The Sun.
London, England, 1853-04-16 00:00:00

GERMANY.

The Mentz Gazette states that the Grand Duke
of Hesse Darmstadt has given his sanction to the
project of a railroad from Aschaffemburg to Mentz,
and that of a railroad from Mentz to Bingen.
A letter from Mentz, 9th, says :—"A communist
trial, similar to that of Cologne, will commence on
the 2d of next month, before the Court of Assizes
of this city. The prisoner is a man named Jean
Georges Reininge!, who has had his domicile in
Paris, and is accasea of having, in 1851, conspired
against the Germanic Confederation, and particu-
larly against the Grand Duchy of Hesse. He was
arrested on the 6th of September, 1851, and has
been in prison ever since that period. Dr. Steiber,
a Prussian police judge, is subpoenaed as a witness
against the prisoner. It is thought that the trial
will last a week."
A printer named Goldsberg was arrested at
Dresden on the 11th, for a speech against religion
at a meeting of the ultra-democratic association of
that city. He was set at liberty the same day, but
the Government dissolved the association.
The First Prussian Chamber vot id, on the 11th,
the bill which confers on the Kammergericht, the
right of taking cognisance of political crimes.
The Prussian Government has adopted several
measures to calm the agitation which has mani-
fested itself among the workmen of Ber'in since
the dissolution of the Hygienic Associations. The
Ministry is endeavouring to establish small houses
for the reception of the sick. Previous to the dis-
solution of the association its cash-box had been
removed, and M. Levy, the cashier, has up to this
time refused to say what has become of the money.
On the 12th the President of Police addressed a
notice to all persons who ;night be able to give any
information on the subject. . _ .

The subject of the measures to be taken against
Switzerland is shortly to come before the Germanic
Diet. The blockade is not intended to be imme-
diate, and the resolutions are to be prospective,
and only to be put in force in the event of Swi'vzer-
land refusing to comply with the demands urged
against her.

A convent of Jesuits is about to be established
at Cologne, and premises have been hired for the
purpose. _ _ _

By order of the Emperor of Austria, the Arch-
bishop of Milan, and the Patriarch of renice have
arrived at Vienna to take part in the definitive
deliberations of Concordat to be concluded with
the Court of Rome. The Postampt Gazette of
Frankfort states its opinion that these two prelates
will be nailed on to give their- a: trice as to the
position Qs A nstrla ami the Emperor with regard
to the Christian populations of the East.

The Corriere italiano of Vienna states that the
commission appointed to carry out the measures
relating to the sequestration of the property of the
refugees has been instructed not to admit any claims
to such property on the part of foreigners without
great circamspection.
The Vienna Gazette of the 13th contains the offi-
cial announcement of M. de Bruck having been
named internuncio at Constantinople, in the room
of M. Reihberg, who is to receive another appoint-
ment. M. Vietzl has been nominated resident
minister at Athens.

The Austrian squadron which has lately visited
,he different islands of the Archipelago has just re-
turned to Cattaro, where it will remain for some

ane.

Two workmen have been arrested in one of the
suburbs of Vienna, accused of participating in the
murder, in 1848, of the Minister of War, Count
Baillet Lacour.

The Official Gazette of Holstein publishes a treaty
which incorporates the Oldenburg Principality of
Lubeck in the Customs' system of Holstein.
The disease amongst the vines of Zante, Morea,
and Cephalonia, has greatly increased.

TURKEY.
The Debats of yesterday returns to the question
of the East. It enumerates the chances of war,
and gives its reasons for supposing that, although
either of two eventualities might lead to a war be-
tween Turkey and Austria or Russia, it would not
necessarily lead to a war in Europe. As regards
the chance of European intervention merely for
the purpose of preventing the decay and disso-
lution of the Turkish government, the Debats is of
opinion that it is not probable, and it seems not to
apprehend any
important change from that event
in the equilibrium of power in Europe. There
was a time when this opinion would have found
very few partisans, but other interests have
sprung up, and considerations of finance and
commerce frequently prevail over the old notions
of policy. Even in England,
which has been
always represented as having a deep interest in the
maintenance of the integrity of the Turkish Em-
pire in the hands of Turkish rulers, there are indi-
cations of a falling off in the feeling which was en-
tertained on this subject, and
it is doubtful
whether the English nation would consent to a war
with any European power for the prolongation of
the reign of the Turks, if it could be shown that
they might lose more by such a war than they
would hope to gain if ever so successful.

SWEDEN.
A letter from Stockholm of the sth, in the
Cologne Gazette, says :—" It has been stated that
some persons at Orfa had been condemned to im-
psariosroareuentt
wointboburtealavdllung first confessed. Theyd water for taking the
were, in addition, condemned to apologise for their
conduct. This punishment must appear exceed-
ingly
severe to those separatists who look on the
national church as an invention of the devil. That ,
broughts en t the end be
is the reason why a female could not obtain abso-
lution, because she refused to admit that she had
affair will in
violated the divine law. She remains for the pre-
Agitation still continues
at Urfa, and 62 separatists are accused of having
in
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outraged public worship. In the south-west of
Sweden, the Mormons are beginning to develope
their doctrines more boldly. No importance ap-
pears to be attached to their efforts."

SILK WORMS.-Silk appears about to have, like gold,
its California. The French Academy of Sciences has
just received from New Orleans two species of silk-
worm peculiar to Louisiana, which feed, not on the mul-
berry tree, as other worms do, but on the leaves of ordi-
nary trees, even the willow and the walnut. One of the
species, the larger, produces annually a quantity of strong
, a complete revolu-
e
silk ; the other, the smaller, produces a silk less strong,
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and white in colour, but four times a-year. If these
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and produce silk. The total number of mulberry trees
is about 39,000,000, and they yield about 780,000,000
kilogrammes of leaves."
SINGULAR CASE OF POISONIN. G.—A rich gentleman
residing at Stettin, who had been long suffering from an
indisposition for which the medical men of the place
could find no remedy, at length consulted a celebrated
physician of Berlin, who soon afterwards gave it as his
opinion that the patient was suffering from the effects of
poison. It appears that he had in his bedroom for seve
ral years a number of stuffed birds, over which it was
necessary, in order to preserve them, to strew from time
to time a quantity of arsenic, and the emanation from
this poison has had such an effect on the gentleman's
health that great uoubts are entertained of his recovery.