It is understood that the vexed question of a Protestant
cemetery at Madrid has been settled for the present. A letter from that capital, dated the 5th instant, states the conditions of the-concession- " Protestants may construct cemeteries; and their funerals may have the usual appendages of hearses, mourning coaches, &e. No chapel will be allowed in the cemetery, nor any open. celebration of funeral rites; but when a funeral procession enters the cemetery, there will be nothing to pre- vent the funeral service being read therein ; and the repeatedly expressed intentions of the leading members of the Government are, that without going further than this in any official document, the greatest toleration will be shown. It is even said that a high personage has lately intimated his intention to attend in person on the next occasion when a Protestant funeral may take place here.'
Accounts from Naples concur in representing the King as every way disposed to apologize for tbe insult offered to the Duke de Lesparre.
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