The Sun.
London, England, 1851-08-02 00:00:00

SPAIN.

Madrid journals of the 27th ult. have arrived.
Their contents are unimportant.
The following telegraphic dispatch of the 30th
ult. has been received in Paris :
" Madrid, 30, half-past 6 in the Evening.
"THE AMBASSADOR OF FRANCE TO THE MINISTER OF

FOREIGN AFFAIRS.

" The President of the Council of Ministers has an-
nounced officially to the Cortes the prorogation of the
session."

GERMANY.

A Frankfort journal states that the Germanic Diet
has now under discussion a proposition for replacing
the Austrian and Prussian Commissioners in Holstein
by a Minister Plenipotentiary, directly representing
the Diet in the negotiations with Denmark.
The Cassel Gazette states that the Bavarian troops
are to evacuate Cassel on the 4th; and the Austrians
some days later.
A few days since when the answer of the Diet to
the English and French protest was communicated
to Lord COWLEY and to M. DE TALLNAY, these dip-
lomatists said that the matter must not be considered
as settled, and that in a short time the Diet would
receive a more detailed protest, proving that the
question is not an internal one, but one that concerns
the whole of Europe. Lord COWLEY especially ex-
pressed himself very strongly on the subject.

Gti EEG&
Letters from Athens state that General GRIVAS,
the Grand Chamberlain, and who possessed great in-
fluence over the QUEEN, has been dismissed from
office, and ordered to quit Athens:

LAMB AND FLAG RAGGED SCHOOLS, LAMB-COURT,
CLERKENWELL-GREEN.—On Monday evening these schools
presented a most interesting sight, a public tea meeting of
the parents and friends of the children taking place. Pro-
bably few such assemblies of sweeps, costermongers, dust-
men, &c., at a public tea meeting, could be witnessed In
London or elsewhere. Amongst the noted characters present
we observed, near the platform, one of the royal family of the
gipsies ; numbers of reformed drunkards were present, and
the principal gratuitous waiter, a costermonger, has formerly,
we are informe ', when costermongering was a thriving busi-
ness, spent as much as three pounds a week in drink ; he is
now wholly reformed. A most striking example is furnished
by this district of the untold benefits of the City mission, by
which these schools, as well as most ragged schools in Lon-
don (amongst others the well-known Field-lane schools),
have been founded. A devotional meeting succeeded the
tea, at which various exceedingly appropriate spiritual ad-
dresses were delivered by the missionary of the district, Mr.
Vanderkiste ; the superintendent of the schools, Mr. Watts;
and others. Some present, probably meditating on their for-
mer wretched condition, were observed to shed tears.
BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON —The ordinary
meeting of this society was held last evening at e society s
th'
rooms, 20, Bedford-street, Strand ; J. Reynolds, Esq.,. trea-
surer, in the chair. After several donations to the library
had been announced, Mr. G. E. Dennes, the secretary, stated
that the council had made arrangements to considerably en-
large the society's operations as regards the distribution of
valuable foreign specimens of plants sent to the society.
The continuation of Mr. Stock's paper, "On the Botany of
Bungay, Suffolk," was read.
THE WATER COMMITTEE. Yesterday Mr.
Hawkesley, civil engineer, was examined before the Com-
mittee, which was adjourned until Monday next.