The Sun.
London, England, 1851-05-06 00:00:00

GERMANY.

The Prussian State Gazette, under date of Berlin, Ist,
says:—" The Committee of the Second Chamber of the
States, charged to examine the Bill on the liberty of the
press, has examined the decrees of the 30th June, 1849,
and sth June, 1850, and as to whether they were not
called for by urgency. It has resolved to make the fol-
lowing propositions on the subject:—` The Chamber is
invited to reserve its declaration as to the constitution-
ality of these two decrees until the vote on the Bill
takes place.'
The German Journal of Frankfort states that the
Prussian Chamber will be adjourned at Berlin on the
12th inst., and that the close of the Conferences at
Dresden will not take place until the 15th.
The Cologne Gazette states, from Munich—" Some
days before the departure of King OTno for Vienna and
Athens, the question of the succession to the throne of
Greece was decided. Prince LUITPOLD having renounced
the Crown for himself and his descendants, Prince
ADALBERT, who had a right to it according to the
treaty of London, accepted it, even under the condition
that his descendants should be brought up in Greece,
and in the Greek religion. Some journals have an-
nounced that King OTno was only gone to Vienna, and
that he would return here; but this is an error; he is on
his way to Athens."
It is stated in some of the German journals hostile to
the Austrian Government that fresh symptoms of agita-
tion are perceptible in Hungary. A letter from Vienna
states that the agitation is confined to the question of
the tobacco monopoly, which encounters much opposi-
tion, but that otherwise the 'suppression of the late revolt
has produced a feeling of attachment to the Austrian
Government on the part of the peasantry, as it has re-
lieved.them from the tyranny and exactions of the Hun-
garian nobles, many of whom had taken part in the in-
surrection only in the hope of emancipating themselves
from the control of Austria, which was beginning to
espouse the cause of the productive classes.
Diplomatic relations between Prussia and Wnrtem-
berg have been resumed. It may be remembered that
they were broken off some time ago in consequence of a
letter written by the King of WURTEMBERG, whied the
Cabinet of Prussia considered offensive.

DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES.
A letter from Kiel, in the Cologne Gazette, Hates that
Count REVENTLOW CRI3IINI had returned from Copen-
hagen with news which the Schleswigers did not con-
sider satisfactory; and, it was added, that the notes of
the Austrian and Prussian Cabinets had produced no
effect on the Danish Government.

ITAL I .

Tho Genoa Gazette has the I)llovving from Rome, 22d

ult.:—"The POPE has come to the resolution to perpe-
tuate, by a geld in! dal, the remembrance of the assist-
ance afforded to him while in exil at Gaeta by the re-
presentatives and the ministers of the foreign Govern-
ments. The design for this medal has been confided to
M. N. CERBARA. It represents on one side the chateau
of Gaeta, and on the other a monumental epigraph.
Only 16 of these meda!s will be etruck off, or only two
or three more than the number of ministers who accom-
panied his HOLINESS, after which the die will be broken
up. Each medal will bear the name of the envoy extra-
ordinary or the minister for whom it is intended.'
The Lombardo Veneto, of Milan, cf the 26th tilt.,
states that the first meeting of the Committee charged
to carry into execution the m,:nsures for establishing a
free port at Venice assembled on the previous day.
The Venice Gazette quotes a letter from Rome, of the
DE IikYNEVAL has 25th ult., stating that M.
communi-
cated to the Holy See a document addressed by the
three Roman Princes, FILIPPO DORIA PAMPRILI, MARIO
Nlessrmo, and LORENZO SFORZA. CESARINI, to the PRE-
SIDENT of the French Republic, in which they recom-
me.nd. the total exclusion of prelates and cardinals from
public offices, which, in their opinion, should be granted
to members of the Roman nobility. The three Princes
offer to assume the secular Government, and declare that
public opinion would side with them.

FIRE IN REGENT-STREET.—Yesterday afternoon,
shortly before two o'clock, the neighbourhood of Regent-
street and Oxfo-d-street were thrown into some confusion
by the outbreak of a fire in the premises of Messrs. T.
F. Beale and Chappell, music publishers to her Majesty,
201, Regent-street, and 67, Conduit-streaet.
from The frontage in
both streets is of considerable extent, nd of
the disaster commencing in one of the warehouses on the
basement, the destruction of the immense pile of premises at
first appeared inevitable. In less than ten minutes after
the fire was discovered the brigade engines from King-street,
Golden-square, attended, with Mr. Staples, the foreman of
elapsed the
warehouse,
tbe district ; and several other engines of the London Bri-
gadeunot
Before
half
until
tilhotibr e
seas burned out, and the other warehouses oncotmhe-
n wasd( Hanover-squar) pa
ltermediireen
ce:he
basement damaged by heat, water, smoke, and removal. The
origin of the fire is unknown. The premises_li, and their con-
tents are insured in the Royal Exchange re-office.
MURDER OF A POLICEMAN AT VAUXHALL.—Eight
men, James M'Elligatt, John Hockey, Patrick
Harrington, John Fahey,Burke, pe Cane,
nnis Dennis
Shanahan,
coal porters and labourers,employed at the Gas Works,
Vauxhall, were placed at the '
bar of the Lambeth Police-
court yesterday, before Mr. Elliott for the wilful murder of
Henry Chaplin, a constable in thel, division of police (77),
in Vauxhall-walk, that morning. It appears that the pri-
soners were making a great noise in Vauxhall-walk at about
one o'clock in the morning, and that when remonstrated
with by deceased, who was on duty, the prisoner lleckey
threw at him a " clinker" weighing 41bs., which struck him
on the skull. The deceased then drew his staff and struck
lieckey, when Cane rushed at deceased and struck him a
desperate blow on the left side of the head with a heavy
stone which he held in his hand. The prisoners and their
companions continued assaulting the unfortunate man with
" clinkers" until he was rescued by his brother policemen
and carried to Guy's Hospital, where he died from the in-
juries he had received. The prisoners were remanded. The
police produced two handkerchiefs full of large clinkers,
which had been flung at the head of the unfortunate
deceased.
THE LATE FATAL RAILWAY COLLISION IN SUTTON
TUNNEL.—PRESTON-BROOE, MONDAY.—The adjourned ins.
quest was resumed this morning at the Red Lion Inn. The
solicitor and officers of the company were in attendanee, and
C.
so also was Captain Laffan, E., on the part of Govern-
ment. On behalf of the directors the solicitor stated, that
they were most anxious to offer every aid in their power to
a full inquiry, and they would call their :servants in any
order the coroner might think fit. After some lengthenel
evidence had been taken, eliciting, however, no new faels,
the hour of five arrived, and it being obviously impossible to
finish the inquiry to-night, the inquest was adjourned until
to-morrow at ten o'clock, A.M. Mr. Monk, the barrister, has
been in attendance on behalf of the company. Intelligence
has been received that four or five others of the sufferers ;are
not expected to survive many hours.
FUNERAL tr TUE LATE COUNTESS or RADNOR.
—Yesterday morning the mortal remains of the much-
esteemed and respected Countess of Radnor were removed,
by the South-Western Railway, and were deposited in the
family vault at Britford Church, near Salisbury. The
funeral service was performed by the late Countess of
ll.aduor's chaplain. The tradesmen in the neighbou.rhood
closed their shops partially, and many of the tenantry Joined
the mournful cavalcade. The principal mourners on the
melancholy occasion were the Eel.' of Radnor, Viscount
Fulkstone, Hon. E. Bouverie, Viscount Bolingbroke, J.
Bouverie, Esq., and 11. St. John Mildmay, Esq. 'I he funeral
was attended by several of the nobility and gentry of the
neighbourhood.
REPRESENTATION or THE ISLE OT
SIGNATION OF MR. CLIFYORD.—This gentleman has this af-
ternoon (Monday, sth May), published his intention of re-
tiring more able
from the contest. He says—" I trust that you may
elect som qu y
e person eall willing.
self, to support the cause of Free Trade and Liberalthan Reform.my 3
but does not say what has frightened him out of the field.
The general opinion was that neither he nor Capt..Hare(2!'d,
would contest the county, and air. Clifford has bean the
tO giYe

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