The Sun.
London, England, 1858-09-23 00:00:00

AUSTRIA.

The Austrian journals have stated that a dissen-
sion had arisen between the Minister of the Interior
and the council bf the empire, on the subject of the
project of communal organization drawn up at the
request of the Emperor. A letter from Vienna, in
the National Gazette of Berlin, gives the following
explanation of the matter :--" The project presented
by the minister, comprisink all the countries of the
Crown, entered into the most minute details. The
council of the empire expressed the opinion that it
would be sufficient to establish general principles,
and to leave the provincial diets to regulate the de-
tails. An understanding will, therefore, easily be
come to. Both the minister and the council have
maintained the principle of relieving the country
nobles from communal obligations, or at least of
assuring them an independent position in the com-

munes."

SPAIN.

The Madrid Gazette, of the 18th, contains a tele.

gram announcing the Queen's arrival at Benevente
at a late hour in the night of the lOth. The same
journal states that the Civil Governor of Madrid,

the Marquis Vega de Armijo, and a deputation of
the municipal authorities, had set out for the limits
of the province, according to Spanish etiquette, to
accompany her Majesty to the Escurial, and the
Ministers were about to leave for that Royal resi-
dence to receive the Queen. The Correspondancia
Artiografa declares that there is no truth in a state-
ment that had been made that an Anglo-Spanish
Company has obtained the concession of a submarine
telegraph from Cuba to the continent of America.
The garrison of Madrid was being reinforced. The
Infante Don Enrique, brother to the King, had
arrived at Madrid from Valencia. He has lately
been spoken of as likely to be named Minister of
Marine and Colonies. A letter from Astorga con-
tains details of her Majesty's short visit to that
ancient town The Royal family were received
at the limits of the city by the authorities, and the
ex-Deputies; the Marquis do Montevorgen and
Viscount de Quintantilla, and escorted to the
palace, before the entrance of which there was a
triumphal arch-of tasteful proportions, made en-
tirely of chocolate, with an inscription allusive to
the loyalty and attachment of the honest people of
Astorga to ' Isabella the Good.' At a little before
twelve at night, the watchman, stationed in
the cathedral towers, range the huge bell, which
was the signal agreed upon to announce the com-
ing of the royal cortege. The peal of the cathe-
dral was answered from every convent, church,
chapel, or hermitage in the city and adjacent
villages. In a few minutes the city was one blaze
of light, and the whole population poured out of
the gate by which the Queen was expected. As
the royal cortege entered the gate, bands of dancers
and singers appeared, and preceded the royal
equipage on the way to the cathedral, the crowd
drowning the sound of the music in their enthusiastic
shouts. After Te Delon was sung with great
pomp, the bishop and chapter approached their
Majesties, and the former, after congratulating
them on the protection which God had granted
them during their progress, begged her Majesty to
accept a relic, of great artistic merit, and which
contains enshrined within it a piece of the tibia of
the illustrious martyr St. Marcellus, who was born
at Astorga, and who shed his blood at Tangiers in
defence of Christianity."
A Madrid letter of the 18th says :—" This after-
noon an important meeting of the. Progresista party
was held, and the ' central committee on general

elections' presented a report on what it had done.
It was agreed to act energetically throughout the
kingdom in the approaching elections, and in those
diStricts in which, from a combination of circum-
stances, a Progresista candidate cannot hope for
success, to support a Moderado with liberal ten-
dencies."