The Sun.
London, England, 1851-07-05 00:00:00

GERMANY.

The lndependance of Brussels says :—" It is diffi-
cult to know exactly what is the real state of things
with respect to the re-establishment of Provincial
Diets in Prussia. Whilst the Ministerial Journals
give a long list of the circles which have obeyed the
appeal of the Ministry, the opposition papers register
the names of the circles in which the deputies have
declared that their powers are at an end. According
to the Prussian Gazette all the province of Branden-
burg and all that of Pomerania, except one circle, 17
out of 19 of the circles of the province of Koenigs-
berg, 14 out of 22 of the province of Breslaw, and 7
out of 9 of the province of Erfurth, have reconstituted
their provincial Diet; and in the other circles no for-
mal refusal has yet been given."
The States of Brunswick have just adopted the
proposition of the Government for the abolition of the
fundamental rights.

It has been stated that the Assembly of Citizens of
Hamburg rejected a few days ago a new Bill against
the press, presented by the Senate.
The rejection took place by 264 votes to 32.

RESIGNATION OF THE DANISH
MINISTRY.

A telegraphic dispatch from Hamburgh, received
in Paris yesterday, announces the resignation of the
Danish Ministry.
The capital was much agitated.

SUICIDE.—On Thursday Mr. H. M. Wakle:r held
an inquest at the Lund n Apprentice, Lleworth, on Edward
Thomas, a trumpeter of the 4th t ,ragoons, who are quartered
there during the National Exhibition. Deceased, x%ho had
a Peninsular and Water'-.o medal and six good conduct
stripes, had been twenty-nine years in the regiment.* He
joined the army from the Duke of York's school. Ia conse-
quence of doubting his wife's fidelity, who was much his
Junior, and to whom he had not long been married, he had
become melancholy. At six o'cicck on Monday morning, he
called the men to parade with his trumpet, and then returned
to his room. In a quarter of an hour afterwards the dis-
charge of fire-arms was heard in his quarters, when several
of his comrades rushed into his room, which was filled with
smoke, and where they found the unfortunate man lying
dead on the floor in a pool of blood, and a pistol clenched in
his right hand, with which he had blown his head to pieces,
having fired the charge into his mouth. According to the
evidence of his officers and comrades, deceased was one of the
best conducted men in the whole regiment. The jury re-
turned the following verdict :—" Deceased destroyed himself
with a horse-pistol; but what was the state of his mind at
the time there is no evidence to prove."
The failure of Messrs. James Starkey and Co., of
Liverpool, an old and respectable firm, was announced yester-
day. The amount of their liabilities has not been stated,
but it is believed to be large. Losses consequent upon the
recent fire at San Francisco are understood to have been
the cause of the stoppage.
FAIRLor FAlR.—Yesterday being the first Friday
in July, the annual procession of the mast and blockmakers
of the Port of London, from Wapping to Epping Forest,
took place. At nine o'clock, three boats' full, rigged and
manned, and drawn by horses, left Wapping in procession,
accompanied by bands of music and hundreds of people, and
proceeded to the borders of Epping Forest, where once stood
the Fairlop Oak, where a fair was held, immense numbers of
booths and shows being collected. There was a strong body
of police to preserve order. At eleven o'clock the amuse-
ments terminated. The procession on its return was not
allowed to discharge fireworks, having on the last occasion
set the Pavilion Theatre on fire doing so. This is the last
of Fairlop-Fair, as the forest is about being enclosed.
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE HOSPITAL.—The Com-
mittee of the University College Hospital, at their meeting
on Wednesday last, received payment of 3601. legacy of the
late Robert Charles Cullen, Esq., of Maldon, Essex, and
ordered that sum to be added to the other permanently in-
vested funds of that hospital, viz., 300/. bequeathed by the
late Rev. Dr Fellowes, and 2001. given by an anonymous
benefactor, W.L.D., in 1834 and 1835, with directions that
those sums should be invested.
FANCY FAIR oN BOARD Smr.—On Thursday
the East India Docks, Blackwall, were the scene of a very
novel and interesting sight, viz., a fancy bazaar, prepared by
Mr. Green, on board two of his large ships—the Monarch
and the Alfred— for the benefit of the Dreadnought hospital.
Amongst the visitors on the occasion were several persons
of distinction. The fair was held on board the Alfred, and
the Monarch was devoted to the purposes of a promenade
and refreshment room. The latter vessel was ornament -d
with flowers and evergreens, and there was a full military
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gave additional
ace occupied by the
stalls, and the comparative ease with which the company
paraded the decks, sufficiently showed the great size of the
vessels. The ladies who presided at the "receipt of custom"
were the immediate friends and relations of the captains and
officers in Mr. Green's service. The exertions of these ladies
in the cause they had so charitably espoused were kept up
with great vigour throughout the day, and the result was
evidently well calculated to promote the object in view.
THE MILITARY RIOT AT LIVERPOOL.—FRIDAY.
.The soldiers charged with the late attack on the police
were again examined to-day, when one of them was sen-
tenced to six weeks' and two to four weeks' imprisonment
for assaults on Sunday nig and one was discharged. In
the matter of the general rist, three were lined 51. each or
two months imprisonment, and one was acquitted. The in-
quiry was proceeding when our report left.
ST. GEORGE's HosPlTAL.—Yesterciay afternoon a
special general court of the
governors was held in the
board-room. A resolution empowering the trustees to sell
out stock amounting to 4,0001., to defray the expenses of
the recent alterations, was carried. It was also resolved that
a further sum of 2,000 should be expended in making a
further alteration by which twenty-four additional in-
patients can be accommodated. It was resolved that the
house-surgeon should not be allowed to practise nor attend
to any other duties than those of the hospital. It was re-
solved to reduce the hospital rents 10 per ceßt! This
;lilted the proccediuge.