The Sun.
London, England, 1850-07-30 00:00:00

SPAIN.

Madrid journals of the 24th have arrived.
The QUEEN had completely recovered, and had re-
ceived her Ministers and several of the high dignita-
ries of the Stste on the occasion of the file of the
QUEEN-MOTHER; but a reception for kissing hands,
which was to have taken place, had been put off. The
Ministers, the Duke and Duchess DE MONTPENSIER,
Don FRANCISCO DE and the eminent func-
tionaries of the Government paid their respects to
Qieeri CHRISTINA. Letters from Manilla state that
the small-pox continued to exercise great ravages.

GERMAN Y.
Prince SCIIWARTZENBERG has addressed the fol•
lowing dispatch to the Austrian Minister at the Cour
of Berlin :

" A circular of Baron do Schleinitz, accompanied by
an explanatory memoir relative to the treaty of peace
concluded on the 2d of July, has been handed to me by
the lerussian envoy, with the wish that Austria would,
as soon as possible, express her assent and accord her
'ratification within a given period.
We sincerely rejoice that a peace has at last been
brought about between the Prussian Government, hold-
ing the full powers to this effect from the Provisional
Federal Commission, and the Crown of Denmark. The
position assumed and maintained by the Imperial Cabinet
from the commencement of and during this prejudicial
(unheilvelbm) war, terminated hythis peace, leaves no
doubt that it desired to maintain the just claims of
the confederation and the duchies, and would not shrink
from causing them to be rendered valid; but, at the
same time, it has seen with lively regret how greatly
the solution of the question at issue, as well as the peace
of Germany and conduct of Europe, have been im-
peded and endangered, from the- movement party having
made this question its own, and from its heying used
every effort to misemploy and convert it to its own pur-
poses. It must therefor© be regarded as a fortunate re-
sult that we may consider this danger to be removed,
inasmuch as the ground has been won for an impartial
and conscientious test of the opposing claims by the
treaty just completed.
"Prussia merits, thereby, universal thanks; and we
hope the case will be considered on all sides from this
point of view. We will use endeavours upon every oc-
casion that this shall be the case, and are convinced
that, should this affair be again used as a pretext for
fresh agitation in Germany, such attempts will be met
with decision.
" This being the case, we declare, as a European
Power, that we approve the treaty concluded, without
entering into any judgment of its particular contents,
and solely holding the good in view which it promises
to general interests.
" But as regards the ratification of this treaty, we can
only be called upon to take part in such act in our qua-
lity as member of the Germanic Confederation. It is
in this quality that Austria must hold to her convictions,
expressed at all times, and especially to those of the
12th, 16th, and 28th of November, 1849, that the trea-
ties of the confederation and the constitution, resting on
the same, have still full legal validity,, and must be taken
as a rule in the present case.
" It would be contrary to many important stipulations
of these treaties, if we were to propose to his Majesty
the King, our master, this treaty as a treaty of the con-
federation. A treaty can only be rendered valid for the
confederation through the medium of the constitutional
organ of the will and acts of the confederation; and
specially as, according to the 12th and 49th concluding
acts of Vienna, the acceptance and confirmation of a
treaty of peace can only take place in plenary assembly
of the confederation. The resolutions of individual
members of the confederation cannot replace the
requisite collective mode of expressier, in case of differ-
; enee of opinion. Practical diffietelties might ensue, to
set which aside the confederate Legislature is alone
competent ; in virtue of which a treaty of peace can
only be concluded by the force of the determinal ma-
jority of votes. The convention of the 30th September
has made no charge in this respect, since it only left
the matters mentioned in the 6th artic!o of the acts of
the confederation to the free will of Governmereoi
during the interim, but not the power over peace and
war accorded to the plenum by the concluding acts of
Vienna. The Federal Commission, whilst it empowered
Prussia to negotiate for peace, did certainly reserve to
itself the right of approbation ; but these authorities,
which could decide nothing as regards the definite ac-
ceptance, of peace, but merely refer the arrangement to
federal Governments, neither would nor could confer
full power. upon indkvidual members of the confedera-
tion, which only belong to them in their organic con-
nexion.
" Although, according to the above, it must be reserved
to the highest federal authority to enter into delibera-
tions upon the contents of the treaty, the ratifications of
which Wore belong to it, in order to pronounce judg-
ment thereon, we cannot nevertheless abstain from ex-
pressing the considerations arising frcm the wording of
the 4th article.
" We doubt whether the confederation represented by
its legal organ, will admit the deliberations received in
this article. These start upon a presupposition that
the confederation might lack will or poser to perform
the duties lying within its attributions—a doubt which
is not justly consistent with positive regulations of the
federal laws and the institution of the confederation.
The concluding passage or the article might give rise to
misinterpretations, or cause the members of the confe-
deration to enter reserves.
Wo had adhered to the fundamental rights of trea-
ties, and the foregoing eventually strengthens us in our
-
determination.
" Ter from rendering more d:ffieult the solution of
this complicated qu,?stlon, this resolution ought, on the
contrary, to faciLtste it. The pestponement of the
formal ratifications of tee treaty of peace will nut cet-
tautly hinder the federal etetcs recite acknowledging the
advantages to each and all arising from the peace, and
from cu-operating in the desirable settlement of the
legal question thus received. The danger of an indivi-
dual war between Denmark and the Duchies can only
be diminished if the confederation does not abandon its
right of interference. The whole state of the question
serves again to chow, and more explicitly, how essential
it is that the poesibility of united minima through a
generally acknowledgei organ, should be re-accorded to
the confederation. Prussia herself refers Denmark to
the confederation, and points out the authority of the
confederation as the last barrier to eventualities, which
in their existence and progress could only be regarded
as inevitable. Does not this show the necessity of lay-
ing the treaty before a plenary federal Assembly—the
solo authority competent to pronounce judgment—so
long as a new organ of the general will of the confedera-
tion has not emanated from a revision of the federal
constitution?
" I request your Excellency to communicate the pre-
sent diepatch to tie King's Government, and to deliver
to it a copy of the seine.
(Signed) " SCLIWARTZENIMIO.
" To his Excellency Lieutenant-general
Baron Preltea,ch, eee."

DECAY OF BLACKFRIARS-IMlDGE.—Yesterday a
large quantity of shingle was thrown into the bed of the
Thames •to support the abutments of the centre arch of
Blacklriars-bridge, which have sunk so much that the stones
at the crown of the arch have loosened, and the breastwork
has cracked. For some weeks divers have been employed in
the bed of the river, who have ascertained that the fouudah
tions are affected.