The Sun.
London, England, 1858-10-28 00:00:00

SPAIN.

The Madrid Gazette of the 23d contains an order
of the Minister of Finance to the effect that when-
ever a supplementary or extraordinary credit is
granted, the decree making the grant shall set forth
by what means the credit is to be paid ; also if the
credit be required at a time when the Cortes
are not sitting, the Council of State shall report on
the urgency and necessity of it. Ali Other order

of the same minister directs that the payment
of the coupons of the public debt, both consols
and deferred, also the dividends on road and
railway shares and on all kinds of public scrip,
shall be made in the provincial chief towns in the
provincial treasuries. This measure, by encouraging
the investment of provincial capital in the public
funds, will, it is said, probably increase the upward
tendency which has been lately manifested in the
money market. A Royal decree, in the official
journal, enacts that the commission of general sta-
tistics of the kingdom which lately took the census
shall continue to exist, and shall make suitable
arrangements with the different branches of the
administration for collecting data in order to arrive
at the best method of measuring the territory, and
calculating the wealth of the country. The decree
appoints three inspectors-general of statistics to
visit the provinces, to inspect all statistic operations,
regulate and rectify them, and stimulate the activity
of the employes ; it also appoints 150 provincial in-
spectors, and it awards a credit of 3,500,000 reals
to the commission. The Parlamento, an organ of
Narvaez andNocedal, had been condemned to a fine
of 16,000 reals and costs for a seditious libel.

THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
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PLYMOUTH, THURSDAY MORNING.
The Royal Mail steamship Dane, Commander
Robert Maynard, arrived this morning.
Her dates are—Table-bay, September 21 ; St.
Helena, September 30; Ascension, October 4.
Among her passengers are Lieutenant Gayer and
Messrs. Creek, Speed, and Crane, R.N.
She has specie valued at £650.
Sir ;George Grey opened a Conference on the
13th of September on the frontier, with a view to,
the reconciliation of.,„the President of the Free
State and Moshesh.
His Excellency and the General Commanding
the Forces have had an interview, at which it was
decided to send every available soldier to India.
The Megaera is appointed to embark the 60th
Rifles at East London, for Bombay.
The Prince Arthur has received Captain Cleve-
land's field battery, and is to embark 350 Germans
at East London.

The Simoora will convey the 31st,
The remainder of the 2d Queen's are preparing
to embark.

The flag-ship Boseawen, from the Cape, has
arrived at the Mauritius.

Four vessels have left Algoa Bay, and one Table
Bay, with horses for India. Several others are
embarking horses.
The smallpox has extended from Cape Town to
the adjacent villages. Some fatal cases have oc-
curred, but vaccination appears successful.
The elections for the Legislative Council have
closed, but the state of the poll was not published.
Upwards of 2,000 of the German Legion have
volunteered for India.

The Edward. Oliver arrived in Table Bay Sept.
12, with 473 immigrants. The troop ship Mer-
chantman, for India, arrived in Table Bay on the
12th, with the crew of the emigrant ship Eastern
City, burnt at sea on the 25th of August (only one
man lost.)

The Royal Mail steamer Celt, from. Plymouth,
arrived in Table Bay on the 14th.
The mixed British and Portuguese Commission
Court have decided that the evidence was not suffi-
cient to justify the seizure of the Flor de Mozam-
bique by Her Majesty's ship Lyra.
Four slave vessels have been captured and sent
into St. Helena.

Arrivals.—Table-bay, August 23d, American ship
Kate Lowe ; September 4th, Greenwich, from
London ; Phoebe Dunbar, from London ; sth,
Northern Light, from Cardiff; 13th, Courants,
from London ; and 17th, Hotspur, from Ports-
mouth.

Departures—September 3, lightning, for Lon.
don ; 9th, Golden Fleece, for London ; and 15th,
Marian Moore, for Liverpool.

AMERICA.

SOUTHAMPTON, WEDNESDAY NIGHT.

The Hammonia steamer, Captain Schwensen, has
arrived from New York with 130 passengers, and
proceeded to Hamburg. She brought no specie.
Advices are to the 15th, one day later than the
Arabia, but there is no news of importance.
We received no papers by this steamer, and could
only get a moment's glance at one of the 15th in
the hands of a passenger.
Stock-market buoyant.
Cotton-market unsettled, and quotations irre-
gular. Corn active. Pork dull. Sugar less
buoyant.
Freights without change.
Her Majesty's ship Valorous had arrived at
New York to convey Sir William Gore Ouseley
to Central America, as special envoy from
England. She took from Fayal 42 of the Austria's
rescued passengers, landed there by the French
brig Maurice. Three remained in hospital, being
badly burnt.
Havannah dates are to the Bth. Sugar was
quiet and declining, buyers offering for Nos. 11
and 12, 54 dols. to 58 dols. Stock on hand 110,000
boxes, against 195,000 last year.
In he explosion at Havannah on the 29th ult.
the loss of lives was 112, and 128 wounded ; loss
of property over 1,000,000 dols.
The Hammonia spoke on the 15th the British
ship Salsette, from New York to London, 10 miles
east of Sandy Hook; 22d, the American ship
Jeremiah Thompson, bound west, in lat. 48 N.,
long. 34 IV. ; 23d, the Danish ship Frederike,
bound east, in lat: 49 N., -long. 29 W. ; 25th, the
Parnell, showing second distinguishing pendant
870, bound east, in lat. 49 N.,long. 16 IV.
Throughout the passage the ammonia had
easterly winds varying from N.E. to S.E.; first
part moderate weather ; latter %fresh, with high
seas from S.E.

His Excellency the Ambassador of France and
the Duchess de Malakoff honOured the Crystal Palace with
a visit yesterday morning, and afterwards left town on a
visit to her Majesty at Windsor Castle.

The Duke of Buccleuch has taken the large man-
sion in Belgrave-square formerly occupied by the late Earl
of Sefton, pending the re-erection of Montagu House, the
razing of which was commenced yesterday.

We are requested to state that the Duchess of
Wellington was not present on Tuesday in the circle as-
sembled at the wedding of Lady Katherine Hamilton and
Viscount Valletort.

The Earl and Countess of Hardwicke have re-
turned to Wimpole Hall from visiting the Earl, and
Countess of Derby at Knowsley.

Viscountess Jocelyn and family passed through
town yesterday, from visiting the Earl of Roden, at Hyde
Hall, Herts, en route to Broadlands, on a visit to Viscount
and Viscountess Palmerston.

LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY.—The Liverpool, New
York, and Philadelphia Steamship Company's screw
steamer Kangaroo, M'Donald, commander, took her depar-
ture this morning for New York, with the United States'
mails, 56 passengers, and a fair cargo. The British and
North American royal mail steamship Asia will take her
departure for New York with the usual mails on Saturday
next. A letter signed " Fair Play,' in the Liverpool
Courier of to-day, calls attention to the fact that the screw
steamer City of Baltimore, which sailed from Liverpool on
the 29th ult., one day after the Indian Empire sailed from
Galway, reached New York two days before her ; and that
the royal mail steamship Africa, which gave the Indian
Empire four days' start, and the advantage of a shorter
passage, reached New York only a few hours behind her.
The writer adds that credit, however, should be given to
the Galway boat for one
_day's detour and detention at
Halifax.

THE Loss OF THE ADMIRAL MIAULIS, SCREW
STEAMSHIP, WITH THE EMPEROR OF RUSSIA'S STATE
RAILWAY CARRIAGES.—On the receipt, at. Lloyd's, of the
telegraphic news of the loss of this fine now steam-ship,
1,200 tons burden, off ,the island of Oessel, at the mouth of
the Gulf of Riga, while on her passage to St. Petersburg,
Captain Burstel was immediately despatched by the under-
writers to the wreck, with a view of saving as much of the
valuable freight as possible, the ship and cargo being in-
sured for nearly £50,000. The Admiral Miaulis steamer
belonged to the Greek and Oriental Steam Company, who
had recently purchased her of the builders, Messrs. Pyle and
Co., of West Hartlepool, for the purpose of conveying
three magnificent state-saloon railway carriages to St.
Petersburg, for the use of the Emperor of Rus-
sia and imperial family. They were built at Paris
upon the most improved and costly principle, and then
taken to Havre, where they were shipped on board the un-
fortunate steamer. She was commanded by an experienced
navigator, Capt. Westcott, and in pursuing her course up
the Baltic she was in charge of a pilot, who had been taken
on board in passing the Sound. Late on the evening of the
14th she struck on the sunken rocks about eight miles from
the Island of Oessel, and having been at full speed, she
became an instant wreck. The officers and crew just had
time to lower the three boats and save themselves, not even
being able to preserve the chronometer or the ship's papers.
Captain Burstel, who reached Riga on the 25th, communi-
cated with Lloyd's yesterday, stating that he had seen the
captain, and he regretted to say that not a vestige of the
ship or cargo was recoverable. She had broken up, and
all had disappeared in deep water. The English consul at
Riga had taken care of the ere*, and was about to forward
them to England. The, Emperor's state carriages were.
valued at £15,000.