The Sun.
London, England, 1852-06-26 00:00:00

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GERMANY.

A letter from Dusseldorf, of the 20th, says :
"yreparations aro being made here for a great mu-
sical festival, which will commence on the Ist of
August, and continue three days. At it will ap-
pear representatives from all the singing societies of
Germany, Belgium, Holland, and Switzerland,
amounting in all to about 1,500 persons, who will
compete for ten prizes, consisting of pieces of plate,
on which will tie engraved the names of the victorious
societies. The King of Prussia, who is to arrive
on the 20th of July, at the Château de Stolzenberg,
will be invited to honour the festival with his pre-
Fence, and Jenny Lind, Meyerheer, Spohr, Richard
Wegener, and other musical celebreties of Germany
will also receive invitations."

A letter from Bremen of the 14th, in the Augsburg
Gazette, gives an account of a misunderstanding
which has arisen between the American Consul at
Bremen and the Hanoverian authorities of Lehe, a
place quite on the frontier of the territory of Bre-
men, and having, it would seem, jurisdiction over a
portion of the roads of Bremerhaven. The facts of
the case are these. Six sailors of the United
States barque Arethusa had got into debt at Bre-
merhaven with a public-house keeper, who, on
bearing that the Arethusa was to sail in a few
days, applied to the authorities of Bremerhaven
to get the sailors arrested, or else their pro-
perty seized ; but the authorities had no power in the
matter, owing to a recent law of Bremen, which pro-
hibits the arrest for debt of sailors in active service,
or the seizure of their property.. The creditor then
bethought himself of the following plan to obtain
payment. He transferred his claim to an inhabitant
of Lehe, who applied to the Hanoverian authorities ;
the latter, immediately on the Arethusa arriving
within their jurisdiction, sent out a boat, demanding
the arrest of the sailors in question ; and as the cap-
tain demurred, he was threatened with forcible mea-
sures, and that the cannon of the adjacent Hanoverian
fort were ready loaded to enforce the demand. The
captain at last yielded, but applied to the American
Consul, who has just sent a note to the Hanoverian
Government, demanding a Compensation of 500 dol.
laea the liberation of the American sailors, and their
free passage home, begging at the same time to be
informed of the exact demarcation of the jurisdiction
of Hanover over the roadsted of Bremerhaven, that
American vessels might &void it in future.
The treaty between the Grand Duke of Hesse and
the King of Bavaria, for the establishment of a tele-
graphic commu.nication between Darmstadt and the
Palatinate, havirg been ratified, orders have been
gives for the neeesi;ary works. The line will ex-
tend from Minn to S •
pire, passing through Offenbach,
Darmstadt, Worms, and Ludwigshafen.

ITALY.
Tile Giornale di Roma, of the 16th, publishes a
programme., issued by the Medical and Surgical
Academy of Ferrara, offerieg a prize of 1,087 f. for
the best essay (monografia) on intermittent fevers,
and mere particularly endemical ones, with an
ample discussion on the hygienic means cf re-
moving their causes, and protecting man from their
influence. The esays must have arrived free of
postage to the Secretary of the sqi.3 Academy, on or
before the 30th of April, 1854. Foreign as well as
Italian praatitioners :ire admitted to the competition.
Every essay is to bear a motto, to he repeated on the
sealed cover containing the name and address of the au-
thor. 'the cover bearing the motto of the successful
essay shall alone be opened, and all the other
covers burnt. The essays may be written
either in Italian, French, or Latin. They must
all b 3 original, never have been published,
and never presented to any other academy. They
must be written legibly. The essays which have not
gained the prize, may nevertheless be declared wor-
thy of being printed cr be honourably mentioned, in
which cases the names of the authors shall be pub-
like that of the succesful competitor. No
essay shall be printed without the consent of the
author. Tbe essays are nareturned.