The Sun.
London, England, 1857-12-02 00:00:00

SPAIN.

The Madrid journals of the 26th ult., due yes-
terday, and those of the 27th have 'arrived. Royal
decrees in the Gazette allow M. Bermudez de
Castro to resign the post of minister at Lisbon,
and appoint M. do Cueto, under-secretary of
foreign affairs, minister at Vienna and Munich, and
M. Juan Comyn, secretary of legation at London,
under-secretary of foreign affairs. Another decree
nominates the Duke de Sexto alcalde corregidor
of Madrid. It was considered certain that M.
Vidal will be sent to Rome, as amblssador. The
Government had arranged with—the Bank of
Spain to send to London and Paris 28,000,000
reals to pay the interest on the foreign debt,
and had in return transferred to the Bank
12,000 onces of gold received from the Philip-
pines, 12,000,000 or 14,000,000 reals from the
molting down of the moneys of Porto Rico,
and treasury drafts on the provinces for other sums.
Although the situation of the Bank was satisfactory,
the directors, by way of precaution, in presence of
the crisis prevailing indifferent parts of Europe, had
sent into the provinces large quantities of specie.
The demand for specie for notes had ceased, and the
rate of discount remained unchanged. A new screw-
ship, the Naryaez, had been launched at Ferrol.
Accounts from Cuba state that the squadron assem-
bled there was ready to sail at a moment's notice to
act against Mexico, or "elsewhere." Soldiers sea-
soned to the climate had alone baen selected for
servica ; the artillery had been largely increased,
and 1,000 marines were on board the squadron.
___ The Grand Duke of Tuscany has issued a decree,
fixing the direct taxes of the State for 1858 at
6,300,000 fr.

The Swiss Fdderal Chambers, on their meeting
ou the 7tb, will, after nominating the principal
judicial and executive functionaries of the Confe-
deration, have to decide on the conflict which has
arisen between the Grand Council of the canton of
Vaud and the Federal Government, relative to the
sanction given by the latter to the company of the
railway from Lausanne to Oron and Friburg. The
Federal Government intends to present a report on
the subject, iu which it will labour to show that it
only executed the decrees of the two chambers.

" Some divisions," says a leAer from Vienna, in
the Cologne Gazette, " are arising in the divans of
the Principalities. The me9iorandum of that of
Wallachia, which was drawn up by Brakano, hag
called forth an answer from Alexander Gole,co in
refutation. Thirty-two members have signed
Golesco's reply."

The Russian journal, the Caucasus, announces
that Davoud Khan, envoy of the Shah of Persia,
recently arrived at Titlis to present to Prince Baria-
tinskii the usual congtatulatious of his Sovereign
on his uominaton to the post of L;eutenant of the
Emperor in the Caucasus. Davoud Khan, after
having delivered a co ngratulatoryadd ress in French,
presented to the Prince a portrait of the Shah orna
mooted with diamonds, and a later from the Per-
sian Prime Mini ter, Mirza Aga Khan. The prince
thanked Davoud. Khan, and added that the portrait
of the Shah would always keep him in mind of the
Sovereign who is united to the Emperor of Russia
by ti:e ties of a faithful and indissoluble friendship.

The Second Chamber of Danmark, in the sitting
of the 27th ult., adopted the budget for the ensuing
year. The receipts are set down in it at 6,043,800
rix doll. rs, and the expenses at only 3,385,774. The
bill on what is called " industrial liberty"—that
which abolishes trade corporations—lately adopted

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in the Second Chamber, is about to be discussed in
the First Chamber. It is far from popular, parti-
cularly among the petty dealers, and certain trades
of the capital are getting up petitions to the King
against it.

The States of the Nobles and of the Clergy of
Sweden have rejected the project of the committee
on legislation for allowing natural children to in-
herit their mother's property.

The .Nord of Brussels says :—" A telegraphic
despatch from Trieste, lately published by the
Morning Post, and which we copied, stated that
civil war continued in Persia, and that the Shah
had refused the intervention of Russia.' Accord-
inn, to information which we have received from St.
Petersburg, no account had reached that capital of
any civil war having broken out in Persia. On the
contrary, everything was perfectly tranquil in that
country, where the ceremony of recognising the pre-
sumptive heir to the throne had just taken place wtth
great solemnity in presence of all the foreign repre-
sentatives resident at Teheran. That important event
is of a nature not only to remove all apprehensions
as to the present internal state of the Persian mon-
archy, but is also a gurantee for its future security.
We scarcely need add that no armed intervention
on the part of Russian has been ever offered, and,
consequently, could not have been refused by the
Shah."

A letter from Vienna, in the Cologne Gazette,
says :—" It is reported that several of our large
manufacturers intend to close their establishments
at the end of the month, and to discharge their
workmen, because they can no longer carry on their
business. The merchandise which they supply
is not paid for in ready money, but in bills, the
signore of which are every day liable to become
bankrupt, and yet cash must be found to pay their
hands. As to the workmen, their situation is
most distressing, with winter fast approaching."