The Sun.
London, England, 1855-10-13 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES.

Sir,—T observe with great satisfaction from the letter
of your Berlin correspondent that fir the present he con-
siders Prussia—under Prussia's genial King—unworthy
of an English alliance, and that he rests the ultimate
advantage to be derived from such an alliance on the •
possible kindly feeling toward England of a young Prince
between whom and the throne two lives intervene. Bs-
fore these two lives drop how ranch may happen ! The
kindly feelinga,which now, wd are told; fill the mind of
Prince Frederick' Widiani, may change to the very re
verse ; fir, though I am not quite so old as the late Dr.
Routh, I can very well remember the time when the
present King of Prussia. then Crown Prince, was de-
scribed by his tutors as English to the back-bone (bis
zum Riickgrat Englisch gesinnt). Compare the same man
under the different phases of his existence as Prince and
King, and you will see that in Prussia, as in England,
the rule of policy prevails that it is convenient for a
Crown Prince to be in opposition. When in one and the
,ame family both antagonist poles are combined it may
be supposed it may be supposed by those about the
Throne that there is less danger of a political explosion.
The word "explosion" brings me tb the point which
I have in. view. That there will be an explosion
in Prussia some of these days, if the present
repressive system, pursued by the Kreuz Zeitung party
and the Junkcrschaft, who lead the amiable King by the
nose, be persevered in, who can doubt ? You might as
well cut off all the water from the boiler of your engine,
heating your furnace at the same time seven times more
than its wont, and then expect it not to blow up. Try
the experiment with a teakettle, and see if some one
does not get scalded. Well, if there be an explosion,
I do not know where the house of Hohenzollern will be
blown to. Perhaps to St. Petersburg ;at any rate, the
alliance of one of .that family with an English Princess
will then not be worth seeking. But, supposing there
is no explosion ; suppose that the leading-strings of the
country are loosed, the fetters on its intellect and speech
relaxed, that its police learns wisdom, and its King the
art of governing,--in that case this alliance might be
I worth having, but. it can only be worth baying when an
English Princess is wedded to a Liberal and Constitu-
tional Prince. We must, in fact, have a material gua-
rantee. We must have something more than words. Now,
let this young Prince return to Germany an' 'become a real
Liberal—let him put himself at the bead of the party,
not of revolution, but of progress—let hie, put off the old
pPortiinccer,anceota"ind word alone, but in deed.
ConstitutionalaAda put on the new Adam of
Let us not be told by others that he will be, but let him
show us by his deeds. that
Adam
of hisd
es
be is, liberal in heart and
soul—in a word, let him go back and shame the despo-
tism of his race, and break a lance against its old iniqui-
ties. Let him, like a bold knight errant of old, seek the
dragon in its den, transfix and destroy it, and all it.
Russian following. Finally, having won his spurs in
mortal fight against the atrocities of government now
practised in Prussia, let him come back in five years'
time—it will take live years at least to accomplish what.
I have said—and claim his bride to be the worthy wife of
a Constitutional King, the liberties of whose subjects,
guaranteed not by paper constitutions, but by the prac-
tical development of free institutions, will be at once his
glory, and prove his title to carry away from our shores
a daughter of England. On any other terms we should
be parting with our Princes on a very doubtful bar-
gain, and I should be imilmed to fear that a Prince nos
' English to the backbone might follow the example of his
uncle, and become Russian "bis zum, .Rackgrat."
A STUDENT OF JIATORY.