The Sun.
London, England, 1854-01-25 00:00:00

PRUSSIA.

The Second Chamber held a secret sitting on
the 21st, and adopted, by a very large majority,
the treaty concluded with the Government of
Oldenburg, for the cession of territory on the
banks of the Jande.
The Polish deputies alone voted against it.
The committee at the head of its report set
forth the following questions :-1. Is the establish-
ment of a military post in the North Sea called for
by imperious necessity ? 2. Is this necessity satis-
fied in a proper manner by this treaty ? 3. Do the
obligations entered into by Prussia in this treaty
agree with the object which it is proposed to
effect ?

The committee solved the first and second ques-
tions unanimously ; no vote was come to ou the
third. The committee resolved unanimously, less
one vote, to recommend to the Chamber the adop-
tion of the measure. It is stated that the secret
Bitting only lasted a quarter of an hour, and that
no serious discussion was raised.

The large landed proprietors of Prussia, whose
interests have been so strongly defended by the
New Prussian Gazette, have just presented M.
Wagner, ex-editor of that journal, with 100,000
thalers (375,000 f.), to indemnify him for the an-
noyances to which he has been subjected by his
devotedness to their cause.
The Berlin Correspondence contradicts in the
most formal manner a report which had been cur-
rent in the capital for sonic days that the King
in-
tended to abdicate in favour of his brother, the
Prince of Prussia.

ITALY.
We read the following in the Piedmontese Gazette
of the 21st, in allusion to an article in the Journal
de Pr anefort, conceived in an Austrian sense :
"We are not in the habit of answering those foreign
Journals which so often attack Piedmont, its institutions,
and its Government. We possess neither the style nor the
expressions appropriated to such discussions. We, never-
theless, think it our duty not to pass over in silence the•
article of the Journal de Francfort, which has been
reproduced in the Official Milan Gazette. We will say
nothing of the incorrect historical details, nor of the
strange inferences with which that article ;bounds • the
sense of the rest, taken together, that the House
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Savoy seeks its support in the spirit of revolution ;
'whence the writer infers the propriety of certain unjust
acts of violence—committed against Piedmont. (This is
.1' allusion to the sequestration of the property of
riedmontese subjects.) All we have to say, without
eircutnlocution or arguments is this—that the House of
Savoy has no other support but the feeling of its own in-
dependence, the attachment of the people, and its re-
spect for the laws, for property, and oaths."
,In. its sitting of the 20th, the Piedmontese
`-'oaraber of Deputies passed the bill for the con-
cession of a railway from Vercelli to Valenza by
Casale. The bill for the suppression of the corn
duties
was also definitively passed by 72 votes
against 25.

DENMARK_ AND SWEDEN.
The reply of Russia to the declaration of neutra-
lity on the part of Denmark had arrived at Copen-
flagon on the 20th.
Russia, it is said, refuses to consent to that neu-
trality, and calli on Denmark to take one side or
the other.
It is said that the envoys of Austria and Prussia
Were sent for by the King. The conference is sup-
Posed to have turned on the question of neutrality.
The Ministers of England and France had pre-
viously had an audience relative to the same
'natter.

In the sitting of the Danish Folkething of the
17th, the Government announced that it intended
adjourning to better times the presentation of the
common constitution for the whole monarchy, in
the hope that in the interim irritation and pre-
judices would have calmed down.

The Swedish Diet, in its sitting of the 15th, had
Propositions presented to it by the Government
freeg modifications in the customs' tariff in a
trade sense. Reductions on several articles
4-11(1 protective duties are proposed instead of the
Prohibitive duties which before existed.

SPAIN.
At Madrid, on the 19th, there was a good _deal
1)f talk on the measures of the Government. Some
persons contended that the Cabinet would confine.
itself to the adoption of measures of an adnums-
trative character of grave importance—such as the
411 PPression of the royal and municipal councils,
'the diminution of duties on articles of consumption,
and other measures of a like kind. Tho greater
nunTher of other persons thought the said acts
Would be followed by the adoption of political mea-
811res--that is to say, a dissolution of the Senate, a
enruplete transformation of the electoral system,
and the convocation of the constitutional Cortes.
It was also rumoured that the ministry would
strop
its projected measures, not feeling itself
'roug enough to resist the opposition.
General Cordova was spoken of as the chief of
the new Cabinet, in the event of one being or-
ganised.
Amidst the various contradictory rumours, it
was generally admitted that the " situation" had
never been so grave since the establishment of a
representative Government in Spain.
The Gazette states that the floating debt on the
31st of December last was 359,705,236 reals
and
bat during the month of December Treasury
Bills
Were negotiated at B'per cent. with private persons,
and at 6 per cent. with the bank.
The Espana says that orders had been sent to
General Prim to await in Paris new instructions
from the Government. It was believed that the
IfGazette would, on the 20th, announce the dismissal
General Baron de Meer from the presidency of
Will Supreme Tribunal of War and Marine. It
"be remembered that he voted in the Senate
fainst the Government. General Villa Campa,
nvernor of the Invalides, is spoken of as his suc-
cessor. General O'Donnell had not yet left.