The Sun.
London, England, 1862-05-02 00:00:00

THE ELECTIONS IN PRUSSIA.

A letter from Berlin, dated April 29, says :—The
one engrossing event of the day is naturally the
elections, which show, as far as their results are
yet known, the complete triumph of the party of
progress, whose most sanguine expectations appear
to have been surpassed. To speak first of the capi-
tal. Here they have gained the only seat which
they did not succeed in obtaining at the last elec-
tions. Of the four electoral districts into which
Berlin is divided, the first, which comprehends the
west part of the town on the left bank of the Spree,
is the richest and most aristocratically inhabited,
and particular importance is attached to its choice.
A meeting was held last night of the soohlmanner,
who had been elected for that district in the morn-
ing. The well-known Radical deputy Waldeck was
voted into the chair, and the names of a number of
candidates were brought forward. The Constitu-
tional party proved to be very much in the minority.
Of those candidates proposed by them not one ob-
tained the requisite number of votes (50) entitling
them to be accepted as such by the Assembly,while
Messrs. Twestem,Taddel, Waldeck, Carlowitz, Pro-
' fessors Boeekh and Sybel, and others of the Forts-
chritt party, were chosen by an immense major ity.
The proceedings were very animated. M. Twe-
sten made a speech of considerable length, which
was received with enthusiastic applause. The
accounts from the provinces published in this
morning's papers, and others which have
since been received, are in great part favour-
able to the Liberals. At Konigsberg, out of
344 wohlmanner, 287 are Fortschritt, 27 Con-
stitutional, 13 Conservative ; at Dantzig, out of 287,
261 are Fortschritt ; Potsdam, 102 against 56 ; at
Breslau the Fortschritt's party has 300 out of 521;
at Gorlitz 102 out of 111 ; Erfurt, 115 out of 124.
In not a few of the elections already known the
whole of the wahlmanner (with here and there one
or two exceptions) are of the decided and Liberal
party. Most of the toahltnanner of this party ob-
tained very large majorities, and few of their elec-
tions were closely run. The Catholic party will, as
was anticipated, be more fully represented in this
Chamber than in the last. From Cologne, Coblentz,
and other places in the Rhino provinces, the ac-
counts received are highly favourable to the Libe.
rals. As regards the position of the anti-Liberal,
or, as it is commonly cal.ed, the Feudal party, we
await further info, mation, which to-night's Kraus
Zeitung will doubtless give. The Moderate Con-
stitutional party will have lost seats. The sole
deputy they had for Berlin in the last Chamber, M.
Kuhne, had very few hands held up for him at last
night's meeting. Their organ, the Berliner Allge.
tneine Zeitung, makes no remarks on the prospect
of the parry in its number of this morning, and the
papers generally have no articles on the elections,
but content themselves with a paragraph or two
respecting the general results, and with giving full
lists of the toahlmanner chosen in the numerous
electoral divisions of Berlin, affixieg to their names
the initial letter of the party to which they belong,
among which one seer column after column of" F."
standing for Fortsehritts porta. The Ministerial
Stern Zeitung gives no list, nor say a word about
the elections, save three lines of small print in a
back page, which announce that, as it has not been
able to get the names of all the persons chosen in the
districts of Berlin, it postpones communicating the
result of the eleo,tions for the capital. Concerning
those for the provinces it is equally mute, although
others of this tmorning's papers publish the ac-
ootiris received from a large number of places.
The iberals attribute the much stronger majorities
obtained this year than last by their candidates
to the injudicious measures of the Government, and
especially to the circulars of the Minister of the
Interior and the pressure attempted to be exer-
cised. The silence of the Government organ is
quite intelligible ; it is unpleasant to have to chro-
nicle the complete defeat of one's friends, and, as
far as yet known, there are no consoling ciream-
stances for them in the course the elections have
taken. So the Nern-Zeitung, turning with dis-
taste from domestic occurrence, and the whole of
its columns, on the morrow morning of a general
election, with foreign news.

• The number of persons who yesterday exercised
their electoral right was larger than last autu.,,,_
dome otnclals and persons otherwise dependent on
the Government kept awey, but their places were
much more than supplied by voters who, on pre-
vious occasions, had neglected to avail themsolyes of
their privilege. A great tnvny tradesmen who had
remained away from Leipsic fair on purpose to vote
left last night and this morning for that city.
A commission, consisting of a Prussian naval
captain, a shipbuilder, and an engineer, has been
appointed to proceed to England to collect informa-
tion with respect to the construction and advan-