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

We rend 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 with 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 hare named as
Marshal, the Prince de Johny Mohen Salm Lich, and
as Vice-Marshal, Lieuntenant-Colonel Adolphe de Ro-
chau de Stuipe. At the same time 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 34 December, 1847.
(Signed) " FREDERIC WILLIAM,
(Countersigned) "DE BODELS WING."
A letter from Munich 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 lest 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. viii. 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 Wallerstein, 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 when
the post left.

We have received the Paris papers of Thursday.
There was a rumour on the Bourse that M.
GUIZOT, 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
KING 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-
manaouvred himself. Annoyed at the declaration of
Lord PALMERSTON in the House of Commons on
Monday, M. GUIZOT says, through his organ, the
Journal des Debats, " 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. liumAxN, First Secretary of the
French Legation, arrived in Paris from Berlin
with dispatches for M. GIIIZOT, 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 Constitutiennel
says—

" The English Government is more wise than M.
Guizot; it takes the facts as they aro, and gives to our
Cabinet a lesson of common sense, in delivering it by a
single word from this absurd affsir of impossible media
tion, in which M. Guizot still struggles. Why has not
M. Guizot acted like Lord Palmerston? For two rea-
sons; first, because the mediation was the invention of
M. Guizot, who groans at seeing his work fall into
immense ridicule, and who would save it if he could by
a desperate effort; and secondly, because ho 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 him
in this struggle against the Helvetic Confederation,fand
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
that 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. PISCATORY 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. GutzoT was personally pledged, would seem to
indicate that the KING and the Cabinet consider M.
GUIZOT " used up," and would fain be rid of him.

A letter from Algiers of the 80th, published in the
Constitationnel, says—
" The G,vernor-General has just received from the.
west dispatches of the highest importance, which will
probably oblige him to proceed forthwith to that part of
the colony. We have been assured that General Lamo-
riciece has apprised the Duke d'Aumale of a movement
effected by Abd-el-Rader in the direction of the Algerian
frontier, with a view to open negotiations with the
French anthorities. 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