The Sun.
London, England, 1834-08-04 00:00:00

GERMAN PAPERS.

DOSSELDOEFF, JULY 24. According to private accounts from
Amsterdam, the merchants who properly trade with Germany are
far from being agreed on the whole with the projectors of the rail-
road to Cologne. In general it is considered as a private specula-
tion, and various means are employed to gain public opinion in its
favour. It is affirmed that one may expect a pamphlet by an ex-
perienced hand, which will show that the projected railroad will
not in any respect accomplish the proposed object, and that it cannot
afford any profit. It is hoped that this pamphlet will appear in time
to be consulted by many persons before they engage in an under-
taking from which they can derive nothing but loss. A main awl.
ment alleged on all occasions on the prop9etors part is, that
Amsterdam is obliged to make a new railroad because Bel-
gium makes such a one. We are assured that the pamphlet in
question opposes irrefragable arguments to this assertion.
ROME, JULY 10.--The protracted stay of Don Miguel at Genoa,
inasmuch as he had given notice to our Government of his early ar-
rival, has caused much astonishment. It now appears as if he
would not come to Rome before the autumn. Many, indeed, think
he wishes to let the hot season pass away, but many also give far
different reasons. Some affirm that the suppression of all the con-
vents in Portugal, and the seizure of their property, have exhausted
the patience of the Papal Chair, and it is expected that the thunder
of the Vatican will be hurled against Don Pedro and his Ministers.
In such a case it would be prudent that Don Miguel should not be
at Rome, at least not at the moment when the excommunication
is pronounced. I give you this explanation without vouching for
its accuracy. Certain persons flatter themselves by representing
that such a measure is impossible, and ground their opinion on the
personal inclinations of the Pope, as well as the necessity of yield-
ing to the spirit of the age, and not to excite the Powers ;
others, again, argue how little the spirit of the Roman Church
has been studied, which never suffered itself to be discouraged un-
der the greatest misfortunes. They should only recollect Pius VII.,
who did not fear to excommunicate Napoleon even in the pleni-
tude of his power. The same paper has the following from Berlin,
of the 18th :

" The change in our Ministry had occasioned vacancies in some
of the offices, which are now filled up ; and Messrs. de Brenn and De
Rochow, acquire daily the general regard and the fullest confidence
of the public, to which we must add, that M. de Brenn will be
able to give new life to the department of the Interior and police
in which a certain torpor has for some time prevailed." ,
The Gazette has the following from Nauplia, of the 15th ult. :
" A Royal Ordonnance has appeared, granting medals to all the
officers, non-commissioned officers, and soldiers, who were engaged
in the suppression of the Greek war. The officers' medals are to
be of silver, the non-commissioned officers of bronze, and the
soldiers and sailors of iron.

" The following rights are also attached to the possession of those
medals :—ln the choice of communal officers the holders shall pre-
' cede the highest tax-paver in the Assembly ; they may carry arms
without a special permission from the Police ; in all fetes of the
Communes they shall take place of Honour next to the Communal
Functionaries ; as they are exempted from all compulsory service
in works and institutions of the State. By another Royal Ordon-
nance pensions are granted to invalids, to the widows and orphans
of those soldiers who died on the field of battle fighting for the free-
dom of Greece. These pensions are to be paid from January 20,
1833. These Ordonnances have caused the greatest joy, and the
nation acknowledges the benefit with thanks. A new Ordon-
nance will shortly appear (it is already gone to be
printed), by which every soldier who has fought for the
freedom of Greece, will receive a portion of land. Through
these means the Government will, silence all complaints, for how-
ever severely it may act against mutineers and rioters, it is just
enough to reward the peaceable citizen. News has just arrived that
the moveable column which was formed of citizens of Roumelia
against the robbers in that country, has shot eight of the leaders.
By the establishment of this force, the country will soon be freed
from these robbers, no doubt instigated by Turkish machinations."