The Sun.
London, England, 1858-05-11 00:00:00

SWEDEN.

A letter from Stockholm of the 3d says :—" The
state of the King's health is more satisfactory ; his
Majesty has recovered the use of his feet, wich
were paralysed, and is able to walk about his apart-
ments. It appears confirmed that the court will
take up its residence for the summer in the palace
of Drottingholm, an island in the midst of the
lake Maelar. The 6th has been fixed for the depar-
ture of the Prince Regent for Christiana to open
the Storthing, and it is said. that H. R.H. is likely
to make au excursion to Varangerfjord, at the
northern extremity of the Scandinavian Penin-
sula."

SPAIN.
The Madrid journals of the sth due yesterday
and those of the 6th due this morning have arrived.
They are chiefly cccupied. with the resignation of
M. Diaz, Minister of the Interior, and the sus-
pension of the Cortes, already announced by
telegraph. The cause assigned for the minister's
resignation was that he did not think that
the Cabinet adopted a sufficiently decided policy,
that its measures for the preservation of order
were not what circumstances required, and that
it would not undertake -,e prevent public func-
tionaries in the Chamberfrom opposing the measures
of the government. It is albged by some of the jour-
nals that the majority of the Ministers, in order to
prevent M. Diaz's resignation, proposed to act in
conformity with his views ; but that he persisted in
resigning. M. Orovio, governor of Madrid, was
spoken of as his successor. The principal func-
tionaries whose dismissal M. Diaz demanded for
their hostility to the Government in the Cortes
were M. Martinez de la Rosa, Vice-President of
the Royal Council • M. Gcnzalez Bravo, ambas-
sador at London ; NI. Collsntes, Member of the
Supreme Tribunal of Justice ; and M. Herrera,
Fiscal of the Royal Council. As to the sus•
pension of the Cortes, it was effected very
quietly ; the President of the Council pre-
sented himself in full uniform, read a
royal decree, and the two Chambers im-
mediately broke up. The Ministerial Espana de-
clares that the suepensiou was -desirable, in conse-
quence of the Queen's absence at Aranjuez, and
the necessity of the Ministers being in frequent
communication with her Majesty rendering their
attendance on the Cortes inconvenient, and pre-
venting them from properly examining the mea-
sures discussed. It however intimates that the
suspension will only be for a few days. It was re-
ported that the Ministers of Finance and War in-
tended, in imitation of M. Diaz, to resign. The
Espana says that "in the precision of events that
;nay happen Europe" the Government has re-
solved to increase very ccnsiderably the garrisons
of Mahon, Palma, and otha. places in the Balearic
Islands. in

MELANCHOLY CATASTROPHE AT SEA.—LOSS OF THE
AFRICAN MAIL STEAMER CANDACF.—THE CAPTAIN AND
SEcEN OTHERS DROWNED.—Liverpool, Monday.--tie
deeply rood to announce that intelligence was received
this tuornin.; by Messrs. Laird and Fletcher, the agents
for the Litrierican Mail Steam-ship Company, of the
total loss, with seven lives, of the steam-ship Candace,
belonging to the line. It appears that the Candace
was on her homeward passage from the West Coast of
Africa, :laving on board, in addition to the mails and
crew. b?,t ween thirty and forty passengers, and that
on Tuesday la,t, the 4 h inst., she came into collision
with the barque Ida El zaheth, bonnd from Cardiff to
Batavia, and almost immediately foundered. Captain
Rult, the master of the steamer,
two passengers, and
four ti the crew, were drowned, but the remaining por-
tion cf those on board, between 50 and CO in number,
were taken OR board the Ida Elizabeth and went on with
.her. Tiwireport of this fatal disaster was received this
%moiling ky,special telegram from Lisbon, having been
sent thence to Liverpool to Messrs. Laird and Fletcher,
itnntediately on the arrival of the Brazilian mail steamer
A von at the former port. The Candace sailed from Liver•
pool on the 21st of February, calling at Plymouth for
the African mail, and would have been due at Ply-
mouth in a few days.

FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE TRENT
_ ---VALLEY RAILWAY..

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

General Manager's Office, Euston Station
London, May 10, 1858.

SIR, —I regret to acquaint you that information
has just been received of a serious accident having
occurred about a mile south of the Nuneaton Sta-
tion, on the Trent Valley Railway, to the 9.0 a.m.
down passenger train of this morning. It appears
that a cow had strayed on the line, and was struck
by the engine, throwing several carriages off the
metals, killing three passengers and injuring some
others. The engine itself did not leave the rails.
The names of the deceased passengers are—
Mr. Richmond, of near Maryport, Cumberland.
Mr. Morgan, cf Shrewsbury.
The Rev. T. Miller, of Lurgan, Ireland.
The names of the injured passengers are—
Mr. Ince, a barrister.
Miss Richmond, daughter of above deceased.
Mr. Boyan, of Glasgow.
Mr. Dallas.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
M. HUISH.