The Sun.
London, England, 1852-02-23 00:00:00

SPAIN.

and remained for some tine on the
Our accounts from Madrid are of the 17th inst.
Casa de Campo On that and the previous day the QUEEN had gone
with the usual ceremonies, the in-
signia of the Golden Fleece to MM.
' carriage,
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ISTURITZ and The 18th had been fixed
upon for her visit to the church of Atocha. A com-
mittee of the Chamber of Deputies had waited upon
be permitted to accompany her on
her MAJESTY, to request that the members of the
The permission was granted, with
gment of gratitude for this manifes-
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devotedness.
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Lord IiowDEN the British
Ambassador at Madrid, bad transmitted to the QUEEN
an autograph letter of congratulation from Queen
VICTORIA.
MADRID BoLSA, FEB• 1,7 ,
17.._ hree per Cants. were
done at 383- for time; New Three per Cents., 1*
Debt without Inter
lohetcitedness.
Interest at 51; and Coupons, at 9.

BELGIUM.
It is stated that Count ALEXANDER STROGONOFF is
designated for the new post of Russian Minister
Plenipotentiary ja Belgium, where that power has
hitherto been represented
by a Consul-General.
To facilitate
the establishment of more intimate relations between
the two states, twelve Polish officers who have served
twenty years
in thin
the Be
army, are invited to re-
tire,
or placed en disponibilite. The following appears
in the _Herald of to-day
`'PREPARATIONS FOR THE DEFENCE OF BELGIUM.
(Extract of a letter dated Brussels, Feb. 19, 18.52.)
" A convention has been concluded between our Go-
vernment (tho Belgian) and Russia, whereby tha latter
eng
engages to furnish 100,000 men for the defence of our
territory, in case it should be invaded, or seriously me-
naced by France. Should the Baltic be open these troops
(including the Iwperial Guards) are to be transported
by a Russian fleet to Antwerp.
" Prussia promises us assistance to a like extent. The
object of the present mission of the Prince de Ligno to
Berlin is to arrange the modus operandi.
" Our own army numbers 90,000, of whom 70,000
would take the field, and the remainder occupy cur
fortresses.

Luxem-
bourg, agrees to furnish a eontin
.--"
Holland, interested in the protection of "
Hopes are entertained that England, as one of the
powers guaranteeing the independence of Belgium, will
gent of 30,000.
co-operate with a fleet its the Scheldt and a garrison for
tho citadel of Antwerp.
But you Siie
Austria, who might weaken our enemy by a diversion
that, independent of England and
on the Mediterranean, our northern coalition musters
300,000 men; a force quite sufficient to repel the threa-
tened invasion, if not chastise its authors at a second
Waterloo.

" This country will swarm with French spies and
police agents.
" I am assured, is a trustworthy quarter, that the
Emperor of Russia has ordered the fifty millions of
francs, which he invested in French Rentes in 1847, to
he transferred to the Dutch Funds, as he does not con-
'id"' his "1°49 safe in France after the Orleans con-
fiscation."

SATURDAY EVE NING.
DUBLIN, —The intelligence
of the defeat of the Ministry on the Militia Bill, and the un-
expected resignation of Lord John Russell, received by tele-
graph in this city today. have caused a considerable sen-
sation and anxious speculations as to the result—whether
''
Lord John will resume office, after negotiations,
or Lord
Derby will venture upon a Protectionist Administration, or,
perhaps, try his hand, leaving protection in abeyance. All
parties look with anxiety fur the London morning
and the
journals
of Saturday, with the debate on the Militia Rill
latest intelligence of this new " Ministerial crisis." The
Weekly Telegraph
gives the defeat of Ministers in a third
edition, describing it as a ~ glorious victory of the Irish
Brigade."
NIGHT CHARGES.—At an hotel--Two shillings.
At a station-house—Five shillings. N.B. If you sleep at
the latter, you avoid the fee that is usually given to the
boots and chambermaid, and have nothing to pay for wax
candles.— Our Fast Young illan.--Panch.