The Sun.
London, England, 1846-08-22 00:00:00

The Swiss Diet has been engaged for several days
in discussions on the question of the convents, but in
taking the votes there was no majority on any point.
The affair may be regarded, therefore, as at an end
for the present.

The committee of the inhabitants of Cologne ap•
pointed to investigate the circumstances attending the
recent riots in that city, have announced that they
will shortly publish their report, which will be a
complete refutation of the statements made in the
Prussian State Gazette, which asserted that the mili-
tary had not been guilty of any provocation. We
find the following in the German Gazette of Frank-
fort :

"Some time ago a deputy for the provincial diet wa,,
text of some informality, but really because he is a member
of the German Catholic Church, to sanction the return. He
has since been re-elected. The president of the district hay-
in announced that he would not be received, as by a Cabinet
order of May 28th, no member of the German Catholic Church
can be a provincial deputy, or even an elector, the elector,.
hal e declared that they will not proceed to another election.
It has been resolver! to send an address on the subject to the
King of Prussla, and several districts have applied for a copy
the Cabinet orCer, with a view to examine its contents and
decide upon the course to be taken."

According to the Cologne Gazette the Austrian
Government is about to raise a new loan to defray the
great expenses to which it has been put by the outbreak
in Galicia, and also to provide funds for the construc-
tion of new railroads. The same journal states that
there is little probability of the Congress of the Cus-
toms' Union coming to a satisfactory understanding
as to the proposed modifications on the tariffs, most
of the delegates having received positive instructions
to insist upon particular points to which their col-
leagues will not agree. The Chamber of Deputies of
Baden have recommended that the representative of
Baden in the Germanic Diet should vote for the in-
, tegrity of the Duchies of Schleswig and Holstein.
It is said that the spontaneous dissolution of the
Holstein Diet had caused a great sensation in
Denmark, and that the KING had, in consequence,
dispatched a special envoy to Berlin. On this
subject; the Swabian Mercury announces, " that
before the vacation the Germanic Diet will publish
an official notice, calculated to satisfy the public
mind relative to the letter-patent of the King of
DENMARK."

The Duke of NASSAU is about to be marred
to the. Grand Duchess CATHERINE of Russia. The
Grand Duchess, who is nineteen years of age, is the
daughter of the Emperor NICHOLAS, and the sister
of the first wife of the Duke of NASSAU. The fol-
lowing is an extract of a letter, dated Leipsic,
August 11
We understand that a new investigation, of a severe
character, is about to be instituted against the students.
Proofs have been discovered at Dresden of a Burchenschoir
(association of students) being in existence at Leipsic. On
the morning of the Bth the police paid domiciliary vista to
three students, opened their desks and seized on papers, which
were forwarded to Dresden. It is said that they discovered
amongst them the rules and regulations of the association.
No person has been imprisoned, but the Minister of Worship
and Justice is expected to arrive here to day."

Madrid papers of the 14th instant have arrived.
With the exception of a report that the Englist
squadron of evolution was expected at Algesiras,
these papers do not contain a single article of intelli-
gence.
Nothing was doing at the Dolga.

We have received the Paris papers of Wednesday.
The Chamber of Peers, on Tuesday, elected Count
DARE, Count DE SEGER, M. DE CAMEACERES, and
General DESPANS DE CABIERRS as the four secre-
taries of the Chamber for the ensuing session. The
Due DE BROGUE is a member of the Committee ap-
pointed to draw up an answer to the Speech from
the Throne.

The President has fixed Tuesday ntzt for the, trial
of HFICRY.
The Chamber of Deputies has been engaged in
the verification of the returns-. Thirty-three returns
are opposed, viz., twenty-five Ministerial and eight
Opposition. On the subject of the actual amount of
the -Ministerial majority in the new Chamber. The
Dibats says :—" The number of Deputies in the bureaux
yesterday was 340. Of these, in the nomination
of presidents, 214 were Conservatives and 115 Oppo.l
sitionists; 11 votes being lost. According to this
calculation, the Conservatives have a majority of 99.
This number would some near that which we gave
in classing the various fractions of the Chamber after
the elections.

Marshal SOULT still remains in the country, and
has of late taken no part in the Government.
The Abbe DE GENOUDE, who has ever since the
Revolntion of 1830 denounced all Lcgitimatists who
took the
.oath of allegiance to LOUIS PIiILIPPE as
apostates, perjurers, renegades, and traitors, took his
seat as Deputy for Toulouse on Wednesday. There
was a shout of laughter throughout the Chamber as
the pious and consistent Abbe swore audibly to be.
faithful to the Charter andto•the KING of the FREmcn.
The authorities Algiers tave `Wen iiiterfering
4vio the liberty of the press. Several articles which
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the congratulations of the Parisians at this banquet,
though delivered through the stunting medium of an
unfamiliar language, is not one jot less remarkable for
shrewdness of logic, keenness of argument, condensa-
tion of facts, or felicity of expression, than any one
of those memorable orations uttered by him either in
Covent-garden Theatre or in the Commons House of
Parliament. We gladly refer our readers to a trans-
lation of that very interesting and remarkable address,
printed at length in other columns of The Sun. In
perusing it, they cannot fail to recognise the acute
and generous mind from which the ideas flowed, and
the benignity of that bosom from which those ideas
received their persuasion.

Mr. COBDEN was evidently conscious throughout
of the importance of the character of his language ;
and though he disclaimed the appellation of a
propagandist, he was aware that he was then
addressing the whole of continental Europe.
He never forgot for a single instant that, according as
his words were selected, the commercial emancipation
of France might be expedited or retarded. In that
harangue he presented to the French reformers a
model for their guidance, by explaining the machinery
and intentions of the League, while in so doing he in-
cidentally vindicated that great association from the
charges of its traducers. And as an encouragement
to the Societe des Libre: Echangistes, he pronounced
the following emphatic sentences :

"If you ask me whether the question is settled for ever, I
answer yes ; for in England we never recede ore inch in the
path of reform, when every step has been gained by the
force of reason and argument. Besides, we have i.o nisin
deserving the name of a statesman who would undertake a
Government founded upon the protective principle. Ido
not speak merely of Sir R. Peel, who has immortalised his
name by the part he took in the emancipation of our com-
merce; or of Lord John Russell, who so nobly supported him ;
but I mean that there is not one member of the late or pre-
sent Ministry who now advocates the principle of protection.
One and all have modestly repudiated, on the part of Go-
vernment, the right of interfering with the freedom of indi-
vidual industry and enterprise."

Any endeavour to epitomise the address of Mr.
COBDEN would only militate against its energy and
persuasiveness—every segment of his oration is in
itself an epitome. We rejoice, for his sake, that
RICHARD COBDEN hag been so honoured by France;
and, for her sake, that France has so honoured
RICHARD COBDEN.

On the Gth the Porn convoked a congreption of
Cardinals to consider the propriety of remodelling the
criminal code. It is reported that th"re will be a
commission of jurisconsults appointed to consider of
the matter. As a proof of the dislike with which the
Absolutists regard the liberal measures of the POPE,
snore particularly the amnesty, we may mention that
the King of NAPLES has prohibited the circulation of
the Diario di Roma in his dominions. This is a
curious sign of the times. The temporal Prince puts
the works of his spiritual superior a 1 Index. The
vassal refuses to receive the rescripts of his Suzerain
and Lord Paramount, as not suffieienqy despotic and
tyrannical, and the professed son of the Church re-
jects the ordonnances of its infallible head as
erroneous. The Pore, however, still continues the
' beneficent course by which his reign has hitherto been
so favourably distinguished. In addition to the
numerous reforms already effected, or in progress,
his Holiness is endeavouring to introduce great
ameliorations in the hospitals, charitable establish-
ments, and convents. He visits these places fre-
quently, and when he is entirely unexpected, and
insists upon receiving full details of the way in
which they are conducted. He has already made
some of the richest establishments of monks con-
tribute funds towards the re-establishment of an
institution for the reception of repentant prostitutes.