph
Home
made his name a household word, uever mentioned
but with admiration and respect. Neither the ancient
nor the modern patriot ed4d a Lueaulue:.t ;
take the failure of the attempts to raise monuments to
them simply as evidences that such is the common con-
viction,—Dundee Advertiser.