The Sun.
London, England, 1868-12-16 00:00:00

SPAIN.

MADRID, Dec. 15.

A rumour was current that the Government in-
tended to pay the interest due Ist January next, in
Madrid, in Bonds of the new Loan. This rumour,
however, was completely false, and the interest will
be paid in cash. The Government has given orders
that the half-yearly interest on the Spanish Debt
shall be paid in London and Paris immediately.
The payment was to commence yesterday.

The Government has received assurances that no
further disturbances will take place. A perfect
agreement exists among all parties, including the
Republicans, to await and respect whatever deci-
sion the Cortes may arrive at for the solution of the
situation.

The suppression of the insurrection at Cadiz has
considerably strengthened the hands of the Govern-
ment and has dissipated the alarms which prevailed
last week.

The papers announce that a rich English capi-
talist has arrived at Madrid, with the object of
making important proposals to the Minister of
Finance.

The subscription to the loan will be closed at
midnight to-day. It is calculated that the amount
subscribed will reach 500 millions of reals.

The Correspondencia publishes an article, signed
by the proprietor of the paper, which is a species of
manifesto explaining the constantly liberal atti-
tude held by the Duke of Montpensier. In the
article it is proved that the Duke was the first who
wished to put a stop to the reactionary tendencies
of Queen Isabella, that he it was who each time in-
terceded with her when the former Government
were about to adopt strong measures against the
Liberals, and for this purpose he despatched the
Duchess to Madrid, in the hope of arresting the
aggressive acts against the Cortes. Seeing, how-
ever, that his efforts were useless, he retired into
private life, and gave hims.2lf up to the practical
alleviation of the wants of his less fortunate fel-
low-citizens and the education of his children.
When the Revolution became a fact he recognized
the principle of the national sovereignty, and,
in fact, all the Liberal principles proclaimed by the
revolution. The Correspondencia concludes this
remarkable article by saying that the Duke of Mont-
pensier is more worthy than any of the other can-
didates for the Spanish Crown.
Immediately upon the arrival of General Dulce
in Cuba the election of Deputies will take place
there, in order that they may be in time to
be present at the first sittings of the Constituent
Cortes.

OUTWARD BOMBAY MAIL.
MALTA, Dec. 15.

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer
Nyanza, from Southampton, arrived at 6 p.m. and
left at 10 p.m. for Alexandria. All well.

LISBON, Dec. 14.

The Royal Mail Steam Packet Company's ship
Danube, from Southampton, arrived here at 9 a.m.
to-day. She experienced S.W. gales, with a very
heavy sea, across the Bay of Biscay.

FRANCE.
BOURSE, Dec. 15.—Three o'clock.—The market
closed as follows :-
4f per Cent.
End of month --
3 per Cent
End of month 7l 171
Credit Mobilier 291 23
End of month 2BB 75
Credit Foncier l5lB 75
End of month —

Bank Shares 3lBO
Ital'an Loan —
End of month —
Mexican Loan 24}
Do. Bonds
Spanish Threes
Home Debt —
Deferred —

RAILWA-

Cash
Orleans ...... ... 9131
Northorn .............................
Lyons and Mediterranean
Southern..... 635
Western
Eastern ............
Sardinian
Austrian
Lombard .........
North of Spain
Saragossa
Roman

7HE POST -OFFICE DIRECTORY FOR 1869.

The great wonder of compilation and typography,
viz., " Kelly's Post-office Directory for 1869," has
just made its appearance, and, frequently as we have
had to express our admiration at the manner in
which the immense book is arranged, we have never
had greater OCC 181011 than the present for
doing so. The Directory for the ensuing year has
beewnhniceharmlyeaansll:h'erem-seiltl,:ons names are made easy' in the clearest type,
by
for reference; and with respect to the lateness of
following the information en Parliamentary and other subjects
the
:_llolw,
random from the
book hinegapipteominstmweentcoulfi at
Vice Admiral Robin-
son, controller of the navy, to be a Knight Com-
mander of the Bath, is recorded in the Official, p.
81 (Gazetted Dec. Bth). The new peeress Vis-
countess Beaconsfield is inserted in the list of
peeresses in their own rights, p. 2,254 and in the
Court Directory p. 2,i.03 (Gazetted December 1).
The election of the Scotch peers and the creation
of Viscount Gormanstown to a barony:of the United
Kingdom are noticed in the Parliamentary Directory
at pp. 2,246, 2,249, and 2,258 (Gazetted Dec. 4).
Sir Francis Sandford's appointment. to the Under
Secretaryship of the Colonies, vice Mr. Elliot, re-
tired, is given in the Official, pp. 64 and 86. Capt.
Calcraft, the late member for Wareham, whose
death was announced December 3, is omitted from
the list of the New Parliament, pp. 2,258 and 2,269.
Dr. Mansell, who was installed into the Deanery of
St. Paul's, Dec. 9, is so described in the Clerical Di-
reatory, p. 2,301. Dr. Tait appears as Archbishop of
Canterbury in the list of Archbishops, p. 2,241, and
in the alphabetical list of the House of Peers,
p. 2,247. The New Meat and Poultry Market at
Smithfield, with the names and occupations of the
holders of the stalls, which was only opened for
business on the Ist of December, appears in the
Street Directory, p. 543, and throughout the
various divisions of the work. The resignation
of the Disraeli Ministry, announced December
the 3d, necessitated considerable alterations
throughout the Official and Parliamentary Direc-
tories. The new Ministry, as far as it was
composed, a list of which appeared in The Sun of
the 7th, is inserted in the Official Directory, p. 74,
and throughout the Parliamentary Directory. A
complete list of the new Parliament, with their ad-
dresses and clubs, appears in the Parliamentary
Directory, pp. 2,257 to 2,271, although the last
election was not Gazetted until December 12 ; and
those ld.P.'s whose elections were Gazetted up to
and including November the 24th have M.P.
attached to their names in the Court Directory.

We can only on the present occasion repeat the
praise we have so often bestowed upon the energy
of the Messrs. Kelley in the production of their
great and marvellous work, and again congratulate
them on the successful accomplishment of their
labonrs so far as the London Directory is concerned
for the coming year, 1869.

AN UNPUBLISHED LETTER FROM TILE
LATE MR. COBDEN.

The following is a copy of a private letter from Mr.
Cobden, which was published in the Boston Advertiser of
November 28 :

" Midhurst, Jan. 8, 1864.

" Dear Sir,—l entirely agree with you as to the conse-
quences to be apprehended from the operations of the
privateers. But I do not see bow I can interfere now with
any advantage. I stated in the House last session, when
it was difficult to get a hearing on that side, what I feared
would be the consequences of our lax proceedings at
Liverpool, &c. And I took every opportunity of impres-
sing privately on those in power my fear (which seems to
be your own) that the demand for indemnity for captures
would cost us a war or a great humiliation. I don't see
how one or the other is to be avoided. For, bear in mind,
the mischief is done, and the language, the taunting and
insulting language of the Prime Minister in the House
when the subject was brought forward by Mr. Forster
last spring (when I was absent), remains on record, and, I
fear, is not likely to be forgotten. Then, bear in mind that
Lord John Russell has refused in his correspondence with
Mr. Adams to recognise the claim. For me to interfere now
and advise the Government to pay the money would neither
be fair to the public nor myself. It must become the sub-
ject of regular diplomatic negotiation. The fact is—and
the whole fact—that our ruling class and a large section
of the upper middle class (led by the Times and its satel-
lites), have been so rampant in their hostility to the Great
Republic, of whose strength and resources they are dan-
gerously ignorant, that they have jumped instantly to the
conclusion that—to use their unhappy phrase—' the
Republican bubblehad burst;' and they commenced to treat
that country as they would Brazil. lam sorry to say that
the altered tone of our diplomatic correspondence in the
Blue. Books shows that the Foreign Office reflected this
altered feeling. Meantime among the masses of the people li
the feeling was unchangeably with the North. Lord Russell
said at Blairgowrie the majority were for the North. But
the majority have:no votes. If the whole people had been
represented in the House of Commons, the Prime Minister
would not have spoken as Lord Palmerston spoke, nor
would Mr. Laird have been frantically cheered when he
rose in the House and virtually said I did it.' However,
as I before remarked, the mischief is done, and now it
remains to be seen with what grace the people will allow
themselves to be committed to a war or a humiliation by
the ruling class which has the powers of government in
its hands. But I confess I think the money amount of
the captures the smallest part of the future penalty we
shall have to pay. It is the loss of productive value
inflicted on the whole of the United States mercantile
marine which is the most pregnant, for it chews what half
a dozen swift steamers would do to our merchantmen.
And with whatever maritime power we may be at war, we
may be assured that the Americans will pay ua in our own
coin, and that it will be impossible for the Government
then to prevent privateers from being fitted out against us.
This I have heard stated by some of the best friends of
England among the Americans. With such a prospect, I
hardly see how we can go to war even with Brazil. I
have marvelled at the shortsightedness of so many of
our shipowners and merchants, who ought, the
moment there was even the hint of privateers being
fitted out in our ports, to have risen en masse against
it, and to have called on the Government to apply for
fresh powers, if they had not sufficient for the pur-
pose. Instead of this, too many of them have, I fear,
chuckled over the destruction of a rival. For English
shipowners and merchants to be found encouraging such a
mode of warfare upon and through foreign commerce, is
on a par with the intelligence which the proprietors of the
Crystal Palace would exhibit if they were to invite a game
of stone-throwing with their neighbours living in stone
and slate houses."

The swindlers who write to parties on the Conti-
nent, professing to have received valuable parcels or docu-
ments from Australia or California, which they will forward
on a remittance being sent to them to cover expenses, are
again actively at work.

Two boards of guardians—Kilkenny and Clonmel
(says an Irish paper) have been discussing the propriety
of petitioning Parliament to allozate the Irish Church re-
venues to the support of the poor. Kilkenny agreed. Clon-
mel is to consider the matter on a future occasion.

The Sheffield Telegraph says that Mr. Bright's re-
election for Birmingham, on his accepting office, is likely to
be challenged ; and it is rumoured that Mr. Roebuck will be
brought forward to oppose him. Our correspondent adds
that if Mr. Roebuck should take the field he will receive a
large share of support. •

We regret to state that Sir Richard Mayne is con-
fined to his bed with a severe cold, accompanied with
symptoms of an inflammatory nature. Wo believe we are
correct in stating that this is the first instance of Sir
Richard's being absent on account of illness from his post
at Scotland-yard during the whole 40 years ho has reigned
there.

According to The Echo there is a rumour afloat
that Mr. Gladstone will not bo disinclined to recommend
an increase of the Episcopate of the Church of England,
provided it can be effected without any demand upon
the national funds. A proposal would in that case be made
to divide, in the first instance, the diocese of Exeter, the
Bishop of which has consented to surrender all his
patronage in Cornwall, in the event of that county being
erected inio a separate ecclesiastical see. It is said funds
would readily be forthcoming for this see as well as a new
bishopric of St. Albans.

The Earl of Shaftesbury on Tuesday formally
)pened the new schools of St. Andrew, Lambeth.
The schools, which are situate in Roupell-street,
one of the poorest districts in Lambeth, with houses
fur two head masters, three head mistresses, a
reading room for working men, and a soup kitchen
for the poor, have been erected at a cost of £8,500, of which
a small sum remains to be raised. The schools will accom-
modate 1,500 children, and there are already 950 names on
the books. The meeting was preceded by a service in SL
Andrew's Church, the sermon being preached by the Ven.
J. S. Atterton, Archdeacon of Surrey.

The colliers of the Ruabon district, numbering
some thousands, having struck for an advance, the greatest
excitement prevails in the neighbourhood. They have
met in large numbers, and the managers and underground
managers are in the greatest fear. The men attacked the
house of Mr. Evans, the manager of the New British Iron
Company, and broke all the windows within their reach,
and he himself was obliged to go out of the way. The
underground managers aro sending away their wives and
families from the neighbourhood. The colliers, who say they
are determined to stand out, aro going about in large todies
begging, and it is dangerous to refuse them. The managers
met on Monday in consultation with the county magistrates
as to what is the best course to be pursued, but they, like
the men, seem determined to stand out also.
Lord Kinnaird has addressed a letter to a contem-
porary, in which he remarks that no man in his senses
would trust to the barometer alone to ascertain the propor-
tion of gas in a mine at any time, and to discover
when there is any increase to render it explosive, or any
irruption or accumulation in any part of the mine.
Alluding to the Hindley explosion he says that if it cannot
be discovered that the safety lamps of the miners were
in good order, then there cannot be a shadow of doubt
that the death of these men was caused by the negli-
gence of the managers or owners, and a verdict of
manslaughter should follow. Unless the Legislature en-
forces the adoption of precautions, or juries bring in verdicts
of manslaughter, human lives must continue to be sacrificed
by hundreds to the carlessuess or false economy of the
owners or managers of the mines.

The Master of the Rolls had before him on Tues-
day the case of Heymann v. the European Central Rail-
way Company, in which the plaintiff sought to have
his shares in this company cancelled, and to bo repaid
the money he had paid in respect of those shares, on
the ground that he had been misled by the pro-
spectus of the company. Amongst other things, the plaintiff
complained that the prospectus did not state that the shares
which Colonel Sykes held in the company were given to him
to induce him to become a director, and that the Financial
Cotporation were paid £3,000 for floating this company.
Sir R. Palmer, Sir R. Baggallay, Mr. Southgate, Mr. Jessel,
Mr. Eddis, Mr. J. N. Higgins, and Mr. Martin appeared
in the case. Lord Romilly held that the plaintiff was
not entitled to relief. As to the payment of £5,000 to the
Financial Corporation his lordship said that might be a
question between the two companies, but it was not the
least reason for cancelling the plaintiff's sloares. The plain-
tiff's case entirely failed, and his bill must be dismissed.

At the Rotherham petty sessions on Monday the
Rev. J. J. Christie, the head master of the Rotherham Gram-
mar School, was charged with assaulting Arthur Harris, one
of his pupils, a boy thirteen years of ego. It appeared that
the ccmp'ainant had found a pet jackdaw which had
strayed, and bed' g ut.der the impression that it was a
wounded crow, had halt d it by dashing its load against a
wall, The defendant hearing of this, charged the boy
with cruelty, and thrashed him severely with a cane,
sich injuries upon his shoulders and arms that
his health had since been impaired. Dr. Shearman, a
local medical gentleman, said that the boy had been
" barbarously- treated," and the boy's arm, which was
exhibited in court, showed that he still—five days after
the occurrence—bore marks of a severe castigation. The
defence was that the boy had be n guilty of wanton cruelty
towards the jackdaw, and the evidence of Dr. Shearman
was prejudiced, because he was opposed to corporal punish-
ment in public schools. The magistrates (the lion. F. S.
Wortley and )4% W. 4. Otter) clipliskyd tote ease