The Sun.
London, England, 1852-12-21 00:00:00

THE CONTINENT.

SPAIN.
The Madrid Gazette, of the 15th, publishes the
royal decrees accepting the resignation of M. Bravo
Murillo and his colleagues, and appointing the
new ministry as follows :—President of the Coun-
cil of Ministers, and Minister for Foreign Affairs,
General Roncali, Count d'Alcoy ; Minister of War,
General Lara, senator ; Justice, M. Frederick
Vatry, ex-deputy ; Finances, M. Gabriel de Aristi-
zabel ; Marine, M. Rafael de Aristegui, Count de
Mirasol, Lieutenant-General and Senator, who is
also charged ad interim with the Ministry of Public
Works ; Interior, M. Alexander Llorente, ex-
deputy. The new Ministers waited on the Queen
and took the oaths of office on the evening of the
14th. The .Heraldo says :—" Not one of the new
Ministers belongs to the Opposition which con-
tended recently with the greatest energy against
the late Ministry, but some of them did oppose the
Government, and completely disapproved of the
projects of reform of the constitution." The same
journal says :—" Just as we were going to press,
we received notice from M. Ventura Diaz, that the
Epoca, Diario Espanol, and Heraldo have been
denounced ; the two first for leading articles, and
the third for publishing an address to the electors."

GERMANY.
The Cologne Gazette, under date of Frankfort
17th, says :—" The ordinary sitting of the Diet did
not take place yesterday, and it is not expected
that there will be one before the new year. It is
wished to wait until the two Cabinets of Vienna
and Berlin shall have come to a perfect understand-

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letter from Coblentz, 17th, says that the
Prince of Prussia, who was in that city, has received
an order from the King to proceed immediately to
Berlin.
A letter from Berlin of the 16th states that the
treaty for the extradition of criminals concluded
between France and. Hesse Cassel is about to be
extended to other Governments of Germany. The
The same letter states that the Prussian Govern-
ment has nominated commissioners to treat with
Baron de Bruck, Austrian plenipotentiary on the
Zollverein question, and every thing indicates that
it will soon be brought to a satisfactory conclusion.
' A telegraphic dispatch, dated Berlin 19th, says :
—" The King of Hanover and the Duke of Bruns-
wick arrived here yesterday. The Emperor of
Austria will leave on Tuesday."
The Deutsche Volks Halle of the 17th says :
"A petition has been addressed to the Second Cham-
ber, praying it to vote an address to his Majesty, beg-
ging that the decrees of the Ministers of Public Instruc-
tion and the Interior of the 22d May and 16th July last,
concerning the restriction of the Catholic mission, as
well as the education and establishment of Catholic
ecclesiastics, may be repealed. The conclusions of the
petition are—' It is inadmissible, illegal, and unconsti-
tutional-Ist. That the Catholics of Prussia cannot,
without a special authorisation from the Government,
visit the Germanic College at Rome, placed under the
surveillance of the Pope, as well as the establishments
directed by the Jesuits, while subjects belonging to
other Christian creeds may visit any schools they please
both at home and abroad. 2. To menace the Catholics,
in case of contravention, with the loss of their political
rights, while all the other subjects of his Majesty enjoy
absolute liberty. 3. To refuse to entire classes of Ca-
tholics the power of establishing themselves in Prussia,
so that in spite of the treaty of peace of Westphalia, the
federal compact, and the Prussian constitution, they have
less rights than the non-Catholics, or even neo-Catholics.'
The Journal des _Mats says :—" The Prince
Frederick Augustus Albert of Saxony, who is to
marry the Princess Carola, Wasa, is not, as we
erroneously stated, the brother of the King of
Saxony, but the eldest son of Prince John, the
King's brother, and presumptive heir to the throne.
Prince Albert is consequently nephew of the King
of Saxony, and destined to reign in turn. The
young Prince's mother is the Princess Amelia of
Bavaria, sister of the Arch-duchess Sophia, mother
of the present Emperor of Austria."
The Constitutionnel says, that a letter from
Vienna positively denies the assertion of some of
the German journals, that the Austrian Govern-
ment intends to raise a new loan abroad.