The Sun.
London, England, 1863-11-11 00:00:00

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"Negotiations with regard to the continuation a
the Zollverein have been opened between the Go-
vernments of the Union. My Government, adhe-
ring to the commercial policy which it pur-
-611C3 in full unanimity with the repre-
sentatives of the country, has entered upon these
negotiations with the earnest wish to strengthen,
while maintaining the treaty of commerce concluded
with France, the tie which connects the material
interests of the greater part of Germany, and shortly
to regulate the relations with the Austrian Empire
as soon as the maintenance of the Zsllverein shall
have been seured.c
" The associations having for their object the
amelioration of the condition of the labourers re-
quire, for the full development of their social effi-
ciency, the legal establishment of their rights. My
Government is now occupied with a bill for this
purpose.

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federate of the 14th :—" The reported insurrection
of the blacks, in Hancock County, was more serious
than was at first supposed. Their organization
was complete, from a major-general down to a cor-
poral. The plan was first to kill all the old men
and women and children, appropriate the young
women as wives, and then joinllosencranz when he
captured Atalanta. To this they were instigated by
designing emissaries from Lincolndom. The ring-
leaders have been arrested."

The Columbus (Georgia) Sun gives the following
as the results of General Wheeler's recent raid
against the communications of Rosencranz :
"General Wheeler captured over 1,160 waggons
in the Scoquatchie valley, 1,000 of which he de-
stroyed, bringing the remainder safely across the
river. He shot upwards of 3,500 mules, and
brought away with him more 1,000 horses and
mules. At M‘Minnville he destroyed 30 days'
rations forßosencranz's entire army; also two trains
of cars loaded for Chattanooga, and 15 miles of the
railroad. He also destroyed the track of the
Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad for nearly 20
miles below Murfreesboro. His loss was three
pieces of artillery, and about 1,000 men, mostly
prisoners.

"The bills relative to the rights of shareholding
companies and of sailors, as well as the bills relat-
ing to the ordinances provisionally issued with re-
gard to the charge in the tariff of duties, and for the
avoidance of the collision of vessels at sea, which
were not passed during the last session, will be-
come the subject of your deliberations.
"To neutralise the excitement that was produced
o
in the country in a dangerous form by the press of
othrdeindasyne,s necessaryagitwaaisnst
h transgressions
of Art. 63 of the Constitution. This ordinance, in
conjunction with the bill for the modification of
some stipulations of the press laws and criminal
code, will be submitted to you for your constitu-
tional approval.
"The insurrectionary movements having for ob-
ject the re-establishment of the former kingdom of
suetissue a provisional
on the basis
Poland have threatened the tranquillity of our fron-
tier provinces. We may congratulate ourselves
that the mobilization of troops ordered by me, and
the vigorous action adopted by my officials, have
protected Prussia from serious disadvantages. The
German Diot was resolved upon making respected
by means of execution those demands, based upon
Federal right, with regard to the Duchies of Hol-
stein and Lauenberg, which the Government of his
Majesty the King of Denmark has up to the pre-
sent left unsatisfied, or shall not have satisfied at
the time fixed for the carrying out of the execution.
" The co-operation of Prussian and Austrian mi-
litary forces has been held in view, in case the army
of execution should meet with superior opposition.
Should this be the case, and the employment of ex-
traordinary means be required, my Government
will submit to the Diet the necessary proposals for
that purpose.

The Provost Marshal General has announced that
forty per cent. of those drawn in the present draft
are held for service; of these one half paid commu-
tation, one-third of the remainder went into service,
and two-thirds furnished substitutes. Over forty
millions of dollars have been uselessly expended in
bringing into the field two hundred thousand men
who have been discharged for disability.

Senor Don Matiar Romero, Envoy Extraordinary
and Minister Plenipotentiary from the Juarez Go-
vernment of Mexico, has been recognised at Wash-
ington. He presented his credentials on the 28th.
Twenty-five hundred soldiers arrived here yes-
terday from the Army of the Potomac, Washington,
and Baltimore. They came to vote. The Demo-
cratic papers allege that they belong mostly to the
Western or Republican portions of the State, while
the Republican papers state that they are mostly
sick and wounded men to whom short furloughs
have been granted irrespective of their politics.
The Russian Naval officers continue to receive
municipal and private ovations. The Grand Rus-
sian Ballis to take place at the Academy of Music,
on the sth of November. Invitations are to be given
to other foreign officers in port.

" My Government will lay before the Diet com-
munications respecting the course of the negotiation
with regard to the Federal reform initiated by the
Austrian Government. I have never failed to ac-
knowledge the faults of the existing Federal Con-
stitution, bat was unable to consider either the pre-
sent moment or the course adopted as opportune
for its reconstruction. I shall deeply regret, should
the fears expressed by me to any Confederates prove
true, that the weakening of the confidence required
by the Federal arrangements for the fulfilment of
their objects, and the depreciation of the advantages
afforded to the members of the Confederation in
the present situation of Europe, be the only issue
of attempts at reform which were undertaken with-
out a guarantee of success. This guarantee, however,
can only attend those reforms which secure to the
Prussian State its proper position in Germany by a
just division of influence according to the relation of
power and service.
" To protect this good right of Prussia, and with
it the power and safety of Germany, I consider to be
my sacred duty.
" Gentlemen,—We stand in an excited time, per.
haps on the brink of a more excited future. I address,
therefore, more urgently to you the request to under-
take the solution of our interior question with an
earnest will to bring about an understanding. This
object can only be attained if the power of the Royal
Government, indispensable for the Prussian Monar-
chy, be maintained unimpaired, and if in the exor-
cise of your Constitutional rights I be supported by
you in the fulfilment of my duties as King.
" We have to labour in common for the honour
and welfare of our fatherland. My endeavours are
exclusively devoted to this task, and,with unshaken
confidence in the loyalty of my people, I hope to
perform it in sueh a manner as to be able to answer
before God."

The Speech of the King of Prussia.

BERLIN, Nov. 3.

The King opened the Session of both houses of
the Prussian Diet in person, at one o'clock this
afternoon, in the White Hall of the Royal Castle.
His Majesty made the following speech :
"Illustrious, noble, and beloved Gentlemen of
both Houses of the Diet,—The Diet of the
Monarchy in its last Session was closed before the
termination of the deliberations on the Budget, and
the Lower House was subsequently dissolved be-
cause a satisfactory result could not be expected
from further discussion after the declaration ad-
dressed to me.

" It is my urgent wish that an end should be put
to the discussions which have arisen between my
Government and a portion of the representatives of
the country. My Royal duty enjoins upon me to
maintain and protect the power and rights of my
Crown, no less than the constitutional privileges of
the representation of the country. Conflicting

conceptions have been brought to bear upon the e -
tent and limits of the uncontested right of the re-

presentatives of the country to co-operate in the
legal establishment of the Budget. In order to effect
its settlement a bill will be presented to you, which

is intended to regulate the rights of the Government
in case the Budget does not obtain a legal establish-
ment, and to meet the fear that my Government in

such a case intend to lay claim to an unlimited con-
trol over the State funds without regard to the
right of the representatives of the country.
"I have, however, to care not alone for the inte•
rior welfare, but also for the exterior security of the
State; and I must be able to reckon on your co-
operation in both respects.
't The new formation of the army arose from wants
which could not be neglected if we were to keep
pace with the increased armed force of our neigh-
bours, and to take into account the economical in-
terests of our own population by a more just distri-
bution of military service.

gi The army is, after its reorganisation, as I already
said in this place in the year 1860, the Prussian
people in arms, and this, indeed, with greater truth
than before, for while the strengthened organisation
of the Line renders an alleviation possible for the
elder classes of the Landwehr, the united strength
of the Landwehr remains unaltered. Thisformation
has grown in past years, on the basis of the approval
of the Diet the Sessions of 1860 and 1861, into a
Permanent institution of the State, the continuance
of Which can no longer
be brought into question
important 'without serious danger to the most inte-
rests of the country.
The knowledge of this danger
imposes upon me the duty of giving my consent,
with the
to such a Bud
get as will secure the
maintenance of
the existing army arrangements. In order at length
to bring this affair legally to a close, a remodelled
requisite in accordance
Bill on the obligation
reorganizationmilitary
service will be
laid before you.
"Up to the present, the expectation that the
carrying out of the
would meet with no obstacle in the financial re-
sources of the State has been fulfilled.
"bast year the revenue, as is known, was so
large that
not only sufficed for the complete
of the State expenditure,covering of the army
but even gave a
considerable surplus, for the employment of which
proposals will be made to you. This yetmes revenue
allows of similar hopes ; it will, as far as can be now
seen, present ample means to cover the whole State
expenditure of this year without having recourse to
the State treasury.
4, My Government will present to you without de-
layit
the Budget for the current year, together with
a supplement. In the Budget for the year 1864,
which will also eoon be ready for your examination,
the apparently existing deficit is, it is true, not yet
removed. It nevertheless presents the agreeable
proof that the revenu,;f without departing from
sound principles in its estimate, might have been
put down as considerably higher, and would offer
the means to satisfy in all branches of the admini-
stration numerous and fresh require ments.
"The estimate of the new :ground and house
taxes has already been so far pr, )ceeded with that
its conclusion may be looked for yard to with cer-
tainty at the beginning of the yeas • 1865. The sur-
plus revenue expected therefrom w VI shortly afford
the means to close without defieit, the Budget for
the year 1865.

" The general accounts of BAP Budgets of the
years 1859, 1860, send 1861 will ba submitted to you
for the approval of outlays in exer 3ss of the Budget'
and for the voting of the bill of it tdemnity. A bill
for the establishment of the rev( one and
ture of the year 1862 will likewif ie be expendi-
submitted to
you as the basis of the general fidget of this year.
" The agricultural condition. , of the country is
satisfactory. The position of tb e working classes
has been alleviated by an 'abut 'de •nt harvest, and the
cultivation of the country is m „au ig gratifying pro,
gress in consequence of the grow ing assiduity of
the landowners.
"Activity of trade hes inc reseed, and opportuni-
ties for remunerative/labour have not been wanting.
,lso continuos constantly
The traffic upon railroads a
developing itself. My Gov arnment has unceasingly
endeavoured to promote the further extension of
this means of communica Lion. while railway com-
munication with the p
rovince of Pomerania has
lately been opened, ot'
ler equally important lines
have been commenced,
and new bills with reference