The Sun.
London, England, 1851-04-02 00:00:00

GERMAN Y.

The Kolner Zeitung has the following :
" It is complained that Prussia is humiliated beneath
Austria. It is true we have given up Erfurt and the
tricolour; we have not commenced a war against Europe
hand in hand with Mazzini and Bakunin. But no real
friend of Prussia any longer doubts that, in pursuing
this course, we have only followed the path that was in-
evitable, if we did not wish to disappear from the map
of Europe. Let us consider, on the other hand, the
special differences between us and Astria. Austrid re-
quested us to send' a representative to the-Assembly
at Frankfort, which it called the Bundestag. Prussia
refused to do so. Austria did not persist in its de-
mand. Prussia demanded a free Conference. Austria as-
sented. Austria wished it to be held in Vienna; ussia
that it should sit in Dresden. The Conferences 'do-
sit in Dresden. Austria seeks to involve the small states
in the project of eleven. They oppose it. Prussia
takes them under its. protection successfully, and the
scheme is abandoned; and though it is to be wished that
Prussia had asserted the rights and interests of its allies
before it consented with Austria to make that proposi-
tion, yet here the position of Prussia by its assured line
of retreat on the constitution of the old Coufekieration,
as the only possible basis of the future oft Germany
and -the re-acquired accord of Europe, is &wag and
unattackable. The admission of the non-Germad
States of Austria remains till the final decision at
Dresden an open question. The objections to the pro-
posal are mostly based on a confusion between an em—
pire and the numerical amount of its population. In
tact and reality the whole of Austria was in the
Band before 1848 " The parity Austria has
never refused; and if it is in this respect at present
closely allied with the four monarchies, and therefore
has the actual preponderance of power in the Commis-
sins of Dresden, while everywhere in Germany the
tendency and inclination is, and must be necessarily
towards Austria, what is to blame but the tri-coloured
policy which drove the four kingdoms into the Austrian
camp, and produced the understanding of Bregenz, and
its prejudicial consequences to Prussia? It is not true,
it is contradicted by history, that the four kingdoms are
natural allies of Austria, and natural enemiesof Prussia.
Whoever reckons in politics only on vulgar egotism must
rather consider these kingdoms as allies of France,
which Wurtemburg and Bavaria have so often been, and
that against Austria itself."

The— Prussian Government intends, it is said, to
accredit a Minister to the Diet at Frankfort
forthwith.

Her Royal Highness the Princess of PRUSSIA. has
accepted the invitation of the Queen of ENGLAND to
visit that country during the time of the Great
Exhibition. Several other members of the Royal
Family will also visit England at that time.
The Austrian Government has promised a prize
of 20,000 ducats to any engineer who shall solve the
problem of constructing a locomotive which shall be
able to ascend the mountain of of Soemmering. Seven
candidates for this prize have appeared. The Go-
vernment has fixed the month of June for testing the
experiment.