The Sun.
London, England, 1853-02-03 00:00:00

GERMANY.

The Lloyd of the 29th January states that the ar-
rangement of the difference between Austria and the
United States has been confirmed by dispatches
from Washington brought by a special courier. The
best disposition is said to prevail in the States to-
wards the Austrian Government.
The Correspondez of Vienna complains that the
new customs tariff issued by the Ports in 1852 has
failed to benefit the Austrian traders in Bosnia and
Herzogowina, and the Danubian principalities, who
are continually subject to oppressive dues and rates
arbitrarily levied by the Turkish authorities. This
(says the Ministerial organ) is a direct infringe-
ment of the Passarowitz treaty, which guaranteed
to Austrian merchants the maximum of a three
per cent. import and export duty on their wares,
in common with the most favoured nations. In
1839, in consequenceof the Anglo-Turkish treaty of
trade, a 2 per cent. import and a 9 per cent. ex-
port duty were adjudged to the Porte. This treaty
Austria acceded to for maritime traffic, and for
that only ; so that the stipulations of the treaty of
Passaroivitz, relative to the commerce on the
borders, remain in force, to the conclusion of all
othen—the more so, as in the above-named pro-
vinces monopolies never existed. From the same
source we learn that the silk export trade of Lom-
bardy has within the last ten years considerably
declined.
Two million and a half pounds is the
falling off in the exports to England, owing
to the
increasing trade with China ; and Chinese silk,
equal in quality to the Italian, is finding its way
into Germany. It is, therefore, essential (says the
writer) that in the commercial negotiations with
Germany stress should be laid upon this point, with
a view to promoting the interest of the silk growers
in Austria and Italy.
There are grounds for believing that the reports
of the sth Russianitude.
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corps d'armeepe so-called active army
under the orders of p askiewitz—which army
is echelloned from then Polish-Prussian
frontier to
the vicinity of Warsaw received orders to hold
itself in readiness to movelas towards
the Danubian
provinces. Similar orders have,
issued to the 4th corps of th
eit is affirmed, been
same army. The
whole of these corps being •
uniformly organised,
gives a total of 50 battalions, 32
squadrons, and
59,000 men, with 112 field-pieces.
A letter from Badevormwald, in Prussla
"The Protestant clergyman Haver, wholi had
ays
:
sepa-
rated from the church of the country with the great-
est portion of the Protestant commune, and who
had been exposed on that account to various
at-
tacks, has been found dead in the forest. Ile was
shot in the back with two balls, which came out
through the breast. The assassin has not been dis-
covered."
A letter from Berlin states, we have arrived at
the Ist of February, and, with the exception of
two days, the thermometer has not fallen below
freezing point. We are meantime deluged with.
rain. Ice is so scarce that even opticians are com-
pelled to pay large prices for the necessary regula-
tion of their thermometer manufactories.

SPAIN.

We have received the Madrid journals of the
28th ult. The Heraldo publishes a petition from
the Syndicate of the Agents de Change of Madrid,
praying for the re-establishment of time bargrins

in the public funds. They state in support of their
request that, with only cash transactions, they are
not able to support their expenses. The Espana,
the Glamor Publico, the Diario Espanol, and
the Nacion have been again seized.
The Gazette publishes the following paragraph :
" We have been assured that several national poets
intend to dedicate an album or poetical crown to
her whom we persist in calling the Countess of
Toba."

The Three per Cents were done at 401- ; the New
Three per Cents. at 22* ; the Debt of the First
Class at 10 ; and that of the Second at sg.

ITALY.

Intelligence has been received from Rome to the
24th ult. A discussion had arisen in the last secret
consistory of twenty cardinals on the exchange of
the duchy of Benevento. The affair is by no means
so far advanced as was supposed. The exchange
was proposed only as an eventuality, and as a ques-
tion on which it was desirable to have the opinion
of the cardinals. A rather small majority declared
in favour of the plan. The minority dwelt par-
ticularly on the smallness of the sum offered
by the King of Naples, which was at first re-
presented Co be eight millions of piastres, but
is now stated to be only three millions. It is
consequently probable that a very considerable
time will' elapse before the definitive conclusion
of this affair. The Council of State has at last pre-
pared a rather confused decree for the withdrawal
from circulation of the paper money. It had not
been as yet approved of by the Pope, and all that
had transpired concerning it in public did not meet
with any great favour. The King of Bavaria was
to remain in Rome until after the carnival. Count
de Spaur, his minister at Rome, was to give in hon-
our of his sovereign a grand ball costume, every one
at it being bound to appear in the attire of the age
of Louis XIV. M. de La Tour d'Auvergne had
resumed his functions as first secretary of embassy.
It was said that General de Cotte had asked for
leave of absence to make a journey to 'France.
It is stated in diplomatic circles that the real ob-
ject of' the Secret Consistory lately held at Rome,
and at which the cession of the Duchy of Bene-
vento to the Neapolitan Government was discussed,
was to take the opinion of the. Cardinals as to the
propriety of the Pope's consenting to proceed to
Paris to crown the Emperor Napoleon. Of 21
Cardinals present, 18 are said to have given a de-
cided negative to the proposition.