The Sun.
London, England, 1848-05-02 00:00:00

BAVARIA.

The King of BAVARIA has abolished the postage
tax on newspapers.
The Prince of LEININGEN has addressed the fol-
lowing declaration to the King of BAVARIA :
Though the events which now agitate the world bid
fair to contribute in an unlooked..for degree to the great-
ness of Germany—though we may look forward to a
happier future, based on freedom and well established
law—yet, ou the other hand, it cannot be denied that
the present change in political institutions will not pass
over without endangering social order. Many anarchi-
cal movements in various parts of Germany have suffi •
ciently shown the danger which threatens the free deve-
lopment of those very institutions to which the nation
has a just right to look for a blessed future. It
therefore becomes the duty of all persons posses.
sing property, great or small—be they citizens, nobles,
or peasants—to support the Government in its efforts to
carry out reforms by legal measures, and firmly to op
pose anarchical attempts under whatsoever mask they
may be disguised. I entertain the conviction that this
can be effectually accomplished only by removing, as tar
as possible, the barriers which separate the various
classes of persons possessing property, in so far as those
barriers prevent a closer union between those classes.
Your Majesty's promise to remove feudal imposts is, as
far as relates to peasant property holders, a grand pre-
liminary step. But still there are many rights and pri-
vileges of rank which tend to impede the fulfilment of
the much desired object. Deeply impressed with the
necessity which calls upon persons of every condition to
exert their utmost efforts for the restoration of order and
respect for the law in the now fearfully agitated state
of the country, I, at least, will uo the little that lies in
my power as an individual; I, accordingly, place at the
disposal of your Majesty's Government all those rights
and privileges constitutionally secured to me by the edict
regulating the lawful position of the former Electoral
Princes, Counts, and Lords of landed estates; and I pray
that these rights and privileges may be made use of a:
soon as they shall be deemed serviceable for the welfare
of the state.

" In the meanwhile I immediately renounce the fol-
lowing—being those the surrender of which is, in rev
opinion, most imperatively required.
" 1. I give up all judicial, police, and forest jurisdic-
tion in my possessions in Lower Franconia and Upper
Bavaria, on condition of the removal of all privileged
appointments and pensions thereunto appertaining in my
seignorial estates out of ilohenberg, and the abolition of
the forest privileges as far as relates to the jurisdiction of
the communal forests. The two above-named seignorial
estates have hitherto, atter the deductions of all salaries
anti other outlays, yielded no inconsiderable yearly in-
come. It; iu conformity v ith the existing law, or any
new legislative enactment, a compensation should be
awarded fur these renunciations, I give it up in favour
of the poorer classes of the inhabitants of my two
former seignorial estates.
" 2. I renounce the patronage of churches and schools
on condition of the abolition of the burdens imposed on
the same.

" 3. I renounce the privilege of judicature.
" 4. I renounce the privilege of Siegelmassigkeit.
" When by the union of the classes possessing pro-
perty, freedom and law shall be firmly established, rights
and possessions secured against arbitrary aggression
from whatever quarter emanating, then it will become a
sacred duty to turn attention to the condition of the
poor labouring population, and by wise legislation and
other appropriate measures to place them in such im.
proved circumstances as will ensure their ready co-
operation in the preservation of order. The undersigned
most humbly assures your Majesty that the prospect of