The Sun.
London, England, 1851-04-14 00:00:00

GERMAN Y.

The Berlin Miniatkrial journal of the 11th instant
states that Russia, following the example of England
and France, has protested against the entrance of the
Sclavonian and Italian States of Austria into the
German Confederation ; and has expressed a desire
for the revival of the Frankfort Diet.

An animated discussion commenced in the Second
Chamber on the order of the day fur the new loan, to
enable Government to meet the extraordinary ex-
oenditure of the war department. The members of
the Left took occasion to cry down the whole
policy of the Ministers, the mobilisation of the Land-
wehr, the meeting at Olmultz, the conferences at
Dresden. &c.

Tne Government proposition was carried by 174
;o 101.

Li the sitting of the First Chamber, ou the 9th,
the Bill for the order of the day on Ministerial re-
Tonsibility brought together a very full House, and
gave rise to much discussion. After a very able &-
bate on both sides, the project was rejected by 72
against 66.
Accounts from Vienna state that forty persons
were killed by the. explosion at Temeswar. The
accident took place on the 3,1, at 7 A.m., and many of
the bombs and grenade's which were buried under
the ruins of the building exploded as late as 3 o'clock
in the afternoon. The explosion was so violent that
not only were thousands of windows broken, but
window-frames and door-posts were torn away, and
chimneys thrown down. The powder magazine was
in one of the barracks, and an hour later than the
explosion took place a whole battalion was to have
been drawn up in the court-yard.

TURKEY.
Our advices from Bosnia state that all the artil-
lery of the insurgents was captured by the Turks at
Jaiza.

The Turkish General, having divided his forces
into two columns, is preparing to occupy Banjaluka
and the Bekia, and to pursue the insurgents in
Turkish Croatia.

In that province the rebel chief Au REDIa is en-
deavouring to recruit his forces.

VIAL

it. appears Coat the ...;s r;;Ion. thz.t ..p-
-pointment of Dr. WISEMAN, as Archbishop of
Westminster, appeared in the official por-
tion of the Roman Gazette, in 1848, is untrue. In
the non-official part of the journal there was an ob-
scure paragraph, in which he was alluded to under
the title, but in the official part of the Roman
Gazette of the 19th of February, 1848, there ap-
peared the following :
" Mons,gnor Nicholas Wiseman, Bishop of Melipota-
mus in partibus, one of the eight apostolic vicars of Eng-
land, desires it to be known that, whilst he is occupied
with the duties of his sacred ministry, he takes no part
whatever in the direction or compilation of the weekly
journal the Tablet, compiled by a Catholic, and to which
some persons have supposed him to be a contributor.
The above-named monsignor, moreover, certifies that he
is very far from following the exaggerated maxims of
such a journal."

Phis cannot but bP taken as an official repudiation
of the title of Archbishop of Westminster.

SICILY.
The atrocious cruelties of the Government still
continue, and FILANGIERI (who it is said will shortly
he recalled) seems anxious to rival HATNAII. A short
time since two men were shot at Palermo because
they had knives in their pockets ; these knives, ac-
cording to the worthy sbirri of King Bomna, came
under the category of arms, and, being in their pocket,
they were concealed.

IRONMASTERS' QUARTERLY MEETINGS.
DUDLEY, SATURDAY.—The last of the ironmasters'
meetings for the quarter was held in this town to-day,
bat as ►tne prices previously determined upon by the
masters were announced, and the state of the iron trade
fully discussed, in The Sun on the 28th ult., little need
h: added on the present occasion. The meetings through •
out the week have been well attended, but there was
little variation from the circumstances detailed a fortnight
,40. No attempt has been made to advance the rates
axed at the preliminary meeting held at Wolverhampton,
Out, as was expected, there are parties who were not
slow to sell on terms lower than those adopted by the
meetings of the trade. The great firms of the district
maintain, as they generally do, the rates settled at their
first meeting, and nominal prices may tnerefore now be
c:insidered after to-day the same as those of last quarter.
It is understood that a considerable quantity of orders
are on hand fer the ensuing quarter, and were it not for
the campetition of the Scotch and Welsh masters, whose
immense over-preductien operates most injuriously
upon the iron mark, ts. the prospects of the future in
these districts would be much more cheering than they
are at the present moment. Some works, it is true, are
pretty fully employed, but it is understood at pries
oarely remunerative, while others are scarce of work,
►nd of necessity selling at ruinously low rates. The de-
mand from North America continues limited, and until
the large stocks in hand in that country are reduced, it
is not expected that the exports to the United States
will be extensive.

It is, however, a matter of congratulation that, not-
withstanditg the depressed state of the iro❑ trad- in
South Staffordshire, Worcestershire, and Shropshire, the
workpeople are moderately engaged (fix in the best days
of the manufacture they generally considered four or
five days' work in the week sufficient); and so long as
the prices of iron are maintained, it is presumed there
will be no alteration in the present rate of wages.

DEPARTURE OF THE ROYAL MAIL STEAM-SHIP
Asta.—On Saturday afternoon, at three o'clock, this tine
vessel (which has dis anted every competitor on the Atlantic
i❑ the rapidity of her passages) left the Mersey for New York
with the usual mails for the United States and the British
p-ovinces. The Asia had also on board upwards of 100
passengers, and a very full cargo of general merchandise.
THE NEW M.P. FOR COVENTRY.— Mr. Geach,
the new M.P. for Coventry, was formerly a clerk in the Bank
of England, at a salary of 801. per annum. He was subse-
quently director of a banking establishment at Birmingham.
The Hon. Gentleman is now a large iron-merchant, whose
income has lately been returned at 30,000/. per annum.
CHATHAM, APRIL 12.—Private Worrall, of the
Chatham Division Royal Marines, was tried yesterday, by a
General Court-martial, for repeated desertion. It appeared
that the prisoner had deserted several times, and re-enlisted
into other divisions - the last time being for deserting from
Chatham and re-enlisting at Portsmouth, for which he was
tried and found guilty. The Admiralty must confirm the
sentence of the Court before it can be known.— Sergeant-
major F. Long, the senior Sergeant-maj I. of the Chatham
Division Royal Marines, was appointed on the 10th instant
as Lieutenant and Adjutant to the Royal Navy Dock-yard
Battalion at Portsmouth.

MR. CARLYLE AS A LETTER WRITER.--At a re-
cent meeting of the Annan Mechanics' Institution (says the
Week y News) the following letter of apology was read from
Mr. Carlyle, who is a native of Annan, and received his edu-
cation at its academy —" Sir, - Will you he so kind as to
express to the gentlemen of your committee my thanks for
the honour done me, and my regret to answer, as I now
must do, that there is not the least possibility of my attend
ing the soiree you are about to hold. You judge rightly that
Annan has such a hold of my memory as few other places in
the world have. there can nothing useful or notable go on
there that does not peculiarly interest me; no attempt to-
wards being useful, but has my heartiest good wishes, as this
soiree amoneot. ers May it really pro-Ter and be of benefit
to you all. May no unwise word be spoken in it; and, what
is perhaps even more important and still rare in these times,
may the good words spoken begin straightway, silently, on
all hands, to get themsel, es prepared for being done into facts,
and so the pleasant eloquence convert itself into valiant
human practice. without which latter results the eloquence
itself is worth little, nay, nothing, or even, if we count we 1,
a frightful minus quantity, fatally less than nothing. In
great haste, with many wishes and regards, I have the honour
to be your obedient servant, THOMAS CARLYLE."
CON,I.CRATION OF THE WE-TERN SYNAGOGUE

Yesterday, the Western Synagogue, St. Alban's• place, St.
James's, was consecrated according to the Jewish forms,
previous to its being reopened for public worship. r.
Adler, the Chief Rabbi, preached on the occasion. A large
sum was announced as having been subscribed towards the
repArs, the list of subscribers being headed by Sir Moses
Monteffore.

RE MATHEWS —THEATRICAL EMBARRASSMENTS
—Mr. Charles Mathews Was once more had recourse to pro-
tection frcm the Bankruptcy Court; his present debts are
said to be about 9,0001., and his proposal to pay his cre-
ditors in full is founded upon the hope he entertains of
realising a large sum from a forthcoming entertainment dur-
ing the season of the Great Exhibition. Mr. Mathews had
numerous processes in the county courts out against him at
the snit
of employ6s at the Lyceum Theatre, and hence the
necessity of his petitioning the Court under Lord Brougham's
Debtor and Creditor Arr ngement Act. Mr. Commis-
sioner Fane, in this (as in all similar instances) did not ap-
point an official as,ignee to realise the estate, but sanctioned
the appointment of a creditor.
FASHIONABLE MOVEMENTS AT CHELTENHAM.—
Arrivals.—Admiral Sir Henry and Lady Hart, Colonel
Ho gson, Colonel and Mrs. Lucas, Colonel Pole, Captain
Pasley, Captain Thomas Rooke, Rev. F. and Mrs. Fleming,
Mrs. Davvell, Lady Pearce, Major and Mrs. Fowler, Major
Goddard, Major Davis, Captain and Mrs Bayley, Hon.
James Sanderland, ath Hussars ; Captain Clutterbuck, Bth
Hussars ; Captain Scobe.l, 17th Lancers ; Captain Miles,
17th Lancers; Rev. J. Rempster, General Charitie,
Colonel Cleveland, Major Cloves, Captain Crofton, Captain
Bishop, Captain Fox, Rev. J. Sier, Rev. F. Evans, Rev.
Mr. Port. Departures.—Right Hon. Earl Fitzhardinge, for
London ; Captain and the Hon. Mrs. Maunsell, Captain and
Rev. J. and Mrs. Wason.
5c IhresitenhH aarnzc o uLr,t),okCera
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Row AT THE TURF.CUUB.—We are informed that
a very awkward matter occurred at the Turf Club the other
day, while a party were playing a rubber, the stake on
which was something like 5001. aside. A young Baronet
was playing against a Gallant Colonel, when the par ner of
the former led a card so diametrically opposed to all the cor-
rect principles of the game, that the young Baronet threw up
his hand instantaneously, and, declaring that he considered
it was nothing less than an attempt to lose the game, went
immediately to the secretary, and, desiring that his name
might be removed from the list of members, left the club, and
has not returned to it since. The affair has occasioned much
scandal at the West-end.—Sunday Times.

THE ROTATION OF THE EARTH. —At the soirée
held 'n Wednesday evening, at the Russell Institution, Pro-
fessor Ansted, of King's College, gave a lecture on tke sup-
ply of water to large towns illustrated by numerous maps
and diagrams, which was listened to with great attention ;
after which Foucault's recent experiment, affording a palpa
ble demonstration of the rotation of the earth, was exhi-
bited, and was c inducted in a manner similar to the experi-
ment at the Pantheon at Paris. The wire, which suspended
a weight of twenty-sight pounds, was of the size of the mid-
dle C string of a piano. It was thirty feet long, and vibrated
over a graduated table fixed to the floor. The rotation of the
table, implying that of the earth on which it rested, was
visible in about five minutes, and the won erful spectacle
was presented of the rotation of the room round the pendu-
lum. The experiment excited the astonishment of every
beholder, and many eminent scientific gentlemen who were
present expressed their great delight in witnessing a pheno-
menon which they considered the most satisfactory they had
witnessed in the whole course of their lives. We believe
this is the first time that the experiment has been verified in
this country.

The increase of vessels and tonnage entered into
and cleared from Liverpool, from and to places within the
limits of the East India Company's charter, from let of Jan.
to 31st March, 1851, is 36 vessels, with 18,839 tonnage.
Liverpool Mercury.

THE GREAT EXHIBITION.—Hyde-park is in the
complete, undisturbed, undisputed posse•siou of the young
blackguerdism of London. Ou Sundays especially the va-
gab ,nda amuse themselves with stoning and hustling the
passengers, and have their will of them in any way most
divertin,4 to them, at discretion. Not a park-keeper or police
officer is to be seen dining the Saturnalia. They seem to
keep out of the way systematically, in order that practice
may make perfect, and that at the opening of the Exhibition
we may show foreigners the immense superiority of the
British blackguard over the blackguards of every other na-
tion of the world, and a beautiful specimen of the liberty of
the mauvais sujet. —Examixer.

THE LATE EXECUTION AT CHELMSFORD.—It will
be recollected that the body of Sarah Chesham, who was
hanged for poisoning her husband, was given up to the rela
fives of the deceased. On the body arriving at the village of
Clavering, the clergyman refused either to read the u-ual
burial service over the corpse, or to allow it be buried in the
churchyard. Some correspondence, it is said, took place be-
tweet, the clergyman and the diocesan, and, pending the
issue, the coffin containing the corp e was temporarily placed
in a grave dug for that purpose, and covered with boards.
During the night the body was stolen, and no traces of it
have been discovered.-- Weekly Dispatch.

Sir James Duke had the honour of entertaining
at dinner, on Saturday, at his residence in Portland-place,
Lord John Russell, the American Minister, the Marquis of
Breadalbane, the Lord Mayor, Lord Marcus Hill, Lord Over-
stone, the Right Hon. Fox Maule, M.P., E. Ellice, M.P.,
W. G. Hayter, M.P., Sir E. N. Buxton, M.P., the Governor
of the Bank of England, Sir William Burnett, Admiral ',un-
cles, M.P, Aldermen Hunter and Lawrence, Mr. Samuel
Gurney, Mr. S. C. Whitbread, Mr. IL C. Hoare, Mr. E. Cal-
vert, and Mr. Hill.

The Earl of Carlisle had a dinner Foy on Satur-
day St ilia rtlidellCO iq Qmsysa9;llllCe.