4 JANUARY 1845, Page 11

A Frankfort letter says that Mr. Fox Strangeways ' the English

Minister to the Germanic Diet, was to leave Frankfort for six months; but that he was not to het replaced, his absence being partly for the purpose of his receiving new instructions concerning the negotiations to be opened with the Gennan Customs Union.

The receipts of the German Zollverein during the first nine months of 184( were 18,889,549 thakrs, or 1,221,765 more than in the corresponding period of 1848.

Under the head of "Communication between Egypt and India," the Standard announces that "Mr. Galloway, the engineer, has just left Paris, en route tei Egypt, to commence this great work, projected by his brother, the Bey, ten years ago.

The Observer of the Rhine states, that the Protestant Bishop of Jerusalem has received full permission from the Sultan to build an Evangelical church on Mount Sion, and that the work of conversion is making great progress.