31 DECEMBER 1853, Page 10

The Duchess de Montpensier held, on the 22d instant, a

grand levee at the Palace in Madrid. The corns diplomatique, the grandees of Spaint the authorities, the chiefs of the army, the judges of the different courts' the Senators and the Deputies, and other personages, presented their con- gratulations to her on the occasion of her arrival.

One of the most distinguished men in Spain, Don Alvaro Flores de Estrada, died on the 16th instant, at Novena, in the eighty-eighth year of his age.

It is rumoured that Prince Adalbert of Bavaria is to many the youngest sister of the Xing Consort of Spain. M. de Wendtland, the Ambassador of Bavaria, is said to have conducted the negotiations.