The Sun.
London, England, 1856-12-13 00:00:00

SWEDEN.

At the opening of the Swedish Diet, King °gear
announced, in very noble language, that a bill
would be presented in the course of the session
for the establishment .of freedom of religious
worship in the kingom. The text of that measure
has just been published ; and it proves how stro pg
religious prejudices must still be in Sweden, since
notwithstanding the good intentions of the So's-
reign and the spirit of the constitution, the gover7l-
- has only ventured to propose enactments of:
very limited character, and which do not by axlY
means reach the standard which the King's 131"
guage had led people to expect. The following 1s
.
an analysis of the principal provisions of the bird
"Art. 1 revokes the clauses and enactments of the
penal code relative to the penalties attached to departttre,
from the true evangelical doc:rine, and the profession
another faith. These penalties were nothing less than (3),,,a
and confiscation, and the persons who left the Swedl6"
church almost in every case became Protestants of another
denomination. Every Swede, however, who leaves "
national Swedish church is obliged to make: ra'
a formsl
•
claration to that effect in registers of his r`lls'"i
0i:
Art. 2 revokes the enactments of the same code, why
will entail the penalty of exile for the propagation ~12r
erroneous doctrines, and changes the punishment
or
that offence into a fine, varying from 68fr. to 400 fr.,
imprisonment of from ono to twelve months._Art;•
proposes that whoever shall Beek by persuasion, thre 3,8!
or other illicit mean., to lead to apestacy from the S
dish church shall be liable to a fine of from 70fr. to 4011
and for each repetition of the offence to inaprisonineut' °
from 2 to 12 months.—Art. 4 states that children hal
before their parents have changed are to be broughtu? 11
the doctrines of the Swedish ch'urch, and the mutliclla
.
councillors are ordered to see that this prescription tsen
fully carried out.—Art. 5 states that no one cat)Lso,
consequence of his religious profession, be releas_ed d
om
•
the observance of all the laws in vigour in the kltl bold
—Art. 6 allows members in the Swedish church rt',Zng
religious meetings in private houses, provided 1"'''..14
takes place calculated to destroy public orcl°?7-, at
every meeting for the purpose of religious worsolr'-
which a clergyman does not officiate, entrance ca-r
to
be refused either to the clergyman of the parighl these
the public functionaries of the neighbourhood ; an," ,he
latter can, in case of illegality or disorder, disf4°'/- se
meetings. No such meetings, however, can in any
tiiye
o
take place, unless by a special permission, underers
penalty of a fine of from 68f. to 150 f. for the pn..
lending his house, and of 141, for each person prese

' SPAIN.
A letter from Madrid of the Gth, in the Siecle,
says :—" The parting knell of the NarVaeZ Cabinet
is now sounding, and no one here imagines that
the patient can recover. It is positive that the
Ministerial crisis has already commenced. Accord;
ing to some accounts it will be partial;and limited
to the retirement of MM. Barzanallana and Urbis•
tondo. Persons, however, generally well informed
positively state that the crisis is general and extends
to all the Cabinet • they even go so far as to ssi
that General de la Pezuela and M. Beltran AR
Lis are charged to form a new Ministry. what
day
Absolutist
and more apparent to.
becomes every
every eye is that the party is gaining;
ground. The cabinet is in a state of prostration,
and in every case of difference of opinion the Duke'
asi dTehpaertment the 0 -340
of Valencia always ends by giving way it is evi-
dently not the same Na,rvaez who had' etnigt atod
Clamor _Public° publ:
returned rnin
ministerial
riii
official li P•
thathshe
shaisn
of the supplementary credits
cabinet has already voted,although! which the Nary
as
an existence of 55 days. it only reclor
~,,
to 225,732,622 reals, to This little total anion ;
add 200 millions of - • which it will be prol34l,bt
increase on the floating ,
previously voted by 1105
the constituent
Cortes.
torations are, it
appears,
expensive thinos•"
A royal decree in • --b • f hie
Bth declares null the 1, f adrid Gazette 0
~_ 0
and void certain restrictiu
which were imposed
i o,_,
on by decree of the 9th .t.
the of t Lie
°°o promulgation of the dog -0
Immaculate Conception decree I
; and another .,__
the same • f A-10'el
lan, journal restores General Falcon, 0-
who figured in the insurrection of Sarago-.oh
to his grade, honours and decorations, of 011/11
,her
he was deprived on the 16th July last. The 3vis
Madrid papers of the Bth contain no political ill do
of interest. The Epoca says that the Marquis
la Pezuela had received an offer of the Rubin
embassy, but had declined it ;__ also that General of
intention not to accept the Captaincy-.,
Cuba, which there was some intention of offer 7
him. The works of the different lines of rails/Iv.
were being carried on with extraordinary actill ';,a
The section from Madrid to Alicante could, it Weil
believed, be opened in the spring ; 40,000 In
were employed on it.
1,4..

The Chroniquer of Friburg of the 9th has a iv-
ter from Estavayer, which gives some details rela-
tive,to the late disturbances in that part of Svvitzer-
lano., and says :—" Everything passed off e.ll
during the voting, which was terminated at ten la-
the. evening. About Huardhundred peasants rer
mained in the town to g the arms and proteo!
the conservatives, who were said to 1) menac,3d
by a coup de main. At eleven o'clock, the radi.c.xls
of the town took from the Arsenal the two little
cannons which played a part in the Sonderbundt
and conveyed them to the chateau with lightea
matches. The court-yard was fall of elec.tors.
The peasants, who were indignant, seized 000
of the cannons (it was not loaded), and carried it
off to the public-house, the Cerf, where they plat
ea
tin the cellar. h
It ad been rumoured for son°
time that arms were secreted at the chateau the
discharged soldiers of the contingent having give,l!
up their arms here instead of at Friburg.
11."
rumour turns out to be true ; the radicals Pr°
sented themselves armed at the chateau, and whell
the last voters retired, in passing by the 1.(340
round the Grand Tour, musket-shots were fired 0,....
them ; several of them were wounded, three Vii
riously. I fear all danger is not yet over. t'L.
day long, arms have been taken to the chateall...a
Soldiers are beginning to arrive, and morel
expected.

tho
A letter from Ancona, of Dec. 2, says that
state of sieghe
e was raisei the previous day ',a
Marches of Romagna, the provinces of Bologna' and
Ancona alone excepted : they are to remain lin 0
military government. The Queen Maria Christiil
of Spain left Ancona on the 2d for Rome'

—_— 110
The number of students at the various metropo-1
hospitals amounts to 1,080. ‘rsill'
s
The inquiry into the outbreak of the fire at 0-0-4.1,6
Etodkinson and Roll's premises has terminated. '
origin of the fire could not be dicd d. „AA to
MiNEs.—For many months we have not been 0.',—..„6
report upon 53 buoyant a market for shares as
iv' ,"'—is
had during the past week. The difficultY 11°" 94
to get shares in good mines, and not to sell the," i,
erab'e rise in prices,
formerly,d and we fully expect to see a further and eesg,
Many misses which have hitherto paid good diviclelo
must now increase them, and others which had been
especially in copper and tin Min de
paying cost will be enabled, through the advanc ea
copper, to give dividends. It be acknowleay.
n all sides that tbe miner is deserving of this Of
The smelters have had it all their own way for rai°,lt
months, and, having laid in a good stock of oretsol`:,
their own prices, have raised the metal 18/. Per do
,without, of course, supposing that the East ifro
Company would soon be in the market for a " '''
quantity of copper.—lllining Journal of this daY.