The Sun.
London, England, 1852-11-09 00:00:00

GERMANY.

The ceremony of the betrothal of the Princess
Anna, daughter of Prince Karl of Prussia, with the
Prince Frederick of Hesse-Cassel, took place at the
Palace of Charlottenburg, on the 4th inst. All the
members of the Royal family were present ; the illus-
trious pair received after the ceremony the congratu-
lations of the Court, the Generals, the Ministers of
State, and the Chargé d 'Affaires of Hesse-Cassel.
The following is the text of the speech of Count
Bnol-Schauenstein, Austrian Minister of Foreign
Affairs, on opening the Customs' Congress at
Vienna :
" Gentlemen,—Six months have elapsed since the close
of our sittings in this hall. A grand and useful work
the preparation and guarantee of the Customs' Union
and of the commerce of Germany and of Austria—then
occupied our attention, and from the result of our delibe-
rations we were well founded in believing that we had laid
the foundation stone of the vast new institution without
any shock for the edifice of the German Zollverein. Diffi-
culties which we had no reason to foresee have since
arisen. But even now we do not renounce the hope that
they may be surmounted, but circumitances have im-
posed it as a duty on us to assemble again in order to
enter into deliberations on the present state of things.
The high governments here represented have properly
appreciated the motives of the invitation which his Ma-
j esty the Emperor, my august master, authorized me to
address to them. Oar present efforts are the result of
the same spirit as the preceding. In casting a
glance at the time which has passed between our
two meetings, we find ourselves reassured by the
fact that the drafts of treaties which we drew up,
and which your Governments, gentlemen, presented for
acceptance to the united States of the Zollverein have
been generally admitted to be practical and useful. Our
project of a treaty of customs and commerce especially
is admitted in all parts as destined to serve for the basis
of ulterior negotiations and our principle of the union
of customs as the first object to attain by these negotia-
tions has again been generally recognized. By the
coecessions which we have made in the most concilia-
tory spirit, and, to faciltate general expectation, the
task still to be fulfilled is reduced to details which
certainly may be regulated by ulterior negotiations.
Our Governments have declared on several occasions
their disposition to take equitable propositions into con-
sideration in order to arrive at a complete accord on
the general tonour of the customs and commercial

treaty, the prompt conclusion of which is every day
demanded by the most evident facts. We have aban-
doned the demand to see stipulated simultaneously,
and in obligatory forms, the basis of the future
Customs' Uaion. But the equitable condition of this
renunciation, and its natural consequence is, that a
free course shall be left to the treaty of commerce,
in order that it may have full effect at the expira-
tion of the term agreed on. How, under such circum-
stances, can a dissension as to the period of the conclu-
sion of the treaty of commerce have the importance of
principles? How can it have the effect of separating all
Germany? To come to an understanding with Austria,
the future extension of the Zollverein is not placed in
question, and the time necessary for the negotiation is
sufficient. It follows that we have every reason to main-
tain the hope of an early arrangement, although the
realization of it is not within the solo power of the Go-
vernments represented here. There is only cne case
in which our hopes could be deceived—namely, if the
Zollverein—the object of which, according to the ex-
press terms of the treaties in vigour, is in accordance
with Article XIX. of the German Federal Compact—if
the Zollvereign should have a tendency different from
that with which it was founded, incompatible with the
essence of treaties, by which the national union of the
Germans has been preserved—the tendency to exclude
Austria from any care of the popular common interests
of Germany. Your high governments, gentlemen, have
recognized with perspicacity the necessity of foreseeing
the unfortunate case of the Zollverein not remaining faith-
ful to itself, of providing for present wants, and leaving
open for the future the paths of reconciliation. We
shall pursue that object with resolution. But in no case
whatever may be the decisions of our confederates not re-
If, in fact, the bonds of the Zollverein, in t'aeie
purteusreen.
presented here, will Germany despair of her commercial
f
t extent, should be dissolved, a new league rat Cus-
toms would be formed, and would unite a
per nation of
48,000,000 souls. It will be the subject of our
aegociations
to fix in detail, the means by which this alBw union may
be formed without deranging the economy of the States
which form part of it, witb oat prejadice to the interests
of their subjects) and on bases which shall render the
separation of parts of Germany, hitherto united, as little
sensible, and above all of as short duration as possible.
But I must here solemnly repeat that Austria desires nei-
ther the dissolution of the Zollverein, nor the duration
of the dissension in commerciaandl policyanothe, which a
exists
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between one part of Germany
is too much penetrated with the
want of the union and'
co-operation of all the members of the Germanic Federal
Body, for her not to be ready up to the last moment to
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extend the hand to the so much desrod unders+ancling.
Your meeting this day is a proof that the governments,
of which I salute you, gentlemen, as the honoured re-
presentatives, are animated with the ease sentiments
and the same principles. The great and salutaryobject
_
Let us
to which we aspire carries satisfaction with
it.
unite our efforts to attain it, by our constancy and con-
ciliatory dispositions."

EGYPT.
A letter dated Alexandria, Oct. 23, says :—" A
short time ago his Excellency Mukter Bey arrived
here, charged by the Sultan to obtain the assistance
of his Highness Abbas Pacha in the financial diffi-
culty caused by the position of the Batik of Constan-
tinople, and by the rejection of the loan. SJ far as a
ready promise to assist goes, he has been successful.
The Sultan asks his highness Abbas Pacha to anti-