The Express.
London, England, 1858-10-12 00:00:00

PRUSSIA.

Ina circular, dated the 9th, M. Manteuffel in-
forms the chiefs of the foreign missions resident at
Berlin of the regency of the Prince of Prussia, and
of the constitutional regulations in virtue of which
his royal highness has been invested with the new
authority.
A letter from Berlin of the 9th inst. says :

" It is generally supposed that there will bee com-
plete change in the cabinet. MM. Awersward,
Count Schwerin, MM. Bonin, Patow, de Bethmann,
and other leaders of the constitutional party, are
spoken of u likely to be the new ministers.
The departure of the King is still fixed for the
12th. The King and Queen will travel in strict in-
cognita u Count and Countess de Zollern. The
King takes with him M. de Gerlach, the preacher
Snethlage, Count Keller (Marshal of the Court) two
Aides-de-Camp, his Treunrer Schoning, M. de Reu•
mont, and Postmaster Balde. The Queen will be
accompanied by Countess Kanitz and Countess d'Al-
vensleben, Ladies of Honour, and by her Second
Chamberlain, Count Kanitz."

It is worth noticing that it is the Prince in accept-
ing, and not the King in conferring the regency,
who makes mention of the constitution as a rule and
guide to be followed on this occasion. The King, in
his decree, appears as the sole author of the Prince
Regent's powers. Ho invites his brother to exercise
them, and he fixes their sphere. The Prince
announce' that he assumes the regency " on the invi-
tation of his Majesty," bat also "in virtue of the
68th Article of the Constitution of the 31st of
January, 1850;" the prescriptions of which be further
follows in convoking the Chambers.
The transaction now completed is of importance
to Prussia, not merely because it puts an end to a
provisional and doubtful direction of affairs which
made settled resolutions and vigorous action
at home and abroad impossible, but because it
gives Prussia a ruler eminently national in his cha-
racter and unembarrassed by personal alliances with
exacting neighbours, and because there is reason to
believe that it denotes a return to government for
the nation in a spirit of honest confidence, instead of
government for a mean and suspicious party.
The bureaucratic and police interest clings to
power with desperate tenacity. The newspaper
correspondents at Berlin, who presented themselves
at the telegraph office on the morning of the Bth to
transmit intelligence of the event of the evening
before, found that the officials bad received lupe' ior
orders net to send the news.

Our Berlin correspondent writes as follows:
Berlin, Oct. 9.

My telegram of yesterday informed you of the
fact that the question of the Regency is at length
definitively settled, whilst my telegraphic message
of to-day tells you the first official act of the new
Regent in the dismissal of the Minister of the Inte-
rior. The official Prussian Correspondence was the
first organ of government to publish the settlement
of the question. It states that the hopes entertained
by the King's medical advisers from his recent so-
journ at Tegernsee not having been realised, it be-
came his Majesty's imperative duty to take the
needful measures tor carrying on the business of go-
vernment without any interruption, to effect which
he has been pleased to appoint his brother, his
Royal Highness the Prince of Prussia, Regent of
the Kingdom till such time u the King's own
health is perfectly restored, investing him with the
fullest authority and power to act quite indepen-
dently, and in accordance with his own views
and sentiments of what ought to be done to
make the government of Prussia respected at home
and abroad.

The official and semi-official journals of this morn-
ing, which confirm this fact, do not mention that the
pecuniary arrangements are also finally settled. In
a former letter I stated that there is in Prussia no
regular civil list voted every year, as in other coun-
tries, but that the dotations of the crown and ap-
pasages of the royal family are supplied from the
revenues derived from the " crown entailed estates."
These crown domains are more than sufficient to
defray the expenses of the royal family, and keep up
the dignity of the Prussian court ; and as the value
of these estates has greatly increased during the last
ten or fifteen years, owing to the introduction of ►n
improved system of agriculture and drainage, there
has been lately a considerable surplus, which the
King relinquished, and which were applied to the
general purposes of the state.
In consideration of this circumstance, as the
Queen is still strongly opposed to any abandonment
of the King's rights to the revenues of the crown
domains which he has always enjoyed (and on which
a good many charities and pensions are charged), it
is now resolved to apply to the Chambers for a suit-
able dotation of the Prices Regent. and a bill is
being prepared for that purpose. With regard to
the amount to be demanded, I have reason to believe
it will be fixed at half a million of dollars, or about
70,0001. per annum. Besides this, it is settled that
the King shall retain for his life the royal palaces
and chateaux at Charlottenburg, near Berlin, Sans-
soaci at Potsdam, Erdmannsdorf in Silesia, and one

or two others lees generally known in England.
The absorbing news of this morniag—the dismissal
of the Minister of the Interior, Baron von Westphalen,
by the new Regent, it being his very first official
set—has made a vast sensation in this metropolis,
and has canoed a deep gloom in the camp of
the pietistical party, of which he is one of
the Protagonists, and for whom it may indeed be
considered a very severe blow. The fall of
Herr von Raumer and General Count von Wal-
dersee (the Ministers for Religion and War re-
spectively) may be expected immediately to follow,
and as there is—as I have already informed you in
a former communication—a dissension in the cabinet,

it is more than likely that in • very short time
shall have to report to you several important
changes, not only in the ministry, but in other de-
partments of the public service.
All good and loyal constitutional Prussians expect
great things from the well-known sound good sense
and firmness of purpose of the new Regent,
and are fully convinced that, although he
has not himself sworn to preserve intact
the existing constitution, he has penetration
enough to see the necessity of making a concession to
the public opinion in conformity with the spirit of
the age we live in, and now on his accession to the
power if not the name of sovereignty, will take
things as he finds them, without perhaps compro-
mising himself for the future. People who have an
intimate knowledge of the Regent's character, and
who from their position in his immediate suite have
for a long time had many opportunities of making
their remarks and forming an opinion on the sub-
ject, assure me that he is in every respect a jolt and
honourable man, willing to do what he conceives to
be right; and when once he has made up his mind
on the course he intends to pursue, no arguments,
no influence, can maks him waver for a moment,
or induce him to alter in the least his
once-formed resolution. They also deny his being
so antagonistic to the constitution as he certainly
has the credit of being, and excuse his decided ne-
gative when invited by the Bing to take the oath of
adhesion to the charter, that he could not do so in