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

T.BE NEW SPANISH L9AN.

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 resalt of M.
Mires' proposal to the Government fora loan 0f300,000, GOO
of reals cash (3,000,000/. sterling). Reals.
Net proceeds of 1,000,000 Tbree per Cent.
Stock at 41

410,000,000

Deduct-
-3 per cent. commission to him 30,000,000
Dividend 14 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 foreiy. debt, the fixed
rate of exchange being 5.40
instead of the current one,
which is 5.15 per dollar
3 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 27+ 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 Dowager Lady
Stafford who lately died, but the wife of the present Lord
Stafford whom the family and friends now mourn.
THE ROYAL BRITISH BANlE.—Formal notice is give❑
that Vice• Chancellor Kinderiley proposes to proceed o❑
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 Invalides by the side of those of Wagrana,
Austerlitz, Algiers, kc.
The Brussels journals state that a great snowstorm
took place the day before yesterday in the neighbourhood
of that city, and rendered many of the roads to it quite
impracticable for a time.
ENTHRONISATION OF THE BISHOP OF LONDON.—Yes.
terlay 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 Youstoupoff, attache to the Russian Embassy
at Paris, has taken, for 80,008 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.
Accounts from Cronstadt of the 23d ult. state that the
English steamers Adonis and Imperatrice left port on
that morning, and proceeded into the channel now in the
acG 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 YORKSHlRE.—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, North, City-road. A divi-
dend of Bs. 6d. per share for the half-year, free of pro-
perty tax was declared.
SOUTLIAMPTON Thursday.—Last night onp 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 E'lenborough, 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., moved 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 SCIIOOLS.—A meeting
of the directors was held yesterday, at the Scottish
Hospital, in Crane-3ourt, Fleet-street, which was purely
of 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
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 800,000/., and of 5 per cent. on 400,800/.
in case 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--treet, Portman•square, on Tuesday, Wednesday,
Thursday, and Friday in next week. The private view,
to which exhibitors only have hitherto been admiVed,
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.
Advises 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
that
the
overdue coupons confiscated by the Government
shall have the effect of removing the ban placed by the
Stock-Exchange Committee against all new Spanish
securities.
HIGHWAY ROBBERY 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•
ceedinE through the London-road, Southwark, on his
way to the City, he was suddenly attacked by two rot-
flans, who inflicted a severe blow upon his head, and
robbed him of 11s. 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 con-
tinues. 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.
THE MAILS.—SOUTHAMPTON, Thursday.—The Pen-
insular and Oriental Company's steamship Ripon, Cap,
tain R. N. Evans, left this day with the usual East India
and China mails, a good cargo, 118 first-class and 26
second-class passengers, among whom are Colonel and
Mrs. Dennis, Colonel Drtnnvind, Mr. Thackeray,
The amount of specie taken out by this steamship i *
g a
follows :—Gold to the amount of 8,620/., viz,, for Alex
s
andria, 2,000/. ;
Madras, 2,426/. ;
Ceylo, 3,200/.
Singav re, 1,000/. Silver, 798,722/,, viz., Canton,
30,692/. ; Bombay, 448 795. ,
i g 62,798!.
Calcutta, 157,344/. ; Madras, 10,000/. ; Singapore,;
24,591/. ; Shanghai, 64,511/. Total of id
gold silver
807,341/.
THE WALLACE AND HOME MONIMIENTS.—The Wal-
lace and Hume memorials have faired,
All Scotland, after
innumerable meetings, advertisin s
and entreatings, has only given 21:1607—ngs, coaxings,
odd for the Wal-
lace monument. Montrose, after renewed and prolonged
efforts, has mustered 260 i. for
member, one half of which sum a monument to its late
of Mont-rose. Assume that ct. ocland was. subscribed out
, is niggardly, and
Montrose most niggardly, t
can only raise 1,300/, for les " wesee that All
Hume England Memorial Fund,"
ue
instituted by Earl Forte
of eight noblemen :tad 4E
and helped by a commit-
tee4G members of Parliament.
These experiences should
multiply monumental warn me.. how they essay to
subscriptions, for there have been
too many of them and too ill
Wallace had his -advised. If ever any man,
monument in the hearts of his country-
men and of patriots in
every land. So, too, Joseph
Hume made his n
but withname a household word,never mentioned
admiration and respect. Neither the ancient
nor the modern patriot needed a monument ; and we
take the failure of the attempts t) raise monuments to
them simply as evidences that se 0.1
the
common con-
viction.—Dundec Advertiser.

ATEST NE WS.

The Vienna correspondent of the Times (second
edition), in a letter dated Dec. 1, says :
" The Bolgrad question is not likely to lead to a
rupture between the Allied Powers, but it is not
so certain as could be wished that the town at the
north-east extremity of the Lake Yalpuck will
eventually form part and parcel of Moldavia. The
foregoing information is from an excellent source,
and is probably correct."

The Paris correspondent of the 111ol'iliiig Post
'second edition) says :

" Although no invitations have been issued
from the French Foreign-office for the meeting of
the Conferences, still I am informed preparations
are being made for their immediate reunion--that
is, the resident Ministers Plenipotentiary of the
Powers that placed their signatures to the Paris
Treaty of Peace are to meet under the presidency
of M. Walewski, `for the purpose of adjusting
certain difficulties which have grown ont of the
execution of the Treaty of Peace signed at Paris.''
The composition of the Conferences will, I pre-
sume, be as follow :—M. Walewski, President ;
Lord Cowley, her Britanic Majesty's Representa-
tive ; M. Hubner, the Austrian Ambassador ; M.
Kisseleff, the Russian Ambassador ; M. Hatzfeldt,
the Prussian Minister ; Djelmil Bey, the Turkish
Ambassador ; and the Marquis Villamarina,
the Piedrnontese Minister.

Accounts have been received front Constanti-
nople to the 24th. The Presse d'Crient contains
a despatch received from Persia, announcing in a
positive manner that the city of Herat has been
taken without firing a shot. Nevertheless, rein-
forcements gent by the Affghans continued to
approach the place. The Persians had also
received strong reinforcements. The Moniteur
Grey, states that tranquillity reigns throughout
Greece. The Esperance accuses Turkey of re-
fusing to send regular troops, as she had -engaged
to do, for putting down brigandage on the
frontiers. The same journal confirms the arrival
of the note of M. de Boutenieff, demanding that
the Principalities and the Black Sea should be
evacuated. A subscription for the Smyrna Rail-
way had just been opened.

A letter from Vienna, in the Boersenhalle of
Hamburg, says :—" For some days a new Rus-
sian circular has been spoken of, in which that
Government is represented as declaring itself
ready to give up the Island of Serpents, and de-
manding the convocation of the conference in
order to decide the question of Bolgrad. I can
give the most positive assurance that no such
document has been heard of in official circles, and
it is certain that Baron de Budberg has avoided
any allusion to the views entertained by the Go-
vernment with respect to the difficulties of the
treaty of Paris."

" The Porte," says a letter from Constanti-
nople received at Vienna, " has revoked the reso-
lution which it had come to of interdicting the
national divans of the Principalities to discuss the
question of the union. The divans will now have
the right to make known to the Congress of Paris
the wishes of the provinces which they represent."