The Sun.
London, England, 1850-09-20 00:00:00

GERMANY.

Letters from Frankfort of the 17th inst , in the
Kolner Zeitting, state that the Elector, after meet-
ing with the Austrian General Scbirnding and
the Majors Ruff and Czikowski, left that city for
Hanau, where he has established a Provisional
Government. From the Elector's negotiations
with the members of the Austrian Diet, as far as
they have transpired, it would appear that be may
rely on an Austrian intervention, and that he
has consented eventually to abdicate in favour, not
of the nearest Agnates, but of the Grand Duke of
Hessen. The protest of the Agnates is to be parts-
lyz,d by Austria. The negotiations on this subject
are rapidly drawing towards a close.
The Bavarian Government has declared that the
troops n,)w on the frontier of Hessen have been con-
centrated for the purpose of protecting Bavaria, and
that it is not intended they should enter the Hessen
territories.

Cassel remains perfectly tranquil.
On the 16th the Second Chamber of the States of
13,1 den came to a vote recommending the immediate
payment by the Government of the sum claimed by
the duchies of Schleswig-Holstein.
Tha Postampt Gazette of Frankfort says it has
heard, from a good source, that the King of Hanover
has formally refaced to send troops to Electoral
Hesse.

A letter from Berlin, of the 16th, in the Indipenclanee
of Brussels, says :—" Austria wishes to obtain
authorisation of the Diet to enter into new negotia-
tions with Prussia. She counts on the withdrawal
from the Union of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (the
crisis in that country has just led to an arbitral judg-
ment which casts the country into the anti-constitu-
tional situation in which it was before March)—
Weimer, also, he believed, will withdraw ; and she
supposed that Oldenburg will be enticed away by
the hope of tLe Danish succession guaranteed
by the powers. The Union then would be easily
transformed into the long-projected alliance with
some little states. Such is the plan of Austria. She
founds her calculations on the unitary crisis, which is
permanent at Berlin, and which a singular and some-
what obscure note of the Constitutional Correspon-
dence' will not cause to cease. According to this
note we may expect an early convocation of the
Parliament, but we are not yet at that point.
The Prussian troops have been recalled from
Bockenheim for several reasons. The Government
would not subject them to having to obey the
Hessian military chiefs, or to protect the Go-
vernment of Hassenpflug. Moreover, it would not
allow it to be said that Prussia was the first to inter-
vene. Prussia will only intervene in the case of a
corps of troops not belonging to Hesse being marched
into the Electorate. This fact is confirmed this
evening by the New Prussian Gazette itself. Persons
in a position which enables them to judge correctly,
are of opinion that M. Hassenpflug has not yet been
overthrown, and that he has not abandoned all hopes
of the succtss of his schemes."

DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES.
The Danish papers of the 15th publish the official
rep rt of the action which took place at Missunde.
They state that the enemy attacked their outposts on
the afternoon of the 12th instant. The attack was
directed against various point., but after a short
encounter the Holsteiners fell back into their old
p)sitions. At Kochendorf only the 10th battalion
of (Danish) foot was forced back upon Cosel, and the
31 Jagers came into action close by Missunde.
They were backed by three reserve battalions and
smne field-pieces, while the northern bank of the
Schlei was held by six field-pieces. Upon this point
the enemy advanced with four battalions of foot, three
squadrons of horse, and three field batteries. An en-
gagement ensued, which lasted several hours, and
Cosel
and ended in the retreat of the enemy upon
and Kochendorf, just as darkness set in. The Dane?,
says the report, took 140 prisoners, and lost Captain
Schau, of the Artillery, who was killed. Captains
Kahle and Moller and Lieutenants Westberg, Mork,
and Dalyzas and Linbye were wounded. The loss
of non-commissioned officers and privates amounts to
about 80 men.

This is the official statement. Private accounts
which have reached Copenhagen calculate the loss of
the Danes at 170 men.

Altona letters a the 17th inst. in the Kolner Zei-
tong contain a list of the wounded Schleswig-1101-
sttiners who were sent to the hospitals in consequence
of the affair of the 12th and 13th. They are six offi-
cers and 87 sergeants and privates : there are 11
wounded Danes.