The Sun.
London, England, 1839-03-23 00:00:00

HAMBIJRGiI MAIL.

BERLIN, MARCH 16.—For some days past preparation:have
been making is one of our prisons fie the decent• accommoda--
tion of a prisoner. As some are fitted up it may be inferred
that the prisoner is a person of high rank. The few persons
to whom this circumstance is known, naturally conclude that
the expected prisoner may be Archbishop Dunin.
MAGDEBURG, MARCH 11.-It is now nearly a year and a
quarter since Mr. Mecheln, chaplin to the Archbishop of Co-
logne, has been confined in our citadel. His confinement is
very rigorous, and Oren the Catholic clergyman here is not ad-
mitted to see him without a permission in writing from the
Chief President, which must be every time applied for. He is
allowed to read mass inthe Roman Catholic Church only twice
in the week—on Sunday and Thursday mornings at eight
o'clock. On these occasions he is always accompanied by a
police officer, who has strict orders not to suffer any
interco•irse with a third person. He occupies two very healthy
chambers, which are well furnished, and, setting aside the de-
privation of his liberty and this seclusion, care is tak:n that he
shall want for nothing, and the authorities h re are directed to
give him every accommodation consistent with his confinement.
His mode of living is very simple. On his writing once to Mr.
V. F. for some money, which he wanted, as he said, to pur-
chase some books, he was informed by the authorities that this
was not necessary, as they had orders to supply all his wants,
and he had, therefore, only to ask for what he wi-hed. He
has hitherto made a very moderate use of this permission to have
some books. lie now spends his time entirely in literary pur-
suits. Hence it rppears that there is no foundation whatever
fur the imp Cation cast on the Prussian Government, that it
treats MeeOln like a criminal, without bringing him to trial.
HANOVER, MARCH 15.—The Hanover Gazette has the
following article :

" The Augsburg Allgemeine Zeitung gives a statement from
Gottingen, that the first Chamber of our Assembly of the Es-
tates had, by a majority of I 9 to 13, declared against the Con-
stitution of 1819, that is against its actual validity. This state-
ment was false, as most of those are that come from a certain
quarter. We understand the tendency of these mendacious ar-
ticles ; we shall see whether the public will at length be con-
vinced that the cause and the intention of those cannot be good
who fight with such weapons.
STOCKHOLM, MARCIa s.—The merchants of this city who
sometime back addressed a petition to the Government relative
to the abolition of the Sound duty, have since presented another
petition; to the effect that the Government would sup-
port, by diplomatic intervention, the claim which they
think they have on the Danish Government for the
repayment of what has been paid too much for for many
years past. This petition is printed in Aftonblad of the 28th
last month. Severyl Journals observe, that it would be a great
support to the questions that have been raised respecting the
Sound duty, if such petitions were presented from all the Staple
towns on the coast of Sweden.—Hamburgh Papers, March 19,
BERLIN, MARCH 10.—His Majesty has been pleased to
confirm the choice of Sir John Herschel', as Foreign Member of
the Mathematical class of the Academy of Science, of which he
has hitherto been a foreign Correspondent.—Prussian State
Gazette, March 18.