The Sun.
London, England, 1850-03-13 00:00:00

GERMANY.

The iJeutsclee Zeitung, of the 9th inst., states that
the Interim Commission of the German Empire is to
be prolonged for another period of three months.
The additional act, which is to be submitted to the
Erfurt Parliament, was agreed upon in the sitting of
the Administrative Council of the 26th ult. The
following is a translation of that document :
"Articles to be in force until all the states of the
German Confederation shall, of !their own free will,
have consented to the constitution of the empire:—
" Article 1. The totality of the staves which recog-
nise the conEtqution forms the German Federal Stat,
under the name of German Union,' and the two
houses (the Upper and Lower) are named ' the Par-
liament of the German Union.'
"Art. 2. The relations of the Union to the German
States, which refuse to join it, are to be determined on
negotiations.
as apolitical totality,
exe4rAcirset's 3.w
rights and fulfils all those duties which have hitherto
belonged and fallen to the charge of its various compo-
nent parts.
" Art 4. The international representations of the whole
of the federal states belongin,
to the Union (paragraphs
6 and 7 of the Constitutions) is exercised with regard to
those German States which are not members of the said
Union.

66 Art. 5. The powers of peace and war (see paragraph
10 of the Constitution) belonging to the Union a e not
to be exercised with regard to the German States, which
are not members of the said Union. The relations of
the said Union to the said states are determined by the
provisions of the federal legislature of 18 15. The mili-
tary establishment of the Union is to be formed in a
manner corresponding with the military establishment of
the Germanic Confederation.
66 Art. 6. The College of Princes consists of the fol-
lowing votes:—

" 1. Prussia.
"2, Saxony, Saxony Weimar, Saxony Meiningen
Hildburg-hausen, Saxony Coburg Gotha, Saxony Alten-
burg, Anhalt-llessau, Anhult-Bernburg, Anhalt-Kothen,
Schwarzburg-Sondershausen, Sehwarzburg-Rudolstadt,
Reuss Major, Reuss Minor.
"3. Hanover, Brunswick, Meeklenburgh-Schwerin,
irlecklenburgh-Strelit z, Oldenburg, Lubeck, Bremen,
Ilamburgh.

Hessen, MI6-
of
States joining
" 4. Bader.s
a u", sw.
aEildeickt,o
sr aelh IL% sbeunr,
the Union take their places according to the provisions
gGLraipupde,DLo
iephpye
of paragraph 67 of the Constitution.
" Art. 7. In the present condition of the Union the
members of the Upper House are sent in the followiug
proportion:—Prussia, 40 members; Saxony, 12; H 50..
over, 12; Baden, 10; Electoral Hessen, 7; Grand Duchy
of Hessen, 7 ; Mrcklenburgb-Schwerin, 4 ; Nassau, 4;
Brunswick, 2; Oldenburg, 2; Saxony Weimar, 2;
Saxony-Meiningen Hildburghausen, 1; Saxony Coburg
Gotha, 1; Saxony Altenburg, 1; bleeklenburgh-Strelitz,
1; Anhalt Dessau, 1; Anhalt Bernburg, 1; Anhalt
then, 1; Schwarzburg Sondershausen, 1; Schwarzburg
Rudolstadt, 1; Waldeck, 1; Reuss Major, 1 ; Reuss
Minor, 1; Sebauenburg Lippe, 1; Lippe Detmold, 1;
Liibeek, 1; Bremen, 1; Hamburgh, 2; making a total of
120 members. German States, joining the union, send
their members according to the provisions of paragraph
85 cf the Constitution.
" Art. 8. Those members of the Union who are actu-
ally eagaged in commercial or tariff treaties with states
not members of the said Union, cannot be prevoated
from discharging the duties impotel upon them by the
treaties aforesaid. Conn equently the provisions of the
Articles 2 and 7 of the Constitution are suspended until
the expiration of the term or terms of the aforesaid
treaties.

" Art. 9. The restrictions of Article 8 apply also to
Articles 2 and 9 of the Constitution, in so far al there
may be treaties on coinage, paper money, measures, and
weights.
" Art. 10. The a4heiion given by a German state to
the Union does not entail any alteration in the Con3ti.
tution: it takes free by a
velolation of the Union
Power."

The project put fir ward by Saxony, Bavaria, and
Wurtemburg, of a band or union in opposition to
that of Prussia, by which it
proposed to unite
all the States that ere members lof the old Con-
federation, has been Published. It is simpler
than that of Erfurt; the Executive is to
consist of seven member=, and the representative
of three hundred deputieF, of whom a third are
to be returned by Austria, a third by Prussia, and a
third by the other States collectively. There is to
be no &cond Chamber. If the 'assent_ of all the
States to the plan can be obtained, its executive is to
take the place of the present Interim Commission,
and its future code of fundamental laws, of the acts

based on the treaty cf Vienna, which established the
old CoLfederation.

GREECE.

In the sitting of the Greek Parliament of the 21st
tho. following note was read by M. LON DOS :
NOTE ADDRESSED B Y M. TROUVENEL, ENVOY EXTRA
°EDINA R Y AND MINISTER PLENIPOTENTIARY OF TIIE
FRENCH REPUBLIC, To M. LONDOS, MINISTER OF
FOREIGN AFFAIRS CF HIS MAJESTY TB E KING OF

GREECE, DATED FEBRUARY, 21, 1850.
"I confined myst?!f on the arrival of the steamer,
which touched at the Pirrens on the 19th inst. to inform
you ver' ally of the intelligence I had received from
France. Iliad hopi-d that the Minister of her BriLnnic
Majesty, advised also by his Government, would have
been placed in a position to make you a communication
analogous to mine; but the silence he has as yet main-
tained towards you makes me fear that he has not re-
ceived the instructions which were to inform him of
the new turn which the agreement (entente) estab-
lished between the C..l3inets of Paris and London has
given to the affhirs of Greece. I consequently think
that I am called upon to provide you with the
means of knowing, as exactly as possible, what has
taken place.

" The Government of the Republic, at the same time
that it deplores the events which it was my duty to
make known to it, eagerly desires to see the Govern-
ment of his Hellenic Majesty remain on the same foot-
ing. On the receipt of the news from Athens, it (the
French Government) immediately sent on a special
mission to London M. Drouyn de Lhuys, and on his
first interview with Lord Palmerston, the latter favour-
ably ree,ived (uccuciait) the propositions he was charged
to make to him. AftE.r the presentation of the officia'
note, in which the ambassador of the Republic, who had
formally come to an understanding on the subject with
the Principal Secretary of Stlte 1:r Foreign Aflairs,
offered the good offices and rce.liation of France, the
English Ambassador at Penis communicated to General
Lahitte, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, the textual
copy c f the instructions, which were to be sent to Mr.
W 3 so by the courier of the Bth February. If they have
been delayed it must be attributed to a cause totally in •
dependent of the will of Lord Palmerston, who posi-
tively declared, on tLe sth of the month of' March,
to M. Drouyn de Lhuy, that 11,1 would immediately
give instructions to suspend the coercive measures
adopted against Greece. The Government of her Britannic
Majesty, after tl.c engagemer.ts it has taken with so much
spout tneous gcod-will tiwards the Government of the
Republic, wilt regret as much as we do the prolongation
of a state of things which, I cannot doubt it, it was its
intention to put a stop to, and which the arrival of the
m xt, courier cannot tail to terminate. How ver this
may he, Sir, I feel it my duty to make you aware
of these facts. You will behold therein a proof cf the
sympathetic support of F.ranc, joined to a praiseworthy
moderation on the part of the British Government, and
ou may await with greater confidence the termination
of the regrettab!e incident which Greece will be deli•
voted from in a few days.—l am, &c.,

"ED. TTIOUVENEL."
M. LONDOS expressed a hope that the affair would
speedily be terminated. The Courricr d' Athenes
states, howsver, that the blockade of the Piraeus was
enforced more strictly than ever by Admiral PARKER.
In his note of the 13th Feb , addressed to M. LoNnor,
Mr. WYsz says—
" To avoid the possibility of any misunderstanding, I
have the honour to declare to you, in the most explicit
manner, that unless I receive new instructions, no steps
shall for the future he taken either by Vice-Admiral Sir
W. Parker or myself relative to this question, but that
it is not in my power to inform you of the ulterior in-
tentions c f the Government of the Queen on this subject.
(Signed) " T. Wrsr'."
The following note was addressed by Count NES-
SELRODE to Baron 13auNNow, as soon as it became
known at St: Petersburgh that England had accepted
the good oflies of France for the settlement of the
Greek affair :

COPY OF A DISPATCH FROM COUNT NESSELRODE TO

BARON BRUNNOW.
" St. Pt t.n.sburgli, Is 8-20th Feb., 1850.
"Monsieur le Baron,—Almost at the very moment
when v e were addressing to you our dispatches of the
7-19th of this month, we learnt by your report (No. 17)
that Lot d Palmerston, relaxing those extrema measures
which he has adopted twainst the Hel'enic Government,
had consented to suspend them on accepting, in this dif-
f,rence, the mediation of France.
"As in our eyes the interest of the Greeks is supe-
rior to every other personal consideration, we will not
insist upon the w ant of courtm,y of which we have
felt ourselves called upon to complain; and our inten •
Lion is nut to ark to enter, after the neqotiation has be-
gun, into a mediation already commenced, and which,
perhaps, at the time we are writing, may have borne,
as we hope, fruits profitable to Greece. If the
good offices of France can act efficaciously in favour
f the Government of King Otho, and can contribute to
lighten for him the weight of the pecuniary claims raised
against him, wo are ready to congratulate ourselves
sincerely on such a result. Nevertheless, M. ha Baron,
in regard to what relates to the cession of the Greek
islands, equally claimed in the name of tLe Government
of the lonian Islands, as this is not purely a question of
money between England and Greece, but is a question
of terriOry connected with the delimitation established
by a treaty concluded between the three cabinets which
founded the Hellenic Kingdom, it would at all events,
be impossible for us in our quality of signers of that
act; to admit that this question should ba treated by
England and France to the exclusion of Russia. We
feel it our duty therefore to make the reservation of our
rights in this respect, and you will declare this to the
English Government in communicating to it this dis-
patch.

Receive, M. To Baron, tho assurenca of my very d
ingttizhcd consideration.
(Signed)

" NESSELRODE."

STATE OF TRADE.
(From the Manchester Guardian of this day.)
MANCHESTER, TUESDAY.—There continues to be a
fair demand for 40-inch shirtings, on India account, at
tha rates of last week; and a moderate business has been
done to-day in printing cloths, and some other articles,
though, tha most part, at some further disadvantage
to the sellers, as regards prices. In such articles as are
hero referred to, the fall which has taken place
has latt,rly
_lel to the execution of numerous orders,
which e:e pieriously lying in al cyance. Heavy goods,
hoe e‘er, are much neglected. Yarns suitable far India
e in fair request, particularly 40's mule; and prices are
well sustained. The buyers for Germany, hoe ever,
and for the markets connected with the Medite-ra-
near], ate rather more indisposed f)r business than
they were last week. This is mainly attributable to
the rather disturbed asreat cf Eurolesn politics. Our
home conaumers are buying only from hand to mouth.
On the whole, there fire, the value cf water twist and of
yarns for home use is not fully sustaino. In both yarns
and goods, however, much irregularity in the quctstions
is found to exist, according to the varying positions and
views of the producers.
ROCHDALE, MONDAY.—The flannel market has un-
dergone little change to-day from that of last Monday.
The wool rr it,ket has been slack, and the mannf .cturers
show little disposition to purchase. Prices may be
quoted in favour of the buyers.
MACCLESrIELD, TIIESDA.Y.—The throwing Its cm-
tinue fully employed; but the complaints, mentioned in
our last, of inadequate prices for thrown silks, contlnue.
Manufacturers of 561711 Q descriptions of goods suitable for
shipping are tolerably brisk ; others, making chiefly for
the home trade, are comparatively dull; the low prices
offered rendering business difficult at present. The
dyers are reported slacker of work. There is no altera-
tion to notice in the raw silk market.

HUDDERSFIELD, TUESDAY.—Our market has scarcely
been so lively to-day as last week, though the demand
for light goods has been somewhat brisker. Most of the
business continues to be done in the warehouses.
HALIFAX, SATURDAY.—There has not been much ac-
tivity in our Piece Hall to-day, and the inquiry has been
principal:y for lastings, which are still very soiree.
The demand for fsncy goods is hardly so brisk
at it was, though ti ere is a good deal doing to
order, and the qm taions have slightly recede 3. Yarns
are also rather easier to buy, as the export houses area e-
out of the market ; but the spinners are all fully em-
ployed. The wool market does not show much anima-
tion ; and the staplers are free sellers, at a slight decline
in price.

LEEDS, TUESDAY. —We have no change of moment to
notice in the cloth trade since last week. There is not
much doing at the Cloth Halls; but still a good steady
business doing to order, and prices are very firm.