The Sun.
London, England, 1857-02-17 00:00:00

AUSTRIA.

A letter from Vienna, in the Bourse Gazette
of Berlin, contains the following further details
with respect to the explanations given by Baron
de Bourqueney to the Austrian Cabinet, in re-
ference to the note in the Moniteur on the
Principalities :—" M. de Bourqueney, on having
received on the 10th a telegraphic despatch
from Paris, immediately proceeded to the Mi-
nistry of Foreign Affairs, and offered the fol-
lowing explanations :—He observed that the note
in the Moniteur contained nothing more than had
b.en declared by France in the 6th protocol of the
Congress of Paris on the Bth March, 1856.' Then,
as now, Franc© considered that the union was most
desirable. Austria and Turkey, added the ambas-
sador, pronounced themselves against the union in
the Conference of the Bth March, and they will
have every opportunity afforded them to support
their opinions in the last conferences which is to
decide in Paris on the labours of the commission of
the Danube.' This declaration was immediately
transmitted to Count de Buol at Milan."

SPAIN.
The Madrid journals of the 11th have reached
us. It was rumoured that the Government in-
tended to nominate between 30 and 40 new sena-
tors. Some of the journals • express a hope that
England and France will join in the expedition
which Spain is About to send against Mexico ; and
they say that the intervention of these two powers
would have the effect of preventing the United States
from increasing the divisions between the native and
Spanish races, which divisions they labour to foment
in order to facilitate their eventual conquest of
Mexico. It was said that Queen Christina had
determined on taking up her residence defini-
tively at Rome. The Espana says that the Minis-
ters had decidedly resolved on recommending to
the Queen an amnesty for all the Carlists concerned
in the insurrection of 1854. The total number of
vessels of war at present possessed by Spain is 145,
carrying 953 guns. The Espana says :—" Letters
from Manilla state that the Chinese attempted to
burn one of the Spanish steamers which was under-
going repair at Hong Kong, and that the crew had
been forced so seek refuge on board a merchant
vessel. In consequence of this, it is said that the
brig El Eseipion has been sent from Manilla to
demand satisfaction, and to protect the Spanish
subjects these."

A letter from Warsaw, in the Etherfeld Gnette,
confirms the intelligence already given, that Gen.
Gortschakoff had tendered his resignation, the rea-
son assigned by ;Slim being the state of his health.
It is added that the general intends to visit Ger-
accepted. many as soon as it shall have been

The Augsburg Gazette states from Vienna that
the Austrian Government has sent" instructions
to its foreign embassies to assure all the refugees
implicated in the Mantua conspiracy that they are
free to return to their country. As for the other
political refugees of the Lombardo-Venetian pro-
vinces, those who are willing to sign an act of obe-
dience and fidelity to their legitimate sovereign
may return at once ; those who prefer remaining
abroad aro nevertheless to have their property freed
from sequestration on an application being made to
that effect.

THE IMPERIAL SPEECH.—In another column we pub-
lish the Address delivered yesterday by the Emperor of
the French to the Corps Legislatif. For the report of
this Speech we are indebted to the courtesy of the Sub.
marine and British Telegraph Company. Its transmis-
sion exhibits another proofeof the marvellous perfection
to which the arrangements of this company have been
brought in communicating intelligence. Although the
Address was of such unusual length, occupying more
than a column of close print, it was received and
transcribed in extenso in London within three hours of
its delivery before the Legislative Assembly in Paris.
The performance but a few years since would have
been deemed nothing short of miraculous • it is now
but one of the daily wonders worked by the Subma-
rine Telegraph Company.—Morning paper.