The Sun.
London, England, 1851-11-07 00:00:00

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WORCESTER
STEEPLECHASES.
(THIS DAY.)

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)

The Grand Annual.

Sir Peter Laurie
British Yeoman
St. Helier

Won by half a length.
The City of Worcester Steeplechase.

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GERMANY.
The Pomeranian Provincial Diet was closed on the
Ist inst. In its 14th sitting the following questions
were laid before that assembly :-
Ist. If the Provincial Diet was an institution in
harmony with the Constitution of 1850, and existed
by right ? 2d. Should his Majesty the King be peti-
tioned to remain firm to his promise of sth June,
1823, to protect the Provincial Diet, and avail him-
self of their counsels ? 33. Should his Majesty be
petitioned to submit to the consideration of the Pro-
vincial Diets all the laws which without their con•
currence have been passed since they last met ?
The first of these questions was answered unani-
mously in the affirmative; the second was affirmed
by .a majority of 45 against 1; and the third was
negatived by 28 votes against 18.
The special Austrian Envoy, M. Hock, has re-
turned to Frankfort. He visited Munich and Stutt-
gardt during his absence.
The Prussian Chambers:were summoned to meet on
the 27th inst. The Members of the Opposition have
published the following statement of grievances :
Notwithstanding the 12th Article of the Constitu-
tion guarantees the right of forming religious congrega-
tions and assembling for general public worship and
religious exercise, the practical use of these rights, as
well as obtaining the means of doing so, are subjected
to the discretion of the police and its orders, and make
every one liable to repeated legal prosecutions, As it
was oz.ce with respect to the old Lutherans, so it is now
with the free congregations. The law relating to civil
mArrisge, promised in the 19th Article of the Constitu-
tion, has never been enacted. Equal civil rights are not
secured to those religionists that are beyond the sym-
pathies or above the individual opinions and tendencies
of the present official hierarchy. In most of the pro-
vinces the Evangical Church asks in vain for an orga-
nization and constitution that shall secure it the inde-
pendent management of its own affairs.
" The law of the 30th of December, 1842, enacts that
no independent Prussian subject shall be refused per-
mission to reside, or shall have the obtaining such per-
mission made difficult by burdensome conditions, wher-
ever he is able to support himself or maintain his own
household. The Constitution guarantees to every Prus-
sian subject the right of freely expressing his opinions;
yet to these fundamental rights, though both existed
before the Constitution, the police authorities make any
exceptions they choose, and they do so especially with
regard to incJuvenient writers of the Opposition party,
though they may be men of the most honourable private
character and perfectly blameless lift. Sufficient for the
authorities is their interpretation of the Pass Edict of
1817 and older regulations, which were only intended to
protect the public against c:iminala, vagabonds, and
disreputable characters.

" the political press is liable to the oppression of po-
lice confiscations and regulations, to which belong in the
foremost rank the forfeiture of the trading license of
the printer or publisher, or the withdrawal of the trans-
mission through the post, at the will of the Adminis-
trative power. And all this occurs, though the whole
tent42ncy of the law that has exhausted all the penalties
against offc:nces of the press is to regard the co-opera-
tive police authorities only as organs subordinate to the
courts of law, though the courts alone have the right of
deciding as to the forfeiture of trading licenses, though
the power of withdrawing the transmission by post was
thrown out of the Government draft of the law by the
Chambers. _ .

The right of caseciation guaranteed by the 30th
Article of the Constitution has long been overborne by
the dislike and suspicion of the administrative power,
and made impossible by numerous limiting measures and
regulations."