The Sun.
London, England, 1863-06-15 00:00:00

PRUSSIA.

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A letter from Berlin, dated June 13, says :—lt
being highly important to know the effect pro-
duced by the Crown Prince's recent speech, I have
taken particular pains to satisfy myself upon that
head, and to be able to speak upon it with com-
plete confidence, and I now fully confirm what
I wrote to you early in the week. As before re-
marked, there are Pessimists everywhere—captious
persona hard to content ; and, doubtless, there is
here a coterie which declines to admit the value
of the words spoken at Dantzic. and effects
to consider them insufficient and of trifling
worth. Person s fielding that opinion are, you
may depend upon it, very few in number. Of
course the Govvernment party, although its jour-
nals have not been able to conceal its annoyance
and vexation does all in its power to foster an im-
pression, at home and abroad, that the Priuces
words failed of effect, and that the intended demon-
stration made a fiasco. The contrary is the case
It is not at a moment of depression like the present
that the nation is likely loudly to testify its joy
even at a declaration which gave it sidcere satisfac-
tion. As Winter said at Dantsic, the circum-
stances of the time are unfavourable to such mani-
festations. But it is not the lees generally felt that
Prince Frederick-Willian, in that short speech,
cleared away the mist of doubt which hung araund
him and dimmed his popularity, that he greatly im-

proved his position before the country, and gave for
the future an implied pledge precious to the people
and most important to his dynasty. That this is
the general feeling of the reflecting and impartially
judging men of all shades of the Constitutional
party, of the whole Liberal body, including even a
large majority of the most Radical, and of the great
bulk of the bourgeoise, I am convinced by my own
personal investigations, by the tone of the Prussian
papers so far as they have dared to speak, end by
the correspondence from Berlin that appears in
numerous foreign papers—not taken indiscrimi-
nately and as if all were of equal value, but having
regard to those whose sources of information are
approved as trustworthy. Persons acquainted with
the opinion of the well-informed portion of the
diplomatic body in Berlin will there also find con-
firmation of this view. The opinion of the principal
leaders of the extreme Left is known to be favour-
able to the Prince. If there be a few men of
views so ultra that they even, in certain matters go
beyond Waldeck, it is quite certain that such have
but a scanty following, and enjoy bat trifling in-
fluence in the country. Many persons seem to
feel a sort of relief at finding themselves enabled to
transfer to the heir to the Crown those sentiments of
confidence and respect which its present wearer un-
happily has done so much to alienate.
The Crown Prince has replied to the letter his
father wrote to him in consequence of his Dantsic
speech. Various reports are current respecting the
tenour of the answer. It is improbable that any of
them are based upon actual knowledge of the con-
tents of so private a communication. The favourite
version is that the reply was firm, as well as be-
coming and respectful. It is not very important.
The effect has been produced by the speech, and in
spite of the saying that litera scripta manent, in
this case they will not succeed in weakening the
impression of those spoken.
People are not much edified by the haste shown
by the King to address congratulations to the French
Emperor on the fall of Puebla. Such eagerness cor-
roborates what you were lately told with respect to
this Government being particularly obsequious just
now towards that of France.

A letter from Vienna says that the Duke of Saxe-
Coburg-Gotha was received with most particular
distinction by the Emperor Francis Joseph. Here
the Duke's visit to Vienna is considered extremely
significant. The King is expected to leave on the
18th for Carlsbad, and the Queen on the evening of
the 15th for England.
There has just been an election of a deputy to the
Chamber for the district of Pless-Rybnicker. Count
Edward Reichenbach, a most decided Liberal, was
returned by 173 votes against 63 given for General
Von Roon.

We hear of a terse but significant recent corre-
spondence between Gortschakoff and General de
Berg. The former wrote the latter:—" My dear
General—Make haste and suppress the insurrec-
tion, in order to facilitate the success of diplomatic
action." To which De Berg replied—" My dear
Prince—Make haste and bring your diplomatic
action to an end, and I promise you I will soon
put an end to the insurrection." There cannot be
much doubt which of the two it is—diplomacy or
arms—that just now is keeping the insurrection
alive.