The Sun.
London, England, 1851-03-20 00:00:00

SPAIN.

Madrid journals of the 14th have arrived.
The Committee of the Chamber on the Budget
assembled in the evening of the 13:h ; the reductions
to be effected in the budget of the interior will only,
it was stated, amount to 800,000 reply, instead of
1,800,000 reels, as had been announced, the Govern-
ment hating by error counted the 1,000,000 reals as a
saving, when in reality it was only transferred from
one Ministerial department to another.
Has Sir CHARLES WOOD any connexion with the
Spanish tlinistry ?
MADRID Buse, MARCH 14.—The Three per
Cents. were done at 34 11-16 for time ; the Four
per Cents. at 15;:l ; the Five per Cents. at 16,1 ; the
Debt Without Interest at 6-g-; and the Coupons at 91.

GERMANY.
The Cologne Gazette, under the date of Vienna,
14th, says :—" The Prince DB SCHWARTZENBENG has
replied to the letter of the King of WURTEMBBRG.
The Prince does not oppose the views expressed by
the KING, but says that the time has not yet arrived
for realising them. He wishes that the Sovereigns
of Germany should first agree as to the organisation
of the confederation."

The Rosbik Gazette has the following from
Dresden, of the 13th :—"The Second Committee of
the Ministerial Conference resumed its labours yes-
terday, and was occupied with the report of the sub-
committee, nominated in the Plenary sitting of the
28th February, to deliberate on the competency of
the College of Nine in the next Federal Constitution."
Dispatches have been received from the Emperor
of RUSSIA at Berlin and at Vienna, expressing in
strong terms the opposition of the CZAR to the pro-
ceedings of the Austrian Cabinet.

BANK Or ENGLAND-DIVIDEND.

A Court of the Governor and Company of the Bank
of England was held to-day in Threadneedle-street, at
twelve o'clock, for the purpose of declaring a dividend.
Mr. Prescott, tie Governor, in the chair.
The GOVER4Oa, after congratulating tho numerous
proprietors of Bank Stock on the prosperity of their af-
fairs, said that he had to report, that by the accounts
which had been made up to the 28th of February, there
appeared a net profit on their transactions of 567,5821.—
(Hear, hear)—bring a❑ increase of 32,2401. over the pro-
tits on those of the preceding half-year, as declared on
the 31st of August last.—(Hear, hear, and cheers.) This
amount would constitute a fund, with the rest of
3,594,8911., fron► which the directors were enabled to
declare a dividend of 4 per cent. for the half•year.—
(Loud cheers.) When the dividend was paid, there
would still be a reserve fund of 3,012,775/.,1 which was
an increase of the ample rest provided to mt et all contin-
gencies. He sholld, therefore, move fur the adoption of
the report.
The motion hating been seconded, was adopted una-
nimously, and the Court, which was a very large ono,
and only lasted a Few minutes, was then adjourned.

DESTRUCTIVE FIRE IN SPITALFIELDS.--YeSt9TdAy
morning, at a few minutes before four o'clock, the neigh-
bourhood of Fashion-street, Spitalfields, was alarmed by the
sudden outbreak of a fire. A police-constable of the H divi-
sion, while patrolling ,his beat, found that the basement floor
of the premises belonging to Mr. Charles Lauer, a skindresser,
No. 41, was on fire.,,,a. young man named Castledine, who
slept in the first floor, having snatched his child up, suc-
ceeded, with his wife, in reaching the street, but they had
barely left the building when the passage gave way, and the
flames then mounted so high at to cnt off all means of escape
for the other inmates in that direction. Mr. Lauer, jumped
out of a window into the back yard, but he was so much in-
jured by the action of the tire that he was obliged to be re-
moved to the London Hospital. The Royal Society's fire-es-
capes, with several engines of the parish, London Brigade, and
West of England Company quickly attended. The conductor
of the escape, having raised the machine in front of the
burning premises, got into one of the upper rooms, where he
found Mr. Lauer lying on the floor in an insensible state,
nearly suffocated with smoke, and passed him in safety down
the escape, where they inquired of him as to what part of
the house his wife was in. He replied that she was in the
loft, but the only chance that remained to rescue her was to
mount the top of the building and cut away the roof. The
conductor, with the aid of the police, having reached the top
of the house, they forthwith commenced cutting away the
roof. Having made a hole sufficiently large they dragged
her upon the roof, and conveyed her in safety down the
escape. Fortunately, a plentiful supply of water was pro-
cured, and the firemen were enabled to get the flames ex-
tinguished in about an hour, but not before the lower por-
tions of the building, with its contents, were destroyed, and
the upper part extensively damaged by fire.
TUB NEMPNETT MURDER.—The widow of Wil-
kins, who was so cruelly murdered some weeks since at this
village, has been pronounced out of danger, and the wounds
she received from the ruffians on that occasion are nearly
healed. A subscription has been raised on her behalf.

A Brentwood correspondent writes that Drory
had promised the unfortunate Jael Deney 10'. for declaring
that he was not the cause of her " trouble ;" but that he
never paid her the money. The trial tf the murderer has
renewed the interest manifested at the time in viewing the
scene of the dreadful catantrophe; and a tree growing near
the spot has been stripped of its bark by curiosity hunters
in the
oli; has been made to the high-sheriff by Mr. Donovan, the
hre
ihs "horrible" r i :01
re " line. It is stated that an application
permission to take casts of the heads of
Drory and Mr,.. Chesham after their execution.—Essex
Standard.
phrenologist,

WHAT THE LEGISLATURE IS COMING TO.—lf
much more of the time of the nation is wasted, the session
of Parliament will dwindle down to a Quarter Session.
Punch.

FATAL COALPIT EXPLOSION.—On Monday morn-
ing last another exulosion of fire-damp took place a; Hey's
colliery, Ashton. It appears from inquiries made on the
spot that at about eight o'clock on Monday morning, the
men being nearly all at work, a young man named William
Joule, a miner, took the top off his lamp and went among
some other men. An explosion ensued ; and the conse-
quence was that Joule and several others were severely
injured; one man, named John Ogden, was killed; and
another, James Andrew, has since died from his injuries.
We are also informed that two others are in a very danger-
ous state, their recovery being doubtful. It appears that
when Joule was found he said he could not blame any one,
as he had caused the explosion himself, by taking his lamp
top off. We are informed that, in addition to the caution
given by the manager of the works, the men have for some
time past made a rule among themselves, that any man
known to take his lamp top off should forfeit ss. A few
weeks since one of the men was caught with his lamp top
off, and he was compelled to pay the above fine, or leave the
works, as, if the fact had been laid before the underlooker, lie
would have been immediately discharged. A communica-
tion of the facts has been forwarded to Sir George Grey.—
Manchester Guardian.
DUNGARVON ELECTION.—Mr. Ponsonby and Mr.
Maguire are actively prosecuting their canvass. The nomi-
nation took place yesterday, and the polling to- morrow. Mr.
Ponsonby's success is considered almost certain
THE MARINE SOCIETY.—The anniversary of this
society was celebrated last evening at the London Tavern,
where a dinner was served in the best style of the establish-
ment. Admiral Sir C. Adam, K.C.8., the Governor of
Greenwich Hospital, occupied the chair, and was supported
by Sir J. L Lusliington,
Admiral Sir C. Malcolm, and a
distinguished company. It appeared from the report that
the society was established so long ago as 1756. glace which
period 88,379 boys had partaken of the benefits which the
institution affords. Of this number about 10.000 lads had
been sent into the royal navy, the Indian navy, and the
merchant service, and the others had been fitted out and
provided for in other ways. The society annually received
about 412 boys, and the number on board the ship off Charl.
ton averaged 110. The ordinary annual expenditure
amounted to about 2,300/., and since the foundation of the
institution it had laid out on the shiPs account as much as
115,4661. Previous to the toast of the evening being
given the bobs entered and paraded the room, headed by
their boatswans. The Gallant Chairman addressed a few
most appropriate observations to them, and stated that their
energies ought to be stimulated by the circumstance that
there was at that moment in the room a gentleman, now
highly respected in the city of London, who, forty years ago,
had been a nember of their school, and who first went to sea
under himself on board the Invincible, 74. He trusted that
they would fellow that gentleman's example, and he hoped
if they did th.qr cuty honestly and uprightly that they might
meet with the success which had marked his career. The
gentleman eluded to also addressed the boys. who listened
with extreme attention, and gave a hearty cheer at the con-
clusion. The Chairman then gave the toast of " the Marine
Society;" Sir J. L. Lushington gave " the Chairman." The
toasts of " tie Admiralty," " the East India House," " the
Trinity House," and others followed, which protracted the
proceedings mai a late hour. The subscriptions of the
evening amounted to about 5001.
THE LADIES OF NEW YORK.—Major Noah's
Sunday Tiin,s says that the ladies of Sew York have been
slipping and tutnieing about sadly during the late frosts.
The m,,st urpleasant part of the tumble is the aid tendered
on such oecations by the gentlemen, and their smirking air
of condolence. " Now the ladies cannot hear to have an
ankle exposed, or their integuments ruffled. A lady in
Boston Navin; met with a real free-soil fall,' a land), of the
first water rae to her aid, and benignly said, Al ow me to
raise you madam !' She turned round suddenly, and pertly
replied, No,Sir ! I was raised in New Hampshire, and now
I can raise myself !' "

RAILWAI EMPLOYES.—A return has been issued
by order of the House of Commons, on the motion of Mr.
Labouchere, Df the number and description of persons em-
ployed on each of the railways in England, Wales, Scotland,
and Ireland rspectively open for traffic on the 29th of June,
1850, and flat length of the line. A similar return has been
made of eel line and branch line of railway which had
been authorised, but which might not have been open for
traffic on thesame day, distinguishing the length of each
line on which the works might have been in progress, and
the length onwhich they might not have been in progress on
that day, an specifying the act or acts authorising such
railways.