The Sun.
London, England, 1849-12-10 00:00:00

SPAIN.

Madrid journals of the 2d have arrived.
The Popular of the 21), says that, as a special
mark of favour to General NARTAEZ, the KING and
QUEEN communicated to him before any other per-
son the intelligence of the latter being enceinte.
General O'DONNELL had presented General NAE-
♦AEZ with a magnificent sword, in the name of the
infantry of the Spanish army. The Government
had, it was said, resolved to undertake important
works for completing the Aranjuez railway and im-
proving the navigation of the Douro—the latter in
conjunction with the Portuguese Government. The
Minister of Finances was labouring to procure funds
for paying the half-year's dividends, and had had
a conference with two English capitalists on the
subject.
The Herald() publishes a letter from Paris, which it
refers to, without however completely confirming it,
in which it is asserted that, at the suggestion of
Austria, the Pons had applied to the Spanish Govern•
ment for the further continuance of the Spanish
troops who were to occupy Rome in conjunction with
a Neapolitan force; and that Queen IsABELLL had
acceded to the lively instances of the Holy Father, and
consented that the Spanish troops should remain in
garrison at Rome until the Papal army was ccin•
pletely re organiz,d, and order and tranquillity
assured.
The Bolsa was closed on the 2d.

GERMANY

AND

THE NORTHERN STATES.

AUSTRIA AND PRUSSIA.

The following is the text of the dispatch addressed
by the Government of Austria to that of Prussia,
protesting against the assembling of the Federal
Parliament at Erfurth. It is published in the Deutsche
Allgemeicte Z.itung of Leipsic :
" The royal Government of Prussia has expressly
deduced from Art. XI. of the Federal Act the right
held good by Prussia to enter into a special alliance
with different members of the German Confederation ;
on all occasions it has given the most positive assurance
that it will never cease to respect the treaties on which
the German Confederation rests, founded in 1515, and
to reserve, with respect to those States that should not
be disposed to accede to the restricted federation pro-
jected by Prussia all rights and priviltges resulting
from the said treaties. The guarantees given to us by
those solemn declarations constituted the bases of the
negotiations which we have carried on with thu Prus-
sian Government since the month of May, and relying
upon those guarantees, we awaited the accomplishment
of the promise, according to which the treaty of the
9ith May was to be interpreted in conformity with the
federal right, the undiminished vigour of which Prussia
had acknowledged.
" We never disavowed the difficulties of the task. But,
as its accomplishment had been promised to us in so
formal a manner, our doubts gave way to the assurances
we had received. To our great astonishment, the
Prussian Moniteur of the Tid October gave us explana-
nations of a most astonishing and surprising nature, of
the view now taken of this important question by the
Prussian Government. This view is expressed in a
declaration of the Minister of State, Bodelschwingh,
made in the sitting of the Council of Administration of
the 17th of October. The principles exposed and
developed by that declaration are in open contradiction
with those hitherto proclaimed by the Prussian Govern-
ment. The consequences thereof are so important that
it is our duty to reply to them by the most explicit pro-
test (das wir uns dagegen auf
_dos entschiedenste verwehren
mussen). To this end we shall endeavour to pass briefly
in review this fine-spun specious legal deduction, that we
may be the better able to form a correct judgment of its
intrinsic value. .

"M. de Budelschwingh affirms that the Constitution
of the German Confederation has legally ceased to exist,
the dissolution of the Diet having been not only the
suppression of a form, but of the most essential organic
institution of the Confederation, without any individual
member having the right to dkmand its reconstruction.
lie thence deduces that the now projected federal state
cannot be i❑ contradiction with a federal constitution
which no longer exists, whilst the rights and obligations
of the treaties of 1815, insomuch as they still hold good,
are in no manner violated by the constitution of the new
federal state, as tho e duties and obligations were ex-
pressly reserved.
"As an anticipatory reply to an anticipated objection,
M. (la Bodelschwingh expresses the conviction, which
he derives from Art. VII. of the final Act of the Congress
of Vienna, namely, that, for the will and action of the
Confederation as for the application of the federal
right, there can be no other organ than the German
Diet, of which the Central Power, instituted on the
12th of July, 1648, can Lot be considered the suc-