The Sun.
London, England, 1856-11-28 00:00:00

SPAIN.

The Madrid journals of the 23d have arrived.
The Espana says that there was no truth in a re-
port which was current that the Government was
about to banish from the capital some generals and
other persons of distinction, or that it had caused
some persons of note to be arreed. The Revista
Militar had ceased to appear, in consequence of
the Minister of War having issued an order of the
day declaring that the Queen did not think it a fit
journal to be read by the army. This makes the
fourth paper that has disappeared within a month,
the other three being the Nacion, the Cortes,
an dPthe Asociacion. The arms of the national
guard of Madrid, which had been deposited in
the barracks of Sau Francesco, had been removed
to the artillery stores. Accounts from Malaga to
the 19th say that a number of domiciliary visits
had been made in different parts of the town,
and that they had led to the seizure of arms,
some of them secreted in wells, and of important
papers. The municipality was causing bread to be
sold cheap, and there was plenty of work to be had
at good wages. In the neighbourhood of the river
Gurar, near Malaga, a detachment of carbineers
had had an engagement which lasted upwards of
an hour with a band of smugglers, and in the
course of it three of the carbineers were wounded.
It ended by the smugglers being dispersed, and by
a quantity of their goods, a horse, and a blunder-
buss being seized. The municipality of Segovia
had resolved on raising a loan of between 7,000,000
and 8,000,000 reals, to be employed in providing
cheap food for the poor. The Gazette publishes a
royal ordonnance conceding to M. Salamanca the
railway from Alimansa to Alicant.

A letter from Turin of the 23d, in the Constitu-
tionnel, says :—" I have just read in some of the
Belgian journals that the Duke de Grammont,
French minister at this court, and all the members
of the French legation have ceased to be members
of the Turin Whist Club. As this announcement
might give rise to unfounded suppositions, I hasten
to inform you that this fact dates as far as two
years back. About that time M. de Meyronnet,
an attache to the French legation at Turin, having
had some difference with the managers of the club,
the Duke de Grammont requested all the staff of
the legation to abstain from visiting the club, which
request has from that time been rigorously complied
with. A report has been for some time in circu-
lation of the truth of which you can judge better
than I. It is that the Duke de Grammont will
probably leave his post before the end of the year
in consequence of some considerable changes in
contemplation in the French diplomatic body."

HIE TRAGEDY AT CROYDON.

CROYDON, THURSDAY NIGHT,

Up to a late hour this evening the unfortunate Mrs.
Belton had not expired, but not the slightest hopes are
entertained of her recovery. The whole of the back part
of her head is battered in by the force of the blow. Mr.
Cooper, the divisional surgeon, has been most unremit-
ting in his attendance upon the poor creature. She is
quite delirious, and cannot be left for a minute ; and,
from the time that her husband returned home' on Fri-
day last, he as never left her room.
Mrs. Belton for some time has been in the habit of
letting apartments, and had two lodgers up to Thursday
week last, when one, a very respectable gentleman, left,
owing to something that had transpired between Mrs.
Belton and the assassin Bright, alias Staines. It is im-
p9ssible to say what this was at present ; but it may be
mentioned that, when the gentleman alluded to applied
at another house for lodgings, he stated, as his reason
for leaving, that "be did not consider his life safe in the
house."

The assassin has not yet been apprehended, although
the police are actively engaged in tracing him.
There has been a statement put forward in the village
as the reason for the assault, but it is of such a nature
as not to justify us, tii. it is confirmed, in going further
into it.

There was a rumour here this afternoon that Bright
had committed suicide ; but at present the police have
no authentic information on the subject.

MR. BIINN.—On Monday Mr. A. Bunn commenced
an eugagement as a lecturer at the Polytechnic Institu-
tion, Edinburgh. His lecture, entitled, " John Bull
among the Yankees," consisted of descriptions of his
own experiences during a visit to the United States.
Mr. Bunn communicated a variety of useful information
vtgardiug the commercial and literary condition of
America, enlivening his discourse with several amusing
and well-told anecdotes of the Americans,