The Sun.
London, England, 1853-04-04 00:00:00

SPAIN.

A letter from Madrid of the 28th ult. says :
"'Yesterday Mgr. Brunelli, Archbishop of Salo-
nica, and- Nuncio of the Pope at the Court of
Spain, received in the Royal chapel, from the
hands of Queen Isabella, his Cardinal's hat. Her
Majesty congratulated the Nuncio on his new dig-
nity. The Chamber of Deputies is to resume its
sittings to-morrow, and it is said that the Ministry
will at once present to it, first, a bill authorising
the loan to be contracted, and next, a bill for con-
stitutional reform. In conformity with Art. 36 of
the law of January, 1845, the provincial deputa-
tions are convoked for April 20, to transact their
ordinary business." A letter of the 29th, received
by express, says :--The Government presented to-
day to the Cortes several bills, relating to the ex-
tinction of the floating debt—to the creation of
30 millions of annual rente in 3 per cent. stock—
to the recognition of IA per cent. on the uncon-
verted coupons—to constitutional reform—and to
the consecration of the principle of substitution in
the transmission of family estates to the eldest
son."

GERMANY.
A letter from Pesth of March 27, in the Cologne
Gazette, states that the day before, a battalion of
grenadiers having been marched into the prison
yard, ninety-seven Magyars who were in confine-
ment for revolt were brought out, and informed
by the Governor of the prison first in German, and
then in Hungarian, that the Emperor had granted
them a free pardon.
A telegraphic dispatch from Vienna, dated Fri-
day, says :—" We learn from Constantinople, 22d
ult., that, in a circular addressed to the Ambassa-
dors to announce his nomination, Prince Mens-
chikoff expresses the hope of a good understanding
between Russia and the other powers."
The Vienna Gazette, in its number of the
29th ult., publishes a decree, which removes
M. de Weiss from the direction of the police of
that city. M. de Maltz has been appointed in his
place. This change produced a certain sensa-
tion in the Austrian capital, and as M. de Weiss
was noted for his arbitrary acts and general severity,
it is thought that the new appointment intimates
that milder measuresare forthe future to be adopted.
The honour of the change is given to General Kem-
pen, the present Governor of Vienna. M. de Weiss
has been named Inspector-General of Prisons, but
the situation is inferior to that which he lately filled.
Some rumours were afloat at Vienna of ministerial
changes, it being said that M. Bach, the Minister of
the Interior, was to become President of the Council
of State, the vacant place being given to M. de
Krauss, formerly Minister of Finance. M. de Ku-
beck, who now holds the place of President of the
Council of State, desires to retire, it is said, on ac-
count of his advanced age.
Dispatches from Vienna state that Field-Marshal
Radetzky had published a decree nullifying all mort-
gages made by the Lombard refugees on their
landed property since 1847.
Dispatches srom Vienna announce the reception
of an official note from the Russian Court, dis-
avowing any intention on the part of Prince Men-
schikoff to disturb the integrity of the Ottoman
Empire, and stating that the immediate object of
his mission -was to exact the due fulfilment of a
treaty made with Turkey two years ago. With
respect to the Holy Places, Russia was equally
bound, with the other interested Powers, to a set-
tlement of this important question.
The following telegraphic dispatch, dated the
Ist, has been received from Berlin :—" A minis-
terial dispatch has just been sent from Berlin to
the Federal Council of Switzerland. The dtpatch
declares that after the re-establishment of his
authority in the canton of Neufchatel, King Fred-
erick William will give no guarantee as regards the
railroads which may be immediately constructed at
the expense of the canton."
A letter from Hamburg, in the Weser Gazette,
says :—" It is now known that the large amounts
of gold which the bankers sent here during the
winter, were destined for Russia, and not for
Austria, as at first supposed."
Tbn Berlin journals announce that, among the
papers lately seized by the police, there has been
found a proclamation of the German Republic.
In Mecklenburg-Schwerin a conspiracy has been
discovered, of which Rostock is the centre • it was
in correspondence with the refugees in London.
Arrests have taken place in consequence.

ITALY.
The Pariamento of Turin announces that on the
27th ult. the Sardinian corvette San Giovanni, 28
guns, Captain Juccia, arrived at Villafranca, to
take the refugees on board who are to be conveyed
to America. They are 82 in all. The Piedmontese
Government gives them free board and passage,
and 70f. per head on landing.
In the sitting of the 30th ult. of the Piedmontese
Chamber of Deputies, M. Lanza moved that the
sale of a villa named Montalto, formerly belonging
to the Jesuits, and now to the State, might be post-
poned, in order to see whether it might not be use-
fully applied to the purposes of education ; but, on
the observations of the Minister of Finance, the
motion, after an animated debate, was withdrawn.
The Chamber then proceeded to discuss the
Slavery Repression Bill, Art. 1 of which declares
every slave to be free as soon as he touches
the Piedmontese territory, or sets his foot on board
a Sardinian vessel. The discussion was adjourned
to the following day.
We have received accounts from Rome to the
24th ult. The labours of the Consulta of Finance
had been concluded some days before. After having
given the most scrupulous attention to the exami-
nation of the budgets of the different branches of
the Administration, they have proposed various
reductions which have been approved of by the
Pope, and which together amount to 830,000 Ro-
man
crowns a year (the crown is a trifle more than
5f.) As however the amount of certain receipts
might vary, the saving is set down at 630,000
crowns. Another operation, not only important,
but absolutely necessary, has also been under con-
sideration—namely, the calling in of all the paper
money. This operation will, it is said, be effected
by means of a loan of seven millions of crowns.
The amount of the paper money in circulation has
been calculated at only six millions, but it now
appears to reach seven ; and as the amount of paper
money already paid off and replaced. by the conso-
lidated rente created three years since will be in-
cluded in the present operation, the 600,000
crowns devoted annually to the paying off the
paper money by means of that consolidated rente
will be applied to the payment of the interest of
the new loan. The question of railways was also
brought under the consideration of the Consulta by
order of the Pope. The ministers had already en-
tered into engagements with the representatives of
two companies, one for the grand line from Ancona
and Bologna to Rome, and the other for that from
Rome to Ceprano, in the kingdom of Naples. The
latter is the old Via Latina, revived after getting
rid of the old directors and shareholders. The re-
presentative of the new company has offered 25 per
cent. to the holders of the old shares, and if his
offer be accepted, he will be authorised to make the
line as far as Frascati, and he will then hate two
years to decide as to whether he will continue it on
to Ceprano. It is thought that these advantages
will be conceded to him, as he demands n• subven-
tion from the government. It is not, however,
thought that the shareholders of the old Via Latina
will be disposed to accept the 25 per cent. offered to
them. Great doubt are entertained as to whether
the line from Ancona and Bologia to Rome will be
executed, particularly as Bologna will be hence-
forth less interested in the question, as the Central
Italian line will put that place in free and rapid
communication with Trieste and Leghorn. The
suspension bridge which has been constructed
by M. Rodin, and which will form a communi-
cation for the inhabitants of the two banks of
the Tiber will be opened to the public in a very
short time. The works have been very much re-
tarded by the state of the weather, which for the
last two months has been a constant succession of
Mun-
ster rain and storms. The Bishop of Munster, who is
now at Rome, is talked of as the probable succes-
fiuxtef
ser to the metropolitan see of Breslaw, the holder
of which lately died. It is to the Bishop of
that the Pope sent the palm which he carried
at the procession of Palm Sunday. Nothwithstand-
amounted to
straavourable state of the weather, the in-
The New z upwards of 35,000.
nugers into Rome during Easter week
Barne of the Arlile
which says
Gazette contains a letter from
commissioner in the canton 'The federal
to the federal council of Ticino has announced
now be apprehended, that_, no new troubles need
three companies quarirrt that consequently the
ordered away. He adds, thaatt Locarno had been
had taken place from the Auatri numerous desertions
had been a source of expensetaen service, which
h
Ticino. The council has given orderst the canton
thecanton of
com-
missioner to guard, as much as possible,
against
inconvenience in question. That will 'beththe
difficult
inasmuch as the commissioner has no
direct relt,
lation with the Austrian authorities. This week
k-
the Government of Ticino received the first delivery
of salt from the Lombard stores of Maragno,,,
ts., I

REPORTED SHOCK OF AN EARTHQUAKE AT PORTS-
MOUTH.—A shock of an earthquake is said to have been
felt at Portsmouth, between 11 and 12 o'clock on Friday
night. It was, it is said, of about two minutes dura-
tion ; those who experienced it stating that their beds
were sensibly shaken, whilst the walls of the rooms ap-
peared to crack. The phenomenon was not, however,
of such a character as to procure for it any general ob-
seryations.