The Sun.
London, England, 1850-09-23 00:00:00

GERMANY.

A letter from Frankfort states that the restricted
Federal Council was on the 17th occupied with the
affair of Hesse, Mr. HASSENPFLUG having formally
applied for federal aid. The same letter states that
the Minister and two others, M. HESSIS and Count
Taut, had proceeded the same day to the Elector at
Wilbelmsbad, where, after an animated conference,
new arbitrary measures were ' resolved on. On the
18th, an intervention of Germany in the matter was
spoken with greater confidence.
The Carlsrulie Gazelle of the 19th publishes a de-
cree, prolonging for one month more the state of
siege and martial law proclaimed in October last.
The Committee of the National Assembly of Wur-
temburg has just protested against the Royal decree
of August 28, which prescribes the temporary col-
lection of certain taxes on the ground that the Go-
vernment i 3 not in an exceptional position. which
would alone warrsnt such a course of proceeding.
A letter from Cologne of the 19,h, in the lnde-
pendance Beige, says :—The manoeuvres of the
troops collected here terminated yesterday by a
sham fight. The 18:h Regiment, composed almost
exclusively of Poles, was opposed to the
34th, mostly Prussians and inhabitants of the
Rhenish provinces. The fire having opened between
these two corps, at the first discharge three soldiers
fell mortally wounded. The 18th had, it appears,
loaded with ball. Orders were at once given
to cease firing, but it was with difficulty that the
officers could get the order obeyed. Amongst the
three victims is a young man named DIETZ, formerly
the editor of an opposition journal. An investigation
has been ordered, but it is not likely that it will be
attended with any result.
The Cologne Gazelle contains a letter from Darm-
stadt, of the 18th, stating that the Deputy REff made
on that day a proposition to the Second Chamber, de-
claring that it protested against all participations of
the Grand Duchy in the deliherations and resolutions
of the restricted Federal Council ; and that it invited
the Government to recall its Minister from the Federal
Council, and to make all its efforts to have the Con-
sitution of the Empire deliberated at Frankfort
promptly carried out. The proposition was sent to
the Bureaux.

The Cologne Gazette announces that the Duke
of BauNswicx has consented to the ratification of
pence with Denmark, to which he had been before
opposed.
The Supreme Court of Appeal of Cassel confirmed
on the 16th, the judgment of the Court of First In-
stance, which had declared itself incompetent to go
further with the accusation brought before it by the
permanent Committee of the State against the Mi-
nisters for abuse of power.
The Austrian Government has prohibited the cir-
culation of the Cologne Gazette in Vienna during
the state of siege.
The Vienna Gazette publishes a Ministerial decree
declaring that the State will make advances of funds
to landowners of Hungary and Transylvania affected
by the abolition of corve:es and seignorial rights.
Baron Hairuu arrived in Vienna on the 14th.
The investigation into the circumstances attending
the attempt made on the life of the King of PausslA
by SEFELOGE is concluded. It does not appear that
SEFELOGE had any accomplices.
The King of GREECE arrived at Aschafenburg, in
Bavaria, on the 10th.

DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES.
The lndependance of Brussels says :
" Our correspondent at Hamburgla states, from re-
ports which had arrived there, but which are not yet
official, that the loss of the holstein army in the late
affair is more considerable than was at first suppose-!,
amounting to 1,000 men, killed, wounded, or made
prisoners. It would appear that there is not a very good
understanding betwern General William and the prin-
cipal leaders under his orders as to the manner of carry-
ing on the ear. If such be the case, it is a bad
s3mptom fur the Duchies. But now more than ever, ac-
cording to the situation of affairs there, the great powers,
not German, may be expected to interpose in an efficient
manner before long to put an end to the war."
All requisitions trade for the Danish army in
Schleswig are paid for in czsh, at fair prices, and the
people of that Duchy sigh but for the return of tran-
quillity and the constitutional rule of their legitimate
Sovereign.
It is now confirmed that nine Danish gun-boats
and the Geyser steamer have arrived on the west
coast of Schleswig. They are in the neighbourhood
of Fohr, and the troops which were on board of them
now occupy all the islands belonging to that Duchy.
The three Holstein gun-boats escaped, all the Holstein
accounts say, into the Eyder after a slight con. hat, hut
in which it is allowed they lost four men killed and
seven wounded.