The Sun.
London, England, 1850-10-05 00:00:00

GERMAN Y.

At Cassel, the new Commander. in-Chief, General I
HAYNAU, had published the following proclamation.
" Announcement by the Commander-in-Chief.
" After living for three years in the retirement of pri-
♦ate life, and quietly observing from that position since
March, 1848, so many proceedings painful to the feelings
of a true Hessian, I am quite unexpectedly called by his
Highness the Elector to the position of Commander-in-
Chief in our fatherland during the continuance of the
state of siege, and am endowed with extensive power to
break the opposition to the royal ordinances of the So-
vereign which have been rendered necessary by the
undutiful conduct of the Assembly in denying those
mewls without which the administration of his
Government cannot be carried on, as well as
by the usurpation and presumption of the Stand-
ing Committee—and to restore the reign of law
and order in the State. That I, an old man of seventy-
one years, willingly obey the call of my Sovereign to
exchange the chosen quiet of my retired life for the toil
and anxiety of an office which, alike by the deluded and
the deluders, is despised, may prove to every man not
only that I am fully convinced of the legality and con-
stitutional character of the measures of the Government,
but that I will respond to the confidence placed in me
without fear of man, and with energy and a?al. Let
those who are inclined• to offer an active or passive op-
position to the lawful authority learn that, although I
am hoary with ago, I am firmly confident in the aid of
Almighty God fshall exercise the otice entrusted to
me with strict severity, and prove to all that I still know
how to wield the sword of authority with decision and
force. " Lieut.-Gen. VON HAYNAU.

Casstl, Oct, 1, 1850."
A protocol of a meeting at which M. llassmirrLuo
delivered written declarations of the Government
upon questions of present interest, has just been pub-
lished. The following passages, selected from the
Ministerial replies, will show the variations of the
Ministry since last March, when they were formally
recorded. In reply to the first question, " The Go-
vernment declares its conviction that at present no
federal authority exists authorised to interfere in the
internal affairs of any German state, and expresses its
determination to repel every presumption of that cha •
noter With decision.

hI. BEUSl:aincsier of Foreign Affairs of Saxony,
has gone to Berlin, to offer the tnediation of his Go-
vernment in the affair of Hesse Cassel.

The Stuttgard—Official Gazette contains a procla-
mation convoking the Extraordinary Assembly lately
elected to revise the constitution, in conjunction with
the Government. The sittings were to have com-
menced on the 4th, and the members,to appear in the
capital on the 3,1 inst.
The Session of the Chamber of Deputies of the
Grand Duchy of Luxemburg was opened on the let
of October.

A Munich letter states that the King of BAVARIA
had gone to meet the Emperor of AUSTRIA at Salz-
burg, on the 28th ult. The King of SAXONY was
expected at Munich on the 2cl inst.

SCHLESWIG.

Accounts from the seat of war are of the 2d inst.

The attack on Frederichstadt, that bad lasted three
days, still continued, and up to that morning without
result. The place was being cannonaded, and was
burning at several points. The Danes still held out,
and would probably be reinforced from Husum.

THE WEST INDIA MAIL.
(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
SOUTHAMPTON, SATURDAY MORNING.
The Royal Mail Company's steam-ship Trent,
Captain Clarke, with the West India mails, arrived
this morning at half past twelve. She brought on
freight 241,365 dollars on merchants' account, and
30;067 dollars for the dividends.
From Jamaica we have news to the 13th ult. The
island continues to be visited by heavy rains, but the
heat was oppressive. Cotton cultivation was favour-
ably progressing; business had been unusually dull
during the last fortnight.

IRELAND.
(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
DUBLIN, FRIDAY EVENIN4i.

MURDER IN THE COUNTY OF DOWN.—The
Belfast psper which we received this evening an-
nounces that shortly after dusk on Wednesday
evening a weaver, named ITCormick, who resided at
Carmoss-on-the-hills, Borough-road, within a
short distance of Ballynahinch, and about
two miles beyond the Carrayduff meeting-house,
while sitting at his loom, was shot at by a
miscreant who had intruded the muzzle of his gun
throu
ghan aperture made in the window-frame ; the
bullet entered the heart of the poor victim, and after
passing through his body was lodged in the frame-
work of the loom.

The only cause that can be assigned for the murder
is, that. M'Cormick had taken a small farm, and was
care-taker fur another from which the previous
tenants had been evicted. He had received several
threatening letters during the last two months
calling upon him to
give up possession, or take the
consequences.

DEATH OP COLONEL STEWART or KILLTMOON.—
Letters from the north announce the death of Colonel
Stewart, proprietor of the splendid seat and magnifi-
cent demesne of Kil'moon, county Tyrone, for
which proposals of purchase were lately made by
Lord Gough. Colonel Stewart was a descendant of
the junior branch of the Stuarts Ochiltree, who were
related to the royal line, and who received large
grants from James I. after his accession to the British
throne. The deceased was fur many years a repre-
sentative for the county Tyrone.

EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY.—Mr. Samuel An-
derson, a director of this company,t Nov retiredhaoseat wit
with
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direction.
THE has been this week elected
THE LATE LIEUTENANT GALE'S FAMILT.—An
application baying been made to the board of managers of
of one of the nine children of the late unfortunate Lieutenant
late
Stamford-hill, on behalf
be
mother, are left utterly
destitute by the recent melancholy occurrence, they have
consented to receive the child into the asylum at once, sub-
ject to the decision of the sukscribers at the next election.
THE Ho? DUTY.—The hop-growers of Worces-
tershire en,etwheAt sleyrolunmautt.:
Herefordshire,
tershire and comprising what is called the
Worcester district, have had a meeting at Worcester to so-
licit further indulgence from the Government for the pay-
ment of the remaining moiety of the 1848 duty, which at
present stands fixed for the 15th instant. The chair was
taken by Mr G. Freeman, of Lugwardine, Herefordshire, a
magistrate and large hop-grower, and, after several speeches,
a memorial to the Chancellor of the Exchequer was agreed
to. The memorial set forth that at the present period the
agriculturists were called oil for the payment of rents ; that
the price of all agricultural produce was exceedingly low,
and, therefore, if the payment of the moiety of the duty were
insisted upon, it would oblige the planters to throw a large
quantity of hops upon the The makeemorialh tt, and tusherperodforeuce a ruin-
ous depreciation in price• prayed for
a postponement of the duty until after Christmas. Mr.
`every, a large Herefordshire planter, represented that if the
payment of the duty were eorced at once, it would reduce
the price of hops 10s. per•cw nt. f
immediately.
CARES IE THE CoIINTT COURTS.—Cases are now
in the course of trial to ea under the County Court Exten-
sion Act, passed in the late session. There is a provision in
this Act which require to be generally known, in order
to save trouble to laintiffs and defendants. Hitherto judg-
ment could not be taken by default, but now it is enacted by
the eighth section, that any person against whom a plaint is
entered, whether he be enmtnoned or not, in the presence of
the clerk or assistant clerk of the court, or one of their clerks,
or of an attorney, may sign a statement, confessing and ad-
mitting the amount of a debt or part thereof. Notice of such
admission is to be sent to the plaintiff, and on the next court
judgment to be given, in the same manner and subject to the
came conditions as if the cause had been tried. This provi-
sion will lead to arrangements both as to the period and
amount of instalments to be made, and save a good deal of
time to all parties and prevent unnecessary exposure.
The Lord Mayor elect (Alderman Musgrove) has
appointed the Rev. Dr. Vivian, rector of St. Peter-le-Poer,
Broad-street, one of the minor canons of St. Paul's Cathe-
dral, tol he his chaplain during the year of the ensuing
mayoralty.
APOTHECARIES'-HALL.—Names of gentlemen who
passed their examination in the science and practice of me-
dicine, and received certificates to Practise' on Thursday,
October 3,1850 : Peter Pemell, Canterbury • William Gil-
librand, Charley, Lancashire; Robert Settle, Lancashire;
.Tohn Darwen, Birmingham; Frederic Foster Andrews, Lynn
Regis;
Jonathan Hutch' • Selby, Yorkshire; Edgar
insoa,jllLl.,
Sheppard, Enfield.

THE WEATnian.—The weather has been exceed-
ingly good on the whole since our last, and the harvest may
he Said to be finished under favourable circumstances.
Farmers are now busy securing the corn in well-thatched
stacks, and some of the farthest advanced are now lifting
their potatoes. The good Weather seems to have tempted
the shooting gentlemen to remain longer at their quarters
than
usual, for very few have gone south during the past
week. Inverness Certil ier.

As showing the improved state of Sunderland
Harbour, we may mention that on Sunday last, the Colony,
from Quebec, drawing feet water,, entered the tiver at
decid neap-tide,L—Sundeiland Herald