The Sun.
London, England, 1840-12-29 00:00:00

CARLSRUHE.

Two new journals have already been called into ex-
istence, and advertised in the other papers. Another,
it is said, will appear at Stuttgard. The conscription
for 1841 is taking place earlier than usual ic seve-
ral states of Germany—for instance, in Wurtem-
)%urg, Bavaria, &c. The conscription takes place
irk April or May, it is now ordered for the
%Id of January. The annuals are just now appear-
ing of all sorts and sizes. Your English readers are
perhaps not aware that Germany, too, has her winter
annuals ; indeed, I question whether they are not of
older d ito in Germany than in England. Unlike those
at home, they really do possess something good in the
shape of letter-press, and do not teem so much with
" Ross 'Matilda " namby pamby. Not only young and
votaries of Parnassus lisp forth their virgin vira-
l:ions in them, or, as the Germans would say, " sharpen
thvir poetical bills," but, old stagers cut capers as well
as the best of them. The principal one is perhaps th
Urania, wherein a novel from the pen of Ticck alwa) s
iippears ; this winter it is called " Wahleinsanik,:it."
'clic next. best is the Musen Almanack, chiefly contri-
Zmted to by Ruckert and the other poets of the day.
The Historical Almanack is published by Frederic k
Von Raumer, the enlightened gentleman who travelled
through Ireland as fist as he could go, a parasol
and green spectacles to protect him from the sun, and
upon the strength of this gave a grave dissertation to
the world on the state of that country as viewed by
himself. The first and last of these appears at. Brock-
house's, at L-ipsic, The Gedenk e Mein is unotter
published its Vienna, and is principally devoted to poetry
and rornarces.

PRAGUE.
Mince I have been here, I have busied mysdf in
snaking some inquiries into the various braochrs of
Bohemian industry.. The land is now no desert,
al.hough it might have been one at the time Pulix-
enes wes King. Corn and wood clothe its surface in
Woundance, and under gr,mr.cl it can boast of resources
which few other parts of the "6' -9utinent can. The pro•
duce of silver, for instal cep is considerable, and during
the last ten years it nas much increased. .27,000
'marks was the amount of this year's produce. This
is for the most part from Imperial mines ; the quan-
tity belonging to individuals was only 1,000 mark..
-Coen! are abundance of other mineral production'.
During this s ear were produced in private works alone
.6,328 quintals of copper and iron vitriol, 7,432 quin-
tals of alum, 5,838 quintals of pure sulphur, and
41,371 of sulphuric acid. The trade is pretty good.
The price, for instance, of sulphufic acid rose lately
from 12s. to 18s. per quintal, and the other articles in
proportion. Were the Customs' duties for export not
uo high, it would considerably increase this fruitful
branch of industry. The trade in black-lead, which
formerly went to England in great quantities, has now
considernb4 fallen off. In 1833, 43,332 quintals of
this %rttele were produced from Prince Schwarzci.-
btr.ogli's mines alone ; this year it has fallen down to
'6EI4 i 4,000 quinials. The reason is, that in England,
where it was so much used for machinery, it has been
found that it can be obtained cheaper from the Spanish
mines.

Coals arc abundant in Bohemia. Much lies near
the surface, but that of this description which I have
teen is not particularly good, being brown and stony.
But there arc very good sorts. It is exported to Leipsic
for the railwa)s, and from that place to Magde-
burg and Dresden. It goes also to Nuremburg for the
railway between that place and Furth, as also to Munich
and Augsburg for a similar purpose. Add to this,
it goes to Linz in large quantities for the use of th
steam navigation on the Danube. When railways in-
crease the export of coal will also be far greater, as Bo-
hemia in this respect is f vveured above its neighbours.
In Bavaria t'aere is no coal, with the exception of what
is obtaine:i in the Rhenish provinces, which, of course,
is not available in Bavaria, the distance being too great.
In 1839, 4,000.000 lasts were obtained, costing 350,000
guilders, or 55,0001., while in 1836 the produce was
aanly 2,000,000.
In Bahernia the manufacture of sugar from beetroot
is very great. Of 52 manufactories, there arc at pre-
sent 46 at work, not to mention many refining-houses.
There are also nine manufactories for syrup from po-
tato meal. During the last working season 35,000
quintals of sugar were made. A great part of this goes
to Austria. The cotton manufactories are flourishing.
while those of linen are somewhat on the decline. It is
computed that 00,0')0,000 guilders worth of glass is
manufactured annually in Bohemia ; 3,500 families arc
employed upon it, and the manufactories arc 73 in num.
ber. The coloured glass is perhaps superior to that
made in England, and is remarkably cheap. It is sent
to the Levant, South and North America, Spain, and
ail parts of Germany and Italy.
VIENNA.
It is rumoured here that the Archduke Stephen, son
of the Palatine of Hungary, and cousin of the Em-
peror, will shortly make a tour of Germany. As far
as I atm learn, it will most probably be extended to St.
P4tersburgh, where he will solicit the hand of the
Princess Olga of Russia. He does not come within
Byron's category of " thick-lipped Austrians," being a
handsome, well-built young man. Of the beautiful
tower of St. Stephen's Church here there has been as
much taken down as was thought necessary—viz., 70
feet. It leaned so much out of the perpendicular that
it was considered dangerous to allow it to remain. It
will be rebuilt exactly as it
.originally was, and it is
thought will be finished in three years. The expense
will be 100,000 guilders, and it is very splendid. The
Noble Italian Guard, which has been recently formed on
the same principle as the,Noble Hungarian one, has just
entered on its duty in Vienna.
Letters from Pesth, on the Danube, describe com-
merce there as at a complete stand still. This is at-
tributed to the deteriorating influence which rumours of
war have had upon public credit in Austria. This has
reacted on Hungary, and the more so as it possesses
no national bank, but is dependent on that of Vienna.
A great scarcity of money has bean felt. Another
caisse is the want of a market for Hungarian produce.
The fact is, that an AnglornaniA reigns to an indescri-
lsablo extent in Hungary, and this not only among the
nobles, but also down to the bourgeois. The expense
of transit across Germany being mind too great, arti-
cles of English manulactitre arc now carried up the
Danube, in return for which, however, very little Hun-
garian produce goes to England, nor will the Austrians
buy it, because Austrian manufactures find no sale down
in Hungary, and the Austrians act on the retaliating
principle. Hence the market is completely overstocked.
Two new steamers of sm ill draught are building at
Ofen, in order to obviate the necessity of unloading and
disembarking at Orsova, Orenkova, and other places on
the Danube, during the passage down to Constantinople.
'Tae steamers still go between Vienna and Pesth ; but
lower down the Danube they have ceased for the winter.
THE RHINE.
The winter has set in very severely ; the cold has
already reached 16 degrees below zero of Reaumur,
and the Rhine has a considerable quantity of floating
ice on it, which has stopped the steam navigation above
tlannheirn. The bridge of boats there has been taken
up, as also that' of the Neckar. The Upper Danube
is also so full of ice that all navigation has ceased.
BAVARIA.
, The King, who is never at ease when not employed
in building, beautifying, &c., is causing a new summer
residence to he built for bins at Aachaffenburg on the
Maine ; it is after the model of a house discovered at
Harcelmteum. General Hesse, who followed Colonel
Radowitz to Munich has already left for the other Ger-
man Courts ; he travelled to Augsburgh by that most
wretchedly-managed of all undertakings the railway,
and had the satisfaction of arriving at the latter place
at twelvo o'clock at night, instead of half-past six, the
proper time of arrival. The company say they have
been cheated, and received bad engines from England ;
but the truth of the matter is, tat there is nobody
(but the drivers, who arc English) who understands a
bit about the matter. We talk a great deal in England
about societies for the prevention of cruelty to animals.
It will probably be interesting to know that the first
society of this kind was formed at Nuremburg, in
Bavaria, and the example was followed.
WURZBURG.
Two companies of Gendarmerie passed this on their
way to Spezer, in Rhenish Bavaria. Their ultimate
destination is said to be the Rhine. The regiment of
infantry of the Crown Prince, now at Munich, is ordered
to the fortress of Germershein, on the Rhine. Un-
abated preparations are making in Bavaria and else-
where. The troops are all to be provided with per-
cussion muskets, in consequence of which workmen are
busy changing the flint and steel into the copper
dap. In•Wurtemberg, where the army is, matters arc
exceedingly well attended to ; this has long been 0
case ; officers have been despatched from Carlsruhe to
S'uttgard, in order to take the requisite steps to eff c.
,a:ndaralteration in the Baden muskets. At Berlin,
too, the like is being done. Some trials have lately been
made there with the Sbarpnell grenades, and they being
found to answer very well, the Prussian batteries will
be supplied with a number of them.
BERLIN.
song by Becker i 3 now being sung at
;Mae. At Vienna some doubts were
'hether the censorship would allow of
produced ; but they have all been
expressly by Prince Metternicli, and
!re in Sap, air's next concert,—Moriz-

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