The Sun.
London, England, 1866-01-18 00:00:00

HAY.

SMITHFIELD.—Meadow hay, £4 4s to £5 15s; clover,
£5 5s to £6 15s Od ; and straw, £1 16s to £2 Os per load.
A. moderate demand.

CUMBERLAND.—Meadow hay, £4 4s to £5 15s Od; clove;
£5 5s to £G 15s Od ; and straw, £1 16s to £2 2s per load.
A fair supply.
WHITECHAPEL.—Meadow hay £4 4s to £5 15s; clover,
£5 5s to £6 15s Ocl ; and straw, £1 16s to £2 Os per load.
Trade inactive.

COAL MARKET.
Price per ton at the close of the market.

_
s. d. s. II
N.Staffordshire 17 0 Walls End Haswell... 21 0
Oarway and Duffryn South Hetton
Malting 24 0 East Hartlepool
Shaw'sET.artley lB 6 Hetton 2l 0
South Kelloo
Heugh Hall
Kelloo

Ships at market, 35; sold 21

The Insurrection in Spain.

(From the Correspondent of the Times)
MADRID, Jan. 14.
There is nothing more unsatisfactory than to try
to make out the meaning of the bulletins that are
published daily by the Commanding officers who
are conducting the campaign against Prim. There
are no less than five columns, we are assured, in hot
pursuit of the rebel, but we are at a loss to under-
stand whether they are more unwilling or more un-
able, not only to get near him, but even to ascer-
tain where he is.
General Zabala telegraphs yesterday, at half-past
lin the morning, from Alcoba de Tajo—a place, if I
can trust my map, a little to the east of Puente del
Arzobispo, informing us that he has just arrived on
the spot followed only by the cavalry under his
orders, after a march of nine leagues over swampy
grounds, crossed at :frequent intervals by the law-
less streams flowing from the Sierra. He expected
the infantry would join him in a few hours, and,
after allowing the reunited division a short hour of
rest, he intended to proceed in quest of the rebels,
according as he might receive intelligence.
Other telegrams assure us that the insurgents had
left the margin of the Tagus, and ran up to the
mountains ; they slept on the 12th at Campillo, and
moved off in the direction of Puente San Vicente.
Major Camino is close upon their track—so close
that on the 13th he took at Aldeanueva seven pri-
soners belonging to the rearguard of the fugitives.
General Echague, also, with all his forces, presses
hard on the footsteps of the rebels, availing himself
of any information that may reach him as to the
line of retreat they are following.
Other accounts describe Prim as hovering on the
12th about the neighbourhood of Talavera, conse-
quently several leagues to the east of Puente del
Arzobispo, and considerably in the rear of Zabala,
having apparently doubled upon him. Were these
tidings correct, we might hope to understand the
meaning of the " marches and counter-marches" by
which, we are officially informed, the rebel leader
strives to put off his inevitable doom. The
only conclusion it is possible to arrive at, after cri-
tically comparing all telegraphic documents, is that
the officers in command of the five columns march-
ing in pursuit of Prim know as little as to the real
movements and position of the insurgent chief as
we know here in Madrid, and that is as much as
you know about it in London.
Notwithstanding all this uncertainty, however,
there can be no doubt as to the effect which the
continuance of this long state of suspense has had
on men's minds throughout Spain ; it has greatly
reassured the Government, and wearied out and al-
most extinguished the hopes of revolutionary parties.
Whatever grounds Prim may have had to look for
support from a part at least of the disaffected army,
it is clear that O'Donnell's measures have been
sufficiently prompt and efficacious to prevent gene-
ral outbreaks, and as for the people, even of Madrid,
even of the manufacturing districts of Catalonia,
we must now be satisfied that they will venture on
no movement in which the soldiers do not take the
initiative. There is a garrison of no less than 10,000
men, between soldiers and civil or veteran guards,
to keep order in the capital, and the Progresista
committees, on which Prim was supposed mainly to
rely for support, either have gone spontaneously
asunder, or have been forcibly dispersed by the
authorities. Most of the journals of the Libera

party, Iberia, Novedades, Sob erania Nacional, Pueblo,
&c., have discontinued their publication.
Prim's movement remains thus an isolated fact,
and, as such, it has little more than a personal in-
terest. The rebel General may, or not, succeed in
making his way into the neighbouring kingdom of
Portugal, or he may hold his own for weeks against
his numerous pursuers, either owing to his superior
strategy, or to the rugged and almost impervious
nature of the ground ; or, finally, to the reluctance
on the part of Zabala, Echague, and O'Donnell
himself to obtain possession of a man who plight
give them but little trouble as a fugitive; and
who could not easily be disposed of as a pri-
soner. An insurrection which has been hitherto so

wonderfully free from bloodshed would, perhaps,
acquire too great an importance if it were to termi-

nate with the execution of such a man as Prim ; and
what might soon be given to oblivion as a mere

farce would sink into the people's minds if it were
turned into a deep tragedy.
The Madrid papers give at full length the report
of a debate in the Portuguese Chamber of the Bth,
in which the representatives of that nation, without
distinction of parties, loudly and unanimously pro-
test against the scheme supposed to be enter-
tained by the extreme Liberal party here for the
annexation of Portugal to Spain, or of Spain to
Portugal, and the formation of a great kingdom of
Iberia.

THE GREAT INUNDATION AT WINDSOR, ETON,
AND STAlNES.—Yesterday evening the waters had ceased
rising, and the floods, which have covered the country
around Windsor and Eton till the two towns look as if
they were situated in a lake district, will probably not in-
crease. The state of the country on the banks of the
Thames between 'Windsor and Staines is past all descrip-
tion ; a broad sheet of water extends for miles between
the two places.