The Sun.
London, England, 1857-04-02 00:00:00

SPAIN.

The Madrid journals of the 27th ult. have arrived.
General Prim had been elected at Reus. It was re-
ported that the Government intended to relieve
him of the condemnation lately passed on him.
According to the• Iberia, the Duke de Osuna,
Spanish Minister at Saint Petersburg, has hitherto
spent not less than 1,500,000 reals a month—a
great part of itin charity. The elections continued
to be favourable to the Government ; the pro-
gressists having only succeeded in returning 7 of
their party, and the absolutists 6. The accounts
from Cuba state that the colony was making really
remarkable comnierciat. progress ; in 1856 not
fewer than 3,500. vessels entered the principal
port.

The Royal Mail steamer Orinoco, which sails for the
West Indies to-day, taken out 86,5481., of which
60,788/.' is gold, and 25,760/. silver. •
The S.tar of Tasmania, :from Launceston, which has
made the passage in 77 days, brings the intelligence of
the, arrival of the Oneida steamer at Melbourne on the
23d of December, and Sydney on the 29th.
The Royal Commission .for determining the site of a
new National Gallery met on Monday at 17, Great
Queen-street, Westminster.- Present---44ord Broughton
(chairman), the Dean of St. Paul's, Professor Faraday,
Mr. Cockerell, and Mr. Richmond.
CARMARTHEN AND CARDIGAN RAILWAY.—The first
sod of this undertaking was raised or "cut" on Monday
the 30th, by Captain James R. Lewis Lloyd, of Dol-
haidd, the chairman of the company, at Myetile Hill, in
a field adjoining the..Oarmarthen station of the South
Wales Ralway.
FUNERAL OF Da. BANE.--7The funeral obsequies of
Dr. Sane, at Philadelphia, were very imposing, both
the civic and military display being large and highly
commendable. The.flags throughout the city and on the
shipping were raised at half-mast,, and the stores along
the streets through- ;which- the procession passed were
closed and draped in mourning. On the funeral car was
a canopy made of the fiage.Of Arnerica, England, France,
and Spain. The hody of ;the deaeased, however, was
not placed in the car, but was borne on the shoulders of
the crew that served with him ip his perilous voyage.
At the close of the services lit the church, the remains of
the lamented navigator and discoverer were removed to
Laurel-hill, and deposited in that beautiful burying-
ground.
DEATH OP MR. W. 11. FENN, SECRETARY TO THE
ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL. With feelings of sincere regret
we have.to announce the death of Mr. W. H. Fenn, who
has for many years been the active and zealous secretary
to the Royal )free Hospital, Gray's-inn-road, the most
generally useful charity of its sort in London. lie was
the active and earnest co-operator of Dr. Marsden, the
founder of the hospital, nearly since its institution, in
extending its usefulness fin the benefits of the poor ; and
in the discharge of the duties of secretary to the charity
for some years back his kind and gentlemanlike manner
was observed and appreciated by all those with whom he
came in contact. His services to the charity will long
be remembered, and death long regretted, by a large
circle of friends, by whom he was highly respected. Mr.
Fenn's illness was only of a few days' duration ; his
death took place yesterday, at his house in Meckleu-
burgh-square, in the 61st year of his age.
lieu MAJESTY'S SCREW STEAMER TATA LAY T.—
SOUTHAMPTON, April I.—This splendid vessel was taken
out of graving dock this afternoon and steamed away for
Spithead immediately. Notwithstanding she had all her
coals and stores on board and drew upwards of 21 ft. of
water, the Himalaya steamed into dock on Saturday and
out again to day with the greatest ease, such is the cepa.
ciousness of the graving-dock accommodation at this
port and the extent of the facilities provided, One of the
Himalaya's 30-feet cutters having been fitted with Clif-
ford's lowering apparatus, the boat was twice lowered
during the voyage round from Plymouth. to Southamp-
ton to practise the crew in the working of the plan. This
they e ere not long in comprehending, the second lower-
ing being made when the steamer was going at full
speed, and with the full crew in the cutter, with the
most perfect ease and safety in a few seconds, in which
time the boat was entirely free of the ship.