The Sun.
London, England, 1850-03-22 00:00:00

GERMANY.

The Deutsche Zeitung states, from Frankfort of
the 18th inst., that the Prince Gortshakoff, His
Majesty the Czar's Ambassador and Plenipotentiary
at the Provisional Federal Commission, has, in the
course of some diplomatic formalities, refused to de-
liver up his credentials, unless the wishes of Russia
respecting Schleswig were peremptorily complied
with. His demands are :

""1. The recognition of Baron Billow as official re-
presentative of his Majesty of Denmark, in his capacity
as Duke of Holstein and Lauenburg.
"2. Recognition of the Danish Convention, of an
armistice, and the preliminaries of a peace of the 10th
of July, 1849; and
" 3. Instructions to Prussia for the immediate con-
clusion of a peace on the ground of the said prelimi-
naries."

In return the Federal Commission has resolved not
to communicate with the Prince Gortshakoff until he
has complied with all the customary formalities.
The Diet of the Electorate of Hessen Cassel was
prorogued on the 16th inst. The following is a tran-
slation of the Elector's Message :
We, Frederic William, &c., find ourselves induced,
under our most gracious (allergnadigster) assurances of
our paternal affection, to prorogue the Diet."

The private correspondent ofY the Morning Herald
writes as follows from Constantinople, under the date
of March 6th, a letter which we republisb, for the
purpose of showing our readers what treatment they
must expect if they imprudently venture to set foot
on board an Austrian vessel.
"A Prussian doctor, of the name of Meldelsohn, a
most respected resident of this city, proceeded five
weeks back to Shumla, in order to pay his respects to
a Hungarian of distinction, with whom he was per-
sonally acquainted. On his journey thither he
had the honour of making the acquaintance of the
commissioner
sto the Danubian principalities, who
was on a special mission to Shumla to carry
out the recent arrangements entered into between
the Courts of Vienna and. St. Petersburgh and the
Divan respecting the refugees. After a few days'
stay at Shumla the doctor, desirous of returning to
Constantinople, obtained from the aforesaid Turkish
officer a terkere, or passport, delivered to the doctor
in his own name and person, so that the latter had all
the reasons possible for considering that all was right
and in order' and that he could re-embark for this
city without delay.
"At Varna he took a ticket for his passage on
board the Austria, belonging to the Lloyd Steam
Company, the idea never coming into his mind that
an Austrian steamer, belonging to a commercial
society, could be changed by the arbitrary will
of the Internuncio into an Austrian state prison,
in the very capital of the Ottoman empire. .ever-

thelesss, this was the case. After the steamer's arrival
at Constantinople, the captain informed the doctor
that he had received instructions from Count Stur-
mer to detain him on board, as suspicion was heavy
against him. The doctor made no opposition what-
ever, and remained closeted in his cabin, while
two guardians watched his minutest movements.
Some time after he was called into the captain's
cabin, where he found the Austrian Con-
sul-General, M. Mihanovich, with whom he was
personally acquainted, but who feigned not to
recognise the doctor. The former gentleman said he
had reason to understand that the latter had in his
possession some dispatches of Kossuth ; and that it
was necessary a severe search should be made both of
his person and things, The doctor protested against
this abuse of power, and very reluctantly permitted the
consul to act as he thought proper, and was told by
him that being on board of an Austrian ship he was
not under the protection of the Turkish authority or
his own, but that he must consider himself in
Austria, and in the power of the Austrian Govern-
ment. The consul subsequently made a severe
search, going as far as to take the doctor's purse,
and examine the contents. Of course he was
disappointed, having discovered nothing to im-
plicate the doctor, with the exception of
a pocket-book, containing some family papers,
and a list of some half-dozen Hungarian names writ-
ten on a fly-sheet. He seized the book, and carried
it off. When the doctor, after these proceedings, ex-
pressed his desire to go on shore, the consul imperi
ously commanded the captain to forcibly detain him
until he had communicated with the Count Portales,
the Prussian Ambassador, in order to assure him-
self whether he was truly under the Prussian pro-
tection. After a forcible detention of eleven hours,
the secretary of the Prussian mission, accompanied
by M. Mihanovich, came on board, and delivered the
doctor, without returning him his pocket-book, or
in the least accounting for the scandalous proceed-
ings. I leave it to your intelligent readers to
make their comments upon these facts, and judge
them according to their true standard of value. I
should not have given the above details had I not a
sincere conviction that an act which in France and
Germany, in its present convulsed state, would not
have excited notice, will be condemned in England, as
it has been in Turkey, as arbitrary and unlawful, as
well as outrageous and insulting to civilization in
general."

The complicity of the Austrian Government and
of the Austrian Internuncio, Count Sturmer in the
plot for the assassination of Kossuth and his compa-
nions, is fully proved. A Croat, named Luca, who
was employed as a gardener in the service of a Turk-
ish gentleman, and who was one of the conspirators,
states that he was engaged for 500 piastres a month.
The company was composed of 15 persons, and the
nternuncio informed them that he had a firman from
his Emperor, authorising him to nominate the
fortunate individual who was to assassinate Kossuth,
Governor of Croatia. This promise was made in
the presence of the Consul-General and the Harvat-
bashi, who, in addition to the above engaging recom-
pense, promised a princely sum of money. The
number of Croats who volunteered their services is
upwards of thirty, but half the number were de-
clared eligible, and several of the rejected proceeded
at their own expense and venture. Several Croats
have followed the refugees to Brussa, with the san-
guine hope of succeeding in securing the mint of
money, and the banship of Croatia.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

OBTAINING MONEY FROM F. M. MS GRACE THE
DUKE OF WELLINGTON.—Henry Geo. Stanley and Hen-
rietta Stanley, his wif were brought before Mr. Hing-
ham for re-examination, charged with obtaining several
sums of money from F. M. his Grace the Duke of Wel-
lington, by false and fraudulent pretences.
It will be in the recollection of our readers that the
prisoners, who have obtained money to the amount of
near 4001. from his Grace by fraudulent pretences, were
remanded from Monday last until yesterday, when it
was intimated to the magistrate his Grace would appear
to prosecute. The hearing of the case was fixed for
three o'clock, and about five minutes before that time,
his Grace entered the court followed by Mr. Bodkin and
Mr. Humphries, who were retained for the prosecution.
Mr. Parry attended for the prisoners. His Grace was
dressed in a suit of blue, with an over-coat of the same
colour deeply braided. His Grace looked remarkably
well.

Mr. Bodkin addressed the magistrate at some length
and concluded by asking for a further remand, as he had
only on the previous night received some important in-
formation relative to the charge before the Court. The
learned gentleman then called his Grace the Duke of
Wellington, who deposed that he received the letter pro-
duced, and many more in the same handwriting. His
Grace generally burned such letters as soon as he re-
ceived them. His Grace sent the letter addressed to
Mrs. Whitmore, post-office, Kennington-common. This
letter contained the half of a 51. note. His Grace pre-
pared the envelope produced for the purpose of enclosing
the second half. His Grace generally kept a memoran-
dum of such transactions. Some other evidence having
been gone into the prisoners were remanded until Thurs-
day next.