The Sun.
London, England, 1853-04-09 00:00:00

SPAIN.

The Madrid journals of the id have been received.
In the Chamber of Deputies a warm discussion
arose on an amendment presented by M. Pidal
against the demand made by the Government for
authorisation to continue to levy the taxes. M.
Llorene, the Minister of Finance, defended the
conduct of the Government, attacked by M. Pidal
the preceding day, and declared that the ministry
made the question now under discussion a cabinet
one. M. Pidal then again attacked the Govern-
ment, and amongst other things reproached it with
having completely gagged the press, no journal, he
said, now venturing to impugn any act of the Go-
vernment. M. Llorente thenistatel that the min-
istry intended bringing in without delay a bill to
regulate the press. This announcement was well
received, and the discussion was again adjourned.
M. Bravo Murillo arrived at Madrid on the even-
ing of the 2d. The works on the railway between
Alicant and Almansa were inaugurated on the Ist.

BELGIUM.
The Belgian Chamber of Representatives have
adopted unanimously, with the exception of four
members who abstained from voting, the bill for a
credit of 4,800,000 fr. for the railways of the State.
One of the deputies moved, as an amendment, that
the Government should give orders for the third-
class carriages to be closed at the sides. The
Minister of Public Works having said that the
expense of this would be considerable, that it was
proposed to put curtains of wire gauze, the amend-
ment was withdrawn. A Bank of Credit Foncier,
with a capital of 30,000,000 f., is to be established
in Brussels. The promoters of the scheme are the
burgomaster and the Jewish banker, Bitchoffsheim.

GERMANY.
Prince Poniatowski, Minister Plenipotentiary of
Tuscany to the three Courts of France, England,
and Belgium, has just gone to Brussels to compli-
ment King Leopold on the occasion of the Duke de
Brabant, the heir to the crown, having attained
his majority.
The Gazette of Northern Germany contains a
letter from Hanover, of the 4th, which says :
" The police yesterday made a domiciliary visit to
the residence of the head of the Workmen's Asso-
ciation. It is said that this visit took place on the
requisition of the military authorities. Three ar-
rests were effected."

We read in a letter from Frankfort, of the 6th :
—"The day before yesterday a telegraphic dispatch
arrived from Munich with orders to arrest an Eng-
lishman who had embarked on board a steamer,
but the dispatch arrived too late to be executed."
A letter from Berlin states that Dr. Kollman,
one of the professors of the University of that city,
has been arrested on a political charge at Quedlin-
burg. The same letter states that domiciliary
visits continue at Breslaw, and papers of import-
ance have been seized.

On the sth a domiciliary visit took place at
Mentz, at the house of the deputy Muller Melchur,
but the Mentz journal, which gives this fact, says
it is ignorant of the motive.

On the demand of Prussia, Austria has promised
to remedy the grievances complained of by the
merchants on the subject of the mode of proceed-
ings of the custom-house with regard to goods in
transitu.

We learn from Vienna that there has been a
change in the Austrian Ministry, for M. Reushaefer
has been named as Minister for Finances, and M.
Gehringer as Minister for Trade.
Ad vices from Vienna state that the proceedings
against Madame Messlengi, sister of Kossuth, are
being vigorously carried on, and that a condemna-
tion will be pronounced on the lady, who, however,
is residing at Brussels.
Information has been received in Vienna from
the Caucasus, according to which an affray took
place between the Russian troops and the Moun-
taineers on the 17th of February, in which the
latter were defeated, with 200 killed, and a very
large number of wounded.