The Sun.
London, England, 1850-09-21 00:00:00

GERMANY.

Everything remains quiet in Hesse-Cassel.
The Elector of HESSE-CASSEL arrived at Wilhems-
bad, with his Ministers, on the 16th. The authori-
ties went to pay him their compliments on his arrival.
He alighted at the Chateau of Philippsrate. M. DE
HASSENTFLUG arrived there the same evening.
The Cologne Gazette contains a letter from Berlin
of the 16th, stating that the Prussian Government
has decided not to interfere in the affairs of Hesse-
Cam?), unless some foreign power should first set the
example of sending troops there. In that case it
would send in troops also, not to take part either with
the ELECTOR or with the other party, but merely to
guarantee the interests of Prussia in a military point
of view. Notice of this intention has been given to
the Government of Hesse.

The King of HANOVER has declined to interfere in
he affairs of Hesse-CaEsel.

It is stated that before setting out for Hanover the
ELECTOR and HASSENPFLUG exchanged high words ;
the former was fain to give way, after HASSENPFLUG
had exclaimed, " Very well ; then let your Royal
Highness pay me, and I will go."
The Chamber of Ilesse Darmstadt held a sitting
on the 16th. It was remarked that none of the
Ministers were present.
Letters from Cologne give an account of the re-
ception of HArNAu in that city. He was attended
by a guard of soldiers wherever he went, and was
al ways greeted with groans ant hisses.
The drivers of the public vehicles one
and all refused to drive the " Austrian
Hangman," and he was forced to walk to and from
the railway station. The Cologne paper, in relating
his adventure at Bankside, and his reception by
the English draymen, says "no one pities him here."
The Augsburgh Gazette says he came to England
purposely to test public opinion, and boasted he
would show Englishmen that the "woman-flogger of
Hungary" and the " hyzena of Brescia" cared no
thing for what they might think of him, and would
not be intimidated. The Emperor of AUSTRIA is
about to make him a Field-Marshal ; so much for the
stories of his disgrace.

DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES.
It is said that Austria has determined to interfere
against the Duchies. The Austrian Minister says
that if the two Duchies are indivisible it would be
better to detach Holstein from Germany than to de-
tech Schleswig from Denmark.
The Assembly of Schleswig-Holstein has rejected
a proposition for conferring electoral rights on all
adult males.

ITALY.

The Giornale di Roma of the 11th September, at
Length publishes two of the long•expected organic
laws promised by the motu proprio of his HOLINESS of
the 12th of September, 1849. Both these laws are
promulgated by Cardinal ANTONELLI, in the name of
the POPE ; one relates to the organization of the
Ministry, and the other establishes a Council Of State.
By the former law all the branches of public adminis-
tration are divided into five Ministerial departments,
viz., the Interior, Grace and Justice, Finance,
War, and lastly Commerce, Agriculture, Manufac-
tures, Fine Arts, and Public Works. This division,
however, is declared not to be definitive ; the
number of Ministers being liable to be increased
or diminished by his HOLINESS, according to cir-
cumstances. Besides the titular Ministers, his
HOLINESS may grant the title of Minister of
State, without special functions, to any per-
son he may think deserving of the distinction. Every
Minister has a deputy to represent him in the ma-
nagement of his department. The relations of the
Holy See with the other powers are always and ex-
clusively confided to a Cardinal Secretary of State, who
is the organ of the sovereign for the promulgation of
legislative acts, and to whom also belong all matters
relating to treaties, protection of Pontifical subjects,
passports, naturalisation, and legalisation of foreign
documents. The five inisters form a Council of
Ministers, to which their deputies are not admitted.
The Cardinal Secretary of State is president of the
Council of Ministers. Each Minister proposes to his
HOLINESS the laws and regulations he may think ne-
cessary in his department; such proposals are dis-
cussed in the Council of Ministers. The Minister
of the Interior presides over the internal adminis-
tration of the state, provinces, and municipalities,
and has control over the governors of provinces, the
provincial councils, the magistrates and councils of
communes, the direction of woods and forests, and the
censorship of the press. The Minister of Grace and
Justice controls the tribunals of the state, judges, ad-
vocates, attorneys, and chancellors ; he grants par-
dons and commutations of sentences in name of his
HOLINESS, and regulates the discipline of the judicial
order. The tribunals of ecclesiastical jurisdiction,
however, depend from the Cardinal SeCretary of State.
The Minister of Finance has the direction of the pro-
perty of the State, the Mint, Custom-house, public
debt, stamp and registry-duties, post-offices and lot-
teries. The revenue force is under his orders. The
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