The Sun.
London, England, 1852-12-18 00:00:00

THE CONTINENT.

SPAIN.
44 kadrid letter of the 12th says :—" The Gover-
-40 of the province of Madrid has received an
tLer from the Minister to refuse the authorisation
scuded by a great number of Deputies and.
pa tors of the moderate opposition to hold a pre-
ko:".4t°r3r electoral meeting. The application was
shied' amongst others, by Marshal Narvaez, Mar-
NI; gel Duero, Duke de Rivas, Duke d'Abrantes,
1e de Sotomayor, and Francisco Martinez
4, Rosa. The official refusal is couched
Il"ue following terms Whereas this meet-
riVaight reproduce the agitation in the public
44t". Which was caused by juntas of the same
1,1113.fFe recently held, with a tendency to disturb
pro 'IC confidence, and to paralyse the ordinary
a.,,gregs of affairs, it is the will of the Queen, in
th"°,lll With her Council of Ministers, that the au-
erlAa.tion should be refused.' The resignation of
to neral Urbina, the Minister of War, is now cer-
q,,- The Government has successively called on
I:,g 41erals de Mer, Lersundi, and Roncali, but none
pos'"Se officers Dave accepted the portfolio. A re-
v '
, 18 current that Queen Isabella 11. had ordered
Lersundi to demand his resignation from
cha,-urave Murillo, and that the General would be
144ged to entirely reconstitute the Ministry. M.
tri" Murillo is confined to his bed by the influ-
za.

WA SWITZERLAND.
read in the Constitutionnel :—" Letters from
lec,„ 2Priand announce that the accession of Napo-
cailq "-IL to the Empire was celebrated in different
cl •°,llB, particularly in that of Fribourg, by feux
114' and salvos of artillery. The Catholics m
the Lielllar, who have had so much to suffer from
r'ate revolutions, are enthusiastic, for they well
eraber the immense services which the Emperor
°lenn rendered to Switzerland by delivering
11r, 'roll/ the yoke of the revolutionists and they
,
14 .6's that the influence of Napoleon 111. will aid
The'te settlement of their legitimate grievances.
re are so many and such real sufferings among
%Portion of the Swiss people, that we cannot
prePathise too much in the wishes which they ex-
thj:4B. The great Cabinets of Europe cannot on
og Oubject entertain an opinion different from that
French Government."

GERMANY.
ilieTll,e Grand Duchess Stephanie of Baden, aunt of
on iVaPeror Napoleon 111., arrived at Coblentz
The 14th, on a visit to the Prince of Prussia.
Journal de Frankfort of the 15th says
b 14116 Marquis de Tallenay gave a grand diplo-
th„'e dinner two days back, to which were invited
t ellvoys of the sovereigns who have recognised
toethilew Empire in France, or who have expressed
.t
the Marquis the satisfaction of their sovereigns
tisie late change. The marquis proposed a toast
lva," health of the Emperor of the French, which
111./Iltaly responded to."
Aiiste Baron de Bruck, Envoy Extraordinary of
the 1
iri,as was presented to the King of Prussia on
-"4/1, by the President of the Prussian Cabinet.
11%A ,report was current at Vienna on the 11th,"
Gov the Augsburg Gazette, " that the Austrian
other
loan. of
is about to contrat in England an-
of 100 millions of florins."

ITALY.
lefrom Rome of the 6th, in the Augsburg
14,,e'te -
e) states that several influential persons have
1' 'posed to the Papal Government to prolong
tiqee Torlonia's contract for the monopoly of salt
Ilia tobacco for nine years more, on condition of
koilWithcira • g a considerable amount of °
paper-
from circulation. The Prince, it is said, has
a*,44-4,(3.5ed. to Messrs. Rothschild to join him in the
Thy Th„
-Koh, 'lugsburg Gazette of the 14th, states from
1144—, that the son of M. Martinez de la Rosa, who
liii3telnained there as attache to the Spanish
140,4„„a5q, after the departure of his father, had been
wounded at a fencing school ; the button
vrea:` adversary's foil having been snapped off, the
'gun perforated his lungs.
to opinionof Turin, of the 14th, states from
by a that the late executions there were effected
ek:e Spanish garrote, but that, owing to the in-
acQtience of the executioner, several of the pri-
tAirel'ii lingered for many minutes in great tor-
the which caused such horrid contortions that
the executioner was obliged to conceal them from
the elee of the public. The same paper adds that
ket7listrian Government desired to have the opi-
ade,t9f the commission as to the expediency of
frrtllg the garrote, the medical men declined
lAlellg Part a it, and suggested that the matter
The latterd layed before the University of Pavia.
cleat,, on being applied to, declared that
the by the garrote was not instantaneous ; never-
eitss the military authorities insisted upon try-
the The priest Tazzoli was the first to mount
NI scaffold, which he did with great fortitude,
°lli/1g his fellow-suffere,rs to follow his example.

S W EDEN.
Ace
liii ounts from Stockholm to the 7th state that the
ter g.L?f Sweden and Norway continued to get bet-
The "lough his complete recovery will be slow.
e Publication of bulletins had ceased.

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oval .„. OMNIBUS FARES.—An immense degree of
the 6 x exists at the present time with the omnibuses on
tr the ford-street and Holborn line of road, in consequence
and
tit Penny and twopenny fares between the
thish
op,— •e. bottom of Holborn-hill. It is stated that all.
izesition on the part of the Paddington omnibus r..ropne-
cilra is to endeavour to lessen the business of, mud ultimately
lirl.ge amount of Public supe of the road, the cheap fa
portomnibuses, which receive
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