The Sun.
London, England, 1850-09-09 00:00:00

GERMANY.

The Austrian Cabinet replied to the last Prussiam
note on the 2d inst. Austria declares her unwilling—
ness to admit any conf?rences but such as are derived.
from the German Diet.

The Berlin Constitutionnelle Correspondenz of the
4th inst. states, that in consequence of a resolution of
the Provisional Council of Princes, all the Govern-
ments of the League have peremptorily refused to
join the Austrian " Bundestag."
According to the Lithographic Correspondence of
Berlin, Russia, Austria, and England have acceded
to the wish of Prussia to have the Neufchatel question
pacifically settled by the decision of the great powers.
A letter from Berlin of the 3d states that the
French Government has not replied to the invitation
sent to it by Prussia to co-operate with the other
great Powers in the arrangement of the affair of
Neufchatel. It is supposed that France will reply in
the same manner as the other great powers on the
point. The question to be decided, the letter says, is
simply this—is not the right of Prussia over Neuf-
chatel as sacred as any other right ?
It is said that the Austrian army of VORA,RLBERG
will enter the duchy of Baden, but not -with any hos-
tile intention against Prussia.
The German journal of Frankfort of the sth an-
nounces from Cassel that M. Loam-Elwell, one of the
Ministers, having refused to concur in The measures
of M. HASSENPFLUG in oppesitisn to the Assembly of
the States, his resignation has been accepted, and M.
lIASSENPFLUG has taken the portfolio of Finances,
and issued a decree for the collection of the taxes.

At the first sitting of the Restricted Federal
Council at Frankfort on the 21, the Assembly ac-
knowledged that it was the duty of the' Germanic
Confederation to interfere in the qtiestion of the
Duchies in order to put an enditoi the war, and ac-
cordingly the Council appointed a coin mittee to
examine and report on the best course of proceeding
to effect that purpose. A committee was elm) named
to take into consideration the proposition made by
Prussia to Austria to confide the care of the federal
property to a commission. The commit tee on the
affairs of the Duchies were yesterday and to-day seri-
ously engage.! in their inquiries, and it is expected
that measures will very shortly be adopted. by them in
the sense of a material intervention.

DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES.

A letter from Hamburgh, of the 4th, says
" The Lieutenancy-General of Holstein has con-
voked for the 9th the Chamber of Representatives at
Kiel. It is to be expected that the Deputies elected
in Schleswig will, in spite of the orders of the Prus-
sian and Danish Commissioners, and of the re-occu-
pation in that province by the Danish army, proceed
to Kiel to take part in the deliberations. The prin-
cipal object which has caused this convocation is the
necessity under which the Lieutenancy-G-eneral is
placed of demanding from the Deputies new subsi-
dies, and consequently of imposing new taxes on the
inhabitants of the unfortunate country for the conti-
nuance of the war. It is not possible abroad to form
an idea of the immense sacrifices which this
struggle has required since its commEsoement. In
addition to military lodgings, levies, supplies of all
kinds for the army, all the landowners have been on
different occasions obliged to pay really enormous
sums•—some of them even as much as 40,000 f.,
50,000 f., and 60,000 f. ; and yet no result has been
arrived at, and it is not possible to see the end of these
ruinous sacrifices. The offer which M. KLAPROTII,
formerly a Major in the Baden service, has made at
Rendsburg, has been accepted, and a corps of volun-
teers, recruited in southern Germany, and of which
he will have the command, is shortly expected in
Holstein. The committee of assistance organised here
in favour of the two Duchies has caused 1,000 com-
plete uniforms to be made for these volunteers. The
volunteers are to arrive by little detachments,
and arms are to be given them at Rends-
burg. Prudent men, however, regret that our town,
which is exclusively commercial, and which has great
interests at sea, should not have remained entirely
neutral in the quarrel between the Duchies and
Denmark. The Holstein army being every day
strengthened by recruits and volunteers, the Govern-
ment has made numerous promotions of subaltern and
superior officers. The army will soon be stronger
and more complete than before the battle of Istedt,
and we may every day expect to hear of a general en-
gagement between the two armies. Colonel BREW..
DUCK of Baden has placed his services at the disposal
of Holstein. General DE LEURBACII of Hesse, for-
merly Minister of War, is also expected to wait on
the Lieutenancy-General to offer his services. It is
generally remarked that the sympathies in favour of
the two Duchies is stronger in the south than in the
north of Germany
A letter from Copenhagen of the Ist says—" The
statement made, and often repeated by the journals of
the north of Germany, that the French colonel, M.
LATOUR-DU-PIN, who was present as a simple spec-
tator at the battle of Idstedt, bad been killed by a
cannon• ball, is entirely false. It is the same with re-
spect to a rumour spread by the same journals, of
the Danish General DE Macu having been wounded
during the last general reconnaissance, and having
died of his wounds. Both M. LaTous-nu-Pax and
General DE MAGU are in perfect health at Schleswig."
The Last News of Copenhagen of the 31 states that
General WimasEts has suddenly died at Rendsburg.
The journals of the Duchies, however, do not mention
such an event.