The Sun.
London, England, 1866-07-04 00:00:00

THE WAR IN GERMANY.

WETZLAR, July 2, Afternoon.,
About 4,000 men of the army corps of Prin4e
Alexander of Hesse Darmstadt entered this to-
to-day.
They levied a contribution from the inhabitants,
and left this afternoon, taking the direction of
Giessen.

GITSCIIEN, Joy 4,
The King of Prussia left. at 5 o'clock this 1,
ing for the outposts of the army under the Crown
Prince.
The principal head-quarters are here awaiting
further orders.

BERNE, July 3.
At the opening of the Federal Chambers, ',it.
Plauta, the President of the National Copacil,
said:—

" Let us commence our labours with absolute
confideuce based upon the intimate union of the
people and magistrates who are resolved. to defend
the position given to Switzerland by history and
treaties.

COURSE OF EXCHANGE—Last Evening.

Amsterdam Short. 11 13f 11 14)-
Ditto 3 Months. 11 18f 11 11
Rotterdam
Antwerp — 25 47 25 55
Brussels
Hamburg — 13 9 13 10
Paris Short 25 12k 25 20
Ditto 3 Months. 25 42f 25 45
Marseilles
Frankfort on the Maine —117 k
Vienna — 13 50 13 go
Trieste — 13 50 13 70
Petersburgh
Berlin Berlin
Madrid —44 f
Cadiz
Leghorn
Milan
Genoa — 30 0 30 30
Naples — 30 0 80 20

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LONDON GAZE T TE. —Last Evening.

WHITEHALL, JUNE 30.
The Queen has been pleased to declare and ordain that
His Serene Highness Prince Frederic Christian Charles
Augustus, of Schleswig-Holstein Sonderbourg, Augusten-
bourg, shall henceforth, upon all occasions whatsoever
styled and called " His Royal Highness," before his name
and such titles as now do, or hereafter may belong tj.,
him : And to command that the said Royal conceFAion
and declaration be registered in her Majesty's College of
Arms.

pleased to appoint Sir James
M
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be been Lieutenant
and Sheriff-Principal f
JULY 2.
aTthheeso Queen eßeanrt.h,
the shire of Ross, n the room of Colonel Hugh Duncan
Baillie, deceased.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint the Most Noble
George Douglas, Dukeot Argyll, K.T., Sir Roderick Impey
Murchison, Bart., K.C.8., Sir Wm. Geo. Armstrong, Knt
C. 8., Henry Hussy Vivian, Esq., George Thomas C1p,117
Esq., Joseph Dickinson, Esq., George Elliot, Esq., Thost.
Emerson Forster, Esq., John Geddes, Esq., Robert Ilunt,
Esq., John Beete Jukes, Esq., John Hartley, Eg John
Percy, Esq., Doctor of Medicine, Joseph PrestwiA, Esq.,
Andrew Crombie Ramsay, Esq., and John Thomas Wood-
house, Esq., to be her Majesty's Commissioners to investi-
gate the probable quantity of coal contained in the coal
fields of the United Kingdom, and to report on the quan-
tity of such coal which may be reasonably expected to be
available for use :

Whether it is probable that coal exists, at workable
depths, under the Permian, New Red Sandstone, and other
superincumbent strata.
To inquire as to the quantity of coal at present con-
sumed in the various branches of manufacture, for steam
navigation, and for domestic purposes, as well as the
quantity exported ; and how far, and to what extent, such
consumption and export may be expected to increase ; and
whether there is reason to believe that coal is wasted,
either by bad work or by carelessness or neglect of proper
appliances for its economical consumption.