The Sun.
London, England, 1868-10-27 00:00:00

HER, MAJESTY.

BALMORAL CASTLE, OCT. 25.
The Queen drove to the Glassalt Shiel yeityrdaY,
iccompanied by Princess Christian and Madanle
Van de Weyer.

The Princess of Wales drove out yesterday, at-
tended by the Countess of a'orton.

LATEST INTELL tGENCii•

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

REVOLUTION IN SPAIN.
MADRID, Oct. 26.
The people burned to-day a scaffold on the publi e
square where executions havo hitherto taken place,
as a demonstration against capital punishments'

BERLIN, Oct. .11.
The death is announced of Herr Edward Wide-
brandt, the celebrated landscape painter.
ST. PETERSBURG, Oct. 21'
Advices received from Tabris, dated 24th inst.,
announce that the chief of the religious establish"
merits of Persia, the Muschtahed of Tabris, die
on the previous day at Teheran.

AUSTRALIA, NE %V ZEALAND, PACIFIC
AND WEST INDIA MAILS.

PLY3IOUTII, Oct. 21.
The Royal Mail steamer Douro, with the ab°lr:
mails, arrived here this morning. She brings 6
passengers, 100 sacks of mails, treasure valued 3t
$696,175, and 1,287 packages of general cargo,
The Douro made the passage from Water Island 11
11 days 14 hours. Among the passengers are Sir
George Grey and his niece, Miss Matthews fr°l3l
Switzerland, Bishop Courtenay from Jaciale3'
Commander M'Kenzie and Lieut. Boothe, R.N.'
Deputy-Assistant Commander General Gibbs'
Captain Bromhead, 48th Regiment ; CaPt3`ll
Hellan of the barque Donna Henlicillet
en route for Liverpool, which was lost by an
earthquake, were in Lima Bay. The 1)°111.04
news date from Sydney, Sept. 2 ; Wellington, 2;
Chagres, Oct 9 ; Jamaica, 11 ; and St. Thol
15. Eight passengers and the mails were landed
at Plymouth, and the mails were forwarded by
special train at 5.15 a.m., and the Douro procendeci

for Southampton.
The points of interest in the Australian and -*l(,,
Zealand news have already been forestalled.throug'
other channels.
ill
In Peru slight shocks of earthquake were " gr'm
felt. A loan of 10 millions was spoken of tole: d
rebuilding the public and private edifices destrcl%
by the earthquake. Cusea had escaped with vet''
tittle damage, About 167,000 quintals of salt-
petre were destroyed at Iquique. At Simla busi'le°
.vas dull in consequence of the earthquake. Yell°llr
fever had again made its appearance at Callao, four
cases having occurred in one day.
General Being°lea had assumed the GovernorsbliP
of the Chincha Islands. In Chili the rain f`%l
during September had been the heaviest on record'
and had done considerable damage to the railvr3/0
and private property. Several land-slips had take
place on the hills at Valparaiso, doing a large
amount of mischief.

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An official reportreturns 54,000 deaths iu Ecuador
from the late earthquake.
The Royal Mail steamer Neva, with the outward
mail of the 2d inst., arrived at Water Island on the
14th inst., at 5.30 p.m. (two days and a quarter
earlier).

Mr. W fba
`William Parker, superintendent of "-,4
Panama Railroad, was deliberately shot in nl
office, in the presence of several other enaploYell
on Sept. 24, by Mt J. L. Baldwin, an engineer °
the line, who then shot himself. Parker died °it:
the spot, and Baldwin was in a dying state.
was believed to have been suffering from delirinill
tremens when he committed the murder.
The reports of the disturbance at Havana and
Porto Rico have been exaggerated. The island
are quiet now. The sugar crops 'promised well',
though suffering slightly from drought. Jarn3icA
was healthy, and the weather continued s
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vourable for growing crops. Considerable 13061;
ness was done in logwood. Tonnage for Ear°ll2o
and the United States continued in demand. rr
Barbadoes cane crops were good, though sufferi"
from drought.

Rawson Rawson, former Governor of the 133;
hainas, has succeeded to the Governorship

Barbadoes.

The Italian Government war steamer Gal
ate
arrived at Port-au-Prince on Sept. 17 and with he
i
Salnave captured the town of Goave, and destroyed
the Insurrectionist steamers Twenty-Second °f
December and Liberte.
that
as the Douro left it was also reported
Salnave had bombarded and captured the town °
St. Mare.

The inhabitants of Jacmel were reported to
in a state of starvation.
General Lafont, with the Government Pr°oef
was expected to make an attack on the town in
few days.
vtil°
St. Thomas was healthy. The floating dock
to be put up for sale by public auction.