The Sun.
London, England, 1849-11-13 00:00:00

PRUSSIA.

A grand banquet had been held in celebration of
the accession of the Brandenburg Ministry to office.
Two public meetings in memory of the death of
Robert Blum had been broken up by the police ; at
one of them the constable intrusted with the duty,
was wounded by a knife or sword-cut, and several
persons were arrested. A note had been received
from the Hanoverian Government, protesting for-
mally v.gainst every resolution of the Council of Ad-
ministration of the Prussian Bund, to which the
assent of all the states of Germany is not given.
The King had cancelled the two last sentences of
death passed by the late courts-martial for trying the
insurgents in Baden.
The resignation of M. Patow, as President of the
province of Brandenburg, had been received.
The Kolner Zeitung of the 10th instant states that
a large meeting assembled in the Villa Colonna on
the Bth instant, to celebrate the anniversary of the
execution of M. R. Blum. The meeting was at-
tended by no less than 2,000 persons in mourning,
who chanted a requiem, and who were being
addressed by one of their number when the military
and police arrived, and cleared the room. Another
meeting was held in the Krausen-strasse. It was
dispersed, and the police attempted to arrest a man
who distinguished himself by an enormous red cock-
ade ; but the individal in question was rescued byl
his friends, who fought the police in the room and in
the street.

THE SPANISH BUDGET.

The Finance Minister of Spain brought forward
the Budget for 1850 on the 3d inst.:—
` ' Senor Bravo Murillo commenced his financial
exposition by stating to the Cortes that the Govern-
ment submitted the Budget of 1850 to their delibera-
tion, in conformity with the 74th article of the
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Constitution; and that the confidence of the Govern-
ment in the loyal and efficacious support of the
Legislative bodies was so great, that it had not
hesitated bringing forward the estimates at the very
beginning of the session, in preference to other
important measures which it had prepared. He then
adverted to the transcendant importance of financial
matters, and said that " the present state of Spanish
finance could not be considered satisfactory ; that,
notwithstanding the sacrifices which have been im-
' posed on the tax-payers, it had not yet been possible
to bring the receipts and expenses to a level, but that,
• on the contrary, an inequality existed, which not
unfrequently embarrassed the action of the Govern-
ment and the march of the administpation." The
Government was penetrated with the necessity of
getting rid of this deficit—the more so as this state of
things might give eccasion for disturbances and
commotions, from which Providence had hitherto
• preserved them.
Senor Bravo Murillo avows himself a " practical
man" in economical matters. " Away from the field
of rash theories," he says, " reducing to their just
• value certain doctrines of finance and political eco-
nomy, the experiment of which has cost dear to the
nations which have allowed themselves to be dragged
along by thtm," two ways present -themselves for
equalizing the receipts and expenditure without im-
posing new taxes—viz. to improve the collection of
the imposts, and to reduce the public charges as far
as can be done without detrimentfirst
to the public ser-
vice. With respect to th the Government had
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' introduced, and proposed to introduce, various re-
forms in the general administration of the finances!;
tariff re-
form, he must make especial mention of the re-
form,conformity
" which, carried into effect in with
the law voted in the last session, will receive opportune
improvements, as soon as experience duly enlightens
the Government respecting its results."
Retrenchment of expenditure had also considerably
engaged the attention of the Government, and, in
spite of the difficulties with which it has had to
struggle, it has carried out such reductions as its zeal
• and convictions have dictated ; other measures of this
• kind, of great importance, it proposed to effect next
year. Amongst the most notable reductions was that
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rikently created. The Government would have
w hecl to have gone further in the way of re-
tr hment, but this was one of the points that
etre a the greatest difficulties in its realization.
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