The Sun.
London, England, 1852-12-20 00:00:00

GERMANY.

The Emperor of Austria arrived in Berlin at noon
last Friday. His visit to the Prussian capital is
considered in Germany as an event of the highest
political importance. The object of it is said by
some of the German journals to be the settlement
of the Zollverein question, by others the affairs of
France. His Majesty is the first Austrian Sove-
reign who has visited Berlin.
We read in a letter from Vienna of the 12th, in
the New Gazette of Prussia—" It is known that the
French Envoy, M. de la Cour, informed the Minister
of Foreign Affairs at the end of last month, of the pro-
clamation of the Empire, and of the adoption of the '
title of Napoleon 111. by the new Emperor. Count
Buol declared that he would only reply to the official
notification. This notification was contained in a
dispatch, dated Paris the Ist, and it was presented
on the sth by the French Envoy ; it contains a
detailed account of the motives which have led
Louis Napoleon to take the Imperial crown, and
gives the assurance that the new French Govern-
ment will not violate the territorial arrangements
of the treaties of 1815. This dispatch was pre-
sented on the same day to his Majesty. The day
after, the 6th, a note was sent to our representative
at Paris, conceived nearly in the same spirit as
those exchanged at an earlier stage of the affair ;
that is to say in a spirit which cannot completely
satisfy the Emperor of the French. It is concluded
from that, that diplomatic negotiations are about
to be entered into on the subject, and that they
will not be confined to Vienna and Paris."
It was stated several days ago in some of the
German journals that Prince Frederick Augustus
Albert, brother of the King of Saxony, who is 25
years of age, and a colonel in the army of his
brother, had left Dresdon for Prague, for the cere-
mony of betrothal with the Princess Carola Wasa.
This statement was afterwards contradicted, but it
has again been revived, and some of the German
journals give it very positively.
We read in the Union :—" The Count and Coun-
tess de Chambord are to leave Frohsdorf on the 19th
for Venice. On the 10th, the Count and Countess
went to Vienna to pay a visit to the Emperor of
Austria, who invited them to dinner. The Coun-
tess sat next to the Emperor, and the Count de
Chambord next to the Dowager Empress. In the
evening, the Emperor visited the Count de Cham-
bord at the palace of the Duke of Modena, which is
always placed at his disposal when he goes to Vienna.
It is known that the Emperor of Austria stopped
at Dresden on his way to Berlin. We are informed
that the object of his visit to Dresden was to con-
clude the arrangements for his marriage with the
Princess Sidonia of Saxony. She is the sister of
Prince Albert of Saxony, who is to marry the
Princess Wasa. It is said that the Emperor of
Austria has had a part in bringing about this latter
marriage."

NORWAY.
Letters from Christiana, ofthe Bth, state that a
new religious sect, called the Readers, because its
members pass nearly all their time in reading the
Bible, but calling themselves the True Believers,
were rapidly spreading in Laponia and the northern
parts of Norway. Their fanaticism is excessive.
At Cantokeino, in the district of Gaparando, they
wanted to make two tradesmen adopt their creed,
and on their refusal murdered them and set fire to
their houses and stores, not leaving until the latter
were reduced to ashes. The wives and children of
the victims only escaped on abjuring their worship
and adopting the new one. When news of this
lamentable affair reached Drontheim, in Norway,
troops were sent off to prevent further excesses.

TURKEY.
Accounts from Constantinople, of the sth, state
that the determination of the Bank not to receive
paper money (kaimes) of the Government in pay-
ment of bills on Europe had caused, in addition to
great perturbation in the money market, a fall in
the paper money of from 7 to 8 per cent., and a
total disappearance of specie. The directors of the
Bank, when called on for explanations, declared
that they had not sufficient confidence in the
kaimes to exchange them for bills of exchange,
which would have to be paid in Europe in specie,
and that sooner than do so they would wind up
their affairs. A deputation, consisting of 10 of the
principal merchants of different nations, was nomi-
nated to make known to the Government the lament-
able situation of commerce, and it was to have an
interview with the Minister of Finance on the 6th.
It was believed that the Grand Vizier, and the
other members of the Cabinet, would tend the
conference. In the Haouran hostilities had been
suspended, in consequence of the commencement of
the bad season, and it was hoped that an arrange-
ment would be come to. The English had offered
their mediation, and they exercise a very great in-
fluence over the Druses. Order had been re-
established at Bagdad, and the Bedouins had
ceased to intercept the communications. The
youngest brother of the Shah of Persia was in that
city. He had been compelled to fly from Teheran
in consequence of being suspected of having be-
longed to the sect of the Babis. The Minister of
England aided him in his flight, and gave him a
strong recommendation to Colonel Rawlinson, con-
sul-general at Bagdad. At first the Governor of
Bagdad refused to receive him ; Colonel Rawlinson
thereupon made the Prince put on an English uni-
form, and took him to the consulate. The Prince
continued to reside in the consul-general's house,
and to wear the uniform. Mahommed Khan,
Minister of Persia at Constantinople, had
died. M. de Lavalette, the French Minister,
was to have an audience of the Sultan
on the question of the Holy Sepulchre, which has
not yet been settled. It was said that the minister
would be moderate in form, but would firmly de-
fend what he considered the rights of France. The
Ministry had not become consolidated. The recall
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of Said Pacha, brother-in-law of the Sultan, fa-vourite of the Ulemas, and chief of the retrograde 10
party, would, it was thought, increase its dam- 1.0
culties.

His Grace the Duke of Norfolk, with the view o
further benefiting his tenants, recently dispatched his head
groom to Scotland, for the purpose of procuring the best
Clydesdale stallions that could be found, and his grace's
servant—an excellent judge of that class of horses—has
returned, bringing with him one of the finest horses ever
bred in the north ; he is called " The Scottish Cham-
pion," and is remarkable, though only five years old, for
having gained no less than five annual prizes. The
horse will be located at Littlehampton during the coming
season, and the cross of the Clydesdale blood will doubt-
lessly be found valuable among the Sussex mares.
HOLYHEAD HARBOUR WORKS; FRIDAY.—In addition
to the ravages made by the recent floods, a fearful
thunder storm raged yesterday at Holyhead, which has
caused much damage in the locality. A dreadful acci-
dent has occurred at the old harbour, by which a man
named William Hughes has been deprived of life. He
was engaged on the landing jetty, when one of the
cranes, being too heavily laden, fell with terrific violence
upon the deceased, and hurled him into the sea. Im- 3
mediate help was at hand, but though picked up in a I
few minutes life was extinct, the head of the unfortunate
man having been nearly severed from the body by the
force of the blow. He has left a wife and four children.
At the new harbour works, on Tuesday, two men were
at work on a stage nearly thirty feet high, when the end
of one of the planks on which they stood gave way, pre-
cipitating both to the ground. One happily escaped
with comparatively little injury ; but the other, a fine
young man of nineteen, named Griffith 'Williams, re-
ceived such serious injury that he has since died. Our
correspondent adds, that serious differences still con-
tinue to exist between the contractors for the works and
the men in their employ.