The Sun.
London, England, 1853-04-29 00:00:00

GERMANY.

The Hanoverian Chambers were re-opened on
the 25th. The first was not in number to deliber-
ate, but during the sitting the Government re-
newed its former propositions to modify several
articles of the Constitution. The question relates
not only to effecting a reform in the composition
of the First Chamber, but in modifying consider-
ably the electoral right for the composition of the
second. In 1848 it was decided that all the inha-
bitants of 24 years of age who paid their direct
taxes for one year were electors. At present, the
right of voting will be considerably limited.
The Berlin Gazette, under date of Vienna, says
—" Several journals have announced that the
Austrian Government had commenced a prosecu-
tion for high treason against Mme. Messlengi, sister
of Kossuth, and some have even affirmed that she
had been condemned to death or to imprisonment.
The truth is, that Mme. Messlengi is at this mo-
ment at Brussels, to which city she proceeded with
a passport from the Government. She has conse-
quently been subjected to no legal proceedings."
A delegate from the Pope passed through Vienna
a few days since on his way to the Court of St.
Petersburg, between which and Rome active nego-
tiations have for some time been going on, on the
subject of the appointment of five bishops for Po-
land.

TURKEY.
The Trieste Gazette gives the following as the
text of the speech delivered by Lord Stratford to
the Sultan, on presenting him with au autograph
letter from Queen Victoria :

"By command of my gracious Sovereign, I again
return to the Court of your Imperial Majesty. In
ordering me to hasten my return in the midst of cir-
cumstances of high importance, the Queen wished to

give you a fresh proof of the lively and friendly
interest with which her Majesty and her Govern-

anent are constantly animated towards every thing
which regards the prosperity of the Ottoman Empire,
and the person of your Majesty. In spite of some
obstacles, I have obeyed the orders of my Sovereign,
not only from duty and honour, but with all the plea-
sure which I can derive from the sincere desire to be
able to contribute towards promoting the interests of
your Majesty which the Queen has so warmly at heart,
and from the hope of continuing to enjoy for the future
that kindness which I have so often received at the
Court of your Imperial Majesty. It would be useless
for me to add any fresh assurances on my part. The
friendly relations which happily subsist between the
two Governments repose on bases more solid than trea-
ties ; they are founded on reciprocal confidence, and on
a community of interests. I have besides the hope that
the favours granted to English subjects in the country
do not require any better guarantee than that which re-
sults from the policy and the well-known personal senti-
ments of your Majesty."
The Wanderer of Vienna publishes the follow-
ing from Constantinople :—" M. Jong, French
Consul at Damascus, applied lately to the Pacha
to obtain the release of some stone-cutters placed
under his protection,. and who had been thrown
into , prison for refusing to work on the military
hospital on the conditions which were offered them.
On the refusal of the Pacha, the Consul declared
that he would put himself in prison, and remain
there until his proteges were released. This had
the desired effect, and the men were set at liberty."
1 The Ottoman Porte has definitively adopted the

Sanitary Convention agreed to in Paris in 1851
Accounts from Jerusalem to the 27th March are
published by the Trieste Gazette. On Palm Sunday
a sanguinary conflict took place in the Church of
the Holy Sepulchre between the Greeks and the
Armenians, relative to the lamp ; several were
wounded on both sides. The Latins took no part
in the fray, and quietly continued their religious
service. On the 24th the members of the English
mission for the conversion of the Jews assembled
before the Great Synagogue, whilst service was
going on in the interior, and began making furious
speeches against the Jews and the Talmud. A Jew
threw a dead cat at the head of the physician of the
mission, and this was the signal for a conflict ,be-
tween the Jews and the English, both parties pelt-
ing one another with stones and mud. Eventually
the English had to take to flight, and they were
pursued by several hundred furious Jews. The
chief Rabbi protested against these proceedings to
the Consuls.
Several of the Paris papers publish a private tele-
graphic despatch from Vienna, which professes to
give news from Constantinople of later date than
the 15th, and in which it is stated that both the
Turkish Government and the Russian Government
continue their preparations for war with great ac-
tivity. There is reason to believe that no faith is
to be put in these private dispatches which reach
Paris by way of Vienna. They are forwarded on
no authority, and are almost always intended to
influence the funds. The news received through
official channels declares that the accounts of those
preparations have been greatly exaggerated, and
that so far from war being imminent, as would be
the case if the news received from Vienna were
correct, there is every reason to believe that the
solution will be a pacific one. By the last accounts
from the Levant the French fleet was at the
Pirems.