The Sun.
London, England, 1852-02-11 00:00:00

SPAIN.

The following telegraphic dispatch was received
yesterday by the French Government :—" Madrid,
Feb. Bth, 1 P.M. The QUEEN has entered on her con-
valescance."

Ttie Patrie of yesterday formally contradicts the
unfavourable accounts published of her MAJESTY'BCOII-
- in the Constitutionnel,as contained in a Madrid
letter. It declares them to be completely destitute of
foundation.

The Paris correspondent of the Times thus expa-
tiates on the punishment of the garote :
" The yarote ail is a death of infamy in Spain. The
ceremony that accompanies the execution of a criminal
in that way is original. But whether it be by the garote
or the musket, the moment a man is doomed, either by
court-martial or by an ordinary tribunal, he is regarded
in some sort as having already almost expiated his
crime, and, as it were, no longer belonging to the world.
He is treated with the utmost care— he is supplied
with everything ho wants during the last twelve hours
he. passes in caia.lla—and every request of his is
relattended to. No matter what delicacy ho
requires for his last meal, if it can at all be had, it is
supplied him—and he is treated with the utmost defer-
once by those about him. In fact, he is regarded with
a species of superstitious awe. On the morning of the
execution, and at the boar appointed, he is taken from
the chapel of his prison, where he has been attended in-
cessantly by the chaplain, aided, if ho wished for it by
the parochial clergy, and the members of the religious
confraternities, who employ the most endearing, the most
soothing expressions to reconcile him to his fate, and who
seldom fail to produce an effect on the most hardened
heart. When the last stroke of the bell is heard the
prisoner is clothed in a bright yellow gown,
something of the same fashion as a lawyer's, and
his head is covered with a yellow cap, resembling
in shape the French advocate's toque. A mule of low
Size is placed at the gate, on which he is raised by the
members of the religious confraternity. The animal is
without a saddle, and is led with a halter generally by a
child under 12 years of age. The prisoner has a book
or paper in his hand, in which are printed or written
the prayers for the dying, and these he repeats in a loud
tone of voice as ho moves slowly along, accompanied by
the clergy, who not for one instant quit his side; and
preceded and accompanied by the religious confrater-
nities—whom also the military escort precedes and fol-
lows. As he passes along the street of Toledo flam-
beaux are burning in the balconies, and men, women,
and children are on their knees, praying for pardon and
' a happy release from life,' to the guilty man who
passes before them. A number of the members of the
fraternities make a collection amongst the crowd
for two objects first, for the widow and
orphans the criminal, if he be married, may leave behind;
and secondly, to distribute in alms, or in masses, for the
repose of his sonl. Amongst the crowd there is no in-
decent mirth, no laughing, no picking of pockets; and,
when the criminal has taken his seat on the platform,
and the last turn of the tourniquet, and the last quiver of
the bound limbs, tell that life has fled, the multitude un-
cover, and you may see many a lip move in hasty prayer
for the departed. At the last moment, too, a groan is
uttered by the multitude—but it is not one of disrespect
it is as it were the last adieu to the soul as it quits its
earthly tenement. The dead body is left seated in the
same position for an hour, and then remove .
d. No death
can be quicker than by the garote. It is, fact, in-
stantaneous ; and the force with which the instrument
acts at once makes the neck as fiat as the thinnest open
pa Im."
MADRID BOLSA, FEB. s.—The Three per Cents,
were done at 37 for time; the New Three per Cents,
at lq; the Debt without interest, si; and the Cou-
pons, at 9i.

ITALY.
In the sitting of the 6th of the Senate at Turin,
the discussion on the budget for the War Department
was continued. Marshal DELLA TORRE maintained
his opinion that peace and stability were never more
certain than now, and that the army should conse-
quently be reduced. His speech appeared, however,
to produce but little impression. The debate was
adjourned to the following day. In the Chamber of
Deputies M. SINEo attacked the Ministerial Bill con-
cerning the law on the press at great length, and
was answered by M. BoNcoMPAGNI, who maintained II
that war had more than once been caused by intem-
perate newspaper articles against foreign powers, and
pointed to the war between England and the Emperor
NAPOLEON as an example in point. The discussion
was again adjourned.
By a decree of the 30th ult. the Grand Duke of
TUSCANY has ordered a new levy of 1,400 men.

GREECE.
We have received the Athens journals to the 26th
ult., but the only thing of interest they contain is an
account of the sitting of the Senate, in which the Go,
vernment met with a serious check, by the rejection
of its proposition for granting a pension of 36,000
drachmas to M. G. COUNDOURIOTIS, by a majority of
37 to 14.

HER MAJESTY'S WEDDING"DA.Y.--WINDSOR, FEB.
10. The anniversary of her Majesty's wedding-day was ce-
lebrated at Windsor yesterday With
the customary demon-
strationspect. Merry peals were rung at
of loYaltY
intervals throughout the day from the bells of St. George's
and St. John's churches, and roal salutes were fired from
the corporation ordnance in theyßachelor's-acre, also from
Fort Belvedere; and in the evening a ball took place in the
Town-hall, under the patrousge of the mayor, which was nu-
m/3)01y attoPded.