The Sun.
London, England, 1853-10-17 00:00:00

AUSTRIA.

The Vienna Official Gazette publishes a decree
reducing the army 75,000 men. There is a consi-
derable deficit in the budget.
The Swabian Mercury contains a letter from
Vienna of the 12th, which announces that the pro-
mulgation of the decree prohibiting the Jews from
purchasing landed property in Austria, will be fol-
lowed by police regulations, one of which will be
that they will be only allowed to reside tempo-
rarily in large cities unless they shall be regularly
domiciled thre. Another letter of the same date,
in the Cologne Gazette, says :—" The inhabitants of
this city express themselves very warmly against
the recent ordinance relative to the Jews. It is
regarded as forming a singular contrast with the
decree of the Sultan, which grants equal protection
and the same rights to all his subjects without re-
gard to their religion. And yet that is in a Ma-
hometan country, whilst the decree against the
Jews is in a Christian one."

A letter from Vienna of the 11th says that the
Austrian Government was still resolved to contract
a loan.

Count Salis, a young man, and several other
persons, have been arrested in the Valteline, and
taken to Milan.

SPAIN.

The 10th was the Queen's birthday, her Majesty
having attained her 23d year. There was no levee
•on account of the advanced state of her pregnancy.
The bands of the regiments in garrison gave a sere-
nade before tho palace at Madrid, and there was a
grand parade of the garrison on the Prado.
Various decrees and royal orders were published
on the 10th, the most important of which are re-
specting the navy. The first of the latter is a pro-
ject of law fixing the number and classification of
the Spanish navy, and authorising the Minister of
Marine to act upon it as far as the means at his dis-
posal, according to the last budget, permit ; the
measure to be submitted to the Cortes. The first
and main article is as follows :

" The royal navy shall consist for the present of
ninety vessels, from a schooner to a line-of-battle ship,
and from a steamer of 60 to one of 600 horse power. It
shall be composed of sailing vessels, steamers, and mixed
vessels, in the following form :
" Six line-of-battle-ships of 80 to 90 guns, with 400
to 600-horse power.
" Twelve frigates of 30 to 56 ditto, with 300 to 400
ditto.

"Twelve corvettes of 20 to 30 ditto, with 200 to 300
ditto.

" Fourteen brigs and schooners, of 6 to 20 ditto, with
up to 200 ditto.

" Six paddle steamers of war and for mails, of 400 to
500 ditto.

" Eight ditto of war and transatlantic of 300 to 400

ditto.

"Twelve ditto guarda costas, of 100 to 200 ditto.
"Twelve ditto to navigate in shallow waters of up to
100 ditto.

"Eight urcas, or transport sailing vessels."
The other articles provide that the existing ships,
from those of the line to corvettes inclusive, shall
enter into the above number, and also those which
aro advanced in construction only until they can
be endowed with suitable engines, or, if not, they
are to be substituted by mixed vessels on the ter-
mination of their " natural life." There is always
to be in the arsenals materials to replace at least a
fourth part of the armed vessels. Those that have
to be purchased are to be bought by public auction.
A special law of the Cortes is requisite for con-
structing or purchasing vessels abroad, but not for
purchasing machinery while the national manufac-
tories are unable to provide them.
It is stated in a royal order which follows the
above, that the Queen, desiring to solemnise her
birth-day in a manner useful to the estates which
she inherited from her glorious progenitors, has re-
solved that, without loss of time, three screw steam-
frigates shall be constructed, of 31 guns and 360
horse-pm\ er, to be named the Berenguela, Petro-
nilla, and Blanca, after Queens of Castille, Aragon,
and Navarre ; the two former to be built at Ferrol,
and the latter at Cartbagena. The machinery is
directed to be purchased abroad.
It is said no resolution has yet been come to
by the Ministry with respect to the presidency of
the Senate.

The run upon the savings bank has recommenced,
there being 134,064 reals drawn out last week,
against 48,468 reals paid in.
There was no Bolsa on the 10th in consequence
of its being the Queen's birthday,
The Echo des Pyrenees says :—" Such is the
abundance of corn at present in Spain, that it is in
contemplation to adopt measures calculated to faci-
litate the exportation of the surplus into France.
A decline in prices has taken place in all the
Spanish markets."