The Sun.
London, England, 1847-12-11 00:00:00

We read in the Prussian State Gazette of the 6th

" We, Frederick William, by the grace of God, King
of Prussia, &c.—ln our message of June 24th, in the
present year, to our States assembled in the United
Diet, we expressed our intention to present to the Com-
mittee of the States the project of a new penal code;
and, taking into consideration the observations of the
Provincial States, which have reached us on this subject,
with the wish to convoke them for this purpose ‘lith the
shortest delay, and considering that the necessary pre-
paratives are terminated, we have resolved that the Com-
mittee shall be opened on the 17th -January, 1848, in
our capital and residence of Berlin. We have named as
Marshal, the Prince de Johny Mohen Salms Lich, and
as Vice-Marshal, Lienntenant Colonel Adolphe de Ro-
chau de Stuipe. At the same tine we ordain that the
section of the Committee appointed for the project of
the penal code, according to sections 6 and 7 of the
regulations of the United Committee of the States of the
2d inst., for preparing the pleniary deliberations, shall
enter upon its functions before the opening of the Com-
mittee of the United States, and consequently shall
assemble at Berlin on the 29th of December. Our
Minister of State is charged to order the convocation of
the Committee of the United States by the Minister of
the Interior, and to make the necessary preparations.
Given at Charlottenburg, this 3d December, 1847.
(Signed) " FREDERIC WILLIAM,
(Countersigned) "DE BODELSWING."

A letter from Mania of the Ist says:—

" The Address read on the part of King at the
close of the session is vague as to the fate of many of
the questions brought forward during the last few
months, as well as to the intentions of the Government
relative to the press. The Address merely says:—
• We assembled the States of our Kingdom before the
period fixed by chap. ♦iii. paragraph 22, of the Con-
stitution, for an object which was expressly indicated
in our patent of convocation. But we do not the
less reserve to ourselves to subject to a more pro-
found examination several of the wishes and pro-
positions which have been addressed to us.' Until
lately all that had relation to the press and book-
publishing was under the control of the
Ministry of the Interior ; but an ordinance of the King
dated the 30th, has charged the new Minister of Foreign
Affairs, Prince de Wallersteia, with it. The Prince also
takes the direction of affairs concerning public worship
and schools, in exchange for the direction of the Post
office and of railways, which are to belong for the future
to the Ministry of Finance. These changes are only, we
are assured, the precursors of other much more im-
portant ones."

A correspondent writes from Magdeburg on the
Ist, that the entire incorporation of the kingdom of
Poland with the Russian empire is decided upon, and
will positively take place on Jan. 1, 1848.
At the sitting of the Chamber of Magnates, held
at Presburg (Hungary), on the 30th ult., a proposi-
tion that the nobles should be subjected equally with
the other classes to the tax on domestics was voted by
a large majority, but another proposition for their
being rendered liable to the war taxes was rejected.

The Madrid mail had not arrived in Paris whe,
le post left.

We have received the Paris papers of Thursday.
There was a rumour on the Bourse that M.
Guizoz, disgusted at the ill-success of his meddling
policy in Switzerland, at the progress of the reform
question, as manifested by the recent municipal elec-
tions in Paris, and, above all, at the refusal of the
ICING to permit him to dispose of the various em-
bassies according to his own desire, had tendered his
resignation.

As regards the Swiss question, there can be no
doubt but that M. GUIZOT has completely out-
manceuvred himself. Annoyed at the declaration of
Lord PALMERSTON in the House of Commons on
Monday, M. GUIZOT says, through his organ, the
Journal des DEW:, "There is, in fact, no need to
put an end to a war which has terminated of itself,
but the suspension of hostilities was only one of the
terms of the mediation ;" thus intimating that the
conferences may be still continued, notwithstanding
the secession of Lord PALMERSTON. But scarcely
had M. GUIZOT announced this his determination,
when M. HUMANN, First Secretary of the
French Legation, arrived in Paris from Berlin
with dispatches for M. GUIZOT, announcing
that the King of PRUSSIA considered the
question of mediation in Swiss affairs at an end,
so that there is every probability that M. GUIZOT
will be left " alone in his glory" to enjoy, without a
rival, the proud title of " Protector of the Jesuits."
The conduct of the English Government has won
for it the approval of all parties in France, save that
of which M. GUIZOT is the idol. The Conslitutionnel
says—

" The English Government is more wise than M.
Guizot; it takes the facts as they are, and gives to our
Cabinet a lesson of common sense, in delivering it by a
single word from this absurd affair of impossible media
don, in which M. Guizot still struggles. Why has not
X Guizot acted like Lord Palmerston? For two rea-
sons; first, because the mediation was the invention of
M. Guirit, who groans at seeing his work fall into
immense ridicule, and who would save it if ho could by
a desperate effort; and secondly, because he has placed
himself at the tail, or rather at the head of the re-
actionary and absolutist passions of Europe against
Switzerland. His heart, however, begins to fail hi,.n
in this struggle against the Helvetic Confederation,land
ho has already declared, that he desires nothing better
than to live in good harmony with that small and in-
teresting republic,' which, only yesterday, was in his
eyes a nest of brigands, communists, and assassins."-
Even the Presse, which never scruples to declare
its hatred of England and of everything English,
is on this occasion compelled to praise the
" wise decision" of the British Government,
" which has," says the Presse," placed common sense
on its side, and reduced us to the necessity of re-
gretting that our Cabinet had neither the same intel-
ligence nor the same sagacity. England compre-
hended a mediation as long as a civil war existed,
and so long as the action of the Powers might have
the effect of disarming parties engaged with arms in
their hands, and of stopping the effusion of blood ;
but she could not comprehend it when there was no
longer either war or bloodshed. Her statesmen are
not persons to render themselves ridiculous by main-
taining officially that it is night when it is mid-day—
to summon to their tribunal a Sonderbund which no
longer exists —to propose gravely to belligerent par-
ties to separate, when it is clear to the whole world

;hat the contest has definitively ceased. Neither are

they in the humour to engage rashly in a crusade
against Radicalism—in a war of principles. They
consider that the time has passed for Don Quixotism
of all colours, and in that they give a proof of good
sense which it is impossible to deny."
It is said that the KING has positively refused to
ratify the appointment of M. PISCATOBY to the Ma-
drid embassy. This is another check for M.
GUIZOT, and, coupled with the refusal of the Cabinet
to sanction the appointment of the Duke of GLUCKS•
BURG to the Lisbon embassy, an appointment to which
M. GUIZOT was personally pledged, would seem to
indicate that the KING and the Cabinet consider M.
Guizor " used up," and would fain be rid of him.

A letter from Algiers of the 80th, published in the
Constitutionnel, says—
" The Governor-General has just received from the
west dispatches of the highest importance, which will
probably oblige him to proceed forth with to that part of
the colony. We have been assured that General Lamo-
ricioire has apprised the Duke d'Aumale of a movement
effected by Abd-el-Kader in the direction of the Algerian
frontier, with a view to open negotiations with the
French authorities. Instructions have been demanded
from Paris respecting the nature of the terms to be
granted to the Emir, who, it appears, is inclined to make 1

his submission. Already has General Lamoriciere, com-
mander of the division of Oran, repaired to the extreme
frontier, where he will no doubt be shortly joined by the
Duke d'Aumale. It was only after he sing exhausted all
means of entering into a negotiation with the Govern-
ment, by which all his overtures have been rejected, that
the Emir, whose position became more and more critical,
has resolved to essay a last atte•npt. He cannot expect
to treat with France as one sovereign treats with ano-
ther. He once did so, at a period now remote. We
may, consequently, suppose that Abd-el-Kader will make
his submission on certain conditions."

A letter from Cherbourg, of the 6th, gives the fol-
lowing statement of the works to be done during the
ensuing year in the building yards of that port :
" The steam-frigate Sane, the first-class steam-cor-
vette, of 320 horse-power, the Colbert, and the steam-
corvette, the Newton, are to be completely finished.
An advice-corvette of 200 horse-power, to be called
the Milan, is to be laid down, and on to 8-24ths. A
20-gun brig, to be called the Obligado, will be car-
ried during the year up to 12-24ths. The Austerlitz,
ship of the line, will be advanced to 12.24th5; the
third ship of the line the Tilsit to 16-24ths ; the
second-rate frigate the Bellone to 18-24ths ; and the
Euridice corvette to be finished within 3-24ths."

By an order of the Minister of Marine, issued
Nov. 29, the following new vessels will he laid on
the stocks at Rochefort in the course of 1848 :—The
Dugueselin, of 70 guns ; the Algeria, a frigate of the
third rank; the Entreprenante, a frigate of the first
rank ; the Laborieux, a towing vessel of 220 horse
power. The following are to be completely
finished to the degree of forwardness men-
tioned below :—The Mogador steam-frigate will
be terminated and put in a position to
be armed if necessary; the Ulm, a vessel
of the first rank, will be carried up to the 22-
24ths ; the Semiramis, a frigate of the first rank, to
the 12-24ths ; the Fiore and Circe, frigates of the
second rank, each to the 12-24ths; the Constantine
corvette, to the 22.24th5; the Catinat steam-corvette,
of 400 horse-power, to 22-24ths ; the Coligny steam-
corvette, of 300 horse-power, to 22-24ths; and a
vessel of the third rank, to be called the Alexandre,
will be put on the stocks and carried up to 4-24ths.
The man-of-war, the Ulm, and the Semiramis fri-
gate, will be fitted up with steam -engines. At
Lorient, the Minister has ordered that in the course
of 1848 the frigate of the first rank the Vengeance,
and the brig the Chasseur, shall be completely ter-
minated and launched ; a frigate of the first rank, the
Pallas, the floating battery the Protecteur, and the
brig Zibre, of 20 guns, are to be put on the stocks ;
the construction of the man-of-war of the second
rank Duguay-Trouin and the Annibal, the frigate of
the first rank the Entreprenante, the frigate of the
second rank the Dryade, the corvette the Thisbe, and
the steam-corvette, the Tisiphone, be advanced. The
Annibal and the Entreprenante will receive steam-
engines.

COURS AUTHENTiQUE.—PARIS, DEC. 9. —Five per
Cents., 161 f. 20c. ; Three per Cents., 75f. 45c. 25c. ex
div. ; Three per Cent. Loan, 1847, 76f. 60c. 50e. •, Rente
de Naples (Rothschild's), 102 ; omans, 97i ; Belgian
Five per Cents., 1842, 28/ ; Belgian Four-and-a. Half
per Cents., 921 ; Spanish Three per Cents., 30. Ex-
change on London, one month, paper, 25f. 45c.•; three
months, money, 25f. 20c.
BOURSE, DEC. 9.—LAST PRICES.—Five per Cents.,
1161. 50c. ; Three per Cents. 75f. 20c. ex. div. ; Three
per Cent. New Loan, 1847. 76t. 20c.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE

LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, DEC. 10.
Boulogne and Amiens, 1414,—Central of France (Orleans
and Vierzon), 1514—Dutch Rheni.h, 2%—Namur and
Liege, s—Northern of France, 11%—Over rase', 2 dis.—
Paris and Lyons, 514—Sambre and Meuse, 74—West
Flanders, 1%.

IMPERIA L PA It LIAM ENT.

(THIS DAY.)

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
The SPRAYER took the Chair at Twelve o'clock.
Mr. M. ARCRDALL took the oaths and his seat for
the county of Fermanagh.
JEWISH DISABILITIES.
Mr. RICARDO presented a petition from Wor-
cester in favour of the repeal of the Jewish disa-
bilities.

ELECTION PETITION.
The SPEAKER stated that the recognizances in
the case of the petition against the return for Great
Marlow had been examined and found unobjection-
able.