The Sun.
London, England, 1850-10-16 00:00:00

GERMANY.

Accounts have been received from Cassel to the 10±.
The ELECTOR has at length dismissed HASSENP-
SLUG from the Finance Ministry,and replaced him by
Herr WOOLMAR D'ESCHWIGE. HASSENPFLUG, how-
ever, still retains the Portfolios of Justice and of the
Home Department.
The ELECTOR, by an ordinance dated the 6th inst.,
has conferred on General HATNAU full powers to
accept the resignation of the officers of all ranks,
to cashier and punish all who disobey his orders, and
to fill up the vacancies occasioned by such regula-
tions, &c. The General has made this ordinance
public in an order of the day. it appears, however,
that ,t.ha,miniZtl992 titnialndigiAeorasialoweisA,
having sent all the resignations to the Government at
Wilhelmsbad. At Julda and Bockenheim several
officers of the troops stationed there bad tendered their
resignations.
_ _ _

The Austrian Government has ordered the arrest
Of SAMUEL CZONTAGH, former secretary to KOSSUTH,
and of Dr. MUNICH, late domestic physician- to
PALSKY.

The Saxon Chambers has voted the budget of the
war department.
The Duke of CAMBRIDGE arrived at Hanover on
the 10th.

The Duke of OLDENEURGH has ratified the treaty
with Denmark.

ITALY.
Count CAMILLE CAVOUR has been appointed Minister
of Commerce and Marine of Sardinia.

SICILY.

The following notice has beeit published by the
Royal Institution of Sicily :
" Proposal of the Royal Institution for the Encourage-
ment of Agriculture, Arts, and Manufactures in Sicily,
approved by his Majesty, by royal decree of the 27th
August, 1847, re-issued by his Excellency the acting
Lieutenant-General, by Ministerial dispatch of the Ist
of the present month.
" A premium of 1,500 ducats is cffered to the person
R 119 shall give the most satisfactory answer to the fol-
lowing question:—
" To discover a method, easily end promptly practi-
cable,snee,
ho, f
there ascertaininge
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especially by persons not versed in scientific know-
ledge, inne
da given
substances quantity
na
t of
areground
sumach,
not
sumach.

"If the inventor be of opinion that the mixture of
the sumach with other extraneous matter can be de-
duced from the quantity of tanning acid, or from any
other substance, in a given quantity of sumach ; or, if
he be of opinion that f.,r all purposes for which the
sumach is intended, it is sufficient to have discovered the
quantity of tanning acid or any other matter, in order
to deduce therefrom, independently of the mixture, the
excellence a the sumach, in such ca.e the inventor
Ahall be rewarded, provided he clearly prove the said
propositions, and afterwards prepare the easily and
promptly practicable method bef re-mentioned, for
meting the quantity of tanning matter, or that given
substance which he shall have proved it to be sufficient
to be cognizant of, for the purpose before-mentioned.
"In any case the premium shall not be adjudged to
the inventor, until after his method has been practically
proved by the institution, and found correct.
"If various plans be sent in which answer the pur-
pose, the inventor of that one which shall be ascertained
to be the most easily practicable in every respect shall
be rewarded.

" The time in which papers, instruments, specifica-
tions, and whatever else parties may wish to exhibit for
the solving of the question, are to be sent in, is two
years, to be computed from the day of the publication of
the present proposal.
" FERDINAND LA LIIBIIA,
The President.
For the Secretary-in-Chief,
The Sub-Secretary,
" FRANCISCO DOTTO SCRIRANI.
Palermo, Aug. 12, 1850."

HER MAJESTY AND THE LATE QUEEN ADE-
LAIDE'S DONATIONs.—We are gratified to announce that the
Queen has generously extended her bounty to those members
of the household of the late Queen Dowager, whose length
of servitude in the late King's establishment and of Queen
Adelaide merited some permanent and yearly allowance.
Lord John Russell and the Chancellor of the Exchequer, it
is said, could not well come before the House of Commons
and ask for a grant of public money, although they acknow-
ledged that many of the Royal servants, from the length of
their services, were entitled to much respect. The Queen
most generously came forward, and out of her own purse has
caused yearly bounties, varying from 301. to 601, to be
awarded to those persons whose claims are most prominent.
—Morning Paper.
' THE PROJECTED POLISH BALL.—Yesterday a
numerous meeting of the committee appointed to make the
necessary arrangements with reference to the Polish Ball
(which is fixed for the 14th of November next), was held at
the Guildhall, Mr. Deputy Holt in the chair. The meeting
was attended by Lord Dudley C. Stuart, ALP., C. Anstey,
L. sq., ALP., several foreign gentlemen, and a large number of
influential members of the Common Council. From several
statements which were made at the meeting there is no doubt
but that the ball will be largely attended, and that the dis-
play upon the occasion will be at least equal to that of any
previous year.

RURAL PoLICE FOR SURREY.—At the Surrey
Quarter Sessions, held yesterday at Kingston, a committee
of magistrates was appointed to consider the propriety of
adopting a rural police in some parts of that county. The
committee consists of the Lord-Lieutenant, the members for
the county, the chairmen of the different Quarter Sessions,
and other magistrates. The report is to be presented at the
Epiphany Sessions.
FLOGGING IN THE AMERICAN NAVY.-2,201 lashes
were adm,nistered on board the United States sloop-of-war
Albany, which lately arrived at Boston after a cruise of about
twenty-one months. She was commanded by Victory !IL
liandolph.—anew loth Tribune.