The Sun.
London, England, 1851-05-13 00:00:00

PORT UGAL.
THE NEW MINISTRY.

Advices fr;;EiSbon, of the 7th, give the following
as the list of the new Ministry :—President of the
Council, SALDANRA ; Interior, Pessoz ; Finance,
FRANCINI; Justice, FERRAN ; Foreign Affairs, Count
DE LAYRADIO ; Marine, Viscount DE SA. The ab-
dication of DONNA MARIA was spoken of at Lisbon.

GERMANY.
PROROGATION OF THE PRUSSIAN
CHAMBERS.

The Prussian Chambers were prorogued on the
9th. The following was the Speech of the PRESI-
DENT to the Council : . .
_

" Gentlemen,—The Prussian Chambers have arrived
at the close of their second regular session, which
has occupied more than four months of your continued
activity.
" The commencement of your deli,berations fell in an
agitated and critical period. Against threatening
dangers the collective military force of the kingdom was
called out, on a scale is which it bad never been sum-
moned before, and with a result that filled the Prussian
people ith the consciousness of their own strength and
commanded the respect of foreign nations. In the mean-
time circumstances arose under which his Nlajesty's Go-
vernment believed, after due and conscientious conside-
ration, they could avoid the conflict with States of the
same German race. But it was natural that in the
state of feeling in the country other views of the posi-
tion of affairs would not remain without expression
during your debates.
Still the patriotism of both Chambers avoided a con-
flict which would only have damaged the position of
Prussia externally, and injured her internal development
—a conflict which none but the enemies of Prussia could
have regarded with hope.
" With zeal you have applied to your high mission,
and by the traits of your activity earned new claims to
the thanks of the nation.
" Thirty-four Bills, after going through the constitu-
tional discussion in both Chambers, have been laid be-
fore the Government, and in part, after receiving the
Royal sanction, have been published in the collection
of laws.
"You have the satisfaction of knowing that anew penal
code, which has been in preparation for many years to
supply a pressing deficiency, owes its completion to your
exertions.
" By your assent to the law on a class and classified
income-tax, you have maintained the means of meeting
the increased demands on the expenditure:of the State, by
which the less wealthy classes of the population are not
only spared an increase of taxation, but in part have
had the burdens on them even much lightened.
" The State expenditure for the year 1851 has been
fixed, and by granting a credit of 11,500,000 thalers you
have given the Government the means of covering the
expenses occasioned by calling out the army, which have
not been incurred without many and permanent :advan-
vantages for the military power.
" It some draughts of laws have not been completed in
this session, yet their discussion, the many proposals
from the Chambers themselves, and the petitions pre-
sented to them, have furnished the Government with
materials which, you may be assured, will receive the
most careful consideration. _ _ _

" By the decisions you have come to on the Bills laid
before you,
it you have given the Government the assur-
ance that is, in essential points, in accordance with
the Legislative bodies of the nation. It will be the care
of the Government to preserve and increase this accord
by a vigorous yet careful execution of the laws you
have passed.
The retrospect of the session is thus calculated to
confirm the assurance that the old Prussian spirit is still
powerful in the forms which, under your co-operation,
have become the Constitution of the country, and that
the chief condition of the development of Prussia on its
historical basis has remained unaffected by the confusions

of the time.
" The enemies of this development, who ar they ne-
mies of divine and human order in general, certnly
rest as little as the passions by which they are agitated.
But revolution, wherever and under whatever form it
may appear, will find Prussia armed and the Govern-
ment watchful and firm.
" The threatening attitude of this enemy, irrespective
of other grounds, renders it the imperative duty of all
the German Governments no longer to leave Germany
without a central organ, generally recognised both within
Germany itself and by foreign powers.
" Whether the German Governments now return to
the form of the older Constitution of the Bund,
or
whether the plans, by no means abandoned, of a new
organization of that Constitution, will be realized in a
practicable form, the independent development of Prussia
shall not thereby be in any way endangered.
"But the true and silent guarantee for a happy and
glorious future for our country, its political and material
welfare, its increasing internal prosperity, and its influ-
ence and power abroad, you will, with his Majesty's
Government, find in the unwearied holding together,
and co-operation of all those who unite in truth and faith
under the motto of a great and glorious era—, With God
for King and Fatherland."'
The PRESIDENT then declared, in the name of the
KING, that the session was closed.
The Lloyd announces the arrival at Vienna of an
English courier, with important. James's, it t
for the
St.
EMPEROR. The Cabinet of it is said,
consent to consider the question of the entry of all
Austria into the Confederation as au internal affair if
all the States coincide on that
The \Virtemburgh Chamberthpooif4 Deputies have re-
turned three Liberals as
whom the KING muste candidates from among
choose the President, and
unanimously decided to voteon no aldsdress in answer to
the Speech from the Throne.
solved to nominate a Committeee. on public e
subsegun.Zgli.tes,
consisting of nine Members; and. announced to al
Minister that a communication on the subject of the
revision of the Constitution was expecte. The
F inance Minister presented the Midget up to JulY 1,
1852, as well as several projects of laws.

ITALY.
RUMOURED DEATH OF THE KING OF \
NAPLES.
The Paris Ordre states that it was currently re-
ported in Paris yesterday that th. King of NAPLES
was dead.
A letter from Rome, dated May- Ist, says that the
president of the Propaganda, Card ilia FRANZONI, has
just issued an appeal to all Italy, calling upon all
good Catholics to subscribe fundi i for the erection of
a Roman Catholic cathedral in L iondon. Tho appeal
issued some months back by the Cardinal Vicar. G-
eneral did not produce tile doired-zesult.