The Sun.
London, England, 1850-08-16 00:00:00

PORTUGAL.

have been received from Lisbon to the
9th Aidnvsietaenst.

Everything was very dull there. The QUEEN was
absent, and the Count DE THOMAR had gone to his
country residence, leaving M. FONSECA DE MAGAL•
HAES RS his locum len ens.

Diario publishes a decree establishing an im-
post of one per cent, on all imports and exports at
the Island of St. Michael's for the purpose of com-
pleting a dock In that island.
Some uneasiness was occasioned by the arrival of
the American frigate St. Lawrence in the Tagus, as
she did not, according to custom, salute the Portu-
guese flag. This, however, was in consequence of
the severe illness of one of the crew, as was explained
to the Portuguese authorities, by Captain PAULDING,
the medical officer having stated that the firing of a
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GERMANY.
The Reforme, of Berlin, of the 12th, publishes a
semi-official denial of the report that a Ministerial
change was imminent.
The same journal publishes the following dispatch,
addressed by M. SCHLEINITZ to the President of the
College of Princes on the 9th inst.:—

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6' I respfcttully request your Excellency to bring the
two enclosed copies of dispatches, addressed upon the
4th and sth inst to his Majesty's Minister at Vienna, to
the confidential notice of members cf the College. .1
think it proper for the present to abstain from intro.
diming into the protocol a formal announcement
of the communications made to M. de Bernstorf. How.
everit cannot but be satisfactory to your Excellency to
lurnish to allied Governments, through the Prussian
College, a new proof that the King's Government is
determined to maintain in accord with thaw, its own
honour and dignity, and to fulfil its duties will all the
ah
means that ate at its disposal. To express my perfeot
accordis tbe more wreit
which I feel that a man who ha 3 devoted himself so
energetically to promote the Germau cause, through-
out all its phases, should have been again and again
the object of the most odious and groundless suspicions
2reyettobuire
to Excellencyme upon this occasion
in proportion to the regret
of numerous organs of public opinion, in various parts
of Germany.

(Signed) " SCHLEINITZ."
The Zollverein Congress is sitting at Cassell.

DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES.
The Danish account of the affairs of the 7th and
Bth are somewhat different from the account of Wm-
LisEN, which we published yeiterday. The attack:
was made by the Danes at S9rgbro and &ender-
mukle. The Danish General DE MEZet was ordered,
with two brigades, to take Rossession of the passes
leading to those placeF, which he did without any
considerable opposition, and thus, as he also occupies
the neighbouring country, enabling him to obtain
forage end provisions from those parts for the Danish
army. The Danes report the name of one officer
killed, three officers and 43 rank and file slightly
wounded, ou this occasion. The Schleswig-
Holstein Government has removed from Kiel to
Rendsburg, not feeling themselves altogether secure
at Kiel. The two armies are in the immediate vicinity
of Rendsburg.
It was prematurely announced by the German
journals some time ago that the 13(h battalion of the
army of Schleswig-Holstein had been condemned by
court-martial for having, by negligence, caused the
lcss, of the battle of Elstedt. The trial only took