The Sun.
London, England, 1858-08-26 00:00:00

SPANISH RAILWAYS.—The Madrid journals state '
that the tunnels on the Madrid and Valiadolid Railway,
between Madrid and Escorial, are finished, and that the
other works are being actively proceeded with. Upwardsclew men are employed on the first 30 miles of the line.
A ereat number are also engaged in cutting the tunnels
of Paradilla and Navelgrande, situated between Madrid and
Avila. In the section between Bargos and Avila 2,793 men
are actively at work.
TIIE CHOLMELEY ESTATES.—The aboye estates,
says the Berkshire Chronicle, comprising seven farms, at
Erleigh and Shinileld, containing 1,050 acres, were sub-
mitted to publiO competition before a large and lit.fiuential
body of gentlemen, on Tuesday last, at the Upper Ship Inn,
Reading, by Mr. W. H. Fuller. The highest bidding
offered was £38,600, and the estates were finally bought in by
the Court of Cbancery. An advanced bidding was afterwards
made of several thousand pounds, but was not accepted.
TII E SUPPOSED MURDER AT CAMBERWELL.—Last
evening Mr. Carter, coroner for East Surrey, resumed the
inquiry at the King's Arms, George-street, Camberwell, on
the body of Hannah Read, 12 years of age, who was found
the previous Friday in the Grand Surrey Canal, Bear St.
George's-bridge. It having been reported that this child
had evidently been violated and afterwards drowned, much
excitement prevailed in the neighbourhood. The evidence
of the district surgeon, Mr. Chabot, who examined the body
after it was taken out of the water, entirely negatived the
supposition of violation, and also stated there were no
marks of personal violence of any kind on the body. The
dark and livid appearance of certain parts of the body that
induced the females who washed it to imagine the child had
been unfairly treated were the natural post-mortem ap-
pearances from suffocation. Evidence was given that about
12 months since the deceased was induced by a girl to rob
her parents, who obtain their livelihood by selling milk, of
9s. 6.1., and which circumstance was the subject of magis-
terial investigation at the time. On Thursday the child left
home about seven o'clock in the morning to go to Mrs.
Horsley's, Addington-square, Walworth-road, whose baby
she nursed by day, and was never seen ail ve after. In the
course of that morning the parents discovered from the in-
quiries of an elder sister that the deceased received on
Wednesday morning a shilling from her mistress for milk
which she had not given to her mother. It was supposed
that dread of the discovery by her parents caused her to
drown herself, aad the jury returned a verdict of found
dead.

LA TEST INTELLIGENCE..

TURKEY.

MINISTERIAL CHANGES FINANCIAL
EMBARRASSMENTS.
MARSEILLES, AUG. 25.
Intelligence from Constantinople of the 18th inst.
annnouces a Ministerial modification.
Othman Ruchdi Pacha, Minister at 'War during
the operations in the Crimea, is to be in the Cabinet
without a Portfolio. Riza Pacha is to unite to his
functions as Minister at War the direction of the
Artillery.
The replacement of the Grand Vizier is in
agitation.
The Ministers have fully submitted to the Sultan
the state of the finances, and his Imperial Majesty
has blamed them for not having sooner informed
him on the subject.
The Ambassador of France has obtained a miti-
gation of the 10 per cent. tax, which occasioned
great abuses.

CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.

PLYMOUTH, THURSDAY.

The Phcebe steamship arrived here this morning
from the Cape of Good Hope, with the mails. She
left Table Bay, July 21; St. Helena, July 30th ;
Ascension, Aug. 2.
Sir George Grey was about to leave for the fron-
tier on his mission of mediation between the Boers
and Basutos.

Table Bay improvements were to be commenced
towards the end of the year. Convicts are to be
employed on the work.
_

17mhala, a Kaffir chief, has been delivered up to
the British authorities by his own people.
The Bishop of Grahatn's Town was about to visit
the mission towns in Kaffraria.
The Hermes had returned from the Zambesi,
bringing intelligence that the Livingstone expedition
had effected an ascent of the river, and were all well.
The expedition had parted company with the Pearl,
and were about to proceed to Sete in the small steam
launch. The Pearl could with difficulty enter the
main stream.
The convict barracks at Graham's Town had been
destroyed by fire, the act of an incendiary.

A large number of emigrants had arrived from
Holland.

The Boscawen, Lynx, and llermes, were in
Simon's Bay.

FRANCE.

AUG. 25, 6 P.M.

The French Government, anticipating the possi-
bility of more outrages on the Christians of the
East, originating in the bombardment of Jeddah, is
about to augment the French naval forces in the
Mediterranean. Captain Fleuriot de Langle is to
take the command of this naval division. The
Trieste Gazette says the events of Candia and
Jeddah have caused considerable fermentation at
Aleppo, where the Christians would probably have
been massacred, if Kiamil Pacha had not adopted
the most energetic measures to secure tranquillity
We shall no doubt hear of similar excitement in
other quarters of the Turkish empire.
An official despatch has reached Paris from Con-
stantinople, which says a modification is to take
place in the Cabinet of the Sublime Porte, with a
view of creating financial reforms. If such be the
case, and the Sultan calls around him honest men,
bent on administering the revenue honestly, Turkey
need not come to London or Paris fur loans.

I have received letters from Naples dated Aug. 20.
The King had given orders that no change should
take place in the treatment of political prisoners.
On the contrary, additional precautions were to be
used, and increased severities observed towards all
suspected persons. Difficulty of obtaining passports
to leave the country was increasing. `tirade it dull,
as few on...users are now in Naples.