The Sun.
London, England, 1848-04-08 00:00:00

GERMANY

AND

THE NORTHERN STATES.

PRUSSIA.

The Allgemeine Preussische Zeituny of the sth
inst. publishes a message of the KING to the United
Diet. After mentioning the resolution of the Na-
tional Assembly at Frankfort, concerning the ele
tion of national representatives for the purpose of
framing a general German Constitution, and adding,
that the Prussian federal provinces are entitled to
send 113 representatives, the KING decrees that
the 113 Prussian representatives shall at once be
elected by the delegates of the nobles, cities, and
communities now assembled in the Diet. He also
specifies the number of representatives which the
provinces, Prussia Proper, and Posen would be en
titled to send, if they should wish to join the Con-
federation ; and adds, if the Prussia❑ National As-
sembly should meet previous to the meeting of the
General National Assembly at Frankfurt, that he will
then endeavour to agree with them on a fit and
seasonable representation of the Prussian people. But
if the German Federal Constitution should require
the formation of an Upper House, the nobility of
Prussia will be convoked to make elections for that
purpose. The proclamation is dated from Potsdam,
the 3d inst.

The following memorial presented to the KING by
the Ministers, and his MAJESTY'S reply thereto, ap
pear in the Prussian Slates Gazette of the 4th April :

"Your Majesty's call to the Prussian and German
nations has by many received an interpretation which is
entirely at variance with the object which it had in view.
" The step which your Majesty took when you de-
clared yourself ready to undertake the guidance of the
affairs of Germany during the time of danger, consisted
in the offer to further, without the moral and phy-
sical power of the thirteen millions of Germans com-
prehended in that nation, the wishes of all the federal
states for the unity of Germany. The simultaneous
adoption of the German colours was an indisputable
acknowledgment that the unity of Germany was
indispensable for the salvation of all the states belong.
ing to the German Confederation, and that Russia on
its side was ready, in the most comprehensive sense, to
recognise the duties imposed upon all the federal
states, and to concentrate all its power for the
averting of the dangers which threatened the whole
of our fatherland. This step could not have had the
various motives ascribed to it, unless with the promptly
proposed guidance could have been anticipated the free
resolve of the Prince and people of Germany.
" Nor could the adoption of the symbol which unites
the German States by any means imply that either
Prussia or any of the other German States would dis-
card those glories. In reference to :he first plan,
your Majesty expressly declared that you did not intend
to usurp the superior guidance, or any other
privilege, but, on the contrary, you decidedly
deprecated any such view. At the same time,
however, your Majesty indicates in your royal pro-
clamation, that the foundation of a united, not a
uniform Germany, a union with diversity, was to be aimed
at, and in perfect conformity herewith, a public order to
the Ministt-r of War was issued on the same day, and made
public in the Prussian Slates Gazette, which expressly
commanded that the army should wear the German
cockade, together with the Russian.
" If your Majesty will be pleased to declare that the
above is your intention, we will not fail in due form to
move the misinterpretations which have been given to
that-proclamation.
" Berlin, April 2, 1848."
The Ministers of State,
" CAMPHAUSEN,
" Count VON t Cll WERIN,
" VON ANERSWALD,
" BORN EMANN,
" ARNIM,
" H A NSEMANN,
" VON REUYER."
His Majesty's reply was as follows:

" I hereby duclai•ethat I entirely agree with the in-
terpretation given to my preclamation of the 21st of
larch contained in the report of the Cabinet Council of
this day, and I hereby empower the same to refute in due
form the misinterpretations which have been given to
my words.
" FREDERICK WILLIAM.
"To the Minister of State.
" Potsdam, April 2, 1848."
—Prussian States Gazette, April 4.

According to the Berliner Nachrichten of the :3d
instant a note had been received by Prussia, from the
British Government, to the effect that, if the con-
federate troops of Germany crossed the Eider, Eng-
land would regard it as a declaration of war.
M. DE MEYENDORFF, the Russian Minister, has
not quitted Ber lin, as reported.