The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-06-01 00:00:00

SPAIN.

Our private letter fro—m—hinirid of the 19th Mutant
informs us that the commanders of the ships of war
which are to escort the Queen from Alioant to Wen-
sin have received orders to prepare for the reception of
10 persons, of which Her Majesty's suite is to be com-
posed. Her Majesty will take her passage on board the
Rev-Francisco. In order not to alarm the Infant Prince
of the Asturias, there is to be no salute fired from the bat-
teries. . _ .

A report was current at Madrid that after the Queen's
return from her journey the Ministers of Finance,
War, and Public Works will withdraw from the Minis-
try.
MARRIAGE OF THE KING OF PORTUGAL.— The
Frew publishes the following telegram Irons Lisbon,
dated 23th ult. :—The festivities on the Royal mar-
riage commenced to-day. An immense number of
strangers, chiefly English and Spaniards, thronged the
streets of the capital. The houses are decorated with
Sags, and at night the city is illuminated. To-morrow
there will be a ball at the British Embassy. The
preparations are on a magnificent scale, and the invita-
tions very numerous, yet it has been impossible for the
Ambassador to comply with all the requests for invita-
tions. On Thursday Don Pedro will be invested with
the Order of the Garter in due form. The whole of the
English aristocracy actually at Lisbon will be present on
the occassion. There is a rumour of a fusion between '
the Royal Family and the ex-Pretender Don Miguel.
According to the report generally credited, the pension
recently granted by the young King to his uncle is the
prelude to a reconciliation between the two branches of
the house of Braganza.
Lord Howden signed on the 214 the postal convention
between Spain and England, and the same evening pre-
sented his letters of recall and took leave of Her
Majesty the Queen. He was to leave Madrid on the
23rd. The postal convention, which forms the closing
act of Lord Howden's mission to the Court of Madrid,
will be a great boon to both countries, and in England
will doubtless he duly appreciated. It oonsista of 18
articles occupied with details and colonial arrangements,
but the pith of the matter affecting international
interests is, that letters not weighing more than a
quarter of an ounce will now only cost sixpence
between the two countries when prepaid. Prepayment
is, apparently, made a principle by the English Post.
office on amount of convenience in the accounts.
When, either intentionally or through inadvertence,
letters are not prepaid, they are allowed to be charged
double at the Post-office of the country where they are
received. As 61. is a rate which the Poet-office wishes
to make as general as possible for foreign letters, it is
much to be desired that there should be certain stains*
purchaseable for that purpose, and which, I believe, do
not exist at present. The great difficulty in the nego-
tiation which has just been brought to a close by the
late Ambassador has come from France. Both Eng-
land and Spain long wished to make the Post-office a
mere source of advantage and convenience to the coun-
tries, while France has always appeared determined to
regard it as a source of revenue paramount to the other
more liberal considerations.

BAILWAY ACOIDICNT.—An accident took place on the
Aranjues Railway on the 16th, baying been caused by a
passenger train from Madrid running into A goods train
which had been left on the same line of rails at the sta-
tion of Ciempozuelos. Two wagons of the former train
were broken to pieces and others were greatly damaged.
The Minister of Public Works received severe contusions
on the nose and lip; and M. Arguelles, M. Donoso
Cortes, M. Viedina, introducer of Ambassadors, the
wife of M. Coello, editor of the Epoca, a young lady
named De Padilla, and other persona of note, were more
or less injured. The minister, who was going to Aran.
juez to attend a cabinet council, was obliged to return
to Madrid. By his orders the engine-driver of the pap
'<tiger train was arrested.