The Sun.
London, England, 1852-01-08 00:00:00

DERBY.

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GERMANY.
The Prussian Chambers re-assembled on the sth.
Count 'Ritsberg was elected President of the First
Chamber by 88 votes out of 120. In the Second
Chamber, Count Schwerin was elected by a narrow
majority of 6 over M. de Bodelschwing.
In the Second Chamber the retirement of the
Minister of War, General Von Stockhausen, was an-
nounced ; a communication was also read from the
Minister of Finance, stating that the Government did
not intend to lay before the House any account of the
administration of the finances for the present year ;
that an account of the expenditure of 1849 and 1850
in excess of the estimates of those revenues would be
presented during the present session (this document
vas laid on the table before the sitting of the day
terminated), but that the general report of the expen-
diture of 1850 might be produced in the next session,
after it had undergone examination by the Chief
Court of Audit. The message was given over to the
General Committee on the Budget.
The Prussian Finance Minister has published the
following decree regulating the income-tax :
" Aecordieg to the 17th Article of the Law of the Ist
of May, 1851, Prussian subjects are exempted from in-
come-tax, in respect of any property in land they may
hold in other countries, if they can produce proofs that
the said property is in those countries subjected to a
similar tax. According to the 2d paragraph of the
same article, foreigners are assessed to the classified
income-tax, if they have resided in Prussia for more
than one year, or if they are resident ie it
for purposes of gain. In respect to such foreigners
the law has not specifically repeated the general
principles of the 17th Article ; but there is no
doubt that foreigners who may be assessed to the
ineome-tax on account only of their residence in the
Prui.ian State, are not to be more unfavourably treated
than I.:russian subjects, and therefore the other provi-
sion of the 17th Article is also to be applied to them.
But neither for Prussian subjects nor for foreigners can
the exemption be extended to any income beyond that
derived from landed property possessed out of Prussia.
The interest on capital invested in other countries, the
profits of commercial undertakings, &c.. cannot be ex-
erapted from the Prussian income-tax because the pos-
sessors are already liable to the same tax in other
states—England, Austria, and Bavaria.
" THE MINISTER. OF FINANCE."

The Rostock Gazette, under date of Frankfurt, 30th
ult., says :—" The general subject of conversation
here is a scene wbieh took place in the sitting of the
Germanic Diet yesterday, between two diplomatists,
the Prussian and Austrian Ministers, who made use
of suck, violence against each other that their col-
leagnes were thrown into consternation. The confu-
Jim, Wag so great that it was heard in the adjoining
hr,uses. Different versions as to the origin of it are

given."
It has already been stated that the Assembly of
Citizens of Bremen had refused to consent to the
revision of the Constitution of 1848, and that the
Senate had appealed to the Diet of Frankfort. A
letter from Frankfort says it is expected that the Diet
will decide in favour of the Senate, and that Hanover
will be chi:aged by the Diet to send troops to Bremen
to occupy the city and enforce the decision.
The police of Berlin have prohibited the sale by
the 1-,ooksellers of that city of several works, amongst
which are mentioned the two volumes entitled,
" Writings and Memoirs of Robespierre."
The Cologne Gaze'te has the following from
2.1 inst. :—" Our Government has, in a cir-
cular to the members of the Zoilverein, expressed
i's opinion on the invitation given by the Austrian
Cabinet to send plenipotentiaries to the Congress of
Vienna. It declares that in the approaching delibe-
rations of the members of the Zollverein on the ad-
mission of the Stenerverein, no attention would be
oid to any engagement which might be come to at
Vienna, and that it should be in no way influenced by
the resolutions of the Congress. The convocation of
the Council of State, which will have to deliberate
on the irregular position of the provincial states with
regard to the Chambers, is every day looked for.

HOLLAND.
The recent article published in the Nieuwe Roller-
da msche Courant, on the state of Japan,
to excite general attention. The article is beginning
is as
follows :
" Since the colonisation of California,
Japan has be-
come a place of the greatest importance to the commer-
cial interests of the globe. At present it forms a com-
piety, harrier to the communication between India and
the United Stites.
" The barrier eau ba no longer tolerated, and if nego!
ciations tail in effecting, its removal, it must be cleared
by the force of artillery.
" France, Russia, and the United States
'lave attempted, in vain, to prevail with the Emperor—
he has renarined inexorable. At this moment liolland
alone is permitted to trade there, a monopoly which has
brought us very little profit, while it has drawn upon us
the haried and envy of other nations, because they it"'
gine we are reaping a rich harvest.

" We cannot do more for our ORII interests than to
infiuce the Emperor to throw open his harbours. If the
operaing of title harbours be effected through our nego-
tiation, we she! secure our influence in Japan, and con-
vince the European nations that it was not owing to
;,t4lfishness on our part which kept the trade of the
world so long shut out from this empire. Our Govern-
merit ha 3 made oae attempt, which has proved abortive;
uevertheless, the effort should be vigorously renewed."
—Allgenzeine Zeitogg.

EXTENSION OF THE LINES OF ELEC-
TRIC TELEGRAPH IN FRANCE.
The Moniteur of yesterday contains a report to the
President of the Republic from the Minister of the
Interior, on the subject of the lines of electric tele-
graph. It begins by pointing out how much France
is in arrear of the other nations of Europe in this
important means of communication, and then goes on
to particularise the different points to which it is most
material that it should be applied. The blank be-
twee'a Chalons and Marseilles is mentioned as ren-
dering comparatively useless the line which has
bFmn laid down between the former place and the ca-
pital. The importance of establishing lines to
Bordeaux, to Strasburg, and to other frontiers, is
also forcibly pointed out. The Minister states,
that from the result of the application of the
electric telegraph for private communications during
Cle last ten months, no doubt can exist but that
w hen the means of communication become more
extended, the receipts would exceed the interest of
the money :expended. The Minister states that,
notwiThstanding the reserve imposed on him by the
slaty; of the finances, he cannot hesitate from the
lm portance of the question in demanding the credits
?ecessar7 for extending the lines of electric telegraphs
in the different directions he had mentioned. The
report is followed by a decree of the President of the
Republic, opening a credit of 4,832,987 f. to the
Minister of the Interior, chargeable on the budgets
of 1852, 1853, and 1864, for the purposes set forth
:u the report.

Miles in work, 241 i)
Trim GRZAT NORTWIERN RAILWAY.-- ( N
—Return. of Traffic for the Week ending Dec. 28, 1851:
Passenger., parcels, carriages,
horses, dogs, and mails ... £5,324 17 11
Merchandise and minerals ... 4,649 19 7
Cattle ... ...
...
... 105" a o

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Total .. £lO,OBO 2 6
Corresponding; week, 1850 (236 miles):
Passengers. parcels, &c.
... £4,659 10 10
Merchandise, Cattle, Sze. 2,184 3 0

Total

... £6,843 13 10
SCOTTISH CENTRAL RAILWAY.--Traflic for the Week
ending Jan. 4,
Passengers (7,044), parcels, horses,
and carriages ••• .£Bl2 13 6
Goods, cattle, &c. 913 3 8

Total ..
1,725 17 2
Corresponding week in last year... 1,473 1 3
Perth, Jan. 7, 1852.

The Belfast Newsletter states tha? in addition to
Mr. Fortescue, no less than 17 gentlemen, being landed pro-
prietors, have been served with threatening notices at the
suit of the Ribbon conspirators.