The Sun.
London, England, 1848-08-03 00:00:00

GERMANY

AND

THE NORTHERN STATES.

II OLLAND.

THE HAGUE.—The Government has commun

cated to the Second Chamber of the States General

its reply to the observations of the section on the pro-
jects of law relative to the revision of the funda-
mental law.
LIZABOURG.—His MAJESTY has received an address
from the Chamber of Commerce at Maestricht, on,the
separation of Limbourg from the Netherlands, as de-
creed by the Frankfort Executive. The merchants
of Limbourg declare that they foresee in the separa•
tion of Limbourg from the Netherlands, and its in-
corporation in the Germanic Confederation, the most
fatal consequences for trade and commerce, especially
for Maestricht and Venloo. After referring to the
illegality of the decision of the Frankfort Executive
under its existing treaties, they call upon the KING
to take instant and energetic measures in opposition
to the decision of the Executive, in order to save Lim-
bourg from impending ruin.
His MAJESTY has sent his Minister M. Vox
LIGHTENWELLIT to Maestricht in quality of Com-
missioner-Extraordinary, to assist the Governor in
regulating the present unsettled state of affairs at
Limbourg. The Minister and the authorities are in-
cessantly occupied, and the Governor has issued a
proclamation, in which, after referring to the deci-
sion of the Frankfort Executive of July, 1848, he
calls upon the inhabitants of Limbourg to remain
perfectly tranquil, to await the results patiently, and
keeping their eyes fixed upon existing treaties, to rest
assured that the future will be regulated by the
ruling authorities, and to keep themselves in readiness
to oppose every aggressive attack which may be of-
fered either to persons or to property, or to the legal
authorities. While observing the most severe dis-
cipline, the military force of the state will energeti-
cally check any infraction upon order or tranquillity,
and every interference with legal authority. It does
not wish to make these countries the theatre of war,

but it is fully resolved to make the laws respected,
and personal security inviolate.—Journal de la Faye,
Aug. 1.
RUSSIAN DIPLOMATIC DOCUMENT.

The following is the circular which the Govern-
ment of St. Petersburgh has just addressed to all its
diplomatic agents in Germany:—
" Let us hope that this manifesto, by re-assuring the
friends of peace, and quelling the audacity of those
imprudent men who long for war, will obviate a ca-
tastrophe which the anarchists of every country are
endeavouring to bring about, and which, without the
most strenuous efforts of all wise men, it will be
impossible even for those states, which are animated by
the most pacific intentions, ultimately to avert from
Europe.
" The German press, whose animosity against
Russia appeared to have relaxed for a moment, has
lately re-commenced busying itself about us, and
those measures., which prudence for our own security
has forced us to adopt on our frontiers, have given
rise to the most unwarranted supposition and com-
mentaries.
" The language held on this subject in the Assem-
blies of Germany, though less immoderate and less
positive, nevertheless bears the stamp of the same sur-
mises.
"My preceding communication on the subject of
the political and military position of the Emperor,
have made you sufficiently acquainted with the actual
intention of his Majesty to render it unnecessary for
me to give you fresh details on this subject.
" You are aware, Sir, that since the origin of the
events' which have shaken the centre of Europe, the
Emperor laid down for himself a line of conduct
from which he' has not deviated even in a single in-
stance, that of not interfering in any :
.canner what-
ever in the internal affairs of the countries which
desire to modify their organization, of leaving the
nations perfectly free, to give themselves
up
without interference on his part, to the adoption
of political and sound experiments, not to attack any
power which shall not in the first instance have
attacked him ; but at the same time resolutely to
repel every attempt upon his own internal securty,
if this territorial equilibrium should be broken
or modified in any part.
" Such has been for four months the system adopted
by the Emperor—
Emperor--such is his system, to which he still
adheres. But while his Majesty confines himself to
this passive and expectant system, he cannot volun-
tarily close his eyes to all those eventualities which
may be in embryo in the numerous and sudden
mutations introduced into the order of things which
has hitherto obtained in Europe, nor more especially
to that spirit of hostility which, in the delirium of
change, has recently manifested itself against us
throughout the whole of Germany.
"In In fact, that great country had scarcely stated
the terms of the problem of its unity when its first
thought was an extension of the limits of the Confe-
deration, it first note the note of war.
"In the preparatory meetings of the National
German Parliament at Frankfort, in the clubs, in the
pamphlets and public journals, war against Russia
has been proclaimed as one of the inevitable neces-
sities of the epoch.
"To make war an alliance of peace and defensive
of Germany with France, has been publicly pro-
pounded.
" We have even been menaced that our Baltic pro-
vinces shall be ingulphed in the German nationality.
" That the ancient kingdom of Poland shall be re-
established in its limits of 1772, in order to serve
as the eternal barrier of Europe, against, what it
called, the common enemy.