The Sun.
London, England, 1847-05-06 00:00:00

A :MODERN HENRY the EIGHTH.
BRESLAU, APRIL 22.—The Prince Archbishcp of
Breslau has launched the thunders of the church against
one of the German princes. Ile has excommunicated
the Prince of Hatzfeld de Trachambour4 and de Jasch-
kovvitz, member of the order of nobles in the General
Diet of Prussia, at present assembled in Berlin, and one
of the richest and most influential princes in Prussia.
The following are the circar--:•,-nces which have led
to an act of rigour on the part of the church so uncom-
mon in the present century:—
About five years ago Prince Germain de Hatzfeld,
who is a Roman Catholic, fell in love with the Duchess
de Reichembach, a married lady, and a Protestant. For
some reason, of which we do not know the particulars,
the Duchess de Reichembach got herself divorced. Soon
afterwards, in virtue of a royal decree, abridging the
delay which, according to our laws, must take place be-
tween the divorce and the re-marriage of any of the
divorced parties, the Prince of Hatzfeld got the Lutheran
pastor of Breslau to give him the marriage blessing.
Thereafter the Prince of Hatzfeld was anxious to have
his marriage made valid according to the rites of the
Catholic Church, and for that purpose he applied to
several ecclesiastics to perform the marriage ceremony,
but they all refused, on the ground that they were for-
bidden to do so by the decisions of the Council of Trent,
and more especially by a brief addressed, in 1843, by
the late Pope Gregory XVI. to the bishops of Bavaria,
and in which the Sovereign Pontiff designates a marriage
between a Catholic and a divorced Protestant as con-
nubium adulterinum. The Prince of Hatzfeld did not
lose his courage. He went to Rome, threw himself at
the Pope's feet, and supplicated his Holiness to confirm
his marriage with the Duchess de Reichembach. Gre-
gory XVI. was moved; and after having received from
the Prince of Hatzfeld a solemn promise that he would
support the interests of the Catholic Church, his Holi-
ness validated the marriage of the Prince and Princess
of Hatzfeld, and gave orders to the Prince-Archhishop
of Breslau to give them the nuptial benediction, accord-
ing to the rites of the Catholic Church, which was ac-
cordingly done. For some time the Prince of Hatzfeld
kept his word to the Pope. He placed himself at the
head of the Catholic aristocracy of the province, and he
constituted himself the protector of the clergy, who, in
consequence of his intercession, obtained in a short
time great privileges and considerable immunities. In
consequence of this zeal, Pope Gregory XVI. conferred
upon the Prince of Hatzfeld numerous decorations and
other marks of distinction. A fter two years of marriage,
the love of the Prince of Hatzfeld for his wife began
7radnally to cool, and this coolness increased to salsa a •

legroe that at la 4 he Arcve herr out of his honkie, And

obtained a divorce. At the same time he formed an in=
timate connexion with another Protestant lady, Madame
de Bach, who had also the mishap to be divorced, and
on the 6th of the present month of April he married
her publicly in the Lutheran Cathedral of Breslau. On
the following day the Prince Archbishop of Breslau
pronounced a sentence of the greater excommunication
against the Prince of Hatzfeld, in which, after reciting
the above facts, he says—" Considering that his Serene
Highness the Prince Germain of Hatzfeld de Trachem-
bourg and de Jaschkowitz has rendered himself guilty
of polygamy, since, during the life of his wife, he has
married another woman; that such an act should be
punished the more severely from its being committed by
a person so highly placed as the said Prince of Hatzfeld
by birth, rank, and fortune, and whose example must
necessarily have a great effect upon the people; that the
Prince of Hatzfeld has shown a supreme degree of in-
gratitude to the late Pope Gregory XVI., who loaded
him with favours and honours; that the Prince of Hatz-
feld, who was at the head of the Catholics of Silesia, has
by his conduct covered his co-religionists with shame;
that it is notorious that he has stated everywhere
that he had no uneasiness about what he had
done, and that by means of money he would obtain from
the clergy the validation of his second marriage as he
had the first: that it is necessary to prove to the public
in a striking manner that it is an erroneous impression
which is current in our country, that the clergy are
always indulgent to the powerful of the earth:—We,
Me'choir, by the grace of God, &c., Prince Archbishop
of Breslau, in virtue of our archiepiscopal functions,
and in conformity with the holy canons, but to our regret
and with a profound grief, excommunicate the said Most
Serene Prince Germain of Hatzfeld, as a public and obsti-
nate contemner and transgressor of the laws and doctrines
of the church; and we strikehim with the anathema of the
church, and with all the legal consequences of that measure,
and that in the name of the Father. of the Son,
and of the Holy Ghost. Amen." The Breslau
papers state that the Prince of Hatzfeld, on learn-
ing that sentence of excommunication had been pro-
nounced against him, intimated his intention of
joining the Lutheran Church, but that by the advice
of his friends he abstained from doing so, because
the consequence would be that he would lose two of his
richest and most valuable lordships. The Prince of
Hatzfeld above spoken of is brother of the Prince of
Uatz.eld Schoenberg, whose liaison with the Countess of
Myyendorft gave rise to a celebrated trial at Cologne in
December last.

POSTAL ARRANGEMENTS WITH

CHINA.
(From the China Mail.)
The ignorance and inattention of the good folks at
home regarding the postal arrangements with China, is
a never-failing source of annoyance to residents here.
We have repeatedly essayed our possible to enlighten the
select portion of the British public who enjoy the oppor-
tunity of perusing the China Mail, but hitherto, we regret
to find, to very little purpose, it' the annoyingly amusing
instances which have just come to our knowledge afford
a fair criterion. We select two of them :

A friend in London, wishing to give the latest infor-
mation on private affairs, frets and bustles to have a
letter on the 4th of the month, because, some ten years
ago, in the infancy of steam communication with the
east, he had learnt that a mail was made up via Mar-
seilles on that day, and being evidently a disciple of the
Finality School, had no faith in subsequent improve-
ment; and so this effusion becomes a dead letter, and is
mercilessly entombed in a pigeon hole of the London Post-
office for three weeks. Another intelligent correspondent
living within a stone's threw of the Edinburgh Post-office,
to make sure work, writes a letter on the 18th, in
ample time for the Southampton dispatches, but having
by over study of Directories and Almanacs, acquired
some confused notions about the greater expedition used
with Marseilles letters, marks his via that route, and
posts it on the 21st, but neglects to pay the postage,
no doubt because he had discovered that such a preli-
minary step was not necessary in the case of letters
sent by the English packets. The consequence was that
his letter was detained in London a month, less a couple
of days, when, after all, it was sent via* Southampton, the
only route for unpaid letters. The accident which befel
the Ripon steamer deprived us of the October mail in
due course, and so this letter, written on the 18th Sep-
tember, and inclosing a bill of lading, which ought to
have been here in the middle of November, did not ar-
rive till the end of January, a few days after the vessel
containing the goods. Such are the consequences of
neglecting a five minutes' study of a very simple ar-
rangement.
The mails for India of the 4th and 7th of the month
are, however, the most fruitful source of the blunders
we Celestial sojourners have to complain of ; and,
strange to say, they are encouraged by the Post-office
itself, which from time to time issues notices that
" Mails for China, India, &c., are to be made up is
_ _

London on the 4th and 7th," while, according to its own
regulations, all letters for China direct are dispatched
only on the 20th and 24th. None are more readily
caught in this trap than news-agents, and nothing is
more common than to see bundles of papers addressed
and paid for " vile Marseilles and Bombay l" We,
therefore, with the most profound respect, beg to assure
the ingenuous, but, we are compelled to add, remarkably
stupid home public, that letters for China direct never
visit India at all, unless addressed to the care of some
one there, in which case the chances are they are never
more heard of, except as lumber to the Bombay or
Calcutta Post-office. The mails of the 4th and 7th,
therefore, carry letters for India, and not for China ;
those of the 20th and 24th bring letters for both India
and China.

But as our readers at home are proof against all that
has appeared in our journal upon the subject, we have
printed the followinr, notice at the head of a ream of
letter paper, in order that at least our own correspon-
dents may not plead ignorance:—
" There is only one mail for China made up in Lon-
don, via Southampton on the 20th, and via Marseilles
on the 24th of each month. It is not necessary to
pre-pay letters sent by to former route; by the
latter pre-payment is imperative, otherwise letters
though marked via Marseilles by the sender will be
detained in London for the next Southampton dispatch.
CHINA, though the contrary is erroneouslyooo !__
The mails of the 4th and 7th are for INDIA and
tnaotetdfctinr
Lid Mar-
seillescia Southampton charged by; the ounce.
Letters by tither route
the Notices issued by the London Posot
by the i ounce.. Al it. Postages
er "
• system of Mrs. Trimmer,
spongy pap •
drawable
Adopting the a
h rs who have devoted them- -
Mrs. Barbauld, and
theothers should be invariably written on good, and never on
young idea, we here
selves to teaching
principles
learned
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first
lessons easily understood ;
proceed gradually to unfold to them the
begin when our tyros have their
and w
lecture will
ounces the latter by quarters, eosfhMalairseilles letters bearing double rates, the
n oAbnl
ed our
ecrrooswitnyinogf
our own country contrasted with the nip-cheese mean-
ness of our Gallic neighbours, who double their charge
on letters when they come up to the specified weight,
while we only do so when it is exceeded. But these
abstruser disquisitions are kept in reserve, to instigate
our neophytes in postal science to a diligent study of
the present rudimental Gradus.

Genuine Eau de Cologne, imported direct, and kept
two years in the docks before sold. Ross and Sons beg to say
that in consequence of the spurious trash offered, they are
induced to make known the system adopted by them for the
last thirty years, of selling only the genuine, and that two
years old. In consequence of their enormous consumption,
they are enabled to sell the best at little more than is charges/
for the spurious, the latter being as inferior as British brandy
is to foreign. Prices—A single bottle, 3.3 ; a case of six, 165..
six cases at once, 15s. per case, for cash only. Address Ross
and Sons, 119 and 120, Bishopsgate-street, London. p.
They have still a few dozens left of some that has been seven
yearsin bond.
MONEY Ilisaxsir.—The premium on gold at Paris
by the last advices was 14 per milk, which, at the Eng-
lish Mint price of 31. 17s. lop. per ounce for standard
gold, gives an exchange of 25.50 ' • and the exchange at
Paris on London at short being 25.60, it follows that
gold is 0.39 per cent. dearer in London than in Paris.
By advices from Hamburgh the price of gold is
4324 per mark, which, at the English Mint price of 34 178.
lop . per ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of
13.81; and the exchange at Hamburgh on London at short
being 13.9+, it follows that gold is 0.23 per cent,. dearer
in London than in Hamburh,