The Sun.
London, England, 1855-03-07 00:00:00

SPAIN.

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A telegraphic despatch from Madrid, dated the
sth inst., states that the Cortes have conceded the
Almanza Railway to M. Salamanca.
Marshal Espartero has addressed the following
speech to the officers of the National Guard who
came to congratulate him on the occasion of his

fete :
" I thank you with all my heart and soul for the
congratulations which you address to me, on the
part of the always heroic National Guard of Madrid.
I rely on its efforts and on those of the whole na-
tion, that together we may consolidate for ever the
liberty and the happiness of our country and the
constitutional throne of our Queen. In order to attain
this object so dear to us—and I say us because I also
am a national guard—we will devote ourselves with con-
stant zeal to the preservation of public order and obedi-
ence to the laws, which the nation, in the exercise of its
sovereignty, has votod ; and if the enemies of our hap-
piness dare to excite disturbance, we shall know how to
confound and to chaotise them. National Guards, I
rely on your affection—rely always on mine, and on my
highest consideration and esteem."

Letters from several parts of Germany inform
us that the Cabinets of Berlin and Vienna are
severally treating with the secondary states of
Europe with opposite ends. The Prussian Go-
vernment is in communication with Holland, Den-
mark, Sweden, and other states, endeavouring to
engage them to neutrality in the present war,
while that of Austria is—or rather was until Fri-
day last—trying to secure the adhesion of the same
states to the treaty of Dec. 2.

The Corriere Mercantile of Genoa states that
preparations are being made r.t Constantinople for
the organisation of a military hospital for the Pied-
m ontese troops. The medical staff and the Sisters
of Charity that are to minister there were to leave
Getroa in a few days.

Co urcillor Meysenburg, of the Vienna Foreign-
office, is appointed to act as protocolist of the Vienna
Confwence, a position similar to that which Gentz
occupi,sd. at the Vienna Congress of 1815. M. Mey-
senburg .is spoken of as a man of keen and perspi-
caciousintellect, and great political knowledge.

Baron de Prokesch presented to the Diet of
Frankfort, c n the 3d, Count de Rocheberg, as his
temporary svccessor to the post of Austrian Envoy.
The powers of the new Imperial representative
were at once admitted, auci he was, in addition,
unanimously appointed to take M. de Prokesch's
place in all the committees of which that gentle-
man formed part.

A letter from Corfu of the 24th' ult. says :----44 A
regiment of militia is expected h ere to take the
place of the 48th line, ordered to UK% Crimea. The
Impel actor steam transport has arri\Ted here from
England, with 950 soldiers on board to reinforce
the garrisons of the lonian Isles."

A letter from Odessa of the ISth February states
tlint the town is well prepared for an attack. on the
part of the Allies ; it is full of soldiers, and there
in not a point on the coast where cannon .have not
been mounted."

SOCIETY of ARTS.—At the ordinary weekly meeting
of the Society of Arts this (Wednesday) evening the
paper to be read is on "The Sewage of London ; .;!s
composition and value as a fertiliser." By Mr. J. B.
Lawes. Colonel Challoner is to preside. An animated
discussion on this interesting question may fairly be an-
ticipated.
Among the most startling wonders in connection with
electricity is the announcement that M. Bonelli, of
Turin, Las invented a new electric telegraph, by which
trains in motion on a railway are enabled to cornmuni-
' cate with each other at all rates of velocity, and, at the
same time, with the telegraphic stations on the line ;
while the latter are, at the same time, able to communi-
cate with the trains. It is added that M. Bonelli is in
possession of a system of telegraphic communication by
which wires are entirely dispensed with.—Athenceuni.