The Sun.
London, England, 1854-11-06 00:00:00

GERMANY.

After the Conference held at Weimar on the 16th ult.,
between the Ministers of Saxe Weimar, Saxe Meiningen,
Saxe Altenburg, and Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, the following
note was addressed in the name of each State to
Austria :

"The Government of —does not hesitate to support the
opinionthat the inactivity of the Confederation with regard
to the great question of the moment causes prejudice to the
dignity of Germany, andit believes also for its part that that
question ought to be carried before the Diet. It is re-
solved likewise to adhere to a resolution of the Diet, if
such a one- should be taken,: declaring that an attack of
Russia on Austria, whether in the Principalities or on the
Austrian frontier, would call all Germany to protect the
territory of the Austrian empire, and that even if all
the German interests, which may be placed in ques-
tion in tie course of the existing complications cannot
at present be known, Germany appropriates to her-
self from the present moment, the two dem:bads of
guarantee relative to the cessation of the Russian
protectorate in the Principalities and the fre'e navigation
of the Danube. The Government does not fear to express
its disposition to adhere to a treaty to that effect, even if
proposed to .the Diet by Austria alone, since full of con-
fidence in the German sentiments of Austriac and Prussia,
it has the certain hope that in the course of the negotia-
tions which- will take place in the Diet, an accord will be
established between the Powers—an accord to which the
Government of attaches the greatest importance, and
without which there cannot be any importance for Ger-
many, but only innumerable dangers."

FRANCE.

PARIS, SUNDAY EVENING.

The Duke de Plaisance, president of the commission
formed to examine into the claims of the old soldiers of
the Republic and the Empire to participate in the grant
of 2,700,000 francs, has made a report to the Emperor
of the result of the commission up to the 20th ult.
Agsistance has been granted to 12,054 old soldiers,
of whom 1,246 were •octogenarians, 5,524 sep-
tuagenarians, and 5,284 sexagenarians. Life annuities
have also been granted to 999 of the first category,
2,633 of the second, and 1,333 of the third, thus bringing
up the total number of claims admitted to 17,019.
" This number considerable, as it may appear," says the
report, "is only about one-fifth of the number of old
soldiers who have sent in. claims, and to whom the law
of 1853 has: given ;hopes 'Of seeing their turn arrive."
The report sAlds that, out of the claims allowed by the
commission, 48 have been annulled from various causes
by the prefects of *the ropective.
departments of the
Claimants.
The Lyonajournalsannouncf; that an order has been

received to brelak up the camp of the south, and form it
in the environs of that city.
•
The Afoniteur Algerien of the 30th ult. says :—" The
season having become very favourable for the move-
ments of our little columns in the southern countries,
and preparations having been made at Garyville, Lag-
houat, Bougada, amd Biskra, to take the offensive at the
same time on all the points in advance of our souffiern
link, operations are about to be commenced immediately,
and as they will be made under the-best oonditions, every-
thing causes it to be hoped 'that good results will soon
be attained,"
The Patric also says :
" We extract the following details from a letter from the
Crimea, of the 18th The Alger has done wonders, her
pieces of 36, of which she had a monopoly, committed
dreadful damage. At one moment the Russians, perceiving
whence the greatest inj wry reached it, scarcely fired at any-
thing but at that vessel. She was the last to quit the post
whichahe had taken up, and never weighed anchor until night
came. The Jupiter and the Alger have been the most lucky
of all the French ships-of-the-line, as neither of them has
had a man killed or wounded. The Charlemagne suffered
much in her machinery. The quarter-deck of the Ville
de Paris was blown 'up. The Russians fired very badly.
All their bombs, shells, and balls passed through or over
our riggieg. The Alger is a proof of the inefficiency of
their fire, as although she was subjected alone for some
time to the fire of the two forts and the citadel, she re-
ceived only three shots in her deck, and four or five in
her hall ."