The Sun.
London, England, 1853-03-26 00:00:00

SPAIN.

The Madrid journals oiiie 20th are totally des-
titute of interest. We learn by express that, in
the sitting of the Chamber of Deputies on the 21st,
the Ministry presented a bill demanding authority
to continue to collect the taxes. M. de Salamanca,
who had returned from London, had brought ac-
counts favourable to the negotiations for a loan.
This announcement had caused a rise at the
llourse.

The Diario de Sevilla states that on the 12th
the Duke and Duchess de Montpensier narrowly
escaped a serious accident. On turning a corner
Of one of the streets, the hind wheel of the carriage
earue with such violence rgainst a post that the
Pole was broken, and the six horses being released
ey the breaking of the traces, ran off. Fortunately
...,110 other mischief was done, and the Duke and
-Duchess returned on foot to their palace.

DENMARK.
The Opposition in the Danish Chambers received
a defeat at the opening. The two Chambers de-
cided to make the question of the order of succes-
sion their first business, and accordingly, on 'the
17th the Premier declared it to be the policy of
Denmark definitively to abandon the claim to the
orders of the Eider. The minority represents the
Principle of the integrity of the monarchy, and of
the exclusion of the female line from the throne, as
inscribed in the London Convention.

GERMANY.
The Trieste Gazette says it has received from
Constantinople a letter, stating that considerable
sensation has been produced there in the diplo-
Lnatic circles, by the absence of the Sardinian
Minister and all the members of the Embassy from
the Te Deum for the recovery of the Emperor of
Austria.
The prisons of Vienna have been found insuffi-
cient for the number of prisoners, and the barracks
and warehouses are being used as auxiliaries. The
number of political prisoners at Pestle is 800, at
eoniorn 1,800, and at Arad 1,600.
The question of the preservation of the federal
fortresses was to occupy the attention of the Diet
en the 24th. The report of the Military Commie-
Sion which extends to a volume folio, urges the com-
pletion of the works.
-Although no formal proposal has been communi-
cated to the Diet, yet it is known that Austria is
negotiating to have a federal army of observation
sent to the frontiers of Switzerland.
Saxe Meningen has refused its sanction to the
Political emancipation of the Jews, as decided upon
3' the Diet.
The Mountaineers of the principalities of Reiss,.
and especially of Ebersdorf, cebbrated the anm-
versary of the 6th and 7th March, 1848, by fires on
the hills, and the discharge of guns and cannon.
Troops were sent out, and many arrests made.
Prussia and Hanover have agreed to propose to
the Customs Conference, at Berlin, a reduction in
the duties on raw iron imported into the Zollverein
Of 74 to 10 silvergros, on bars of Ito l ths. ; and
°ll manufactured of 2 to 3 ths. This has caused
,great consternation amongst the ironmasters in
both the north and south of Germany. Those of
the south, however, expect support from their go-
verments in opposing the contemplated reductions,
and they are strongly urged by the proprietors of
the north to make energetic representations on the
subject.
The Prussian Wehr Zeitung (Military Gazette)
Of Sunday contains an article on railways, as regards
their adaptation to military transport on a large
scale in case of war, which may probably lead to
beneficial effects. The journal says that in the
!ages above mentioned it would be important for
the military force to have control over the trains,
machines, &c., so as to be independent of the direc-
tors and their servants, and consequently in order
to effect this that a certain number of officers, non-
commissioned officers, and privates, should be de-
tached on the different lines, to study the art of
driving, stoking, and tending engines and waggons,
so that each battalion or field-battery, on reaching
a station would burovided, in case of need, with
the requisite number of men required for working
trains and engines.
A Berlin journal states that the average dividend
of the German railroads for the last year was 5
3-10ths per cent.
In consequence of the heavy fall of snow on the
Austrian lines, the trains have been unable to pass,
and communications have been interrupted for two
Or three days with Vienna. The same inconve-
nience has arisen on the Dantzic and Konigsberg
lines, where the snow has been from seven to eight
feet deep. The wind has veered to the south, how-
ever, and thaw has commenced.