The Sun. — 1841-01-20 (London, England)

THE ASHTON MURDER.  TUE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 20, 1841.  GERMA. N  ' ~FRANKFORT, JAN. 7.—The military preparations are continued with unabated industry, notwithstanding the small chance which seems to exist of the need of a warlike demonstration. The Bavarian Government has sent the General Von Bauer, the Quartermaster-General at Munich, to the conferences which arc still continued at Carlsrhue. In the mean time a great victory has been achieved over the popular cause in Germany by the suppression of the Deutsche National Zeitung , published by Vieweg of Brursnick, a measure not less significative of the state of things here than the proclamation of the Elector of Cassel, which 1 noticed in my last. The editors were obliged to discontinue publishing from the beginning of the year, by an order from the Ducal Government, acting of course under higher impulse. The crime which has been thus severely viAts d was the attempt to take a decided line in the discutsion of political subjects, and in the dangerous example which this paper set of giving leading articles—a practice which has hitherto only obtained in thi comparatively obscure regions of Stuttgard and Freiburg. Nor is the announcement of a new Liberal paper in the Grand Duch.) of Baden, to be conducted by M. Giehne, who wrote clever answer to the Pentarchic some time back, eonsid,,sed as an indemnification, as his wings are sure to he clipped if he takes adventurous flights. to Hungary the question of mixed marriages has been again brought before the public under a novel form. The last Diet had passed a resolution, by a great majority, in. sisting upon the right of all Christian members of the community to the free exercise of their consciences, and deci.ring it to be contrary to the law for any clergyman to demand a written engagement respecting the education of children from parties desiring to be married. The Comitat of Pesth, in its last local legislative meeting, reduced this principle to practice, by imposing a fine of 600 florins on any priest of any confession who should so act against this resolution. The Primate of Hungary, M. Kopaozy, has publicly protested, in a long letter, in which he openly assumes that the Legislature has no right to dictate to the clergy what functions they have to perform, or in what manner they are to perform them. In Berlin there seems to be some anxiety respecting the difficulty of keeping a strict control upon the international distinctions in the duties levied under the Customs league. People who have been taught that this league had abolished all check upon internal commerce in Germany, will be surprised to learn that wine and spirits pay an additional duty when imported into Prussia from the southern States of the league, while beer and some other articles pay a higher duty on entering Bavaria. Salt, which is a Government monopoly, cannot be introduced from any one State into another. These discriminating duties like passports and all other restraints upon mental and bodily exertion, worked well enough as long as people moved slowly, but now that railroads arc getting the fashion, and seem to have their advantages, the official heads arc growing afraid that the nations will get on too fast for them. t am, however, happy to add, that the preparations for commencing the railroad between Berlin and Frank. fort suffer no delay in consequence of these petty objections. The works are expected to be commenced in the spring.