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Fnjf uiv.l Alliett w th Sp iln. A dispatch frum London says: "The positive statement comes froni a leading financier that England has concluded a treaty of alliance with Spain and within ten days l'Jurope will be started by the official announcement of this fact. This statement is now given with the reserve which its international importante warrants, pointing out only that the sensitive money interests are often botter informed on such matters than is any other part of thecommunity except the highest official authority. Such a treaty would have a vastly importaut bearing upon the continental situation. lt would have a commensurately important bearing upon the Cuban question in the United States. The Salisbury ministry is disposed to do anything it can with safety and in reason to check the pretensions of the American government to interfere in either West Indian or South American a ff airs. The treaty will include giving to Great Britain the right to harbor and refit her fleets in the Mediterranean ports of Spain. The Soudan expedition in behalf of Italy and England's open sympathy with the triple alliance having won the hostilitv of France and Russia, t.he importance of such an alliance to Great Britain is readily seen. Neither Gibralter nor Malta - England's only two ports on the Mediterranean - is capable of either harboring or refitting a fleet, but with both the ltalian and Spanish ports thrown open to the British navy, the Frenen fleet at Toulon would be at England's mercy and Russia could hardly make a junction from the Black sea with the ships of her French ally. Such are the apparent reasons why Great Britain should wish to make such an alliance as above indicated. It would, moreover, leave her in possession of Gibraltar.