The Sun.
London, England, 1870-12-07 00:00:00

IHE !!SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7,187 e.

rights vested in your Majesty will extend overall
German States. In consenting to those rights being
vested in a single hand I have been influenced
by the conviction that the interests of the whole
German Fatherland and its . Allied Sovereigns will
be offeetually promoted by this arrangement. I
trust that the rights constitutionally possessed by
the President of the Confederacy will, by the
restoration of the German Empire awl the German

Imperial dignity, be recognised as rights
exercised by your Majesty in the name of the
entire Fatherland, and by virtue of the agreement
effeete,d between its Princes. I have therefore pro-
posed to the German sovereigns, conjointly with
myself, to suggest to your Majesty that the posses-
sion of the Presidential Rights of the Confederacy
be coupled with the Imperial title. As soon as I
have been informed of the resolutions of your
Majesty and the Allied Princes, I shall direct my
Government to take steps to effect a formal agree-
ment on the subject. " LUDWIG."
11.20 p.m.

To partially cover the damage occasioned by the
expulsion of the Germans from France, and by the
capture of German merchantmen, a contribution of
750,000 f. is exacted from the arrondissements of
Nancy, Toul, and Luneville.
M. Lefaivre, French Consul at Vienna, publicly
thanks the four Communists in the German Federal
Parliament for defending the cause of the French
Republic against an Assembly intoxicated with the
lust of conquest.
Lefaivre says he has been accredited to German
Democracy.

THE IMPERIAL CROWN OF GERMANY.
BERLIN, December 6.

The creation of a German Empire on a Federal
basis is certain. King William of Prussia will
become German Emperor in a Federal but firmly
united Germany, where the decision of peace and
war will rest with the Confederate Council, of
whose 58 votes Prussia claimed but 17, and in which
Alsace and Lorraine are to be incorporated.

The King of Wurtemberg has sent his Adjutant
to Versailles, bearing his Majesty's adhesion to the
proposition of Bavaria, which is considered here to
offer a sure guarantee for the future peace of Central

Europe.
The reading of the new Treaties passed the
Reichstag to-day, after several strong speeches in
opposition.— Telegraph.

THE NEW GERMAN FEDERAL LOAN.

BERLIN, December 6.

The bankers have paid into the Treasury the first
instalment of their subscription of one-third of the
34 millions loan. They say they are quite ready to
take another 17 millions of the same loan.

THE PROPOSED CONFERENCE

ST. PETERSBURG, December 0 (3.30 p.m.)

The Ojiciel Journal publishes the answers of
Prince Gortschakoff to Count Beust's notes. In a
leading article it expresses the hope that the Con-
ference will be successful, and assures the world
once more of the peacelul disposition of Russia. The
Golos defends the opportuneness of the G-ortschakoff
circular, and says that Russia has no object in re-
opening the Eastern question, or in hastening the
end of the Siok Man. It is more profitable for her
to wait.

The St. Petersburg Gazette praises the Govern-
ment for avoiding bloodshed by straightforward
and hon st declarations. It goes further than
Mill, and says it is better to have no treaties at all
than those whichkare the result of war. Only those
which are the results of peace can last.—Duily
News.

VERSAILLES, December O.

I have good reason to suppose that the project of
a Conference in London to settle the Eastern ques-
tion is likely to be successful, Russia has been
found conciliatory, and Count Bismarck all that
could be desired. Austria, it is said, did not in the
first instance enter very warmly into the idea. She
seemed to desire that certain points in the Treaty
should be first gone into before the Conference as-
sembled.—Telegraph.

A. telegram from Constantinople, dated the 3zd
inst., says the Porte has agreed to the Conference
on the understanding that the points raised in
Gurtschakoff's despatch shall be the only matters
discussed.

OPENING OF THE ITALIAN
PARLIAMENT.
FLORENCE, December 5 (4.30 p.m.:
The Italian Parliament was opened to-day with
the usual pomp.
The Speech from the Throne referred to the
crowning of the national edifice by the union of Rome
to Italy, as its capital.
The promises with regard to the freedom of the
Church and the full independence of the Pope will
be faithfully observed.
The •approaching removal of the capital must
incite the Government to the reform of the adminis-
tration, the bringing of order into the finances, the
improvement of the military organisation and of
the national defence, guided by the experience of
the present war.
The Royal Speech pointed out the wisdom of
Italy's conduct in maintaining an attitude of neu-
trality during the Franco-Prussian war, and ex-
pressed a hope that the efforts of the neutral
Powers would re-establish peace between two na-
tions the greatness of which was equally necessary
to the civilisation of the world.
The Address concluded by referring to the election
of Prince Amadeus to the Throne of Spain, and
by declaring its wishes for the prosperity of that
country.
The Royal Speech was received with enthusi-
astic applause, and with vivas for the new King of
Spain.

(CENTRAL PRESS TELEGRAMS.)
VISIT OF THE PRINCE OF WALES TO
WOODS'I'CCK.

The Prince and the Princess of Wales arrived at Wood-
stock at five o'clock yesterday afternoon, on a visit to the
Duke of Marlborough, at Blenheim Palace. An illumi-
nated address was presented by the Mayor, on behalf of
the Corporation. The Prince bowed in reply. A
detachment of Mounted Yeomanry formed the guard of
honour.

GLAMORGANSHIRE ASSIZES.
The Glamorganshire assizes were opened yesterday
before Mr. Baron Bramwell. The calendar, though not
large in point of numbers, is a grievous one in point of
quality. There are n;:f less than five cases of homicide,
one of wounding with intent to murder, and three of
violence to the person.