The Sun.
London, England, 1852-08-25 00:00:00

GERMAN Y.

The Archduke ALBEItT, who is now at Vienna,
will speedily be named field-marshal, and will take,
in virtue of his appointment, the command of the
third military division, which is stationed in Hun-
gary and in Transylvania. He will thus hold the
two offices of civil governor and commander-in-chief
of the troops. It is not known whether he will
eventually be appointed Viceroy of Hungary.
The Austrian and Prussian heads of the post-
office department are at present in Paris to conclude
a convention with France, which will give more ex-
tension to the Austro-German postal union.
The Cologne Gazette states that the Belgian Go-
vernment does not intend to renew the treaty of com-
merce with the Zollverein, which expires on the 31st
of December next. It has declared, says this journal,
that the state of its negotiations with France do not
permit it to assign fixed bases to the future com-
mercial relations between Belgium and the Zolverein.
The Hanoverian Government has just published
an order forbidding all meetings of Anabaptists,
and threatening with imprisonment any foreign
missionary of that sect, who shall attempt to preach
in the Hanoverian territory.

Tue Customs' Conferences were resumed at Berlin
on the 21st. The representatives of the coalition of
Darmstadt gave in an answer to the ultimatum of
Prussic, which is stated to be of a conciliatory
character.
The Emperor of AUSTRIA entered his 23d year on
the 18th instant. A Te Drum was sung in the
church of St. Stephen on the occasion, and in the
evening all the theatres were brilliantly illuminated.
The Austrian Lloyds contradicts the statement of
about to be transferred to the
General GeoiaGar being
fortress of Kufstein. He is to remain, says this
journal, at Klagenfurth.
The Wiener Zeitung publishes a long list of acts of
pardon granted by the EMPEROR. Fourteen officers
belonging to the Imperial army, and who took part
in the Hungarian revolution, are released from their
prisons, and have a plenery pardon granted them.
During his Maaeser's recent tour in Hungary, no
less than 2E6 political prisoners have been set at
liberty.
It is again asserted on 'Change that Austria intends
to take up a fresh loan ; the amount is given at 10
millions of florins, and the Russian Empire is given
as the mart where the loan is to be raised. It will
be a five per cent. loan.
According to the stipulations of the new Prussian
criminal code, malefactors condemned to capital
punishment are to suffer death within some inclosed
place, into which the public are not to be admitted.
The only persons allowed, or rather required to 1
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lane are three or four legal functionaries, a depu-
tation of twelve persons from the parish to whi' h the
culprit may belong, and the officiating Psstor or
priest, as the religion of the culprit may require.
The body, if demanded, is to be delivered to relatives,
to be buried in silence and
without the usual ceremo-
nies, or this service is to be performed by the autho-
rities in the nearest cemetery. The first application
of the new law was put in force on the morning of
the 19th, within the precincts of the model prison at
Moabit, upon a murderer named LAMM, in the pre-
sence of the prescibed persons and of the prisoners.
The culprit was conducted on the previous evening,
in a closed van, from the Berlin prison to a cell in
that of Mcabit, and at six o'clock had his head struck
from his shoulders
by the executioner.