The Sun.
London, England, 1850-02-18 00:00:00

SPAIN.

Madrid journals of the 11th have been received.
The Budget Authorisation Bill having passed the
Senate, it was supposed that the Cortes would be im-
mediately prorogued.
MADRID BOMA, FEB. 11.—The Bolsa was more
animated to-day than it has been for some days past,
and the Funds are higher. An operation is quoted
in Three per Cents. at 29 7-16 cash, and they are
reported at -a, 7-16 buyers after the close. Five per
Cents., 12 13-16, j buyers, 13 sellers, after the close.
Coupons, 74 buyers. Passive Debt, 3i, j buyers,
15 16 sellers. Exchange on London, 50 35.

SWITZERLAND.
The National of Saturday publishes the following
correspondence from Switzerland :

" You are not aware how seriously a combined
action is threatened against the Helvetic Republican.
" Eleven Austrian battalions are concentrated at
Como. Three thousand men are at Luino.
still.
" France has consented—England alone resists

" A note has been sent by the Austrian Govern-
ment to the Cabinet of Turin, to demand a passage
for a body of troops across the Piedmontese territory.

GERMANY.
A letter from Agram, on the 6th, says that, on the
previous day, a bookseller, named Surtax, was
brought to trial for a seditious libel. This was the
first prosecution of the press in Croatia. When the
libel was read, s Juryman cried—" What is the use of
this prosecution ? IVe are all more or less guilty !"
Another juryman cried that he did not recognise the
law on the press made by the Diet. In consequence
of this the ease had had to be postponed.
A new Legislative Assembly has just been elected
in the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin,
and the Democratic party has obtained a great
triumph. Instead, therefore, of modifying the Consti-
tution granted by the GxalSn
i Duitz as too democra-
tic in character, they will, it s expected, snake it still
mare democratic.

It is stated in a letter fcom Munich, of the Bth,
that Prince DE LEININGEN (half-brother of the Queen
of ENG LIND) was about to be sent to London on a
adi-
plomatic mission relative to the affairs of Greece.
The Breslau Gazette states that Mr. PRIDHAM, the
(whose arrest by
tTh ePilie Austrian
ucorrespondent
was
military
n Hungary
ys
has been erro-
neously a n agent of Lord PALMERS-
TON, though he wrote in the Times in favour of the
Austrian Government. The Gazette adds that, as
Lord PALMERSTON'S agent, he was engaged in schemes
hostile to Austrian domination, and that it was he
who favoured the flight of Madame KOSSUTH.
A letter from Flensburg, of the Bth, to the Free
Press of Hamburgh, states that it was generally re-
ported that the Danish Government had given
formal notice for a termination of the armistice in
Schleswig.
A letter from Hamburgh of the 9th states that
agents of Austria and Denmaik are actively engaged
in the northern ports of Germany in recruiting
sailors for the service of their respective fleets. The
competition between them was so great that a ge-
neraJ advance had taken place in the wages of sailors
of the northern ports.
Tne Administrative Council has unanimousiy
adopted a resolution, fixing the 20th March for the
opening of the Erfurth Parliament. The elections
for the Lower House of the Brfurth Parliament are
terminated.

The Berlin Constitutionnel publishes a letter from
Lubeck, which contains the following announcement :
—" Our merchants have received instructions from
Copenhagenpossible, and this in Danish and Swedish, but not in
to complete their shipments so soon as
E. zigash or Russian bottoms." If there be any truth
in this statement, it is evident that Danish merchants
anticipate an early renewal of hostilities and general
blockade.

On the rivers of Western Germany, the Rhine, the
Weiser, and the Elbe, the floods consequent on the
thaw are subsiding. Immense damage has been done
by the waters, but the danger is considered past. On
the eastern rivers, the Oler and the Weichsel, the ice
brelks up later, and on their banks the floods are only
beginning to subside. The communications in every
direction have not been so interrupted for many years
as during the present, or, it may
now be hoped, past
winter. The railways have been severely tested. In
Belgium the destruction; of the bridge at Liege has
rendered it impossible to run the heavy goads trains
for the present-, but the
passengers and mails have
been forwarded, though very irregulary. Whatever
inconveniences may have been suffered by travellers
they are as nothing compared to those
by railroad,
met -with in the districts where they do not exist.
Voyagers from the eastern frontiers are unanimous
in the execration of the old horse diligences, in which
they have been mewed up, frozen and starved.

DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES.
In our Hamburgh correspondence mentio❑ is made
of ad-vices from Flensburg of the 10th inst. They state
that the Danish Cabinet has acceded to Lord PAL-