The Sun.
London, England, 1868-05-02 00:00:00

SPAIN.

MADRID, May 1 (Evening).
In to-day's sitting of the Cortes the Land Mort-
gage Bank Bill was adopted by 167 Totes against

In the Senate the Navy Estimates came under

discussion.

INDIA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIAN MAILS.
GALLE, April 23.
The Simla with the above mails left for Suez to-

day.

The Orissa from Hong Kong, April 8, arrived
on the 21st.

The arrival of the Galway from Australia (with
the mails) has already been reported.

OUTWARD INDIA, CHINA, AND AUSTRA-
LIAN MAILS.

MALTA, May 1.

The Delta, from Southampton April 18, arrived
at 9 a.m. on the 29th, and left at noon for Alex-

andria.

INDIA. AND CHINA MAILS.
The Syria left at 8 a.m. yesterday. She may be
ooked for at Southampton about the 9th inst.

PRA
BOURSE, May 1.--Thr,
closed as follows

.NCE.
•ee o'clock.—The market

4} per Cent.
End of month —
3 per Cent
End of mouth 69 27i
Credit Mobilier
End of month 240
Credit Foncier —1460
End of month

Bank Shares .... . .
Ital4an Loan ......
End of month...
Mexican Loan 19 75
Do. Bonds ...... 130 23
Spanish Threes 37 75
Home Debt .....•
Deferred .........
Account
Orleans
....
Northern ...... 1185
Lyons and Mediterranean .......... 937}
Southern..... ................... 5731
Western ................................... 550
...................
Eastern
Sardinian
Austrian ........................... 565
Lombard .............................................. 372 f
North of Spain ........................ 72
Saragossa .................................. 85
Roman ....................... ........................... 441

RAILWA'

Alr. George Francis Train hardly occupied a dignified
position on Wednesday. The mighty orator who erewhile
had brought tears from the eyes of his hearers and pub-
licly received presents at the hands of his admirers—who
was going to spend one does not know how many thou-
sands in building an American residence for his Holiness
the Pope, the money being obtained (as we suppose)
from the British Government which had wrongfully
imprisoned him—the boastful Yankee on whose
behalf the United States were going to war with
Great Britain—appeared before the judge of the Dublin
Bankruptcy Court as an insolvent. Even then he could
not conduct himself as an ordinary insolvent. He must
needs ask the judge for advice as to a suit for false impri-
sonment entered against the arresting creditor, in which
the damages are laid at £lO,OOO. Mr. Train, it would
seem, having failed to get rich on tratle, is now going to
try " claims " to see what they will do for him. Having
been informed that the judge he ' nab ing to do with the
suit in question, he exclaimed, " I regard this matter as
entirely political," though where to find the politics would
puzzle tl4O Mtutegit observer,

CORRESPONDENCE PROM PARIS,

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

PARIS, FRIDAY, May I.

The Emperor's speech at Orleans is now the great sub-
ject of speculation. Innumerable reports are spread
abroad respecting it. One states that M. Rouher has ob-
tained the Emperor's promise that the speech shall be
decidedly pacific ; another declares that the optimists will
be put to confusion by words recalling the celebrated
speech at Auxerre two years ago. Every circumstance
that can make for or against peace is scrutinised with
eagerness. The article in the Debats has called forth
divers criticisms. The Constitutionnel, in a conspicuous
paragraph, declares that its contemporary has been " in-
exactly informed" with regard to the disagreementalleged
to exist between M. Rouher and Marshal Niel. "Before
the commission on the Budget, Marshal Niel confined
himself to asking for the credits which would enable
him to maintain the armaments of France at the same level
as those of neighbouring Powers, and M. Rouher did
not contest this necessity. Moreover, nothing was said by
the two Ministers to give reason to fear that the peace of
Europe is menaced." The France also criticises the article
in the DCbat., and complains that Government should be
compelled, like another Sisyphus, to be for ever rolling
back the stone of suspicion. The France adds that the
present armaments are rendered necessary by the con-
stant improvements in the art of war, and that they need
excite no apprehension.

The commission on the Budget still withholds its report,
and it is uo secret that this delay is caused by serious
differences among its members. Nine of the members are
said to be resolved to demand reductions of the military
estimates; and it is even said tl:lt they insist upon
50,000 soldiers being sent home. They plainly told M.
Itouher that his emphatic assurances of peace were not
sufficient for the commissioners, since the Emperor might
at any time set aside his Minister and decree war on his
own responsibility. M. Rouher, probably, does not object
to this opposition, inasmuch as it strengthens his demand
for a peace policy. But hitherto the Emperor has sup-
ported the Ministers of War and Marine in their enormous
Budgets.
A military paper announces :—" Notice has been issued
that the soldiers at present serving, as having been drawn
for their own account, and who since they entered the
army hare become eldest eons of widows or supports of
families, are to be immediately sent to their hothes.
These men will receive unlimited leave of absence, but
that circumstance does not mean complete liberation,
as they will still be included in the effective of
their regiments, and the names of soldiers absent on
furlough on any other ground than that of the six months'
usual leave must still appear in the monthly returns. The
number of men in this position amounts to about 3,600,
and, in addition, 8,600 at present en conga remain so, 5,600
belonging to the class of 1863, and 3,000 concluding their
term of service in 1868. This makes a total of 12,200,
who will remain with their families unless unforeseen
events should arise," It will be noticed that this is almost
exactly the same number of troops as that of the Prussian
soldiers who have just received furlough.
While the Emperor is thus resolved upon spending the
full amount upon war, education suffers, and the commis-
sion on the Budget is refusing M. Duruy a vote of
£B,OOO for increasing the notoriously insufficient salaries of
the professors in the superior schools.

It is stated that serious differences have arisen between
o it Government and that of Tunis with respect to the
Tunisian debt. The Liberec' declares that our consul
hauled down the French flag on Sunday, and suspended
diplomatic relations with the Bey. The same paper inti-
mates that England and Italy have had something to do
with this quarrel.
Some of the journals state that Austria and Prussia
have agreed upon a solution of the Schleswig difficulty,
which they will offer for the acceptance of Denmark. If
the latter country refuse to accept the arrangement, I
presume that Prussia will wash her hands of the matter
and retain the whole of Schleswig.

Baron Budberg has taken leave of the Emperor. lie
returns to Russia, and, though he has offered his services
to Prince Gortschakoff, has not received any other
appointment.
The debate on Free Trade and the Commercial Treaty
Is fixed for the 11th inst. It is expected that MAI.
Berryer and Thiers will both make powerful speeches in
behalf of protection.

The raris correspondent of the Times describes a very
=satisfactory state of things in France. He mentions
the report that the Ministers are at open or secret war
with each other, and that the Ministers of Finance, the
Interior, Marine, and War are banded together against

the ever-increasing preponderance of the Minister of
State, and that the last, upheld by the Ministers of Com-
merce and Justice, and supported by the Emperor, is doing
utmost to bring back the Marquis de Lavalette into the
:labinet. He failed once before, when he sought to place
;he Marquis at the Foreign Office ; he now seeks to put
him over the Ministry of the Intericr, so as to control the
elections, which he wishes to bring on next October, and
to conduct in a reactionary sense—aware that, if he suc-
ceeds, he will be master of the s'tuation. There is a
zeneral feeling of irritation against M. Rouher, for it is
Said that the Emperor has virtually abdicated in that
Minister's favour, and that he and his party form a sort
of Regency Meanwhile, the Ministerial organs are all at
loggerheads, M. Rouher's journals, the Patric and the
Pays, discrediting the Epoque, which is known to be
inspired by the majority of the Cabinet.

The adverse critics complain no less of the foreign policy
of the Government. They point out that France, which
established Italian unity, has estranged Italy ; having
permitted the unification of Germany, now wants to undo
it ; that with a nation opposed to war, large armaments
are going on. It is feared that the English success in
Abyssinia will be urged as a season why France should
recover the prestige lost in Mexico. Astonishment is felt
that M. Rouher, like M. Guizot in 1847, and the Emperor,
who sees only with M. Rouher's eyes, should perceive
none of the " dark spots" in the horizon.

The funeral of Marshal Narvaez was a very imposing
spectacle. The body was laid in "an elegant coffin."
The pall-bearers were great peers. The catafalqfie was
loaded with orders and decorations. The army has gone
into mourning, and so has the Official Gazette. Dissen-
sions has already broken out among the reconstituted
'Ministry.

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The Times publishes correspondence from Abyssinia up
to April 1, nearly a fortnight before the taking of
Magdala. The same tale—of difficulty in marching, of
hills, ravines, absence of roads, and of splendid scenery—is
repeated. There is not a bit of excitement in it from be-
ginning to end, and the writer himself speaks of things as
being so dull that he, like Mark Tapley, felt it a " credit
to be jolly." The health of the troops was excellent, but
the weather was dirty, and the wonder was that the troops
were so well. A disturbance of rather a serious character
has taken place at Antalo. One village or tribe of Abys-
sinians appears to have managed to monopolise more of
the lucrative privileges of selling to the Commisariat and
carrying for the army than another tribe thought fair ;
so the injured party mustered in strength, well armed,
plundered the bazaar of their rivals close by the British
camp, and, flushed by their easy victory, shouted out that
they would now plunder the British themselves. How-
ever, the appearance of a few of the 3rd Light Cavalry on
the scene sent them at once scampering over the plain in
great confusion, and the free fight ended without any more
serious result than a few broken heads. Still, it was
thought as well to increase the garrison at Antalo, lest
there should be another more elaborate row, and so part
of the 45th (Sherwood Foresters) and of the 3rd Native
Infantry were at once sent there.

There is a good deal in clothes, after [all, pace Mr.
Carlyle. So long as the Hungarians were oppressed by
Austria all classes of them clung to the national costume
as ono of the best ways left to them of asserting their
nationality. Now that this is admitted, and that they
have a Hungarian Parliament and a King of Hungary,
they are beginning to adopt Paris fashions, the ladies
wisely selecting the most picturesque portions of both
and combining them into one charming costume.
A Vienna journal, the Debatte, asserts that the French
Government has proposed an alliance between Austria and
the Western Powers to establish a common fleet in the
Levant, for the purpose of preventing the communications
between the Greek and the Cretan ports, by which the
Cretan insurrection is kept up. It is not likely that our
Government would venture to propose a course that would
be intensely unpopular. Nor would Russia quietly
submit to what she would deem an interposition in the
affairs of Turkey.
Australia, if the correspondent of the Post is to be
trusted, is engaged, or rather engrossed, in the subject of
a grant to Sir Charles Darling. It requires no less than six
columns of the "fashionable journal" for the Mel-
bourne correspondent to prove that the Duke of Bucking-
ham meant nothing by his letter to Sir J. H. Manners
Sutton, the said letter being regarded by the Times
as a sanction by the Home Governn wit to th•
Darling grant. It is suggested that the note in
question was signed by the Colonial Secretary at the
request of an official who. to speak plainly, got at
the " blind side" of his grace. The question, it will be
seen, is still an open one, as the discussion in the Lords
was postponed on account of the vote against Ministers in
the House of Commons. It will also be observed that the
duke strongly condemned the grant in question, though
doubting the expediency of continuing the Australian
dead-lock on account of it—a fact which gives a colour to

thi§uggesti9n of the Posy's correspondent.