The Sun.
London, England, 1856-11-01 00:00:00

NEW SOUTH WALES.

We have received Sydney papers to the 30th
July. The Empire remarks : " Though the re-
turns for the census of 1855 are not yet prepared
for publication, we learn that the important work
of numbering the people' has been completed.
The grand total is much smaller than the result
was generally expected to exhibit. The aggregate
of the population is set down at 268,737 persons,
of which number 2,542 are ' unclassified,' being on
shipboard or in other :respects undenizened. The
census returns taken on the Ist March, 1851, gave
a general total of 187,243, so that the population
has increased during the last five years by 81,494
persons. We understand the returns in taking the
present census have amounted to 44,094, of which
2,455 abstracts have been made in bringing out
the result. We mention these facts as curious of
themselves, and as showing the complicated labour
involved in what to many might appear a work of
great simplicity.
The Legislative Assembly was to meet, pursuant
to adjournment, on Tuesday, sth August. Several
country members had arrived in town before the
29th of July, and the attendance was likely to be
numerous,

We have received the Madrid journals of the
26th. A grand dinner was to be given on that day
by the Minister of War to Count de Benkendorff,
prior to his departure. The ministers, the marshals,
the high officers of the palace, and other important
personages were invited to it. Reports of a minis-
terial crisis were again current. According to one
account M. Barzonallana, the Minister of Finance,
and Moyano, Minister of Public Works, were
about to retire, and according to another the Mi- Bentley's Miscellany.—Mr. Jolly Green favours
Lister of Finance alone, and to be replaced by M. us with a lengthy account of " The Final Ascent
Lozano. The cause of these- changes is said to of Mont Blanc," performed by himself while asleep.
be a disapprobation on the part of the majority A more interesting article follows, on "The News-
of ministers of the financial plans proposed by the paper in France," which traces the origin and
minister. (These -rumours have been contradicted progress of the French journals. The first which
by telegraph.) Baron del Asile, the Danish repre- ever appeared in that country is stated to have been
sentative at Madrid, is seriously ill, and fears are projected by a physician named Renandol, and to
entertained for his life. M. Bravo Murilo, for- have been first published on the 20th of May, 1631,
merly presidentof the council, who has just arrived under the title of the Gazette. After giving a
from Paris, is also seriously ill. The Espana re- sketch of the chief journals which have appeared in
presents as positive the nomination of General I the capital from that time to the present, the paper
Zarco del Valle as Spanish ambassador at St. Pe- conc'udes with a remark of this same Renandol,
tersburg. The relations of Spain with the Holy ; the founder of the French press:—" La Presse
See are on the point of being settled. It is expected tient cola de la nature des torrents, qu'elle se
that Mgr. Brunelli will again fill the
,functions of grossit par la resistance." "The Remains off
'Papal Nuncio, a post which he occupied before the , John 'Byrom " ftirnish the' subject for a brief
breaking out of the revolution of 1854. . memoir. Our Continental nhbours euPPIY.
General Messina has given in his resignation, s, other topic in AkThe" French Almanacs; or, Paris
Chief of the Stiiff. The General hai been replaced iu 1856. e -
The writer remarks -that they appear to
have' the e'til intitiencea which General any,