The Sun.
London, England, 1856-06-03 00:00:00

SPAIN.

MADRID, May 31.—The adjudication of the loan
of 400 millions of reals, intended for the conver-
sion of the floating debt, took place to-day. The
Company Prost tendered for 100 millions, at 40
90 ; the Credit Pereire for 200 millions, at 40 51;
the Spanish Credit Establishment for 200 millions,
at 40 40. The tenders of Prost and Pereira are
considered secure.
The adjudication for the conversion of 200 mil-
lions of reals of the floating debt into Three per
Cent. Consolidated Stock has just taken place 00-
the most favourable conditions. The Government"
had fixed the minimum rate at 40, and the tender,,,e,
which were made for a larger sum than the 21N
millions, were a fraction higher than 41. ,

THE PENINSULAR MAILS.
SOUTHAMPTON, TUESDAY MORNING•

By the Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam'
ship Madrid, Captain Brasdhaw, we have dates
from Gibraltar, May 25th ; Cadiz, 26th ; Lisbon,
29th ; Oporto, 31st ; Vigo, 31st.
The Madrid brings 68 passengers, 7 packages °I
,specie (value unknown), and a cargo of fruit, wine'
elephants' teeth, &c.
On the 30th ult. the Madrid spoke the Peninan"
lar and Oriental steam-ship Sultan, off Oporto;
31st, off Finisterre, the steamer Queen ; June istt
in lat. 46.26, long. 6.56 W., saw an English screw;
line of battle ship, steering S.S.W.; and on the 2
passed the Royal Mail transport ship Orinoco, o"x°'
Ushant, bound to the Crimea.
The Madrid left at Lisbon her Majesty's steamer
Basilisk, coaling, en route from Spithead for the
West Indies.
The Lisbon exchanges for the month are quoted
this mail at 541- to 8, on London ; Paris, 519 to
520; Amsterdam, 43i; Hamburg, 49i; and Genea'
517.
There were few takes on London, and transac;
tions were generally limited, as also on Paris and'
Hamburg. Other quotations are nominal.
Stocks were looking up, Three per Cents. being
411 to 42 ex div.; Bank of Portugal shares, 499 t°
502 milreis each ; and Oporto Bank shares, 18 t°
20 per cent. premium.
The English schooner William, Capt. WillianOt
which had arrived at Lisbon, from Gibraltar, re'
ported having been fired at by the Portuguese re
venue steamer Lynx, on the 20th ult., near CaPe
St. Mary, on the coast of Algarve. It appeal.,!
that the steamer remained at anchor about 13w-
from the shore, and amused itself by firing at and
vessel passing, instead of getting up steam an
boarding those it may suspect. The schooner
escaped without injury, hut a brig, also under
English colours, was struck by a shot. The latter
was reported to the British Consul, who, it WO
expected, would cause the matter to be fully ind
vestigated.
Several clauses of the now Loan Bill had been;
approved by the Deputies at Lisbon.
Intelligence from Gibraltar reported that lien
Majesty's steam-transport Transit, from ports-
mouth for the East, put into the port to repast
some trifling defects in the machinery.
On the 24th ult. her Majesty's troop-ship
can, from the Crimea, with the 17th Regiment °
Foot on board, bound to Quebec, arrived same Wm'
The Simoom, with the 39th Regiment, for OW
bee, sailed from Gibraltar on the 23d.
The Hiinalaya left Gibraltar for Halifax on ea°
21st ult., with the 62d and 63d Regiments fronz
the Crimea.
Several transports have passed Gibraltar on Wit
outward and homeward voyages to and from tv

Crimea.
The British screw-steamers Arno and Corinthian,
from Liverpool, arrived at Gibraltar on the 22d. k
Exchanges were quoted for bills on London at
90 days, 51 ; Paris, sf. 38c.

GOTERNMENT DESPATCHES AND BEO4
FOROEMENTS TO CANADA.

PLYMOUTH, MONDAY Nicrr•
The Archer, 14, screw, Captain Heatheote, Las bee°
ordered, by electric message this evening, to precast' °
Halifax wit all ossible espatch.
It is repohrted p
that the dEsk, 21, screw, hag had her
destination (South America) changed to Halifax.

MOVEMENTS OF SPECIE. LIVERPOOL, MONDAT.---;
About half of the specie brought by the Itoyal 3fay.
steamer America, yesterday afternoon (400,000 do10)(1
was on French account, and was transshipped on boa
the Cunard screw-steamer Delta, which sailed for Ilajte
this morning. A letter from davannah says
Itoyil Mail-steamer Clyde, from Vera Crnz, arrilo
here, and re-sailed for St. Thomas and England, MO' .1.1
about
with a large amount of speCie, having shipped
1,000,000 doh. at TalDl3loo, and 1,250,000 dole; at 1.18.,1
Cruz. There had nothing been sent from Vol.* Cry
0,1 account of dividends,