The Sun.
London, England, 1851-01-10 00:00:00

GERMANY.

Oa the Bth the Prussian Ministry secured a ma-
jority in the Upper Houce. It was determined by 92
to 35 to drop the adjourned debate on the Address.
In the course of the debate the Ministers announced
their decided adhesion to a reactionary policy ;
the Government, they said, had assumed a hostile
position to all revolutions and revolutionists ; which,
being interpreted, means that the King of PRUSSIA
has consented to be like the Emperor of AUSTRIA,
degraded from the rank of en independent Sovereign
to that of a vassal of the CZAR.

The following are the principal provisions of the
new press law introduced by the Prussian Govern•
m ent into the Upper Chamber :—" The draught of
this new law consists of five chapters and 87 para-
graphs, and its provisions are by far more stringent
and comprehensive than those of the provisional press
law of the 3d of June, 1850. The first chapter pro-
vides that all printers, lithographers, and book and
print sellers shall solicit a licence from the adminis-
trative boards of their repective districts, and
that this licence shall be granted to them if
they can satisfy the authorities of their
good faith and of that amount of educa-
tion ea hich is requisite for their respective
lines of business. Booksellers and printsellers are
moreover required to prove that they have been
regularly apprenticed to their respective trades. if
the said persons be condemned for an infraction
of the law the Administrative Boards are authorised
to withdraw the licence. A copy of all printed
papers, pamphlets, and books must be submitted to the
police officer of the ditrict twelve hours before their
publication. Every newspaper and periodical must
have the name of a responsible editor on each copy, and
none can be allowed to be named as such editors
who are under age or afflicted with civil disabilities.
Military men and public functionaries cannot edit
any new paper or periodical without the express con
sent of their superiors. The provisions of the depo-
sits or " caution money" are the same as in the
provisional law of the 31 of June. The deposits
must be paid in the current coin of the realm, and
four per cent. interest will be paid on them. The
penal part of the new law establishes three distinct
classes of transgressions, viz.:-1. Press police
transgressions which are punishable with a fine which
shall not exceed fifty thalers and a term of imprison-
ment which shall not exceed six weeks; 2. Press
transgressions, for which a fine of above fifty thalers
and imprisonment of three years may be awarded.
The third class is that of press-crimes, for which
still severer punishments are provided, and the last
named class alone will be submitted to a jury. The
responsibility for the transgressions of a journal or
pamphlet attaches alike to printer, publisher, agent,
editor, and author. The Post• office can refuse to
forward any paper which has been punished for an in-
fraction of the law. It is criminal to offend the
Sovereigns of foreign States (provided reciprocity is
granted), Members of Parliament, and of public
boards, civil and military functionaries. Blasphemy,
aspersions against the Christian Church or the mem-
bars of any incorporated religious society, attacks cia)
matrimonial and family relations, property, and public
morality are likewise to be punished with fines of
from 20 to 1,000 thalers, and confinement of from 14
days to 12 month!.
The Deutsche Reichs Zeitwig states from Cassel
that the two Commissioners are still actively engaged
in breaking the opposition of the functionaries and
citizens by means of quartering large detachments of
troops upon the refractory. It appears that the mea-
sures of compulsion are divided into four different
grades, and that the number of soldiers which are
quartered upon one domicile varies, according to cir-
cumstances, from ten to fifty. These numbers are
doubled whenever the persons so efilicted presume to
complain. The soldiers thus quartered on the citi-
zens are entitled to board and lodging, and to a pecu-
niary remuneration, which is fixed for a private at
four groechens per day, fur a sergeant at eight, and
for an officer-at sixteen grosclaens.
A part of the executive troops destined for Holstein
arrived at Cassel on the sth, under the command of
General LEGEDITSCEL.

The Elector of HEIISE has excluded the following
journals from the electorate:—The Berlin Constitu-
tional Zeitung, the Kladderadasch, the National Zei-
lung, the Deutsche Reicks Zeitung, the Weser Zei-
tang, the Kolner Zeitung, the Frankfort Journal, the
Augsburg Allgenzeine Zeitung, the Vereins Blatt for
German Operatives, the Turnblatt of Schwalm, and
the Nord Deutsche Zeitung.
i'Ve have received advices from Vienna cf the stb.
The treaty with Russia regulating the navigation
of the Danube has been renewed.

DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES.
The Federal Commisisioners had a conference with
the Holstein Stadtholderate on the 7th.

The Copenhagen journals of the 4th publish the
following official report from the Danish Minister of
Wnr

On the 31st of December a superior body of the
enemy's troops attacked our outposts at Holm, Mehl-
hcrst, and Kochendorf, but were repulsed, r.fter
lengthened struggle, by the 10th battalion. Oar loss in
this very honourable engagement with a very superior
force of the enemy, was—one officer, Captain Von
Douglas, mortally wounded; four privates killed and
four wounded, all of the 10th battalion.
"The loss on the enemy's side muse have been consi-
derable in this engagement and the one at Kropper
Bu:ch and Haidbringc. On the Ist January we took 22
prisoners."