The Sun.
London, England, 1852-02-26 00:00:00

SPAIN.

The accounts from Madrid are of the 20th inst.
The Heraldo states that the drawing-room held
by the QUEEN on the preceding day was more bril-
liant and interesting than any that had hitherto taken
place, the distinguished persons of all parties being
anxious to testify by their presence their satisfaction
at the recovery of her MAJESTY. The drawing-room
was followed by a ball, at which her MAJESTY danced
several times. On the 18th, when leaving the church
gave orders that no change
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decorations, and that the mag-
nificent illumination of the altar of the VIRGIN should
be continued until the presents which she intended to
make to it had arrived. At seven in the evening a
magnificent carriage drawn by eight horses, and
escorted by cavalry, arrived at the church. In
the carriage were the Camerara-Major, and the
Grand Major Domo of the QUEEN, holding in
their arms a large basket covered with a cloth
embroidered with the Royal arms. These func-
tionaries were received at the door by the clergy,
and having alighted, the basket was carried in pro-
cession into the church. The Count DE PINO HER-
MOSO then said that he bad been commanded by her
Majesty the QUEEN to place at the feet of the Queen
of Heaven the dress and the jewels which her MA-
JESTY had worn that day, when she solemnly pre-
sented her dear daughter as a visible testimony of her
filial devotion, and her gratitude for the bounties
which Heaven, in its powerful protection, had be-
stowed upon her. The basket was then placed upon
the altar, and the covering removed. The dress that
it contained was that which the QUEEN wore on the
18th, and which she also wore on the 2d, when she
received the wound from the poignard of MERINO.
Some marks of blood are visible on the cloak. The
jewels consisted of a necklace in brilliants. The
Grand Major Domo explained that the coronet which
had been worn by her MAJESTY had not been sent, as
it was undergoing some alterations, but that the
moment they were completed he would bring it to
the church.
Mr. LABORDE, the Spanish Consul, had arrived at
New Orleans on the 9th, in the ship-of-war Colon,
from Havaunab, and was received with a salute of
fifty guns.
MADRID BOLSA, FED. 20.—The Three per Cents.
were done at 381 for time ; the New Three per
Cents. at 18 15-16 ; the Debt without Interest at 51;
and the Coupons at 91.

GERMAN Y.
The elections for the First Chamber of the Duchy
of Nassau have terminated. The majority of the
deputies chosen are Conservatives. Only a small
portion of the electors, however, went to
.the poll.
The Carlsruhe Gazette, the semi-official journal,
contradicts in the moat positive way the account
lately given in the Frankfort journals respecting the
arrangement about the German fleet. It states that
the Germanic Diet has decided that the fleet shall
remain federal property, and that all the states shall
contribute in fair proportions towards keeping it up.
The Prussian Government is about to establish a
general pension fund for aged persons, based on the
principles of the Belgian law of the Bth May, 1850.
A similar institution was established six months ago
at Aix-la-Chapelle, and the Government of the Duchy
of Luxembourg is about to establish one also.
A short time ago the police of Munich seized some
journals of that city, for having published a report of
the proceedings of the Bavarian Chamber. An ap-
plication was at the same time made for the pro-
secution of the editors, but the tribunal of Munich has
refused to take the affair into consideration.
On the 19th the Municipal Tribunal at Hamburgh
commenced the trial of the editor of the Mephisto-
pheles journal, prosecuted at the request of the French
Government, for having by articles and engravings
insulted the PRESIDENT of the French Republic,
France being at the time in alliance with the
Hanseatic Towns. The defendant pleaded that, as
the Government of Prince Louis NAPOLEON had not
at the time been officially recognised by foreign
powers, be could not, according to the treaties of
Vienna, be regarded as an ally of Germany. The
tribunal has taken time to pronounce its judgment.
A letter from Pilsen, in Bohemia, states that some
workmen near that place, when lately digging the
foundation of a house, came on masses of mineral ore
containing gold. From some pieces gold was ex-
tracted to the vain? of 11 imperial ducats (130 f.).
The Government, in consequence of this discovery,
has ordered the soil to be minutely examined.
It appears, from a statistical return to the Austrian
Government, that at the end of 1851 the number of
sheep in the Austrian dominions amounted to twenty-
seven millions. In the same year these animals fur-
nished 610,000 quintals of wool, of which 160,000
were exported, and the rest used by the native manu-
facturers.