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London, England, 1863-06-06 00:00:00

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LONDON, SATURDAY, JUNE 6.

Tar illegal and arbitrary decree by which the
King of Pauseu has assumed a power of life and
death over the newspapers in his dominions, is the
most despotic measure on which his Ms.msrit has
hitherto ventured. But it is in perfect conformity
with its antecedents. The Kura has openly
broken with the intelligence and public spirit of the
nation, ',and having insulted and dismissed the
Chambers, which were its constitutional organ,
was not likely to tolerate its free manifestation
through the press. And as the Constitution
guarantees to every Prussian the right to
express his opinion freely, by writing
and printing, and forbids any restrictions
on the liberty of the press otherwise than in the
way of legislation, the Constitution is again
violated. The decree of June 1 makes the de-
pendents of the Kiwi the absolute disposers of
that liberty, and empowers them to prohibit and
suppress any journal with the tone, tendency, or
" attitude " of which they may be dissatisfied. No
reason is given, and none can be pretended, for
this new violation of the rights of the subject.
No foreign war or internal commotion menaces
public tranquillity. The Prussian journals, like
the people, are moderate and self-restrained under
the grossest provocation a nation ever received.
In the Ministerial report which, in the Prussian
Muni err, precedes the Royal Decree, it is ex-
pressly said that the Government is compelled to
assume an arbitrary power over the press, because
the newspaper articles most objected to contain
" nothing of which the law can take hold," " no-
" thing which can be made the ground of • pro-
" aeration." It is, therefore, the utility and not the
absseof the press that the Government seeks to de-
stroy. It is no light thing for • nation pre-eminent for
education and enlightenment--a people among whom
intelligence is diffused more widely than among
any other in Europe—to be exhibited to the
world as the helpless victim of • Go-
vernment which is distinguished for nothing but
ignorance and brutality, and the suspicion and
jealousy which always accompany misrule. The
downward course in which the KING has made
such rapid progress since his coronation has com-
pelled the most moderate of Prussian patriots to
ask themselves and one another, what the
country has further to hope from • family
which, for the last forty years, has done nothing
but betray the confidence of the nation and ob-
struct its progress. The new outrages, which the
KING covers with his name and which too faith-
fully represent his character, are of a nature to
destroy the last link that connects the constitu-
tional party with his throne.
There is one person in Prussia who cannot be
an unconcerned spectator of this movement. The
Crows Panics does not, like his father, persis-
tently shut his eyes to all sources of intelli-
gence. He may not be aware of the extent to
which national feeling is being gradually, but surely,
alienated from his house. But he surely has the
good sense to know what is the irresistible ten-
dency of the policy pursued by the KING. His
interests for the present, at all events, are iden-
tical with those of the people, for his rights are
endangered in proportion as these of the nation are
placed in jeopardy. The present is a time to try
his temper and show what stuff he is mule of.
Whatever delusion the KING may be under, he has
only a life interest in the Crown, and the Panics
is not bound to stand idly by and see
his own rights and those of his chil-
dren sacrificed. The PRINCE appears to be
aware that some manifestation of opinion, some
act that will separate him from the policy of the
Government, is proper in his situation. We
fear, however, that the speech be has just made at

Dar:tsic will do little to revive the enthusiastic
feeling for the Crown which the Kum has done so
much to extinguish. The PRINCZ confines himself
to a cold and barren statement that be took no
part in the deliberations which preceded the
ordinances, and that their publication took him
by surprise. ibis is all the PRINCI thought
it necessary to say of an act which not only sub- j