The Sun.
London, England, 1848-12-15 00:00:00

SPAIN.

Madrid journals of the Bth have been received.
The Gageta publishes a decree of pardon for the
69 individuals convicted of mutiny on board the brig
Montanesa, which it will be remembered the muti
neers seized and carried into Bordeaux.

It is said that the meeting of the Cortes is to be
postponed to the 28th.

The Carlist chieftain Poses has made his submis
sion to CoNone.

The Duke and Duchess of MONITENSIER have left
Cadiz for Seville.

The Heraldo, the official organ of NARVAEZ, is
vehement in its abuse of the English creditors of
Spain.

There was a holiday at the Bolsa on the Bth.

GERMANY
AND

THE NORTHERN STATES.

AUSTRIA.

At the sitting of the Austrian Diet at Kremsier,
on the 7th, the President read the following reply
from the EmrEnon to the address presented to him by
aideputation of the Diet :
" I receive with ♦eritable pleasure the address of the
Constituent Diet. Though I have scarcely ascended
the throne, my wishes and my intentions are well know❑
to you. I made you acquainted, in my manifesto, and
by the declarations of my Ministers, with my firm and
irrevocable resolutions. It is for you, gentlemen, to
complete with as little delay as possible the high mis-
sion with which you are intrusted for the welfare of the
State. I hope that you will soon present for my Imperial
sanction the project of a Constitution so impatiently
expected by my people."
Count STADION, the Minister of the Interior, then
rose and made the following reply to the interpella-
tions which had been addressed to him a few days
before by M. ScuuscLxe

" Austria is not under a military dictatorship. The
Executive power in every respect is exercised by the
Monarch, under the responsibility of his councillors.
All the organs of that power act in concert with the Mi-
nistry, and its acts are in no manner swayed by uncon-
stitutional influences. Extraordinary circumstances
gave riso to exceptional measures at Vienna and Lem-
berg; the maintenance of the laws rendered them neces-
sary. The interests, not only of Austria, but of the
political civilization of all Europe were at stake. Liberty
can only flourish on legal ground!
" The Government of his Majesty, firmly resolved to
act engergetically against the internal and external ene-
mies of one great constitutional Austria, is aware of its
rights and its duties, and, acting up to the latter, will
never hesitate to accept the resposibility of its acts and
those of its organs. As regards the exceptional state of
Vienna, the Ministry has taken care that it shall be
limited to what 3 imperiously necessary, and that no
obstructions shall be thrown in the way of commerce
and industry.
" The addresses we have received from the legal au-
thorities and most important corporations of the capital,
express their gratitude in this respect. Warlike prepa-
rations are on foot to put down insurrection, and it is to
be hoped that internal peace will soon be re-established,
and measures adopted to put an end to the present la-
mentable state of affairs.
" The council of war sitting at Vienna to try the in-
dividuals implicated in the late insurrection is one of the
consequences of the state of siege. Martial law has
already been suspended, and the military jurisdiction
been modified by the introduction of civic members.
" The execution of a member of the. German National
Assembly, Robert Blum, took place in virtue of a sen-
tence of the council of war. The Central Provisional
Power of the confederate states of Germany have
sent two deputies here, with full powers to confer on
this subject with the Austrian authorities, and to take
measures to see respected the laws passed on the
20th and 30th of September by the German Na-
tional Assembly. These commissaries, on their ar
rival, requested to be shown the ants of the trial. This
was immediately granted. The communication they
made to the Ministry, after inspecting these documents,
leads to the presumption that they were convinced, after
their perusal, that in the sentence pronounced against
Blum and Frobel no violation had taken place of the
martial law of Austria, but that the court had acted
faithfully to its duties,' and conformable to the law.
Without contesting these facts, the commissaries have
protested against the event, on the grounds that the
laws of the 29th and 30th September had been disre-
garded.

- "Instructions have been given to the Austrian Pleni-
potentiary to the Central German Power to confer with
it on the subject."
The following was the last official document issued
by the Emperor FERDINAND :---
" Dear Count Dietrichstein,—For many years you
have faithfully and loyally devoted your services to me
and to my house. I wish you to enjoy the evening of
your days, which God preserve, i❑ the calm conscience
of the services you have rendered, and of my gratitude,
and as a mark thereof, I relieve you from your heavy
duties in these stormy times, and confer upon you the
Grand Cross of my Royal Hungarian order of St. Stephen.
" FERDINAND,
" FRANZ COUnt STADION.

" 011rniitz, Dec. 1, 1848."
The Moravian Diet has resolved to inscribe the
late Emrmin, in its archives, as " FERDINAND the
Mild and the Good."
The representative of the United States has, it is
said, presented a lettter to WINDISCHORATZ from
Kosstrii, asking for an armistice for three months.
The Cologne Gazette has the following, under the
head Vienna, Dec. :
" It is impossible that the announcement of the con-
stitution granted by the King of Prussia to his subjects
canble e occasioned greater surprise in his own capital

thr,n it did here. It has there been received with the
g'teatest joy; everybody seems satisfied. Should the
'Prussian Government succeed in arriving at an amicable
arrangement; and the conflict between the Crown and
the people terminate peacefully, there is no doubt what-
ever that the measures adopted by the Prussian Govern-
ment will be pursued by the Austrian Government, as
these two powers have, on the whole, been placed in
very analogous circumstances during recent events. Ic
is now more probable than ever that the sitting of
the Diet will be speedily removed from Kremsier,
not as we had hoped to continue its deliberations
at Vienna, but to be dissolved. The Prussian Go-
vernment was impelled, by the conduct of the Assembly
on the Brandenburg question, and on the refusal of
taxes, to resort to a dissolution, and to give a constitu-
tion, which the Chambers, with their more than oppos-
ing elements, would in all probability never have brought
to light.
" The Diet of Kremsier will split on the Ministerial
demand for 80 millions. To judge from the Ministerial
proceedings, we should say that there is only one of the
following alternatives for the Chambers—either to refuse
the 80 millions, in which case it will be dissolved as use-
less, or to grant the sum, after having done which it
will be politely informed, that its services can now be
dispensed with. It is confidently stated that two Czesch
Ministers, without portfolio, are to be appointed, in
order at all hazards to gain the Czeschs. Report still
asserts confidently, that Francis Joseph intends to head
the Hungarian army."

The Pesth House of Representatives has declared
the throne of Hungary vacant, and the House of
Hapsburg unworthy to reign.

PRUSSI A.

The Berlin State Gazette of the 11th promulgates
the following Royal ordonnance :—" From the Ist
of January, 1849, the stamp duty imposed on political
journals by the law of the 7th of March, 1822, shall
cease, in conformity with Article 24 of the Constitu
tion, to be laid upon the national journals, or upon
foreign journals."

Aletfer from Breslau of the Bth says, that Dr.
BORCHHAADT was, on the preceding day, found
guilty of high treason, and sentenced to imprisonment
for twelve years in a fortress, and the loss of the na-
tional cockade ; and Dr. Oscu was condemned to one
year's confinement in a fortress for attempting to ex-
cite insurrection.

SOMMERFELD, who commanded the detachment of
soldiers that drove away the members of the National
Assembly from the Schiltzenhaus on the lath ult., has
been dismissed the service for not reporting to head-
quarters the letter which he received from a lieute-
nant of his company, declaring that all persons who
took part in the proceedings against the National As-
sembly were traitors to the state. As for the lieute-
nant (Herr vox WlEDBulta), he has been sent to the
fortress of Spandau.

SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN.
RENDSBURG, DEC. B.—The extraordinary com-
mission charged with investigating the case of the
Pontoneers has not yet pronounced a verdict, but the
inquiries are still being actively pursued. It is
affirmed that after having duly investigated all the
facts the extraordinary commission will make a re-
port to the ordinary court martial, by which the
prisoners will then be tried, and receive sentence from
that tribunal. The town itself has been quiet since the
sth. The men who, as we have before stated, were
disarmed, are now confined in the arsenal, where
they are closely guarded by two companies. Fresh
reinforcements of troops marched in yesterday. No
popular tumult is again apprehended, but there ap-
pears to be some suspicion afloat relative to the
troops.

The Frankfort Journal states, in a letter from Co-
penhagen, the instructions which have been given to
the Danish Ambassador, who has gone to London
for the purpose of carrying on the negotiations for
peace. In the first class is the corporation of the
whole of Schleswig, as laid down at the programme
of the late Ministers ; in the second class is that of
constituting Schleswig an independent State, indis-
solubly united to Denmark by personal union atvl
equal hereditary succession ; and, thirdly, the accep.
tance of the project for the partition of Schleswig,
and on this point Denmark depends upon England,
because that proposal emanated from her. This,
however, is the very extreme to which Denmark will
consent.