The Sun.
London, England, 1857-03-25 00:00:00

SPAIN.

MADRID, March 23.—The Spanish naval squa4
ron at Rio de la Plata is to be relieved. It is said
that Mr. O'Sullivan will he the representative for
the United States at Madrid."

The sentence of six months' imprisonment passed
upon General Prim by the court-martial has been
commuted by the Queen into six months' residence
in the town of Alicants.

On the 20th a deputation of the .progressists
waited on the Duke do Valencia (Narvaez) to re-
quest him, during the elections, to rake the state of
siege in all the provinces in which it exists, except
Catalonia. He promised to raise it in all, even
including Catalonia, and afterwards caused the
Council of Ministers to adopt a resolution to CIA
effect.

The last accounts from Athens state that the
journal Esperance, so well known for its hostility
to the French and English Governments, has been
disavowed by the Hellenic Government.

A letter from Vienna of the 19th, in the Cologni
Gazette, says :—" It is not at all true that England
has abandoned Austria in the question of the prin-
cipalities ; she is still opposed to their union.']

A letter from Riga, in the Wanderer of Vienna,
says :—" Our town will soon cease to be fortified.
It is certain that the crown has given the land
covered by the fortifications to the town on the
condition of the latter effecting the removal of 01
works, excluding the citadel, at their own expense."

The Bourse Gazette of Berlin states that the ode'
toms commission now assembled in that capital had
come to an important determination with' respect
to the commercial relations between Austria and,
the Zollverein. I has been decided that only one
transit charge shall be made for goods passing be-
tween Austria and the Zollverein.fl

The Utrechtsche Courant states that the grin CO
of Orange is in the course of the summer to leave the
Hague on a cruise of four months' duration. A flo-
tilla is to be formed for the purpose, consisting of a
screw frigate, the Wassenaar, a screw corvette, the
Groningen, the sailing frigates Daggersbank and
Ruiter, and the steamer Gedeh. The prince is to
be on board the Groningen as chief officer under
the captain. The flotilla is to put out to sea on
June 1, and to proceed towards the Mediterranean•

A letter from Warsaw of the 12th, in the Czes
of Cracow, says :—" A general is stated to have
been summoned to St. Petersburg to answer com-
plaints that have been made against him for the
arbitrary prosecution and arrest of numerous per-
sons. It is said that the censorship of the press 15
to become less severe, but that nevertheless news-
papers are not to be allowed to criticise interns
affairs,"

Mr. Henry Bringley Sheridan, one of the candidates
for the borough of Dudley, requests us to state that 116
is no relation of the celebrated dramatist, as stated in oUr
election intelligence of yesterday.

Yesterday (.7ays the :Liverpool' Albion) ex Judge Grace
of Wapentake Court, was placed in durance for being
drunk at the Woodside Ferry, and not paying the toll.
It is stated in a letter from Vienna that the Eastern
war cost Austria 340,000,000f1., and 38,000 men, who
died of various diseases in Gallicia.

THE APPROACHING ELECTIONS.—It appears from oar
" Summary of Election Intellig ace" that, from the most
recent accounts, 127 contests will take place in England
and Wales, 15 in Scotland, and 25 in Ireland, making
167 in all.

ARNOLD HISTORICAL PRIZE,—OXFORD, March 24.-""
This prize has tc-day been adjudged to Mr. Thomas

Robert Halcomb, 8.A., of Biasenose College. The
subject is "The Condition of Athens in the time 0,
Demetrius Phalerius." Mr. Halcomb obtained a first
class in Classics in Easter Term 1856.
Messrs. Keeling and Hunt have called a meeting of
- the trade connected with the importation of fruit and
vegetables, at their sale-rooms, in Monument-yard, on
• Thuri-day next, the 26th inst., at two o'clock, to take
' into consideration the necessity of adopting measures to
/ resist the payment of unnecessary charges of metage.
SUPPOSED WRECK.—The late gales from the west and
south-west were felt with great force on the exposed
parts of the, South Welsh coast, and numbers of vessels
dragged their anchors. At Ten by a large quantity of
wreck has come ashore, also a mast and spars with sail.
partially set, too plainly indicating that some unfortunate
vessel has gone to pieces. This belief receives confirms'
tiara from the fact that seamen's chests have been picks a
up. At St. David's pieces of wreck have drifted ashore
Nothing is known of these vessels, though it is believed
that a large vessel has been lost on the coast.
THE BREAK DOWN OF THE MADRID.—It is expected
that the Government will have to pay the expense of
sendine, on the Peninsular ;nails when the Madrid woe
wrecked in consequence of the Board of Trade acquit'
ting the commander: The mail packet companies, it
appears, are not liable to such extra expenses when their
steamers are damaged at sea through no fault of the
mail companies' servants. When the Candia broke
down through an unavoidable accident in the Mediter-
ranean a few months sinca the expense to the Govern-
ment of bringing her mails home through France woe
nearly 1,0001.
MR. MACGREGOR, LATE M.P.--The following letter
has been addressed to the Glasgow Herald :—" I learn
with much susprise that our late member, John Mace
gregor, is in very distressed circumstances. Surely the
`Liberal ' men who induced him to resign hie lucrative
and influential situation at the Board of Trade will at
once step forward to kis assistance. Will they let him
starve ? lam no admirer of Mr. Macgregor—he never
received any vote from me ; but, at the earnest solicita-
tions of a large party in Glasgow, he resigned 1,5001. a-
year to become our representative. It would ill become
the Liberals' of Glasgow to allow the man of their
former choice to end his days in a workhouse.
ASYLUM FOR IDIOTS.—Drs. John Conclly and Andres,/
Reed, the gratuitous secretaries of this institution, have
issued a touchiug appeal to the public en its behalf. De
committee of the charity have provided a great national
home for the idiot, and with remarkable success ; but
they cannot venture to avail themselves of the increased
accommodation provided without more assistance from
the benevolent. There are now 254 patients and pupils
on the foundation ; there is, therefore, abundant room
to be occupied, and there are upwards of 200 applicants
earnestly craving admission, but the board dare not ad-
*ance on their present numbers except as their current
annual income increases. For the sake of those who
cannot pl ad for themselves the secretaries plead that
snd immediate assistance Islay be supplied by A
benevolent public.
THE lIOUSELESS AND VAGRANT POOR.—At a meeting
of the board of guardians of the West London Union
held yesterday (Tuesday) it was moved by Mr. J. W.
Butterwot th, and unanimously resolved—" That it is
highly desirable some better arrangements should be
made in the city of London for the reception of the
casual or bouselees and vagi ant poor ; and that, if pos-
sille, a central ward or wards should be provided within
the city of London, to be supported by the three several
unions connected with the city, according to their con-
tributory standard of rateable proportions as may appear
to be equitable ; and that application be made by the
clerk to the other city unions to ascertain their senti-
ments on the subject." Should the other unions recipro-
cate this step in the right direction of the guardians of
the West London Union, a great public benefit will, in
all probablity, be speedily carried out.