The Sun.
London, England, 1851-05-13 00:00:00

SPAIN.

Madrid journals of the 7th inst. have arrived.
They state that Queen CURISTINA, in descending
from her carriage at Aranjuez, had the misfortune
to fracture her leg just above the encle.
MADRID BOLSA., MAY 7.—The following are the
prices of stocks :—Three per Cents., 35/ to i ; Five per
Cents., with current coupon, 151 to 16; Coupons, 8 to
84*; Passive Debt, 6'-'s to 1. Exchange on London, 50 90.

PORTUGAL.
THE NEW MINISTRY.
Advices from Lisbon, of the 7tb, give the following
as the list of the new Ministry :—President of the
Council, SALDANHA ; Interior, PASSOZ ; Finance,
FRANCINI ; Justice, Fran Art ; Foreign AlLtirs_,...Count
DE LAVRADIO ; Marine, Viscount DE SA. The ab-
dication of DONNA MARIA was spoken of at Lisbon.

GERMANY.
PROROGATION OF THE PRUSSIAN
CHAMBERS.
The Prussian Chambers were prorogued on the
9th. The following was the Speech of the PRESI-
DENT to the Council :
" Gentlemen,—The Prussian Chambere have arrived
at the close of their second regular session, which
has occupied more than four mcnths of your continued
activity.
" The commencement of your deliberations fell in an
nitated and critical period. Against threatening
dangers the collective military force of the kingdom was
called out, on a scale in Which it bad never been sum-
moned before, and with a remit that filled the Prussian
people with the coneciousness of their own strength and
commanded the respect of foreign nations. In the mean-
time circumstances arose under which his Majesty's Go-
vernment believed, after due and conscientious conside-
ration, they could avoid the conflict with States of the
same German race. But it was natural that in the
state of feeling in the country other views of the posi-
tion of affairs would not remain without expression
durieg your debates.
" Still the patriotism of both Chambers avoided a con-
flict which would only have damaged the position of
Prussia externally, and injured her internal development
—a conflict which none but the enemies of Prussia could
have regarded with hope.
" With zeal you have applied to your high mission,
and by the fruits of your activity earned new claims to
the thanks of the nation.
" Thirty-four Bills, after going through the constitu-
tional discussion in both Chambers, have been laid be-
fore the Government, and in part, after receiving the
Rol al sanction, have been published in the collection
of laws.
"You have the satisfaction of knowing that anew penal
code, which has been in preparation for many years to
supply a pressing deficiency, owes its completion to your

exertions.
" By your assent to the law on a class and classified
income-tax, you have maintained the means of meeting
the increased demands on the expenditure:of the State, by
which the le,a wealthy classes of the population are nut
only spared an increase of taxation, but in part have
had the burdens on them even much lightened.
"The State expenditure for the year 1851 has been
fixed, end by granting u credit of 11,500,000 thalers you
have given the Government the means of covering the
s oc3asiorsed by calling out the array, which have
expense
not eeu incurred without m;ny and purrmaiont ,advan-
vantages fur the military power.
" If some draughts of laws have not been completed in
this session, yet their discussion, tne many proposals
from the Chambers therneeh:es, end the petitials pre-
sented to them, have furnished the Government with
materials which, you may bo assured, will receive the
most careful consideration.
" By the decisions ycu have come to on the Bills laid
before you, you have given the Government the assur-
ance that it is, in essential points, in accordance with
the Legislative bodies of the nation. It will be the care
of th Governent to preserve and increase this accord
by
ae
vigorous yet careful execution of the laws you
have passed.
" The retrospect of the session is thus calculated to
confirm the assurance that the old Prussian spirit is still
powerful in the forms which, under your co-operation,
have become the Constitution of the country, and that
the chief condition of the development of Prussia on its
historical basis has remained unaffected by the confusions
of the time.
" The enemies of this development, who are the ene-
mies of divine and human order in general, certainly
rest as little as the passions by which they are agitated.
But revolution, wherever and under whatever form it
may appear, will find Prussia armed and the Govern-
ment watchful and firm.
" The threatening attitude of this enemy, irrespective
of other grounds, renders it the imperativej duty of all
the German Governments ner to leave Gerinar!l
without a central organ, generally recognised both svithin
Germany itself and by foreign powers.
return to
" Whether the German Governments now end, or
the ferns of the older Constitution of the B
whether the plans, by no means abandoned, 9f a
.new
organization of that Constitution, will be realized in f&
practicable form, the independent development of Prussia
shall not thereby be in
" any way endangered.
But the true and silent
cquirentee, for a happy and
glorious future for our country, its political and material
welfare, its increasinc, internal prosperity, and its influ-
ence and power abroad, you will, wan his Majesty's
Government, find in the unwearied. holding. together,
and co-operation of all those who unite in truth and faith
under the motto of a great ,and glorious era--' With God
for King and Fatherland'
The PRESIDENT then declared, in the name of the
KING, that the session was closed.
The Lloyd announces the arrival at Vienna of an
English courier, with important dispatches for the
EmrEßotr• The Cabinet of St. James's, it is said,
consent to consider the question of the entry of all
Austria into the Confederation as an internal affair if
all the States coincide on that point.
The Wirtemburgh Chamber of Deputies have re-
turned three Liberals as the candidates from among
whom the KING must choose the President, and
unanimously decided to vote no address, in answer to
the Speech from the Throne. It subsequently re •
solved to nominate a Committee on public rights,
consisting of nine Members; and announced to the
Minister that a communication on the subject of the
revision of the Constitution was expected. lhe
Finrnce Minister presented the Budget up to July 1,
1852, es well as several projects of laws.

GREAT CENTRAL GAS CONSUMERS Coatreel7.
The balance-sheet of the Great Central Gas
March. Consuaneast
rs
Company, from its commencement to the 18th of l,
has been issued. The amount received has been 143,277 e
(of which 131,733/. is on account of calls), and the expendi-
ture is stated at 130,033/., leaviee a balance of 13,1041. in
hand.
inquest was held at the Town-Lall,
THE CASE OF MANALAUGHTER AT STAMFORD
Yesterday (Monday) an
Gent., coroner for the
Stamfordborough,, 0 beforen t.
l,e
body J bonf
George Large,
gtoli,
aged 32, labourer, of
tiflineeen. The prisoners leleGln, Barnett, and Farrell, teere
each handcuffed to a Policeman on their rernoval front the
station-house to the Town-hall. In Maitdheenn-117,,0 slight
rush was made at el Glen, and every now and then the three
'The
prisoners were greeted, by a. large number of persons, ,with
yells, hisses, groans, and cries of "Hang
the • Jury
inquest
consisted of the most respectable tradesmen, and
lasted above five hours, when a verdict of Manslaughter was
returned against Patrick MeGlen and diehael Barnett, and
Farrel was set at liberty.
A Supplement to the London Gazette of Friday
Coferlennatuosntiral,
was published on Saturday afternoon, containinge the official
ocbcsAerlyledmattienths,
:Ifi i btli'tai o'n' State opening
on Thursday,
the Ist of May, 1851."
0 f accountt
he
Exhibition
DREADFUL EXPLOSION IN THE CILGWYN QUARRIES
—On Thursday last explosion, which 1.
an
four persons, and might have been attended with fatal re-
sults, took place in the Cilgwyn Quarries. Half at on of
blasting powder was kept in a building appropriated to the
purpose, about 100 yards from the works. The foreman,
John had • t been engaged in
Williams,,jus
' powuer for a quarryman, when the smith and two men en-
tered the hut, the former requesting leave to weigh two
chisels which he had forged only a while before. Ile placed
them in the scale, and immediately a terrible explosion fol-
lowed- The men and boys were thrown to the ground 'with
fearful violence on the spot where they stood, but the roof
and walls of the lint, the casks of powder, &c., were blown
to a great height and distance. The foreman was the first
to recover from the shock, and be ran a considerable distance
with his clothes in flames, so that be was much burnt. The
smith also was dreadfully burnt and mutilated. The boys
were contused, but their injuries are less severe. It is
thought the chisels must haye retained sufficient heat to
ignite some remains of the powder on the scale, acau ndd
the
tthe
this, communicating with the exposed powder, se
disaster.
BRITISH AND FOREIGN SCHOOL SOCIETY.—The
forty-sixth annual meeting of the supporters of this institu-
tion was held yesterday morning at the society's premises,
Borough-road ; Lord J. Russell in the chair. Previous to
the public meeting the pupils were examined in the various
branches of education pursued in the schools, and acquitted
themselves in a highly creditable manner. The room was
densely crowded, several hundreds being refused admission
from want of sufficient accommodation. The annual report
stated the society to be in circumstances highly favourable
to its prosperity and permanence. The annual subscriptions
had greatly increased during the year, and the model schools
were full and efficient.
THE INCOME-TAL—Government are requiring
from the surveyors of taxes a return under D assessment (the
the
asserunen-. on income) for the year 184 e, (the period when
Act was last renewed) and the return is to show where parties
made no returns to the tax collectors, and were assessed by
them, and the charge substantiated; also, where parties made
returns and were increased upon them, and the increase con-
firmed by the local CommisAoners.
ITALY. THE SWELL MOB ON BOARD THE 13OULOGNE
RUMOURED DE XTII OF THE KING OF Sreamine—A few days ago, Mr. W--, an Englishman,
NAPLES. engaged in the cloth trade, discovered, on arriving at Bou-
The Paris Ordre states that it was currently re- logne by the Queen of the Dena. steamer, that his pocket
had been nicked of a purse containing 60/. •
, and the captain
ported in Paris yesterday that the King of NAPLES said that he had no doubt that the robbery had been perpe-
was dead. trated by two very fashionably dressed young
men, with
'
A letter from Rome, dated May Ist, says that the whom be had been in conversati
'on during the passage. Mr.
i W— complained to the pollee of Boulogne, and they sent
president of the Cardinal F -
i
1 just issued an appeal to all Italy, culling upon all thieves. The police succeeded in discovering them in an
1 good Catholics to subscribe funds for the erection of hotel in the Rue Neuve Saint Augustin, and Mr. NV--",
a Roman Catholic cath"iral in London. The appeal who had previously arrived in Paris, recognised them. They
issued some mouths back by the Cardival Vicar - (le- to the Pre-
protested their innocence, but were tent
lecture of Police.
k neral did not produce the desired result.