The Sun.
London, England, 1850-08-27 00:00:00

GERMANY.

The Peace Congress held their first sitting, at
Frankfort, on the 22d, in the St. Paul's Church, in
which, two years since, the German Parliament hell
their sittings.

The Gazette de Cologne of the 26th says—
" According to our actvices, the Prussian Minister
for Foreign Affairs has energeticaly rtjected a prop, -
sition contained in a note addressed to him by Letd
Palmerston, that he should urge the Schleswig-llulateln
army to lay down their arms."

DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES.
The letters from Berlin of the 21st do not confirm
from Rendsburg, and of a
the statement of the Cologne Gazette, of the army of
Schleswig-Holstein having made a movement in ad-
vancehaving taken place on the 19th. According to ac-
verTnhmeeAetusintreiiasteofenVitslight engagement
ac-
counts from Altona of the 20th, there was no in-
teresting intelligence from the theatre of the war.
Sound dues
Vienna n
abolition
states t h
by Denmark, in order to promote the success of the
German Commercial Confederation, which it desires
to establish.
Intelligence has been received from the seat of war
up to the 24th inst. At that date the position of the
hostile armies continued unchanged.

ITALY-
The following is from the official part of the Ga-
zetta Piemontese, containing the text of the Siccardi
law :

The demise of Mr. GRORGH RICHARD ROBIN/30N, --" -
the bite Chairman of Lloyd's hai occasioned a ~ The Senate and
vacancy in the
gentleman of large have adopted,
representation of
HENRY DANDY SCIXOUR, a the
borough of
and two and we have ordained and ordered as follows:—
Poole, candidates are already ' in the fiell—Mr. " Art. 1. Civil causes between ecolebiastics and the
dt"Vittorion e c haEmanuel
mner nf plelp. ,n tt.
eca.
shall be referred to
laity, or between ecclesiastics alone,
landed property residing in the immediate net hb civil jurisdiction, whether the actions are of a personal
g our.
nature or of a real or mixed character of whatever kind.
hood of the borough, a man of high character and in- "Art. 2. All the right of naming,
dependent principles, a landholder, and a thorou h
g either actively causes concerning
i siastical benefices, or
free-trader; and Mr. JOHN SAVAGE, an unknown- to the property ofputshseimrelyn,rtove)cacney
other i cclf sisstical
man, said to be a Chancery barrister, albeit those fees:bolnishment whatever, shall be regarded.asutber p
ro-
‘, s, and shall be placed under t.ne civil
used to attend constantly in the Courts of Chanceryjurisdiction. the other
Art. 3. Ecclesiastics are subject as
for the last twenty years, are ignorant of the sound of citizens to all the penal laws of the state. Under these
his mellifluous voice—a gentleman who acknowledges
ilanac-snnitfais cuntempla,ed that causga shall be
_adjutdhicaltaewd
that it is not his good fortune to ba known to of procedurerwity
in the
thel forms established
iwit by.
Jut distinction
any of the elect°, s, and who comes in the as regards crimes, offenacy„ trainbdunnanne
traveetions.
field as the avowed supporter of obscurantist the" Art. 4. The punishments enacted in the laws. of
i ,
PriACiPlesi the opposer of the cause of civil ,
ta state shall not be applied unless through the civil
. ._tribunals, Saving alvrsys to the ecclesiastic al illttbvittge