The Sun.
London, England, 1852-01-23 00:00:00

SPAIN.

Madrid journals of the 17th have arrived.
The Gageta contains a royal decree, accepting the
resignation of General DE LERSUNDI as Minister of
War, and appointing General EZPELETA to be his
successor. The Clamor Publico, of the same date,
announces that M. OEDONEZ has accepted the ap-
pointment of political Governor of Madrid. The
Epoca states that the Royal Council has closed its
&liberations on the subject of the qualifications for
titles of nobility in Spain. It is recommended that
in future no person shall be made a grandee of Spain
who has not a net income of 75,000 E per annum, and
that to be a count or baron there shall be a property
qualification of 25,000 f. per annum. By a decree of
the QUEEN, M. MARTINEZ DE LA ROSA, and the Dukes
of VILLA HERMOSA and RIVAS are appointed mem-
bers of the Royal Academy of Beaus-Arts of St.
Ferdinand. A Madrid letter of the 17th states that
Queen CITRISTINA had invited M. ISTURITZ to dine
with her on the 18th, but bad not invited the Mini-
sten,. The lieraldo and Clamor Publico were again
seized on the 17th, for some remarks upon the Go-
vernment.
MADRID BOLSA, JAN. 17.—The Funds are again
rather
to-day. Three per Cents., 381 ; ditto,
Deferred, 18!1- ; Coupons, 81; Passive Debt, 61-. Ex-
change on London, 51.

GERMANY.
The Cologne Gazette, under date of Minden, 10th
inst., says:—" Since the month of December the
Government has given orders fur the passports to be
very rigidly examined at the railway
has been sent
terminus at
this place. A commissary of police
from Berlin expressly to examine the
papers of tra-
vellers, ~s it is feared that some emissaries from the
French revolutionists may
in-
trigues in this country. recommence their
Individuals perfectly inof-
fensive are frequently taken under escort from the
railway terminus into town,
and detained there until
they have provided themselves
with proper
co. how :papers. It
conceived may be readily injurious these mea-
sures are to trade.'
A letter from Vienna of the 17th, quoted by the
Breslau Gazette, states that it is contemplated to
annex the portfolio of the department of Commerce
to that
of Finance, and that this measure is at pre-
sent submitted to the consideration of the EMPEROa
and the President of the Council of State. The
Minister of the Interior has issued a decree suppress-
big the publicity of the debates of municipal councils.
The publicity of criminal trials is to be regulated
as follows :—The President of the Criminal Tribunal
empowered to admit thirty
is to be persons to the
audience ball, belonging to the order of magistrates,
advocates, or men of letters ; professors of law are ad-
mitted by right, and the prisoner is allowed to de-
mand the presence of five persons of his own choice
at the trial, subject to the approval of the president.
Prince SCEIWARZENDERG,
h who had for two days been
confined to his bed
-Y a cold, was quite recovered, and
had received a visit from the EMPEROR, in person.
The rumour that the Prince had bad an attack of
apoplexy was without foundation. A young literary
man, the son of the Grand Rabbi of Vienna, who had
been acquitted some time ago by a court-martial, on
a charge of revolutionary tendencies, has been again
arrested. A Pamphlet, entitled " The World in a
State of Siege," ' has been found among his papers.
The Bourse was rather calm and in expectation of
P the French
Constitution. :
A letter from
Vienna,
in the I:dependance of
Brussels, says that the state of siege is shortly to be
raised.

Ine the last sitting of the Customs Congress at
Vienna,
no
theai the
question of the admission of the Italian
States
AUStro-German Customs Union having
been raised, M. Da flocK,
the president,
declares
(says
'
the Lithographed Correspondence) that the Austrian
Government would see with pleasure the Prusso-
Gerre Zollverein admit Denmark, Belgium, and
th Netherlands, in order to create a great commer-
cial union in the centre of Europe.
The
Chamber of Deputies of Hanover commenced
on the 17th, in secret sitting, the discussion of the
Pruq Hanoverian treaty for the union of the Steur-
vereien.and the Zolverein.
The
Berlin, 18th
Cologne Gazette has the following from
18th :...-." It is said that the Council of State
ill not only be charged to prepare the Bills which
are to be submitted to the Chamber, but will besides
have to examine the laws which are voted before they
are presented for the Royal sanction. This will
certainly be a great modification of the Parliamentary
system; for the KII4 Gi, in addition to responsible
councillors, will have irresponsible ones in whom be
will find a moral support."
The organization of a considerable establishment,
connected with the Prussian marine, is going on
with great activity in an island in the Baltic. A pro-
position for the increase of the marine depot at Stral-
sund has been presented to the committee on the
budget
in the Second Chamber. A proposition has
been laid
before the First Chamber, calling on the
Government to promote, for the interest of agricul-
ture, the system of drainage, which, everywhere par-
tially applied, has been found so advantageous.
The Prussian budget for 1852 gives a round sum
of 90,000 tbalers, as the receipts of the telegraph,
being 11,300 thalers more than in the preceding
budget, This augmentation in the proceeds arises
from the opening of the lines between Cologne,
Coblentz, Frank fort, Stettin, S winemundo, Bromberg,
and Posen. The expense of keeping existing lines in
repair, over an extent of 413 miles, is estimated at
Six thalers a mile, end for the new lines to he estab-
lished, to an extent of 125 miles, to only five thalers
a mile.
In the sitting of the First Chamber of the States at
13erliu, on the 19tb, the proposition of AL sTzgririaTz,

for establishing a special court for the trial of crimes
of high treason, and serious offences against the safety
‘'. •).10 cr 1.1
forward add developed by its author. it was sup-
ported by a number of Members, but no vote was
come to on the measure.