The Sun.
London, England, 1861-11-28 00:00:00

LITERATURE.

Elements of the German Language. By Friedrich
Otto Froembling ; Ist part, D. Nutt, Strand,

1860.

German has become of late years, and deservedly,
a part of good education. Besides its obvious uses,
it shares with Latin, and more than equally, in the
formation of our language; in so far at least that
the greater part of its words have their etymolo-
logical representatives in English. Its claims are
great, therefore, independently of purely literary,
commercial, or travelling uses. Hence the large
number of elementary books for teaching it. Mr.
Froembling's little work is the result of experience
of the practical wants of children who receive two
or three lessons a week in German. It will be a
great help to both teacher and taught in the first
essential steps. It gives the child sufficient, but
not too much, for him to master thoroughly
each time, and simplicity is studied throughout.
As parts are to follow for more advanced classes, in
which minuter details will be given, in this part
special care seems to be taken not to distract the
child's attention from what is most necessary to be
thoroughly graven on the memory. We sincerely
commend this first part as practical, simple, and
well adapted to beginners.

A communication from Frankfort, in the Augs-
burg Gazette, states that the declaration made by the Go-
vernment of E!ectoral Hesse, relative to the propolitiot.l of
the Government of Baden on the question of the Constitu
tion, forms no less than 17 pages of folio print.
The project
of a new electoral law is annexed to it.

EXPLANATION.—B. Barometer, corrected and reduced
to 32 deg at mean sea level ; each 10 feet of vertical rise
causing about 1-100th of an inch diminution, and each 10
leg abovs 32 deg causing nearly 3-100ths increase. E.
Exposed thermometer in shade. M. Moistened bulb (for
evaporation and dew-point). D. Direction of wind (true--
❑ot magnetic). F. Force (1 to 12—estimated). C. Cloud
(1 to 9). I. Initials :—b., blue sky ; c., clouds (detached);
f,, fog; h., hail; 1., lightning ; m., misty (hazy) ; 0., over-
cast (dull) ; r., rain ; e., snow ; t., thunder. S. Sea dis-
turbanco (1 to 9).

A double murder was, the day before yesterday,
perpetrated in the Faubourg Et. Germain. Mate. C---,
the wife of a brigadier of the sergens de ville, kept a small
eating-house in the Rue St. Placide, and was assisted b y
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time, they went out together. On th e brigadier's return he
was surprised to see neither his wife nor his niece, and, on
going into the kitchen, was horrorstruck at finding both of
them lying dead on the floor, each of them having received
wounds from a sharp instrument, and their heads being
almost severed from their bodies. The suspicion of the
husband immediately fell on a young man who came every
day, about the same hour, to take a basin of soup, and
whom he had left sitting at a table whoa he went out.
Knowing his address, he went, with some other police
agents, and there found proofs that his suspicions were cor-
rect, for the young man, although ho had had time to
change his clothes, had not washed his hands, which were
still smeared with blood. Nhen taken into custody, the
man confessed his guilt, and also that he had taken a sum
Pf 1,500 f. from a cupboard.

POLISH NATIONALITY,—The committee recently
appointed to arrange for a public meeting for the purpose
of expressing sympathy with the people of Poland, and
protesting against the inhuman and brutal exceszes of the
Russians, have arranged for the meeting to be held in the
Whittington Club, on Friday next. Lord Fermoy, M.P.,
will preside, and several members of Parliament and other
gentlemen have promised to attend. The recent news from
Warsaw invests the proceedings with great interest.
Mr. De Solsky has left Fenton's Hotel for
Derbyshire,