The Sun.
London, England, 1853-03-26 00:00:00

DENMARK.

The Opposition in the Danish Chambers received
a defeat at the opening. The two Chambers de-
cided to make the question of the order of succes-
sion their first business, and accordingly, on the
17th, the Premier declared it to be the policy of
Denmark definitively to abandon the claim to the
borders of the Eider. The minority represents the
principle of the integrity of the monarchy, and of
the exclusion of the female line from the throne, as
inscribed in the London Convention.

GERMANY.
The Trieste Gazette says it has received from
Constantinople a letter, stating that considerable
sensation has been produced there in the diplo-
matic circles, by the absence of the Sardinian
Minister and all the members of the Embassy from
the Te Deum for the recovery of the Emperor of
lA.ustria.
ne prisons of Vienna have been found insufft-
_cientlfor the number af. prisoner's, and the baqacks
and iiarehoupa are being used as auxiliaries. The
numb k; a political prisoners at Pesth is 800, at
Comma 1,800, and at Arad 1,600.
The question of the preservation of the federal
fortresses was to occupy the attention of the Diet
on the 24th. - The report of the Military Commis-
sion, which extends to a volume folio, urges the com-
pletion of the works.
Although no formal proposal has been communi-
cated to the Diet, yet it is known that Austria is
negotiating to have a federal army of observation
sent to the frontiers of Switzerland.
Saxe Meningen has refused its sanction to the
political emancipation of the Jews, as decided upon
by the Diet.
The Mountaineers of the principalities of Reiss,
and especially of Ebersdorf, celebrated
b the anni-
versary of the 6th and 7th March, 1848, y fires o
n
the hills, and the discharge of guns and cannon.
Troops were sent out, and many arrests made.
Prussia and Hanover have agreed to propose to
the Customs Conference, at Berlin, a reduction in
the dirties on raw iron imported into the Zollverein
of 71 to 10 silvergros, on bars of 1 to 1i ths. ; and
on manufactured of 2to 3 ths. This as caused
great consternation amongst the ironnaasters in
both the north and south of Germany. Those of
the south, however, expect support from their go-
verments in opposing the contemplated reductions,
and they are strongly urged by the proprietors of
the north to make energetic representations on the
subject.
The Prussian Wehr Zeitung (Military Gazette)
of Sunday contains an article on railways, as regards
their adaptation to military transport on a large
scale in case of war, which may probably lead to
beneficial effects. The journal says that in the
cases above mentioned it would be important for
the military force to have control over the trains,
machines, &c., so as to be independent of the direc-
tors and their servants and consequently in order
to effect this that a certain number of officers, non-
commissioned officers, and privates, should be de-
tached on the different lines, to study the art of
driving, stoking, and tending engines and waggons,
so that each battalion or field-battery, on reaching
a station, would be provided, in case of need, with
the' requisite number of men required for working
trains and engines.
A Berlin journal states that the average dividend
of the German railroads for the last year was 5
3-10ths per cent.
In consequence of the heavy fall of snow on the
Austrian lines, the trains have been unable to pass,
and communications have been interrupted for two
or three days with Vienna. The same inconve-
nience has arisen on the Dantzic and Konigsberg
lines, where the snow has been from seven to eight
feet deep. The wind has veered to the south, how-
ever, and thaw has commenced.