The Sun.
London, England, 1857-01-27 00:00:00

ITALY.

A. letter from Florence of 20th instant in-
forms us that, on the same day, the . Grand Duke
and Duchess of Tuscany had granted a private
audience to the Marquis of Nortnanby, who pre-
sented letters from his Sovereign in reply to the
notification of the marriage of the Hereditary Prince
with the Princess Mary of Saxony. An hour
afterwards his Highness the Prince of L t Tour
d'Auvergne, Minister Plenipotentiary of the Em-
peror of the French, lift(' likewise the hollow: to be
received by the Grand Duke to present the letter of
his Sovereign in reply to a similar notification.
A letter from Cagliari of the 20th instant, an-
nounces the arrival there of the Count de Paris from
Genoa.

- - .
Tne Pledinontese Gazette, of the 231 instant, an-
nounces the arrival of the King of Piedmont at
Nice.

SPAIN.

The Madrid journals of the 21st contain nothing
of political importance. The Marquis de Turgot,
French ambassador, had given a ball, at which the
members of the diplomatic body and a numuer of
important political personages, amongst them Mar-
shals Narvaez and O'Donnell, were present. M. Ors
y Garcia, an active member of the Liberal party
bad been arrested. The elections for the Cortes
would, it was expected, take place at the commence.
meat of April, and it is alleged that the Ab3olutists
intended to take part in them. The Council of
Ministers had resolved on granting au amnesty to
the Carlist insurgents of Aragon in 1855. At Bar-
celona the authorities were continuing their efforts
to find work for the people, and is was said that
several thousand men were empl,,yed on the rail-
ways in Catalonia. It appears from an 01E&al re-
turn that the amount received from the sale of
tobacco, salt, postage stamps, stamps, gunpowder
and passports, which was 339,171,906 reals in 1855, was 389,721,275 reals in 1856. A protec-
tionist association, in opposition to the free-trade
aboute to bet
continuing
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established.
association,c:ie
tha w
had
reassolvd on nmake
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deductions from the stipends of the clergy.

PORTUGAL.
LIVERPOOL, JAN 26.
The steamer .Prince Arthur, J. M‘Gowan,
brings dates of the 17th instant from Lisbon, where
she had put into the previous day fcr coals on her
way from Alexandria to this port. The steamer
Ignez de Gastro had arrived on !the 16th from
Glasgow ; and from Malta her Majesty's ship Prin-
cess Roya, Captain G. Giffard, which had gi • ended
as she was anchoring, but got off with the evening
flow tide. This vessel with the French steamer
Phenix, anchored at Lisbon, and the ship Auster •
litz, in Passo d'Arcos Bay, were the only foreign
vessels of war in the Tagus.
Rear-Admiral Sir R. C. Dundas's squadron had
left on the 16th for a fortnight's cruise.
Further advices received at Lisbon stated that
the steamer Queen, Captain D. Meckiereid,gbrountedr
from Lisbon for London, which ran ashore on thl
12th near Viana, was a ‘otal wreck, and way to be
sold on the 24th inst. The crew, specie, and greater
part of the cargo had been landed, and h°l-113 were
entertained of saving the rest.
On the 16th the English bark Sir Charles NaniQr,
Captain W. Balsellie, from Leith to Trinidad, had
French war steamer Flambeau,
puto ni no t
hfer repairs.the
from Gore() and Madeira to Brest, put,
to New York,
with for coals;
and a Bremenese bark, from Bremen
(indent does
of importance.
report by
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this steamer any political news
The House of Deputies was still engagedhoemleinctairoyusphraodcebeedeinnghse;idanvdal,;dt,hiotu impiiiiirtia)rneclei_.
the elec, oral process fur many of
that
was probable
under
the correspondent closed his Beija,
debate when
letter, would be an-
nulled. .

A
Vienna letter, in t'ie Elberfeld Gazette, says :
—" It is stated that the Imperial Catjinet has
made serious representations to the Minister of
Foreign Affairs of Sardinia, with respect to the
demonstrations made by the democracy of Lom-
bardy and Turin against the presence of the empire
in Milan."

The Belgian Government has just presented to
the Chamber of Representatives a demand for a sup-
plementary credit of 770,638 f. for the national fetes
celebrated on the occasion of the 25th anniversary
of the accession of King Leopold. state total official
expense of the fetes in question is dto have
amounted to 1,070,6581.

A letter from Stockholm says that the Minister
of Justice had transinitt,d to the Supreme Court
for its opinion the bill relative, to religious liberty
mentioned in the speech from the throne, but that
the court was opposed to the till. Tee letter adds
that a
proposition had been submitted to the Diet
forate establishment of a submarine teL,graph be-
tweet). the Swedish coast and that of Prussia. The
distance from the extreme point of Scala to the

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Isle of Rugen is 12 German miles (56 English) and
the expense of the telegraph is estimated at 300,
,000
rixdalers.

The following is the explanation given by an
Athens paper of the recent affair at Corfu, men-
tioned in a telegraphic despatch :—" Some soldiers
of the artillery in garrison in the Isle Vido, in
which is the powder magazine, having been ill-
treated by a non-commissioned officer, resolved to
avenge themselves by blowing up the magazine,
which contained 3,000 barrels of gunpowder. They
placed a quantity of straw before the door, but
some soldiers of the 3d Regiment, learning what
they were about, drove them away."