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 15 will ba 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 Sclavonic
tribes of Austria. The Sclaves will not he satisfied with
being placed on an equal footing, they wish to dominate.
They dream of a Sclvonic 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
Austria is really to fall to pieces, we have rights to make
good upon its territory, which a million German tongues
away by events which may rus upon us
will cry out for, and which are founded on the history of
a thousand years. . . . Let then Germany watch
with a careful eye over its German Austria, that it may
not be swept
like a whirlwind. Bat, above all things, loth t 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...ln the very first sitting, it was
declared that Austria was to be a Sclavonic empire,
as the Sclavonic tribes formed its principal in-
gredients.

ynussui.
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.
CAMPIIIUSRN 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. CAMPLIAUSEN, 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 closer the bonds of amity between
the Prussian and British Governments ; also