The Sun.
London, England, 1848-12-13 00:00:00

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LONDON, WEDNESDAY,IihCEMBER 13, 1848.

' could be more conspicuous, that despotism is, with
us, not only obsolete in every particular, but
that the last vestiges of feudality have been
long since scattered abroad to the winds.
Where MARY would have punished VICTORIA sues.
Where Prince PHILIP would have obtained satisfac-
tion by means of the thumb-screw and the Scaven-
ger's (laughter, Prince ALBERT demands protection
by an affidavit taken before the Court of Chan-
cery. The old regime has passed away before an
embrasure has fallen from the cloud-capped towers
or a tile from the gorgeous palaces. A new age has
grown over us imperceptibly, and the political world
ii canopied by a new sky, studded with new constel-
lations. With a sense of this beneficent change in
England as a constitutional monarchy, the thought
recurs to the mind simultaneously that what so many
millions are struggling to attain through desolated
streets and desecrated fanes, through death and
agony, in defiance of the bullet and the scaffold, in
the midst of cannon arid conspiracies, we already
enjoy in their utmost plenitude. That, indeed, is the
secret of our tranquillity. We have liberty of speech,
and liberty of the press, and liberty of meeting, and
liberty of petitioning. We have personal inviolabi-
lity and inviolability of home. 'We have a po-
pular representation and an annual revision of the
budget. We have responsibility of the Ministers and
a perfect freedom of conscience. We have trial by
jury and authority over taxation. What the nations
on the continent are aspiring to possess, we have long
since treasured up as the palladia of our empire.
The dreams of the foreigner are our realities. The
holier precepts which philosophy has depicted as the
guiding influences of existence, in Arcadia, in
Utopia, and in the visionary recesses of Icarie,
have been legibly inscribed upon the leaves
of our statute-books and accepted by the
sagacity of our successive Parliaments. Much
unquestionably remains as yet to be accomplished,
but our future labours must be those rather of modi-
fication than of creation. For, inasmuch as the case
this day brought under the consideration of the
Court of Chancery has elicited this gratifying
comparison between the state of England and that of
Continental Europe, we are satisfied that the par-
ticulars given elsewhere by our reporter will be
perused with avidity and satisfaction.

The only tangible ground put forward by the
opponents of an extensive reclamation of the waste
lands in Ireland is, that a fair return could not be
obtained for the necessary outlay—in other words,
that it would not pay as a mere pecuniary specula-
tion. In support of this view they put forward a few
solitary instances in which parties who have tried the
experiment have not succeeded to the full extent of
their expectations. Many causes may have contri-
buted to these failures, if failures they have teen.
The requisite skill might have been wanting—too
much might have been attempted in the first
instance, more than the amount of capital at the dis-
posal of the parties could justify. A hundred other
causes may have contributed to the untoward results.
We have no doubt that if the cases of alleged failure
were fully and closely investigated the most
satisfactory explanations could be given as to the
real causes thereof. It is not because two gentlemen
who brought 9,0001. or 3,0001. to the undertaking,
abandoned it in despair at the end of five years, or
because the monks of Mount Meilleray, after having
reclaimed five hundred acres of boggy mountain,
thought proper to take a large farm of rich land in
the county of Tipperary, in addition to their moun-
tain holding, that the experiment of reclaiming other
waste lands must be abandoned as a hopeless under-
taking. Against the cases thus cited by the Irish
Peer we might adduce innumerable instances of
the most successful results, where the parties em-
barking their capital received the rewards due to
their industry and enterprise, and realised large
fortunes for themselves, while they were affording
employment to hundreds of labourers, and conferring
permanent benefit on the entire country by bringing
new tracts of lands into cultivation, and thus in-
creasing the food available for the general support.
The best answer, however, that can be given is a
statement setting forth the present value of the
lands, the probable amount of expenditure ne-
cessary for their reclamation and their probable value
when brought into cultivation. If we find a variety
of different estimates, all made by men of competent
skill and experience, agreeing that there would be
a return varying from six to ten, and in some in-
stances twenty per cent. on the outlay, and that
twenty-five years' purchase could readily be obtained
therefor, the beneficial character of the speculation
will become apparent, notwithstanding the doubts and
difficulties of the Irish Peer with respect thereto.
The letter of Mr. RIGBY WASON, which appears
in another part of our impression this day (the third
of a series directed to Lord JOHN RUSSELL, to which
we invite his Lordship's most earnest attention), con-
tains calculations that must prove conclusive on the
question. Mr. WAS ON is no ordinary witness. His
statements are not founded on mere hearsay, nor does
he jump at a conclusion on insufficient grounds.
Few men have laboured more energetically,
or, we rejoice to say, more successfully, in
bringing new land into cultivation, and thus adding
to the resources of his country. While possessed
of a seat in the Legislature he acquired a character
for great practical knowledge and sound judgment.
The opinions of such a man must at all times com-
mand the greatest weight, snore especially when
those opinions are founded on matters that came
immediately under his own cognizance, are in fact the
results of his own experience.
Mr. WASON being resolved to keep on the safe side
of the question, has framed his calculations
on the very highest estimates. It is no-
torious also that the facilities for reclaiming
land in Ireland are much greater than in
Scotland, where Mr. WASON'S operations have chiefly
been carried on. Lime, perhaps the most essential
ingredient, is to be obtained in greater quantities, of a
better quality, and at a cheaper rate in Ireland ; it
will not be necessary either to expend so much labour
in bringing it to the lands. The labour is equally
abundant in both countries, perhaps something
cheaper in Ireland than in Scotland. All the
advantages are, therefore, on the side of Ire-
land, and much larger profits will be realised
even than those referred to by Mr. WASON ;
and he has proved that if the poor-rate was
struck on the same valuation that existed previously
to the reclamation, the profits would amount to no
less than 87,5001. on a capital of 131,250/., What
capitalist could desire a more promising field for
investment?

Towards the conclusion of this memorable year of
revolutions, it is a circumstance in no degree of
small significance to find the SOVEREIGN of England
coming iato her own courts of law as a supplicant for
justice. No more felicitous evidence of the elaborate,
gigantic, and yet infinitely delicate structure of our
Constitution could by any possibility have been af-
forded. It is an incident not unworthy of comme-
moration, even amidst the astounding events which are
now either agonizing or paralyzing the nations
of Christendom. It illustrates the harmonious work-
ing of our system of government in a manner beau-
tiful beyond all expression. And, beyond this, it
contrasts with singular vividness the exquisite tran-
quillity enjoyed by the population of this country and
the dismal panic which has descended like a rain
of fire and blood upon the distracted millions of the
continent. While the other dynasties of Europe are
shuddering in their palaces, the captives of a mob of re-
volutionists ! or are flying in dismay before the threats
of an unarmed democracy, the fugitives from a race in-
furiated by evil passions or by the recollections of
despotism ! the dynasty which has presided over the
destinies of Great Britain since the last political con-
vulsion of 1688, still reposes, in the persons of its
living representatives, amidst the pomps of Windsor,
agitated only by a slight invasion of the royal
privacy, and by the purloining of a few etchings
from the portfolios of the royal cabinet. The
occasion is too remarkable not to demand the
comments of the journalist. The coincidence is too
intimately blended with the remembrance of our
peculiar felicity as a people not to deserve at our
hands some passing allusions—allusions addressed, be
it observed, immediately to our fellow-countrymen
themselves, in the language of pride and congratula-
tion. These sentiments do not originate, by any
means, from the simple fact that the Court of St.
James's is flourishing in unmolested luxury, while
almost all the other Courts of the eastern hemisphere
have been filled with mourning and dismay. We
exult, not because Queen VICTORIA passes her life in
thei enjoyment of domestic quietude, now at Osborne
h ouse, now at Windsor Castle, and now again
at Buckingham Palace—while Lou' is PHILIPPE exists
in gorgeous obscurity at Claremont ; while. Louis of
Bavaria is forced to an ignominious abdication ; while
FREDERICK WsenuestEErnrersclasms sullen anxiety at
Sans Souci ; while F
Cputdwindles into an ex-
Emperor at 011mutz ; while
his
sword
retains
fir:twhi, perpetual
his crown only by grasping
gratitude
vigilance; while Pm Norio weeps
of the Romans in his banishment asticiliss-aw; while
FERDINAND of Naples rules the two
execration of all save the depraved Lazzae theith
while MARIA DA GLORIA beholds the bulwarks
her throne crumbling away in the cabals of her
statesmen; while ISABELLA of Arragon and Castile
hears in her orgies at Madrid the rumoured triumphs
of her enemies in Navarre and Catalonia! Our
exultation at the contrast afforded by the position of
affairs in this country, and in the other countries of
Europe, arises, not from the superior fortunes of her
Britannic MAJESTY, but rather from the circumstance
that with the happiness of the Monarch of this vast
empire is secured the happiness' and prosperity of the
British multitude. Yes ! it is this consideration
which overflows our heart with emotions of gratitude
and renews our admiration for the wisdom embodied
in our Constitution.

Mr. WasoN has assumed the value of the re-
claimed land to be ss. per acre per annum, and has
also calculated on a permanent poor-rate of 10s. in
the pound thereout. We believe that very few of
the waste lands in Ireland, even those affording the
greatest opportunities for improvement, could be esti-
mated at more than 2s. per acre ; this would make
considerable difference in the result—a difference
which would altogether be in favour of those em-
barked in the speculation. The poor-rate, too, would,
as Mr. WASOX justly remarks, be materially reduced
nroughout the union, b the employment of so
great a number of the population as would be neces-
sary for reels of
This, again, would be a mate-
rial advantage to the new 'proprietors and occupiers
of the reclaimed land.
Again, Mr. WAsoN
pheras calculated the cost of
reclamation at 10/.
f rThis is, un-
doubtedly, a high rate, aand far
beyond
addae.ln-
deed, the.
drain-
previously that have hitherto beena
deed, those estimates have seldom exceednie
age of from 61. to 9/. per acre, including then
age, mhieh would render the land prey' usly varlued-
io
at 2s. per acre worth, at the lowest calculation, 20s.
per acre per annum, or at least ten per cent, on the
cost; indeed, the estimates of Mr. ItIcuARD GRIFFITH
were framed on this basis when he reported that
1,425,000 acres of land, now waste, was improvable
into arable, and 2,330,000 into pasture lands.
Surely, no further arguments are required to re-
fute the vague assertion of the opponents of all im-
provement.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC,

We have received the Paris papers of yesterday.
The poll for President closed last night, and if we
are to judge from the returns already published, there
can be no doubt but that Louis NAPOLEON has been
elected President by a very large majority.

It must, however, be borne in mind that these are
the returns only of the Bonapartists themselves, and
that yesterday they published a statement of the poll
as taken on board the Civita Vecchia fleet, which
gave Louis NAPOLEON an overwhelming majority,
whereas the official statement proved that the majo
rity was upwards of 400 in favour of Genera
CAVAIGNAC.
The following returns are given by the Presse
CANTON OF ST. GERMAIN.—VOTES, 4,843.
Louis Napoleon ... ... .. 3,811
Cavaignac ... ... • • ... 913
Ledru Rollin .. • • 57
Raspail .. ... • • .. 20
Lamartine ... .. . • ... 17
Votes lost ... • • • • 25
SEVRES.—VOTES, 1,866.
Louis Napoleon
Cavaignac
Lamartine
Ledru Rollin
Raspail
Votes lost

906
770
669
52

Other reflections, arising from the case of " His
Royal Highness the PRINCE ALBERT v. "WILLIAM
STiIANGE and Others," 'a cold be sufficient to impart
an interest to the trial this day taking place in the
Court of His Honour the Vice-Chancellor KNIGHT
BRUCE. To the havers of forensic eloquence and
legal erudition, to the admirers of the prose and poetic
fictions of contemporary literature, the report fur-
nished in another portion of this evening's
impression will present a variety of attractions; but
to all classes of the community, without exception,
the hint therein afforded of the lull, the security, and
the thriving freedom of England, compared with the
terror, the uncertainty, and the suffering prevalent
throughout the continent, will be accepted with feel-
ings as peculiar as they are unprecedented. The in-
cident reminds us in a manner, than which nothing

RAPID SALE.--We hare hardly yet had an oppor-
tunity of looking into Macaulay's splendid History of
England, and now the book is out of print ! Revolu-
tions of late have been carrying all before them i❑
the political world, and now they are extending to
the literary ! Just fancy a large impression of an
historical work walking off in a week ! This is
something new even in Paternoster-row.

14,10NTMARTRE.

Louis Napaleen
Cavaignae
Ledru-Rollin
Raspail.
Larnartme
Ilenri V. ..
Bugeaud
Cabet

MONTAIOREN.CY.

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAtY EVENING, DECEMBER 13, 1848.

••• . . 2,643
602
375
••• 303
.57

Louis Napoleon 925
Cavaignac • •
141
The following is the poll of the fleet stationed on
the coast of Italy :
Cavaignac
... 4,000
Bonaparte ... •
300
Lamartine 15
• • ••• •.•
Ledru Rollin 35
•••
At Lille and Dieppe General CAVAIGNAC had the
majority.
At Rouen the numbers were :
Bonaparte ...
.. 11,000
Cavaignac •
8,000
At Elbceuf Louis NAPOLEON had 4,171 votes and
his opponents 700.
The Moniteur de Soir announces that telegraphic
dispatches had been received from the departments
which announce that the elections had every where
passed off with the most perfect tranquillity.
In the sitting of the National Assembly on Mon-
day, it was decided by a majority of 358 to 204 to
include among the organic laws, a law relating to
to the organization of assistance to be given to the
poor, and of works to be reserved for men who are
either in bad health or unoccupied.
The Moniteur of yesterday says—" The President
of the Council will not receive on Thursday next nor
the Thursdays afterwards."
General CAVAIGNAC and his friends will be the
first to bow to the will of the country declared by
universal suffrage. They will have recourse to no
coup d'etat. They will be guilty of no factious op-
position. The National says,
" What is to issue from the electoral urn is still a mys-
tery; but, whatever it may be, we shall consider it as
the will of the country, and shall respect it as such.
As long as the struggle lasted we fought with all our
energy; we neglected nothing that could throw light on
the great question of the Presidentship. We believe
that in doing so we performed our duty towards the coun-
try and towards ourselves ; we have now another duty
to perform. We declare that whatever name issues from
the electoral urn shall be that of the Chief Magistrate of
the Republic. In advance we recognise it as such. As
long as he remains within the limits of the Constitution,
the President shall be for us the President. Should
the ballot show that we have been in the right, if it
raises to power the influence in the triumph of which
we seek the triumph of the Republican idea, and of the
interests of the country, our position will be perfectly
simple—we shall be the sincere but severe friends of the
new power. If; on the contrary, it is the opposite in-
fluence which prevails, we shall forget that we have
been its most energetic enemy, and we shall regard its
acts, with the Constitution in our hand. The Constitu-
tion is our symbol of political faith, for it consecrates
that great principle of popular sovereignty for which we
have so long fought, and which is the basis of all mo-
dern society. It will be our rule in the line of conduct
which we shall have to follow, our arm in the struggles
which we may have to support. It is around the Con-
sti ution that ought to be grouped all good citizens, all
who desire the re-establishment of order, the restoration
of confidence, and the end of revolutions—in a word, all
the elements of progress which French society contains.
The first condition of so desirable a future is the sincere
application of the Constitution : we never forget it."

GERMANY

•
So long as Louis NAPOLEON BONAPARTE is con-
tent to act loyally as President of the Republic, he
will be considered by all true Republicans as the re-
presentative of the Republic; he is in no danger from
the intrigues of the Republicans. But he is in
danger from the intrigues of the reactionaries, the
Thiers, the Odilon Barrots the Moles, and the
Emile de Girardins, who will use him as a mere
warming-pan for the Comte DE PARIS, and who are
at this moment plotting his overthrow.
It is said that he visited M. ODILON BARROT on
Monday, and afterwards returned to Paris and dined
with M. "'MERL The reactionary journals give the
following as the list of his first Ministry. M. LEON
DE MaLLETILLE, Minister of the Interior ; M.
ACHILE FOULD, Minister of the Finances ; M.
DROUYN DE LHUYS, Minister of Foreign Affairs ;
M. LEON FAUCHER' Minister of Commerce ; M.
BARTHELEMY ST. HILAIRE, Minister of Pub-
lic Instruction ; M. ODILON BARROT, Mi-
nister of Justice and Keeper of the Seals ;
and General OUDINOT, Minister of War. It
is thought that General CHANGARNIER will retain
the command of the National Guards of Paris, and
that Marshal BUGEAUD will be appointed Comman-
der-in-Chief of the Army of the Alps. It is also
said that M. THATErt, the son-in-law of General BER-
TRAND, is to be appointed Prefect of the Seine. It
is said that M. EMILE DR GIRARDIN has proposed
himself as Prefect of Police, but both M. THIERS
and N. ODILON BARROT oppose his appointment to
any office.
_ _

,Fa.~`=J

THE NO STATES.

Count MOLE, who sentenced NET to death, will, it
is said, hare some high office, and M. DESAYES, the
Director of the Political Department of Foreign
Affairs under M. GUIZOT, is to be the Ambassador to
England. Now, unless Prince Louis NAPOLEON has
Esau-like sold what he considers his birthright for a
mess of pottage, he will not send any former em-
ploye of M. GuizoT to England in the character of
Ambassador. M. TIERS can tell him what are M.
GuizoT's ideas of the duties an Ambassador owes to
his chief, and unless Prince LOUIS NAPOLEON wishes
to be betrayed, he will not employ any friend or asso-
ciate of M. GUIZOTas Ambassador.

AUSTRIA.

Intelligence from Vienna of the 7th instant has
been received. Notwithstanding all the boastings of
the military Absolutists of Austria, notwithstanding
all the wilful misrepresentations of the reactionary
press in England and in France, it is evident that
neither WINDISCHGRATZ nor JELLACHICH relish the
idea of the Hungarian campaign. The fact is the
Magyars have everywhere conquered their opponents.
JELLACHICH invaded Hungary at the head of his
horde of Croats. He declares that he took several
cities and won a series of victories ; if this be true he
must subsequently have evacuated all those cities,
and suffered a series of defeats, for not a single Bar-
barian Croat pollutes the soil of Hungary, and JEL-
LACHICH himself is and has been for the last two
months, with the exception of his recent journey to
011mutz, at Vienna. Hungary was to be invaded by
SIMMONICU from Gallicia. SIMMONICH too, accord-
ing to the reactionary press, won a series of brilliant
victories, but one fine morning he found himself and
his whole army in Moravia, and since that period he
has not yet faced the Magyars. A month since we
were told that WINDISCHGRATZ, JELLACHICH, and
SIMMONICH were advancing simultaneously into
Hungary from different quarters, and that before
Christmas, 1848, the Magyars would be destroyed.
The Magyars, however, still continue in possession of
their country, and of all the frontier towns which it
contains, and the advices of the 7th frcm Vienna,
which have been just received, state that the Hun-
garian campaign is to be postponed until all the
troops have taken the oath of allegiance to the new
EMPEROR. The fact is WINDISCHGRATZ dreads a
winter campaign in Hungary.
On the 6th there was a distribution of medals at
Schonnbrunn to those soldiers who had distinguished
themselves during the siege of Vienna. The medals
were of gold and silver. Money also was distributed
to the troops. WINDISCHGRATZ, JELLACHICH, and
the staff were present, and salvoes of artillery were
fired while the distribution took place. This distri-
bution of medals to the troops for such a service
proves that the Absolutists regard the people as ene-
mies and rejoice in their destruction. Instead of con-
sidering the slaughter of their fellow-countrymen as a
painful event to be mourned, they consider it as a
grand victory to be rejoiced over. It may be replied
that the Viennese were guilty and deserved punish-
ment ; but so is the miscreant who is executed for the
commission of a cold-blooded murder deserving of
punishment; yet we do not present a gold medal
to the hangman, neither do we salute him with sal-
voes of artillery.
The house of ROTHSCHILD has, it is said, advanced
100,0001. for the use of the army.
On the sth the EMPEROR received at 011muta the
staff and officers of the garrison. He also received a
deputation of the University, and promised that he
would protect the sciences and the arts.
The EMPEROR replied thus to a deputation of the
Diet :—" Gentlemen—Present me speedily the pro-
ject of a constitution, that my people expect with
impatience, in order that I may examine and approve
of it."

The young Prince Mmoscu ORRENOWICH and
General STRADINARIWICH arrived in 011mutz on the
4th instant.

The EMPEROR was to preside for the first time in
the Council of State on the 6th. Neither the EM-
PEROR nor the Council were expected to leave im-
mediately for Vienna. The Diet of Moravia was to
present an address on the 6th

Prince LOBKOWITZ, Count MORITZ -DIETRICHSTEIN,
and Count A UERSP.EZG have all been dismissed by the
EMPEROR.

Orders have been issued to all the journals, com-
manding them not to speak of the present state of the
army, and the changes that may be effected in it, or
respecting its movements. Severe penalties are
threatened in case of disobedience. The fact is the
army has not been paid, and the promises of payment
made to them have been so repeatedly broken, that
the soldiers are disaffected, and would have no great
objection to join KOSSUTH, if he could guarantee to
them the regular receipt of their pay.
The Allgenteine Zeitung, speaking of the Emperor
FRANCIS JOSEPH, Say 'S—

The lifeniteur publishes two decrees in execution
of the Bill passed on November 21, the one directing
2,500,000 f., Three per Cent. Rentes, to be inscribed
in the Grand Livre, to the account of the holders of
Treasury Bonds, with dividends commencing from
22d June last, and also 90,000 f., Five per Cent.
Rentes, to be inscribed on the Grand Livre to the
account of the subscribers to the National Loan, with
dividends commencing from 22d March last. Both
these credits are to be subject to ulterior regulation.
The second relates to increasing the inscriptions of
the consolidated accounts in the savings' banks from
71f. 60c. per cent. to 80f., according to the same
Bill.

" The young Emperor has had the advantage of a
very careful education, and he has carefully studied
several of the sciences. His talent for languages is very
great, and his style highly cultivated. He is very fond
of military science, and is acquainted with its most
minute details. He has been present at several of the
engagements,which have taken place in Italy during the
late campaign. Great pains have been taken to make
him early acquainted with various modes of life. A
very favourable• impression has been produced by his
styling himself Francis Joseph—the name of Joseph is
inexpressibly dear to the Austrians, and by this stroke,
whether intentionally or not, he has gained much popu-
larity. Two years ago the young Monarch was for some
time in England, whence he returned full of enthusiasm
for the British Parliament."

BOURSE—PARIS, TUESDAY, DEC. 12.
THREE o'CLocx.—The rise in the French Rentes has
made further progress to-day. The confidence inspired
by the great and overwbelinning majority in favour of
Louis Napoleon is becoming daily greater, as he is sure
to es'ablish a strong Government. For the Account,
the French Three per Cents. have risen lf. 65c.; Five
per Cents. have risen 3f. 05c.; Loan has advanced
50c.; Five per Cents. have risen 2f. 40c.; and the Loan
y
12ft. 60c.90c F.; BaunrkMoofne, Three per Cents. have risen If.
France Shares have improved 40f.;
Belgian Bank Shares and Two-and-a-Half per Cents.
not quote, l; Roman sire lf. better. Exchange on London
(30 days), 25 47i; ditto (90 days), 25 37i.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE, DEC. 12.
Luxembourg
x(7l 14—Northern of France, 6%—Orleans
and Bordeaux, —Sambre and Meuse, 3.

PRUSSIA.

Advices from Berlin to the 9th have been received

SPAIN.
Madrid journals of the 6th inst. have arrived.
The Gaceta contains the royal ordonnance for the
levy of 25,000 men, on the contingent of the year
1849. The greater part of these troops will repair to
Catalonia about April next.
The following letter from St. Petersburgh has been
extensively circulated :—" Queen CHRISTINA and
NARVAEZ, wishing to profit by the general agitation
of the public inind in Europe, had sent an agent
here, hoping to get the Government of IsABELLA. re-
cognised by the EMPEROR. Not only has the recog-
nition not taken place, but neither the EMPEROR nor
M. DE NESSELRODE would receive the Envoy, who has
quitted St. Petersburgh."
MADRID BOLSA, DEC. 6.—Three per Cents., 20;
Five per Cents., q. Exchange on London, 48 50.

On the representation of the police authorities,
General WRANGEL has rescinded his order directing
the fair of Christmas-eve to be held on the Donhof-
platz, and given permission for it to be held in the
usual locality, the Schloss-platz and its vicinity. If;
however, there is the least disturbance of public order,
he reserves the power of closing the fair altogether.
The General has also given power to the local com-
mittees for the relief of the poor of Berlin to hold their
meetings.
The congress of the representatives of, all the
Burgher Guards of Prussia will be held on the 15th,
at Breslau, instead of Berlin, as had been originally
intended.

Deputations from various municipalities, with ad-
dresses of thanks for the grant of a constitution, have
been received by the KING at Potsdam.
The 31st of this month, the last day of the year, is
fixed for closing the receipts on account of the volun-
tary loan; all contributions to it now must be in
coin—bullion and plate are no longer received. The
Minister of Finance also thanks those who have
offered sums of money for the service of the Treasury
to prevent any inconvenience from the withholding
of taxes by those who have acted on the resolution of
the late Assembly, but declines the offers, as the
Treasury is not in a condition to resort to such means
of supplying its necessities. The refusal is not made
because the Exchequer is full, but because it cannot
venture to contract new and indefinite obligations ;
such loans would be a kind of debt of honour, repay-
payable on demand.