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 it in charity .The elections continued
to ba favourable to the Government; the pro-
gressists having only succeeded in returning .7 of
their party, and the absoldtists 6. The accounts
from Cuba State that the colony was making really
remarkable, commercial progress ; in 1.856 not
fewer than 3,500 vessels entered the principal
port.

The Royal Mail steatner Orinoco, which sails for the
West Indies to-day, takes .out 86,5481., of which
60,7881., is gold, and 25,7601. silver..

The Star 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—Lord Broughton
(chairman), .the Dean of 'St. Paul's, Professor Faraday,
Mr. Cockerel', and Mr. Richmond.
CARMARTHEN AND CARDIGAN RAILWAY.—The first
sod of this undertaking was raised or " cut" on Monday
the 30th, b..Y. Captain James R. Lewis Lloyd, of Dol.
haidd, the chairman of the company, at Myrtle Hill, in
a field adjoining, the Carmarthen station of the South
Wales Radlway.
FUNERAL or Da. KANE.—The funeral obsequies of
Dr. Kane, 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 balf-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 flags of America, England, France,
and Spain. The body of the deceased, however, was
not placed in the oar' but. was borne on the shoulders of
the crew that served with him in his perilous voyage.
At the close of the services at the church, the remains of
the lamented navigator and discoverer were removed to
Laurel-bill, 'and deposited in -that beautiful burying-
ground.

DEATH OF • ME: W. H. FzNN, 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, Grav's-inn-road, the most
generally useful charity of its sort in London. He was
the active and earnest cooperator of Dr. Marsden, the
founder of the hospital, nearly Since its institution, in
extending its usefulness for 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 Meckien-
burgh-square, in the 61st year of his age.
HER MAJESTY'S SCREW STEAMER HIMALAYA.—
SOUTHAMPTON, April I.—This splendid vessel was taken
out of graving dock this afternoon and steamed away for
Spithead immediately. Notwithstanding she had ail 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 capa-
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 were 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,