The Sun.
London, England, 1857-08-05 00:00:00

SPAIN.

The Madrid journals of the 31st ultimo have
reached us. The Government was actively engaged
in pi eparing the budget of 1858 for presentation to
the Cortes. It did not doubt that it would be able
to provide amply for the re-payment of the Mires
loan of 300,000,000 reals, as the cessation of the
food crisis would alone give resourcPs amounting
to 100,000,000 reals. The Spanish Cabinet is con-
tinuing its warlike preparations, as if the Mexican
afflic were not likely t.) bs settled by mediation."

Generals Dabormida and Pastore have Let out
from Turin for Ales?andria, in order to direct the
armament of that fortress. A hundred guns are
to be sent from La Spezia forthwith.

" The leave of absence granted to General Tod-
tleben, who is at present at Kissingen," says a
'eau. from St. Petersburg, " has been extended,
at his desire, to next year. Although the health
of the General no longer inspires alarm, he has
been recommended to remain some time longer in
a mild climate."

AMERICA.

(By ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY MORNING.

The Liverpool, New- York, and Philadelphia
screw steam-ship City of Washington has arrived
from New York, with one day's later advices, and
$82,069 in specie on freight.
The screw steam ship Circassian, hence, bad
arrived at St. John's.

The Washington correspondent of the New York
Herald writes, that the " President and Cabinet
fully indorse Governor Walker's proclamation."
A collision . between the troops and rebels is
said to be inevitable. The Governor has I een
instructed to enfirce the territorial laws at all
hazard 4, and at the point of the bayonet if neces-
sary.

A. fire had broken out at St. Louis on,the 22d,
and consumed several manufactories ; the estimated
loss was from 5100,000 to $200,000.
In the New York Money Market the free supply
on call continued. Foreign exchange was dull and
some forced sales of 60 clays on London had
been made at 1091, 'but leading drawars were
mostly firm at 1091 ; sight bills done at 1101 ;
Paris, 5 1S to 164. The stock market opened
firmly, but at the second board the Bears took ad-
vantage of the shipments, and caused an average
decline of about one per cent. upon the extreme
rates. The cotton market continued to harden,
wi,h sales to the trade at very full prices. Flour
without change of importance. CJrn better. Pork
firmer for prime, and buoyant for mess. Beef
steady. Bacpn unchanged. Cut meats fair demand.
Lard steady. Butter and cheese selling freely.
Bpirits of turpentine, with large arrivals, fiat.
Rosin, dull, fine ditto.
Freights to London, 4s. for turpentine, and Is.
9d. per barrel for rosin ; crude turpen'ine, is sd.
per 230 lb. -; cotton, to Liverpool, 3s; to Havre,
31.

NEW ORLEANS, JULY 21.
Cotton Bales to-day, 1,500 bales ; sales of the last
three days, 950 bales ; receipts, 180 bales ; stock at
New Orleans, 24,500 bales ; decreased receipts)
248,000 ; decreased receipts at all the southern
port', 574,500.. Mixed corn, 80c. to 90c. Flour
•

7 dollars. Red wheat (new), 1.40 dol. Freights
s'agn

GUNBOATS FOR INDIA.

A writer in a contemporary says :—" Allow
me, through the medium of your paper to calf
attention to the necessity, in the present unhappy
condition of this country, of sending some gun-
boats for service to the Indian rivers. The smallest
of those built for the last war wolld answer for the
navigation of the Ganges in the dry weather, pro-
vided they draw not more than three feet of water.
if we had a few now running up and down that
river numbers of European lives and vast quantities
of property would certainly be saved. A very
large proportion of the Europeans who, like Myself,
are flying for their lives from the brutal violence 0
the insurgents, have taken refuge on board the
steamers of the India General Steam Navigation
and Ganges Navigation companies. Many prefer
living on board them to going into the for tifl edplaces
many of which are not deemed safe, from having, par
of their garrisons composed of native troops. The in-
halitants of places far distant from the Ganges,
such as Juanpoor, have fled to the steamers, and
all those who can reach them ought to have the
same opportunit'es of escape offered them as they
have if living in a European cotmtry whictx
should enter into war with England. The gunboats
might ply up and down the rivers at short inter-
vals, so as to prevent the plundering of native boats
by the village people, who are believed to be led
on by the prisoners who have been liberated fi ow-
the gaols. For a distance of 12 miles below Mir-
zapore every boat was plundered last Tuesday, the
9th, and the river banks completely strewed with
cotton, rice, lac dye, &c., which was being carried
off by the villagers in the most open manner, in
broad daylight, and on the most extensive scale:
The steamers of the companies above mentioned
*usually give these marauders a volley of bullets as
they pass, and have coat ibuted not atlittle to check
their depredations. Every village, where people
are caught plundering, ought to be at once burnt.
Gunboats would likewise be very useful in protee-
ing towns on the river banks, as ferries, in throw'ing in troops and supplies to forts, &c., and cut-
ting off the passage of Insurgents over the rivers.
With two or three gunboats Mirzapore would b°
quite safe ; as it is,. we expect every hour to hear
of the sack of this city, one of the richest in India,
and the destruction of all the Europeans' residences
the owners having all fled for their lives during
the past week. At Allahabad, too, the insurgents
might have been shelled from the river with the
utmost facility. Coals might be conveyed up froin
Calcutta and depots formed at intervals, consisting
of boats anchored off shore, and protected by a gull"
boat or European troops or civilians. I trust the
Admiralty will at once send a few gunboats out.

MURDER AT SHADWELL.-ESOAPE OF THE MEW/0011'
—Yesterday morning, a female, named Sarah Hamilton'
alias Brown, aged 24 years, expired in the accidelt
ward of the London Hospital, from the effects of a 10:
inflicted by an American sailor. The deceased wa,
a dancing room in St. Geo7ge'e-in-the-East on Saturn%
night, and retired with the sadir to a diEreputahle
in the ntighbourhood. They quarrell-3d and fought, An
in the struggle the woman was ttabbed. She was taken
to the hospital, but the wounds were fatal. The t!,
as soon as he inflicted the wound, rushed out of t
house, and has not yet been captured.