The Sun.
London, England, 1858-01-02 00:00:00

LUXEMBURG.

The States of the Grand Duchy of Luxemburg
reassembled on the 29th ult., and at once a grave
discussion arose between the Liberal majority and
the Government, on the subject of the election of
the deputies for Grevenenacher and Mersch. M.
Eberhard, a member of the left, proposed that the
chamber should declare the elections invalid, as
having been made in virtue of an unconstitutional
enactment, and that it should not vote an address
to the King Grand Duke, praying for the repeal
of the last electoral law. The previous ques-
tion was proposed, but after a long discussi,ai it was
c rej eted. by 16 votes to 6. After this decision the
President of the Chamber, who is designated by
the Government, declared that he would uot op-
pr:se a discussion of the question on its merits, but
that ho should formally refuse to put the question
to the vote, inasmuch as his sense of duty would not
allow him to permit the obligatory force of a law
to be called in doubt. The senior member of the
chamber made a similar declaration, and dun one
of the Government functionaries stated that in his
opinion the chamber had no right to enterart
in it
intoa.
discussion at all, and that if it did Go-
vernmentsoprtehaeident
Tn
the wouldsitting abstain from fro3motht,aktiinieg part
before any deliberation was commenced, announced
that several members had expressed a desire to see
a gof1:-.1 understanding come to between the govern-
ment and the chamber ; and that one member had
written to him to say that he was ready to vote for
the admission of the new deputies, and the civil
list, and the budget likewise, if he received a
guarantee that certain articles in the last elec-
toral law should not be carried into execution.
The presidentohno in presence
thislaadanauofditehnrtofnatheme Prince-
Lieutenant,w
the government authorised him officially to declare
to the States that if they showed a conciliatory
spirit the articles rererred to should not be acted on.
It now remains to be seen how the chamber will
receive this communication.

SPAIN.
The Madrid journals of the 27th ult, announce
that Lord llowden, •the English ambassador, had
wai ed on the Queen to pay his respects on his re-
turn to tkat capital, and to offer the hearty con-
gratulations of the Queen of England on the birth
of the Prince of the Asturias. The journals con-
tinue to speculate as to the person whom the govern-
nint will select to be candidate for the presidency
of the Cortes, A. telegraphic despatch from St.
Petersburg announced that on the 23d M. Isturitz,
tie Spanish minister, had left that city to re-
turn to Spain, and that he was replaced by M.
Cabillero, first secretary
of the legation. The
Iberia had been seized. Some of the journals com-
plain that the telegraphic administration vs ill only
transmit by telegraph such
political articles as have
appeared in the Madrid journals and as have re-
ceived the approbation of the censorship, and they
assert that sometimes it even refuses to transmit
them. The Madrid Gazette of the 28th ult. con-
tsins a royal decree which enact that naval and
military offenders under prosecution shall be com-
prised in the amnesty granted on the occasion of
the birth of the Prince
of the Asturias, and that
the cmiknanatignis on others shall be reduced.
It also con Mies ministerial circulars giving instruc-
tions for carrying out the amnesty to political effort-
(lets, and for making reforms in the regu:ations
relative to the sale a tobacco and to the National
Priuting-; flies.

SWEDEN.
"rho Royal Academy of St.)ckholm," says a
letter from that city of the 25th ult., "has just
axardcd a prize to Prince Oscar, the author of a
poem on the Swedish fleet. The sitting was
attended by the Queen Mother, the Pline3 R,:-
gprit, and ell the other members of the R:.yal
Prince Oscar received the prize from the
hands of the President, who addressed his Royal
Highness as follows :
" Noble Prince ! when the academy hoard for the

first title the sounds which appear to so well reflect
the soul of the poet whom it at once recognised as a
son of the Ocean, it did not foresee that the unknown
poet, who had modestly taken his place in the ranks
with the other competitors, wore a princely crown.
Half a century has elapsed since a King of Sweden
(Gustavus III.) acquired in this very place the academic
palm. The academy will with gratitude preserve these
reminiscences, unparalleled in the annals of a literary
society, and it congratulates itself on being able to add
to the names of Scandinavian poets one who has been
long dear to the hearts of the Swedish people.'
" Ou the following day the Prince dined with
Baron de Beskow, the secretary of the academy,
who proposal the health of the Prince, which was
drunk with loud applause."