The Sun.
London, England, 1852-02-03 00:00:00

GERMANY.

The Diet of Gotha on the 28th ult. rejected by 13
votes to 11 the propositions of the Government for
establishing a commom Constitution fur the two
duchies of Coburg and Gotha. The Diet was
immediately dissolved. The German journals
state that the Ministry employed all its efforts to pre-
vent the hostile vote of the Diet ; they even went the
length of promising that the existing diet should re-
main in power until after the Duke should have taken
an oath in the new Constitution, which is more liberal
than that of any ether German state. The journals
announce that the Constitution which has been re-
jected will be promulgated by decree.
According to the Cologne Gazelle the Germanic
Diet has commenced deliberations on the introduc-
tion of uniform princip:es in the Constitution of the
German States.

The Second Chamber of Prussia on the 30th ult.
continued to ?lebate on the motion of ➢i. -ESELER,
declaring that the decrees of the Germanic Diet shall
not have force in Prussia without the sanction of the
Chambers. The Government opposed the motion, and
eventually it was rejected, and the order of the day
was adopted by 139 votes to 133. The First Chamber

on the same day rejected by 95 votes to 45 the order
of the day proposed by the Left for the revision of the
Constitution. It also rejected by 77 votes to 57
the motion for declaring that public functionaries
should not be allowed to sit in the Chambers
without the authorisation of the Chambers.
The motion for fixing the duration of
each legislature at six years, having them
convoked only every two years, and having the
Budget voted for two years at a time, was likewise
rejected. Another motion, which had been presented
for suppressing the indemnity of Members of the
Second Chamber, was withdrawn by its author, the
Minister of the Interior having declared i 6 in-
opportune.
A letter from Berlin states that the expectations
which for some time past have been entertained of a
Ministerial crisis, are at an end. Still it is considered
probable that M. DE WESTPHALEN, Minister of the
Interior, may shortly have to retire, on account of ill-
health.

The Hanoverian Chambers were prorogued on the
29th ult. to a period not fixed. The reason assigned
was the necessity of preparing measures to be sub-
mitted to it.

The Independence of Brussels says that it has
learned from Vienna, under date of the 29th ult.,
that orders have been sent to withdraw the Austrain
corps of observation from Holstein, but that a regi-
ment continues to occupy Hamburgh.
The Cologne Gazette asserts that the prohibition
to export arms and ammunition from Austria has
been removed.

The Customs Congress at Vienna, which is con •
tinuing its deliberations, has adopted with some
slight modifications the propositions made by Austria.
It has now to examine reports on several minor mat-
ters made by some of its members.
The Bank of Vienna has just published its ac-
counts for the year 1851. It was by means
of the great efforts made by this Bank that the
Austrain Government was able to support in
1848 and 1849 the wars of Italy and Hungary. The
specie had in a great measure disappeared, and the
notes were rendered obligatory. This forced cur-
rency still exists, and the notes lose from 15 to 20 per
cent. against specie. The following are the principal
items of the returns just made as compared with those
of 1850.

1850 1851
ASSETS. mil. flu. (1) mil. flo.
Specie in hand 32 42
State debentures . . 47 24
Bills discounted ... ... 36 44

Advances on public securities ... 20 15
Advances to the State ... ... 150 120
Reserve in State securities ... 6 8
Sundries ... ... Ile. ... 8 7

... 255 216
8 9
6 5
... 30 30

-299 -260

LIABILITIES.
Notes in circulation
Reserve fund ... ... ~.
DiVidendS, &c.
Capital (50,621 shares) (2)

-299 —260
It will be seen that the specie has increased 10 mil-
lions, that the circulation of notes has diminished
39 millions, the State debentures 23 millions, and
the advances to the State have diminished 30 millions.
These results, obtained in a single year, are consi-
dered satisfactory. The Bank of Vienne, which had
branch establishments at Buda and Prague, has just
formed similar establishments at Gorz and Agram.
(1) The florin in ordinary times is worth about 2f.
52c., but is now much lower.

(2) Those shares, which at first were for 600 florins,
are now bought and sold at the Bourse of Vienna for
upwards of 1,200 florins.

DENMARK.

The following statement relative to the crisis in
Copenhagen is inserted in the Hamburgh papers :
" The re-organization of the Danish Monarchy is de-
termined as follows:—There is to be a Ministry common
to the kingdom and to the duchies of which the King is
President; two princes of the blood are to take part in
it—viz., the Hereditary Prince Ferdinand and Prince
Christian of Glucksberg. The Ministry will be com.
posed as follows :—Von Bluhme, Foreign Affairs; Count
Sponneck, Commerce and Finance; General Hansen,
War; Rear-Admiral Zarthmann, Navy; and Schele,
Religious Affairs. Messrs. Bary and Claussen are
to be Special Ministers for the Home Department
and Justice for Denmark; Count Chas. Moltke, Special
Minister for Schleswig, and Count Reventlow Criminal,
for Holstein. It is reported that Rear-Admiral Zarth-
mann has refused the portfolio offered to him, and that
it will probably be filled by Mr. Steen Bille. The chief
point is the nomination of Count Charles Moltke, as
.
Minister of Schleswig. It said that personally the
King had much difficulty in consenting to the urgent
representations of the German powers, especially on the
subject of the appointment of Count Charles Moltke,
which involves the dismissal of Generals Von Barden-
fleth and Von Villiach. Count Mensdorff Pouilly will
resign his post of commissioner in the duchies,
having been appointed Austrian Ambassador at the
Court of Sr. Petersburgh. The report, which has gone
the round of the papers, that an Austrirn brigade will
he stationed at Hamburgh on the evacuation of the
duchies, is unfounded, as such a measure would be
contrary to the existing treaties, and would be an in-
fringement upon the right enjoyed by Hamburgh in
virtue of its being a free city, and the less likely to
take place in consequence of its amicable relations with
Austria.

The Borsenhalle states that the new British
Minister for Foreign Affairs has notified privately
to the Danish Cabinet the great importance of the
immediate settlement of the Danish and Schleswig-
Holstein question, because England, in conse-
quence of the attitude assumed by the PRESIDENT of
the French Republic, no longer stands in the same
position as heretofore in regard to the Continental
powers.

LATEST FROM PARIS.

(BY SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH.)
(PROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
PARIS, TUESDAY, NINE A.m.
The 2lfoniteur publishes the new Electoral Law.
The number of Deputies to the Legislature will
be 261
The Electoral Colleges are convoked for the 29th of
February.
Another decree authorises the formation of reli-
gious congregations of persons of the female sex,
who devote themselves to the education of the
south, and the relief of the poor sick people.—Chro-
nicle.

MONEY and UOMMERUIAL NE IV
ciTy, TWO O'CLOCK.
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were esti-
mated at 6,000 bales, of which 500 American and 500
Surat were taken for export. The market was quiet,
but closed steadily. The sales comprised 4,000 Ameri-
can, 140 Pernam and Maranham at 4id. to sti, 200
Bahia at sd. to 6d. 500 Egyptian at 51d. to 9d., 1,000
Surat at 3d. to 4d. and 100 Sea Islaud at Is. ld. to
Is. 7id, per lb.—Railway Shares were firmer.

The Funds open with rather a flat appearance,
chiefly from paucity of business, so many parties being
absent to witness the procession upon the opening of
Parliament. Consols are 96* -I, Reduced Three per
Cents. 968 to 97, and the New Three-and-a• Quarter per
Cents. 988 k.
Foreign Securities are generally good. Mexican, 31i-
to 32; Peruvian, 938 to 94/; Portuguese Four per
Cents., 31/- to 32}; and Spanish Threes, 40/ to 41;
Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. have been 57/ to 58/;
Sardinian, 871 to 888; Grenada Deferred are 6/ to 7.
The opening prices of Shares are in part nominal.
Caledonian 15 to At, Eastern Counties 71 B,Great
Northern 18i to 19, Great Western 86/, Brighton 47/
to 4, North-Western 117/, Midland 561 to /, York and
North Midland 21i to -14-, Northern of Franco 178 to 188,
and Paris and Rouen 25:1 to 261. These quotations are
generally firm.

O CRIMINA URT
COURT..-(THIS DAY.)
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OLD
Margaret Tennant, aged 38, who was convicted last
session 121=
of having cut and wounded an old who had
seduced her, was this morning brought up before the
Recorder and sentenced to one month's imprisonment.
The Learned Gentleman in passing sentence, remarked
that since the last session he had had an opportunity of
inquiring into the prisoner's character and past mode of
lice, and he had reason to suppose that sho had received
great provocation from the man upon whom she com-
mitted the injury. At first it was thought necessary to
inflict the severe punishment of transportation upon her,,
but it appeared she was not yet
lost to all sense o
shame, and he should simply pass a nominal sente
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upon her, in the hope that something could be ne
restore her once more to society.—The wasprisoner intears while the sentence was being passed.

IVEW COURT.
The Court was occupied the whole of the morning
!Pug Mint oases, none of which were of sufficient public
interest to justify a report.

,
IMPORTATION OF ORANGES.—Application having
been made to the revenue authorities by an eminent import-
ing firm, comp.aining of the mode in which the duty bad
been assessed by the officers on a cargo of oranges, and re-
questing that in order to give satisfaction to the trade and
prevent the disputes between them and the officers, they
should be allowed the benefit of the under-measurements
being placed against the over-measurements, it had been ar-
ranged that, in all future cases in which the packages are of
the same import mark and description, au average of this
nature be ascertained, provided the excessive difference in
either of the dimensions does not exceed one inch, but that
on such as are more than one inch, the high rate of duty is
to be charged, and the proper officers have received directions
to repor,, the effect of this regulation at the expiration of
three months, or sooner if necessary.
A Swedish merchant in London, Herr Kiernan,
has proposed to the Swedish Government to open a weekly
communication between Lowestoft and Gottenburg, touching
at some IN orwegian harbour. The vessels are to be large
steamers. It is supposed that this offer will be accepted, in
which case this route will be kept open about ten months out
of the twelve,