The Sun.
London, England, 1841-04-13 00:00:00

GERMANY.

FRANKFORT. APRIL s.—it cannot sufficiently be limente
that Austria should deem it necessary to follow with FAI o h
anxiety every step taken by the Governments of the Swiss
Cantons. Its utmost effarts cannot successfully combat
the necessary advances which the social institutions of the
confederation, in common with the rest of Europe, mutt
make, end it would consequently show more tact if it did
not brtray the feeling that every advance, eaficoia;ly every
approach to Protestantism, formed an at.'cession of strength
to the French and democratic party. In the present in-
stance I am induced to -attribute the principal share of the
diplomatic activity which has been shown to the personal
feeling of the Ambassador. His second note, which was
not delivered in writing, but, as is reported, was lead to
the President, has at length appeared in print, and, while
it displays no small degree of irritation, c,ntains little
more than a gratuitous assumption that the decree for disc
solving the convents lays the foundation for a dissolution
of the confederacy itself.
The Austrian Court is desirous of placing the part of
champion of the Romish confession. There is surely no
want of a field for the display of these chivalrous eentii-
ments. Poland is being forcibly converted to the 'Greek
creed, not with the will of its inhabitant's, but by the most
glaring and atrocious acts of oppression, which it is a
sin not to proclaim more loudly than Inas hitherto been
antagonist than the poet
dsownies.s
aßnutsosni s a more wor
and. 'sr would be mere e:tditabie for an
',ter to receive instructions to defend the
cause Austrian
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the resit; bppressed against a powerful tyrant,
than to find himself leagued with the envoy of that tyrant
in defending rights which no longer exist against the a's
tonomic acts of a free and enlightened people;
The Prussian P:ovineisl Diets are aclisely pursuing
their task. The Diet of Prussia has published a reply to
an urgent petition for constitutional forms ; in which it
states that the Royal propositions, presented so soon after
the promises given by the King to improve the representas
tion of the station, affcral a sufficient guarantee that it is
the wish of the Sovereign to confer thu boon of free re-
presentation upon his cour.tf.y. In this pr...;vineo it has
been resolved, that it is desirable in the case of a reduc-
tion of the taxation, that it should take the form of a re-
duction in the salt duty.
BERLIN, NlAticit 31.—We have to-day read with ins.
tense interest the details of the debates in the meeting of
the States of the Grand Dukedom of Posen upon the
proposition to form a General Assembly out of the sepa-
rate bodies of the States. The result, it is true, has been
a negative one, but still a great part of the ground was
more of a constitutional than an anti-constitutional nature.
One principal motive was unquestionably the line of sepa-
ration which Poland strives to preserve from the German
elements of the State. In that lies a powerful lesson in
favour of a Constitution for Prussia. What do the Poles
fear ? The being too thoroughly amalgamated by means
of one common legal system with the whole mass to be
able to sever themselves from it. And thus " the law is
that strong tie they fear to meet." Now, the adversaries
of the Constitution have constantly put forward the opi-
nion that it was impossible for Prussia in its scattered state
from the Moselle to the Niemen, and considering the differ-
ent nature of the separate countries combined in it, ever to
support a Constitution, and that it could only be go-
verned by a unity of will. I have always maintained pre-
citely the contrary opinion. Absolute will may certainly
be maintained in quiet times with apparently more surety
and decision, as the governing ptinciple of a collection of
countries and people of such different kinds. But in stor-
mier times it will very quickly oppear that the unpliahle-
ness of the several pat to increases, when an attempt is made
to bind them by the rough bond of one single :will ; on
the contrary, it would give way to the great and all.em_
bracing representative system, which would guarantee all
separate interests. The greatest example of the truth of
this may be found in the still much more heterogeneous
states of North America. If instead of their constitu-
tion a Russian Ernperor were to be given them, it would
be very easy to break up and sunder the disjecta membra.
Russia is a kingdom thus subsisting out of disjectamembra;
but then these members are dead among themselves.
Should they come to life, they would need to have ore
soul, or a hundred different bodies. Be that as it may,
thethe
sispaatrkhas beenstruck—the light begins to shine. Let
morning once dawn upon us, and the slower the sun has
mist, the more bright and lasting will be
the day.

TARIFF AND C LAWS.— While we
ardently deshea reduction°oßfNs-orre of the Im
for the benefit of the consumer,
of the revenue—
kr such revision may be ea
svc•
of Corn-law Repeal,
Circular, in cautioning
fr nn their grand object. port Duties
and
whedr, andof others for the benefit
we must
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tariff comes more or less under the de
rice, and are thereforc.. lair subjects
corn is not. We sec, too, very plain!
joinsuitable adjunct to that
helieve the demand
repealer,
with. The Sun and the
articlesagainst being diverted
eomprised in he
noofmination of
thatluxu-
taxation, which
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at-
tempt will he made by Ministerialists every
and
to
swerve
nroetat them,
to cajole the Corn-1m Repealers,
therefore, to be on their guard,
breadth from then. noble course.—Leicestershire Mearouhair's ,.,t
BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET.—Since the salei
of the Mauritius cargo a flatness of that extraordinary kind
which only happens occasionally, has ensued. Nothing
has been done, and the buyers scarcely take the trouble to
attend the offices. East India sugars of all descriptions
are declining ; West India, from the great disparity in
price, are hardly saleable. The transactions in London
and Liverpool are on the most limited scale. Refining
oualitins fully maintain their value, whilst groceries are
Is. 61. to 2s. lower. Both the imports and stocks on hand
are vary much heavier this rear than last, while the Ga-
zette averPge price is 4s. 61-d. above the same period in
1840. The natural consequence is evident. —Bristol
G'azcite.