The Sun.
London, England, 1850-04-13 00:00:00

GERMANY.

The Catholic clergy of Prussia are endeavouring to set
up privileges to an exemption from obedience to the com-
mon law of the land, which all other Prussian subjects
are bound to obey, and they in particular claim ex •
emption from the payment t,f personal taxes, to which
all other persons are subject. The Minister has,
however, very properly directed the provincial au-
thorities to enforce the payment of this tax.
The Ministers BRANDENBERG and MANTEUITEL
arrived at Erfurth on the Bth.

The Hanoverian Government sent a message to the
Chambers on the 9th, announcing its repudiation of
the Arbitral tribunal of Erfurtn.

DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES.

TheLer Zeitung has a telegraphic dispatch
from Berlin, of the 11th inst., stating that the Stadt-
holders at Kiel had decreed the removal from the
Schleswig-Holstein army of the Prussian officers who
joined it at the commencement of the war. The
Stadtholders have expressed their gratitude to the
Prussian Government, and given the assurance that
they will continue to aim at a peaceable solution of
the question now pending between Denmark and the
D uchies.

The Stadtholderi are preparing. to send the
Counts RANTZAU and REVENTLOW FAILVE to Copen-
hagen.

GREE CE.

The Breslau Gazette of the 9th contains the fo;

lowing telegraphic dispatch from Trieste :
" ATHENS, APRIL 2.—A1l the conferences have
failed. King Otho is inflexible. Rumours of a Minis-
terial crisis prevail. Maay changes in the Administra-
tion are talked of. The state of the country is very
unsettled. At Corinth bands of malefactors are com-
mitting great crimes."

PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS.
.From the Votes and Proceedings of the louse cf
Commons.)
NOTICES OF MOTIONS.

Mr. Hume-r-Account of the aggregate amount paid
for advertisements by the public departments of Govern-
ment in tho United Kingdom for the year 1848, stating
specially the amount paid by the Board of Inland Ite-
vcnui,, the Customs, Post-office, Treasury, and Commis-
sariat Departments. Board of Ordnance and Store De-
partment, Board a Admiralty and Victualling Board,
Woods and Forests, Poor-law Board and Boards of
Guardians, and all other public departments, so as to
exhibit the total amount paid for advertisements to
newspapers fur the public service in one year.
Mr. Milner Gibson—To move the follow:ng reso-
lutions:—

Whereas all taxes which directly impede the diffusion
of knowledge are highly injurious to the public interests,
and are most impolitic sources of revenue, this House is
of opinion-
-1 st. That such financial arrangements ought to be
made as will enable Parliament to repeal the Excise duty
on paper.
2d. That it is expedient to abolish the stamp.duties
now payable on new4papers in Groat Britain and
Ireland.
3d. That it is expedient to abolish the duties now
payable on advertisements in Groat Britain and Ireland.
4th. And that the Customs duty on Foreign books
ought to be repealed.
RETURN ORDERED.
Mr. Ewart—Return of all writs issued by the Stamp-
dice for the recovery if duties on advertisernmti, in
each yew:, since 1829, showing also in what year the
duty wits reduced.
Mr. Ei a, 1 i r —Return of all persons in India receiving
salaries, pensions, pay, profits, fees, emolumentg, allow-
ances' or grants of public money, by virtue of any direct
or indirect nomination, recommendation, or appoint-
ment, by the President of the Board of Control over the
affairs of India alone, or by virtue of auy arrangement
with the Board of Directors of the East India Company,
and the dates of each such nomination, recommendation,
or appointment respectively, from the Ist day of
January, 1832. to the Ist day of March, 1850, excepting
the judge. of the superior courts of law hi India; stating
the total amount received by each individual in each
year, raid distinguishing the sources from which the
payments are made.—Tuesday, April 16.

EQUESTRIAN FEAT EXTRAORDINARY. OXFORD,
FRIDAY.—This morning a gentleman of this University un-
dertook to ride from Oxford to London and back, a distance
of 10d miles, in six hours, unlimited to horses. Ile started
from Magdalen-bridge at five o'clock, and arrived in London
at twenty-five minutes past seven, and returned to Oxford
one minute before ten; thus completing this arduous task
one minute under five hours. The horses used on this occa-
sion were from the stables of Mr. Joseph Tollit, of this city.