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vote in the state of the Nobles. These are, at

present :
A.—ln the province of Prussia :
a. The Counts of Dohna•Schlobitten, Dohna-
Schlodien, Dohna-Lauck, and Dohna Rei-
chertswalde, as possessors of the fiefs forming
the county of Dohna ..... 4
6. The Count of Kaiserling by right of the county
of Rautenburg
B.—ln the province of Brandenburg:—
a. The Chapter of Brandenburg
6. The Count of Solms-Barath by right of the
barony (herrschaft) of Barath
C. The Count of Solcus-Sonnenwalde, by tight of
the barony Sonnenwalde 1
d. The Count of Hardenberg, by right of Neuhar-
dent erg
e. The Count of Arnim, by right of Boytzenburg 1
1. The Count of Lynar, by right of the seigniory
Lu'bbenau
Y. The Prince of Lynar, by right of the seigniory
, of Drebna 1
14 The Count of Ilouwald, by right of the seig-
niory of Straupitz 1
The Count of Schulenburg, by right of the seig-
• niory of Lieberose
4. The Count of Briihl, by right of the seigniory
, of Forst and Pfiirten
• The Prince Carolath, by right of the seigniory
of Amtitz
C.—ln the province of Pomerania :
a. The Prince of Putbus, by right of the county
of Putbus

v.—ln the province of Silesia:—
a. The Duke of Brunswick-Oels, by right of Oels 1
6. The Prince of Lichtenstein, by right of Troppau
and Jigerndorf 1
C. The Duchess of Sagan, by right of Sagan
d. The Prince of Hatzfeld, by right of Tracken-
ber 1
g
e. The Prince of- Sehoneck-Carolath, by right of
Carolath
I The Duke of Ratibor, by right of Ratibor
g. The Duke of Anbalt Cbthen, by right of Pless 1
h. The Count Henckel of Donnersmarck, by right
of Ober-Benthen
i. The Prince Biron of Courland, by right of War-
Wartenberg
lc. The Count of Maltzahn, by right of Militsch 1
1. The Count of Reichenbach, by right of Goschiitz 1
m. The Prince Frederick of the Netherlands, by
right of Muskau
a. The Count of Schaffgotsch, by right of Kienast 1
o. The Count of Hochberg, by right of Fiirstenstein 1
p. The Duke of Wiirtemberg, by right of Carlsruhe 1
Q. The Prince of Hohenlohe, by right of Koschentin 1
c. The Count of 6tolberg Wernigerode, by right of

Peterswaldau
1. The Prince of Lichnowski, by right of Kuchelna 1
I. The Count of Sandreczki, by right of Langen-

bilau
it. The Count of Oppersdorf, by right of Ober-
Glogau
0. The Count of Althan, by right of Mittlewolde 1
10. The Count of Herberstein, by right of Greife-
fort
z. The Count York of Wartenbtirg, by right of
Klein-Oels 1
Y. The Count of I)yhrn, by right of Reesowitz 1
Z. The Count of Burghaus, by right of Laasan
E.—ln the province of Posen :
a. The Prince of Thurn and Taxis, by right of
, Krotoschin.... ....
0. The Prince of Sulkowski, by right of Reisen
c. The Prince Radziwill, by right of Przygadzice 1
(I. The Count Raczynski
F.—ln the province of Saxony :
a. The Chapter of Merseburg 1
6. The Chapter of Naumberg , 1
c. The Count of Stolberg-Wernigerode .... 1
d. The Count of Stolberg-Stolberg 1
c. The Count of Stolberg.Rossla
ic: The Duke of Dessau, by right of the seigniory
of Walterneinburg
9. The Count of Asseburg, by right of Meisdorf 1
G.—ln the province of Westphalia :
a. The Duke of Arenberg
a.
The Prince of Salm-Salm ....
c. The Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg
(I. The Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Wittgeu-
stein
e.r r.
The Prince of Bentheim-Zecklenburg-Rheda 1
" The Prince of Bentheim-Steinfurt
ii. The Prince of Salm-Horstmar
le. The Duke of Loox
17. The Duke of Croy
A. The Baron Von Stein (now his heirs)
I. The Count of Westphalia
/11. The Count of Lansberg-Gehmen 1
11.—In the Rhenish province :
a. The Prince of Solms-Braunsels 1
4. The Prince of Solms -Hohensolms-Lich 1
c. The Prince of Wied 1
d. The Prince of Hatzfeld
e. The Prince of Salm-Reifferscheid-Dyk I

Total .. SO
11.-.—IN THE STATE OF THE KNIGHTS (RITTERSTAND).

A. Deputies from the province of Prussia Votes
45
B
• ff ~ ff Brandenburg . 31
C. ff If ~ Pomerania .... .... 24
D. If 31 I, Silesia 35
B. If II If Posen 22
P. t• It ft Saxony
G. If I f f f Westphalia
2 If ~ ff Rhine 25

Total
M.....-IN THE STATE OF THE CITIES.

s e.
A. Deputies from the province of Prussia Vot
28
B. It 9 9 99 Brandanburgh 23
DMt ft 1, Pomerania l6
D. „ 90 ff Silesia
E. f 0 If 90 Posen l6
F. ~ ft Saxony
ft
Westphalia G. 99 1 t
H. „ in, ~ Rhine 25

- .
Total
182
1V...4K THE STATE OF THE RURAL COMMUNES
(LANDGEMEINDEN). Votes.
A. Deputies from the province of Prussia
a. 91 /1 ft If Brandenburg „ l2
C. Pomerana
91 If ff ft i ••• 8
.D. Silesia .. 16
ft If ft "
,t • •••
E. Posen ...
It *, t,
F. ~,
ft It "
II Saxony
••• 13
G 19 lf Westphalia
a ft PP
11 ft It Rhine ...

Total ••• "• ••• ••• ... 124
Gross total number of votes ... 617.

THE PRUSSIAN CONSTITUTION
(From the Examiner.)
The Ring of Prussia, has sent forth an edict, ordaining
that the members of the provincial states or parliaments
of his kingdom shall meet in Berlin, and form a national
assembly. The management of the public debt is to be
under the control and guarantee of this assembly. Nor
is any new loan or tax, except custom ditties, to be levied
without its sanction.
The Prussian State Gazette publishes at the same
time with this an official commentary, which begs people
not to be so foolish as to consider this a constitution.
Ilia Prussian Majesty, says the Gazette, sees how rickety
and absurd is the working and the results of the present
representative system in France. England, Spain, and
Greece, and will not fling Prussia into the same predica-
anent.
Williamwhen
the
Diplomatists are a little astonished that Frederic
shoulddtieespehave taken this resolution at a time
principle and the governments con-
stituted upon it are all powerful ; and when the quarrels
of France and England neutralise their authority and
strength even in negotiations. Prussia thus remains ex-
posed to Russia and Austria, and dares not brave and
affront the anger of both openly. Russia has already
and very lately shown her power, by insisting on the
destructione of the republic of Cracow. Austria was
etto
Ministers accept, andor Prussia Prussia t odtoebeellearraetde , tthee
the
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SilesianT w o
t&rbTnd
deputation that they had not
Ring
consulted. This
flung all the unpopularity on theehis
subjects,
es
entds hean 1,1 a
ats now
both redeemed the fault with
same time practised some kind of retaliation uponthe
Bussie, by giving a constitution. It is the veritable
germ of a constitution. But Prussia is obliged, in giving
It, to ask pardon of the Courts of St. Petersburg and
Vienna, and present its own act as of no popular or pa-
ramount importance.
The concession, however, is of this importance, that it
satisfies, for a time at least, the progressive party
amongst Prussian politicians. The political world in
Prussia is peculiar, and consists in a great measure of
functionaries. These men have acquired liberal ideas,
not because they the people and breathe the
because enlighten-
mentspring from
but
atmosphere of the democracy,
.them how intrinsically
and experience has taught
weak a despotic government is, especially in any great
i
crisis of war or famine. Moreover, the power of despotic
Prussia must remain limited to Prussia, and also be
enfi rm
in its extreme provinces, especially in Posen andthe
Rhine, where the population is Liberal and Catholic, with
More affinities for their neighbours beyond the n
Prussian
frontier than for Berlin or its administration. To be
truly master even of Prussia, and certainly to extent!.
away and influence over Germany, the King of
Prussia must put himself at the head of the con-
stitutional party in that empire, and keep himself at the
head of it. It is little matter whether this proceeds
from the calculations of interest, or the impulse of Li-
beralism, as long as it is the case. And the King of
Prussia is impelled to take this course, not by any de-
mocratic cry, by any public or civic opinion, stiong as
may be the latter, but by the counsels and views of his
Shnisters and functionaries, or of the more enlightened
of them. There are Whigs at Berlin in the Council
of State, as there may be Radicals at Cologee or Ko-
nigsberg.
The constitution of the provincial states of Prussia is
well known, and is to be found in a decree promulgated
the Ist of July, 1823, and published in all the conti-
4eutal political annuals. These estates do not enjoy
publicity of debate, nor can the journals divulge any.of
their act., until the civic of their hatourp, when the re-