The Sun.
London, England, 1856-03-27 00:00:00

PRUSSIA.

The Berlin Zeit, the usual organ of the Prussian
Cabinet, thus appreciates the admission of Prussia
to the conferences :

"The President of the Council of Ministers, Baron
von Manteuffel, has arrived at Paris. The King could.
not have trusted the honour and interests of Prussia to
more able or more trustworthy hands, in so far as they'
are to be maintained at the Conferences. We are assured
that Count Walewski's ,note, which made known the
decision of the Conference to invite Prussia, confiden-
tially expressed the wish of the Western Powers that
Prussia might he represented by the President of the'
Council. This was at the same time an honourable_
homage to the head of our Cabinet and a guarantee
that the confidence he enjoys here as well as at Paris
will powerfully contribute to the success of the combined
efforts. If we are rightly informed, it was Fiance that
warmly insisted that Prussia should be admitted to the
conferences. England, if we are to trust Lord Palmer-
ston's recent declaration, does not appear to have looked
upon the admission with so much satisfaction. Ig-
u.,ran t of the cause of the ill-will he entertains againtit
Prussia, we shall not reproach the English Minister
for his opposition. We shall simply take note of the
avowal which escaped the noble lord when he said that
it was always in the highest interest for England to
maintain intimate and friendly relations with Prussia.'
On the strength of this avowal we publish the manner
more than cold with which the noble lord communicated
to Parliament, the invitation which the Conference had
just addressed to Prussia. We shall also pass over in
silence what Lord Palmerston said, or caused to be said,
in his organ relative to the object and bearing of the ac-
cession of Prussia. In announcing the reception of Count
Waleweki's note we do not hesitate to recognise that
the belligerent Powers had already drawn up the
bases of the treaty about to be concluded at Paris, ,
and that all that remained to be done was to erect '
upon those firm bases a durable peace, and to
come to an understan• in; upon certain points upon
which there was still a difference of opinion. If,
Prussia had seen in this late iov.eatem an insult to her
nonour, she would have c eeinued to abstain from the
negotiations upon which she never forced her participae-..
'ion. But the henour of Fressia has not received any
iestilt. From the outset Prussia declared that the
Back Sea and the Asia io coast were of too distant an
interest for het; to assume thereon obligations which.
!eight have dragged her into war, Prussia cannot rea-
sonably feel hurt that parties who waged war precisely
on account of the Black Sea and of the position of
Russia in the East shotild have commenced by corn-
ing to an understanding between themselves on their
claims aura concessions, before touching upon the •
revision of former treaties and upon the establish-
ment of new 'political conventions. Now, it is this
revision of European treaties which makes it Prus-
sia's duty, as well as her right, to co-operate there-
in. Her right es acitnhaed by tie invitation just ad-
dressed to her, and sae has accomplished her duty by
sending Baron von Manteuffel to Paris. This is the in-
terpretation which must be given to the allusions made
by the English Minister in the British Parliameat rela-
tive to the bearing and object of the mission of Prussia.
We confidently hope that the joint action of the pleni-
potentiaries assembled at Paris will contribute to settle
other difference.:"

The Swabian Mercury says that some Austrian
capitalists propose to take advantage of the Tight
recently accorded to Europeans of acquiring real ,
property in Turkey .by forming a company for pur-
chasing vast tracts of land in the European pro-
vinces, and especially in Roumelia, through which .
the railway from Constantinople to Belgtade is to
pasF.
The Swahan Mercury announces that the cus-
toms' conference has fixed its next meeting for the
2d of,June, at Eisenaoh.