The Sun.
London, England, 1852-01-09 00:00:00

GERhANY.

Schwerinde Bodelschwing.
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
was elected by a narrow
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M.er 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
was 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 bad 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 :
" According 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 21 paragraph of the
same article, foreigners are assessed to the classified
income-tax, if they have resided iI Prussia for more
than one year, or if they aro resident in it
fur 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
income-tax on account only of their residence in the
Prussian State, aro not to be more unfavourably treated
than Prussian subjects, and therefore the other provi-
sion of the 17th Article is also to be applied to them,
income beyond that
enxeeimthpetriofonrbPe reuxssteianndesdubjteoctasnnyor for foreigners can
&c., cannot be other countries, the
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commercial
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invested
nogis ie sa e d out of Prussia.
ex-
empted from the Prussian income-tax because the pos-
sessors are already liable to the same tax in other
states—England, Austria, and Bavaria.
" TUE MINISTER OF FINANCE."
The Rostock Gazette, under date of Frankfort, 30th
ult., says :—" The general subject of conversation
here is a scene which took place in the sitting of the
Germanic Diet yesterday, between two diplomatists,
the Prussian and Austrian Ministers, who made use
of such violence against each other that their col-
leagues were thrown into consternation. The confu-
sion was so great that it was heard in the adjoining
houses. 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 Frankfurt says it is expected that the Diet
will decide in favour of the Senate, and that Hanover
will be charged 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 booksellers of that city of several works, amongst
which are mentioned the two volumes entitled,
" Writings and Memoirs of Robespierre."
The Cologne Gazette has the following from
Berlin, 2d inst.:—" Oar Government has, in a cir-
cular to the members of the Zollverein, expressed
embers of the Zollverein on the ed-
its opinion on the invitation given by the Austrian
Cabinet to send plenipotentiaries to the Congress of
innono way influenced by
Vienna. It declares that in the approaching delibe-
viiedautos,aant33rd
en
attention would be
mission
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in
might be come to at
to deliberate
the resolutions or the Congress. The convocation of
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he Council a
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tens e ro vuei rde ib.ne,
post,
of. the provincial states with
irregularof St,....‘tet which will have
regard to the Chambe:s, Is every day looked for."
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