The Sun.
London, England, 1852-05-31 00:00:00

SPAIN.

By accounts from Madrid to the 25th it appears
most probable that the intended coup d'itat is aban-
doned. The protestation against it will not, therefore,
be presented to the QUEEN.
It is considered certain that the Chamber of Depu-
ties will be dissolved early in July, and a new one

One of our correspondents at New York (says the
era°niasmeitiatisi° 1111 s)
a, in a position to be well informed,
piece of important news, which we
were led to expect from former letters. He says :
t
" The expedition against Cuba will positively leave at
n e l
the end of May, or the beginning of June, unless the
American Government should prevent it, which no
one expects it will do. The first division will consist
of from 500 to 600 men, who as soon as landed will
be followed by other detachments, which will have
landed on different parts of the island, making a total
force of 2,000 men. The departures will take place
from New Orleans, Mobile, and Savannah. The
plan of the expedition has already hen fully agreed
on." We hope that this expedition will meet with
the fate of the preceding ones, but we cannot but re-
gret that the brave and able General CONCHA is no
longer at the head of the Government of Cuba.
Ru-
mours to the above effect are frequently mentioned in
the American Papers but little credence seems to be
attached to them.in the
In fact, after the truly generous
conduct of Spain towards the prisoners taken
last lawless affair of the same kind, it is difficult to
Government
believe that the
of the United States
would permit any
such preparations as those above
measures aganst them.
The Three
alluded to to be made, without adopting stringent
per Cents, were done at 43:1 cash; De-
ferred, 22 ; Coupons, 1,1 paper.
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The Diet of GERMANY.
2
KING in person.
The Cologne Gazette, under date of Berlin, con-
firms the statement of the protocols respecting Saxony was closed on the 4th by the
Swit-
zerland having been signed in London, but that it had
not transpired whether the signature of the French
Ambassador had been given with that of the other
representatives of the great powers.
A Berlin letter states that the Emperor of RUSSIA
o of Venice, and from political mo-
tives, to leave on the 26th for Warsaw, accompanied N
by Count
FSSELRODE•
The Augsburgh Gazette states that by order of the
military Governor
tires, the Wallachian Prince GuviKA and his travel-
ling companion the Baron DE BRAUDNER have been
arrested at Venice.
In a coread :
mmunication dated Carlsruhe, May 27, we
"The report is circulated here that Louis Napoleon
has made a formal application for the hand of the Prin-
cess Voss, graud-daughter of the Grand Duchess
Stephanie of Baden. It was remarked during the Paris
festivals that the President paid great attention to the
Baden officers."

OPENING OP THE PEST HARTLEPOOL NEW Dock
A" HA4lour--The ceremony
new dock at West Hartlepool,' of opening the commodious
for the accommodation of
merchandize traffic, is appointed for Tuesday next, the Ist
°f June. The total area of dock and harbour accsmmoda-
tion is sixty-six acres, or sufficient for the accommc dation, at
the same time, of not fewer than 500 sail of vessels! The
avalock entrance to the new dock is sixty feet wide, and is
ilable for a very large class of steam- ves,:els
intended immediately to put on steamers bet cen
Hartlepool. and Harnburgh Rotterdam, Antwerp. London,
Leith, and Aberdeen as well as to ths other ports. along
the coast. The depth of water in the docks will be
twenty-three feet; and a large graving dock of 320 feet in
length is connectd with
rhere is no bar over the
harbour month, and ships ca.rs put to sea and be off. upon
their yap.. at
once, without any tedious and expensive river
navigation. and itt;

Colonel Sir J. Gaspard Le Marchant, the present
Governor
John ar
9f Newfoundland, is selected as the successor of Sir
sous.li t e -o deceased, as Lieutenant-Governor of Nova