The Sun.
London, England, 1851-02-04 00:00:00

GERMAN Y.

Accounts f rota Berlin of the Ist state that MAN-
TEUFFEL wot ild shortly proceed to Dresden, to have
an inverview with Prince SCHWARTZENBERG. The
interview woi 21(1 take place about the 15th.
Accounts fi ruin Vienna of the 29th ult. state that it
is probable tb e EMPEROR will visit England during
the great Ind us trial Exhibition.
The Wiesb ad en Conference, to take into considera-
tion the exist: in g tariff of the Zollverein, was to meet
on the Ist. iD n this subject we find the following in
the Cologne G azette :
"Will they es icceeri at this Conference in establishing
the necessity taut it is high time to bring back the
Zollverein ft cilia out of the false track into which it
has gradually seen driven, on to the original line? This
necessity is to apparent and so imperious, as far as
Prussia is coi stf3rm-d, that the above question is swal-
lowed up in a mother. Will the Zollverein, as it is now
constituted, c mtinue to exist undiminished and increase,
if even only c masional withdraa a a occur?
" A comm errcial union (says the Cologne Gazette),
which takes f re'e trade as a fundamental principle, exer-
cises a moral and cultivating influence; it confutes the
error that it is, the duty of the State to exercise a guar-
dianship over 'the affairs of its subjects—an error which
logically give a rise to the claims of the masses for the
guarantee of labour and for national workshops—a
claim which it is difficult to set aside as long as the poor
are taxed that the enterprises of the rich may draw great
gains. * * What we need to save the true Ger-
man Zollverei n, and to re-establish its beneficial Euro-
pean imports, is e, is a speedy and complete return to its
original and f Sr ,ancial Customs principles."

DENMA Etli AND THE DUCHIES
The Fede ra 1 Commissioners left Hamburgh for
Kiel on the They were to be followed imme-
diately by th e Danish Commissioner, Count REVENT-
LOW CRIMIN:

It was inti imated by the Dutch Government, about
three weeks br id e, that they would not sell the 2,300,0001. of
gold which th ey have to dispose of until they could obtain an
offer for the e► aire quantity. They have now, however, no-
tified that the;, r are willing to part with 340,000/. at about
two per cent. 61310 w the rate of their last sale, which took
place in Octob e r last, before the market was much disturbed.
A bid has, in consequence, been made to them, but only for
half the amou tit (170,000/.), and at a quarter per cent. below
the price nam ed, to which an answer is to be given in the
course of a few days.

At a spec meeting of the Australian Mining
Company held .:yesterday, it was agreed to appoint a com-
mittee to inve ttigate the affairs of the undertaking, and five
shareholders w we selected for that purpose.
DANISH Lz.aw.—The Criminal Tribunal of Copen-
hagen terminated on the 16th the trial of a band of 28 per-
sons for having• committed, at different times, 349 crimes of
various degrees. This trial commenced in 1842, and has
thus lasted nir ter years. The chief of the band was a man
named Peders, in, and he avowed that he had committed 22
murders, 14 incendiary fires, and 142 robberies. He was
condemned to be crushed on the wheel, beginning with the
feet ; afterwar. is to have his body burned by the common
hangman, and the ashes thrown to the wind. Two of the
others were co odemned to slavery, or labour in the hulks for
life ; seven to 1 turd labour for life in a fortress ; six to and
12 to 20 years' imprisonment with hard labour in a peniten-
tiary on bread and water.

On Sdturd ay afternoon, as a young woman, wife of
a porter emph )yed at the Vauxhall station of the South-
Western Rsilw ay, was crossing the Wandsworth-road, under
the railway arcs she was struck by the leader of a waggon
team, lost her footing, and fell amongst the horses' feet.
Both of the off-•wheels passed over her head, and death took
place instantaneously.
SEARCHING THE VAULTS OF THE HOUSE OF
COMMONS.— Yceterday evening the ceremony of searching
the vaults beneath the Houses of Parliament, customary
since the discovery of the Gunpowder Plot, took place pre.
vious to the assembly of Parliament this day. The ceremony
is now shorn of much of its official character, the proces-
sion yesterday consisting merely of the under officers of the
Sergeant-at-Arms and the police on duty at the Parliament
House.

SIR AVM. CODRINGTON.—We learn with pleasure
that Sir William Codrington has had a large fortune left him
by Baron Nieuman, whose death occurred so recently, and
'llllO, it will be recollected, married one of the daughters of
his Grace the Duke of Beaufort. Baron Nieuman was Aus-
trian Atnbas,ador in the English Court when he was united
to Lady Somerset, who died in childbed a short time pre-
vious to her husband's decease. The Baron was very partial
to Sir William, who is also married to another of the Duke's
daughters, and the fortune which has been left the worthy
Baronet by his relative amounts to more than 3,0001, a year,
boicioijeTll4 And plate,—,Bristol Times.