The Sun.
London, England, 1852-04-26 00:00:00

SPAIN.

Our accounts from Madrid are of the 20th inst.
The KING was shortly to proceed to Santander, to
preside at the inauguration of the railroad connecting
that town with Alar.
The Ministry of Graee and Justice was collecting
the documents
to reform the electoral law,
Tw
that day to the Minister of the Interior the memo-
oe ditors ne
of cte hee sa:y to enable the Government
hdrid
rial,
journals presented on
signed by the principal organs of the press,
praying the QUEEN to modify the clause of the new
law with regard to responsible editors. Should the
Government not accede to their demand, most of
the papers will cease to appear in the beginning of
May.
The Three per Cents. were done at 44 for time;
the New Three per Cents. at 21.1; the 13,•bt of the
first class at 6i; and that of the scond at 5:11.

GERMANY.
The closing sitting of the Austro-German
ee Zollve-
rein Congress was held on the 20th at Vienna.
Count Bu S
---AUENSTEIN Minister of Foreign
Affairs and of the Imperial Household, closed the
sitting m.
in a speech, in which he said that the signing
of the final protocol (Hanover alone being the dissen-
tient power) had terminated the task for which they
had assembled. They had realised the desirable end
marked out in the memorable opening speech of the
late Prince SCHWARZENBERG. They had drawn up a
treaty of commerce between Austria end the Zollve-
rein, similar to that concluded in 1829 between
Prussia, Bavaria, and the two
the development, a
treaty which fully completed the aim of preparing for
the customs' union by an intimate rallying of indus-
trial and commercial interests, and which tended to-
wards the activity of the federal assembly, by
the conclusion of international decrees bene-
ficial to the commerce of the whole of Germany, by
at least realising them for such states
as should participate in this treaty of commerce.
" You have thus," said the Count, " finished the pro-
ject of a treaty of customs union between Austria
and the States of the Zollverein, which—without
disturbing the organisation of the latter, and without
prejudice to the positions attained, is destined to be
the realisation and termination of the treaty of com-
merce. We have held ourselves aloof from the opi-
nions of extreme parties ; we offer only what is prac-
ticable, and have in no respect exceeded the limits
traced out by circumstances. I confidently expect
that the course followed by Austria and the other
Governments here represented will not re-
main without favourable reaction. For if
we hold to the realisation of the propositions
of general interest which we make, we must desire
that obligatory conventions will not be made
at the conference, now opened at Berlin until the
treaty of commerce and of customs union with Austria
has been negotiated, and is ready to be simultaneously
signed. You have yourselves been convinced, and
your labours testify that so close a treaty of commerce
as we all desire is impossible without numerous
changes in the tariff of the Zollverein, and that these
changes are the necessary condition of not being able
so largely to participate in the customs duties." The
Count further declared that Austria, ceding to the de-
sire of the Governments there represented, was ready
to adopt in her legislation the principles and inetiutions
of the Zollverein, and that it was evident this de-
claration could only have reference to the known and
tried stipulations of this union, while it remained
without effect if those changes were made by one
cf the contracting parties only, and without pre-
vious understanding with Austria. The Count con-
eluded by assuring them, in the name of his Eat-
PEROB, that, despite the loss of the late Minister, " we
shall still march forward with the same perseverance
towards the same end—the future customs union of
Germany and Austria."
After this address the Bavarian Plenipotentiary,
Count VON LERCHENFELD, briefly replied, fully
adopting the views of Count Buten, and the meeting
was at an end.
The following is a résumé of the final protocol of
the Vienna Congress, signed in the sitting of the 20th:
"The Austrian Government declares itself ready to
conclude a commercial and customs treaty, conformable
to the above mentioned
project, with Prussia, the States
at present united with it in the Zollverein, and those
who shall enter in 185-1..

" aigrenirnegady to accede to a treaty
etnhte;i7 s this protocol, on their
part,
of commerce and of customs, zed a treaty of commercial
union between Prussia, the States now included in the
Zollverein, and those which shall enter it in 1854, on
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r°ev et
rhnamt
the one part; and Austria, with the States which shall
be in union with her on the Ist January, 1854, on
the other. They promise to hasten the adhesion
of the other States
of the Z ,Ilverein to these trea-
ties, as far as possible in coofuimity with the pro-
ject above developed; but if this cannot be without
modifications of the project, then these Governments
further declare their readiness to enter into negotiations
for such modification, always preserving the leading
principles of the project as the basis of an agreement.
The conclusion of these treaties shall coincide, in point
of time, with the renewal or transformation of the
Zollverein."
The last accounts from Carlsrube state that the
death of the GRIND DORE was expected to take place
every instant.
The Grand Dukes NICIIOLAS and MICUAEL left
Stutgardt on the 19th, and passed through Ulm, on
their way to Italy.
The Prussian National Gazette announces that the
Germanic Diet insists On the state of siege being
raised in Electoral Hesse.