The Sun.
London, England, 1852-06-10 00:00:00

THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE

of the journals. No journal can be published but
in virtue of a concession. At Vienna this con-
I cession will be granted by the police authorities,
and in the provinces by the Government. The edi-
tors must be 24 years of age, be Austrian sub-
jects, and of irreproachable reputation. The political
and religious journals are bound to furnish a caution
money, the maximum of which is fixed at 10,000 flo-
rins. The journals now existing will have a delay of
three months granted them to furnish the caution
money. Journals having a hostile and dangerous ten-
dency may be suppressed after two warnings. The
police may prohibit the distribution of articles printed
abroad. Offences of the press will be tried by the or-
dinary tribunals.
The King of Prussia will leave Berlin for Breslau
on the lOch, to visit the Exhibition of Industry, ac-
cording to a promise obtained by the Committee.
The order of the Finance Department, by which in
March last the import duty on grain and flour was
suspended for the whole of the Zollverein till the end
of August next, has kept down the price of provisions,
which in some districts were becoming scarce and
dear. Another order of the Finance Minister has
just extended the application of the first decree, and
prolonged it till the end of September. Many re-
presentations having been made to the Government
that it was desirable other articles produced from
grain, besides flour, should have the same exemption
from duty, it is now ordered that pearl-barley,
crushed corn, and groats shall also be imported duty
free, till the close of the above-named month.
A letter from Vienna of the 3d says:—"
This
evening the Court of the EMPERoa will leave for
Pesth, and the Imperial guard will follow the day
after to-morrow. His MAJESTY will be absent for
from six weeks to two months. He will go through
the whole of Hungary. On the 11th be will leave
Pesth for Czegted and Keskemeth ; on the 14th he
will arrive at Temeswar ; on the 22d at Jaspereing ;
and on the 23d he will arrive at Baden."
The new law for imposing a stamp duty on journals
in Prussia has been promulgated, and will come into
operation on the Ist July next.

BELGIUBL
A telegraphic dispatch from Brussels received in
Paris on Tuesday evening, announces that 25 Liberal
and 19 Opposition Members have been elected.

SWITZERL4I4D.
The Union Francomtoise of the 6th says We
learn a fresh act of persecution against the Catholic
religion in Switzerland, being the suppression of the
religious corporations existing in the canton of Tessino,
and the confiscation of their property. The law which
authorises this act of violence and spoliation was passed
by the Grand Council, by a majority of 53 votes to 51.
The Grand Council consists of 114 members, so that
there were several absent when the vote was given."

AMERICAN NEWS.

LIVERPOOL, JUNE 9.
The United States Mail stcaro..6hip Atlantic, Captain
West, which was telegraphed off Holyhead at six o'clock
this morning, arrived in the Mersay at noon. She left
New York on Saturday, the 29th ult., but in cons; quence
of the prevalence of a dense fog came to off Sandy
Hook, and remained there until five e,nr, on Sunday,
when she proceeded on her voyage to Europe, and
shortly afterwards fell in with her consort, the Arctic,
which was then on her way to New York.
On the Ist of June, at 5.30 P.M tho Atlantic passed
the Royal Mail steam-ship Asia, also bound for New
York, in lat .41 30, long. 64 56.
The Atlantic brings 150 passengers, 520,000 dolls. in
specie, and the usual mails.

Among the passengers are Madame Goldscmidt,
(Jenny Lind) with her husband and suite, who were en-
thusiastically cheered on lending; they proceeded at
once to the Adelphi Hotel. During tho greater part of
the passage Madame Goldscbmidt was confined to her
berta . by severe indisposition. There were also two
Protestant bishops (Delaney and Crcskey), Charles
Gould, Esq., and Grace Greenwood, among the passen-
gers; being, says the ./Vetv Y orh Times, more notables
than have been congregated on any steam-ship that has
left New York for the last twelve months.

The following are extracts from the New York pa-
pers:—
The grant of 33,000 dolls. for each voyage has been
passed by the Senate in favour of the Collins' line of
steamers. The majority was 27 to 19.
Dispatches from the west announce the destruction of
two or three more steamers by fire, together with a large
amount of very valuable freight. Since the Ist of Ja-
nuary over twenty steam-boats on the western rivers
have been entirely des,royed by fires, explosions, sink-
ing, &c., and the whole number of lives lost by these
casualties is estimated at over 250.

Affairs in Buenos Ayres appear to bo in a very quiet
and satisfactory state. Nine days later news from that
quarter was received on Thursday, which indicates that
thus far the order of things was rapidly developing the
resources of the Plato provinces.

Dr. Perkins's extensive sugar-house at Baton Rouge,
Virginia, was entirely consumed by fire ou the night of
the 18th of May. Loss about 200,000 dolls., and in-
sured for 70,000 dolls.

Destructive fires have been raging in the woods in
Maine, on the line of the Atlantic and St. Lawrence
Railroad, for some time. On one day it was impossible
for the cars to run between Greene and Lewiston, and
passengers wore taken a long circuit in carriages around
the fire. At Mechanic Falls the running of trains was
also impeded. Several thousand cords of railroad wood
have been consumed, and much damage done to the
woodwork of the track.

The steamer Southerner, off Turtle Island, passed
the small tow-steamer Telegraph, on fire. She ran as
near as possible, but could discover no human being,
and concluded that the crow, numbering eight men,
must have perished.
Mr. Hiram Perry and daughter, of Monson, were
killed at Collins' depot, near Springfield, Mass., on the
.27th, by being run over by the 6 P.M. express train.
The New York papers contain a full account of the
escape from Van Diemen's Land, and the arrival in
New York, of Thomas Francis Meagher (pronounced
Maher), the Irish exile and orator, who was transported
for the part he took in the Irish revolutionary movement
with William Smith O'Brien, John Mitchel, and others.
He arrived in the brig Acorn, from Pernambuco, having
escaped from Van Diemen's Land in an American
whaler. He kept himself perfectly incog. until Thurs-
day, except to one or two friends.
The Courier and Inquirer gives the following account
,of his escape from Van Diemen's Land:—
" For some time previous to February last arrange-
ments were in progress, which, if successful, the exiles,
nine in number, were to be taken from Van Diemen's
Land and brought to our shores. In January the ar-
rangements were completed, when it was found
that in consequence of their residing so far
apart (some ten miles) it would be impractica-
ble to get them all off at one time, and their friends
though reluctantly, were obliged to confine their opera-
tions to effecting the release of Mr. Meagher, as his
position gave the surest prospect of success. Everything
being in readiness, early in February Mr. Meagher sent
his parol of honour' to the magistrate, with the pro-
mise that he would consider himself bound by it for two
hours after its delivery, and no longer. On receiving it
the magistrate gave immediate orders to the constable in
Bothwell (where Mr. Meagher resided) to arrest him
without delay. This the constable refused to do, stating
that he was himself an Irishman, and would do nothing,
to hinder Meagher's escape. This placed the magistrate
in a position somewhat unpleasant, as there was not
another officer within twenty-four miles. He, how-
ever, mounted horse, and proceeded to the nearest point
for the purpose of bringing back an officer to take
charge of Mr. Meagher, waited for hia return until
the time promised had expired, after which he
took horse and proceeded in an opposite direction, in
which course he is said to have travelled as fast as his
horse could carry him, for over one hundred miles, or to
the point where his friends had another conveyance in
waiting. After reaching Pernambuco, he is said to have
been taken on board the brig Acorn, on the 23d of
April, and by her brought to this port."
In the Senate, on the 28th ult., it was carried, after
various amendments proposed and rejected, by a ma-
jority of 27 to 19, that the present allowance to the
Collins' line of steamers he increased to 33,000 dollars
per trip, with the proviso that it shall be in the power
of Congress at any time after the 31st December, 1854,
to terminate the arrangement for any additional allow-
ance herein provided for, upon giving six months' notice.