The Sun.
London, England, 1852-03-19 00:00:00

GERMANY.

The official journal, the Wisner Zeitung, contains
an article on the attitude of the Tories in regard to
the northern Powers, which is ,the more significant
because that journal rarely inserts any distinct or
decided opinions on political subjects. It says :
" Since 1814 and 1815, and especially through Lords
Castlereagh, Aberdeen, and the Duke of Wellington,
the closest bond of union has been formed between the
northern powers and the heads of that great English
party. Since then it has been the traditional policy of
the genuine (Reinen) Tories carefully to cherish the
friendship of those powers. Canning and Peel, therefore,
could not be classed among the genuine Tories. As
the Earl of Derby has made no compromise with the
Peeliies, but has formed a genuine Tory Cabinet, the
melancholy experience of the last few years will speedily
be forgotten by the continental powers, and the friendly
remembrances of earlier times ,will revive. There is
likewise a closer internal resemblance between the
Tories and those Cabinets which mutually attracts them
f.o each other. The Tories always follow a traditional
stated policy, to which they faithfully adhere, whereas
the Whigs are far more easily moved, more readily
gu to extremes, and consequently can inspire the
continental powers, which steadily adhere to their po-
litical convictions, with but very slender confidence."
The suspension of the Protestant clergymam, Mr.
STEINACKER, at Trieste, has, caused a great sensation
there. The reason appears to be, that, being a native
of Hungary, and connected, through his wife, with
the revolutionary party there, he was suspected of
carrying on a clandestine correspondence inimical to
the Government with the refugees in England, and
with the German Catholic community in Gratz. He
was likewise suspected of contributing to the pro-
hibited journal Primeval Christianity.
The Prussian Zeitung publishes a letter from
Hanover, dated the 10th inst., stating that there is
no present intention of occupying Bremen by Hano-
verian troops; that at the present moment a federal
armed intervention would be without any object—in
the first pace, because the public tranquillity has not
been interrupted in Bremen ; and, in the second,
because the population of this free city have
never dreamt of declining the legal and
pacific intervention of the Diet. On the other band,
it is by no means unlikely that measures will be
adopted for an immediate intervention in case the
tranquillity of Bremen should be broken.
The motive for this intervention would be the con-
flict which has been going on for months between the
Senate of Bremen and the democratic part of the
burghers on the subject of the constitution of this
city. This conflict has attracted the attention of the
Diet, and according to recent intelligence &lam
Frankfort, the Diet has decided to intervene in this
afLir, and to send a commission to Bremen to effect a
union between the Senate and the burghers, and to ts rge
for the suppression of the present constitution, wkich
the Germanic Diet considers incompatible with the
federal principle. It is said that the office of c3orn-
rnissioner had been delegated to General Jeconr, and
it.- is further added that in the event of an occupation
being indispensable, a brigade of Hanoverian troops
will be placed at his disposal.

EXTENSIVE FlRE.—This morning, at a quarter
before seven o'clock, a fire of a very alarming character, and
attended with a destruction of some thousand pounds w,orth
of property, broke out in the extensive premises belonging
to Messrs. Batger and Co, wholesale confectioners and
lozenge manufacturers, 16, Bishopsgata -street Without, and
running backwards into Devonshire-street. The flames
commenced in that portion of the property situated in. the
last-named street, and speedily assumed a most threateiing
aspect. The engines were soon at the spot, when plenty of
water was quickly procured from the &maims in the neigh-
bourhood, and the engines were set to work, the hose from
which were conveyed up the staircases, so that the brigade
were enabled to attack the flames at every point, and, in the
course of a couple of hours they were extinguished, but not
until the three upper floors were burned out and the entire
stcek therein consumed. The lower floors are likewise
damaged to a vast extent by water. The premises were in-
eared in the Union, Sun, Phoenix, and Westminster fire
offices.

PROTECTIONIST FUNDS FOR THE COMING ELECTIONS.
The Protectionist party have already begun to prepare in
earnest for the impending elections. Long experience has
taught them the value of money in insuring a triumph at the
polling booths. They have, within the last few days,
given
a new proof of the importance which they attach to the
sinews of electioneering, as of every other kind of war, by
collecting at the Carlton Club, or rather, perhaps,
we should
say, through the agency of some of the leading members of
that
Liberals doing ? a sum of mone—
y little short of 140,000/. What are
theWe fear they are not likely to prove
themselves equally " liberal " in their contributions to insure
the return of men holding their own principles.—Advertiser.
MILITIA.—From a return printed by order of the
1 House of Commons, it appears that the following sums were
voted for the militia of the United Kingdom in the years
1849 and 1850:—In the former year the amount was
1851-521128 in the latter, 109,850/. The return for the year
and no expense was in-
curred in either of these years in calling out the corps in aid
of the civil power.
L cannot; at present be given,