The Sun.
London, England, 1858-10-25 00:00:00

SPAIN:

The Madrid Gazette of the 19th contains a royal
decree which is of some interest to the Spanish
nobility. It enacts-Ist, That it shall be no longer
necessary for a person to be in possession of the
title of viscount before obtaining that of baron,
marquis, or duke. 2dly, That no title once cancelled
can be recovered. 3dly, In order to obtain the title
of viscount or baron, it shall be necessary to bring
proofs of having done personal services in favour
of the nation and the throne, of enjoying the in-
come and of having all the other
reqisrtheqr
isuimedenbtron law,ed in the regulations. 4thly,
In no future decree, the Minister of Justice and
Public Worship, to whose department belongs all
that relates to titles, shall propose to her Ma-
jesty the granting of two titles in one diploma,
even if one of those titles should be that of vis-
count i and for the future,
_the fact of king

the son. of a count, marquis, duke, or baron
shall not be considered as giving the right
of viscountship. The Gazette also contains
a notification by which grandees and other
persons holding titles are informed that
those who have any'claims to make with reference
to having their names inserted in the official guide
(" Guia de Foresteros") for 1859, must make them
in writing before the 15th of next month; and it is
declared those persons who use a title which is not
set down in the official list as belonging to
them will be liable to pains and penalties.
The other journals are filled with election mat-
ters. The Espana had again been condemned to a
fine. As a proof of the height to which party
spirit is now carried, a letter has the following :
" The tribunals have become now a sort of arena in
which things which cannot be printed can be
spoken with impunity. Newspaper prosecutions
are very frequent, and the advocates who are
charged with the defence of editors, being generally
public men, employ to the utmost the latitude
allowed to the bar, not to defend their clients, bnt
to aggravate the attacks and the libels for which
they are prosecuted. When such trials take place,
the benches and every standing place are occupied
by well-dressed persons, who take delight in the
polished invectives that are thus delivered against
public men."

The Corriere Mercantile of Genoa states that the
Odessa Company is displaying the greatest activity
in turning the Villafranca establishment to account.
The directors of the works have already arrived ;
the necessary stores and supplies have been ordered
at Toulon, and upwards of 200,000 metres of timber
have been bought for the buildings to be erected.
The steam-engines are to be sent from England.

Count O'Donnell, aide-de-camp of the Emperor
of Austria, who went to Warsaw with an autograph
letter from his Majesty to the Emperor Alexander,
has accompanied the latter to St. Petersburg.

AMERICA.

ARRIVAL OF THE ARABIA.
_ LIVERPOOL, SUNDAY, 12 P.M.

The royal mail steamship Arabia has arrived
from New York, with advices to the 14th inst.
She brings 82 passengers and 453,000 dollars in
specie.
On the 14th she passed the Africa, Indian Em-
pire, and North Star going into New York.

The news from the States is of no interest.
The mail from California had arrived at St.
Louis, but the telegraphic accounts are meagre.
The water at Fraser River was too high for mining,
and business was much depressed at Victoria.
Several skirmishes had taken place with Indians
in Oregon.
In Kansas, so far as known, the elections were
in favour of the Republicans.
Two late despatches have been received from
Mexico. One says that Gen. Vidaurri had been
defeated by Miramon near San Luis ; and the
other, Miramon had been routed by Vidaurri, and
had blown out his brains in despair.
Governor Garza had levied a contribution on all
foreigners at Tampico, to the amount of 100,000
dollars.

The Administration at Washington has received
an official document from those in power in two of
the Society Islands, proposing a surrender of them
to the United States.

Havana advices to the 10th contain nothing poli-
tically important or interesting. Sugars were quiet
and declining.
Freights were dull at New York on the 13th.
The business in stock. was small, but in the Ex-
charge market the scarcity of commercial bills
enabled drawers to obtain a good price for their
exchanges. There was a fair business done in ster-
int% at 110 to 1091, and in francs at 5 12i. Money
was without alteration in price. The news by the
City of Baltimore from this rut tended to depress
the market for breadstuffs.

The cotton market was heavy, and prices unsettled.
The pork market was heavy, and prices had declined
—especially for old. Beef was unchanged. Prime
mess and hams were quiet and nominal. Lard was
plentiful, and prices unsettled.
In freights there was rather more offering, and
rates at the close manifested a little more tone.

At Baltimore, on the same day, flour was dull aid
heavy, but wheat unchanged.
At Cincinnati wheat and flour were both dull,
but there was no change in provisions.
At Buffalo rather more was doing in flour, and
prices were easier ; wheat, however, was dull and
' heavy.
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At Oswego flour was inactive, all wheat a
shade lower.

THE PENINSULAR HAILS.

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam-
ship Alhambra, Capt. J. D. Steward, with the above
named mails, in charge of Lieut. Irwin, R.N., Ad-
miralty agent, arrived at Southampton yesterday
morning. She left Gibraltar Oct. 15 ; Cadiz, 16 ;
Lisbon, 19 ; and Vigo, 20. On the outward voyage
the Alhambra experienced south-westerly gales
across the Bay of Biscay, and northerly winds along
the Portuguese coast. Homewards she had southerly
winds on the coast, and in crossing the bay a north-
easterly gale ; heavy rains at Gibraltar and Lisbon.
His Serene Highness Prince George of Saxony,
with his doctor and aide-de-camp, were passengers
by the Alhambra, from Lisbon. She brought in all
20 first and eight second-class passengers, and on
freight £2,350 in specie, 18 haltchests of lemons,
125 half-chests of oranges, 12 cases of plums, 50
cases of eggs, 26 boxes of grapes, 10 barrels of nuts,
3 casks of wine, and 13 packages of general mer-
chandise.

By the Alhambra we have received our papers
and letters from Gibraltar to the loth inst., which
should have come by the Indus.

His Excellency the Governor presented new
colours on the 13th to the 2d Battalion of the 6th
or Ist Royal Warwickshire Regiment of Foot. The
ceremony took place in the presence of a numerous
assemblage of spectators, and was followed in the
evening by a grand ball and supper.
By the arrival at Gibraltar on the 12th of the
Dutch steamer Rotterdam, from Malaga, intelligence
was received of the loss of the Orient steam-tug,
which left Gibraltar the previous week for the Bos-
phorus. The following account of the accident is
taken from the report of Joseph Swan, late master
of the Orient :—" Left Gibraltar on 6th mkt., the
boat being tight and in good order. All went on
well until 4 a.m. of the 7th, when the Orient sud-
denly sprunk a leak. All the pumps were set to
work, but the water gradually gained on them.
Put her head for 'Malaga, and commenced baling
and clearing the deck of the coals, but all to no
effect. Seeing she was filling, we took to the boat,
and had scarcely got clear when she went down
head foremost at about half-past 4. At 6 a.m.
was picked up by the Jeune Amaury, of Nantes.
The captain was very kind to us ; but, as he had
no accommodation, we went on board the Sunbeam,
of Whitby, Capt. Walker, who did all in his power
to make us comfortable. I return both captains
my sincere thanks for their kindness to crew and
self while on board their vessels. Capt. Walker,
finding his provisions getting short, bore up, as the
wind was west, and anchored off Point Molinos,
six miles from Malaga, on the 10th inst. I then
landed part of the crew, and the remainder got on
shore yesterday, from which place we were for-
warded by the British Consul, per steamer Rotter-
dam, to this port, where we arrived this morning."
On the outward passage of the Alhambra she
landed at Gibraltar the crew of the Tuscan shi p
Maria, Capt. Salacca, which was completely lost off
the bar of St. Übes, on the coast of Portugal. The
ship was from Constantinople, laden with wheat
for Falmouth. The Tuscan Consul forwarded the
mate and crew to their homes, via Marseilles, in
the Dutch steamer Rhone.

The Neapolitan brig Eduardo, Capt. R. Chirico,
had arrived at Gibraltar from Callao. She is the
first vessel bearing the Neapolitan flag that has
ever rounded Cape Horn. The Eduardo, after
discharging a cargo of Sicilian produce at Glasgow,
was chartered to take out manufactured goods
to Callao, which was done to the entire satis-
faction of the receivers, who procured her return
freight to Europe. She brought about 400 tons of
guano for Valencia, from which port Captain
Chirico intends proceeding direct to Naples, where
he expects to get the award of merit usually granted
by the Neapolitan Government for such enterpris-
ing conduct.
The British merchant steamer Albanian, Captain
J. Parfitt, from Liverpool, arrived at Gibraltar on
the 14th, and left on the following morning for the
East.
The French Government steamer Titan, which
was detained at Gibraltar for 24 hours, owing to
the boisterous state of the weather, took her depar-
ture at half-past 6on the morning of the 15th,
with the Barbary correspondence for Oran and
Algiers.
The Spanish steamer San Servando, also detained
on account of the weather, did not leave until the
same morning for Cadiz. She was conveying some
passengers to proceed to London in the Gibraltar
steamer, appointed to start from Cadiz on the 17th.
Among them was the Rev. G. Alton, of the We*.