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

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Madrid iournals of the 17th have arrived.
The Gaceta contains a royal decree, accepting the
resignation of General DE LERSUNDI as Minister of
War, and appointing General EZPRLETA. to be his
successor. The Clamor Publico, of the same date,
announces that M. ORDONEZ has accepted the ap-
pointment of political Governor of Madrid. The
Epoca states that the Royal Council has closed its
deliberations 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 f. 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 TZU HEN, M. MARTINEZ DE LA ROSA, and the Dukes
of VILLA HERMOSA. and RivAs are appointed main-
hers of the Royal Academy of Beaux-Arts of St.
Ferdinand. A Madrid letter of the 17th states that
Queen ORRISTINA had invited M. ISTURITZ to dine
with her on the 18th, but had not invited the Mini-
sters. The herald° 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 lower to-day. Three per Cents., 3841; ditto,
Deferred, ; Coupons, 8-1-; Passive Debt, .51. Ex-
change on London, 51.

GERMAN Y.
The Cologne Gazette, under date of Minden, 10th
inst., says " Since the month of December the
Government has given orders for the passports to be
very rigidly examined at the railway terminus at
' this place. A commissary of police has been sent
from Berlin expressly to examine the papers of tra-
vellers, as it is feared that some emissaries from the
French revolutionists may recommence their in-
trigues in this country. 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 papers. It
may be readily conceived how 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 EMPEROR
and the President of the Council of State. The
Minister of the Interior has issued a decree suppress-
ing 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
is to be empowered to admit thirty persons to the
audience hall, 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 SCHWARZENDERG, who had for two days been
confined to his bed by
a cold, was quite recovered, and
had received a visit from the EMPEROR in person.
The rumour that the Prince had had 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
the French Constitution.
A letter from Vienna, in the Independance of
Brussels, says that the state of siege is shortly to be
raised.
In the last sitting of the Customs Congress at
Vienna, the question of the admission of the Italian
States to the Austro- German Customs Union having
been raised, M.
DE HocK, the president, declares (says
the Lithographed Correspondence}
that the Austrian
Government Would see with pleasure the Prusso-
German Zollverein admit Denmark, Belgium, and
the Netherlands, in order to create a great commer-
cial union in the centre of Europe.
The Chamber of Deputies of Hanover commenced
on the 17:11, in secret sitting, the discussion of the
Prusso-liano • verian treaty for the union of the Steur-
verein and the Zolverein.
The
Cologne Gazette has the following from
Berlin, 18th
:—" It is said that the Council of State
will 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
c
are
rt presented for the Royal sanction. This will
Sainly be a great modification of the Parliamentary
system for the KING, in addition to responsible
councillors, Will
will find a
have irresponsible ones in whom he
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 fur the increase of the marine depot at Stral-
sund has been presented to the committee on the
budget in the
been laid •
Second Chamber. A proposition has
before the First Chamber, calling on the
Government to promote, for the interest of agricul-
ture, the system of drainage, which, every where par-
tially applied
, has been found so advantageous.
The Prussian bud ,et for 185'2 gives a round sum
of 90,000 thalers as the receipts of the telegraph,
being 11,300
budget. thalers more than in the preceding
-
--:iliS augmentation in the proceeds arises
from the openin
of the lines between Cologne,
Coblentz, Frankfort, Stettin, Svvinemunde, Bromberg,
and Posen. The expense of keeping existing lines in
repair, over
six thalers an extent of 413 miles, is estimated at
a mile and for the new lines to be estab-
lished, toan extent of 125 miles, to only five thalers
a mile.

In the sitting of the First Chamber of the States at
Berlin, on the.l9o, the proposition eta Siziriurrz,