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A correspondent at Frankfort writes, on the 21st instant—" The

novelty of the week for Germany is the commencement made with public trials A correspondent at Frankfort writes, on the 21st instant—" The novelty of the week for Germany is the commencement made with public trials and oral pleading at Berlin. In the immature shape in which the much desired boon of publicity is presented to the longing eyes of the people of Germany, there is too little assurance of its duration to awaken enthusiasm

on their part. The change bears too much the character of being the re- sult of a whim; and too many precautions have been taken by the men in office, who fear and detest the novelty, to prevent its speedily showing its full utility, for many consider it no more than an opportunity for thea- trical display. "Great anxiety and no small degree of indignation has been excited by the declaration of the Government at Hesse Darmstadt that it intends to effect a change in the judicial forms of the province of Rhenish Hesse, of which Mayence is the chief town. Since the French occupation, all the German states on the left bank of the Rhine have enjoyed open tribunals and trial by jury in criminal cases. A form of an initiatory nature is to be submitted to the Chambers at Darmstadt in their approaching session, to prepare the way for the old secret and written forms of law. Great agita- tion prevails in consequence, both in Rhenish Prussia and Rhenish Ba- varia, where this innovation has long threatened. Notwithstanding their popularity, the public courts were only preserved to the people by the Revolution of 1830, and later by the threatening attitude of. France in 1841."

Letters from Berlin say that the King of Prussia has under consideration a morganatic marriage between Prince Waldemar and Mademoiselle d'Arnirn, daughter of Goethe's Bettina.

M. Ouvrard, the distinguished financier, died in London yesterday; aged seventy-six. He figured prominently in finance during the great events of the French Republic, the Consulate, the Empire, the Restoration, and the Revolution of 1830. He was the confidential agent of Charles the Fourth of Spain; and became the partner of that monarch in the exclu- sive commerce of the Spanish possessions in the New World during the war with this country.

Mr. M. Short is the new Police Magistrate, in the room of the late Mr. Bond.

It is understood that the Reverend Gilbert Elliott has been appointed to the living of Trinity, Marylebone, vacant by the death of the Reverend Dr. Penfold.

The celebrated blind traveller, Lieutenant Holman, returned to this country on Thursday evening, after an absence of upwards of six years; during which time he visited Portugal and Spain, Algeria, and all the places in the Mediterranean; penetrated Egypt and Syria; crossed the de- sert to Jerusalem; and finally made an extensive tour through the least frequented parts of the South-east of Europe, including Hungary, Tran- sylvania, Servia, Bosnia, &c. As on all former occasions, this extra- ordinary man travels perfectly alone. He has returned in perfect health and spirits.—Liverpool Mercury.

Sir Henry Pottinger has been appointed, in addition to the office of Governor of the Cape of Good Hope, the Queen's High Commissioner for settling and adjusting the affairs of the Eastern and North-eastern fron- tier of the colony.—Times.

Cape of Good Hope papers to the 3d September have been received this morning. They contain nothing new; leaving affairs on the frontier sub- stantially in the same state as the previous advices.

The South American and Mexican Association have addressed a letter to Lord Palmerston pointing out the danger to British interests and to Bri- tish subjects from any participation in the military expedition against Ecuador, and calling upon Government strictly to enforce the Foreign En- listments Act.