The Sun.
London, England, 1849-12-08 00:00:00

SPAIN.

The Madrid j3urnals of the lit instant have been
received.

They contain the official announcement of the preg-
nancy of the Quaari.

Tiie adjudication of the quicksilver mines of Al-
mada was to have taken place on the tat, but the
Minister of Finance having fixed a minimum of 70
piastres per quintal, and the highest tender made by
M. WEISWEILLER, not exceeding 541 piastres, there
was no adjudication.
MADRID 801.51, DEC. I.—The Three per Cents.
were done at 29 5.16 for paper; the Four per
Cents. at 11/ for paper ; the Five per Cents. at 1l l ;
the Debt without interelt at 3i ; and the Coupons
at 7 for cash.

GERMANY

AND

THE NORTHERN STATES.

AUSTRIA AND HUNGARY.

Intelligence has been received from Vienna to the
2d instant.

The Lloyd's states that every officer in the Aus-
trian army has been called upon to testify in his own
handwriting that he does not belong to any secret
society at home or abroad, or if this should be the
case that he will immediately cease his connexion
with the same.

The sentence of death by hanging, passed by the
military tribunal of Arad on thirteen Hungarian
officers, has been commuted to imprisonment.
The German National Gazette has the following on
the subject of the alleged differences between Austria
and Prussia :

' Two commissioners of the empire, Messrs. Kubeck
and Schoenhals, hare suddenly received a request from
the Ministry to defer their journey until fresh orders.
Numerous conjectures are afloat on the subject. It is said
that the departure of these gentlemen is delayed in con-
quence of intelligence received by our Court from
Berlin relative to what is called the formal protest of
Austria against the new German Parliament of &Furth,
' and if these conjectures he well founded, the state
of affiirs between Austria and Prussia is more serious
than appeared at first sight. So much is certain, that
about three weeks ago a long note was addressed by
our Cabinet to Prussia. I❑ this note Prince Schwart-
z,qiburg mated, on the ono hand, on the treaties of 1815,
and on the other insisted energetically on the good un-
derstanding and concurrence which ought to subs'st be-
tween the German Governments, to stem the progress
of the German revolution. lie pointed out the dangers
to which Prussia exposed herself by convoking a new
German Parliament at Etfurth ; that he considered this
new assembly as nothing more than the continuation of
the Frankton Parliament, and cons:quently as the per-
manence of the revolution, and that it was the duty of
Auete ia to protest decidedly against any attempt of this
nature, because it was making a compact with the spirit
of revolution, and he hoped that the Prussian Ministry
would pay due attention to these observations."
This note, which, from first to last, is written in a
very decided tone, is probably the much-spoken-of formal
_and ofEeisl protest of Austria.
The Weiner Zeitung of the 30th ult., publishes the
text of the Customs Convention entered into between
Austria, Parma, and Modena.
The first article proposes, " that a commission,
composed of delegates of the high contracting Powers
in as short a time as possible, meet in Vienna, to
agree upon and fix a customs union, the exclusive
object of which is declared to be the promotion of
trade and commerce between the states in question,
respect being had for the reciprocal interests of the
Governments, and without infringing the rights of
sovereignty of the parties concerned." 2. " Should
the negotiations be successful in the object proposed,
the aforesaid Zoliverein is to be regarded merely as
an experiment, and its duration limited to a period
of five years. In addition to other matters, the commis-
sion above-mentioned, is likewise empowered to deter
mine the manner in which the prescribed term can
be renewed or prolonged." 3. "In case the pro-
jected negotiations are not brought to a close before
or on the arrival of the period fixed for the expiration
of the convention entered into with Modena January
23, 1848, and yesterday extended to Parma; or
should the proposed customs union not yet have been
put into operation, the convention alluded to is to
remain valid, and continue in force until either the
Zoliverein is in activity or some other decision ratified
on the subject."
The Imperial Court has left Schonbrunn to take
possession of the winter palace in Vienna.
Vienna is completely embedded in snow, and the
railroads are in consequence rendered nearly useless.
Notwithstanding all the precautions of the police,
the KOSSUTH medals have been introduced into Hun-