The Sun.
London, England, 1853-04-07 00:00:00

PRUSSIA.

The police have, it is affirmed, been successful in
seizing the principal person or persons implicated
in the insane project of a republican outbreak at
this place. The individual most seriously compro-
mised is said to be Dr. Frankenthal, arrested in
his apartments at Moabit. Lists of names and
divers correspondence and papers were discovered
in his rooms, concealed within the lining of an arm-
chair. This personage possesses some little pro-
perty, and has considerable practice in his neigh-
bourhood. He is an admirer of antiquities, and
has a small collection, which enabled him to con-
vey—so it is asserted—arms and ammunition into
his house without awakening suspicion. He and
all other individuals arrested, with the exception
of Messrs. Behrends and Streckfuss, liberated under
surveillance, remain au secret. There is every
reason to believe that the police are in possession
of written, and perhaps of more direct evidence,
which proves incontestibly the criminal and sense-
less intentions of these enemies to all true liberty,
and their connection with other desperadoes in
distant parts within and without the monarchy.
There is but one opinion here among rational men,
that the vigilance of the police has saved Berlin
and other towns from the bursting forth of one of
thuse explosions, which, after causing much blood-
shed, terror, and confusion, would have merely led
to a recrudescence of police and exceptional severi-
ties, to an abridgment of liberties, and to the thou-
sand annoyances attendant upon a state of siege.
It is said that an Englishman, with an Austrian
passport, is among the persons arrested.
It appears that M. de Hinckledy, president of
police, whose vigilance in tracing murderers, as
recently proved, is equal to his skill in frustrating
intended political crime, declines to accept the
functions of director-general, or, superintendent of
the whole police of the monarchy, which an illus-
trious person is desirous that he should assume.
Sundry motives are assigned for this. Among the
most conclusive is that such most responsible func-
tions cannot be undertaken by a subordinate, that
is, by any one liable to the immediate control of

this or that Minister ; or, in other words, if the ge-
neral police power be vested in one hand, the power
must be independent, and tantamount to that of
any other Minister who has uncontrolled sway over
his department, subject, of course, in certain cases,
to the assent of the whole Cabinet and Crown.
It is generally asserted that the so-called Minis-
terial crisis was not yet determined, and that the
whole Cabinet had declared that if the Minister-
President retired, all would follow his example.
But we have had such repeated instances of these
Ministerial crisis, that little doubt exists of matters
being satisfactorily arranged. Indeed, were it not
for the necessity of chronicling passing events, it
would be superfluous to mention the subject.
The definitive convention for the renewal and ex-
tension of the Zollverein was signed last evening,
by the whole of the plenipotentiaries. The ratifi-
cations are to be exchanged and completed within a
short period.