The Sun.
London, England, 1830-05-24 00:00:00

GERMAN PAPERS.

BERLIN, MAY 7.—The situation of the political ques-
tions in France, and the illness of the King of Great Bri-
tain, are subjects that excite great interest here. Travel-
lers, who come from Paris, affirm that the fermentation is
very great, and begins to spread even among the lower
classes, and the most dispassionate observer entertains ap-
prehensions. The Ministry has indeed in some measure
succeeded, by means of the expedition to Algiers, to divert
the public attention from itself to Africa, but the fire still
glimioegs under the ashes, and a single reverse happening
to the expedition might, under the situation of the Minis-
try, be very precarious.
The affairs of the East are still involved in obscurity.
so much, however, is believed to he pretty certain, that
Russia keeps all its forces on the war establishment, and
is prepared against the possibility of another expedition to
the South. The Russian army will retire over the Balkan
in the course of the summer, but leave at Bourgas, as
well as at Adrianople, an hospital with a guard of one or
two regiments. The Russian general staff has taken ad-
vantage of the occupation of the Dobrudsha, and the other
countries on both sides of the Balkan, where the most
accurate and special maps and plans are executed from the
most careful surveys.
It is said that the Emperor will come to Berlin in the
summer. There is not the slightest foundation for what
the French Papers have reported of troubles in the Russian
empire, of (fiseoveries at St. Petersburgh, and the like.—
On the contrary, the three political powers in Russia, the
Emperor, the Senate, and the Clergy, have never acted
together with so much harmony. The Emperor manifests
equ it affection and esteem for his people ; and the Senate
sod Clergy have every reason to cherish corresponding
feelings. We learn with great pleasure, that the Synod has
at length consented to the abolition of the old style, which
is twelve days behind the new style,—a reform which even
the late Emperor Alexander, highly respected as he was,
could not effect.
Accounts have been received from the interior of Asia,
which are so far important, as they may have much in-
fluence on the consumption of European goods in the cast.
For these three years the Khan of Great Tartary has
been engaged in a war with the Khan of Khiva, which
was carried on with much animosity. The two contend-
ing parties have sent deputies to St. Petersburgh to ask the
assistance of Russia. The Russian Government, how-
ever, judged that it could not interfere except in the elm-
racter.of a mediator, and the great respect in which Russia
is held throughout all Asia has nearly restored tranquillity
to the interior of that continent. The differences are not
yet wholly adjusted, but several tribes have withdrawn
from the contest; we may therefore expect a considerable
exportation of European manufactures to the East, the
demand fur which had sensibly decreased during the last
three years.
SWITZERLAND, MAY 11.—Among the reasons for
which the tribunal at Zurich has rejected the complaint of
Colonels Tussle and Buckle against Counsellor Hirzel, on
account of his " Contributions towards the History of
the Fortifications of Zurich," inserted in the Observer of
Switzerland, is the following That according to the
spirit of a free Constitution, and the meaning of the law
relative to a ease of the nature referred to, any body is at
liberty to praise or condemn the existing ordinances and
institutions, as well as the official acts of the authorities
and public officers, provided that no one is offended in his
honour by the assertion of false facts, or by expressions
which in their very form contain a personal insult."—The
plaintiffs have appealed.