The Sun.
London, England, 1850-11-12 00:00:00

GERMAN Y.

Count BEENSTOUIT had not arrived at Berlin on
the 9th, but dispatches had been received from him.
it s!Aiii that in two days Prussia will have 480,000
men under arrni.

By a roya order published on the evening of the
9th, all subjects of Prusia belooging to the army,
landwehr, or reserve, are recalled from any foreign
state, whether they have leave of absence or Lot.
The order will be a fatal blow to the Holstein army,
as it will deprive it of its best officers and 3,000 or
4,000 men.
The funeral ofeount BRANDENBURG had taken place
with military honours. _

The greatest enthusiasm prevails at Berlin in con-
sequence of the energetic position assumed by the
Government. Addresses are being prepared assuring
the KING of the satisfaction of the people, and of their
determination to sacrifice their lives and property to
maintain the honour of their country.
The Kolner Zeitung does not share in this enthu-
siasm, and severely comments on the folly of the Go-
vt rnment in not endeavouring to engage the co-opera-
tion or fritidship of England, France, or Sardinia.
" No state," says the Kolner Zcitung, " has ally in
terest to come to the assistance of Prussia, unles; the
annihilation of that state be the first step towards the
establishment of despotism throughout Europe." And
addressing the Prussian Minister that papa. adds—
"lt is only in the name of liberty, which you
i.c,df at, that you can find your allies against
despotism. But the name of liberty would, indeed,
sound strangely from your lips. Did you not
from the first offer to co-operate for the suppression of
right in Electoral Hesse ? Did you not express your
apprehensions lest the princely auihority of that
crowned caricature might be violated ? Did you not
march your troops to the very frontier, threatening, at
the first movement of impatience or resistance, to bear
down upon that poor and martyrized people ? Those
are very wrong who believe that Prussia—that the
present official Prussia, can ever reckon on the alliance
of the national movements of any country. Prussia has
nobody to rely on, because no one can rely on Prussia.
The long and the short of it is, that you have not a
single ally, and that the peculiarity of your character
is not likely to make ,friends. We trust, indeed, that
England will distinguish between the people and the
Government."

Intelligence from Fulda states that General GROE-
BEN, in a letter to the Prince of TOUR and Taxis, has
accepted the state of war. The Prussians have taken
up strong positions near the town, and have protected
them by the inundation of the valley. Their ad-
vanced posts are about a league from Fulda towards
Narhof. The advanced posts of the federal troops are
distant about a quarter of a league, at Loeschenrod.
The Cologne Gazette publishes the following in a
third edition :
" Letters from Fulda announce that the first shots
have been fired. A Bavarian detachment of cavalry
having approached too near the Prussian lines, the cora-
mandin,z officer twice warned them to retire; the BAva-
rians still advanced, when the Prussians fired. Two or
three of the Bavarians fell, the rest retired."
The above account is then contradicted.

Under the date of Frankfort, the 9th inst., the
Oben Post Amts Zeitung says :—" The Prussian
troops that have entered the Electorate have com-
menced hostilities against the Federal troops. On the
Bth, General Prince TIIURN and TAXIS pushed his
advanced guard forwards on the Fulda road. His
object was simply to reconnoitre, and to make a
change of quarters. To avoid giving a pretext to
the Prussians, the swords of his men remained in their
scabbards, and the muskets of the infantry were not
loaded. Near the village of Bronnzell a sharp fire
was opened upon them. Four or five men were
wounded. 'Whilst it was presumed that this opposi-
tion to the Federal troops, confirmed by bloodshed,
would lead to further hostilities, a Prussian herald
arrived at the head-quarters of the Bavarian troops,
the bearer of a letter from General VON GROEBEN,
saying that, according to instructions from Berlin, he
would evacuate Fulda on the 9th, and retire to the
transit ground. No further hostilities have taken
place."

The committee named by the President of the
dissolved Assembly of Wurtemburg sent an address
to the KING, but the Government returned it un-
opened. On the morning of the Bth the committee
wished to meet in the Chamber, but they found the
military in possession of it. It is supposed they will
protest, and assemble elsewhere.
RADETSKY has arrived at Vienna.

DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES.
The Hamburyh Borsenhalle of the Bth has the fol-
lowing from Copenhagen :
" Our Government, it is said, will not consent either
to an armistice with Holstein or to the settlement of the
Schleswig-Holstein question by three Commissioners
nominated for the purpose by Austria, Prussia, end
Denmark, as proposed."
The reply of the Statthalterschaft of Kiel to the
summons of Count THIIN, in the name of the Diet, to
suspend hostilities against the Danish army in Schles-
wig, to reduce the insurrectionary army one-third,
and to retire south of the Eider, denies the right of
the Ministers assembled at Frankfurt to issue orders
in the name of Germany, and refuses obedience.
The following is a translation of the text of the
summons issued by the Frankfurt Diet:—

" I:I:TRACT FROM THE PROTOCOL OF THE 11TH SITTING
OF THE DIET D NE AT FRANKFORT ON THE 28TH

OCTOBER.-CLAUSE 33. LIOLSTEIN.

" 1. Immediately after the exchange of the ratiflcie
lions of the peace of the 2d of July, 1850, to intimate to
:he Statthalterschaft at Kiel, as the actually existing
authority in Holstein, their decided determination not
to permit the continuation of hostilities, and strictly to
.njoiu the Statthalterschaft to take care that no attack
shall be made; but that, on the contrary, the Holtteie
troops shall be withdrawn to the south of the Eider, and
that leave of absence shall be given to at least two-
thirds of them. The President of the Bund shall be
requested to cause this intimation to be conveyed to the
Statthalterschaft in the proper form.
"2. To announce to the Danish Government the cer-
tain expectation that in accordance with the conditions
of the peace of the 2d of July, 1850, which must be in-
terpreted in the manner described in the letter of the
English Plenipotentiary of the 4th of July, no further
military measures shall be taken by the Danish troops,
and that in consequence of the reduction of the Holstein
army a similar diminution will be made in the Danish
army in the south of Schleswig.
" 3. To appoint a federal commission, and to this pur-
pose to request the Royal Hanoverian Government to
nominate one of its superior officials capable of under-
taking these functions, and to cause him to proceed
thither as speedily as possible in order to receive his full
powers and instructions.
"4. To instruct the sub-committee to prepare a draft
of the
To
r enecessaryques
request
tohwee
executivers and instructions.
committee
to communi-
cate its opinions as speedily as possible on the measures
which may possibly become necessary.
"Finally,
"6. To request the Danish Plenipotentiary for the
Duchies of Holstein and Lauenburg to acquaint his
Government with these resolutions, and to draw its
particular attention to the expectations expressed in
paragraph 2."
The bearer of this summons was an Austrian officer ;
it was accompanied by a letter from Count Tuuri,
President of the Diet.