The Sun.
London, England, 1851-10-15 00:00:00

GERMANY.
le Government of the Grand Duchy of Baden,
t) indace the great number of Jews who get
in the duchy as hawkers, to take to agri
trz.t.t pursuits, has given a sum of money to the
.7.a Society of Agriculture to be distributed in
limns to such Jew pedlars as may, before the
i,,xt year, consent to become agricultural

laPOtr. 79.
-Thircu de Werther, who has been for some time at I
re,:• L.
gen, on an extraordinary mission from the
: Prussia, has just been definitively nominated
11.15r..r Plenipotentiary of Prussia to the Danish
Uourt. The appointment is considered a proof that a
good understanding has been come to between Den-
mark and Prussia relative to the succession to the
Datih Crown.
The Gonice Polski, a Polish journal, attributes the
;t of Count Adam Potocki to the following cause:
. 1848 the Count was Commander-in-Chief of the
auonal Guard of Cracow, and as such he ordered a
~ruin quantity of muskets from England to arm the
1119 I.: under his command. The muskets arrived at
lltimburgh in due season, but remained there unused,
because their situation was no longer the same. The
Austrians having afterwards occupied Hamburgh,
found the muskets addressed to the Count, and in con-
sequence his arrest was determined on.

ITALY.
i"ao-Milan Gazette publishes the following notifi-

un :
`-‘ In order to give the inhabitants of the Lombardo-
- •sn kingdom a proof of the paternal solicitude of
wperial and Royal Government, and the unvaried
Imency of our august Sovereign, his Excellency Field-
Count Radetzky has, in virtue of the authority
testy has been pleased to entrust to his hands, di-
:teral that all persons not belonging to the army, who
,re nor• undergoing punishment for political transgres-
sipne minor importance, owing to the state of siege,
shalt receive a free pardon, provided their punishments,
whether directly inflicted by courts-martial or mitigated
by the presiding officers, do not exceed a year of simple
3aiilitary arrest. In consequence of which all civilians
in prison under the circumstances defined above
.1 immediately be set at iiberty.
" The Military Commandant, Count GYULAY.
'Elan, Oct. 8, 1851."

pia Ain

S.Costiluzionale of Florence states that, in con-
nee of the new postal regulations stipulated with
?, Tuscany will henceforth receive letters from
PAris in five days instead of eight.

TEXAS.
_re seems to be a dreadful state of morals and
life upon the frontiers of Texas. The papers
ceived from Galveston, San Antonio, and
Aville are filled with details of homicide, rob-
and personal violence. The Indians are cora-
, frightful ravages on the Rio Bravo, and a
‘l;.tion is on foot in Tamaulipas, aided by Texan
lnteers.
The following bloody duel at Brownsville, on the
,is a specimen of the occurrences on the
:—" We have to record an unfortunate oc-
currence in our streets, which has produced con-
siderable excitement. On Sunday evening, about
eight o'clock, a dispute arose between Mr. W. H.
Harrison, of this city, and Mr. G. W. Clarke, of
Point Isabel, which resulted in the instant death
the latter. For some days past a serious mis-
understanding had existed between a brother of
Harrison and the deceased, which threatened
t: ead in a duel. On Sunday it seems to have
been stopped, or in some way abandoned, and
Was regarded of little further importance. In the
evening, about eight o'clock, the parties met acci-
dentally at the Gem, and another contest sprung up
between the parties to this melancholy affair. A sort
of -fmmal duel, with five-shooters, was proposed
ecepted on the instant in the street. They went
and at fifteen paces commenced the contest.
Bet pistols missed fire in the first attempt ; the de-
.cea, I's pistol missed a second time ; his antagonist fired
,ut effect, and again fired a second time, when
tte r,eceased fell by a shot near the region of the
heart. Though comparatively a stranger among us,
'he was buried on Monday, and his body attended to
the grave by a large and respectable body of citizens.
A. warrant was issued for the arrest of Mr. Harrison,
but he passed into Mexico before it could be executed.
We learn that he will return in time to meet any in-
vettittation that the authorities may institute in the
case. Tne character and position of the parties con-
cerned render it a melancholy event. Mr. Clarke was
nearly forty years of age, and his antagonist several
years his junior."—New York Tribune.

THE RIVER PLATE.
(From the Journal du Havre.)
7 the Sirene, Captain Andoire, arrived at Bor-
'3eaux on Monday last, we have received news from
the River Plate to the 10th August (on which day
the Sirene left Monte Video), four days later than
that brought by the last packet. It contains the re-
•cital fan execrable deed, for which civilised nations
cannot find terms of reprobation too strong, perpetrated
by one of Oribe's generals. The following are the
;facts :

On the Ist of August the national guards of Colonia
had ventured to manifest their satisfaction at the de-
parture of the troops of the garrison, commanded by
Lieutenant- General Moreno. At the same time they
tork little pains to conceal the fact that the entry of
Qenerals Urquizi and Garzon into the Oriental terri-
'wry was not displeasing to them. Observing these
symptoms of the tendency of public opinion, the police
agents of Oribe hastened to inform Moreno, who was
then encamped six leagues from Colonia. As soon as
this ,fficer had examined the reports of his spies he
returned with all speed to Colonia, bringing with him
about 400 men and ')00 horse, entered the town, and
gave the signal for a general massacre ; men, " sus-
Peetcsci" children fell under the knives of the cut-
throats. Moreno, to excite by his example the fury
of these assassins, with his own hands cut the throat
of a Toting man named Napoleon Neves.
earful incidents marked the progress of this scene
"arnage. These executioners, infuriated against
1r victims, were seen to mutilate them, to rob
the corpses of their jewellery and earrings, and, not
iatisiled with cutting off their fingers and noses, to
!nt their skins into strips to make ropes for their
t art
,harness. The refinement of cruelty which can-
iaiLa.s inflict upon their prisoners has been fairly sur-
Passed by a lieutenant of Oribe.
l.t's beyond a doubt that amongst the victims, the
Precise number of whom had not been ascertained at
i departure of the last letters, was a Frenchman,
who
he a d been a long time established in Colonia,
bad always he
executed Daguerreotype portraits, and who
of thetways kept himselfaloof f hpolitical affairs
ctiuntry. rom t e
T This unhappy man has been basely
massacred. At
Colonic
ehimoment when the cut-throats of
Moreno entered
Two
be was enjoying the amuse-
ment of fishing.detached from the troop to
the wretches were expressly
Few moments afterwaraPs to put an end to him, and a
his mutilated corpse was
stretched upon the shore.