The Sun.
London, England, 1868-01-09 00:00:00

LATEST INTELL CGENCE.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

THE ABYSSINIAN EXPEDITION.

By a telegram despatched from Suez yesterday,
January 8, at 2 p.m., our (Times) Special Corre-
spondent with the Expedition reports from
Senafe

" The natives are very friendly towards us, and
supplies are arrriving.
" The troops are healthy.
" Letters have been received from the captives
at Magdala, dated November 11, stating that they
were then all well.

" The King of Shoa and Waagshum Gobazye
are reported to be near Magdala.
" Theodore is still in an embarrassed position."
(Per Malta and Alexandria Telegraph.)
ALEXANDRIA, Jan. 8.
The establishment of a line of telegraph between
Kossar and Annesley Bay is completed.
ADEN, Dec. 29.

Advices received here from Massowali state that
the Egyptians appear determined to send a mission
to King Theodore, notwithstanding the remon-
strances of the British.

AUSTRALIA.

MELBOURNE, Nov. 27 (via Trieste.)

his Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh,
who arrived here on the 231 inst., has met with a
most enthusiastic reception. The entire city was
decorated, and upon the entrance of the Royal
procession the road was strewn with flowers.
Eleven thousand children sang the National
Anthem.

The following gold ships have sailed for Eng-
land :—The Kosciusko, with 40,5000 z. ; the Witn-
mera, with 12,6230 z. ; the Yorkshire, with 6,0000 z. ;
the Sarah Grice, with 3,6250 z. ; the J. M. Joshua,
with 5,375 oz. ; the Australia, with 20,1250 z. ; the
Lightning, with 16,3750 z. ; and the Star of Peace,
with 10,7500 z.

ADELAIDE, Nov. 28.

One thousand colonists were presented to his
Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh at the
levee held in this city.
The red rust has appeared in the growing wheat
crops. A short harvest and much damage are anti-
cipated.

AMERICA.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 8.

The Secretary of the Treasury has issued his
usual monthly statement of the public debt and the
cash in the Treasury of the United States. The
total amount of debt on the Ist instant was

$2,642,000,000, against $2,639,000,000 on the Ist
of December last, showing an increase of $3,000,000.
The cash in the Treasury at the same date was
$134,000,000, against $138,000,000 at the corre-
sponding period last month, showing a decrease of
$4,000,000.

The Senate has passed a bill exempting from tax
the United States' cotton crop in 1868, and abolish-
ing the duty on the importation of foreign cotton
grown during the year ending April, 1869.
The Military Committee of the Senate has pre-
sented a report recommending that the Senate
should not concur in the removal of Mr. Stanton
from the Secretaryship of War. The House of
Representatives has passed a resolution authorising
the sale of 54 surplus naval ironclads.

NEW YORK, Jan. 8.

The steamers leaving to-day for Europe take out
$1,590,000 in specie. The Manhattan arrived out
yesterday, and the Moravian to-day.
COMMENCIAL INTELLIGENCE.—GoId, 134. Ster-
ling exchange on London, 109 k. Five-Twenty
United States' Bonds, 1882, 1081 ; ditto, 1885,
1061. Illinois shares, 1331 ; Erie shares, 75
Cotton—middling upland, 16e. Petroleum—stan-
dard white, 25c. Corn—old mixed, $1 43c.

THE POSTIFIUAL ARMY.

ROME, Jan. 7.

Two hundred fresh recruits for the Antelego
Legion arrived here to-day, thus raising its strength
to 1,835 men. The Papal Zouaves number above
5,000.

THE LATE EMPEROR MAXIMILIAN.
CORFU, Jan. 8.

The Austrian war frigate Novara, with the re-
mains of the late Emperor Maximilian on board,
arrived off this island yesterday.

ITALY.

FLORENCE, Jan. 8 (Evening.)

The Minister of War has issued orders to send
to their homes on the 15th January all the soldiers
of the class of 1841 called out shortly after the
accession of General Menabrea to office.

The Committee on the Budget met to-day. It
was resolved that the discussion on the Budget
should be placed first on the order of the day upon
the re assembling of Parliament.

FRANCE.
•
BOURSE, JAN. 8, Three o'clock.—The market
closed as follows :---
41 per Cent. 99 75
End of month --
3 per Cent
End of month 6B 77
Credit Mobilier
End of month 162 50
Credit Foncier 1350
End of mouth 1356 25
RAILWAY

Bank Shares 3275
ItsFaa Loan
End of month— 4l 67i
Mexican Loan 17
Do. Bonds
Spanish Threes 37
Home Debt__ 34 50
Deferred —

Account
Orleans ... 8661
Northern
Lyons and Mediterranean
Southern..... 5521
Western
Eastern
Sardinian
Austrian
Lombard 3461
North of Spain
Saragossa
Raman 47

SPAIN AND THE 11,0,11 AN QUESTION.

MADRID, Jan. 3.

Upon the draft of tha address in reply to the
Queen's speech being brought into the Chamber of
Deputies yesterday, Senor Gonzalez Bravo, the
Minkter of the Interior, made a speech, of which
the most striking portions are here given :

"Something very serious, very important, is incon-
testably taking place in the worle of the civilised
society of Europe in general. Extreme rumours
and great reticence proceed from great causes;
they cannot be explained by petty reasons. Wher-
ever great contests, great disagreements, great
lasting discussions occur, they must indubitably be
produced by great causes; and when silence
reigns in places where people might speak, where
the right so to do is not refused—where
liberty and talent are not fettered—the fact is ow-
ing to sonic great superior cause which weighs upon
all, What is that cause ? It has been alleged
to be that expressed in her Majesty's speech, as
well as in the draft brought i❑ by the committee.
. . . . Now, I have no desire to evoke a debate
which nobody else has entered upon, and it is no ,
for me to seek by my language to corroborate the
eloquent words you have heard from the most
august person in the realm. A previous speaker
(Senor Nocedal) has said here is a question which
dominates all others, which rises up like
towers above humble buildings, and in face of
which all other topics, if they do not en-
tirely disappear, at any rate become dwarfed,
and that is the truth. It is true trout the point
of view of all men and of all sects, even the