The Sun.
London, England, 1858-03-05 00:00:00

SPAIN.

The Madrid journals of the 27th ult. are, like
those of preceding days, devoid of p)litical news.
They are a good deal occupied with the State of
Mexico, • wbich they regard as of extreme gravity.
Cantor Publico asserts that, in several provinces of
Spain, crimes are lamentably frequent, and it calls
for the adoption of measures calculated to secure
life and property. The Espana complains of the
measures relative to passports just adopted by
the French Government. The Queen had pre-
sented a valuable object in gold to a famous statue
of the Virgin in the Dominican convent at Berea.
Her Majes'y has resolved on leav;ng for A ranjnez
on the 28th of the present mouth. Neither tilt
Senate nor the Congr:ss had met.

frontier.
A still greater crowd than that of yesterday
watched the whole night in the Place de la Itoquette
in the expectation that Orsini and his fellow-con-
victs would be executed at an early hour this morn-
ing. They lingered till 9 o'clock without seing any
sign beyond the holes dug in the ground for the
supports of the platfom and they left much disap-
pointed. It wAs rutnoured among the multitude '
that an order was received to stay the execution. j The majority of the bureaux of the Sardinian
hThis is not the ease, The appeal of the prisoners • l amber of Deputies have terminated the nomina-

lion of the bill on conspiracies against foreign Bove•
reigns. Nearly all the bureaux, while admitting
the necessity and the principle of the measure,
propose to introduce amendments which will seri-
ously modify it. It appears that the announcement
of M. Brofferio having been chosen reporter it
premature.

The Corriere Merrantile of Genoa announces that
several political refugees have been ordered away
from La Spezia.

THE LOSS OF THE ELLEN.

TO TIM EDITOR OF THE MTN.
Sir,—l beg leave to communicate to you the fol-
lowing distressing account of the loss by fire of the
ill-fa' ed ship Ellrn, which I have received from my
brother, who writes from Madras, under date the
18th of January. My brother was a passenger on
board the Ellen, and your publication of the an-
nexed extract may serve to dispel the anxiety of
those whose friends embarked with him on the
voyage, which met with so melancholy an interrup-
tion.—l am sir, yours, &c., A RE•DER.
March 1.

" I take the first opportunity that has offered
itself to me, to communicate an occurrence of a very
painful character. I left London on the 7th of
October, and had a very pleasant sail until the 7th
of December, when we were aroused from our beds
at two o'clock in the morning by the cry of "Fir.."
Little can I describe the feelings which agitated
me when I reached the deck, the ship being
already a mass of fire. We immediately
directed our course for Algoa Bay, 500 miles dis-
tant. I had to go to the pump at half-past two
o'clock, and remain there all that day and the next
night, together with other of the passengers, until
my fatigue became almost intolerable.
"The smoke now made its way out of rho
hatches, and diffused itself in all directions, which
compelled us to stop up every part of the ship to
smother the fire, but for which we should all have
been suffocated. All this time a strong gale of
wind was blowing from the south-wiist, and a strong
sea running. On Tuesday, Dec. 8, we sighted a
ship, and at once bora down on her, hoisting our
flag of distress. She heaved down upon us, and
upon our making known to her our position, she
said she would take us on board. The boats were
then lowered; the sea rolling mountains high, and
Almighty God only knows how we reached the
ship in safety. Thank God, in his great mercy,
however, not a life was lost, and our preservation
was most miraculous against such a sea and
wind. The ship that took us on board, was a
Swedish schooner, from Shields, laden with coals,
for Madras, and she was called the Thor of Gefle.
still look back with honor on the frightful fate
that threatened us in the ill-fated vessel. Every
night I thought we should have been burnt up in
her. Our rations were reduced to a pint of water
and two biscuits a day, which had to serve us in
place of breakfast and tea, and we were kept on
two meals a day, at nine and four o'clock. We
could not eat the meat for fear of scurvy. You can
hardly conceive my feelings in this shocking situa-
tion, which lasted for four weeks. At the end of
that time we fell in with an English vessel, which
furnished us with some wholesome food, and we
landed at. Madras a fortnight afterwards—on the
16th of January. The only things I saved from
the ill-fated vessel, were—one blue shirt, a pair of
slippers, a cap, a pair of trousers, and my old coat,
and not a farthing in money.