The Sun.
London, England, 1858-10-06 00:00:00

to elect him, and many of whom have suffered all
sorts of persecutions on his account, declining the
honour of going to the poll at the next election. The
Minister of Fomento (Public Works) is, it is said, pre-
paring a number of decrees relative to public works,
all of which works are to be done by contract,
" the confidence of capitalists in the stability of the
Government being such," says a Ministerial
organ, " that all the contracts lately made are
very advantageous to the country, and contrast
strongly with the scandals of other times."
The treaty with Portugal concerning interna-
tional communications had been modified, and was
about to be ratified. At Albacete, the Liberal party
had, like the same party at Valencia and in some
other places, signed an address declaring confidence
in the present Administration. The Queen had
conferred the grand cross of the Order of Charles
111. on the Pope's Nuncio. The Queen and King
had received the Prince de Partona, Sicilian
Minister, who presented to their Majesties, in the
name of the King of the Two Sicilies, the grand
cross of the Royal Order of Merit of Naples for
the Prince of the Asturias. The Progressist com-
mittee on the elections had published an ad-
dress to the electors, in which, whilst abstain-
ing from any eulogium on the existing Cabinet,
they exhorted them to examine its various acts with
impartiality. The Peninsular Correspondence
contains the following :—" The Supreme Court of
Justice is much occupied just now with appeal
cases concerning the rectification of the election
lists, which cases are net fewer than 17,000 in
number, and though a great many of them are so
exactly alike that they may be soon despatched
after a first judgment can serve as a precedent, yet
it would have been impossible to get through them
all by the 10th of this month, the day fixed
for the election, had not the Supreme Court
appointed a sufficient number of supplemen-
tary tribunals, and called on the deputy
fiscals and crown barristers to help to for-
ward the business. Many of the objections to
votes are founded on legal subtleties, and in these
cases the Minister's orders will be carried out, that
is to say, the spirit of the law will be attended to
rather than its letter. Nor are these matters the
only things that will afford work to the gentlemen
of the long robe. During the incessant personal
warfare which has lately been carried on by the
newspapers it has been impossible to avoid many
a libel. The Ministerial organ, the Diario Es-
panol, has entered an action against the four news-
papers, which, as has been stated, have solemnly
excommunicated it from newspaper communion.
They in their turn have had recourse to the tri-
bunals for alleged libels against them. Some of the
absolutist journals have legal accounts to settle
with the tribunals on account of Crown prose-
cutions, and one or two are under prosecution for
libel. As if there were not journals enough already,
we arc threatened with the appearance of another,
which I suspect is to be very aggressive, for I have
observed these last days in the advertising sheet,
the Peru, an advertisement in the largest type,
Wanted urgently, a responsible editor'—a func-
tionary in these days not easy to be found. It is to
be observed, too, that though there are so many daily
journals there are no two of them that are of the same
opinion. Thus of the absolutist journals, one advo-
cates as openly as the public prosecutor will allow
the advent of Don Carlos's son with a sort of monar-
chico-theolocratical government ; another, the Mo-
narquia (a paper written with much elegance of style)
pleads in favour of absolute monarchy with Isabella
11., and as a sort of palliative the fueros or ancient
privileges of the provinces to vote their own taxes.
Of the progressista prints the most violent is that
which is edited by a devout apothecary named
Calve Asensio, a man of some reputation in science,
who wrote himself into celebrity during the last
six months of the San Luis administration, and
who, as member of the first Parliament chosen
during Espartero's rule, gave proofs of talent that
raised him to the first rank amongst parliamentary
orators. As his opinions were much too advanced
for him to have a place in the Administration,
he has commenced a system of personal
attacks which have at least the merit of being
amusing. Pursuant to the tendency among Span-
ish writers there is scarcely a ministry or a section
of pblitical men that has not some nickname.
Thus in 1854, Collantes and San Luis' partisans
were called the Polacos or Poles, and Calvo Asensio
has given the present Government the nickname of
the 'lrish Ministry,' probably with a view of ex-
citing a feeling of nationality amongst the Spanish
people, who are proverbially jealous of foreigners.
The nickname, however, appears thus far to have no
adhesive property, for though it has been repeatedly
applied by the ex-pharmacologist's daily journal,
and though it has been eagerly repeated by his
contemporaries, the public cannot somehow or
other connect the designation Irishman' with
anything detrimental to their rights or contrary
to their prosperity.

The Indipendente of Turin declares the visit of
Prince Napoleon to Warsaw to be an event of great
political impirtance, as being, it thinks, the prelude
to an alliance between France, Russia, and Pied-
mont, hostile to Austria. The Indipendente regards
the intention manifested by the Emperor Alexan-
der 11. to visit Paris, the facilities accorded by the
Sardinian Government to a Russian company, and
the augmentation of the French garrison at Rome,
as proofs that such an alliance is in contemplation.

GREAT GLOBE, LEICESTER-SQUARE.

Certainly the most attractive, and at the same
,ime the most instructive lessons in geography, are
hose which are daily given at the exhibition in
Leicester-square. No incident or discovery occurs
in any part of the world of general interest but
Mr. Wyld's indefatigable agents immediately for-
ward accurate drawings of the locality, with such
minute descriptions as enable the talented ar-
tists who are employed at home to present them
presently, depicted in all the vividness of form
and colour, as additions to the dioramic views which
have for some years past formed so valuable a
supplement to the popular exhibition of the "Great
Globe itself." In this way we have been made ac-
quainted with the actual features of the most pro-
minent scenes of the Indian mutiny. We have wit-
nessed the siege of Delhi, we have sailed up the.
Hooghly—visited the city of palaces, pushed on into
the interior—take a peep within the walls of Be-
flares, Allahabad, and Agra, and paid a visit to
those palaces which must henceforth be replete with
interest, as the arenas of British suffering and
British-tiitimphs, Cawnpore and Lucknow. The,
conclusion of the treaty of Tien-tsin, which has'
opened a new field for European enterprise, has, at
the same time, afforded a new field for the display
of Mr. Wyld's indefatigability in increasing the
interests of his museum, and of the talents of his
artists. In addition to the views of Hong Kong,
Canton, the Bocca Tigris, &c., he has opened a series
of views of the less known. portions of China, to
which Europeans and Americans are henceforward
to be freely admitted. These new views, which are
exceedingly well painted, consist of the Port of
Amoy and the Ankoi hills, Foo Chow Foo and its
harbour Ningpo, Chusan, with the town of Tinghai,
Shanghai, Nankin, the Gulf of Pichele, and the ter-
mination of the great wall, the outside wall of
Pekin, and a sort of bird's eye view of the interior
of Pekin, as seen from the palace of the chief man-
darin, which, by an ingenious arrangement of the
lights, is presented at sunset, twilight, and moon-
light. These views are, like those of India, accom-
panied, by an instructive lecture, in which Mr.
Livingston, the able lecturer, gives a lucid descrip-
tion of the most marked natural characteristics,
works of art, arid historical occurrences which are
connected with each scene as it is brought under
the eye of the spzetator.
Another feature of importance in this exhibition
appropriate to the present moment is the marking
out on the Great Globe model the course of all the
existing and proposed courses of telegraphic com-
munication, Atlantic, Mediterranean, and Indian,
and the discoveries of Dr. Livingstone, which also
form the subject of a most interesting lecture.

REMARKABLE COINCIDENCE.—On Friday, Sept.
2), 1754, the Earl of Drumlanrig, eldest son of the Duke of
Queensberry, was on his journey from Scotland with the
Duke (his father) in one post-chaise, and the Duchess (his
mother) with Lady Drumlanrig in another, and being tired
with riding in the chaise, got on horseback. Soon after-
wards his pistol accidentally went off, and killed him on the
spot.—London Magazine, xxiii. 477. On Friday, August
6, 1858, the Marquis of Queensberry,i at his seat, Kinmount,
Dumfriesshire, went out with his gun to shoot rabbits, and
was found dead from his gun having gone off, and shot
him from the left breast through to the back,—,Notes and
Queries.