The Sun.
London, England, 1856-07-12 00:00:00

THE CRIMEA.

ODESSA, June 30.—The plan for colonising the
Crimea with Greeks has long been under conside-
ration, and at length the Emperor's will on the
subject and the official proclamation have been re-
ceived. According to the particulars which have
hitherto transpired, the object in view is to pre-
vent the depopulation of the Crimea, or rather to
replace the Tartars, who are emigrating en masse
to the Dobrudscha and other parts of Turkey, by
fresh colonists, who will be tho more acceptable as
they belong to the same religion as that of the
Russians. To induce the Greeks to come over and
settle very great inducements are held out to
them. Thus each family will receive the sum of
two hundred silver roubles to purchase agricultural
implements and other articles needed, and be per-
mitted to cultivate the land allotted to them with-
out the payment of any taxes for fifty years, whilst
their children will have the benefit of being edu-
cated at the public expense in schools to be estab-
lished by the Russian government. They are fur-
ther permitted to kapott their furniture, farming
stock, clothes, &c., without the usual payment of
duty. The houses abandoned by the Tartars will
be allotted to the new colonists, and churches built,
and clergymen of the Orthodox Oriental Church
appointed to them.

AUSTRIA.
VIENNA, JULY 8.

The following is the Austrian official account of
a collision which took place a few days since in
Wallachia between some Austrian and French
soldiers : _ _

" According to a telegraphic communication of the
let instant, which is now before us, a lamentable colli-
sion has occurred between Austrian troops belong-
ing to a baggage train detachment, on its way from
Bucharest to Giurgevo, and some French soldiers who
were on duty at the telegraph station. Unfortu-
nately, one of the latter received a mortal gunshot
wound. A mixed commission, of which some employes
of the French Consulate formed a part, went imme-
diately limn Bucharest to Giurgavo, and has already
returned to the place first mentioned. The commander
of the ba2gage-train detachmrnent will be tried by a
Court•ma►tial. The Cominissiqn, whose duties were
facilila,ted by the mutal confileace which prevailed,
is
a guarantee that justice will speedily be done. The
result of the exm►nation now going on can, however,
a'one enable us to form a sound opinion on the case
in ruitit and of the persons who are guilty."
The King of Greece, who left for Carlsbad yes-
terday, was accompanied to the railroad terminus
by the Archduchess Hildegarde, his sister, and by
four Archdukes.

PRUSSIA.
BERLIN, JULY 10.

The necessity for making a number of new ap-
pointments in our Consular and Diplomatic ser-
vice, occasioned by the close of the war, continues
doubtless to be a subject of no little embarrassment
to our Foreign Office. The number of appoint-
ments is far greater than that of appropriate
candidates—" the harvest truly is plenteous, but
the labourers are few." The circumstance of our
present Minister to St. Petersburg having been
selected from the staff of the Foreign Office rather
than from the ranks of the corps diplomatipc does
not speak flatteringly-for the amount of rising
talent in the latter, and it will be a long time
before the plan of examinations lately partially in-
troduced will effect much improvement in this
service, seeing that the young gentlemen already
occupying the subaltern posts at foreign missions
are promoted to other and higher functions without
their being in any way required to come home and
submit to examinations, the result of which would
prove their fitness or unfitness for the promotion
conferred on them.

SPAIN.

Our accounts from Madrid are of the 7th inst.

The• anniversary of the revolution of July, 1854,
was celebrated with much solemnity on that day.
Castile was tranquil. It does not appear that
the pending inquiry has yet thrown much light on
the origin of the recent Socialist movement. The
Commission was at one moment in hope of deriving
information from a yOung man named Mariano
Penago, who was executed at Valladolid. He oc-
cupied a lucrative situation under the railway, com-
pany, but, although the authorities offered him his
pardon, he would make no disclosure.
An individual was arrested at Bilboa, in whose
possession were found various papers connected
with the events in Castile.
The authorities of Madrid had been informed
that an attempt would be made the night before
to set on fire the gasworks outside the gate of
Toledo. They had accordingly adopted precau-
tionary measures, and the Government had ordered
the troops stationed in the neighbourhood to ap-
proach the capital.
The resignation of M. Llaseras, Civil Governor
of Barcelona, had not been accepted. The cotton
factory of M. Fontanella, at Vich, had been de-
stroyed by fire. The cause of the disaster, how-
ever, was not known.
The Gazette announces the dismissal of tha Se-
cretary of the Spanish Legation at Venezuela, M.
J. Antonio Lopez de Cervallos.
MADRID, July 10.—M. Escosura, Minister of
the luterior, returned this evening. Incendiary
fires have been lit up in various parts of the pro-
vince of Toledo, but without doing much damage.
An investigation has been instituted.

A letter from Modena, in the Opinione of Turin
of the 9ch, states that a Tuscan was arrested at
Modena a few days before, for having replied with
some asperity to questions addressed to him by a
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patrol in the streets, and condemned to a year's
imprisonment. It is added that the Duke of Mo-
dena, has reduced the punishment to six months.
The Pope, on the 3d, went out to sea for a few
hours
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where
he arrived safely in the evening. Giovanni,
and
A letter from Munich says that Prince Adalbert,
who, as already announced, is to marry Dona
Amalia of Spain in August, is to leave for Madrid
at the end of the present month, and is to return
to Munich with his bride in the middle of septera-
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