The Sun.
London, England, 1849-12-20 00:00:00

SPAIN.

Madrid journals of the 13th have arrived.
The Committee on the Budget has examined the
estimates relating to the Royal Household, Foreign
Office, Grace and Justice, Commerce and Public
Works, War and Home departments.
The Epoca has the following on this subject :
" We snail not conceal the pain which the result of the
examination of the army estimates by the Committee on
the Budget has caused to us. If our accounts are not
incorrect, it appears that, far from making important
economies in this branch, the Committee, yielding to
considerations which we cannot appreciate, bas increased
it on the contrary, by a not inconsiderAble sum, destined
to remounting the cavalry of our army.
" This result surprises and afflicts us, as it will surprise
and afflict the country; not exactly from the increase in the
estimates through a sum which is perhaps far more neces-
sary than some of those consigned in it, but because we
had all conceived hopes of seeing the public expenses
considerably reduced—hopes especially f3unded on the
estimates of the War Ministry from their large amount."
And the Epoca goes on to ask " How it is possible that a
budget can be well received by the country, of which one
single branch absorbs 315 millions of reals for its ordi-
nary, and 30 millions for its extraordinary expenses?"
The Heraldo, alluding to the increased sum re
commended by the Committee for purchasing horses
for the army, merely says—
"lt appears that the general Committee on the budget
has doubled the quantity assigned for remounting the
army, and that in place of 1,600 reels, which was paid
by the state for each horse for the cavalry service, the
dotation has been left at 3,000 reals each, with which the
future of our cavalry is secured—and a flattering stimulus
is off,red to the breeding of horses."

The following amendment to the new tariff was
presented at the sitting of the Cortes on the 11th,
and referred to a Committee:—

" The undersigned Deputies to Cortes, firmly per-
suaded of the imminent danger which threatens the
Spanish iron trade, arising from the fixed duties to
which articles of-foreign iron are subjected by the new
tariff, in virtue of authority granted by Parliament, and
deeply sensible of the immense importance which this
branch of industry has acquired of late years; and of the
still greater increase which it is destined to attain, re-
quest the Cortes to approve of the annexed Bill:
" Art. 1. Instead of the duties fixed by Articles 16,
17, 50, 632, 633, 634, 635, 641, 642, and 658 of the new
tariff, the following shall be substituted:—
By Spanish By Foreign
ships. ones.
56 66

16. Steel in bars and wrought steel
17. Ditto cast in bars of all dimen-
sions 7O 80
50. Iron wire of all dimensions,

kinds, and qualities BO 90
632. Cast iron, in pigs
633. Ditto refined, called in France
fonte mazie, and in Englandfine
metal
634. Ditto forged, drawn or beaten
into square, flat, or round bars,
or others of the thickness of an
inch at least, or 144 square
lines in the superficial section
of its sides...
635. Ditto of the same kinds, of less
dimensions than one inch, or
144 square lines in the superfi-
cial section of its sides
641. Iron in hoops of all kinds 56 70
642. Sheet iron, even if galvanised,
and sheets for the construction
of iron ships or engine boilers,
from 1 to 20.
Ditto, ditto, from 21 to 24
58
70
Ditto, ditto, from 25 to 26 60
70
Ditto, ditto, from 27 to 28 . 62
72
Ditto, ditto, from 29 to 30
658. Sheet iron, double or single tinned 90 100
Ditto, not tinned
" Art. 2. The exportation of Biscayan iron ore is
prohibited.

(Signcd)

" VAHEY.
RODRIGUEZ RIVAS.
A LTUNA.,
MENDEZ DURAL.
LA SALA RIVAS.

" Palace of the Congress, Dec. 3, 1849."
The motion of Senor SANCHEZ SILVA for the ad-
justment of the debt was opposed by the Minister of
Finance, and rejected by the Chamber of Deputies
by a majority of 130 to 20. The Minister said the
Government would submit a measure on the subject
to the Cortes ; that it would investigate the justice of
the claims of the creditors, and the possibility of
satisfying them, a possibility which it would ever bear
in mind so as to adopt no decision that did not
offer security ; for to act otherwise would be an
absurdity. " This is all the Government can say,"
added the Minister, "and the Deputies will render
us the justice to believe that it would not be expe-
dient, and that it would be an egregious mistake on
the part of the Government, to be as venturesome as
M. SANCHEZ SILVA recommends."

SANcHEz SILYA immediately tendered his resigna•
tion as Member of the Junta for the settlement o
the National Debt.

MADRID BOUM, DEC. 13.—The Three per Cents.
were done at 31 for cash ; the Four per Cents. at
12i for paper ; the Five per Cents. at 131 ; the
Debt without Interest at 4f; and the Coupons at 8.

GERMANY

AND

THE NORTHERN STATES

CENTRAL GERMANY.

The Austrian Commissioners, General VON ScuoN
and Herr Vox KUBECK, and the Prussian Delegates,
General VON RADOWITZ and Herr VON BOTTICHER,
arrived in Frankfort on the 16th instant. It is said
that the Archduke JOHN will formally resign the
Central Executive into the hands of these Commis-
sioners on the 20th.
It was rumoured in Frankfort that, in the event
of Prussia convoking the Parliament at Erfurth,
Austria, Bavaria, Wirtemburg, Saxony, and
Hanover, would convoke an opposition Parliament.
The rumour, however, did not obtain much credit.