The Sun.
London, England, 1851-12-06 00:00:00

GERMANY.

The news from France has created great excite-
ment in Prussia. So long as the contest is confined
to France no attempt at interference will be made,
and the feeling of the Berlin Cabinet is described as
being rather favourable to Louis NAPOLEON.
The Hanoverian Chambers were opened on the 4th.
The death of the KING was officially announced, and
a variety of measures of finance and legal organisation
were recommended to the consideration of the Cham-
ber. The report of the union of the Steuer Verein
with the Zollverein was read ; it stated that
Schaumburg-Lippe and Oldenburg had assented to
the measure, though the treaty was not formally,
completed by those States. The Hanoverian Go-
vernment saw in the incorporation an essential
means of promoting the material interests of the
country, though some temporary inconvenience
might be connected with it. The Government could
not have calculated on long maintaining a condition
of commercial isolation. The concessions made to
Hanover by the treaty were not more than just;
and though it involved some increase of taxation, the
general prosperity of the German States would be
promoted by the measure, and new sources of com-
mercial activity opened to Hanover itself.

NEW LONDON AND OXFORD LlNE.—This line 18
to run from Wolvercote, two miles on this side of Oxford,
via High Wycombe (just under the Castle Hill), Beacons-
field, Uxbridge, near Heston and Cranford, joining the loop-
line of the South-Western line at its 11% miles from the
Waterloo station—that is, not far from Breutford. It takes,
therefore, the route of the old coach road to Oxford. Its
total length from the junction with the loop line of the
South-Western Company to Wolvercote is 50 miles and 5
furlongs; to Oxford 48 miles. The main object of the line is
to give the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Com-
pany an outlet to London.— Worcester Chronicle.
DARING EXPERIMENT.—On Saturday evening a
most extraordinary accident occurred to a young woman,
the servant of a family residing in Broughton-street. It
appears that for some time an intimacy has existed between
the young woman and a son of Mars belonging to one of the
regiments at present stationed in the city. The family had
thought proper to forbid the nocturnal meetings of the two
lovers, and the servant was cautioned accordingly. The
course of true love, however, was not to be thus obstructed;
for on Saturday evening the young woman, having an as-
signation with her gallant lover, took measures for letting
herself down to the street from the window, a height of four
stories. Having procured a rope of sufficient length for the
purpose, she knotted it at short intervals, so as to provide a
holding for her feet and hands, and, having fastened it to
the window-sill, she proceeded to the perilous task of de-
scending by it to the ground. The poor woman, however,
had no sooner trusted herself to the rope than, either from
fear or some other cause, she relaxed her hold, and was pre-
cipitated to the ground. She was immediately removed to
the Royal Infirmary, when it was found that she had sus-
tained several severe injuries. She was still alive last night,
but was not expected to survive long. It may be stated, to
show the determination of the unfortunate woman, that in
her pocket was found a pencil note, to the effect that if she
lost her life it would be in consequence of her own rashness.—
Edinburgh Paper.

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THE ARMY.—The following general officers have
been selected by his Grace the Commander-in-Chief for the
pay of 255. per diem, consequent upon the late Brevet :
Major-Generals—P. Brown, M. Faue, Sir J. M. Wallace, the
Hon. John Finch, J. Lindsay, W. G. Moore, J. Campbell, W.
G. Cochrane, H. Somerset, N. Wodehouse, G. A. Wetherall,
J. Simpson, J. F. Love, Sir D. Macgregor, N. Hamilton, Sir
J. Dennis, C. A. F. Bentinck, J. G. Baumgardt, Sir B. I\ ickle,
and C. S. J. Arbuthnott.
CUXHAVEN, DEC. 3.—The Archimedes dguier is on
ohm on the isteuwerk Strand.