The Sun.
London, England, 1854-09-20 00:00:00

PRUSSIA.

BERLIN, Sept. 17.—1 t has been repeated to
satiety that the Western Powers have never urged
Prussia to take up arms against the Czar. Such a
demand they well knew from the commencement
would be fruitless. They have hoped, however,
and have had grounds to hope at various periods
since the commencement of the Vienna confer-
encu, that Prussia would exert the full weight of
her moral influence in favour of the only means
for restoring peace, which is as much in her own
interest as in that of the Powers upon whom
the whole burdens and risks of war have
fallen. They hoped that Prussia would, as a great
European power, shake herself loose from all
external and internal trammels, and treat the
mighty question at issue from an elevated and ge-
neral point of view, and not from that which is cir-
cumscribed by the narrow horizon of specialities
and individualisms. They hoped that Prussia, in
lieu of occupying herself with petty German ri-
valries and questions of precedence, or with con-
stantly seeking to play quart in tierce with Aus-
tria, would start from the same goal with her, not
only as regarded German interests, equally dear to
both, but as regarded the interests of entire
Europe. France and England hoped, above all,
if Prussia should determine neither to lend her
active nor frank and full moral aid, that she would
maintain the strictest and most sincere moral neu-
trality, as was and is the bounden duty of a State
professing rigid impartiality and a desire for peace,
and an earnest intention to avoid injury to one
party or the other.
These hopes have been constantly frustrated,
and this in a manner within the last fortnight
which must have produced as much pain as sur-
prise to the Cabinets of Paris and London.
The Prussian Correspondence announces that the
Russian authorities have determined to render all
foreigners coming to or residing within the Czar's
dominions liable to the conscription laws, who are
not provided with minute attestations of their
birth, or absolute and immediate relations as sub-
jects of foreign States. In consequence of this the
Prussian consulate at Warsaw and the home au-
thorities have been instructed to provide all bona
fide Prussian subjects with the required docu-
ments. It is to be supposed that the consulates,
legations, and home authorities of all other States
will be provided with similar instructions.
The Breslau Gazette asserts, under the head of
Vienna, the 14th, that Lord Westmoreland and M.
de Bourqueney have formally announced to the
Austrian Cabinet that England and France fully
participate in the view taken by Austria of the
Russian reply ; and further, that the two Powers
have declared themselves to be placed under the
necessity of obtaining a pledge for peace by a mili-
tary operation in the Black Sea, before the ap-
proach of winter.
A dozen journals assert, under date from Vienna,
that the Prussian Cabinet has announced that its
policy in regard to Russia will henceforth be in
strict conformity with the letter and spirit of the
circular of the 3d of September.
The Catholic journal Volks-Halle has again been
confiscated at Cologne, for an article entitled
" Something more relative to the well-known Cir-
cular (issued by the Minister of the Interior) against
the Clergy." It is rumoured, but probably upon
insufficient grounds, that efforts are being made to
induce other German Governments to join that of
Prussia in excluding the Vienna Lloyd.
The Director-General of Police recentlyrequested
the editors of newspapers to wait upon him, and,
whilst he acknowledged the vast utility of the pub-
lic press and its influence, urged them, as Prussian
patriots, to abstain from publishing articles which
might tend to increase or cause external or internal
complications. On this occasion M. de Ilinckeldy,
with his usual sagacity, appealed solely to the good
feeling and patriotism of the gentlemen present.
The New Prussian Gazette of the 16th says :
"We learn from a good source that the United
States have purchased the principality of Monaco,
with the intention of establishine, there a naval
station."

A ieuter from Berlin, 16th, says :—" The convo-
cation of the First Chamber on the new bases ap-
pears to be not only decided on, as was lately an-
nounced by the New Prussian Gazette, but the
period of its meeting has been definitively fixed,
and the official journal will shortly publish the
documents relative to that meeting."