The Sun.
London, England, 1845-10-22 00:00:00

HAMBURGH MAIL.

HAmnunGfr, OCT. 16.—The much. talked-of address of the
magistrates of Berlin to the King of Prussia, on the state of
religion, and his Majesty's answer, are Now published by the
King's permission ; they fill seven columns of our papers.
His Majesty, in some points of his answer, expresses extreme
dissatisfaction with some passages in the address, which he
says have grieved and offended him. At the beginning of
his answer he says that as he had given the magistrates
sufficient time to reflect in on wl!at they ought to do, he
hoped they would change their views, and become sensible
that it was a strange idea to read in his presence, and face
to face, a longtheologicallecture. _ __ • _

FRII3OCRG, OCT. 12..-1
—The Gazette of the Upper Rhine saye,
in a letter from Frybourg—" The authorities of this district
have given orders and directed the gendarmes to arrest the
Reformer Ronge if he should come into that district, and
deliver him up to justice.
CHRISTIANA, Our. 6.—According to a general view of the
public expenditure for the three years from Ist July, 1845, to
let July, 1848, the amount is 2,634,495 dollars. The receipts
are estimated at the same sum. The Stoithing has voted for
the completion cf the royal palace at CJiristiana the sum of
308,000 dollars, and for furnishing it 90,00 e dollars. The
household and the appanages of the King are set down in the
budget at 90,000 species dollars; the a, my at 754,000 species
dollars, and the navy at 316,000 species dollars ; the public
debt at 190,000 species dollars. In the estimate of the reve-
nues the Customs were set down at 1,900,000 species dollars.
MussrEn, OCT. 6.—On the evening before yesterday we
received the unexpected news of the death of Baron Joseph
von Dreste Vischering, Lieutenant Field. Marshal in the Aus-
trian service. This is the second brother of the Archbishop
who has died within the past month. The Archbishop
Augustine is near his end ; he is in a very melancholy state
of suffering. The news of his brother's death cannot be com-
municated to him.—Hamburgh Papers, Oct. 17.

lIAMBULGII BORSENIIALLE, OCT. 17.
Bills. Money
Austrian 5 per Cents • • • • • • • • • • •• • • • • 114
Bank Shares • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 1620
Anglo-Russian Loan .••••••• • . .. . • • • 10914
Russian 5 per Cent., lamb. Certificate. 102
Ditto Ist series Inscription.. ••••• • • • • • -
-. Ditto, Hops and Co., 3d and 4th series • 97
Ditto, in Certificate ••••• • • • • ..... •• • • 97
New 4 per Cent., Slope and Co. ••• • - • 91
Ditto Stieglitz .. -.••• • . • • • ..... •• • • 89
Spanish New 5 per Cent • .
Ditto 3 per Cent ••••••••• • • • • • • • • •
Anglo-Portuguese Loan, 2% per Cent • •
Dutch Actual Debt, 2'>6 per Cent
Ditto 3 per Cent. • • • • • • • • • • • . —
Polish New 4 per Cent. Loan, 1844.. • • 85
Anglo-Danish Loan, 3pr Cent ••• • • 87
National Bank Shares • • • • • • • • • • •
Exchange on London.
llamburgh, Oct. 17. •••.•• • • • • • • 13 6y?

BRIDGENORTH, MADELY, SHIFFNAL AND LIVER
FOOL DIRECT RAILWAY.—This company, which comes
before the public under the support and influence of some of
the great ironmasters and local gentlemen of high respect-
ability and wealth, will effect a saving of distance of 32 miles
between Liverpool and Bridgnorth. It will also open a
quicker communication between Manchester, Stockport,
Chests r, Crewe, and all the important manufacturing towns
of Lancashire, and bring Shiffnal, Madeley, and Bridgnorth
in immediate connection with the north, enabling the great
manufacturers to forward their goods direct to the western
coast. The line will commence at the important
borough of 13ridgnorth, proceeding along the valley of
the Severn, through the Coalport China Works, to the
mineral district of Madeley, and from thence proceed in a
straight line to the agricultural town of Shiffnal, and there
form a junction with the Liverpool and London Direct Rail-
way. The line, it is said, will pass through no ornamental
property, and being within twenty miles in length, is likely
to experience difficulty in getting through Parliament.
The consent of the landowners along the course of the line
has been obtained, and no engineering difficulties present
themselves. The capital required for this important little pro-
ject is only 300,0001., divided into 15,000 shares of 201. each ;
deposit 21. 2s. per share. The board of management is small
compared with the legion of names attached to many of the
recently projected railway schemes, but, which is of more im-
portance, is select, being composed chiefly of those gentlemen
who, when the line is finished, will become some of its great
supporters. The Committee include ten leading ironmasters
of Westhromwich, Bilston, Dudley, Salop, &e.
WILTS, SOMERSET, AND WEYMOUTH RAILWAY
COMPANY. e have received a communication from a correspon-
dent, complaining of the non-delivery of the sealed certificates of
this Company, and stating that many heavy transactions remain
unsettled for want of them.
BRIGHTON AND CHELTENHAM RAILWAY.—The
shares were quoted yesterday throughout the day at to jr, a good
premium, when we consider the great depreciation in the real
value of the soundest schemes.
WILTS, SOMERSET, AND SOUTHAMPTON RAIL •
WAY.—This sterling line of railway :is highly thought of, and its
stock is sought after by those safest to follow in such matters.
GERMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH, DRESDEN, OCT- 13.
—Our First Chamber deliberated the 11th of this month on the
report made to its extraordinary committee, concerning the mo-
tion made by the Dean, M. Dittrich, and which motion was
to the effect that every Christian individual who wishes to join
the German Catholic church should be held to produce an
affidavit signed by the clergyman of the church he before be-
longed to, and stating that the said clergyman had endeavoured
to dissuade the person from so doing. The affidavit to be
then laid before the Minister :,of the Interior by the commit-
tee of the German Catholic community, before the person in
question be allowed to become its member. But although all the
members of the committee agreed in the suitableness of putting a
stop to proselytism in some way or other, they could not still
agree as to the precise means to be employed. The majority of
its members proposed to leave it, on the whole, to the care of the
public authorities, but to impose at the same time a fine upon all
such persons who by violence, bribery, or other objectionable means,
should attempt to make proselytes to the German Catholic Church;
whilst the minority of its members insisted that no one should
be allowed to become a member of the German Catholic
congregation, nor even to he present at its Divine service, who
is not provided with a certificate of his having intimated to
the minister of his former church his intention of so doing. How.
ever, this latter proposal was objected to by the Minister of Public
Worship, on the ground that too great a police force will be thus
required to be kept on foot for the purpose, and he proposed to the
First Chamber to adhere to the proposal made by the Committee.
The Dean, M. Dittrich, then withdrew his original motion in giving
his adhesion to the majority, whose measures were adopted by the
Chamber, which latter declared also, on that occasion, that all the
petitions relating to the German Catholics are thus to be considered
as having been disposed of, and that it gives its full sanction to the
temporary regulations concerning the German Catholic Chutherch
and its members which were brought in by
the of
Crown.
ALLEGED INFANTICIDE.—Yesterday forenoon Mr.
w. Payne, concluded an adjourned inquest at the Fleece Tavern,
Queen-street, Cheapside, relative to the death of a new-born male
child, which was found on the evening cf the 12th inst. at the door
of Mr. Alford, No. 9, Ironmonger-lane, one of the churchwardens
of St. Martin's, Pomeroy, Cheapside. On the re-assembling of the
jury yesterday, sergeant Munday, of the City police, who has the
case in hand, stated that 400 bills hadbecn placarded in and around
the City by the churchwardens, offering a reward of 10/, for the
discovery of the person who so exposed the body. He had also
made minute inquiries throughout the neighbourhood; but, up to
the present time, he had received no clue to the discovery of the
guilty parties. The Jury, by the advice of the Coroner, returned a
verdict of "Found dead."