The Sun.
London, England, 1868-12-10 00:00:00

SPAIN.

MADRID, Dec. 9.

Owing to the mediation of the foreign Consuls
both the insurgents and the Government party at
Cadiz have agreed to au armistice of 48 hours, for
the purpose of burying their dead and affording
sufficient time for the women and children to leave.

The armistice will end to-morrow, and a vigorous
attack, in conjunction with the men-of-war, will
then be made upon the insurrectionary forces.
The frigate Tetuan and two other frigates have
brought their broadsides to bear on the fort, ready
to bombard Cadiz if the insurgents should continue
resistance.

The Mediterranean squadron has also received
orders to return to Cadiz.

The insurgents have opened the convict prison
and distributed arms to 700 felons there confined.
A man named Yunco, formerly a member of the
Progressist party, who has now joined and gathered
around him the partisans of Republicanism, is in
command of the revolutionary forces, and their
numbers are estimated at 3,000 men, including the
released convicts.

DENMARK.

COPENHAGEN, D.C. 10.

his Royal Highness the Prince of \Vales dine]
last evening with Count Frijs, the President of the
Council and Minister of Foreign Affairs.
will probably leave for
a visit to the King of
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Sweden.

TURKEY.

CONSTANTINOPLE, Dec. 8.

The Turkish ultimatum with the demands to the
Greek Government was only sent off last night by
a Government steamer. The Captain of the steamer
has received orders to wait and bring back the
Turkish Minister from Athens in case of refusal.

Upon the representation of the five Ambassadors,
the Turkish Government has prolonged fur a few
days the time granted for receiving a reply to the
ultimatum.

Her Majesty's ship Caradoc left last night for
the Archipelago upon a special mission from the
English Embassy.
IL The Turkish troops are moving.

The day before yesterday a Ministerial Council
was held in the presence of the Sultan.

AMERICA.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 9.
Upon receiving the Presidential Message, the
Senate refused to hear it read and adjourned.
SOUTHAMPTON, Dec. 10.

The North German Lloyd steamer New York,
from New Orleans on the 20th and Havannah on
the 25th, arrived here this morning with a large
cargo of cotton, tobacco, and cigars for this port
and Hamburg, and 4,000 Mexican dollars for Paris.
The New York experienced favourable weather
throughout the voyage. On the 28th she spoke
the English bark Tigris, bound for Cork ; on the
Bth the Norwegian brig Polyria, and the ship
Ocean Pearl. The New York will land her cargo
fur this port, and proceed for Bremen this
evening.

INDIA AND CHINA MAILS•

MALTA, Dec. 9.

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer
Bangalore arrived from Alexandria at 2 p.m., and
leaves for Southampton at 7 p.m. this day, where
she may be expected about the 18th instant.
The Massilia, from Southampton, with the heavy
outward India, China, and Australian mails of 28th
November, reached Malta at ten on the morning of
the Bth instant, and left for Alexandria at one p.m.
the same day.
GIBRALTAR, Dec. 8.

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer
Syria, arrived from Alexandria at 7 a.m., and left
for Southampton at 2 p.m. on the Bch inst. All
well ; experienced foggy weather.
She may be expected to arrive on Sunday morn-
ing.

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TILE NEW MINISTRY.

The Lord-Lieutenancy of Ireland is the only great
appointment remaining to be filled up. Who will be
chosen, or who will accept the offer, are alike open ques
tions. Even speculation is chary of pronouncing on this
point. The Telegraph remarks that the Marquis of
Ailesbury undoubtedly possesses many of those personal
qualities which it is so difficult to find in combination
with high rank, and with the requisite means to sustain
the dignity and costly graces of the Viceregal Palace.
The other journals leave the matter to the decision of
time and Mr. Gladstone. The minor posts are rapidly
filling up. Mr. Stansfeld has taken office as Third Lord
of the Treasury, and Mr. Ayrtort has become Financial
Secretary. Mr. Knatchbull-Hugessen is Under Secretary
for the Home Department, Mr. Monsell for the Colonies,
and Mr. Grant Duff for India. Mr. Forster
takes the Vice-Presidency of the Education Department.
The Times says it has been suggested that Lord Morley
or Lord Mouck may be nominated to the post of Under
Secretary for War. Mr. Gregory has been named as
Under Secretary for the Foreign Office, but the report
requires confirmation. "Another rumour assigns the
honour to Mr. Vernon Harcourt, but it seems in the
highest degree improbable that Mr. Harcourt would desert
his peculiar sphere for such an office. It is said that Mr.
Otway will fill the new post of Secretary to the Board
Trade, which comes into existence in lieu of the abolished
Vice-Presidency. One of the most impertant of the
secondary posts, that of Secretary to the Admiralty, has
not yet been filled, and there remains also the Parlia-
mentary Secretaryship to the Poor-law Board :still vacant.
Mr. Lefevre will be enlisted in the Ministry, and may,
perhaps, return to the office with which he has been asso-
ciated, while a new recruit will be found in Mr.
Trevelyan, whose destination is at present wholly
unfixed. The preferment of Lord Justice Page
Wood to the Chancellorship creates a vacancy in the
Appeal Court in Chancery, and the opinion of Lincoln's
Inn seems to have determined that Vice-Chancellor Sir
George Giffard must succeed to the post. A less positive
choice has nominated the learned gentleman who should
ascend to the judgment-seat thus presumably vacated by
the Vice-Chancellor. These promotions and the appoint-
ments possibly depending upon them could not, howeWr,
in any case have been well settled before to-day, when
the new Lord Chancellor will for the first time emerge
in the glory of his office, though the patent of his
creation as Lord Ilatherley may still be delayed for
a day or two." The Star thinks it not improbable
that Lord Westbury may accept the vacant Lord Justice-
ship of Appeal. The same paper says : "We have
authority to contradict the statement that Mr. W. 11.
Gladstone had been nominated to the Secretaryship of the
Board of Trade. No one could have demurred to such an
appointment ; but it is characteristic of Mr. Gladstone
that he has deferred the promotion of his promising son to
office in favour of others whose claims are in point of
seniority superior."

The Post has the following :—" The duties of the Board
of Treasury aro increasing daily, and likely to increase
still further in these days of inquiry and projected retrench•
ment. Under these circumstances the financial work of
the Treasury will be divided between Mr. Ayrton, who will
be Second Lord, and Mr. Stansfeld Third Lord, with the'
same salary. Vice-Chancellor Giffard is to be the new Lord
Justice, and Mr. W. M. James the new Vice• Chancellor.
Mr. Dowse is to be Solicitor-General in Ireland. The
Naval Lord of the Admiralty will be Sir Sidney Colpoys
Dacrcs. We believe that the Earl of Cork will be Master
of the Buckhounds, and the Marquis of Ailesbury Master
of the Horse. It is understood to be the intention of the new
Ministry to distribute the offices of the Household as far
as possible among efficient and able supporters of the
Ministry. The Duke of St. Albans, who has shown much
talent, will, it is said, be offered place, and Lords
Sefton, Morley, and Camperdown will be among the new
officials."

With respect to the Under-Secretaryship of the
War Office, Lord Northbrook and Captain Vivian
are each spoken of.

THE LORI) PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL.—The Right
Hon. Earl De Grey and Ripon (George Frederick Samuel
Robinson) was born in 1827, at the time when his father,
the late Earl of Ripon, was Premier. Be first entered
Parliament when Lord Goderich, in 1852, being returned
for Hull in the Liberal interest. He was, however, un-
seated on petition, but in the April of 1853 he found a seat
at Huddersfield. In 1857 he was elected for the West
Riding of Yorkshire, which he represented until his
accession to the peerage, in January 1859. In the same
year he first took office as Under Secretary for the War
Department. When Mr. Sidney Herbert was removed
to the Upper House, in 1851, Earl De Grey was
transferred to the Under-Secretaryship of the Colonial
Office ; but he returned to his former post a few months
afterwards. On the death of Sir G. C. Lewis his lordship
become Secretary of State for War, and was sworn a
member of the Privy Council in April 1863. This post
he held until the incoming of the Derby Government.
THE LORD PRIVY SEAL.—The Right Hon. the Earl ot.
Kimberley (John Wodehouse) was born in 1826, and suc-
ceeded to the barony of Wodehouse in 1845. He has
filled several offices, beginoing as Under Secretary
for Foreign Affairs in 1852 ; a post which he
occupied until 1855. From 1856 to 1858 he was Envoy
Extraordinary to Russia, and in 1859 he resumed his post
as Under Secretary at the Foreign Office. In 1864 he
became Under Secretary for India, and in the same year
was appointed Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, an office which
he held until the Liberal Government resigned.
THE POSTMASTER-GENERAL.—Spencer Compton Caren-
dish, Marquis of Hartington, born 1833, is the eldest son
of the Duke of Devonshire. He entered Parliament in
1857, being returned for the Northern Division of Lanca-
shire, which he continued to represent up to the present
election. The duty of moving the celebrated vote of no
confidence in 1857 fell to the young member, and
was performed by him in a manner which created a
very favourable impression. In March 1863, Lord Hart-
ington was appointed Civil Lord of the Admiralty. A few
weeks later, by the death of Sir G. C. Lewis, the office of
Secretary of War became vacant, and Earl De Grey and
Ripon, who had been Under Secretary for some time, was
advanced to the chief post. He was succeeded by Lord Hart-
i ngton,who remained Under Secretary until February 1866.
Sir Charles Wood then retired from the Indian Secretary-
ship, to which Earl De Grey was transferred ; and Lord
Hartington, following the example of his late chief, was
elevated to the position of Secretary of State, with a seat
in the Cabinet. The office of Postmaster-General falls to
him at an important time, just when the Act fur the
acquisition of the telegraphs by the State comes into
force.

THE PRESIDENT OF THE POOR-LAW BOARD.—The Right
Hon. G. J. Goschen is young in every respect, as a Cabinet
Minister, member of Parliament, and in point of years.
He was born in 1831, and first entered Parliament, as a
representative of the City, in 1863. During 1865 he was
entrusted with the charge of the Oxford Tests Abolition
Bill, and so strengthened his position in the House by the
ability with which he advanced this measure, that at the
election of 1865 he was returned at the head of the
poll, a position which he again occupied at the late
election. On the death of Lord Palmerston, Mr. Goschen
was appointed Vice-President of the Board of Trade, in
succession to Sir William Hutt, resigned. He had been
at the Board of Trade only a few weeks when, early in
January 1866, he was elevated to the position of a Cabinet
Minister as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, the
Earl of Clarendon, the former occupant of the post, having
been transferred to the Foreign Office.