The Sun.
London, England, 1849-01-17 00:00:00

FRANKFORT.

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The Independence of Brussels, of Saturday, says:
A private letter from Berlin, of the 9th, announces to
us a fact of great importance—viz., that Prussia is not
disposed to accept, purely and simply, the Constitution
voted at Frankfort. It appears that she has declared
that she v‘ill not approve the Constitution until it shall
be submitted to a Chamber of States, representing the
peculiar interests of the different German countries, and
a council of Princes representing the interests of dynas-
ties. Our readers see, then, that the question of
German unity becomes more oomplicated every day.
Prussia, which was believed to be so near coming to
an understanding with Frankfort against Austria,
approaches by its last resolution the principle put
forward by the latter power. It seems to us snore
than ever difficult for the National Assembly at
Frankfort to triumph over the resistance it encounters,
and cause its resolutions to prevail without taking
into account the assent of particular states."
The Chamber of Deputies of Mecklenburg has
adopted the following resolution :—" The High As-
sembly of Deputies of the two Mecklenburghs recog-
nises the political necessity of conferring the Central
Government of Germany on the Crown of Prussia,
with hereditary succession."
M. Welker, the plenipotentiary of Baden, accre-
dited to the Central Government, has addressed the
following note to the Central Power, in the name of
his Sovereign :
" From the moment that Germany began to trans-
form itself into a federative state, his Royal Highness
the Grand Duke has acquired the conviction that a
united and well-governed Germany could alone answer
the wants of the nation, and the exigencies of the
times. He has declared, in concert with the Diet of the
country, and he declares again, that he is ready to
make the same sacrifices which might be required of
him and of the other States of the Federation for the
purpose of gaining the object the nation has in view.
Faithful to these dispositions, his Royal Highness the
Grand Duke does not hesitate openly to declare that, in
ease a single chief; even an hereditary one, be placed at
the head of the German federative state, he will submit
to him in all the great questions of the common German
fatherland, in conformity with the enactments of the
constitution, such as they will be definitively voted.
In making this declaration, his Royal Highness, the
Grand Duke not only acts to the best of his jndgment,
as a German Prince, but fulfils one of his principal
duties towards his own people, by striving, for his part
to prevent the failure of the great work of German
unity, and to procure to his people the advantages of a
great and powerful country. To promote the interior
development of the moral and material prosperity of his
country, will be the constant object of the efforta of his
Royal Highness the Grand Duke, that the people of
Baden may be a worthy member of the great German
family."

ITALY.
The Milan Gazette of the sth announces officially
Od the intention of convoking the Deputies of the Lom-
N bardo-Venetian provinces of the Empire, in confor-
,od. mitt' with the Ministerial programme of the 27th o
November last, in which the integrity of the Mo-
narchy is laid down as its basis.

GREECE.
We have received Athens papers to the 28th of
December. The budget had not been printed and
distributed, but the estimate which it forms of the
revenue and expenditure for the year is as follows :
Revenue
Expenditure

nuswiferret." provisions
„ IfllbeichrelaeaheNy'es ashonuaidccae
voefnuthee ofloa .n. ..
Courier, in i 4
noticing
payment of either principal or
interest
It appears, however, that in this estimate nothing
the budget, says—
. end of the year have
' Ministers, we should have nothing to do but
Unhappily,
Th.e.A—th.e.n.s..C.
all our budgets since 1844 have
exceeding our expenses, which at the
nverted into deficien
in the Treasury is there to protest
Minis-
terial beatitudes. We do not
finances were well administered,
better results; but, in the
very much that thepresent
which preceded it.' pronais 'ns of our
promised US a revenue
es this, the void
doubt against thes© but that, if our
We might expect even
present state of things, we fear
budget will resemble those
is set down for the
gratu-
late ourselves on the situation of our finances
been co cies. Besides
The cholera has
Epirus, and s appeared in Thessaly and the
precautions had been taken by the Go-
vernment to prevent it
from spreading.
Another change of Ministry was spoken of, but
there appears to be no immediate prospect of anything
of the kind.

THUNDER STORM: THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAM'.
—DEFFORD, WORCESTERSHIRE, MONDAY.—The weather
has been exceedingly changeable in the Midland Coun-
ties for the last three weeks, oscillating continually be-
tween severe frost and the mildness of spring. Yesterday
we had a very violent storm of thunder, rain, and wind.
The morning had been beautifully fair, but about one
o'clock the sky became overcast, and a hurricane of wind
and rain, accompanied by thunder and lightning, swept
over this part of the country. At Defford, on the line
of the Bristol and Birmingham Railway, one of the
electric telegraph posts was struck and broken off. The
waters of the Avon and lower part of the Severn have
overflowed the adjacent country to a considerable extent.
ITALIAN GRAIN.—The following arrivals of grain
from Italy have, among others, just taken place:—.A
vessel, named the Admiral Nelson, just arrived in the
river from Genoa, has brought 927 quarters of Wheat;
and the vessel Comet, arrived from Leghorn, has
brought 2,200 quarters of the same description of grain,
the produce of the Italian States. The arrivals of wheat
to this extent from this southern state of Europe are of
considerable interest.