The Sun.
London, England, 1852-12-09 00:00:00

THE CONTINENT.

SPAIN.
A NEW CONSTITUTION.
PARIS, WEDNESDAY.
The following telegraphic dispatch reached Paris
yesterday.

MADRID, FRIDAY, DEC. 3.
The Gazette of this day contains a project of a
new constitution, published on royal authority
alone.

The principal provisions are :
To make the Senate a body of hereditary legis.

lators,
And to reduce the number of the Chamber of
Deputies to 171,
Each deputy to be appointed by 150 of tho most
heavily taxed electors.
There are many other projects of administrative
reform, all of a reactionary character.
Public excitement is very great.

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The funds rose. The Three per Cents. were done
as high as 47, and were quoted after the Bolsa had
closed at 461 ; Deferred ditto, 25g ; Redeemable
Debt, first class, ilk ; ditto, second ditto, 5i ;
Coupon Certificates, 4. Exchange on London,
50 80.

GERMANY.
The organisation of the reserve of the Austrian
army will be carried into execution at the end of
this month. The duration of service will be eight
years ; about one-eighth of the total of ,the army
will enter into the reserve in December of every
year ; by this means the Austrian reserve will be
about 90,000 strong on the Ist January, 1854.
Negotiations are being carried on between Aus-
tria and several German Governments for the pur-
pose of concluding a convention, in virtue of which
the subjects of the contracting powers in either of
the states will, when ill, receive gratuitous medical

advice and attendance.
We learn from Berlin, that the state of Prince
Charles has become so much worse that serious
fears are entertained for his life.
The Prussian Government intends to introduce
into the Press Law of last year an article which
was struck out during the discussion of the bill ; it
gave the Minister of the Interier the power to pro-
hibit the introduction into Prussia of any work
hostile or dangerous to the order and morals of the
State. Foreign newspapers can be prohibited and
stopped at th post-office, but foreign books and
pamphlets can only be seized and their sale sus-
pended after importation, a Court of Law having
to decide whether that suspension is to be con-
tinued, or the work, in certain cases, is to be de-
stroyed. By the proposed amendment tq last year's
bill, books will be placed on the same footing as
newspapers, if they are published in a foreign

country.
The Saxon Government has announced that the
persons imprisoned for their participation in tlie
insurrection of 1849 will be pardoned, and set free
before Christmas. Dr. Herz, of Dresden, Advo-
cate Steinert, of Zwickrau, and an official named
Kranz, of Gruenhain, will therefore be liberated
from the dungdons of Hubertusburg, to whch they

were condemned for life.
The construction of railroads in Hungary is ac-
tively proceeding. In addition to those, which the
Government is building, the Danube Steam Com-
pany will build one from the great coal mines of
Fuenfkirchen to Mohacs ; and the great Vienna
banker, Baron Sina, will build one from Ofen,
Raab, to Vienna, thereby opening the shortest way
for the transport of the immense supplies of corn
from Wieselburg, and making the capital the chief
grain market. But he has a more direct private
interest in the undertaking, because the line would
touch some large estates of his, and also greatly
increase the traffic on the suspension bridge between
Ofen and Pesth, of which he holds almost all the

shares.
A Konigsberg firm, Pollack's heirs, has obtained
a concession for a line of steamers from Stettin to
St. Petersburg. The ministerial gazette warns
merchants to send their shipments for the Levant
rid Hamburg or London, and not by Trieste, be-
cause all packages are opened by the Austrian cus-
tom house officers, and not only damaged by care-
less repacking, but also not unfrequently pillaged.
Travellers through Austria, too frequently have to
complain of missing things, particularly shirts, biter
their trunks have been searched by the Austrian
dottaniers at provincial station. The number of
ships which have entered the port of Hamburg this
year down to the 30th of November is 4,190, in-
cluding 682 steamersnumber during the
same period last year was 3,934 including 566
steamers. This year there were 3,744 arrivals
from European, and 446 from transatlantic.

ITALY.
In consequence of the difficulty of obtaining na- 1
tive hands in the islands of Sardinia for the con- ‘,
struction of the new system of roads lately planned,
400 Piedmontese workmen were shipped over from
Genoa on the 2d. The state of the island is far -
from satisfactory, the new law on the rights of
landowners having greatly incensed the numerous
class of wandering shepherds, who were hitherto 1(
allowed to let their flocks graze freely everywhere
without any charge, and often destroyed valuable 11
trees and plants in return. These people are so
enraged at the loss of this liberty, as they call it,
that they openly threaten the landowners with
death who should enforce the new law which has
beeri made in their favour.
A correspondent, well acquainted with Turin, I
writes from that city on the 29th ult. :—" The
rapid extension of the capital of Piedmont is truly
surprising. After a two months' absence I have
returned hither, and felt almost like a stranger, as
I saw the new mansions which have sprung up one
after another in the neighbourhood of the Porta
Nueva, Porta Po, Porta Susa, and looked at the
elegant cafes which stand on what was yesterday
waste ground. Two new churches, the protestant
church and La Chiesa, are rising, and are likely to
be the chief ecclesiastical ornaments of the capital.
Wealthy capitalists have embarked freely in build-
ing speculations, and are paying large prices for
sites of patumi_tosupply.the increasing demand,