The Sun.
London, England, 1850-12-14 00:00:00

GERMANY.

The Cologne Gazette of the 11th inst. states that
the Elector of 13EssE has determined not to return to
Cassel, but will fix the seat of his Government, for
the future, at Fulda ; he may, however, now see fit to
modify his arrangements, as the cholera broke out at
Fulda on the 11th.

The retreat of the Prussian troops from the Elec-
torate continues.

The King of PaussiA has appointed MANTEUFFEL
President of the Cabinet, and Von RAUMER Minister
of Public Instruction.

Tne opening of the Dresden Conferences has been
postponed from the 18th to the 25th. The sum-
monses to the different Garman Governments to at-
tend them are issued in the joint names of Austria
and Prussia.

Letters from Vienna' of the Sth state that Austria
has determined to support a proposition for a liberal
reform of the German Diet. The reduction of the
Austrian army is ordered.
The new Austrian tariff has been completed. Some
of the measures will be introduced at the beginning
of the next year. On the Ist of May, 1851, the
whole system will be in operation, and the export
and import laws published in 1829 and 1838 will
become null and void. The goods which are li-
able to duty are divided into 32 principal, and these
again into inferior classes. The Customs must be
paid in imperial florins (three pieces of 20 to the
florin). With the:exceptio❑ of salt, gunpowder, to-
bacco, and preparations liable to explode, all goods
can be txparted and imported without any special
permit being requisite. The new tariff is particularly
favourable for raw materials of all kicds. Many ar-
ticles which are now subjected to heavy duties will
be entirely free, and the imposts on others considera-
bly reduced. The duration of the tariff, which is for
the whole of the Austrian dominionti, is fixed at five
years and a halt; and no change can be made in it,
except by decree of the Imperial Diet (and this is not
very likely to happen), or in case of a Customs Union
with Germany and Italy.

DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES.
It is disputed whether General WILLISEN resigned
the command of the Holstein army or was deprived
of it by a direct act of the Stathalterschaft. That
there have been differences of opinion between them
has long been known. The following extract from
a letter from Kiel gives the reports there on the
point :
" Disputes had arisen between the Stathalterschaft
and the commanding General on the appointment of
officers, the plans of operation of the army, and its dis-
tribution. On the course to be pursued under preient
circumstances a complete difference of opinion arose.
The General would not undertake any further
attack on the enemy, and wished to dismiss the Prus-
sian troops in the service. In consequence M.
Beseler the Stathalter, after a previous bitting
of the Connell of State, gave General Willisen his dis-
missal without his having demanded it; the pension of
2,000 thalers yearly is expressly secured to him. The
command was offered to General von Baudiesen, who de-
clined it on account of bad health; it was then given to
General von Horst."

Extensive preparations have been made for an at-
tack on the Danish lines, but it has been deferred by
:he open weather.

NEW CHURCH OF ENGLAND.—We are informed,
and have no reason to doubt the accuracy of our informa-
tion, that it is intended by some of the more influential
Tractarian clergy, who are expected forthwith to secede
from the Anglican Establishment, to form a new religious
community,
which, it is supposed, they will designate the
which, at present, they call a New Church of
England ;
Primitive Church of England. Some of the parties to whom
we refer have conscientious scruples against recognising the
supremacy of the Pope; others cannot bring their minds to
acquiesce in the propriety of worshipping the "Virgin
Mary; while others consider the doctrine of priestly celi-
bacy as altogether unwarranted by Scripture. Besides,
nutrlite expression is, " become
it is believed, are
on the eve of following the example of Mr. Bennett,
several of the Putleyite clergy, Who,
3', were they to join the
are
Churchmarried t Rome, men, and,
sctohnes efqa uv eo
reconciled" to that church, they would at once be divested
of their clerical importance, and be reduced to the humiliat-
ing necessity of submitting to be lost amidst the host of un-
distinguished laymen. The New Church of England will be,
it is said, based on the principle of recognising the right of
every clergyman within its pale to practise whatever ritual
he may prefer; the understanding however being, that the
ritual, as well as the doctrines, will be essentially Romish.
It is understood that ample funds for erecting new churches,
and carrying on public worship in them, will be at the dis-
posal of the leaders of this embryo new sect.—Advertiser.
PLYMOUTH CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.--A special
meeting of this body was held at the Exchange on Tuesday,
the Right Hon. the Earl of Morley, the chairman of the
chamber, in the chair, when it was resolved to memorialise
the Lord Chancellor in favour of the permanent establishment
in Plymouth of the District Court of Bankruptcy, and a
resolution was passed to assist the directors of the Screw
Steam-ship Company in establishing Plymouth as the port
of arrival and departure of the Cape mails.—Plinnoutle
Journal.

SALE OF ♦ WIFE.—The Stockport Mercury tells
a strange tale of a sale which, is alleged to have recently
taken place at the New Inn, Norwich End, in the county of
Derby, between George C., agent to a gentleman in the
neighbourhood, and Elisha G., cattle dealer, by;the said G.
offering to sell the other his wife, for the sum of ls.,
which was • the more readily agreed to in consequence of the
purchaser being a widower, and very desirous to obtain so
fair a partner for so trifling a sum. After some consultation
it was arranged between them that the purchaser should go
to claim his purchase on the following Monday, which he
did accordingly, and on entering the house he made known
to Mrs. G. the purport of his visit. The unfortunate wife
gave vent to a flood of tears at being thus shamefully dis-
posed of.

APOTHECARIESSITALL.— The following are the
names cf the gentlemeniwho passed their examination in the
science and practice of medicine and received certificates to
practise, on Thursday, Decomber 12, 1850:—William Morse
Graily Hewitt, Badbury, Swindon, Wilts; Henry Penfold,
Brighton ; John Chamberlavne Barry, Draycot, Chippen-
hani, Wilts; James Jeken, Dover; Lucius Warrillow, Bir-
mingham ; Albert Fleming, Birmingham ; Samuel Morris,
Colchester ; Henry Manley, Crediton, Dexon ; Thomas
Henry Stocker Pullen, Sidna:nith, Devon. The registration
of the medical students attending the metropolitan schools •
has been c,oncluded at Apothecaries-ball. 1,116 students
have been iegisterea'fot the medical • session; 1850.51, the
largest number sinctithe session 1842-3. < Of 'these 371 are
new students.

AN ACTIVE Snrr AND CREW.—The, new schooner
Lady Louisa Stuart, of ,Nairn (at which, port she was built),
lately accomplished:a very speedy voyage, having made the
passage from Nairu,t9 Seaham, discharged, loaded a cargo,
and accomplished the return trip all within nine days! Voy-
ages of this kind add to the reputation not only of a vessel
and its master, but of all connected with her.—lnverness
Couricr,