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London, England, 1849-09-27 00:00:00

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PRUSSIA.—Oar correspondent writes as follows
BERLIN, Bare. 24.
To-day the Second Chamber met to discuss that
chapter of the constitution which relates to financial
affairs. As the corner-none of all constitutional go-
vernookt consists in the people being muter of their
money, the importance of the subject excited more
interest than usual. All the articles of the cetroved
constitution relating to finances were accepted by'the
committee of revision without alteration (except the
108th), and two new articles have be. n introduced.
These are as follows:—" The voting of supplies may
not be accompanied by conditions on the part of the
chambers which do not immediately concern the ap-
plication of those supplier." "The taxes voted for
a financial period may continue to be raised during 4
months atter the expiration of this period,wheoeverthe
iettling of the budget for the next financial period
is put off until after the beginning of this. These
four moths are, however, to be reckoned as part at
the new financial period." The first new article seems
designed to guard %West a vote of supplies being
made dependant on some political concession to the
people; the second contemplates those violations of
the ostentation on the pert of the executive in pee-
roguing the Chamber beyond the term fixed by the
law, of which an example occurred daring the lest
recess, and which are but too likely to be often re-
peated. In the 108th article the committee made an
essential alteration, by taking oat of it a provision
which in fact renders the whole constitution illusory,
by giving the executive the power of d sooting;
wth a parliament altogether. The article in
question is as follows: "-The existing taxes and
constribatioos will continue to be levied, and all
provisions of the existing statute books of
single laws and ordinances which do not
contradict the present constitution remain in force
until they are changed by a law." The committee
struck out the part relating to taxes. The bate will
turn mriefly upon this alteration, which is an import-
ant stand of the constitutional party,and exceedingly
disliked by minister*. What lenr.s a pectin rr excre-
ment to the discussion of this subject in the Prussian
Chambers is the last vote of the National Assembly,
which stood supplies to the government, and prohi-
bited the ministers from collecting taxes. Hence the
epithet of Steur-versoeiperer, or tax-refuter, with
which the ultra, have not osesed to brand the
chiers of the democratic party. It is the cue of the
reactionary party to exclude the right of withholding
supplies—without which, in fact, there is no su..l
thing as the right of granting supplies—by the mere
force of pious horror which they rano by fixing the
attention of their hearm upon the treasonable ex
ceases of that revolutionary period, the brgioning of
last November. I propose to give a short account of
this debite, u the subject is well calculated to show
up the peculiar tenets of the extreme right, and their
pietist-absolutist vein, on the one hand, and the gin-
gerly timidity of the 000Mitutional party, who mince
their words as if they were perpetually afraid of
giving offence in high quitters. The debate was
opened by
KUM? RTIZOW —Be knew no freed,'" of the people
without freedom of the king, who represents every subject,
(the hon. m. mbar used the word L'oderfhon, which is sieved
oy the liberal constitutionalists as a term of abasemest)—
while again every subject bear on him with love and piny.
The question is, whether the taxes may be refused by one
chamber, or whither they are to be settled by the chamber,
in conjunction with the king. It has bees said that true coo-
stitutionalisin requires the right of votiog the supplies. This
was a pare Wetter:thou borrowed from England, whose rela-
ting, are totally different from those of Prussia. In England
the reigning dynasty has been called to the throne by the
people ; whereas Prusia is the creation of her eccollent
sioaarcha. An appeal is made to the constitution of the
provincial diets. These never had any canna, at least with
us in the Nark, over the customs, which formed the
main soothe of Weans, bat only over the ordinary contribu-
loss. • conothatiosa wrionarelly with the power of rt fusing
lazes, could not stand; for it gives to one member of the
state an attribution which destroys the equilib thus of autho-
rity. They (the hoe. member's opponents) wanted a king
like a Meet fin i, which could be written quite as well
wiliest rusk des. In Baden it had hoe threatened to stop
the rappilm hi, March of last year if the Bekk ministry were
not dismissed. For seek ressms as these the principle had
not been admitted inn the aosstitatioa. Nor could be cos-
mic, what groand the committee had for supposing this
provision to be merely transitory. If they were a conserve.
tiro chamber, they would aot pull down a ruin pillar of the
meassehy.
11. AVIIISRALD ages d with the member who had pre-
sided him as to the position of the throne ' • but the time was
now come toe axing the relative position of the people sad
throne in the true interest of both. He confuted that the
cirsometasoes of England prorated no analogy to those of
Prussia, sad he was far from looking to teat country as a
medal be them is their moat tent. The conservative
Burke however had proncroased the control of supplies to be
the toroth-mots of the political sailor. The advantages of
the English constitution In in its scalar growth, cud if
Alfred the Great had not laid the foundation of frt e mod-
eipal invitatioes, England la the nineteenth century would
not prittaps have been what she is. The question was whe-
ther they should now adopt a principle which had been
uniformly regarded as the most urlisposible base or a free
oonstitation. If the elnishors had not the right of Wade,
supplier, they could not he said to grant supplies. WeeM
they leave the chambers without ray r souse against tests
of the government which might coatradist the clearest end
most binding promisee of 1M mews ? If so, they had tenet
writs in the onsitatien "TM chastises hue sot do
right of voting the suppling; the miverasssee decrees the
uses." Es voted for the reined of the sommittse.
In the last sitting of the &mad Chamber there was
a division which has made sone sesmatioa. A media
was iotroduced for suspending the bwrgherwehr @MU
the revision of the law relating to that institution.
Ttis was supported by the government, but thrown
out by a decided demonstration of the constitutional
party, who mustered 153 votes against 138 of the mi-
nisterial party.

Yesterday the deputies of the Pbst and Second
Chambers dined at Potsdam with the king.
AUSTRlA.—Viestia data are to Sept. 22.
General Wessath, the. governor of Transylva-
nia, has pubUsW a severe proclamation, in order to
pot a stop to the brigandage of the Wallach,. In
this he says, that several robberies and murders hav-
ing taken place, in spite of his repeated warnings, le
feels himself called upon to take some decisive mea-
sure in order to suppress once for all these deeds of
violence, instigwed by hatred of :ace and persona
revenge. Therefore orders have been sent to the
commanders of the military strains, in all cares,
where such offenders are caught in the perpetration of
such acts of violence, to proceed according to the most
summary form of court-matial and shoot them on the
111.01.
An al'imatum as to time has been sent to the gar-
rison of Comm reseeding the surrender of the tor-
tem, but which expired yesterday. Rumours, not
authenticated as yet, my that it was accepted, and
that a partial surrender already actually occurred,l
but no odsraal report confirms this.
At Freeburg the joyous cry was raised on the 201 i
inst., " Contemn is ours!" A general amnesty has
been promised by the emperor to all the force in the
Place.
The Yeses paters of the above date, on the other
bud, merely speak of the surrender as being near at
hand.
FRANKFORT. Oar latest intelligence, of the
24th inst., informs us that the Prince of Prussia,
whose unexpected arrival we announced yesterday,
bait not proceeded on to Berlin, as was supposed, bat
has retuned to Carlsruhe.