The Sun.
London, England, 1857-12-31 00:00:00

PRINCE ALPHONSO AND THE LEGION

OF HONOUR.

Since the birth of Prince Alphonso (the heir to
the Spanish Crown) the good people of Madrid
have been waiting for the Emperor Napoleon to
confer the grand cordon of the Legion of Honour
on the Royal infant. Those expectations have not
yet been fulfilled. Now, when the Imperial Prince
of France was born the Spanish Government, at
whose bead Espartero then was, lost no time in
sending to the Tuileries the insignia of the Golden
Fleece, which had become vacant by the death of
the Emperor Nicholas ' • and it was only fair that
the compliment should be reciprocated. Leis-Petits
cadeauxentretinnentl'amitte, as is taken for granted
that the French and Spanish Courts are on the most
friendly terms. This forgetfulness, for it oan hardly
be anything elsb, has, however, produced some
surprise, if not mortification in adrid. it is not
that the Prince of the Asturias is in want of
decorations. Quite the contrary. The innocent
babe has more than he can well bear t he has the
Golden Fleece, Charles 111., Isabella Cattolica, to
which, by-the-bye, are attached collars 'of- no light
weight or small dimensions ; not to speak of the
orders of St. John, Calatrava, &o. It is right to
add that his Royal Highness himself is not the
party who makes any complaint on the subject.
According to authentic accounts he bears the slight
with much equanimity ; and, apparently, seta
more value on the caresses of his nurse than on all
the decorations that could be offered to him, in-
oluling even the awful Lion of Zohringhen, the
Golden Spur of Rome, or the 'blazing Sun of
Faustin I.

GAS MONOPOLY.-MEETING OF DELEGATES

Yesterday a meeting of delegates from the vari-
ous metropolitan parishes was held in the Vestry-
room of the Marylebone Vestry, for the purpose of
considering what steps should be taken to frustrate
the late attempt on the part of the gas companies
to establish a monopoly, and to adopt such mea-
sures as would effectually protect the gas consumers
and the parishes generally from the impositions to
which they were about to be subjected by the ex-
tortionate charges the gas oompaati,eB ware begianiug
to impose upon them, now that they had succeeded
in abolishing all competition
Mr. FREETH occupied the chair, and baying ex-
plained to the meeting the reasons for calling them
together, suggested that a petition should be pre-
sented to Parliament, praying for powers to enable
the metropolitan parishes to make their own gas.
He considered they had a very strong case to go to
Sir B. Hall with, as the parish of Marylebone bad,
in consequenee of the combination of the gas com-
panies, been compelled to pay 11. e.
,a light more
than they were in the habit of paying when there
was competition. They had been the first that
that had been shot at and hit, but the rest of the
parisheswould be similarly dealt with as soon
their contracts Tun out,
which
than
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, Mr. ADDERSLEY entered into a statement
• London
ya,paernuiny,
A et they
hmreawdesbcuhre •ther of
charge 1 more Tor it in London than in ei
those places, and he did not see why the metropo-
litan parishes should not have the same powers that
those places had to mike gas for themselves.
Atter a lengthened discussion, resolutions were
adopted appointing a sub committee of delegates 10
draw up a petition to Parliament embodying their.
views, and inviting Dr. Cuallice, the chairman of
the South London Gas-consumers' Mutual Protec-
tion Association, to co-operate with them and give
his valuable assistance in furthering that object.
The meeting then adjourned.

TUBIN, Dim 27.—The murderous attack upon Count
George Brembati, of Bergamo, who was stabbed and
otherwise severely injured when passing along the San
Damian° at Milan, has caused groat disgust *along the
Liberals of the last-named city. The Count has the re•
putation of being in too close connesiong with the
Austrian police authorities ; but it is justly
that his alsaesination could only serve to cast discredit
upon the party by a member of which it is naturally
supposed to have been committed. considere.d