The Sun.
London, England, 1835-02-21 00:00:00

GERMAN PAPERS.

FROM THE BANKS OF THE AAR, FEB. B.—There is a re-
port of the convocation of an extraordinary Diet. Though
the origin of this report is unknown, the thing is not impro-
bable. There is no doubt that the Canton of Berne will not
take any decisive step with respect to foreign powers, in wilich
it is not certain of the approbation of the other members of
the Confederation. A moral representation of Swiss Radi-
calism by the Canton of Berne, is now out of the question.
Prudence seems to command it to leave•the decision to the
Cantons, in case Austria should persist in its demi:rids. The
present, difference is by no means of the same nature as that
which was excited by the votes of last year. The question
then turned on .4 principle of international law, a decision on
which was not so o 1 cult ; now a question relative to the po-
litical rights of the Confederation is concerned. The presid-
ing Canton (Berne) ruus the risk of incurring a responsibility
towards the Diet, whether it ticeides in the negative or the
affirmative. If, instead of a combination of the last year's
resolutions of the Diet of Berne, a guarantee had been re-
quired (by Austria) that it would act conformably to those
resolutions, which would have been given by withdrawing the
protest, the matter would have taken another turn. Berne,
if it had refused, wool i certainly have had the other Cantons
against it ' - which is perhaps not now the case.
The solution of the difficulty is, therefore, not so easy, per-
haps, as may be believed. The Vorort of Berrie consists of
two authorities, the feudal Council of State, and the Council
of Government. In the first there is still a radical tendency ;
but as, in all important concerns, it is only deliberative, and
the real decision belongs to the latter, which acts in an anti-
radical tendency, the opinion of the former is in the minority
in the Council of Government. M. Von Tavel is (by his
office of Schultheisz) President of both. He has not the in-
fluence which M. Hirzel had on the Vorort•of Zurich. M.
Von Tavel, as President of the Confederation, does not mani-
fest the character which the Radicals expected of him, and he
will not be able to induce the Council of Government to pur-
sue a different line of conduct from that which it has proposed.
to itself to follow.—A//geineine Zeitung, Feb. 15.
BaniaN, FEB. s.—lt is said that a number of peasants in
the villages of Silesia, on whom soldiers were quartered, be-
cause they refused obedience to the Government, intend to
emigrate, to Norway. Should this be confirmed, we should
be enabled to conjecture that this resolution is in some way
connected with the fact, that Professor Stefpens, who co-ope-
rated in this affair with Professor Scheihel, is a Norwegian.
The same Marquis Champernora de Hawkins, who lately
announced in some newspapers that the INke of Leuchten-
berg is descended from the Portuguese Dy,aasty, made out,
soon after the accession of King Otho to <he Throne of
Greece, that that Prince was descended front the Greek
Emperors. •
It is much to be regretted that numerous robberies are com-
mitted here, the thieves get into the houses and carxy off what
happens to be in•the way. It is affirmed that then' are now
6,000 individuals prowling about the streets of Bergin, who
have already been confined in the House of Correction for
various offences.
FEB. B.—Our authorities have not overlooked the odious
manner in which some German Papers have discussed or ra-
ther misrepresented the serious measures that they were
obliged to adopt against the religious follies in Silesia. These
prejudiced reporters forget to add that our Government has
long acted with great indulgence and amity to those deluded
people. It was in strict conformity with the dictates of order
and reason, that serious interference should be exercised,
when things occurred which seem hardly credible in
the nineteenth century. Thus, for instance, it is a
fact, that some of the inspired, as they are called, sewed
artificial wings upon their shoulders and climbed high trees for
the purpose of taking their flight for still higher regions. We
needly hardly say that the multiplication of Mr. Digen's flying
machines, and the removal of the inhabitants of our earth to
the airy regit,T, of the clouds, could not be tolerated, and the
prevention of it, both in a mental and physical view, came
within the cognizant::
e of the Medical Police.
The London Courier lately affirmed that the Tory elections
in England had been supported with German money ; this is
ridiculous : we at least have ether use for our money ; but it
cannot be denied that we are not a little interested for the ex-
istence of a Tory Administration, ant!. consequently about the
choice of the Speaker. In England itself, perhaps, the mat-
ter will soon be looked upon with indifference e. England de-
sires reform, which will probably be accomplisi:ed even by the
Tories ; but other countries expect many things which cannot
be accomplished by the Whigs.—Frankfort Paper, Feb. 15.

Accounts from Kiahtas (on the frontiers of China),
of the 6th Dedember, state that a most extraordinary pheno-
menon was observed on the 12th and 13th of November last,
in the neighbourhood of fort Tsourou-Khaitou. On the 12th,
about two o'clock in the afternoon, the sky became darkened
above the mountains, and in a short time this darkness enve-
loped the whole visible extent of the horizon. It increased to
such a degree that before night the whole country was plunged
in the profoundest gloom, which did not permit any thing to
be perceptible, and totally intercepted the view of the stars-
On the following day the atmosphere assumed the same ap-
pearance, the sun was hid, and the light of day could only be
compared to a dim twilight. The only difference observable was
that the air appeared filled with smoke without any smell, which,
about midnight, was entirely dispersed by a north-east wind, that
set in at four o'clock in the afternoon, and increased in force in
the course of the evening. When this atmospherical pheno-
menon had ceased, on the shores and the ice of the river
Ar-
gonna was found a brown dust, without smell, but of a sharp
salt taste. The grass was covered with a similar kind of dust,
but the colour of which was of a reddish hue. In moving on
horseback amongst loftier shrubs a great quantity of this dust
was disturbed, which caused a species of irritation in the nose
and throat. The fort of Tsourou-Khaitou, mentioned here,
i s situated in the government of Irkoutsk, in the district of
Nertchinsk, on the left bank of the Argonna, which forms, up
to its point of junction with the Schilla, the extreme frontier
of the Daourie, where these two rivers take the name of the
Amour. The Asiatic department of the Imperial Ministry 'of
Foreign Affairs has received a specimen of the dust we have
described, which, as far as is known, has never before been
seen in these countries.