The Sun.
London, England, 1850-05-23 00:00:00

GERMANY.

General BIJLOW has returned from Copenhagen to
Berlin, and has had an interview with the King of
PJAUSSIA.

The articles on the German Question which have
appeared in the Paris NapoMon have caused a great
sensation in the political circles of the Prussian capital,
as they are in direct contradiction to the represen-
tations which were made to the Prussian Court by
M. DR PERSIGNY.

The mysterious journey of Count ORLOFF through
Germany occasions some alarm. Count ORLOFF is
the jackall to the Russian bear, and always precedes
the advent of the Cossack.

The Lithographic Correspondence says, at the last
deliberations of the Congress of Sovereigns the KING
VV/I3 a good deal opposed, and that the Bund cannot
reckon on Electoral Hesse, Lippe, and Mecklenburg
Strelitz. In the Congress on the tariff of the Zollve-
rein tha friends of protection have obtained a •majority
for all their propositions. The duties on cotton thread
have been raised to four thalers.

The Frankfort Journal of the 14th states that the
Frankfort Congress have resolved to keep open the
protocol for those German Governments who have
not yet taken part in the Congress, but may yet be
desirous of doing so.
The German papers publish the financial budget
of the Austrian empire for the year from the Ist ot•
November, 1848, to the 31st of October, 1849. They
give the following list of income and expenditure .
• INCOME. Florins.

Direct taxes
Indirect taxes
State manufactures and sale of Crown lands
Consolidated Fund
Sardinian indttunification ~. ...
Variuus sums

... 55,194,791
71,692,036
582,000
7,145,766
2,022,129
5,377,036

144,013,758

EXPENDITURE..
Interest on the publia debt ...
To the consolidated fund ... •••
Paying off of capital ••• ...
Court budget ••• ... ...
Cabinet Council ... ••• •••
Foreign Affairs ... ••• •••
Home Affairs ••• ••• •••
War-office ... .. ... ...
Finance department ... .••
Justice ... ... ... ... ---
Public worship ... ...
Commerce ... ... ... ...
Agriculture ••• ••• •••

... 41,375,102
~. 9,630,8:37
... 3,964 891
... 4,796 389
... 93.926

1,565,235

14,306,873
... 157,887,369
18,528,359
4,985,259
2,630,791
... 21,974,366
... 1,953,315

Total ...
Leaving a deficit of 94,250,916 Boring.

... 238,864,674

ITALY.

The day on which the election of EUGENE SUE be-
came known at Rome, the Black party was seized
with a panic terror. The panic was at its height in
the Vatican, and Pius IX. had determined, let what
would be the consequence, again to fly from Rome.
Information was conveyed by their partisans to the
French authorities. They immediately repaired to
the Vatican, and insisted, although the night was far
advanced, on being at once admitted into the presence
of the PONTIFF. They reasoned with his HOLINESS
on the absurdity of hie attempted flight, and at length
he resigned himself to his fate, and expressed his wil-
lingness to remain. For greater safety, however, a
French officer has been ever since stationed in the
ante-chamber of the POE; and he never stirs out ex-
cept in his carriage, which is always immediately
preceded and followed by French troops. The Pors s
own Guards. Nobile forming the advanced guard and
the rear; The POPEi acting under the advice of
Cardiaal ANTONELLI, intended, it is said, to fly
to Bologna, and place himself under Austrian pro-
tection.
The :Osservatore Romano, the organ of the Cardi-
nals, lauds the Archbishop of TuajN for rebelling
against his SOVEREIGN, and endeavours to stir up an
insurrection in Piedmont.

CABINET COUNCIL (THIS DAY).—The Cabinet Mi-
nisters assembled in Council this afternoon, at two
o'clock, at the Foreign-office. There were present
Lord John Russell (who came to town this morning
from Pembroke Lodge), the Marquis of Lansdowne,
Earl Grey, the Earl of Carlisle, the Earl of Minto,
the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Viscount Palmer-
ston, Sir Francis T. Baring, Sir John C. Hobhouie,
uuonut
fourer e.
the Right Hon. Fox Maule, and the Right Hon. H.
Lpa but c
:10;hoeckC.ouncil was not expected 'to break

ORTHOPCEDIC SOCIETY.—We are given to under-
stand that the dinner held yesterday evening at the
Freemasons' Tavern, in aid of the funds of this excellent as-
sociation, went off in a manner highly satisfactory to all in-
, erested in its success. Among the vocalists who contributed
to the amusements of the evening, Mdlle. Lauriette, an artiste
of great promise and ability, deserves to be especially par-
ticularised.

ALARMING FIRE AT ST. GEORGE'S HOSPITAL.—
This morning the patients and every person in the estab-
lishment were alarmed by the outbreak of a fire, which was
attended with great damage. It originated in what was
called the " drying-room," where a large quantity of linen
had been left on lines. Messengers were sent for the firemen
and engines, and speedily Mr. Staples, of the brigade West-
end establishment, with the engines, arrived, when with the
assistance afforded by the domestics and police the fire was
extinguished, but not until the property of the drying-room
had been consumed. It was found necessary to remove the
patients from Oxford Ward to another part of the building.
DEATH OF LORD JEFFREY'S WIDOW.—Our obi-
tuary of to-day records the demise of Mrs. Jeffrey, the widow
of one whose death was so recently the cause of an almost
universal sorrow. Shortly after Lord Jeffrey's decease, his
. widow, affected in a more than ordinary degree by the sad
event, broke up her establishment in Moray-place, and took
up her abode with Mr. and Mrs. Empson, her son-in-law and
daughter, at Hailebury, Hertford. Though naturally cheer-
ful, ner spirits never recovered,the shock she sustained by the
death of her oistinguished partner, whom she has not sur•
vieed four months. Mrs. Jeffrey was born in America, and
was the grandniece of the celebrated John Wilkes, and second
wife of the late Lord Jeffrey, to whom she was married in
1813. Scottish Press of Wednesday.
REGISTERED LETTERS.— Oa and from the Ist of
June next registered letters will be forwarded through
London on Sundays. At present they cannot be forwarded
from country post-offices on Saturday nights, because the
registration fee is prepaid in money, and not " by stamps.
Atter the Ist of June next the registration fee must still
be prepaid in money by the public, but postmasters
will be compelled to affix stamp,- of the value of
the fee to each registered letter. In all other cases post-
masters are strictly prohibited from affixing stamps to let-
ters for the public.

A LAUNCH AT TOULON.—The 90-gun ship, the
Vingt-quatre Fevrier, has just been launched at Toulon, in
presence of a vast assemblage of spectators. The members
of the Committee of Inquiry, belonging to the Legislative
Assembly, were present, as Was the Bishop of Frejus and, his
clergy. The Bishop blessed the vessel, which then the sup-
ports being knocked away, glided safely into the Ater.