The Sun.
London, England, 1856-12-23 00:00:00

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A letter from Madrid of the 17th states as
follows :

" It is amid the great scarcity of food, and the desti
tution which prevails, that the saloons of General Narvaez
have been opened with the greatest splendour. The
contrast between the magnificence displayed on this
occasion and the misery of the labouring classes is too
striking not to have attracted attention, and increased
the public discontent. It is no less remarkable that
many of the influential men of the party to which the
General belongs were not present. The Crates haveen
presented their;warmest congratulations to
Sicily,
9es:tams
if
the suppression of the insurrection in
and alljuusions of
her Majesty had herself suppressed it,
a very piquant kind were made to England
in and
i‘,adr Franceid
on the occasion. The state of the press
deplorable. There is no law, no fixedTehsasruleThat
, which y wi
nh
theic h
writers can regulate their conduct. is
prohibited by
morning they are allowed to publish
generally all
the censorship in the evening, arid,th ouygeht
gtre
for espe•
are subject to this arbitrary conduct,Es
invariably single out the Norte pane,/.
Ciaelntseverit from the fact of that paper being
y,
consi-
dered!as the organ of General O'Donnell. The plan is
evidently to completely stifle the liberal portion of the
press. In the meantime the Absolutist and Carlist jour-
nals not only enjoy great liberty, but in many cases
the conduct of the Government is regulated by their
suggestions. The Court and the Government awaited
the arrival of the Ambassadors of France and England
with great anxiety. They were apprehensive that a
conflict would be produced in the progress of reaction.
The prudence and reserve of these diplomatists, have,
however, attracted their attention. For the first few
days the Espana and one or two other Ministerial
papers did their best to rouse the sentiment of nation.
ality against the attitude which it was sup posed the
Ambassadors would assume ; but the public gene-
rally laughed at their patriotic harangues, emanating,
as every one knew, from people who were always'
humble before Louise Philippe, who were ever ready to
lick the dust off his Ambassador's shoes, and who now
prefer friendship and alliance with the imvrir of Russia
and the King of Naples to that of France and England,
who signed the treaty of quadruple alliance. The conduct
of Lord flowden and of his colleagues de ierves the highest
praise. It is impossible for any one to say that either of
them offers any pretext for conflict with the Government.
The Miniit -rs are quite sufficient of themselves to raise
up numerous difficulties and dangers by their reactionary
policy. They are fairly entering on the path of the
celebrated Calonaarde Ministry under Ferdinand VII.
Their conduct is quite as arbitrary, and their rule is
quite as despotic. They have recently issued orders
for the early closing of the shops and cafes, precisely as
be did ; and these measures, which are considered by
them as precautionary, produce great irritation among
.the public without any advantage whatever to the Go-
vernment. The Aliuisters do not stir out without
being accompanied by police agents. Eack Minister
is attended by three of them as a. body guard, and
when his carriage stops at the door of a house two
policemen place themselves at the corner of the street,
and the third at the entrance of the house. All wear
large cloaks, and carry under their arms a loaded blun-
derbuss.

" General O'Donnell had an interview with the Queen
last night. Some of the Ministers who saw him in the
ante-chamber got much alarmed, and a Cabinet Council
was held at midnight. As in this country Ministerial
changes are almost always the result of Palace intrigues,
no Minister can consider himself as secure for a
single day. He invariably looks forward to being
turned out by the same intrigues which he has
employed against others. During the conference
General O'Donnell informed the Queen that he was
aware that his name was made use of to his injury, and
that plans of military conspiracies were attributed
to him with which he had nothing whatever to do.
He wished to inform her Majesty of the fact, and
hoped that she gave no credit to such rumours. He
well knew that the motive for propagating such false-
hoods was that he should be sent out of Madrid. He
then alluded more to the Government, and particularly
to General Narvaez, whom he knows well from his hav-
ing been his brother conspirator on other occasions. The
Queen calmed O'Donnell's anxiety ; she told him he
might remain perfectly tranquil, as she did not believe
a word of these rumours, and that she was satisfied
with his services. The conversation then turned on
the loan, and O'Donnell explained to her Majesty the
bad effect produced in public by that measure."

PORTUGAL.
LIVERPOOL, DEC. 23.

The Braganza brings Lisbon dates of the 15th
inst., whop the following English and foreign ves-
sels of war wore anchored in the Tagus :—Her
Majesty's steam-ships Caesar, Captain Robb ;
Centurion, Captain Fanshaw ; Colossus, Captain
Thomson ; Exmouth, Captain Eyres ; and Sans-

pareil, Captain Key. French steam-ship Auster-
litz, steamer Phoanix, and Dutch frigate Prins
Alexander.
When the Bra,ganza, left Lisbon neither the Penin-
sular mail packet, which left Southampton on the
Bth, nor the Avon, which left with the Brazil mails
on the 9th instant, had reached Lisbon ; no doubt
in consequence of the contrary gales, which kept
the French steamer Franc Comptois out 10 days
from Havre, and obliged the steamer Arno, which
left Liverpool for Gibraltar and Genoa on the 3d,
to put into the Tagus for coals ou the 13th.
The Arno had not suffered damage, and left on
the 15th for Gibraltar; but the Franc Comptois
was making water, and was not expected to be able
to go on for the Brazils in less than a week.

WHAP IS A Cg.RTIFIOATE OF NATU-
BALISAT lUN?

Le Chevalier de Chatelain writes to a contemporary
as follows : A

Permit me to inquire through your channel whether
y of your readers can solve the above question, which
interests all foreigners naturalised Englishmen ?
Having married in this country, in which I have taken
up my abode from predilection, I became naturalised in
1848, long before the Presidency of Louis Napoleon, and
consequently the establishment of the second empire.
From that time I have exercised all the rights of a❑
English subject, voting both at vestry and Parliamentary
,-lections, considering myself de facto an Englishman.
I was therefore much surprised this morning on receiv-
ing the following circular :--

" Whitehall, Nov. 29.
" Sir,—As there is reason to believe that some miscon-
ception prevails as to the extent of the privileges conferred
by a certificate of naturalisation, I am directed by Secre-
tary Sir G. Grey to explain to you that no certificate, or
other act of naturalization, granted by the British Govern-
ment to an alien, places him beyond the lawful power and
control of his native country, unless he have, received from
the Government of such country a certificate of denation-
alisation, or been released from his original obligations as
a subject or citizen in some other legal way. —I am, sir,
your obedient servant, "H. WADDINGTON."
Now if, in 1848, the period of my naturali-ation, the Secre-
tary of State had desired me to obtain my denationalisation •
from the French Government, it would have bee
easy for me to do so, but since the coup d'etat, not
regarding the Empire as founded on a legitimate
basis, I cannot of course solicit any favour of the
said Government. I pledged allegiance to Queen
Victoria, as to a constitutional monarch, who has
kept her oaths. I decline pledging any such allegi-
ance towards Louis Napoleon, for the contrary reason.
I therefore beg to inquire of you id your readers, after
perusing the Secretary of State's letter, am I an English
or a French subject?
I believe myself to be an English subject, and that the
circular in question is merely an attempt on the part of
the second empire to take steps against Frenchmen
naturalisd since the second of December. But I repeat
that my naturalisation dates from 1848—viz,, before the •
existence of the second empire.
I shall esteem it a favour if any one can enlighten me
on this subject, which is highly interesting, principally
to those Frenchmen naturalised since the coup d'ti tat.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge left St.
James's Palace, yesterday, for Swakeley Park, near
Uxbridge, the seat of Mr. Clarke, where the Marquis of
Donegal and a select party were to meet his Royal
Highness. In the evening the Royal Duke dined with
,he Marquis of Donegal at Harefield-place.
The Duchess of A tholl has arrived at the St. George'.
Hotel from Windsor Castle.
The Earl and Countess of Lichfield have left the St.
Ger.rge's Hotel for their seat in Staffordshire.
We are happy to hear that his Grace the Duke of
Rutland'shealth is somewhat better, and that anions ohe
vf
able to sit up in his arm-chair the greater p t

day.
G-halib Pasha, bringing the full powers for the Tur-
kish Ambassador who is to represent Turkey t the
Conferences, reached Paris last evening
DEATH OF THE REV. J. HARRIS, .D.D. It is with
sincere and deep regret that we have to announce the
College, John's-wood.
at
theTise
death of the Rev •
John Harris, D.D , Principal of New
melancholy
ons
en
College,
half past five o'clock.
DEATH OF GENERAL THE HON. W. H. GARDNER.---,
General the Hon. Wm. Henry Gardner, Colonel Com
mandant of the 10th Battalion of the Royal Artillery,
event
placeolle a,t St
residence, Sunday'
t
ge
died on the 15th instant, at his seat in Devonshire first
. The
venerable surviving
General was eldest son of Athat
lso,
Baron Gardner, and was born October 6, 1774, 8°
he had entered his 83d year.
the
GREENWICH HOSPITAL.—We regret to announce
death of Admiral Sir H. Hart,KVII , Commissioner of
Greenwich Hospital, which took plac'e yesterday morns
ing at a quarter-past 7, at his apartment in the Qtleen'i
House, at Greenwich.
DEATH OF THE MARQUIS OF QUEENSDERRY.We boll
1 to record the demise of the Marquis of QueensberrY,
which took place at Edinburgh on Friday morning. Tb°
deceased John Douglas of
, Marquis and Earl of Queen°.
berry, Viscount of Drumlanrig, and Baron D,
suglae
Hawick and Tibbers, in the peerage of Scotland. and a
Baronet of Nova Scotia, was third son of Sir and
Douglas, Bart., of Kellhead, descended from the Hon.
Sir William, second son of the first Earl of Queensberry.
He was.born in 1780, and married 16th July, 1817, his
cousin Sarah, third daughter of Major James Sholto
Douglas, who survives him, and by whom be has
left
issue a son and daughter, namely, Viscount Drunslanrig
M.P., and Lady Genrgiana Douglas. The late peer sue
ceeded to the family honours on the death of his eTldhe
er
brother Charles, fifth marquis, the 3d Dec.,
1/137,
deceased marquis is now succeeded in the mar
Drumquisate by
his only son, Archibald William Viscount laerig.
ACCIDENT TO LORD ADINGDON.—On Saturday morn-
ing, as the Earl of Abingdon was returning on horse-
back from Waterperry-house, the seat of the Right Sou.
J. W. Henley, m,p., where he had slept the previous
night, his horse stepped upon a stone and fell, wherebY
his Lordship sprained his ancle. His Lordship was re'
moved to the Angel Hotel, Oxford, and Mr. W. Rusher
and Mr. F. Symonds, surgeons, having been sent
for,
adopted the necessary treatment. His Lordship los
enabled to proceed the same evening to Wytham Abbey'
The noble earl is going on satisfactorily, and the itsjurie°
racter so
he has sustained not of so serious a cha v/2111
at first apprehended.
HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. M. ,s BAD
MASQUE.—The seventeen JULLIEN _ .„,f.
seventeenth annual bal'ma,que ot ."-`
Jullien was given last night within 'f
her
Majesty's Theatre,with the walla 0 co
a splendour and an Well° I,
last the most mag
of arrangement that made the ni cent
of the long seriesof which the
public owe to the these entertainments O3.
enterprise, taste, tact, and rnan''''
hole-
ment of the popular maestro who presided over the I?
d the
The dancing was spirited, and well sustained, on
attendance was very numerous.
FATAL Ac22._00 Sotur'
day ACCIDENT.—LIVERPOOL, Dec. her
to
afternoon, while the Persia' was corning
moorings in the river,
the capstan suddenly spun round,ors
and o
_ 0 ne of the bare struck the second officer, Mr. Gre iI,S
D wning Stanley, in the abdomen, producing isjurieetbe
which he died last night. The deceased was one °f
teat
picked men of the service, which his death *a
14 g
to I
loss.
ESCAPE OF CONVICTS FROM WOOLWICH AnsosAL.
Last night, between the hour of nine and ten, three cot!'
victs, named James Taylor, James Wright, and co
Wright, escaped from the Defence, hospital bulk, hal,,rj6
first obtained possession of the gig belonging toile 00°''''
mender of the vessel, Capt. Warren, in which is JP;
posed they sailed down the river in order to land at
re l'il
secluded spot. The fugitives recently arrived he
r°
A meet
ANTI-INCOME TAX MEETING AT PUTNEY.-- - to
ing was held last night at the National School-roo . ,
Putney. It was an adjourned one from the llth inercr;
when, it may be remembered, the proceedings
Svlthe
adruptly brought to a conclusion on account o .
~e
awful sudden death of Mr. Lord, who expired s'inild.
commenting on the resolution be had previously reloTess,
—H. Dodgson, Esq., was called to the chair, and rei 0_
lotions in accordance with the objects of the meet olt
a ere carried. Church, Dr•
OXFORD, Dec. 21--The Dean of Christ ,.
during the nest,
Liddell, will be absent from Oxford
teat
, _
term, his medical adviser deeming it desirable
...t he
" warmer climate. it
should page the cold sends in a
..
in the Heb-
understood that he intends to resign his seat
must be absent for so large a
domadal Coutied, since h©
Letters relating to the
portion of the academical year.
I- •of the college should be sent to the sub-dean•
ousiness : 0
NEW PASSPORT REGULATION.- a recent decisio
of the French Government, travellers coming from En.g7
land, and proceeding direct to Belgium or Germany bY
ired to
Boulogne and Calais, or vice versa, are not resin
5_
have their passport vised by the French consul, but can
exhibit it without that formality with the,r railw.,Yo
ticket, to prove that they are only passing through ,tro,
country, and not intending to stop in it. A 8103'
facility is afforded in Belgium, , it Stell°V
LIVERPOOL, Dec. 22.—The United States
ma,eo
ship Ericsson sails for New York an
Wednesday',
.;
the post-office box closes at 2 p.m., and finally at P coo
at the landing-stage, with late fee, at 4 p uk..rtb
same day the Montreal Ocean mail-steamer
B.._ufne,
American sails for Canada, via Portland, the po t °
t the
box closing at 7 a.m., with late fee at 8 a.m., and a
•
landing-stage at 9 a.m. 10°
GREAT DEMONSTRATION AGAINST THE IssCog era'
—We have much pleasure in announcing that pre:_na-
tions are far advanced for a great metropolit inks n',..e,
straion against the Income-tax, which is to F.:317,3,
about the middle of next month, and in the most 'lto
cious place which can be procured. We have reasoo'oo,
believe, from what we know of the arrangensent_l ;11 so
leaking for the intended demonstration, that it will TA
for to seal the doom of the iniquitous impost, It 'so of
fllowed by great popular demonstrations in all psi
the country. Mates
that
A correspondent of the North British AI ail Pta
Blantyre,
Dr. Livingston was born in the village of t° other'
where his father, Neil Livingston, and his other
Agnes Hunter, were married ; both his father and 133
their
having resided there a long time previous t° ily re-
merriage and about thirty years after it. The
farli.,tett
moved from Blantyre Works to Hamilton about sers
years ago, where Dr. Livingston's mother and tve.ol is re
at present reside. Dr. Livingston's young fassl Lio.
siding just now with their grandmother in -10-3
~ boy,
Dr. Livingstone wrought in the mill as a piece`siassee
and, before he left, as a spinner, attending thecc.csiog
in Glasgow during the winter months and r
beuloier
iiis work as a spinner in the mills during the :: tir:
vacations. He left Blantyre Works about t,tl Dr .
he was engaged by the London Missionary Socii!tS• eider
Livingston has tNo brothers in America--tnemoger
.brother John, in business in Canada, his Y'
brother, Charles, a minister-in the United States.