The Sun.
London, England, 1857-01-22 00:00:00

SPAIN.

MADRID, Jan. 19.—The insurgent band under
the brothers Hierros has presented its claims to
be included in the amnesty. The Gazette contains
a declaration to the effect that the most perfect
understanding prevails among the various members
of the government.
The Duke and Duchess de Montpensier were ex-
pected at Madrid, the duchess having expressed
the desire to pass part of the winter with the
Queen, her sister ; it was said that the Queen had
determined on accompanying her sister on her re-
turn to Andalusia, and on being present at the
ceremonies of the Holy Week at Seville, where
they are peculiarly splendid. The Countess de
Reuss, wife of General Prim, had resolved to go to
Toledo to share his captivity. The quantity of
wheat imported into Spain on account of the go-
vernment from the beginning of November to the
end of January was 328,720 bushels.
The Madrid journals of the 15th contain no-
thing of political interest. The Gazette contains a
royal decree which enacts that governors and
functionaries of provinces shall be formed into a
corps called " Civil Provincial Administration
that the salary of the Governor of Madrid shall
be 60,000 reals a-year ; and that of the governors
of other provinces, 40,000. The Gazette announces
that two other bishops,
those of Tarragona and
Urge!, have sent addresses to the Queen thanking
her Majesty for what she has done for the Church.

SARDINIA.
The King of Sardinia, on the 18th, received the
deputations from the Senate and Chamber of
Deputies with the addresses in answer to the speech
from the throne. His Majesty's answer was as
follows
:—" I am happy in the thought that the
support of the nation has never failed me, and I
am convinced that I may rely upon its affection
and patriotism, should it become necessary to make
further and greater sacrifices."
The Chamber of Deputies at Turin, in its sitting
of the 17th, after a protracted discussion of the
principle of freedom of instruction, voted an order
of the day, accepting the declaration of the cabinet,
that that principle should be carried into effect in
a special law relative to private instruction.
The Opiwione of Turin positively denies the
rumour that the Court of Sardinia had sent anY
one to compliment the Emperor of Austria.

THE INDIAN MAILS.

SOUTHAMPTON, THURSDAY, 10 A.M.
The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer
Indus, Captain Brooks, from Alexandria with the
India mails, has just arrived.
She was telegraphed off Hurst at midnight, but
lay to outside Calshot all night on account of the
thick weather. She left Alexandria January sth ;
Malta, 10th ; Gibraltar, 16th.
She brings 41 passengers, specie value 8,450/.,
and a full cargo of fruit, silks, &c.
At Alexandria—H.M.S. Tartarus, Peninsular
and Oriental steamer Vectis, American frigate Con-
stitution ; at
Conqueror, Brunswick, Centurion, Swallow, Shear-
water, and Wye ;
Malta—li.M. flagship Hibernia,
at Gibraltar—H.M.S. Curlew,
screw steamers Lebanon and Taurus.
Gibraltar exchanges on the 10th.—Lisbon 601 to
50i ; Paris, sf. 32c. ; Marseilles, sf. 33c. ; Genoa,
sf. 34c

A gale occurred at Gibraltar on the 13th, from
W. to N.W., which caused several casualties among
the merchant shipping. The French bark Alexander
Went ashore, and is full of water, and masts oyer
side. The British brigantine Nazarene, from New
York, went aground off the Old Molehead. The
French brig Eliza Marie was beached off the Devil's
Tongue. The British bark Alpha was driven be-
hind the rock, and lost sails, and was very leaky.