The Sun.
London, England, 1848-08-07 00:00:00

SPAIN.

Accounts from Madrid of the 30th ult. state that
the Queen was to proceed on the 9th or 10th inst. to
the Escurial, and, atter stopping a few days in that
residence, to return to Madrid. The Gazette had
not yet published the appointment of M. PIDAL to
the Foreign Department. He had, however,
taken the oath of office in the hands of the QUEEN,
and been formally installed. General N ARVAEZ at
first intended to send M. MON as Ambassador to
Austria, but it was believed that he would
shortly assume the direction of the Finance
Department. The Duke DE SOTOMATOR was
preparing to leave for Paris, and M. MARTINEZ DE
LA Rosa for Rome. Twenty-seven individuals, who
had formed part of the band of CABRERA, in the moun-
tains of Catalonia, had made their submission.

Never since Amati strung the first violin did this )
fiddle-making city suffer so much from plenitude of tem-
porary prosperity, as it does at present. I wish I could
priut the look the waiter gave me last night, on alighting
at the principal inn, when I asked for a bed and dinner.
" A bed !" cried he, " when all have been occupied, oven
to that of the muster's, for the last three days." " And
a dinner," chimed in his companion, " when the last cut-
let has been devoured an hour sicce." How I contrived
to get a dinner and a bed, will be no secret for those
who have 51. to throw away. The streets are filled with
wounded or lame soldiers, straggling in perties of two
and three—by runaway Lombardian conscripts and vo-
lunteers, and by detachments of every regiment in the
service, trying to join their colours. Every moment a
cry is raised that the Tedeschi are coming, and a rush
takes place, or a forward movement occurs on it is
being said the King and a large force are at hand.
Many of the principal families have fled, and others are
preparing to follow their example. "Is it not hard,"
said the hairdresser to me to-day, " that the nobility are
all leaving us, and that we are compelled to remain ?"
"Put your curling-irons in the fire ; let your scissors be
well ground ; keep wide open the shop-door, and when
the Austrians come they will be good customers," seas
my reply. "Ah ! Sir, you don't know them," was the
responsive groan. "Ah ! Sir, you don't know them,"
was the echo of two apprentices. The Lombardy colours
are not seen; the Milanese cockades are hid away ; the
Prodi and the Fratelli keep their eyes fixed on the gate
to Milan or to the Po. There is something ludicrous in
the fallen importance of their gentry, who a week since
imagined that Europe was dazzled at their rising re-
fulgence. They are now very tame indeed, and the
little experience they have of war, and its pleasures,
will, I think, take away all appetite fur defending
Milan, should Hadetzky bombard it. I thought the
Brescian were people of pluck, and determined to die
amid the ruins of the city ; but I am now told
their courage is something like that of Bob Acres, and
they mean to leave everything to the French, as they
have left it to the Piedmontese. I know not what to
say of the Cremonese, except that the ladies are very
handsome, and that it is a pity that grim-visaged war
should ever cau-o terror to their palpitating hearts.
The men seem well suited to playing on the fiddle, and
many of them I found at the camp were famous fur
drawing the long bow. The weather is very hot—scald-
ing hot—but there is an abundant supply of ice ; and
as, in my opinion, we shall have no more lighting, and
that the war is over, I do not see why we should nut
make ourselves comfortable. _ _

The King and the two Princes were under fire in every
affair. Their undaunted courage is highly extolled by
every one I have spoken to.
CREMONA, JULY 28.—1 wrote to you from Brescia
this morning; I have just arrived, and as the post starts
for Milan in five minutes, I merely have time to announce
that fact, in order that you may see your correspondence
is in good order. I mean to join tho King to-morrow
morning, wherever he may be. lie has fallen back from
Guito, some say on Asula, others on BussulA; the former
at the other side of the Oglio; the other, south of the
Po. I find great alarm here, but I must defer till to-
morrow any other explanation.
According to the Paris Journal des Debuts the
Italian cause still disposed of a considerable force.
The Piedmontese army, commanded by the KING,
amounted to 45,000 men, and the remainder was ut
Pavia, Piacenza, Casal Maggiore, on the Po, to the
south of Bozzolo, in the duchies of Parma and
Modena, at Ferrara and Venice. The KING'S army
forms the right wing of the general defence. The
centre is established within five leagues of Milan, as
a corps of reserve, at the bridge of Cassano, a very
strong position on the Adda, where 15,000 Lombards
and Tuscans are stationed. The town of Brescia,
strongly entrenched and defended by a castle, is the
point d'appui of the left wing, composed of 10,000
men. Inose forces amount together to 70,000 men.
Marshal Radetzky does not appear to have more
then 50,000 or 60,000 men under his immediate
orders. The last levy decreed in Piedmont will
procure a reinforcement of 21;000 men, in lepen-
dently of which 56 battalions of National Guards,
intended to farm an army of reserve, are to be
mobilized. If Lombardy had made the same efforts
the whole of Venetia would now be free, and Verona
and Mantua in the possession of the Italians.—Times

upwards of 30 fires being lighted on the line. At seven
o'clock on the following (Friday) morning the stream of
the old Cheswold, in its original bed, was stopped, and
consequently diverted through the new culvert, which,
judging from appearances, seems fully capable of meet-
ing the required purposes in all respects. The forma•
tion of the permanent platform on the site of the pro-
posed station-house, near the late residence of Mr.
Croweroft, gardener, with the entrance opposite the na-
tional school, in West Laith-gate, is rapidly proceeding.
and one lire of the permanent rails has been laid across
the marsh in the direction of the Ings and Bentley Flood
Bank. In consequence of the wetness of the weather, how-
ever, the opening of the Ike for traffic will be unavoidably
delayed for a few days, as the Government inspector
will not give his sanction until the formation of the turn-
tables, and other necessary matters connected with the
efficiency of the line, are completed. The operation of
pile-driving has commenced on the right bank of the new
cut preparatory to the erection of the permanent bridge.
The abutments will, we understand, be formed of stone
to receive wrought-iron girders to span the stream. This
portion of the work is placed under the experienced ma
nagement of Hollingworth, who was foreman of the
masonry department in the erection of the new Royal
Exchange and Derby station. The filling up of the Ches-
wold and other matters close at hand have completely
changed the character of the locality, so that the stranger
can scarcely recognise its former peculiarities.—Doneas-
ter paper.—Every exertion is being made to have the por-
tion of this line, north of Doncaster, open into the town
by the 10th of August, and we understand there is no
doubt whatever of its being completed by that time. The
two lines of rails from Stockbridge to Bentley Bank
are, as our readers were informed some weeks ago, quite
completed ; the earthwork from Bentley Bank to Don-
caster is finished, and, with the exception of about fifty
yards over the Dun drainage culvert, one lino of rail.
has been permanently laid as far as the New Cut. It
was intended to complete the unfinished interval last
night ; and we understand that an engine will run up
the line to day as far as the Mill-dyke bridge, and to
the bridge over the New Cut to-morrow (Saturday).
There will be only a single line of rails laid over the
latter. O❑ the other side of the town the brickwork of
one platform, on the site of the passenger station, is
nearly finished, and large flag-stones are being prepared
to lay on the top of the brick walls. The laying of
permanent rails from the platform to the New Cut
bridge has commenced, and the remaining portion of the
Cheswold is being filled up for the line to pass over.
There will be in West Laith gates two entrances, or
perhaps more correctly one road for entrance and one
for departure.—Doncaster Chronicle.