The Sun.
London, England, 1853-01-19 00:00:00

SPAIN.

We have received the Madrid journals of the
13th. The Heraldo has a long article in which,
after blaming in severe language the conduct of the
Government towards Marshal Narvaez, it says
"Is it extraordinary that the Duke of Valencia,
having been made the object of the unjustifiable
measure which had been adopted towards him,
should have protested against it with vigour and
energy Y We think that no one will be astonished
at it, and particularly if two things are considered.
The first is, that documents like that signed by the
General, although addressed under an official
form to an august personage, whom every one
respects, are in reality directed against the re-
sponsible advisers of an inviolable and sacred
institution ; and the second is, that if this docu-
ment was distributed clandestinely, the Duke of
Valencia ought not to be responsible for it." A
deputation of the directors of the Opposition had
had an interview with the Minister of the Interior.
The latter expressed his regret at the present con-
dition of the periodical press, but observed that it
was not the present Ministry who had made the
laws which had led to that disastrous condition,
and it had not the power to do all that might be
wished in its favour ; he added, however, that
orders had been given to avoid all unnecessary
rigour. The deputation left the Minister little
satisfied at the vagueness of his reply to their re-
monstrances.
The Heraldo has also published an article, sup-
porting the demand of the holders of coupons to
have them entirely converted into 3 per Cent. De-
ferred Stock, instead of remaining reduced one-
half as they have been. The Heraldo says that
the claim is not only just in itself, but, if granted,
would open the principal money-markets of Europe
to Spanish stock, and would enable the Govern-
ment to convert great part of its floating debt,
which is very burdensome, into permanenestock.
The Moderado Electoral Committee hold daily
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and Murimo.

The Governor of Madrid replied 'Us follows, to
an application for leave to hold a preparatory
electoral meeting

" In virtue of the power, vested in me by the 7th
article of the law of the 2d of April, relative to the Go•

vernment of the provinces, I grant the required authori-
zation, on condition of being previously apprized of the
day and place when the electors are to assemble."

The Captain-General of Cuba writing under date
14th December, states that the island was perfectly
tranquil, and that its sanitary condition continued
to improve.

The Three per Cents. were done at 44- ' • the New
Three per Cents. at 23 9-16 ; the Debt of the First
Class, at 10f ; and that of the Second, at 51,

AUSTRIA.

The Press of Vienna says that there is not the
slightest foundation for the statement, in some of
the foreign journals, that the Austrian Government
is sending reinforcements to its army in Italy.
The Wanderer of Vienna states, on the authority
of a person just returned from ungary, that the
wandering bands of gipsies, who were formerly so
numerous in that country, have completely disap-
peared. Those gipsies who still remain in the
country are established in the villages, and engaged
in regular occupations.
The Austrian Military Commandant of Leghorn,
Count Crenneville, has issued a modification, dated
the Bth, announcing the condemnation of six cus-
tom-house porters to various periods of imprison-
ment, as ringleaders in a disturbance which ori-
ginated among the porters on the 24th of December
last, and had the appearance of a political demon-
stration, owing to disrespectful language applied to
the Grand Duke of Tuscany.
A jockey-club has just been organised at Florence
by some of the Tuscan aristocracy. Its rooms are
in the Palazzo, Uguccioni, where a reading-room,,
a library, and a good French cook are the chief
attractions.

A telegraphic dispatch from Vienna announces
that the Archduke Reinier died at Botzen, in the
Tyrol, on the 16th. He was one of the brothers of
the Emperor Francis 1., was
great uncle to the
present Emperor, and was at one time Viceroy of
Italy. Another telegraphic dispatch from Hano-
ver states that the Hanoverian Government has
resumed its negotiations with the order of nobility.
A letter from Vienna, of the 14th, states that
the Earl of Westmoreland has announced officially
to the Austrian Cabinet that he will remain at
Vienna to represent the new Ministry in England.
In consequence of a notification issued by the
Imperial Lieutenant of Lombardy, dated the 11th,
the conscription for 1853 in the Lombardo-Vene-
tian provinces commenced on the 17th. The num-
ber of recruits prescribed for these provinces is
13,390.
At the end of December, 1852, the amount of
State notes in circulation was quoted at 155,788,058
florins, showing a decrease from the preceding
month of 2,501,066 florins. According to the
official report, the sum total of Government paper
withdrawn from circulation is 32,600,000 florins,
which has been effected by means of a portion of
the loan of 1851. Twenty-five millions of this
consisted of State notes, with a forced currency.
The statistical returns of the births, deaths, and
marriages, for the year 1852, show for Vienna and
its suburbs, 21,764 births, 19,096 deaths, and 5,227
marriages. Compared with the year 1851 (says the
report, though the figures are not given) the in-
crease in the number of births was 618, in deaths
453, and 203 more couples were joined together.
Among the deaths there was one woman who had
attained the age of 104.