The Sun.
London, England, 1848-06-10 00:00:00

GERMANY

AND

THE NORTHERN STATES.

AUSTRIA.

The Vienna Gazette publishes a Ministerial decree
convoking the Imperial Diet, with only one Chamber,
for the 26th June, with an electoral law, according
to which one Deputy will be returned on every 50,000
inhabitants. The province of Lower Austria, how-
ever, in consideration of its commercial importance,
will return 37 Deputies, of which 13 will be returned
by the city of Vienna. Every Austrian citizen who
has completed his 24th year is eligible, without dis-
tinction of religious profession.
Carinthia, Carniola, and Styria, have declared them-
selves independent of Austria.
The Colonge Gazette of the Bth inst., says—
" A great danger threatens us from the Sclavonie
tribes of Austria. The Sclar-s will not be satisfied with
being placed on an equal footing, they wish to dominate.
They dream of a Sclavonic empire. It is easy to imagine
what we might expect from a state where the prepon-
derance of the votes would be two to one against Ger-
many. If Austria is to continue in existence, we see no
other means of its doing so, unless it become a true con-
federate state, in which the individual nations will exist
as separate and distinct members of the whole state, and
in such guise that large space will be left to each for its
own separate development. A simple majority of votes
would be the most insupportable despotism. But if
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will cry out for, and which are founded on the history of
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like a whirlwind. But, above all things, let it not be
overlooked that in the background of the whole Sclavo-
nic movement there stands the Czar and his Russians
with the threads of the plot in his hands."
The Sclavonic Congress has already commenced
its deliberations. In the very first sitting, it was
declared that Austria was to be a Sclavonic empire,
as the. Sclavonic tribes formed its principal in-
gredients.

PRUSSIA.
In the sitting of the Assembly on the 6th of June,
the President of the Council, CAMPHAUSEN, rose,
and in a concise and earnest manner replied to some
questions put to him yesterday relative to the mis-
sion and departure of the Prince of PRUSSIA. M.
CANIPHAUSEN stated, that on the morrow of the events
of March, his Royal Highness's friends had
held it to be their duty to inform him that
the public were furiously excited against
him ; that menaces were heard on every
side, and that they considered his life to be in
danger if he should remain at Potsdam ; that the
PRINCE, yielding to these reports, had remained in
retirement at the Isle of Peacocks, near Spandau, for
two days, until the KING visited him, and grounding
his orders upon the PRINCE'S personal security,
ordered him to proceed on a mission to London ;
that his Royal Highness showed himself indisposed
to obey these orders, and would not consent to depart
unless he received written commands to that effect
from the KING. These orders were consequently
forthwith transmitted to him, and he departed. The
mission, continued M. CAMPIIAUSEN, with which his
Royal Highness was entrusted was to explain to a
friendly Court and Government the causes
and nature of the events that had occurred
—to draw cloier the bonds of amity between
the Prussian and British Governments ; also

to study the laws and constitutional principles which
give force, vitality, and prosperity to a free people,
and to acquaint himself as far as possible with all
matters that might tend to the establishment of a
German marine. The :Minister concluded by
earnestly declaring that, let what would occur, he
held himself responsible for the advice given to the
PRINCE, and that he should stand forward as his
shield and that of the dynasty. "As to the PRINCE'S
return," added ➢i. CAMI'IIAUSEN, " Ministers, under
other circumstances, might have hesitated, but they
held it to be their duty to see that the Prince next
entitled to the succession to the throne should be
present, and contribute to the modelling and consoli-
dation of the constitution that would guarantee the
liberty of the KING'S subj-3cts, and secure the succes-
sion of which the PRINCE was the representative."

The Prince of l'aussia was to arrive at Potsdam
on the 6th.

The Minister of Trade, Commerce, and Public
Works, has issued a proclamation stating, that by a
notification by the Royal Consul-General at Warsaw,
Polish merchants are to be exempt from the existing
prohibition of exporting gold coin, if they are able
to prove that it is indispensably necessary for them to
make payments abroad. In every such case permis-
sion must be obtained, through the local authorities,
from the Government.—Prussian State Advertiser,
June 7.