The Sun.
London, England, 1857-05-12 00:00:00

SPAIN.

The Madrid Gazette of the 7th contains a royal
decree which appoints General Sans y Cuadrado
Chief of the King's Military Household, in the
room of the late General Urbistonclo, and
another which nominates General Lemery Captain-
General of New Castille (Madrid), in the room of
General Sans. In the Congress, on the preceding
day, the Minister of the Interior, in the course of
a discussion on an election return, a.szerted that
the Government had maintained strict legality and
impartiality in the elections ; and with reference
to the press, he declared that the press is not sub-
jected to any censorship, but is regulated accord-
ing to law. He added that, on a future day the
Government would be perfectly ready to go into a
full discussion of the matter. The Congress, hav-
ing become formally constituted, had nominated,
as its president, M. Martinez de la Rosa ; vice-
presidents, Messrs. Maquieira, Vista Hermosa,
Terreira, Alonsa ; and secretaries, Messrs. Baizan-
allana, Belda, Burigny, and Incan. All these
gentlemen belong to the moderate party. The
Infante Don Henry had left Valladolid for France.
The old goldcoin of the country was being exported
in considerable quantities. The weather had im-
proved.

A letter from Turin says that the Empress of Russia
is expected in that city on the 21st, and that the day
fixed for the arrival of the King of Saxony is the 15th.
It adds that the Duchess d'Orleans was also expected
in Turin to thank the King for the hospitality which
she bad received in the course of the winter.
According to the Corriere Mercantile of Genoa, a
Piedmontese man-of•war is shortly to leave for China to
co-operate with the British fleet.
The Comte de Paris and the Dec de Chartres left
Genoa on the 7th.
The Archduke Charles of Tuscany left Florence on
the 6th for Perugia, in order to compliment the Pope
during his stay in that. town.
"The Count de Chambord left Venice on the 24th
ult. for Farina," says the France Centrale of Blois, "to
visit his sister, the Duchess Regent. After stopping
there two days, the Prince, accompanied only by the
Duke de Levis and two servants, continued his journey
incognito under an assumed name. Crossing Piedmont
he visited Turin, Chambery, and Geneva, without any
one being aware of his presence. He was at the last-
named place on the 3d instant, and was to proceed by
Munich to Vienna and Frohsdorff. The Countess de
Chambord was to proceed to Frohsdorff via Parma and
Modena, and would arrive at her journey's end and be-
fore the Prince."
Accounts from Venice state that the Emperor of
Austria has restored the pensions of 82 retired employes
of the Arsenal, which had been discontinued in conse-
quence of their conduct in 1848.
The municipality of Pesth has voted 250,000 florins
(upwards of 600,000 f.) for the fetes to be given in tbat
city in honour of the Emperor and Empress of Austria.
Their Majesties intend to pass two months in Hungary,
returning to Vienna on the 28th June.

Major-General W.F. Williams, K.H., arrived on the
23i ult. at Gibraltar, where he suceceds to Sir R. Gar-
rett in the command. The similarity of names has led
several London journals to suppose that this governor-
ship had devolved on Sir W. F. Williams of Kars, and
they have consequently speculated on the destination of
the borough of Calne, now occupied by the latter.
The minister of Anhalt-Bernburg announced in the
last sitting of the Diet of that small duchy that in 'the
budget of the preceding year the receipts had exceeded
the expenses by 33,000 thalers, so that the taxes could
be at present reduced one-fourth.
" Negotiations between Count Hatzfeldt and Ferrouk
Khan for the conclusion of a treaty of commerce between
Persia and the Zollverein," says a Berlin letter, "are
advanced enough for the draft of the convention to be
submitted to the various States concerned. The agree-
ments ex'sting between these States require that all
treaties of this kind shall be concluded in common."
A letter from Hanover of the Bth in the New Prussian
Gazette says --" An interesting trial has just tnken
place at Osnabruck. A young peasant, aged 18, named
Meyer de Ryke, was requested to subscribe to the mo-
nument which has been erected to the memory of the
late King Ernest Augustus, but refused, saying that
Ernest Augustus did not merit a monument, as be had
been compelled to do all he had done ;' or, according to
another version, that .all he had done, he had done
through fear.' As expressions of this kind could not
form grounds for a penal trial, a civil action was brought
for these offensive remarks, and the tribunal of Osna-
bruck condemned the young man to 100 thalers damages
and costs."

The Tayesbote of Prague announces that the cantonal
authorities of Saar, in Bohemia, have suspended, subject
to superior decision, the execution of the ordinance of
the burgomaster of that town lately passed, enjoining all
Jews to leave the town in a fortnight. The burgomaster
based this exercise of authority on a privilege of King
Ferdinand I. existing in the archives, but which is nearly
300 years old. As, however, a royal decree, dated the
25th May, 1792, enacts that all special privileges must
be submitted to a new ratifieation on a change of govern
ment, and as the privilege in question was not ratified
it appears to have fallen into desuetude.
We learn from the New York papers that Louisa
Pyne, and the rest of the English Opera Company of
which she is the most distinguished member, must by
this time be crossing the Atlantic, homeward bound,
after their long and most successful sojourn in the
United States. Miss Pyne was to have her farewell
benefit in New York on Saturday, the 25th April ; and
this was to be the company's last performance previous
to their embarking for England. This charming song-
stress seems to be as great a favourite among the Ameri-
cans as among ourselves. They have been in the habit
of calling her " the English skylark"—a phrase happily
characteristic of the peculiar charm of her melody ; and
their most popular journals join in their expressions of
regret for her departure.
ESTABLISHMENT OF A TURKISH PILOT FLAG.—The
Board of Trade have received, through the Secretary of
State for Foreign Affairs, the subjoined copy (translation)
of a notice issued by the Turkish Foreign office relatiie,
to the establishment of a Turkish pilot flag :--(Trans-
lation.)—°° It. having been reported that men-of- war
and merchant ships passing through ports in the
dominions of the Sultan sometimes require the services
of a pilot, instructions have been sent to the autho-
rities. of all places which are ports, for the harbour-
masters to take a guardian from the Quarantine, visit
the ship, ascertain for what place she requires a pilot,
and report it to the proper quarter, in order that a pilot
may be immediately procured and sent on board, at a re.
muneration, on exhibition by the ship, of whatever na-
tion it may be, coming to an Ottoman port, of a fiat
similar to the one specially designed for the purpose, of
which a copy is herewith sent to your Excellency. The
ambassadors of all friendly powers having been re-
quested to make the matter known to the shipwastera of
their respective nations, and to instruct them to act ac-
cordingly when about to ask for a pilot, a similar sem.
muuicatien is wield to your Excellency." [rho flag is a
red peter, or red flag with a white square in the centre.]