The Sun.
London, England, 1850-02-18 00:00:00

SWITZERLAND.

The National of Saturday publishes the following
correspondence from Switzerland :
" You are not aware how seriously a combined
action is threatened against the Helvetic Republican.
" Eleven Austrian battalions are concentrated at
Como. Three thousand men are at Luino.

" France has consented—England ~alone resists
still.

" A note has been sent by the Austrian Govern-
ment to the Cabinet of Turin, to demand a passage
for a body of troops across the Piedmontese territory?'

GERMANY.

A letter from Agram, on the 6th, says that, on the
previous day, a bookseller, named SUPPAN, was
brought to trial for a seditious libel. This was the
first prosecution of the press in Croatia. When the
libel was read, a juryman cried—" What is the use of
this prosecution ? We are all more or less guilty !"
Another juryman cried that he did not recognise the
law on the press made by the Diet. In consequence
of this the ease had had to be postponed.
A new Legislative Assembly has just been elected
in the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin,
ani the Democratic party has obtained a great
triumpgbr.alnnted
steabryl,
tthheerGefoarAeND Duzz as too , of modifying the
democra-
tic Const-
itution
in character, they will, it is expected, make it still
more democratic.

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that Prince DE LEINI
It is stated in a letter
(fhroarnif.
MIEN
of ENGLAND) was about to be sent to
London on a di-
plomatic mission relative to the affairs of Greece.
The Breslau Gazette states that Mr. pRIDHAM, the
Times correspondent in Hungary (whose arrest by
the Austrian military authorities has been erro-
neously announced) was an agent of Lord PALsisits-
TON, though he wrote in the Times in favour of the
Austrian Government. The Gazette adds that, as
Lord PALbIERSTON'S agent, he was engaged in schemes
hostile to Austrian domination, and that it was he
who favoured the flight of Madame KOSSUTIL
A letter from Flensburg, of the Bth, to the Free
Press of Hamburkb, stiles that it was generally re-
ported that the Danish Government had given
formal notice for a termination of the armistice in
Schleswig.
A letter from Hamburgh, of the 9th states that
agents of Austria and Denmark are actively engaged
in the northern ports of Germany in recruiting
sailors for the service of their respective fleets. The
competition between them was so great that a ge_
neral advance had taken place in the wages of sailors
of the northern ports.
The Administrative Council has unanimously
adopted a resolution, fixing the 20th March for the
opening of the Erfurth Parliament. The elections
for the Lower House of the lirfurth Parliament are
terminated.
The Berlin Constitutionnel publishes a letter from
Lubeck, which contains the following announcement:
—" Our merchants have received instructions from
Copenhagen to complete their shipments so soon as
possible, and this in Danish and Swedish, but not in
English or Russian bottoms." If there be any truth
in this statement, it is evident that Danish merchants
anticipate an early renewal of hostilities and general
blockade.
On the rivers of Western Germany, the Rhine, the
Weser, and the Elbe, the floods consequent on the
thaw are subsiding. Immense damage has been done
by the waters, but the danger is considered past. On
the eastern rivers, the Oder and the Weichsel, the ice
breaks up later, and on their banks the floods are only
beginning to subside. The communications in every
direction have not been so interrupted for many years
as during the present, or, it may now be hoped, past
winter. The railways have been severely tested. In
Belgium the destruction' of the bridge at Liege has
rendered it impossible to run the heavy goods trains
for the present, but the passengers and mails have
been forwarded, though very irregulary. Whatever
inconveniences may have been suffered by travellers
by railroad, they are as nothing compared to those
met with in the districts where they do not exist.
Voyagers from the eastern frontiers are unanimous
in the execration of the old horse diligences, in which
they have keen mewed up, frozen and starved.

of advices from Flenst
DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES.
In our Hamburfeh correspondence mention is made,
that the Danish Cabinet has acceded to Lord PAL-
-urg of the 10th inst. They state

MERSTON'S proposal of a prolongation of the armistice
between Prussia and Denmark for another term of
six months, under the condition that the convention
of the armistice should be loyally adhered to by either
party.