The Sun.
London, England, 1850-01-11 00:00:00

SPAIN.

Madrid journals of the 3d have been received.
A communication was officially made to both
Chambers, announcing that the Qu3EN would be
unable to receive the usual deputation on the 6th of
January, on account of her health.
In the Cortes on the preceding day Senor OIENSE,
the Progressista Deputy, had moved for the produc-
tion of all documents relative to the appointment of
the Cleonard Ministry in the month of October last.

The Marquis DE PIDAL, Minister of Foreign
Affairs, replied that no other documents existed ex-
cept the royal decree published in the Gazette, ap-
pointing and dismissing the Ministers, and that, as
the affair took place last year, it ought to be buried
in oblivion.

The motion was rejected by a majority of 117
to 20.

GERMANY.

Several of the aristocratic landholders of Silesia
have protested` against the 38th Article of the Prussian
Constitution, which abolishes the law of entail.

On the 7th the Prussian Ministry communicated
to the Chambers the convention for the cession of the
Principalities of Hohenzollern to Prussia, and de-
manded an immediate consideration of the subject.
The Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung of the Ist, pub-
lished at Leipsic, has the following article under the
title of Buropean Genealogy :
" The number of the sovereigns of Europe, including
the Emperor of Brazil, who belongs to a European
dynasty, as well as the two princes of Hohenzollern,
whose mediation is now under negotiation, but not yet
definitively settled, and without reckoning the semi-
sovereign Prince of Monaco, amounts to 48, among
whom 33 belong to Germany, and 3 of whom are
females. The oldest of these sovereigns, the King of
Hanover, is 78i years of age; the Grand Duke of
Mecklenburg Strelitz, is more than 70. Among the
others 7 are from 60 to 70; 14 from 50 to 60; 8 from
40 to 50; 9 from 30 to 40; and 5 from 20 to 30. Three
have not yet attained their 20th year—viz., the Em-
peror of Austria, the Queen of Spain, and the Prince of
Waldeck, who is still under guardianship, and will com-
plete his 14th year on the 19th inst. The average age
is 46 years 3i months. The prince who has reigned
the longest is the Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe; he has
reigned 63 years, and is the only sovereign whose
accession dates from the last century; but if we de-
duct from it the years of his minority, his reign has
only been 42 twc-thirds years. On the other
ha❑d, three princes, the Duke of Parma, the King
of Holland, and the King of Sardinia, only com-
menced to reign during the course of last year (all
of them in March), and in all 17 princes only as-
sumed the reins of their respective governments in the
last ten years. Six sovereigns have never been married,
♦ix, the Pope, the Emperor of Austria, the Duke of
Brunswick, the Princess of Reuss Scbleiz and of Wal-
deck, and the Landgrave of Hesse Homburg. Four, the
King of Han. ver, the Grand Duke of Oldenburg, the
Duke of Nassau, and the Prince of Hohenzollern-II( ek-
ingen are widowers. One, the King of Denmark, has
been divorced from two wives ; another, the Elector of
Hesse, is married morganatically ; and a third, the
Sultan, lives in polygamy. Among the 35 wires
of reigning princes, and issues of sovereign houses.
the oldest is the Grand Duchess of Saxe Weimar, and
the youngest the Queen of Bavaria, the former
being 64, and the latter 24 ; the Grand Duchess
is also the princess who has been the
longest married, having been so for 45 years and five
months. In the number of sovereigns now married, or
who have been so (not including the Elector of Hesse,
whose marriage is morganatic), 13 have no children,
the 28 others have sons heirs presumptive. Six of these

latter are married, and the oldest is that of Schaumburg-
Lippe, and the youngest the Imperial Prince of Brazil,
Among the 20 sovereigns without descendants capable
of succeeding them, eleven have brothers, four have for
presumptive successors other collateral relations, viz.,
the King of Denmark and the Duke of Alted,,na an
uncle, the Elector of Hesse a cousin, and the Queen of
Spain her sister. Four other sovereigns, the La.ndge avo
of Hesse Homburg, the Prince of Hohenzollern. "'cabin-
gen, and the Dukes of Anhalt-Bernburg and 871.1135-
wick have not in their line heirs capable of succeeding
them."

The court-martial sitting at Pesth has issued a
decree dated January Ist, summoning the following
Members of the late Hungarian Government to ap-
pear before the Court :—LOUIE KOSSUTH, MESZAROS,
SZEMERE, PERCZEL, CASIMIR BATTHYANT, ETIENNE
BATTIITANT, RAMEIS, and others. A term of 90
days is assigned to them for that purpose.
The Wiener Zeitung of the 4th instant publishes a
report signed by the whole Ministry respecting the
long-expected provincial constitutions and regulations
for the elections of representatives to the provincial
Diets. The report commences with a review of the
Austrian revolution, and of the reforms which have al-
ready been accomplished. It mentions the law respect-
ing the newspaper press and the right of asso-
ciation ; the creation of parishes, which is to
be more fully developed, whenever the dif-
ferent branches of the administrative authori-
ties shall commence active operations ; the taxa-
tion of the land ; the political and judicial organisa-
tions, &c. The measures necessary to the organisa-
tion of Gallicia, Dalmatia, the Bukowine, and the
Lombardo-Venetian kingdom, are nearly complete,
while for Croatia, Slavonia, and the military frontier,
they are ready, and will shortly be laid before the
Emperor for his sanction. It has been necessary in
many cases to consider the exceptional condition of
affairs, which the report says must for the present be
maintained in order that the consolidation of the
empire may not again be interrupted by fresh hostile
disturbances. Meanwhile the including the provinces
in the constitution of the empire, and the reforms
established in parochial matters, and the organisation
of the administration of the country, have placed the
preliminary measures on such a footing, that upon
their basis a new element towards the erection
of the constitution has been obtained, and an
important wheel in the machine of the State, so that
the constitution can be put in operation in the se-
veral provinces. For Bohemia Austrian above and
below the Enna, Salsburg, Styria, Carinthia, Krain,
Moravia, Istria, with Gore and Gradisca Tyrol, and
Voralberg, and Silesia, the projects of several
constitutions and regulations for the election of
Deputies to the Diet have been prepare'. The Minis.-
terial report then states the principles upon which
they have been drawn up. From these we shall only
mention that the division into three electoral bodies
is adopted, and that the census for the election of
deputies to the provincial diets is to be the same as
for the imperial diet; in the larger towns the higher
classifications of the industry tax are the standard. The
formation of the electoral districts is to be determined
by the political divisions of the several provinces. .As
a rule, each political district is to send one deputy to
the provincial diet. The electoral body of the highest
taxed is to meet in each province as an electoral
assembly, but in the larger provinces the particular
interests of each political district are to be taken into
consideration. In fixing the electoral districts for the
towns, cities, market and industrial towns, the number
of the population or their historical and industrial
importance are to be considered, and where
several combined have to elect one deputy,
the geographical position as well as the
equality of interests is to be taken into con-
sideration. The voting is to be viva voce, and the
duration of the provincial diets is fixed at four years.
The constitutions themselves are to afford to the ad-
ministration, apart from all narrow centralization,
that degree of power which the Imperial Constitution
permits to be placed in their hands. The periods fur
the election of Deputies to the Imperial Diet, and
for the convocation of the provincial diets are to be
fixed by the Ministers whenever the necessary
preparations shall have been completed, and the
political authorities shall have assumed the
discharge of their functions, the parishes,
together with their administrative and repre
sentative organs formed, and the electoral lists
for the provincial diets prepared and completed. The
period that must elapse before these various measures
have been accomplished, is to be employed by the
Ministry in the preparation of the necessary measures
and projects of law. At the conclusion of the report,
the Ministry ask the EMPEROR to sanction the projects
for the provincial constitutions and electoral regula-
tions, to sign the necessary patents, and to command.
the Ministry to carry them out.
The report is dated the 29th Dec., and received the
Imperial sanction on the 30th. The latest number of
the publication of the laws of the empire contains the
constitution and electoral regulations for Austria be-
low the Enns.

The Chambers of Hesse Darmstadt have decided
by a large majority in favour of the adhesion of that
duchy to the Three King's League.

HOLLAND.

TH2 lIAGUJ, JAN. 9 —The Stoats Courant gives
the Government reply to the report of the second
Chamber on the national budget, relative to the war
department, from which we extract the following pas-
sages :
" The Minister of War has pleasure in satisfying the
desire expressed by the sections of knowing his views
relative to the organisation of the army and of the sys
tern of defence. He is convinced that in times of peace
the army should be as inexpensive as possible, but at
the same time it shonld always be so perfectly organised
that it might be at any moment employed for the de-
fence of the country, otherwise all the expenses attend-
ing it would be thrown away.
" It is evident that the reduction of the army must
not be carried too far; the grand objects to be carried
out by the army according to the terms of the funda-
nleaennctea lfatwh oini nu ds te
pbeen dbeonrcnee 'o
fin then sntdal e and
extension
teexntsei
en
nd extended
takesin ttiimmees, , the
he md
defence
of its territory.
The army in its present state is merely a nucleus,
-
except at pecuaiary sacrifices.
bwuhticshucmh uasnt
" The Minister of War deplores that, notwithstanding
onfo r wcaarn oi
it be° fobtained
the reductions already made, the final figure of his
budget should still be considered too high; not that he
imagines that any economy has been already introduced,
or that he is unwilling to effect it--quite the contrary,
and he hoped to give proof of his intentions on this
point; but continued reductions in the army cannot pos-
sibly be classed among advantageous retrenchments;
they degenerate into demolition, to which the Minister
is called upon to lend his aid. Every part of the king-
dom, and every inhabitant has an equal claim upon the
solicitude of Government for protection against en-
croachments and losses, sad it is the duty of Government
to strain every nerve for the realisation of this object."