The Express.
London, England, 1863-02-09 00:00:00

PRUSSIA.

THE KING'S LETTER TO THE CHAMBERS.
At the sitting of the Chamber of Deputies on
Friday, the president read the reply of the King
to the address, the ministers and deputies remaining
standing. The following is the substance of the
royal letter :
The tenor of the address, as well as the mode by which it
has reached his Majesty, shows that the chamber desires to
know his pensontl views and the expression of his will.
This is why his Majesty replies to the chamber without the
intervention of his Ministers. The address states the
grave disagreement between the situation of the
chamber and that of the government. It accuses the
ministers of having acted unconstitutionally in continuing
the administration without the fixing of the budget, and of
having by this means violated article 99 of the constitution.
The chamber, it is true, has banished all doubt as to his
firm with to maintain the constitution ; but it has taken
some acts of his government done with his went as the
bases of complaints against the ministers. He would not
have admitted these acts if they included an at-
tack on the constitution. He must therefore reject
the complaints of the chamber. The chamber has
made use of its constitutional rights relative to the esta-
blishment of a budget in such • way that his government
finds it impossible to adhere to the impracticable decisions
of the chamber. The Chamber of the Lords has used
its constitutional tights only to reject the budget. His Ma.
jesty is of opinion that the Chamber of Deputies has ex-
its powers in maintaining that its partial de-
cisions are definitively binding upon his government.
If, on the one side, the address says that the
new session hu begun without the government
showing by some initiative the possibility of returning
to a normal state of the administration, on the other, it
has pulped over in silence the fact that the royal speech
has promised some propositions for that purpose. On
the occasion of these regrettable conflicts his Majesty has
received numerous addreues, in which the signers express
their adhesion ; but his Majesty has seen with pain that
his subjects are spoken of as • small minority which
has long been foreign to the nation. The cham-
ber has spoken, moreover, of an abuse of power
in some measures directed against some public
functionaries. The limits of legal discipline have not been
exceeded, and the representatives of the nation have no
reason to raise complaints in that matter. His Majesty
much regrets the divergence of views, but he will not lead
himself to an arrangement, by sacrificing the constitutional
rights of his crown, and of the Chamber of Peen. It is his
duty as Sovereign to maintain intact the oorstitutiona
rights and prerogatives of the crown. His Majesty expects
that the chamber will take into account the conciliatory
steps of the government, and will contribute on its part to
an arrangemeot This accord is • necessity for his royal
heart ; for all his efforts tend to develop the prosperity of
the Prussian people, surd to secure to the country its his-
torical position, the result of/ a glorious harmony between
the King and the nation.

(REUTER'S 7T.LEGIWIS.)
SPAIN.

MADRID, Fie. 8.

Government has not yet taken any resolution
respecting the dissolution of the Chambers, and it
is considered uncertain whether this step will be
taken.