The Sun.
London, England, 1849-09-24 00:00:00

MONDAY EVEN!

PRUSSIA.
Several communications on the subject of the
Prussian intervention in Baden have taken place be-
tween the Prussian and Austrian Governments. On
the 13th July the Count VON BRANDENBURGH sent
the following instructions to Count VON BERNSTOFF,
the Prussian Minister at Vienna
The report of your Excellency, of the Bth and 10th
inst., have safely reached me.
" Your Excellency, for instance, mentions the excited
feeling created in the mind of the Austrian Ministerial
President, Prince Schwarzenberg, by the intelligence,
that H. R. H. the Prince of Russia had protested
against the auxiliary aid of Austrian troops in Baden for
the protection of the Wurtemberg frontier.
" This not a just mode of viewing it, and I doubt not
but that Prince Schwarzenberg, on being better informed,
will see that nothing was designed to wound or offend
the Imperial Austrian Government.
" In order to give your Excellency
complete informa-
tion of the facts, I transmit to you herewith the copies of
a letter from Prince von Wittgenstein of the 2d instant,
and of the answer from his Royal Highness the Prince of
Prussia on the 3d inst.
" The motives for declining the proposition made by
the Prince von Wittgenstein are already explained in
the last.
" They are based on the adequacy of the troops pre-
sent in the Grand Duchy of Baden to fulfil their task,
and on the position assumed by the King's Government
towards the existing provisional central power.
"It needs, therefore, only to be taken into considera-
tion, that the proffer of auxiliary aid could only be con-
sidered as tendered, not by the Imperial Government,
but by the Ministry in Frankfort. The protest—in so
far as the declining of a material, but not necessary co-
operation, can be called a protest—was not directed
against Austria, but against the Ministry of the provi-
sional central power. That a proffer of co• operation
made by the latter to his Royal Highness the Prince of
Prussia could not be accepted, necessarily results from
the position so assumed, and as Prince Schwarzenberg
will assuredly himself admit.
" The King's Government did not enter the Grand
Duchy of Baden at the re quest of the Central Power,
but at that of the Grand Duke himself. This was the
ground which the commander of the King's troops could
not surrender to Prince Wittgenstein. Practically, not
the slightest necessity prevailed for summoning a greater
number of troops than what was already disposable
there. The complete pacification of Baden, as well as
the protection of the Wurtemberg frontiers, could be
adequately effected by force at the disposal of his Royal
Highness; neither from Baden nor Wurtemberg was
any doubt raised, or a wish expressed for an additional
auxiliary force.
" The Prince of Prussia could hence do nothing else
save decline in his answer the attempt on the part of
Prince Wittgenstein to mix himself up in an affair which
we could necessarily only regard as a question purely
between ourselves and the Government of the Grand
Duke of Baden."
Prince SCHWARZENBERG'S instructions to Baron
PROICESCH in Berlin, dated Vienna, July 22, 1849,
ran as follows :

"In the inclosed copy of a dispatch to Count Bern •
storff, of the l3th inst., the Prussian Government ex-
presses the wish to explain the motives to us which in •
duced the Prince of Prussia to decline the offer made to
him on the part of the Ministry of the empire, relative
to the co-operation of an Austrian corps for putting
down the Badea insurrection. "
The proffer of the ;co-operation of our troops pro-
ceeded from the Provisional Central Power, under whose
disposal we had placed these troops. Consequently the
declining of that offer does not affect us, and we could
consistently recognise therein neither a protest issued
against Austria nor any other unfriendly design.
" The Baden Oberland (highlands) up to the 11th in-
stant, when the Prussian troops entered Lorrach and the
vanguard of the Imperial troops Constance, were ex-
posed to hardships by so much the more aggravated,
inasmuch as the inhabitants had testified their devotion to
the just cause; the leaders of the insurrection have nearly
all of them escaped the arm of justice, and have found a
refuge on the Swiss soil, where they are preparing new
misfortunes for the German Fatherland, about to dis-
seminate by so doing new seeds of discord between Ger-
many and the Swiss Uoufccl.ration.
"How serious the dangers are which threaten us all
from that quarter, the Prussian Government has itself
already recognised, for it has invited us through the
medium of Count Bernstorff to forestall such danger by
energetic steps against Switzerland. The President of
Ministers, Count von Brandenburg, judged it even ex-
pedient to express the ardent wish to your Excellency
that we should forthwith take military occupation of the
Swiss frontiers.

" This evil alight have been obviated, if our well-
equipped and disciplined army corps had entered on the
3d instant the Grand Duchy, occupied the Swiss frontier,
and cut off the enemy's retreat.
"If we are compelled to lament from these grounds
alone, that the essential advantages have escaped us,
which so well combined a plan of operations would in-
fallibly have pregented, we can also lament besides, that
at the same time this so favourable an opportunity was
neglected of proving to foreign countries, as well as the
revolutionary party in Germany, that Prussia end Aus-
tria, in spite of their difference of views still existing as
to questions on certain princi:Aes, were nevertheless in
perfect accord when it is requisite to act against the
common enemy.

" This opportunity would have been most welcome to
us, since we are convinced that the moral impression of
that unity of the two powers, as evinced by such joint
operations, would necessarily be of importance and of
great effect for the good cause.
" The ministry of the empire,' acting:from powers en-
trusted to it by the Vicar of the Empire, most assuredly
contemplated only the good cause, without coupling with
it other intentions or objects.
" We are by so much the more justified in this assump-
tion, since the acceptance of this offer by Prussia would
not in the slightest degree hare deranged its position
with regard to the central power.
On the breaking out of the insurrection in Baden,
the Grand Duke applied, first of all, to the provisional
central pottier for assistance. In order to afford it to
him, the Imperial army corps at that time concentrated
in and around Frankfort-on-the-Maine immediately took
the fold, for the Arch• Duke Vicar of the Empire, at the
urgent request of tho King of Prussia, entrusted the chief
command of it to a Prussian officer, Lieutenant-General
von Peuck;_x.

" This Imperial army corps it was that first prevented
the revolutionary bands from trespassing beyond the
confines of Baden; and thus it rendered a great service
to the rest of Germany, when, hereupon, the appearance
of the Russian columns on the field enabled the Imperial
troops to assume the offensive.

HOLLAND.
THE HAGUE, SEPT. 21.--In the sitting of the
First Chamber of the States General this day, the
PRESIDENT said the commission appointed to draw up
the Address in answer to the Speech from the Throne,
had sent it in, together with the observations of the
committee. The Address was then read and adopted
unanimously, with two amendments.
In the sitting of the Second Chamber, on the 21st,
M. VON GJBERLEIN accepted the presidency of the
Chamber, to which he had been nominated by the
KING, and delivered an appropriate speech on the oc-
casion.—Staats Courant, Sept. 22.
The
says :—" We learn that among other conferences
Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Courant of Sept. 22
which took place yesterday, there was one between
M. DIRK DONKER CURTIUS and M. J. B. THORN-
HERE, and L. D. STORM, and also between M. D.
DIRK DONRER CURTIUS and M. F. A. VAN HALL.
it is said that these conferences relate to the constitu-
tion of the new Cabinet. According to reports,
M. J. B. REMPEER has declined entering into the
new Ministerial combination, and that M. J. F.
MORN])Ritz has been charged with the formation of
the new Cabinet. Frequent conferences had lately
been held at the country seat of the Minister for
Fereign Affairs, between that Minister and the French
Ambassador to the Court of the Netherlands."
The exact cause of the Cabinet's resignation is not
yet known,
but it is believed to be connected with
the recent election of the President and Vice-Presi-
dents of the Second Chamber from among the ranks
of the Opposition. The present financial embar-
rassment may, however, have operated to produce
this resolution on the part of his MAJESTY'S late
advisers.

The election of M. VAN GOLSTEN as President of
the Second Chamber has receivEd the Royal confir-
mation.

The Princess FREDERICK of the Netherlands has
taken her departure for Berlin with her two daughters.
M. DEDEL, the Netherlands Ambassador at
Hanover, has placed his letters of recal in the hands
of I'l3 Majesty ERNEST AUGUSTUS, who conferred
upon him on this occasion the cross of the Guelphic
or,uer. Chevalier CoormAN, the Danish Charge
d Affaires to the Netherlands Court, had the honour
to receive from his MAJESTY, in a private audience the
day before yesterday, the order of the Elephant.
Fifty-three fishing boats are being equipped this
year in the port of Scheveningen; five of them have
already put to sea.
Ar.ISTERDAM, SEPT. 21.—An alarming fire broke
out. here last night, at half-past six, at a sugar-
refiner's, and in half an hour the flames gained such
an ascendancy that there Wil3 no possibility of extin-

ar Hungarian troops enter there, at their own good
time. and not prematurely. The most vigorooe
ugainst Itui.4ia however, because this is least of all
conjectured, would be an expedition into the Caucam::.
Polish officers have been sent in numbers to the Cauca-
sus. There an understanding must be come to with
them and the Cossacks. The funds can alone be fur•
nished by the Magyars. You have thought of that
already, General, and show, that they will pay to your
signature some tens of millions. The whole difficulty
consists in the manner of getting these funds converted
into ready money. It appears that Hungarian paper
circulates only on the spot and in Vienna. Could not
some millions be sent hero by way of experiment? I
would try and get them cashed in England, or get up a
loan on them. I adjoin a special note respecting the
concessions, that must inevitably be made to the Slaves,
if they are to join the Magi ars. I must menti,n to
you that the Croatians have sent to me, and declared
their wish to separate from Austria, but that 95,000
carbines must Le sent to Ancona for them. They
thought that Frsnce would furnish these, but which
could net even be spoken of here. This is so important
a subject, that it would be worth while laying out the
Hungarian money on them. You can send them the
arms by Fiume. " CZAR,TORYSKI."

guishing them ; '24 fire-engines were speedily on the
spot, and the most prompt ;rid praiseworthy assistai:ce
was rendered by the scldiers. ILipily the wind,
which was very high and strong at the commence-
ment, changed, and thus the opposite houses, which
were ready to ignite, had time to -cool, while the
inhabitants of those in the opposite direction
had hsd sufficient time to make efrective
arrangements. About eleven o'clock the fire was got
under. The property that was thus destroyed was
insured for 20,000 florins.—Anzsterdamsche Courant,
Sept. 22.