The Sun.
London, England, 1851-10-08 00:00:00

GERMANY.

The French Journal of Frankfort publishes the
following note on the candidateship of Prince de Join -
vile ; it is considered in Germany as a sort of semi-
official declaration of the great powers :
" It is more than probable that Prince de Joinville
will present himself as a candidate for the Presidency of
.the Republic. We do not yet know the programme of
Cite bat we deplore a project which can only
serve to divide the party of order still more, and which
will give a fatal blow to the monarchical principle. All
the accounts from Paris agree in representing as doubt-
ful, and under a sombre aspect, the conflict which is
shoat to take place. Europe will consequently be forced
to be on her guard, in order not to be taken unprepared.
We have no right to mix ourselves up in the intrrier
affairs of France, but we should act inconsiderately if
wn did not take energetic measures to prevent these
affairs from sooner or later compromising European
affuirs. It is in this point of view that the Northern
Powers keep themselves. They feel that the precarious
situation of France will yet be o long duration, inas-
much as the ambitions of persons, and the passions of
the masses, rival each other in leaving the field open to
all possible chances. France will yet remain whole
years in this revolutionary crisis, which neither Napo-
leon nor Louis Philiope could set aside—neither could
the Bourbons, because they did not succeed in finding a
legal form for re-establishing the monarchical principle
on solid bases. Accordingly the policy of the powers
at this moment makes abstraction of persons and poli-
tical principles, and keeps only to the social principle
of order, which almost all parties in France have lost
sight of. Trey perfectly understand that the preca-
rious situation of that country cannot be replaced
from one day to another by stable institutions, cor-
responding to the monarchical tendencies of the rest
of 'Europe, ; but they understand also that anarchy is
about to spring from the very sources which have
hitherto been considered as tnosa of order. They
understand that, if the Prince de Joinville be elected
President, the monarchy will be lowered to the Re-
public. They understand still better that the Prince
has not any great chance of being elected ; and. in
that case, would be an increased humiliation' for
the monarchy. We repeat that, for the moment, the
powers leave this question aside; but they will take
measures to prevent the monarchies of Europa from
being injured by the experiments which the younger
branch of the Bourbons is about to attempt in
Fr,Ance."

The Prussian Gazette says that the reply of Lord
Palmerston to the notes of the Continental Powers
on the refugees in London is not of a nature to satisfy,
them, and that others, supported by collective mea-
sures, will, in all probability, shortly be presented.
The police of Berlin arrested on the 3d the di-
recting committee of a secret democratic association.
Its object, according to the confession of one of its
members, was to supply arms and ammunition to the
democrats in the event of a revolutionary rising.
Lists of members, books, and accounts, together with
a quantity of arms and ammunition, were seized. A
number of domiciliary visits were made.
The Assembly of the States of Wurtemberg are to
meet on the 15th at Stuttgardt.
The New Gazette of Prussia states that the Go-
vernment of S#xony hAi refused to give its assent to
the customs treaty between Prussia and Hanover,
concluded on the 7h ult., because it was not con-
sulted respecting it; arid it adds, that the S axon
Cabinet has invited the other Governments of Ger-
many net to give their consent wiA]out having come
to an understanding between themselves, and made
an attentive examination of the propositions sub-
mitted to them. The Correspondence of Hamburgh
and the Cologne Gazette state that the Cabinet of
Mecklenburg has, by a vote of the 26th ult., positively
refused to enter into negotiations on the subject of its
accession to the Z Alverein.

THE GERMANIC CONFEDERATION.
The following is the protest of the French Govern.
meat against the adcnisBion of the non-German States
of Austria into the German Bund. It is addressed
to the President of the Frankfort Diet, Count von
Thun

.i M. le Comte,—As I informed your Excellency in
my note of the 19th of July, I laid before my Govern-
ment the communication with which you honoured me
on the 17th, relating to the project of the incorporation
of the non-German States of Austria in the German
Band. lam directed to answer that note by the follow-
ing communication. The Government of the Republic
has remarked, to its great surprise, that arguments
are advanced in the name of the Band which were
employed seventeen years ago to dispute the right of the
Powers who had signed the final act of Vienna to
interfere on the question which, according to their judg-
ment, affected the independence, of a German state, in
which that independence was violated, though it was
stipulated by the said act of Vienna,. Thee arguments
were at that time rejected by the Cabinets of Paris and
Lonelon, and that rejection never received any reply.
Farther, when in 1847 Austria and Prussia so energeti-
cally pretested against the acts by which the Swiss
Federal Council according to their judgment, violated
the rights of some of the C.IntIUS, it was necessarily as.
sumed that those two Powers hat seen the incorrectness
of the principle they ', 4
aa . some years previously only too
absJlutely proclaimed.
the more j This aysucaption was so much
ustifi ed , us the Swiss Federal compact i not,
s
like the German Bund, an integral pint of the finalact
of Vienne, and therefore the
right 04 foreign Govern-
ments to inie:fere with tie e differences of the several can-
tons must be iegardA as much leGa certainly established
than the right France and England would assert in refe-
rence to the German Bund. But even were the arguments
oa which the German Diet relied in 1834 as much based
on legal right, a:, in reality they are not, it is still evident
that they do not in the least apply to the present question.
If it must be conceded that a confederation of sovereign
States, in all that reprds the relations of its several mem-
bers to each other, is invested with the same independent
power of action as a single or federative State, yet it by
no means followsfrona this that such a confederation can of
itself. alter_ its relations to foreign powers without those fo-
reign fslovernmentshaving the wile'. to protest against it. By
the first treaty of Paris and the final act of Vienna, has recognized the existence of Europe
German Bund within
certain distinetly fixed territorital°l*
cognition it follows that each of tenais. From this re-
with the assent of the European Powett;
the protection of the whole Bund, whiosi,istitarids under
riz Ai to interfere in the differences and dis alsot autho-
members when they reach a certain dPgreepoufeisrnopf its
anee. It cannot be supposed that the European Pow"ett::
can look on with indiffereneo while a similar condition
of things is extended over a new territory, and it such
an extension were made without their assent, they
would certainly be exercising their right if they did
not dgio et the intervention of the Bund in their
disputea with the possessors of such territory.
The chances of a conflict would then be more than
doubled; the political organization of a consider-
able part of Europe would then rest no more on A
l law,
a as
generally race raised basic; and international
est)blished by existing treaties,
is
have received a
Perlan•Ps incurable wound. It s quite superfluous to
rot. r more at large into it discussion of a project which,
if laid before the Diet, will Piece the Government under
the necesAty of proti,stioagainst it. The Government
of the, Republic i-,
far from wishing to prolong a con-
trovkrsy which (150,
t appear to it becoming. It is
con-
sufficient to ,tate diast-no Franca now, as in 1834,
COa little recegmi,eirietly,
.that
D'et of the Bond
then lad down, witili,:ae principles the even it
in right, do nn,,' 511 a t these principks, even it founded
given the Diet an oecitY to
th'i
great plan which has
The above protest wmc:,ll, f'v again proclaiming them.
by M. von Tcenay, ml'lii.nr to Count Than
at Frankfort, aeeem-auie",', aided the French Republic
„ rd.
le
cenit,_wvth
thei b),
tt,he following note :
cellency honoured me on the lotos.hwith which, your Ex- ;
enclosed document/. I havo sent them I received the two
with whom it alone lies to decide --Qna
t()
111. Barocho,
French Republic. But I cannot ref°rna' what regards the
to your Excellency that the Diet, Wir— remarking
Act of a former period, appears alto ethii.tr toots
to
an
sight of the difference of time and eirgirnsta to have an
the then French Goverment did not thinlyitnnere, , and that
regard the resolution, communicated to it thr?onn"onto„
of my predelessors, 23 regular is form or content Z---
" I am, Bce."
The English Ambassador, Lord Cowley, acknow.
ledged the receipt of the same document in the fol.
lowing note :„.....
unde4igned, the Minister Plenipotentiary of
'estY the lea r Queen of Great Britain CO the German
Queen
the note and enclosures which the
'4,,('1. t the Ditt, Count Thun, did him the honour
' °etsign him, under the duto of the 17th of July.
e 4 Will immediately conamonieate the

document to her Majesty's Chief Secretary of Foreign
Affairs. In the meantime tne undersigned cannot re-
ceive the copy of the document which was directed to
the B-itish Legati,,n in. 1834 by the President of the
Diet of that period, and which appears, with re peat to
the present occasion of the resolutions of the act, to
claim an authority irreconcileable with the rights and
origin of international law, without at the same time
reminding Count Than of the answer the said Legation
I was instructed to return to it in the name of her Ma-
jesty's Government, and of which the undersigned has
the honour of here enclosing a copy, that his Excellency
may obtain a knowledge of it."

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