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

DECEMB Lft 10, 1849.

SPAIN

Madrid journals of the 2d have arrived.
The Popular of the 2(1, tays that, as a special
mark of favour to General NARVAEZ, 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 NAR•
vAia 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 capita'ists 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 Pupil 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 ISABELLA. 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 corn.
pletely re organizA, and order and tranquillity
assured.
The Bolsa was closed on the 2d.

GERMANY

AND

rHE 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
Allgemeine Zeitung of Leipsic
• The royal Government of Prussia has expressly
deduced from Art. XL 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 1815, and
to reset ve, 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 the 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
26th May was to be interpreted in conformity with the
federal right, the undiminished vigour of which P:ussia
had acknowledged.
" We never disavowed the difficulties of the task. But,
as ils 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 22.1 October gave us explana-
nations of a most astonishing and surprising nature, o'
the view now taken of this important question by the
Prus.tiau Government. This view is expressed in a
declaration of the Minister of State, Bodelschwingh,
made in the bitting of the Council of Administration of
the 17th of Oetober. The principles exposed and
developed by that declaration are in open contradiction
w:th those hitt erto proclaimed by the Prussian Govern-
mast. The consequences thereof are so important that
it is our duty to reply to them by the most explicit pro-
test (des wir uns dagegen auf dos entschiedenste verwehren
mu:sen) To this end we shall k ncleavour to pass briefly
in review this fine-si::un specious legal deduction, that we
may be the better able to form a correct judgment of its
intrinsic value.

" M. de Bodelschwingh affirms that the Constitution
of the Gilman Confederation has legally ceasod to exist,
the cLssoltri.)ti of the Diet ty.ving teen not only tho
suppression of a Corm, but of the most essential organic
iosti:ution of the Confederation, without any indieHual
member having the tight to chtnand its reconstru::Con.
lie thence deduces that the new pre j cted federal state
cannot bo in con,radiction with a federal consti•ution
which no Luger exists, whilst the rights and obligations
of the trea.ies of 1815, insomuch as they still hold good,
are in no manner violated by the constitution of the new
federal a a•e, tni tho e duties and obligations were ex-
pressly reserved.

"As au anticipatory reply to an anticipated objection,
M. de Bodeb!ch Ningh expresses the conviction, which
he derives from Art. VII. of the final Act of the Concrete
of Vienna, namely, that, for the will and action of the
Confederation as fur thu 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, 1848, cannot be considered the sue.