The Sun.
London, England, 1849-01-16 00:00:00

PRUSSIA.

The Senate of Breslau, by judgment dated the Bth,
has decided that the refusal to pay taxes does not con-
stitute a crime, and that, consequently, any one who
excites another to do an act which is not criminal,
cannot be considered guilty of anything reprehensible.

FRAN KFORT.
The Independance 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 nut 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 complicated 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 more
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 Germaay could alone answer
the wants of the nation, and the exigencie!, 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 anti 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
'case 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 judgment,
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 efforts of his
Royal Highness the Grand Duke, that the people of
Baden may be a worthy member of the great German
family."