The Sun.
London, England, 1851-04-17 00:00:00

We have accounts from Gibraltar to the sth inst.
The British steamer Grecian, twenty-three days from
Constantinople, arrived on the 31st ult., and cleared
for Liverpool.
The steamear Waterwitch, 14 days from Palermo,
arrived on the Ist instant, and sailed for Liverpool.
The screw steamer Astrologer, 7 days from Liver-
pool, arrived on the 3d inst., and proceeded for Malta
and B eyrout.
The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer
Euxine, five days from Southampton, arrived on the
4th, and sailed for Malta and Constantinople. The
steamer Shamrock, bound for the same Rods, ar-
rived the same day, in five and a half days from
Liverpool.
The quarantine hitherto imposed at Malaga upon
vessels arriving from Gibraltar has been removed.
At Gibraltar on the sth inst., exchange on London
at 9Q days' date was quoted 50 and to 51 ;on Paris,
£f. 29c.; Spanish pillared dollars, 2 and premium.

GERMANY.

The Frankfort Journal of the 10th, says—

" The annual meeting of the German £sociation for
the Protection of National Trade was opened yesterday
by Prince Felix of Hohenlohe.
" The Prince, in the speech which he made upon the
occasion, said that the essential tendency of the associa-
tion should be to labour at the grand politico-commercial
union of Germany and Austria, while it at the same time
conscießtionsly maintained the union already obtained by
the ZolFierein, and by introducing into it the necessary
reforms.
" Bdfore the closing of the afternoon sitting, a long dis-
cussion ensued on the question of the Austro-German
customs and commercial union. The Assembly made the
following declaration on the subject:—
" The Amenably proclaims in principle the necessity
of an Austro-German customs and commercial union,
based on the maintenance of the Zollvereia, and on the
principle of the protection of German trade. It invites
the President of the Association to use every means in
his power to accomplish this work, by endeavouring to
remove the difficulties which still oppose that union.'
" The Easter Fair was opened on the 9th, and will
not be closed till the second Tuesday after Easter.
Thera was an abundant supply of articles, especially from
the states of the Zollverein, but it was apprehended that
the fair would not b good, from the present state of
political affairs."
A. letter from Berlin, in the lndipendance of Brus-
I"'Vs that Austria has laid down conditions for
the opening of the Diet of Frankfurt, and that the
principal of these is that the Diet shall ratify all the
decisions taken
by the Assembly at Frankfurt, al-
though neither
tit
it Prussia nor her allies were represented
therein. It
entered into on
this
considered that the negotiations
of the Diet ia s subject will not prevent the open-
ingte Ist Al.ay.
The First Chamber of Prussia, in its sitting of the
11th, is the discussion
on the Bill on Ministerial re-
sponsibility, adopted an amendment, to the effect that
when one Chamber shall haveother
resolved to impeach a
'Minister, it shall inform the
order that it may vote in its turn, Chamber of it, in
Chamber shall not vote for the resolution, it shall not
and that if such
i,ecome definitive until after the former
hive declared that it persists in it. Chamber shall
A Bohemian journal, under date of Kalisch,
sth
inst., states that several arrests have recently been
made in Poland, and particularly at Warsaw.
among the number are some priests and literary men.
Is is stated in a letter from Hanover, that although
the Chambers have been prorogued to the Bth May,
the hostility between the Government and the Corn:
inittees of the Ch4mbers continues to be very sharp,
chiefly with respect to the demand of the hereditary
nebles to maintain the privileges they possess. The
latter are supports_d by the Government.

SAXONY.
The Diet of the kingdom of Saxony was closed on
the 12th instant by the King in person, who ad.
dressed *is
,
" Gen c. Assembly in the following terms :
ti-mtn of the Estates,—When, in the middle of
last year I convokhat you would ed you, I expressed my conviction
y of restoring th
cessit !Tree with me as to the imperative ne-
of a Conser-
vative policy,
and e essential principles. .
relying on that Constitution which
great satisfaction to promoted the hapiness of Saxony. It is a
that I w me that this day I am enabled to say
as not disappoint-
was not possible to come t la my expectation. Though it
jeet of the modifications
tion and the Electionary lin.
.° an understanding on the sub-
the Charter of the Constitu-
meat, still part of the object in
the abolition (in another as proposed by my Govern-
wain view has been realised by
while your consent to the modification
the fundamental laws,
graphs of the Charter of the Constitution
of several para-
graphs for the want of the Administration
secures the
of unexpected but still possible contingencies, in the event
reign affairs of Saxony have of late nags"mci"' The fo-
tory aspect. The affairs of Germany, which a satisfac-
eompellad me to take extraordinary measures last year
scribed by my federal duties) have not yet Ve (a 3 pre.
tively arranged, but they arc progressinc, been emi-
' peaceably and
according to the dictates of the federal law.
"An important even t.(viz., the opening of the Dresden.
Prague Railroad) has confirmed the union between
Austria and Saxony. It is the basis of an arnalgaman
tion of the interests of the two States, and it makes'
Saxony the connecting link between the north and
south of our country. This event has been the more
joyful to me, since I am certain that the great and
desirod purpose of a German unity is attainable only
on. the basis of an identity of interests of all the
German States. Thus, gentlemen, you conclude your
lahours.' May they improve the prosperity of the country;
tuay peace, order, tranquillity, and safety flourish, so
that our country may recover from the wounds of the
fatal past."

ITALY.
La Croce di Savoia states that the Austrian Go-
Nerrtment has demanded a passage through the Sar-