The Sun.
London, England, 1858-01-14 00:00:00

SPAIN.

Royal decrees in the Madrid Gazette of the 9th
remove Generals Raivero and Galiano from the
directorships-general of infantry and cavalry, and
appoint General Marquis de Novaliches and
General Joaquim Armero their successors. Other
decrees make another very considerable number of
promotions in the army in honour of the birth of
the Prince of the Asturias. Another decree
authorises the establishment of a bank of issue in
share; at Corunna with a capital of 4,000,000 reals.
The Queen had presented the Pope's Nuncio with
a very valuably cross in emeralds and brilliants to
wear on the breast. Her Majesty had also given
a magnificent mantle in gold brocade, a crown, and
various jewels, the whole said to be of great value,
for the statue of the Virgin in the church ofAtocha.
The journals contain no political news.

ROYAL HUMANS SOCIETY.—At the general half-
yearly meeting of this society, held yesterday, Mr. B.
B. Cabbell, vice-president, in the chair, silver medals
were awarded to the following :—To Captain Castle,
commanding the Sarah Sands transport, and Lieutenant-
Colonel Moffatt, commanding the 54th Regiment, for
their cool, courageous, and energetic exertions on the
13th of November, 1857, when the ship was on fire,
and by whose united and admirable arrngements
not a single life was lost ; to the Hon. D.a S. Deal.
eon, acting mate of her Majesty's skip Hornet, who
saved private Jobn Atkins, R.M., of the same
vessel, ii% Canton River, China, November 15, 1856 ;
Lieut. Oliver De Lancey, 47th Regiment, who tried to
save Private M. Dempsey, 47th Regiment, at sea, May
27, 1857 ; James Beedon, A. 8., of her Majesty's ship
Cumberland, who saved Charles Jenner, seaman, of the
same vessel, at sea, July 9, 18i7 ; Rev. J. 3. Beresford,
B. D.,-Precentor of Peterborough, who saved John Brown,
13, on the River Nene, Peterborough, July 13, 1857 ;
Geo. Bate Hobbler, who saved Mrs. E. M. Cox Bade
Haven, Cornwall, Aug. 6, 1857 ; Master Edward Forbes,
14, who saved Caroline E. Forbes, 7, on the Lake of Ge-
neva, July 13, 1857 ; J. H. Hunt, medical student, who
saved Joseph Ward, 14, in the River Liffey, Dublin, July
16, 1857; Andrew Ferguson, fisherman, who saved
John Murray, 15, in the River Tweed, Coldstream,
N. 8., July 19, 1857 ; M. Victor Darras, who saved
two boys named White in the sea, off Boulogne, Aug.
25, 1847 •, Captain George,Hathorn, R.N., who saved
Georgeißartley in the harbour at Boulogne, Aug. 30,
1857; William Hodge, farmer, who saved Thomas Watts,
carpenter, in the River Taw, near Ashford, Devon,
Sept. 7, 1857; Mr. Charles Hughes, who saved Mr.
E. W. Atkinson in the River St. Lawrence, near Mon-
treal, April 22, 1857 ; Constable J. Fahy, Cork Con-
stabulary, who saved Henry Mahony at Cork, Sept. 25,
1847 ; M. Achille Maubaut, professor of languages,
who saved three boys at St. Bernard's Rock, Jersey,
Oct. 3, 1857.

THE ROMAN WALL AND THE SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES.
—The Gentleman's Magazine of this month, in paying a
well-deserved compliment to the Duke of Northumber-
land for the survey of the Roman Wall by Mr. Mac-
laucblan at his grace's expense, makes this most remark-
able statement, which we think will rather startle the
London Society of Antiquaries, unless it be as indifferent
to antiquities as its president and council seem to be :
—"lt is not g nerally known that, a few years since,
his grace (the Duke of Northumberland), with the very
best feeling, proposed, through the then director, Capt.
(now Admiral Smyth), to receive, at the nomination of
the Preqidentof the gociety of Antiquaries (Lord Mahon),
a deputation of antiquaries, selected from among those
who had made Roman antiquities their special study,
with a view to institute extended researcbes along the
line of the wall, on such a scale, and to be undertaken
in such a spirit, ae sheuld leave nothing to be desired.
His grace made this proposal in the most delicate and
liberal manner ' • he offered to pay the expenses ; but at
the same time, he generously desired to give the Society
of Antiquaries the credit of being at the head of the
explorations. Unhappily fer the society, the duke's
proposition was not entertained, further than its
being mentioned in the Council-chamber." Thus far our
Contemporary. But what roust be the intellectual state
of the society of Antiquaries, which taus, by its presi-
dent's judguient, or by its c,unoll's, declines to do the
very thing for which it was established, and for not
doing which it has been so loudly reproached t If the
society be as yet ignorant of the noble bit of good
fortune which was offered to it through its president,
then we should say its case is hopeless ; if it does know
it, and quietly sits down to its weekly meeting and
coffee, then its case is more hopeless still.—Gateehea
Observer.