The Sun.
London, England, 1850-07-09 00:00:00

GERMAN Y.

On the dissolution of the Wurtemburg Diet, on
the 3d inst., by Royal message, the Speaker addressed
the Assembly, reminding them of the dissolution
of the Diet of 1849 (in December of that year), on
which occasion he stated that the dissolution of a
Diet was legal if the Government were resolved to
respect the will of the people. " The people," said
the Speaker, "have now recorded their opinion.
They elected an Assembly in which Government
had scarcely one vote. But the Government has
not respected the will of the people. New Minis-
ters have taken the reins of the State, but
the system remains unaltered, and the Diet has
again been dissolved. It will soon be shown
whether the Government is prepared to submit to the
will of the people. But we are justified in protesting
that this Diet has done its duty. They had but one
alternative—they had either to stand on their right or
to yield by degrees, and to forfeit their position. We
have chosen the first—we conducted our opposition
with firmness and moderation."
This speech elicited vociferous cheers.
We have received Borsenhalle advices, dated Ham-
burgh, July 5.
The result of the simple peace with Denmark con-
cluded by Prussia on behalf of the German Federa-
tion was looked for with much anxiety, as the exact
stipulations of the treaty were not yet known.
The Russian fleet moored near the Danish island
of Moen consisted of eight line-of-battle ships, two
frigates, and two steamers.
The Copenhagen mail of the 4th had not arrived,
probably owing the boisterous weather.

THE DANISH QUESTION.
The peace with Denmark is a peace pure et simple.
It contains the full reservation of the rights of both
parties. The Holsteiners are acknowledged to have
been right in opposing Danish aggression. Foreign
intervention in aid of Denmark is to be permitted in
Schleswig, but not in Holstein, which the Danes will
be allowed to enter only on certain conditions. The
peace is to be ratified by Prussia within a week, by
the German Government within three. The latter
will not be waited for. _ _

The Duchies are preparing for war.
A telegraphic dispatch in the Cologne Gazette,
dated Berlin, the evening of the 6th inst., announces
the ratification by Prussia and Denmark of the pro-
tocol which is annexed to the treaty of peace between
these two states, according to which the convention
of the armistice is at an end.
In five days the Prussian troops will leave the
Duchies. According to intelligence received, the
Schleswig-Holstein troops will then immediately
en ter Schleswig.
The German Reform contains a letter from Co-
penhagen which states that on the 30th ult. a Rus-
sian frigate, the Nordstiernen cast anchor in that
port. Several officers landed and some even took
apartments. Amongst the persons who left the ves-
sel was M. DE GALSENAPP, Aide-de-Camp to the
EMPEROR. That officer announced that the Russian
fleet had sailed direct for Alsen. _

The Cologne Gazette contains a letter from Lu-
beck, stating that the Russian fleet had left the port
of Cronstadt, and passed on the 13th ult. before the
island of Fa'stein. The fleet cast anchor near that
island, and consisted of eight ships of the line, two
frigates, and two steamers. "We shall soon learn,"
says the letter, " what the appearance of this fleet on
the coasts of Germany means."

DANUBIAN PRINCIPALITIES.
According to commercial advices from Semlin, the
Bulgarian insurrection is at an end. It hardly ad-
mits of a doubt that the rising has been systemati-
cally organized ; the agitation is notoriously kept up
by foreign emissaries.
Since the entrance of the Russians into Moldavia
they never had occupied Galatz until on the 14th or
15th of June, when sixty Cossacks, to the astonishment
of the inhabitants of the town, took up their quarters
there. It is not exactly known what led to the oc-
currence, but it is reported that it took place at the
instigation of the Governor, who had forwarded
reports of the nightly occurring burglaries, and of
the attempted murder of one of the guardians of the
quarantine by an lonian, to Duhamel, at Jassy. The
British Consul at Galatz is said to have entered an
energetic protest against the occupation of the town
by the Russians.

HENRI HERZ IN CALIFORNIA.
M. Henri Herz, the eminent pianist, who, as has
already been mentioned, is giving concerts at San
Francisco, has written a very excellent letter to a
friend, of which the following is an extract :
" On arriving at Sac Francisco I found so many Ame-
rican, French, English, and German friends, that I was
soon quite at home. But most of these friends were entirely
metamorphosed. Those whom I had been accustomed to
see pass their time at New York in ttse delights
of a fashionable far niente, now sell clothes, shoes, hard-
ware, and other articles of the same kind. Others whom
I had lett trying to get on as lawyers or singers, have
become jobbers at auctions, and acquit themselves well
of their new functions; they generally earn a good deal
of money. I have seen young Parisian lions sell the
produce of their sport at exorbitant prices, although
game is very abundant. I 'have seen painters em
ploy their brushes in painting signs, and getting
paid an once (80f.) per letter. I have seen perfect
gentlemen offer to carry my pianos, and they
have received from me in different sums as much
as 300 dollars for their service. I have, in short,
seen so many extraordinary things that I dare not com-
municate them to yon for tear of being accused of exag-
geration; but all is written in my journal, which I think
will be interesting. I have only to congratulate myself
on having come here. I have seen the most curious
country in the world; I have found excellent friends; I
have given twelve concerts, the success of which has
greatly exceeded all my hopes.- Moreover, I have Lean
able to appreciate the incredible activity and spirit of
enterprise of the Americans. No other nation in the
world could have succeeded in making California
what it has become in their hands in fifteen months.
What has greatly a<tonished me, was to find a musical
pubdc so connoisseur and so enthus astic ; I might
have believed myself at New York or New Orleans.
re is a characteristic adventure which occurred to
me:—On the eve of my departure, I was asked to give
a concert in the little town of Bonicia. All was pre-
pared for the best, and ee arriving I found the sells (the
church of the district) full of a compact crowd; there
was only one essential wanting, and that was a piano.
I asked if there was not one in the town, which would
have been a miracle. There is one,' was the reply,
but there is nobody to bring it here.' The auditory
began to be impatient, and I went forward and explained
the coetre-temps which had arrived. 'ls that all,' the
people answered, 'Let us go and seek the piano our-
selves !' And a few minutes after the piano arrived,
brought by the dilettanti themselves."

PACKAGES FOR HER INIAJESTY.—The Lords of the
Treasury having caused Mr. Hayter, one of their Lordship?
secretaries, to inform the Commissioners of Customs that
Colonel Phipps having stated to their Lordships that a pack-
age containing biscuits, &c., from the confectionary of the
Queen of the Belgians, would be sent weekly from Brussels,
via Ostend and Dover, under official seals, being for her
Majesty's own consumption, and that he was, therefore, to
desire that the respective packages on their arrival may be
delivered on the application of Colonel Phipps without any
further special directions from their Lordships in each case,
the Customs authorities have given directions to their officers
to take care that their Lordships' wishes be duly obeyed.
RARE FISEL—Two very rare fish, fine specimens
of the " Cepola rubescens," were taken by his Grace the
Duke of Marlborough, whilst trawling in his yacht, in Ply-
mouth Sound, on Monday last. his Grace has ordered them
to be preserved, and intends, we believe to present them to
the Natural History Society. It is said that these are the
firstneespecimens of these species of the finny tribe that have
were foundtak deadne
sea. —Devonport Independent.
TERRA. COTTA.—It
of artificial stone, in Enganodf,
revival of the manufactureis
a lady. About sixty years a
our. shares alive. Some years since, two
in this neighbourhood, having washed in from
terracotta, or more properly
rather temarkable that the
should have been effected by
knowledge and
Regis, possessing a large share of scientificliss Coode, from Lyme
energy, embarked in a small manufactory
ooanofd artificial stone,
noodi celebrity.
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guished greogef
The proprietor availed herself of the talents
artists, and thus produced works of a
cha-
racter, which may fairly vie with those of theanenrel
bas-relief in the pediment over the western portico at Green-
wichT
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Hospital, representing the Death of Nelson, was designed
by West, and executed by Bacon and Panzetta, who also
modelled many other distinguished works. The rood-screen
or loft at St. George's Chapel, Windsor, was executed in the
same material. With respect to modern instances of the use
of artificial stone, St. Pancras Church may be considered as
one of the most important ; the greater part of the orna-
mental details being formed of this material, at the large
outlay of 5,400/. The statue of Britannia, made of artificial
stone, which crowns the Nelson column at Yarmouth, re-
mains uninjured by the exposure, to which the stone work
formed simply of fine clay, or brick earth, carefully prepared
seems to be yielding. The ancient examples are evidently
and well burnt, and they are, therefore, precisely of the same
nature as coarse pottery ware, and are correctly designated
" terracotta ;" but the modern artificial stone is a very
different substance, and greatly superior to them in hardness,
texture, and colour. The principal ingredient is the white
potter's clay, forming about one-half; pulverised stoneware,
from une .third to one-fifth ; ditto glass, from one-fourth to
one. ninth • and some add, for finer purposes, a small portion
of white Ryegatei sand, and powdered flint, about one-tenth
part of each.—Builder.
.SHIP LETTER BAG FOR NEW YORK.-4 ship
letter bag for New York will be made up this evening, to be
forwarded to-morrow from Liverpool by the United States'
mail steam-packet Atlantic. Letters and newspapers in-
tended to be sent by this vessel must be specially addressed,
"By United States' mail packet Atlantic." Newspapers
must be prepaid ld. each. Letters optional.
TOWER OF LONDON.—It appears from a Parlia-
mentary return, just issued, that the number of persons who
visited the Tower of London in the twelve months ending in
March last was 45,474, and the total number for the last five
years was 249,338, produchag, a the clairse of ;Inoue ela•
a ma of 6,3334 4