The Sun.
London, England, 1852-10-27 00:00:00

!'2:e'TH.ll SUN, LONDON,

THE CONTINENT.

SPAIN.

Madrid journals and correspondence of the 21st
inst. have arrived. The C.Jurt had returned to
Madrid from an excursion to Ponton de la- Olive.
The. Royal family had expressed themselves highly
satisfied with the works tor bringing a fresh supply
of water to the capital : it is stated by the engineers
that they will he in effective operation within two
years, and thus the want of 'Water, froth' which *the
inhabitants have often suffered, will no longer be
felt.

The fortress of the Mole, at Mahon, was duly in-
augurated o❑ the 10th inst. by the Captain-General
of the Baleric Isles, the Bishop of Minorca, *and other
authorities, who arrived there on that day in the
Piles steamer. The Bishop performed service in the
church, round which the troops were drawn up, and
blessed the flag, which the Captain•general himself
placed on the bulwarks, addressing the troops at the
same time. A general salute of 200 guns was then
fired ; the garrison had extra rations on the occasion;
and a substantial dinner was provided for 1,400
labourers, who had been working at the fortifications.
Tne nevi fortress is named after the Queen.
Madrid Bourse, Oat. 21.—The Three per Cents.,
47,1 ; Exchange on London, 50 80 paper.

GERMANY.
The representatives of Bavaria, Saxony, Hesse
Cassel, and Hesse Darmstadt had already arrived in
Vienna, for the opening of the new customs confer-
ences, and the plenipotentiaries of the other Germany
Governmects who have been invited, were expected
shortly. The conferences will probably commence
at the close of this month. The Minister for Foreign
Affairs is said to have given his full assent to the
political schedules drawn up in,the trade department.
The system of the customs union, as contained in

the documents of 1849 and 1850, is to be so far modi-
fied that a customs union may be entered into with
all the German states which agree with the propo-
:.ition as early as the lat January, 1854. The state-
ment that Austria has declared herself ready to con-
chide a-customs union convention with the Darmstadt
allies, to guarantee to them the fixed amount of their
present customs revenues, and to open its own fron-
tiers on the Ist January, 1854, is again brought for-
ward in a more decided form.

The intelligence announcing that the Prince Pre-
sident of the French Republic had resolved to accept
the Empire produced so profound a sensation in the
highest circles in Berlin, that all the Ministers who
were in the capital at the time immediately held a
Cabinet council, and dispatched a courier with
haste to the King. His Majesty. came to the.capital
in the evening (of the 24th) accompanied by Baron'
Mautenffel, and a council was again assembled for the
purpose of definitively drawing up the instructions
which are to be given to Count Von Hatzfeld, his
Majesty's Ambassador at Paris.,
,intelligence has been received in Berlin: -froth
13rtnisikick which is extremely vexations to thePrns-.
Sian Zollverein. It appears that Brunswick has suf-
fered itself to be carried over to the side of Austria,
and that, like Hanover, it has determined to observe
an expectant attitude. It is certain that Brunswick
has refused, up to this moment, to renew a customs
treaty with Prussia. It will send a plenipotentiary to
the conferences at Vienna—not to take part in the
discussions, but to be present there as a reporter.
It is talked of in Berlin to withdraw from circula-
ITOalha-eitistins papei f4t4cis'it
tmotEer piper; for it is -considered 'desirable thati
there should he only kind-of, paper money in dirt:
culaticm;.-!-The-c.hange veil pldbithly-bb saitroducett-
at the
,beginnaks of the year.
• Hamburgh.l4aas been visktedlast„wee4 by two
de7ekates frota a, wealth-3i anclinfluential English corn.
pany, who,„ lir:conjunctioa..With some Dutch capita-
lists, havd retolod to el c 4 a 46.sited*railWay ,colt;'
munication to 'Bieitien,"Cila;otierg, -Taut, Groningen,
Leuwarden, and Harlingen ; and thus to connect
tiamburgh by the shortest possible route to Holland,
and also- to England. From Groningen a branch
line will be laid down from Zwolle to Utrecht, to
join the Netherlands Rhenish line; which latter con-
nects Rotterdam and Amsterdam.

The importance of the projected line (says the
Hamburgh Borsenhalle) to the whole of Northern
Germany and of Holland is so self-evident, that it is
scarcely necessary to name it. It is, therefore, per-
fectly natural that the said delegates received most
binding assurances from our public authorities to do
everything to forward the undertaking, similar pro-
mises have already been given by the Netherlands,
Oldenbergh, and Bremen authorities. It is much to
be wished that Hanover would act equally favourable
to the project, and that the concession asked for by
the company may be granted with as little delay as
possible.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT-(THIS DAY.)

OLD COURT.
POST-OFFICE ROBBERY.

Robert Gadsnzark, aged 28, a letter-carrier, pleaded
guilty to an indictment charging him with stealing a
post-office letter containing an order for 5/., the property
of the Postmaster-General.

Mr. Clarkson, who appeared for the prosecution, said
the prisoner formerly kept a receiving-house at Wal-
worth, but it was removed from his slabs) in consequence
of his being unfortunate in business. He subsequently
applied to the Postmaster-General for employment, and
was engaged as assistant letter-carrier in Lambeth; and
it was while he was so employed that he stole the letter
containing the post-office order, which he succeeded in
getting cashed. He was sorry to add that this was not
the only offence of the same kind committed by the
prisoner.
The Chief Baron intimated that he would postpone
passing sentence.