The Sun.
London, England, 1849-08-21 00:00:00

PRUSSIA.

The ministerial journal, entitled Constitutional
Correspondence,. of the 17th of August, publishes the
folloWing
" The State Ministry (Frankfort), especially the war
department, continues its petty chicaneries against
Prussia. We will enumerate a few of their spiteful pro-
ceedings. 1. Under pretence that the Prussian troops
quirtered in Frankfort do not belong to the garrison,
but are merely marching through, the Ministry ordered
them not, to be allowed to mount guard. But it was
compelled to rescind this order in consequence of the
forcible remonstrances of the Prussian Commandant.
2: The Same Minister of War, at the request of
the AnstiiaA General Singer, directed a battalion
of Bavarian Light Infantry to be solemnly re-
ceived, and conducted into the town with mili-
tary honours, whilst it chose to ignore the arrival or pas-
sage of Prussian' troops. 3. In consequence of the Prus-
sian Colonel Stavenbagen's retreat, the directorship of
the war department (a sort of military secretary) became
vacant, whereupon the Minister endeavoured to obtain
the appointment of a Baden officer of high rank, although
he was aware that Baden had adhered without reserve
to the Prussian Alliance, and consequently that this no-
minal,
appointment would only lead to complications and
disputes.
It may Here be asked, also, how it comes that
the Hanoverian
Colonel Bennigsen, the Saxon Major
Witzleben and the Hessian (Electoral) Lieut.-Colonel
Itochenhausen, remain members of the ' State War Mi-
nistry,' when these three officers belong to states that
have all disavowed the Central Power? 4. Although
the State Ministry has not the means of retaining the
crews of the German fleet in pay for a single month—
and although these crews and vessels have latterly
been paid by money taken from the federal chest,
but destined for totally different purposes—how is it
that the State Ministry has ventured to bind the Aus-
trian General Eberle and the Saxon Major Witzleben to
an oath of allegiance from their crews to the Central
Power? These persons will certainly not venture to
show themselves in a Prussian port. How they were
received in Hanover, Oldenburg, Bremen, and Haniburgh
we know not; but we do know that the convulsive throes
and snatches of this dying body are properly estimated,
and that they are looked upon, not as a forerunner of
revival, but as the last flashes of an expiring light. 5.
The Hessian Lieutenant-General, Prince Wittgenstein
(Minister for Foreign Affairs during Jockinus'e ab-
sence), carries on a constant correspondence with Lord
Palmerston. The letters which he writes to London are
entitled, 'Notes 'of the German State Ministry.' One
of the last of these so-called notes contains a memoir,
wherein it was set forth that Prussia would certainly
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oontent herself with the Main river as a fron-
tier; that she wol ald acknowledg a Southern
Germany with Bas aria at its head (that is,
a Southern Germ any, consisting of Bavaria,
Wurtemberg, Baden, Hesse Darmstadt, Leichtenatein,
and the two Hohenzlerns, now Prussian) ; and. lastly,
that she would not object to a supreme directory over
the northern and southern divisions, with Austria as
its president. It must now be asked," continues the
Constitutional Corr. E•spondence, " whether Lord Palmer-
ston places more co ntidence in the conjectural policy of
the Hessian Lieutenant-General, or in the decided de-
claration of the Prussian Ministerial Address, upon the
opening of the Chambers. Should the Prince, in his
note, have added that , after the defeat of the Hungarians
a corps of 50,000 Russians will remain in the south, and
that Austria will then assume a menacing attitude to-
wards Prussia, we will not refuse its belief ; but should
that be the case, there is no great motive, in this project
for patriotic Prussians to hail with satisfaction the defeat
of the Hungarians."

RUSSIA.
The Emperors of RUSSIA and AUSTRIA are en-
deavouring to induce the reactionary Governments of
France and Prussia, to unite with them in a league
against English influence.
The last news from Odessa is of great importance-
to the commercial world. The term of thirty years,
during which Odessa was to be a free port, expired
on the Ist inst., but the CZAR has been pleased to
prolong the franchise for another term of five years.
But the duties on iniports, which formerly were fixed
at one fifth, have bet raised to three-fifths on wine,
tea, and sugar, and to two fifths on all other goods.
This measure has. caused the greatest excitement
among the merchants of Odessa. An alteration has
likewise taken place in the quarantine laws of the
port of Odessa. The quarantine, with free papers, is
to continue four days, and in case of a death on board,
six. Vessels from Atzatolia are to be eight days in
quarantine ; and vessel• from Egypt, unless they have
passed their quarantine at Constantinople, are to pass
it at Odessa during the number of days which is
quoted in former decrees.