The Sun.
London, England, 1848-04-13 00:00:00

DENT, M. EICHMANS.

" According to a new resolution of the Germanic
Diet, the elections just made by the United Diet will
be superseded by other elections.
" CAMPHAUSEN."
The Berlin Gazette of the 9th inst. publishes the
electoral law adopted by the Diet, and the rules and
regulations for the execution of the dispositions of law.
The primary elections are to take place throughout
the kingdom on the Ist of May next, and the elec-
tions of the deputies to the National Assembly of
Prussia on the Bth of the same month. The primary
electoral districts are divided into sections, each sec-
tion to elect five electors. No section can contain
more than 300 primary electors. The electoral com-
mittee will distribute, at the moment of the elections,
stamped tickets on which the electors are to inscribe,
in their own handwriting, the names of the candi-
dates; unstamped tickets will be null and void.
The following answer has been returned by the
Prussian Government to a note received from Count
PLESSEN, his Danish MAJESTY'S Minister at Ber-
lin :

" The undersigned has had the honour of receiving
the note which M. the Count Plessen, Envoy Extraor-
dinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of his Majesty the
King of Denmark, has addressed to him the day before
yesterday, respecting the sending of Prussian troops
into the Duchy of Holstein.
" In reply to this document the undersigned can only
repeat what he has already verbally stated to M. the
Count Plessen, giving him the positive assurance that
the military measure in question, far from having a
character hostile to or aggressive against Denmark, has
only been taken for the twofold purpose of protecting
the territories of the Germanic Confederation against a
♦iolation by which they appeared threatened, and to
guard, in favour of a German and federal state, those
established rights which have just been so violently at-
tacked by a recent act of the Danish Government.
Moved by a sense of the duty which the spirit as well as
the letter of the Federal Pact impose upon him, and
strung i❑ the adhesion of the national will, the King
could not, in presence of an imminent danger, hesitate
to take, in concert with his German allies, the initiative
of a position which will, without doubt, readily receive
the formal sanction of the Germanic Confederation, and
in which that Confederation, by its organ, the Diet, will
speedily declare herself bound to acquiesce.
" Prussia, in assuming this attitude, does in nowise
mistake the rights of sovereignty which his Majesty the
King of Denmark possesses in his quality as Duke of
Schleswig Holstein. Those rights are not the less sacred
in the eyes of the Prussian Government than in those
of the duchies themselves. The Prussian Government

is firmly resolved to respect and maintain the rights of
both parties, and the eventual protest contained in this
respect in the note of M. the Count Plessen appears
consequently groundless.
" Besides, in order to give a striking proof of his pa-
cific sentiments and Bs sincere desire to remove by an
amicable understanding all possibility of an open rup-
ture, the King has ordered Major Von Wildenbruch to
proceed immediately to the King of Denmark to give his
Danish Majesty, concerning the motives and the object
of the policy of the Prussia❑ Government, all explana-
tions which should appear most fit to quiet the appre-
hensions of the Court of Copenhagen as to our inten-
tions, and to effect an approximation of views, the diver-
gence of which no one can more bitterly deplore than
the King's Cabinet.
" Trusting that this step will be appreciated as it
deserves by the Government of his Danish Majesty, and
that it will not remain without some satisfactory result,
the undersigned is happy to be able to profit by this
opportunity, and to repeat to M. the Count Plessen the
assurance of his highest consideration.
" Berlin, April 5." " ARNI NI.