The Sun.
London, England, 1853-12-29 00:00:00

GERMANY.

The Cassel Gazette says :—" The attache of the •
Ambassador of France, at this Court, Count
Eugene de Belcour, has informed his government
in a special note of the 28th of November, of the
conditions on which Hessian subjects can emigrate
to Algeria, without running any danger of being
sent back to France. If they want to purchase
land in the colony, each emigrant must prove that
he possesses 2,000 f. ; but if an emigrant mereli,
wants to work for others, he must have 400 f., 1'
with a family, and 200 f., if a single man."
The Carlsruhe Gazette of the 23d says :—" The
Government has been informed that the
bishop of Frieburg has ordered the cures of his isll°-
cese to explain to their parishioners, for three con-
secutive Sundays, the differences which have ails°
between the Episcopacy and the temporal power'
The Government has no intention to oppose th se
explanations being given in a calm and temper
manner, but if the priests should profane tchurches, and excite their hearers against the
eGo-
vernment and authorities, either by distorting
truth or by false statements, the punishment Which
they merit will undoubtedly fall on them."
A Berlin letter of the 23d says :—‘, The Govern
..:
ment had the intention of extending the tart
accorded for the free importation of rice and whn'
to Sept. 1, 1854. But the customs conferencen's
in
not consented as far as rice is concerned ; i
consequence the duty is to be levied from the Ise
January, 1854, as previously. From the st-,
date the cavalry is to assume its new unife,,
Several Spanish officers have arrived here tostuar::
the military institutions of Prussia. It Is
~aOO
flounced to-day that the Prince Regent of. B.au
is to ask for the hand of the Princess Sidonieic,
Saxony ; and as the Princess is a Roman Ca °she
as well as all the Royal family of 5ax0.133% in
would have to embrace the Protestant
order to marry the Prince.

TERRIFIC RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—The D.ff Vale
way has a branch from Merthyr to Dowlais.
than a mile of this is an inclined plane, rising 400 fegl
that distance. This is worked by a stationary exigo;
The officials yesterday neglected to attach the rope ''_,.
the mid-day passenger train before starting it. It co F_
sequently dashed down the incline with prodigiou_s:i
increasing velocity as it neared the bottom. The g_13050,
leapt off the break soon after the carriages of
menced their descent, and was uninjured. N"e
the passengers were, however, enabled thus to esek'
as they were all locked in the compartments,
and
their ;shrieks while passing along the bridges over
the roads near the town were most appalling,',3,B in-
branch joins OR to the main line at the bottom 01 '"
ee.raitl:
cline by a sharp curve. The train abandoned th
the carriages separating into shreds, the
at this spot, leapt clear up into the air a great
passengerliT4
thrown out, and, with the debris of the train, falling'''.
-fader
a shower into the Taff river and on the adjoiningoeience,
tips. Notwithstanding this extraordinary 11 I
cow'
some of the passengers were enabled to walk awad two
paratively unhurt ; others are much injured, the
women are dying—one having her back broken,.
elf are
other a fracture of the skull, besides which gad the
frightfully lacerated and torn almost to
ts speed
been broughtorked p
to a stand, or, at all even
train been w with a proer, breaPkie , cie
tts.c
s'asi to a/Old
down the incline would have been so reduced
the fearful results of the catastrophe• ould have