The Sun.
London, England, 1861-12-12 00:00:00

HAY MARKETS.

SMITHFIELD.—Meadow hay, £2 to £5 ; clover, £3 10s
to £6 Os Od ; and straw, £1 8s to £1 16s Od per load.
A. fair demand.

CUMBERLAND.—MewIow hay, £2 2s to £5 Os ; clover
do., £3 lOs to £5 18s; and straw, 8s to £1 163 per load.
Trade dull.

WHITECHAPEL.—Meadow hay, £2 Os to £5 Os; clove?
£3 10s to £6 Os Od ; and straw, £1 8s to £1 16s per load
Supply good.

THIS DAY'S SHIPPIG.

LONDON, Dec. 12.—Wind this day at noon .-South-
Westerly; rather fresh breeze, with dull, dirty weather,
but mild.

COWES, Dec. 12.—Wind S.W.— Arrived—Saxonia,
screw steamer, from New York, and proceeded for Bremen ;
passed Cape Race Dec. 4.

QUEENSTOWN, Dec. 11.--Wind W.S.W.—Arrived—
Etna, steamer, from New York.

PLYMOUTH, Dec. 11 —Wind W.S.W.—Sailed—Mel-
bourne, screw steamer, for Halifax; Her Majesty's ship
Hero, for Halifax; Her Majesty's ship Greyhound, for
Haliifax.

DARTMOUT R., Dec. 11.—Arrived—South Carolina; from
Antwerp for New York
CARDIFF, Dec. 10.—Wind S.W.—Sailed—Transit, for
Callao.

KING n OAD, Dec. 11.—WindS.S.—Arrived—Mary
Dundas, from Montreal.

iI3Y ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
SOUTHAMPTON, Thursday Morning.
Arrived—Wonder, steamer, from Havre ; Georges, from
Cherbourg ; Atalanta, steamer, from Jersey.
No sailings.

(BY SUBMARINE AND MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.)
GRAVESEND, Thursday Morning.
Arrived, Dec. 11—Parsons, from Rouen ; Teaser, from
Rouen; Tweedside, from Bassein; Catherine, from Paler-
mo; Marseilles, from Calcutta; Fergus, from Quebec;
Ben Nevis, from Colombo ; John Banshaw, from Messina.
Arrived, Dec. 12—Eclipse, from Seville; Cristin, from
Guernsey.

DEAL, Thursday Morning.
Passed—Lope di Vega, Berm steamer, from London, for
Corunna ; Caroline, from Shields, for Gibraltar; Q. F. L.
M., screw steamer, from the west, for London.

FOREIGN MAIL PACKET LIST.

SPAIN AND ITALY.

From the diplomatic documents laid by the
Italian Government before the Chamber of Depu-
ties at Turin, we select the following despatch of
the Minister of Victor-Emmanuel at Madrid to
M. Calderon-Collantes, Minister of Foreign Affairs :
" Madrid, 24th Nov.
"Monsieur le ➢linistre—Having made known to
my Government the non-acceptance by the Cabinet
of her most Catholic Majesty of the last conciliatory
means proposed, with the friendly support of
France, for putting an end to the long differences
on the subject of the Neapolitan archives, I have
just received orders to apply for my passports,
and quit this capital.
"In now making to you, Monsieur le Ministre,
this painful application, I feel the more lively regret
that a few days ago I thought I might consider the
difference as solved, since the formula so happily
fixed on by the French Ambassador, and adopted
in its textual tenour by your Excellency, had been
completely accepted by my Government.
" In the midst of those regrets, however, I take
with me, in leaving Spain, a great consolation in
the sympathies, as lively as spontaneous, the con-
stant marks of which I have been so happy as to
everywhere meet with in this generous nation, so
well able from its own heroic antecedents to justly
appreciate the noble efforts made by Italy to
complete and secure her national independence.
Those sympathies, so marked and so reciprocal,
as well as the evident interests of our respective
nations, lead me to hope that the unfortunate inter-
ruption of ordinary good relations between the two
Governments will not be of long duration. In the
meantime I am authorised to leave Baron Cavalchini
charged with the archives and with the business of
the mission.
" Personally, I can only take with me on my
departure the grateful remembrance of the courtesy
and obliging consideration of which I have been the
object on your part, Monsieur le Ministre, as well
as on that of the other functionaries with whom I
have had the honour.of finding myself in relation.
" I beg your Excellency to accept the fresh assur-
ances of my high consideration. " TECCO."
The following is a circular from Baron Ricasoli
to the Italian representatives at foreign Courts :
" Turin, Nov. 30.
" Sir,—His Majesty's Minister at Madrid has
received from the King's Government the order to
quit that capital, leaving to a secretary of legation
the task of despatching current business. I think
right to give to his Majesty's legations some ex-
planations on an event which has modified the state
of our relations with Spain.
" You are aware that the Spanish Consul of
Lisbon received orders to take possession of the
archives of the late Neapolitan consulate. This
measure gave rise to a rather long discussion be-
tween the two Governments. It was adopted, it
appears, without the knowledge of the President
of the Spanish Cabinet, and M. Calderon Collantes,
Minister of Foreign Affairs of her Catholic Majesty,
was pleased at first to reduce it to very small pro-
portions. But we soon learned that similar orders
had been given to a great many Spanish consuls.
having thus acquired the conviction that the inci-
dent referred to was not purely accidental, but was
one of a series of measures announcing a firm de-
termination on the part of the Minister of her
Catholic Majesty, the King's Government thought
right to address observations to the Cabinet of
Madrid.
" Spain had, in fact, no right to the Neapolitan
archives, which had become the property of the
Italian Government; and the Spanish Cabinet,
which had declared that it would not intervene in
any manner in the affairs of Italy, gave by that act
direct support to the pretensions of the ex-King of
Naples. It thus in reality assumed a position which
was quite different to its declarat ions. It conferred
the rights of a belligerent Power on a pretender
who had fallen from his throne by a revolution, and
had left his former territory after a regular capitu-
lation ; and it prevented the Government of King
Victor Emmanuel from exercising part of the rights
and fulfilling part of the obligations which had
been confided to it by the will of the Italian popula-
tions.

"In consequence of the prudent counsels of
the French Government, which in a friendly man-
ner offered its good offices, the Spanish Govern,
ment declared that it was ready to give up to the
local authorities the documents relative to the
private affairs of Italian subjects; but it added
that it did not think right to restore those of a
public character.
" After the profound discussion which had been
entered into on the legal question, this distinction
was not admissible. At the point at which the
negotiations had arrived, it was not possible to
accept the restitution of a part of the documents
without at the same time admitting the right of
Spain to retain the other part. The legal question
—that which had become the most important—
would in that way have been implicitly decided in
a manner unfavourable to the King's Government.
At one moment the Cabinet of Madrid itself ap-
peared to admit the justice of this reason.
" On its part the King's Government, acknow-
ledging the efforts which France had constantly
made to terminate the misunderstanding in a
friendly spirit, thought right to show itself all the
more conciliatory in matters of form, from its hav-
ing been obliged to be firm on the merits of the
question. In consequence, M. Calderon-Collantes
proposed to give up to the local authorities all the
documents contained in the archives, accompanied
by the declaration that the Spanish Government
had acquired the conviction that the said papers
only concerned private interests.

" In insisting for a direct restitution, the King's
Government might have appeared to call for an
express act of recognition from Spain. But that
idea was far from us, for his Majesty's Ministers
have too profound a sentiment of the dignity of
the country, not to be convinced that Italy could
not accept a recognition obtained by such expe-
dients. I therefore consented to the solution pro
posed, recommending, however, the King's Minis-
ter at Madrid to insert in his reply some reserves
destined to prevent any erroneous interpretation.
" To my great astonishment, this proposition of
his Excellency the Minister of Foreign Affairs of
her Catholic Majesty was not approved of by his
colleagues, and Baron Tecco was called on to with-
draw the two notes in which the legal question was
developed.
" Evidently, it was impossible to consent to this
demand without imposing a condition which would
give to the transaction a character of perfect reci-
procity. I therefore only accepted the proposed
solution, subject to the Spanish Government, on its
part, abstaining, in the orders to be given to its
consuls, from mentioning that the archives did
not comprise political documents. The Spanish
Government having refused to admit this last con-
ciliatory measure, I was obliged to submit to the
King an order for the recall of his Minister from
Madrid,
" These explanations will enable you to give
to the Government of - all the information
it may desire on this affair. You will besides
take advantage of the opportunity afforded to
you to remark on the attitude which the King's
Government has maintained towards Spain
down to these latter times. When in November,
1860, her Catholic Majesty's Government re-
called its Minister from Turin, the King's Govern-
ment, wishing to give a proof of the value it attached
to the continuation of friendly relations with the
Court of Madrid, did not follow the example set it,
but preferred to depart from established usages,
rather than interpret in a hostile spirit the resolu-
tion of the Spanish Government.
" Since that epoch, whatever was our desire to
see the Government of her Catholic Majesty re-es-
tablish completely its relations with us, we have
never, as I have had the honour to tell you, solicited
from the Spanish Government an act cf recognition
which it would have been natural to expect from it,
on account of the analogy between the events which
have occurred in Italy and those which consolidated
constitutional monarchy in Spain. We have, more-
over, carefully abstained from throwing on the
Spanish Government the responsibility of the en-
couragements given by some subjects of her Catholic
Majesty to the desperate efforts against the order .