The Sun.
London, England, 1851-09-20 00:00:00

GERMANY.

The Voss Gazette states that a small federal corps
is to be concentrated near Frankfort. It is to be
composed of 4,000 Prussians, 1,500 Bavarians, a bat-
talion of Hessians, another from Baden, a third from
Nassau, 1,500 cavalry, and 30 pieces of cannon. This
corps is to be placed at the orders of the Diet.
A Berlin journal publishes the following as the text
of the resolution relative to the liberty of the press,
adopted by the Germanic Diet on the 23d ult.:—
" The Assembly charges the political committee ap-
pointed on the 10th of July by the conference of
Dresden to propose as promptly as possible general
measures to prevent the abuse of the liberty of the
press, and to invite the Federal Governments, even
before the promulgation of these measures, to have
recourse to all legal measures for the suppression of
journals and other periodicals which advocate atheis-
tical, socialist, and communist doctrines, and aim at
the overthrow of monarchy."
The National Gazette of Berlin states, that the
subscriptions at the National Bank to the new
Austrian loan amounted on the 13th inst. to 7,600,000
florins.

The Chamber of Deputies of Gotha was prorogued
on the 13th, after a session of only six days. In its
last sitting it ratified the convention between 17 of
the German Governments relative to the right of
domicile.

The re-opening of the Germanic Diet having been
formally notified to the Emperor of Russia., his MA-
JESTY has sent to the Diet the following reply :
"It is with great satisfaction that we have learned
by your notification that the Federal Diet, insti-
tuted by the treaties of 1815, and the labours of
which were interrupted by the events of 1848, has
again assembled on the invitation of Austria, acting
as presidential court. We offer our sincere felicitations
to the Germanic Confederation on this occasion, and the
more so that the meeting of the Dist, established as it
Was on principles consecrated solemnly by European
treaties, is, in our opinion, a pledge of the maintenance
of internal peaco for Germany, and in consequence of
peace in general. As far as we aro ourselves concerned,
whilst forming constant wishes for the independence,
happiness, and glory of the Confederation, we shall be
anxious about nothing more than to cultivate with it in-
violable relations of peace and harmony, as also we ac-
cept with pleasure the assurances given to that effect by
the Diet in its letter of notification.
" Given at Tsarskoo Selo, Sept. 9, 1851, in the 25th
year of our reign.

" NicuoLis."

TURKEY AND EGYPT.
The Paris Coatilitutionne 1 has the following :
" Our letters trom Constantinople, of September 5,
state that it has bee❑ decided, from motives of economy,
nut to send out the Turkish fleet this year to make its
usual evolutions. The gunpowder and other stores
have been landed, but no order bas been given to put
the vessels out of commission, the design being, to be
prepared fur any eventualities on the side of Egypt, as
that question is at present considered exceedingly grave.
The Porte insists on having the contract for the con-
struction of the railway annulled, and Abbas-Pacha
may declare as much as he likes that he is
master in his own dominions, he has no
right to deliver over to the English a vast
country, of which he is chief, only under the
suzerainty of the Sultan. Such is at least the sense of
the firmans of 1841, which, in according hereditary rule
to the family of Mehemet-Ali, say not a word about his
independence. Although the new envoys of the Vice-
roy, Kiani and Hassan-Pacha, declare that all the ob-
servations that can be made by the Porte are now of no
avail, the Viceroy having pledged himself, and the works
of the railway having even been commenced, the divan
appears not the less determined to obtain satisfaction
on the point. To that end there was some intention
lately to send an ultimatum to the Viceroy, declaring
that any further refusal on his part might lead to his
dethronement. This document was communicated to
the Ambassadors of. England and France, and Sir S.
Canning, it is said, thought it somewhat hasty to have
recourse to threats; he recommended a modification in
that respect, and promised to interfere himself with Ab-
bas Pacha to induce him to make concessions. It is not
known whether any change was effected in the ultima-
tum, but it was not sent. It is asserted that the Cherif
of Mecca, who was to pass through Egypt, in proceeding
to his place of destination, was charged to make with
the Viceroy a new attempt at reconciliation, and that a
reply from him is waited for, before any definite deci-
sion is come to. Meanwhile, the works on the railway
are being proceeded with, and the difficulties can only
increase."

ITALY.

We read in the Costituzionale of Florence of the

loth that the council of prefecture of that city has
annulled the vote of the municipal council allotting
I,ooof. to the fund for sending Tuscan workmen to
the London Exhibition.

A letter from Naples of the sd, in the Coslitu-
sionale of Florence, states that the Supreme Court of
Justice has overruled the objections started against
the competency of the tribunal by the persons now
under trial for the affair of the insurrection of the
liith of May, 1848. The objections were—fat, the
royal amnesty for all acts committed on the 15th of
May ; 2dly, the accused being deputies at the time,
and therefore subject to the jurisdiction of the Court
of Peers only; lily, Signor SCIALOIA being a
Minister at the time, and Signor LEOPARDI on an em-
bassy to the Court of Sardinia. The public prose-
cutor had consented to the third objection, but the
Court overruled them all by 6 votes to 4.

KOSSUTH AND HIS COMPANIONS.
The Paris Patrie of yesterday says—" Letters
from Constantinople of the sth announce that the re-
fugees of Koutahia have been set at liberty, and have
already arrived at the Dardanelles. With the ex-
ception of two or three, who go direct to Eng-
land, the whole of them are about to embark for the
United States."

THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.—The workmem em-
ployed in extending the electric telegraph on the Great
Western, Bristol and Exeter, and South Devon Railways are
making rapid progress. Already nearly the whole of the
straining and connecting posts between Chippenham and
Paddington—a distance of 9334 miles—have been fitted, and
the materials for the remaining portion are in a very forward
state, so that very little has
to be accomplished except
passing and connecting the wires. It is intended, on the
completion of the South Wales Railway, to e x tend the
electric telegraph to Milford Haven—thus the whole of the
naval arsenals, with the exception of Sheerness, will be placed
in immediate communication with the Admiralty, viz., Ports-
mouth, on the South-Western ; Plymouth and Pembroke
(Milford Haven), on the Great Western and its auxiliaries;
Chatham and Woolwich, on the North Kent; Harwich, on
the Eastern Counties; and Deal, on the South• Eastern
Railway. The flagship at Sheerness can be communicated
with, in clear weather, through the depot ship in ordinary
at Chatham.

RAPID DISCHARGE of CARGO.—The new screw
steam-ship City of Manchester R hich arrived here from
Philadelphia on Sunday last, on the next day discharged
her cargo, consisting of 6,872 packages, in the short space of
eight hours I The cargo consisted of 6,521 barrels of flour,
54 hhds. of bark, and 297 tierces of beet, which were landed
at the rate of 14-1 packages a minute, or one package every
four seconds I Besides this wonderfully rapid discharge of
cargo, an unprecedented circumstance in connexion with her
reloading deserves to be noticed; namely, that she was en-
tered inwards for discharge and outwards for loading in the
same Customs' bill of entry; special permission to that
effect !riving been granted by the board in London. On
Wednesday she proceeded on her outward voyage, with 150
passengers and nearly 1,000 tons of coal and cargo, the
whole of which had been received on board within the short
epics of tWOITO hours.—Liverpool Chronicle.