The Sun.
London, England, 1851-03-12 00:00:00

GERMANY.

The sub-committee named by the second com-
mittee of the, conference of Dresden sent in on the 4th
instant its report on the relations which ought to exist
between the legislation of the various states and the
general legislationof the Confederation. The report
declares that there does not appear to be any neces-
sity for making new laws on the subject, the federal
legislation already in force being quite sufficient. All
that is required, it says, is to render the present
laws co-ordinate with the fins! act and the federal
act. The Sovereign is to have the power of regula•
Chg., in conjunction with the States, all internal mat-
ters ; but he can by himself decide all external ques-
tions. No refusal can be given to vote the taxes, nor
can the S7ate9 either reject the consideration of any
applications made to regulate the affairs of the Con-
federation ; consequently, according to the views of
the sub-committee, the Germanic Confederation is to
resume with regard to the Geroian people the same
position as before 1848.
The following note has been addressed by the Aus-
trian Minister to the Governments of the minor
German states, which have opposed the Au3trian
propositions :

`• Dresden Conferences will, according to the ar-
ranzement come to in the last plenary sitting, proceed on
the 8,-h of this month to the flow con3ideration and vote
the proposals .of Austria and Prussia for the imme-
diate establishment of the Executive of the Band.

" The objections made in tne above-named sitting by
several of the Pienipotentiarit 3 against these pro-
posale scarcely permit the hope of an unanimous
decision on the part of the German Governmtnte
But as these Pieiripeteritiariee at the same
time declared that they, for the moment, only
expreasrd their eersonel opinions, inasmuch as the views
of tn. it Governments were only known to them in ge-
neral, those expressions cannot withhold us from ad-
drese,ing those who invested them pith their powers once
:again on the importance of the imliending decision.
" It there are in the condition of Germany any re Awns
why the several members of the Bend should make some
sacrifices far the benefit of the whole—as all the States
have frequently acknowledged, and which is our inti-
mate conviction—then scarcely one of our allies can re-
fuse to acknowledge that the present state of things more
than ever Conveys the admenitiott to make that sacrifice
in reality.
" After laborious negotiations at Dresden the conflict
of claims has been overcome to the point that in the
prominent and moat pressing question. the re-organiza-
tion of the Executive Power of the Bund, not only
the votes of the two States of the Confederation, which
would at the same time, as European powers, have
to represent the result of the work of the re-
vision of the Band, are united, but those. of the
members of the Bund, standing next to them in power,
in the north as well as the south of Germany. In the
eyes of the world it would be unquestionably an expe-
rience of seri )us significance, if, under the circumstances
that prevail in Gertnety and Europe, such a proposition
should be negatived by the contradiction of other votes
which collectively represent scarcely more than the tenth
part of the population of the Band.
" The circumstances of the time appeal so loudly to
the insight and patriotism of all, and the amount of what
may be gained in decisive movements by unity, and of
what may be lost by continued division, must rise so
distinctly before any unprejudiced eye, that we should
thin k we failed in respect to our allies of the Confedera-
tion, if we thought it necessary to detail it.
" But wsat we car, and must demand, is a free and
independent examination and decision, an exemins-
nation unfettered by previous entanglements. Not
desirous to renew a barren contest, we will, on our
part, willingly refrain from asking how it was pos-
sible, and how it admits of explanation, that many
Governments which, notwithstanding our invitation to
re-establish the legal basis of the continuation of the
rights of the Confederation by summoning the assembly of
the Bund, refused their compliance with it from anxiety
and apprehension as to the return of past conditions,
and with exaggerated reproaches against the eonatitu-
tion of the Bund, are now zealous for the simple return
to this constitution, and prefer this step, at all risks, to
assenting to a proposal which would place the collective
strength of the united States of the Bund against any
internal or external peril that might threaten the nation.
" That on such a union of collective strength, in the
immediate future, the salvation, and even the existence,
of the Bund may depend cannot be denied. But neither
can it be concealed that then the favourable moment for
forming that union would have been lost. The present
position of European affairs renders it more necessary
than before that the renewal of the Treaty of the 18th
of June, 1815, should lie in the hands of the German
Governments, and that the alterations in it, required
for the general strength and welfare, should
be settled by them alone. But no one is in a
position to prevent a state of things being produced by a
longer continuance of the division in Germany, among
other results of such a fault, in which at last only the
interference of foreign states could and would give the
final decision. Your Excellency will consider the pre-
sent note a confidential one, and, as such, only to com-
municate it without delay to the Government to which
you are accredited.
" Receive the assurance, &c..

" VON SCHWARZENBERG.

" Vienna. March 2, 1851.

The Cologne Gazette contains a letter from Berlin
of the 7th, which states that the general instructions
to be addressed to the Ambassadors of Prussia at the
several Courts of Germany relative to the German
question are to be forwarded to them in a few days.
The Breslau Gazette states the coronation of the
Emperor of Austria is to take place in the month of
August, provided that io the meantime the German
question shall have been settled.
The Austrian troops began to leave Lubeck on the
6th instant.
The letter of the Hanoverian Government relative
to the German question was laid before the First
Chamber of Hanover in the sitting of Match 5, but
the consideration of it was adjourned by an order of
the day declaring that, as the Chamber was not yet
sufficiently in possession of the circumstances to pass
an opinion on the conduct of the Government, it
would discuss the question on a subsequent day.