The Sun.
London, England, 1858-10-11 00:00:00

SPAIN.

The Madrid journals of the sth have ar-
rived. The Gazette contains a Royal decree,
by which the last census of the population of
Spain and the Balearic and Canary Islands is
approved of, and is directed to be used in the
different departments of public administra-
tion, from the Ist of January, 1859. The de-
cree orders that a new census shall be taken in
1860, and that it shall include the inhabitants of
all parts of her Majesty's dominions, and shall in-
dicate not only the real residence of persons, but
also their legal one or that which belongs to them
by right of citizenship. The 4th being the King's
fete, a grand banquet of 100 covers was given in
the palace. It was attended by the diplomatic body,
the Ministers, the great dignitaries of State, and a
number of personages of distinction. The order of
Charles 111. had been conferred on the ex-Ministers
Pastor, Diaz, Collado, Cantero, and Rios Roses.
The Peninsular Correspondence says : " The
fact of the Pope's Nuncio haying received
the Order of Charles 111. has given rise to the
belief that some understanding with the 'Papal Go-
vernment has already been entered into relative to
the much-desired sale of ecclesiastical property held
in mortmain. The fact is the ecclesiastical demortisa-
tion cannot be delayed, now that that of civil or lay
property has been begun. If, as is believed, the
Government will fully recognise the right of the
Church to possess property in another form—that
is to say, will undertake to give the clergy ample
means of subsistence, will contribute to the splen-
dour of public worship, and set down a very con-
siderable sum in the budget for the repairs of the
splendid cathedrals and other places of worship
which are falling into decay—there is reason to

believe that the Pope will understand the diffi-
culties of the Queen's Government, and not in-
crease them by any impolitic exigencies. On the
Bourse to-day there has been great animation, owing
to the belief that an understanding with Rome will
be come to on this most important subject."

A Vienna letter, in the Cologne Gazelle, says :
" Prince Danilo, notwithstanding the promise made
by him to the foreign consuls, has not released the
prisoners taken at Kolaschin, nor restored the booty
carried off on that occasion. The inhabitants having
sent another petition to the Porte, praying that the
Montengrin chief may be compelled to perform
his promises, the Porte communicated the applica-
tion to the foreign legations, who aidressed them-
selves direct to Prince Danilo on the subject of the
fulfilment of his engagements."

The Zeit of Berlin states the King and Queen of
Prussia are to leave Berlin for Meran on the 11th.

A Munich letter says : —" The dissolution of the
Chamber of Deputies has produced even a more
unfavourable impression on the public than it did
on the deputies. In taking that measure the
ministers of course hoped that the new Chamber
would be more favourable to them ; but it is very
doubtful that the hope will be realised. In fact,
the dissolved Chamber was considered one favour-
able to the Government."

A letter from Stockholm of the Ist says :
" The Prince Regent will leave to-morrow on
a tour in the western provinces, and will be
present at the inauguration of the railway
from Falkoping to Gothembourg. During his
absence, a ;provisional Government, composed of
the Ministers of Finance and Marine, and the
Councillor of State Lagerstrate, and presided over
by the Baron de Manderstrocm, Minister of Foreign
Affairs, will direct the business of the kingdom."

A letter from Florence, in the Corriere Mercan-
tile of Genoa, states that the increase of a quattrino
(less than a French centime) in the price of cigars
(a government monopoly) has created such discon-
tent in Tuscany that many have given up the use
of tobacco. It adds that those who appear in public
smoking cigars are often very rudely stopped and
requested to throw them away, by which means
quarrels and frays have become very frequent.

WEST COAST OF AFRICA.

PLYMOUTH, SUNDAY.

The screw steam gun-vessel Teaier, 2, Lieut.
and Commander Charles J. Wrey, from Sierra
Leone, Aug. 24, arrived in the Sound last evening.
The coast is healthy.
The recent expedition up the river Scarcies was
not entirely successful, and the Soosoo tribes are
gradually approaching the colony of Sierra Leone
in a threatening attitude. Meanwhile Governor
Hill is preparing to repel them ; the native militia
are in course of enrolment, but they are unprovided
with uniforms.

Our advices by this ship state that there is little
prospect of suppressing the traffic in slaves by the
present mode. At Whydah the King of Dahomey
will not sell them under 50 or 60 dollars each, but
at Cabenda, where the nearest relatives freely offer
each other, the price ranges from 15 to 30 dollars
only. The number kept ready for sale along the
coast causes such a great consumption of nuts that
very little export of oil can take place. The
dealers calculate that the successful transmission
of one cargo of negroes will pay for the loss of four.
No prizes have been taken lately ; the last cap-
tured,-the Ville de Paris; by the sloop Heron,' 12,
Commander W. H. Truscott, was conveyed to St.
Helena, which is to be Admiralty depot for the
future.
The Teazer has taken altogether three prizes.
She chased the schooner James Buchanan, 142
tons, for 18 hours, over a course of 125 miles, with-
out success, but subsequently in May, 1858, caught
her owner, who had expended his profits in the
General Scott, which had no slaves, but dollars to
the value of £1,812 for purchasing them.-

Commodore Charles Wise, in the paddlewheel
steam-ship Vesuvius, 6, was on the South Coast,
with the screw steam-vessel Viper, 4, Lieut. and
Commander Austin B. Hodgkinson ; the sloop Heron,
12, Commander Wm. H. Truscott ; the paddlewheel
steam-vessel Medusa, 4, Commander Wm. Bowden ' •
and the paddlewheel steam-vessel Antelope, 3,
Lieutenant and Commander John W. Pike,
The brig Childers, 12, Command W. Swinburne,
and the paddlewheel steamvessel, Trident, 6, Com-
mander Francis A. Close, has just left Sierra Leone
for a cruise.

The Teazer has been in commission three years
and nine months, during which she has been con-
stantly occupied on the coast, and has not once
visited the island of St. Helena—a privilege usually
accorded to every ship in the squadron. In the ex-
pedition to Mellacoree in May, 1855, Commander
Nicholas was wounded and Paymaster Andrews
was killed. Her crew assisted in the attack at
Scarcies in February last. The Teazer had no less
than five commanders while in commission, and of
those officers who were in her when she went out,
only two returned—viz., Assistant-Surgeon Jackson
and. Second Master Williams. She is not consi-
dered a very desirable vessel for service on the
West Coast ; she sails tolerably well, but being low
in the water, is constantly wet.
Off the West Coast of Africa the Teazer had very
squally weather, and near the Western Isles en-
countered a severe gale. Strong south-westerly
winds and heavy seas were experienced in the Bay
of Biscay.
For the last three weeks her officers have watched
with considerable interest the progress of the comet,
which they have observed recently to travel very
fast. The seamen attribute the severe weather ex-
perienced to the proximity of this luminous body.