The Sun.
London, England, 1839-08-10 00:00:00

ABSTRACT OP A BILL TO AMEND,THE MODE OF ASSESS.
ING THE ROGUE MONEY IN •3COTLAND, AND TO EX-
TEND THE PURPOSES OF SUCH ASSESSMENT.
The preamble of this Bill, after referring to the Act
of George the First, instituting the assessment for the
Rogue Money, and to the Reform Act, by which
the collection and application of the Rogue Money
was transferred from the Freeholders to the Com-
missioners of Supply, proceeds to state that it is expe-
dient to authorise the Commissioners of Supply of the
several counties, " if they should think fit, to extend the
purposes for which such assessment may be made, and
to adopt other means of assessing the same."
It then enacts that the Commissioners of Supply of
any county may (due notice having been given by ad-
vertisement in some newspaper of the county), at any
usual meeting called by ten requisitionists, '' make an
I additional assessment for establishing and maintaining
an efficient constabulary or police force in the county,
for the prevention of crime as well as for the apprehen-
sion of .criminals,"and that such assessment shall be col-
lected as part of the Rogue Money.
The Commissioners are authorised, •." instead of as-
sessing and collecting the Rogue Money, and an addi-
tional assessment hereby authorised to be levied as and
along with the Rogue Money, to assess the same and
also such additional assessment in the manner in which
the assessment upon the landward parts of counties is
authorised to be assessed," by the Prisons Bill passed
this Session.
The Commissioners arc not to be entitled to assess
within the bounds of any Royal or Parliamentary
burgh or town which has a Police Act, or which has
taken the benefit of the Act enabling burghs in Scot-
land to establish a police.
Two or more counties may unite in taking measures
for establishing a constabulary or police force, in such
manner as may be agreed on by the Commissioners for
each county.
The Commissioners to publish annually accounts of
their revenue and expendituie.
The Rogue Money to be levied in the manner di-
rected in the Act above recited.
All disputes between the Commissioners or those
acting under them, and aggrieved pariies, to be settled,
without power of further appeal, by the Sheriff, except
in the case of canal or railway situated in more than one
county, in which case appeal may be made to the Court'
of Session.

HAMBURGH MAIL.

POSEN, JULY 18.—The ex-Polish Major Urbanowitsch,
who lately arrived at Memel, disguised as an English
sailor and there arrested on suspicion of being a political
refugee, has been lately set at liberty by the Prussian au-
thorities, but on condition of returning to England.
GRISSONS, JULY 28. —ln consequence of what occurred
here on the 25th, a great number of the students have been
armed, on which many others, perhaps the majority of the
students, left the town.
MAINZ, JULY 27.—The Diet of the German Confedera-
tion has been induced, solely in consideration of the safety
of our city, to consent to the removal of all the contents of
the powder magazines from the interior of the fortress to
the outworks, during the time of peace, and granted the
sum necessary to defray the expense, which will not be in-
considerable.
HANOVER, AUG. 3.—His Royal Highness Prince Au-
gustus of Prussia arrived here yesterday, under the title
of Count hlansfeld, and put up at the British Hotel.
HAMBUROII, AUG. s.—Private letters from Bohemia say
that the Emperor of Russia is shortly expected at Toplitz,
or, according to some, is already arrived there, for the pur-
pose, it is supposed, of conferring with Prussia and Austria
on the affairs of the East.
BERLIN, Auo. 3.—The celebration of his Majesty's
birthday has been favoured to-day by the finest 'weather
that could be desired. Prince Charles received this morn-
ing at the Palace the compliments of the generals, and,
among other persons, Prince William has arrived at Baden,
the waters of which place were recommended t• him to
complete his cure. The Princess of Leignitz will not go
to Toplitz, but direct from ifeningsdorff to Esdmansdorff,
where the Royal Family will arrive or. the 9th of Angust.
Prince and Princess Albert are likewise expected there.
Order, have been received at Potsdam to have everything
ready for his Majesty's reception by the 18th of this month.
It is said that the King will arrive at Potsdam during the
latter end of August, when the troops will go into the
camp near Potsdam.
OSNABURG, AUGUST 2.—A petition, the contents of
which are remarkable, signed by nearly 300 citizens, was
forwarded by the post on the 27th of last month, but came
back unopened. In that petition his Majesty is re-
quested to call into the Cabinet a man who enjoys the
general confidence of the country in the room of another
who is named. Whether and in what manner this petition
can reach his Majesty is a question. A deputation would
probably not be received.
STOCKHOLM, JULY 30. —The question of the establishing
of a free post at Slitoe, in the island of Gothland. will
doubtless be a subject of deliberation in our next Diet,
and has acquired a general political interest from the state-
ment that the execution of such a plan is wished by the
English Government, and opposed by Russia. A public
step in the matter has now been taker,, for on the 28th of this
month a deputation of a great number of land-ovr;:ers in
Gothland presented an address to his Majesty, imploi:ing
him to grant this boon to the island of Gothland,
which 500 years ago gave the world a code of maritime
laws, which is still the basis of the maritime laws of all
commercial nations, which was at that time in possession
of the transit trade, for which its situation in the middle
of the Baltic seems particularly to have qualified it, with
a sea port which is open in those seasons of the year when
most other northern ports arc closed by the ice, but which
has little left of its commercial splendour besides the
ruins of the town of Wisby. His Majesty returned a
gracious answer respecting the great interest he took in
the welfare of the island, and promising that due attention
should I e paid to their petition, which, however, must be
submitted to the Diet.
The petition has been referred by his Majesty's order
to the Board of Trade and Finance, to make a report on it.
GOTTINGEN, AUG. 1.-It is a mistake that most of the
students have left the University. Only twenty or
thirty were implicated in the affair of the 25th,
the greater part of whom left the town and
stopped in the neighbouring villages. On the Sunday
they were visited by hundreds of their fellow students, so
that on that day a great majority were certainly absent,
but they returned in the evening. None have gone away,
in consequence of the arrests, and all those who-withdrew
have voluntarily returned, except one foreigner. The mi-
litary have left, and perfect tranquillity prevails.—Ham-
burg Papers, Aug. 6.