The Sun.
London, England, 1857-11-06 00:00:00

SPAIN.

The Madrid journals of the let, which have ar-
rived in due course, contain a good deal on the
alleged ministerial crisis, but what they sly amounts
to nothing more than what was sta!e I yesterday.
The Espana, a semi-official organ, though repro-
ducing the details given by its contemporary,
repeats its declaration of the previous day that
" for the present at leapt the rumours of a minis-
terial crisis have no reasonable foundation." The
same journal states, in contradiction to what has
brea said, that neither the Duke de Valencia (Nar-
vaez) nor M. Bravo Murillo has any intention of
going abroad; it says also that Queen Christina
does not intend to retuin to Spahr for the present,
though invited to do so for her daughter's accouch-
ment. The Fenix affirms that if the Queen gives
the Pope has promised to be his
that the Duke and Duchess
gbondtflartthoera, pifrianpcer,incess,
de Montpensier are to be godfather and godmother.
The Queen and King, on leaving the church of
Atocha on the previous evening, were so struck
with the appearance of the planet Jupiter that they
wait to the Observatory expressly to view it
through a telescope. A royal decree appoints M.
Lozano, ex-Minister of Justice, public prosecutor
of the Supreme Court.

A Vienna letter, in the Cologne Gazette, says :
" Whilst Austria and England present their con-
gratulations to Prince Alexander of Servia on his
escape from assassination, and their approbation
of his measures, the consuls of France and Rus-
sia adhere to the protests of the senators who
have resigned against those measures. This con-
duct on the part of France excites groat surprise ;
but it causes none as regards Russia, for the said
senators belong to the Russia party. Several
Tervians, compromised in the recent plot, have
sought refuge on Austrian territory, and will not
be given up. No orders have been given to in-
crease the Austrian troops in the Wiowodine."

A letter from Milan, in the Augsburg Gazette,
says :—" The reduction which is about to be
effected in the Austrian army will be greater than
was at first intended, being in fact the most consi-
derable since 1848. Tao depot battalions of all the
regiments are to be suppressed, and the third bat-
Wiens are to be charged to form recruits. The
companies of the battalions retained are to be re-
duced to 80 mei], that is, to half their present
number. As the army thus reduced will scarcely
sutfice for the garrisons in• Lombardo-Veneta, the
2d corps d'armee will be increased by a regiment of
infantry. Not fewer than 30 generals are to be placed
on the retired list. The regiments of Romagna and
Ancona are to pteserve their present effective."

The vote of the people of Neufchatel on the de-
cree of the Grand. Council relative to the eleJtoral
bases for the Constituent Council is fixed for the
Bth. The Grand Council is convoked for the 9.11
inst. to receive the vote, and take measures accord-
Ing!y.

A letter from Naples, of the 30th ult., states
better, though the
that the Princess Donna Maria, sister of the King,
and wife of Don Sebastian, of Spain, had beeline
so ill that the last sacrament had been administered
to her ; but that H H. afterwards became a little
to be felt respecting her.
'greatst disquietude continued

A PRISONER JUMPING T/IROUGEI A RAILWAY
WINDOW.—Last night information wax received by the
police of the escape of a prisoner named Henry Wheat-
ley, supposed to be connected with a notorious gang in
the neighbourhood of the Waterloo-road, Larnb.tb.
Two officers were conveying the man to Stafford gaol along
the South Staffordshire Railway, when he entered into
conversation with them, admitting that he was guilty of
the critno imputed to himand said that when be got
liberated he would never be
guilty of a similar offenco.
Whilst the train was proceeding at its full speed al)ng
the line, and when about half way between \Vichuor and
Alrewas station, he made a sudden dart through the
window of the carriage, and, jumping upon the side of
the railway, managed,
befuro any communicAtion could
be made with the guard or engine-driver, to effect a
retreat. He h described as follows:-5 feet G inches
high, slender make, pale cmplexion, dark brown hair
in small ringlets, worn rather long, brown eyes, small
beard,. light colour, sharp-pointed zone, thick lips, and
proonnent chin. At the tine he j.iniped through the
window he wore a heck (14) with peak fashionably
mule, and fixed jauntily on one villa of his bead, a loose
dark overcoat, dark-coloured trousers, drink-vexl-, and
lace-up boots,
been carrying
"e°- He is u;well-known cardsharprr, and has recd, tly
with patent leather to and brass lace-
on that business at Nottin ham, Sheffield,
and Th g
rmiughain, and there is no doubt be will attempt
to do the same in London.