The Sun.
London, England, 1856-02-02 00:00:00

SPANISH BONDHOLDERS.

The following answer has been received by the
Committee of Spanish bondholders to a letter ad-
dressed to the Earl of Clarendon on behalf of their
constituents :

" Foreign-office, Jan. 31, 1856.
" am directed by the Earl of Clarendon to ac-
knowledge the receipt of the letter signed by Baron
Lionel Rothschild and Mr. Louis Samson, on behalf of
the committee of Spanish bondholders, upon the subject
of the state of their claims upon the Spanish Govern-
ment, and request;n4 that instructions may be given to
Lord llowden, her Majesty's Minister at Madrid, to
!make such representations to that Government as may
induce them, without further delay, to reccgni-e the just
claims of the bondholders ; and I am to state to you in
reply, that instructions will be sent accordingly to her
Majesty's Minister at Madrid, and that tho committee
may rest assured that no effort on the part of Lord
llowden will be wanting to procure justice for the bond-
laolders.—l am, sir, your most obedient humble servant,
(Signed) " WODEIIOUSE.
"J. S. Collett, Esq."

Naval and Military Intelligence.

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Her Majesty's steam-sloop Ardent, Commander Hor-
ton, arrived at Portsmouth yesterday from the Medi-
terranean with a few naval invalids. She has left for
the eastward to be paid off. The whole of the gun-boats
in harbour are completing with coals and water from
the depots, and several are at the gun wharf, shipping
their guns. They will form at the Motherhank on leaving
the harbour. The steam-sloop Gcrgon, 6, Commander
Crawford, will be ready to go to Spithead iu the early
Part of next week. The Charger and Dove steam gun-
boats arrived yesterday to join the squadron.
The Amity, screw stea.rn-transport, No. 177, Captain
Hopper, arrived at Spithead yesterday from the East.
The East Anglian screw steam-transport, No. 162,
Captain Jay, arrived at Spithead yesterday from the
East. On the 19th ult., off Cape de Gatt, she spoke the
brig Endeavour, 49 days from Syra, with a portion of
her bulwarks carried away. The East Anglian is in
ballast only.
The Bahiana screw steam-transport, No. 160, Capt.
Green, arrived at Spithead yesterday from the East.
The screw steam-corvette Cossack, 20, Captain Jas.
H. Cockburn, left Plymouth on Thursday for the Medi-
terranean.
The screw steam-ship Hogue, 60, Captain Wm. Ram-
say, having taken her powder and shot on board, left
Plymouth on Thursday for Falmouth to relieve the screw
steam-ship Hawke, 60; Captain Erasmus Ommanney.
The paddle-wheel steam-vesset Sprightly, from Ports-
mouth, arrived on Thursday at Plymouth, with seamen
for ships fitting at that port.
The screw steam-ship Nile, 91, Capt. Geo. R. Mundy,
was taken out of, the basin dock at Keyham on Tuesday
and warped to her hulk preparatory to receiving her

crew.
The screw steam-ship Exmouth, 90, Capt. W. K. Hall,
flag of Rear-Admiral Sir M. Seymour, completed tak-
ing her powder and shot on board at Plymouth on Wed-
nesday.
The screw steam-ship Duke of Wellington, 131, Capt.
the Hon. F. T. Pelham, flag of Rear-Admiral the Hon.
Richard S. Dundas, is shortly expected at Plymouth
from Portsmouth, in order to be docked at Keyham.
A very appropriate addition, and one which excites
considerable curiosity, has been made to the group of
trophies now exposed in the Dial-square at Woolwich
Arsenal, and which are awaiting her Majesty's inspec-
tion—namely, a wooden sentry-box, bearing the arms of
Russia, the double-headed eagle over the entrance. Like
other articles of that description pertaining to the Rus-
sian Government, it is conspicuously decorated with the
Imperial Russian colours—black and white, in alternate
and broadly painted lines. It stands in the background
of the enclosed space which is occupied by the trophies.
It was taken from Hango, with a number of guns, by
Capt. Hall, of her Majesty's ship Blenheim.
Mr. W. O'Neill, clerk in the war department atWool-
wich, has been promoted as clerk in the war depart.
ment at the Tower. Mr. Bacon, late of the shipping-
office, which has been abolished, succeeds t,) Mr.
O'Neill's duties as head of the shipping branch of foreign
stations.
The folllowing appointments have been made at the
Admiralty :—Lieutenant Louis Geneste, to the Her-
ring ; Lieutenant Win. Menzies, to the Hasty ; Lieut.
Bedford C. Pim. to the Magpie ; Lieutenants John
Burgess, F. T. Thomson, and William W. Wright, to
the Rodney ; F. R. H. Yorke and E. D. Lane, naval
cadets, to the Royal George ; W. G. Best, naval cadet,
to the Rodney ; G. R. Roberts, midshipman to the Forth ;
Andrew Moffit, surgeon, to the Eurotas ; Hugh Girvin,
surgeon, to the Mohawk ; Richard Drury, acting clerk,
to the Algiers ; William Rhodes, acting-clerk, to the
'Wellesley ; Byron Stratford, acting-clerk, to the Euro-
taa.; William Crump, assis.ant-clerk, to the Cuckoo ;
Edward A. Phillips, assistant clerk, to the Wellesley ;
Frederick W. Williams, to the Diver.
The following Paymasters have been promoted :—To
the First Class—Patrick O'Connor and William Dyer.
To the Second Class—William Wells, George Ramsden,
Thomas Pitcock, Charles Richards (a), and Charles A.
Thorne. Third Class—Sidney J. Spark, Robert C.
Webber, Edward J. Bennett, Thomas Taylor Wise,
A
Robert A. Cumming, and, George &ambler.
The Grert Britain steam-ship is to embark 600 troops
at Liverpool, and will immediately sail ler gneenstown
to 446 ou Ward draughtir Malta.

From the London Gazette or Last Night.

At the Court of Buckingham Palace, the 30th day of
January, 1356, present, the Queen's most excellent Ma-
jesty in Council. Her Majesty iu Council was this day
pleased, on a representation of the Right Honourable the
Lords of the Committee of Council on Education, to ap-
point the Rev. George Robinson Moncreiff, M.A., to be
ono of her Majesty's Inspectors of Schools.
BUCKINGHAM PALACE, JAN. 30.

This day had audience of her Majesty—
His Excellency M9iisieur Musurus, to deliver his new
credentials as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipoten-
tiary from the Sultan ;
And Dr. Rucker, Minister Resident from the Hans
Towns, to deliver his credentials;
To which they were respectively introduced by the Earl
of Clarendon, K.G., her Majesty's Secretary of State for
Foreign Affairs, and conducted by Major-General the
Honourable Sir Edward Cust, K.C.H., her Majesty's
Master of Ceremonies.