The Sun.
London, England, 1852-01-26 00:00:00

GERMAN Y.

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The Prussian Gazette of Berlin of the 21st states
that the King. of Puussia has received from Prince
LOUIS NAPOLEON an autograph letter announcing his
re-election.
The Cologne Gazette states that there is to be a
meeting of the representatives of the states of the
Zolverein at Berlin towards the end of the next
month.
A Vienna letter of the 19th states that an English
engineer has passed through that city on his way to
Belgrade, to open negotiations with the Servian Go-
vernment for the construction of a railroad from
Alexinac to Belgrade.
We learn from Munich that the King of BATAILIA.
has authorised a collection in
kingdom, in aid of a fund all the churches of his
for building a Catholic
Church and a Catholic College at Athens.

ITALY.
The commission named in March last by the
Chamber of Deputies at Turin to consider the ques-
tion of transferring the Government navy to the Gulf
of Spezzia, and giving
up the dock of Genoa to the
commercial shipping interest, has presented its re-
port, in which it declares itself unable to decide, de-
mands explanations on several points, and recommends
that one million of francs be in the meantime ex-
pended in 1852 on the improvements
called for in the port of Genoa. imperiously
About a year ago, the proceedings of the
R
Campagnia di
—an Paolo, at Turin, a corpo-
rate body, which
control has hitherto had the unli-
mitedof all pious legacies and funds
belonging to the Church and to the charitable
establishments of Piedmont, excited some mur-
mure, on account
of the secrecy which involved
all their operatio
pretty ns, and rumours of malver-
sation were
generally circulated. This led
on the part of
the Government to a proposal to the
company, advising
them to annex to their body se-
veral other members to be
named by the Municipa-
lity, in order to silence the adverse rumours in circu-
lation. The company having refused to submit to
this arrangement, the Minister of the Interior has
addressed
a report to the XING, followed by a decree
published in the
Piedmontese Gazette of the 21st,
enacting that the administration hitherto under the
control of the " Compagnia di San Paolo," shall pass
entirely into the hands of a commission of twenty-
five persons named by the Municipality. By another
decree, the Alarquis DE /VIONTEZEMOLO, Senator of
the Kingdom, is named President of the new Admi-
nistrators. The latter have elected their vice-presi-
dent in the person of Count SICCARDI, the well-
known author of the law abolishing all ecolesiabtieal
privileges, which
has led to the present coldness be-
tween Sardinia and Rome.

A Cabinet Council was held Saturday at the
ri-office,------- on
Foreig e.
- , Downie street. The Ministers present
were Lord .John Russell he Lord Chancellor, the Earl of
l into, Sir George Gre Earl Grey, Earl Granville, the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Francis Baring, the
Earl of Carlisle, the Right lion. Henry Labouchere, the
Right Hon. Fox Mauls, -and Lord Seymour. The Council
sat two hours and At.
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THE WESTERN 41
\JAE-LIGHT COMPANY.—The Wes-
tern Gas-light Company have put the whole of their lamp-
lighters in uniform, consisting of green corduroy jacket and
trousers and glazed hats with the words, ~ Western Gas-
light Company," painted' in red letters on the front. The
men present a very orderly appearance.
FIXING BALCONIEs. A few inches of straight iron
inserted into the brickwork is altogether insufficient for their
security. I can see no really secure method but having arms
carried through the walls, and fastened to a plate or bar ill.
*We by A tCZONT."-•• Correspondent of the Builder.