The Sun.
London, England, 1856-07-07 00:00:00

SPAIN.

Our account. 4 from Afidrid are to the 30th ult.
AVthe opening of the sitting of the Cortes on
that, day M. Orense presented an address of the
provincial deputation of Palencia, condemning the
recent events in; that city, and demanding indem-
nitieafor the victims of those excesses. _

The Government acquired every day additional
proofs that the cont3piracy had extensive ramifica-
tions, and that its principal object was to destroyall
the proiision stores. Most of the incendiaries of
Castile are operatives who earned good wages, and
dear food was a mere pretext to force the people to
revolt.
'lll:Escosura, the Minister of the Interior, had
written to his colleagues that he hoped to discover
the origin of that pl6t against property. All the
Ministers; and General Espartero in particular, are
-deterinined to punish those crimes in an exemplary
manner. "Once for all," said the General, cc we
must either cease to be a Government or re-esta
blish Ole prestige and power of authority.
The arrests at Vail adolid are said to exceed 200.
• The' roprietors are to be indemnified. The Govern-
ment had demanded the returns of the losses they
hail suffered, and. the Cortes will vote a special loan
,to that effect.

Aniattempt had beam made at Aranjuez to set
fire to a corn store.

The accounts from. Catalonia were satisfactory.

The Captain-Genoral of Cuba has offered the G-
overnment 12,000,000 raids, at two, three, or six
months' date ; but the Government has answered
that satisfactory arrangements for meeting all its
engagements up to the end of the year have been

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made, and that it prefers leaving the money in the
ista d, itceage nay need of it should arise.

PORTUGAL.
PORTSMOUTH, MONDAY MORNING.

The steam transport Marley Hill arrived at Spit-
head this morning from the East, last from Lisbon
(July Ist), with Army Works Corps, ttc. ; by which
we learn that the packet from Southampton was
entering the Tagus, with the mail of the 27th June,
when she was coming out.
There was no political news of importance.
The Finance Committee of the Deputies had not
given its report upon the Government Bill for a
new loan of 330,0001. for public works, although
the Committee had mat twice to consult upon the
subject.
There were no British ships of war in the Tagus
on the Ist inst.

THE MEDITERRANEAN.
MARSEILLES, JULY 5.

Troops continue to arrive from the East, and it
is expected that within a very few days the last of
the Prench army in the Crimea will have landed
at Marseilles.
A fire broke out yesterday morning in the Com-
missariat hay stores, which at one moment threat-
ened to destroy all the houses in the neighbour-
hood. A vast quantity of military forage was con-
sumed. _ _ .

Monsignor Cardinal Patrizi, the Pope's Legate,
arrived from Paris at nine on Wednesday evening.
He was lodged at the Bishop's Palace.
Troops are being still sent to Algeria. A de-
tachment of the 9th Chasseurs k-Cheval, a splendid
body of men, embarked to-day in the Osiris for
Algiers.
A discovery has been lately made by a distin-
guished agriculturist iu this country, which, if riot
already known in England, will interest your scien-
tific readers. M. Orange, a landed proprietor near
Aix, has discovered that the water which flows
from gas manufactories, being highly charged wth
ammonia, may be efficaciously used as a manure
on wheat lands.