The Sun.
London, England, 1862-06-07 00:00:00

THE PRUSSIAN CHAMBERS.

BERLIN, JUNE 4.
The following is the project of address which will
to-day be brought forward in the Chamber of
Deputies by M. von Vincke and his little band of
adherents, as an amendment on that of the Fort-
schritt party :
"Your Majesty has been pleased to summon a new
Chamber of Deputies. The members of the same hold it
for their first duty to give evidence of the inviolable devo-
tion and fidelity towards your Majesty and the Royal family
which for centuries have animated the nation. No calumny
should be permitted to inspire the Throne with the convic-
tion that a party in the country strives to transfer the centre
of gravity (schwerpuszkt) of the power of the State, which,
according to the history and constitution of Prussia, re-
poses in the Crown, to the representatives of the people.
" We therefore deeply deplore that 3 our Majesty's Minis-
ters, have given expression to such accusations, and have
coupled with it the supposition that the old ana triea class
of Prussian functionaries could ever be unmindful of the
oath they have taken to your Majesty.
" Conformably with our duty we will carefully examine
the budget laid before us, and we have learnt with satisfac-
tion that the long-expressed expectations of the representa-
tives of the nation are to be fulfilled by the greater specifi-
cation of the same, as well as by the timely introduction of
the estimates for 1863.
" We indulge the hope that there will be introduced into
the military budget such further retrenchments as may,
consistently with the maintenance of the undiminished effi-
ciency of the army, and with the utmost possible realisa-
tion of the universal obligation to bear arms, render prac-
ticable a greater sparing of the productive and financial
resources of the country, and a degree of regard conformable
to th 3 spirit of the times for the other highly important
branches of the public welfare.

" We will bring the commercial and navigation treaties
laid before us under constitutional discussion. Above all,
we receive with warm acknowledgment the commercial
treaty between the Zollverein and France, which will multi-
ply our peacable relations with a powerful and great
nation, increase the facility of supplying our mutual wants,
and open new markets to our industry.
"The particular (particulariatischen) endeavours, which
there seems a disposition to oppose to this work, so rich in
results, will be finally silenced and set at rest only when
your Majesty, with the assent of the German nation—so far
as at the present moment certain individual States do not
see themselves directed into non-German paths—shall have
taken into your own most high hands the guidance of all
the diplomatic and military interests of Germany, with the
constitutional co-operation of a national representative
assembly.
"As being in the direction towards this highest aim of
Prussian policy, we greeted with joyful satisfaction the
display of forces for the re •establishment of aggrieved con-
stitutional rights in Hesse-Cassel, and wo trust that your
Majesty will not sheathe the sword until the just demands of
that steadfast German peop7e, by neighbourhood and his-
tory so closely connected with us, shall have received full
satisfaction.

"In a similar way also shall Schleswig-Holstein finally
atttain to the rights in which it has been so much aggrieved
" We consider the promptest recognition of the kingdom
of Italy as being in the interests of Germany and of Prussia.
" The country anxiously expects the organic laws of
which a prospect has been held out, and the constitutional
removal of tho opposition which has hitherto been made to
them. We confidently anticipate that, while maintaining
unmoved the conditions of the constitution, they will satisfy
real wants and avail themselves of those elements of the
existing institutions which peasess vitality.
"Most gracious King and Master I
"The Chamber of Deputies, undisturbed by the changing
currents of the day, will guard, earnestly and zealously, as
well the rights of the Crown as ihe constitutional rights of
the national representative assembly of the people, win

refuse its co-operation to no measures necessary for the
maintenance of the honour and dignity of the country, or
for the advancement of all branches of peaceful activity,
and thus on its part will it contribute to draw closer the
links which a glorious past has established between your
Majesty's august house and the Prussian nation."
The paragraph relating to the carrying out of the
German idea—the union of all German lands and
peoples, including a national Parliament and the
hegemony" of Prussia—will, I fear, be not very
clear to your readers in the attempted literal trans-
lation. Tha particularistich efforts are the strivings
of certain German States in a sense opposed to the
project of national unity, and the parenthesis "so 1
far as," &c., refers to the endeavours of Austria in
favour of special interests, as opposed to the general
welfare of Germany. The general tenour of the
paragraph can hardly be objected to by any section
of the Liberals, but there are other passages which
meet with their decided disapprobation. Among
these is the first, in so far as it declares the chief
power of the State to centre in the Crown, this
being at variance with the constitutional theory of
the party progress. The paragraph relating to
Hesse also invites animadversion by the expression
of a feeling of confidence that the King
" will not
sheathe the swore until satisfaction, Sze., shall have
been obtained. People will naturally look about for
the naked blade which these words would lead
one to imagine is somewhere or other menac-
ingly brandished. They will find no such mar-
tial sign, but merely a certain amount of paper'
spoiled at the War-office, a number of working
men summoned from their occupations to re-