The Sun.
London, England, 1853-10-25 00:00:00

SPAIN.

From the Madrid Journal of the 18th we learn
that the senators of the Conservative Opposition,
who met in the house of the Marquis del Duero,
to deliberate on the course to be followed in the
approaching session, had resolved to continue the
policy adopted during the put year. A new and
more numerous meeting of senators was to be held
on the subject. A small fleet consisting of the
corvettes Ferrolana, Villa de Bilboa, and Colon,
the steamer Francisco de Assis, and some smaller
vesiels, was about to leave Cadiz for the East,
under the orders of Rear-Admiral Rubalcava. The
number of persons released in virtue of the decree
modifying the imprisonment for petty offences,
was, in all Spain, upwards of 10,000. The Minister
of Public Works had been charged with the ad
interim administration of the Marine Department,
during the absence of the Marquis do Molins ; and
it had been ordered that the latter, in his visits to.
the ports, should receive the honours rendered to
the Captains-General of the Navy.
A Madrid journal states that the late Donoso
Cortes, Marquis de Valdegamas, by his will dated
the 23d December, 1848, directed 20,000 reals to
be employed in saying masses for the repose of his
soul and in good works ; and that the will contains
the following passage •

" I recommend to all my family, and especially to my
brother Don Francisco, to consider as their sister and '
their own children, the widow and children of our de-
' funct brother Don Pedro, and that the latter shall en-
deavour to follow the path of their father, who lived the
life of the just and died the death of, the saints. }Es
life and his death have been the perpetual subject of my
i tears, and I still mourn over his memory. I do not,
however, render to him all that I owe : his prodigious
virtue, after the grace of God, operated my conversion,

and, with the Divine mercy, his ardent prayers will open
to me the gates of heaven. I expressly forbid all osten-
tation at my funeral ; let vanity content itself with its
empire over the living, and let it leave the dead in peace
—I expressly forbid, in the celebration of my funeral,
profane and voluptuous music, such as has changed our
temples into theatres."

The Three per Cents. were done at 42 ; the New
Three per Cents. at 22 5-16 ; the Debt of the First
Class, at 92 ; and that of the Second, at 5 1-16.

GERMANY.

The Cologne Gazette states from Berlin 21st :
" The Ministers of the Customs' Congress have
just drawn up the protocol relative to the modi-
fications in the tariff, and the ratifications may be
given by the different Governments before the sth
of November. The Saxon Government finally
proposed to modify the tariff on manufactured
articles, but it is not probable that the congress
will yet discuss that proposition. The Academy
of Sciences gave a public sitting on - the occasion of
the anniversary of the King's 13;.rthday, at which
Professor Vrendelenburg delivered an address, in
which he declared that on the day of the anniver-
sary of the King's birth no more appropriate sub-
ject for discussion could be brought forward than
that of the cathedral of Cologne, the chef d'a3uvre
of German architecture. He then gave an his-
torical sketch of that monument and of its archi-
tectural beauties."

Dr. Goetsche, ex-editor of the New Prussian
Gazette, who had been condemned to detention in
a fortress, has obtained a pardon from the King.
A special commission, appointed by the Prussian
government, has been recently trying experiments
with muskets on a new system for all the Prussian
army. The results have, it is said been perfectly
satisfactory.

An address from the commercial community of
Magdeburg to the Prussian minister, praying for
the abolition of the duty on corn, has caused a
great sensation at Berlin. The Prussian govern-
ment had before spontaneously made a similar pro-
position to the customs' conference, but it was re-
jected by a large majority.
A letter from Vienna of the 18th, in the German
Journal of Frankfort, says :—" The maximum
amount of paper-money which Austria can have in
circulation, according to the ordonnance of Sep-
tember 14, 1853, is 150 millions of florins. At the
end of August the circulation was 139,827,317f1., so
that 10,172,683 florins more could still be issued. In
the course of September, upwards of five millions
were issued, leaving somewhere more than a simi-
lar sum available. The causes of the issue in
September were various—the expense of the camp
at Olmutz ; the payment of the quarter's interest
on the public debt ; the payment of the taxes con-
nected with land and agriculture being in arrear,
in consequence of the land proprietors and farmers
not having sold their wheat in the expectation of
higher prices, dr,c. But these taxes will now with-
out doubt be soon paid up, and in addition, the
expenses will be considerably diminished by the
great reduction effected in the army. There is
consequently every reason to hope that the admi-
nistration will not be obliged to issue the rest of
the paper money now held back."
A Vienna letter of the 20th states that the Jews
of the city have drawn up a memorial praying for
the re-establishment of the rights which were
taken from them by the late decree. This memo-
rial is to be presented to the Emperor on his return
from Munich. _