The Sun.
London, England, 1863-10-28 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 28, 1863.

it. The first question, however, is the Ministry, which
nobody confides in or will treat with. M. von Bismark is
looked upon, not without cause, as the arch-enemy of the
Constitution, as the incarnate principle of an insolent and
unreasoning despotism. It may be that one who has al-
ready shown himself so docile to the Royal will is prepared
to set his sails to a fresh breese at his master's bidding.
Also it is possible that, were the arruy question got over,
fresh advisers might be found willing to second the Crown
in the grateful task of retracing certain ill-advised steps,
and in pursuing the path of Constitutional progress. Un-
fortunately, things have come to pass here, that the people
have lost all confidence in their rulers. They demand deeds
instead of fair words, or conditional pledges. It is to be
feared that it would be fruitless to urge a compromise on
such a Chamber as that which in two or three weeks will
assemble at Berlin. And whatever is to be done in that
way should be done before the Diet meets ; because, when
once the Ministers and Deputies are in presence of each
other, there is no saying how soon a fierce action may com•
mence and the quarrel become more envenomed than ever.
The advanced Liberals talk of assuming the offensive at the
very beginning of the session, of declaring the ordinances
against the press illegal, and entailing prosecution for high
treason (violation of the constitution), on all who shall
assist in carrying them cut; a declaration in accordance
with the opinion obtained from the legal faculty of the Uni-
versity of Heidelburg. With respect to those ordinances,
we hear that the Government proposes introducing them
first into the Upper Chamber, there to have them detained
until such time as the Lower Hcuse shall have been dis-
solved. In this manner the Government will not have to
incur the scandal of re-enacting the ordinances after the
rejection by the Deputies, the which would be a more
flagrant violation of the Constitution than their original
enactment.

It has been stated in certain journals that Denmark had
returned an irritating or defiant answer to the summons
from the Frankfort Diet, but that is not the case ; for, up
to three days ago, no answer had been sent, or even drawn
up, and there is no probability of its being, in tone or form,
of the tendency above referred to.

The Kreu: Zeitung, of the 24th announces contemplated
changes of garrisons " in the interest of military discipline."
You are aware that it is the custom in Prussia to quarter
troops in the provinces in which they are raised. In this
arrangement there are certain obvious advantages. The ill
fed and worst paid Prussian recruit finds himself among
his own people, and his lot is doubtless thereby somewhat
improved. But there are also disadvantages, at least at a
time like the presen, when it is urgent to preserve him from
political contamination. Such changes of garrison being
unheard of in Prussia, their announcement attracted much
notice, coming, as it did, from a paper which supports the
Government, and is supposed often to act as its organ. It
soon appeared that the Journal of the Cross had broken
bounds and imprudently let the cat out of the bag, for, in
its following number, it declared the news to have been
based on a misunderstanding, and that the army, com-
pletely uninfected in all its parts by the subversive ideas of
the present day, had not given the smallest occasion for a
measure of this kind that had been announced. Nobody
supposes the Kreuz Zietung to have blundered so much as
to say that he has. Fortunately, its position secures it
against the warning which an opposition paper that had
made such a statement would hardly have escaped.