The Sun.
London, England, 1853-04-13 00:00:00

SPAIN.

The Spanish Senate on the 6th was occupied
with the report of the committee on the railway
question. Although the report was not opposed, a
good deal of warm discussion took place relative to
recent concessions of lines. In the course of it, the
Marquis del Duero declared that some of the con-
cessions bad been obtained by extra-legal influence.
The President of the Council energetically pro-
tested against any supposition derogatory to the
dignity of the Government, and declared that the
Government had never recognised any other in-
fluence than that of the Crown. In the Chamber
of Deputies, the Count de Reus made a vigorous
attack on the conduct of different Ministries in
elections, especially of that of M. Bravo Murillo,
and he even intimated that the Progressist party
entertained some intention of proposing the im-
peachment of the latter. On the 7th, the discus-
sion of election matters was resumed by the Cham-
ber, and it was expected that it would become very
animated. The Government was represented to
be very much annoyed at the spirit manifested
both in the Senate and the Chamber. Queen
Christina and her family had left for Aranjuez.
The following has been received from Madrid by
express, dated the Bth :—" The President of the
Council this day communicated to the Chamber of
Deputies a royal decree suspending the sittings of
the Cortes for the session. This measure has been
caused by the stormy character of the debates in
the last sitting of the Senate. There is a talk of a
modification of the Cabinet, and of its being recon-
structed with Count de Alcoy, M. Llorente, and
M. Benavides. The position of things seems a
difficult one."

The Morning Post, in a third edition, by sub-
marine telegraph, publishes the following :

RESIGNATION OF THE SPANISH CABINET,

MADRID, SATURDAY.—The Ministry have pre-
sented their resignations to the Queen, who is to
decide whether she accepts it in 24 hours.

GERMANY.

Madame de Rothschild, wife of Baron Charles
Meyer de Rothschild, died at Frankfort on the 9th,
aged 53 years.

The Government of Brunswick has just adopted
new regulations for public gratuitous education.
The State will make grants to the communes, and
will give pensions to the widows of teachers.
A letter from Berlin announces that, in conse-
quence of the renewal of the Zollverein, negotia-
tions will be shortly opened with France by the
Prussian Government in order to regulate the na-
vigation dues on the Rhine, and -to change into a
definitive treaty the provisional arrangement of the
Ist October, 1851.
We learn from Berlin, under date of the 9th,
that a journal called The People's Gazette had been
started to replace The Gazette of Primary Electors;
but the first number of this new journal has been
seized by the police.
The Prussian Ambassador at the Court of Vienna
—Count d'Arnim, has received the Grand Cross of
the Order of Leopold, as a reward for his efforts in
restoring good intelligence between Austria and
Prussia.

A Vienna letter of the Bth, states that there is
great stagnation of trade there, that three large
manufactories have been closed, and that an im-
mense number of workmen are without employ-
ment.

TURKEY.

Letters have arrived from Constantinople via
Trieste, to the 23th ult., three days later than
those received yesterday. The Russian Ambassador
had not presented his projected convention ; and
all that was new in political affairs was, that the
Sultan had signified to his Ministers his pleasure
that he should be kept daily acquainted with the
progress of all pending affairs, especially of diplo-
matic negotiations—and for that purpose Rifaat
Pacha, Minister of Foreign Affairs, had received
authorisation to go to the palace as often as he
should think fit. This resolution was said to have
been caused by the pretensions of Russia, and it is
represented to have produced a good effect.
Amongst the rumours that were current was one
that the dispatches carried out by the English
frigate the Tiger, for the English Embassy, were
of great interest, and most reassuring for the
Porte. The affair of the Bank had been defi-
nitively settled. An Imperial fiiman authorising
the creation of the Bank, was promulgated on
the 26th. Intrigues, it is said, were employed
to prevent the Sultan from signing it. The re-
presentative of the English firm of Stanley and
Co., who managed the matter, and had left for
London, in order to send the portion of capital it
had stipulated to supply ; and during his absence,
which was expected to be a month or six weeks,
the administration was to be organised, so that
operations would be commenced on his arrival.
The founders of the new Bank, who were ten in
number, had been increased to twelve, namely—
Messrs. Miran Duz, Abraham Alaverdi, Boghoo
Duz, Ovanes Thinghir, Derair, Bedros laglisian,
J. B. Belisikdji, Maksout, Armenian bankers :
Psichari, a Greek ; Hanson, an Englishman ;
David Glavany, a Frenchman ; and Zarifi, a
Russian. It was believed that M. Miran Duz
would be nominated director of the Bank, but
under the control of a board, consisting of the
founders, and of a certain number of members
nominated by the shareholders. It is said that
the statutes provide fully for the proper manage-
ment of the Bank, and for the interests of the
shareholders. Amongst the measures employed to
prevent the establishment of the Bank was, it is
alleged, the offer of a loan by Russia, without con-
dition; but the Sultan considered it too favour-
able to be accepted.
The Patrie says :—" A recent dispatch from the
Levant gives some fresh details which have not yet
been mentioned. On the 27th ult. there was in the
port of Constantinople an English war-steamer of
450-horse power ; three Russian dispatch vessels,
and the French steam-frigate the Chaptal. The
Turkish squadron was at anchor at the Golden.
Horn, and they appeared to be making arrange-
ments for a start in a few days. The news of the
approaching arrival of M. de Lacour, the new
French Ambassador, was current in the city, and
had produced an excellent effect, and the news in
circulation in the best informed circles was of a
very tranquillising character. Another dispatch
from Egypt announces that two Turkish vessels of
war, a sailing frigate of 60 guns, and a brig of 16
guns, were at anchor off Alexandretta."
Tho Breslau Gazette has the following from
Odessa, dated the 25th ult. :—" The rumours of
war have not ceased. The armaments continue
actively, and by the Ist of April all the trop ps will
be ready to march. Armamentsth are also going on
on
in Great Russia, andthe col
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steamers in readiness to
Bertsch."
A letter from Damascus of the 10th ult., in the
Breslau, Gazette, states that three
of r
tribes of Mauran
have solicited the intervention
nishinro.ance in their
application to be freed from fur
rirriliTutrstioshn
payment of annual tribute of 2o:
piastres. The Seraskier, Mahomed Pacha, has b,been
recalled to Constantinople, and is replaced by been
Dacha.