The Sun.
London, England, 1858-08-27 00:00:00

GERMANY.

Accounts from Vienna, says the Post Ampt Gazette
of Frankfort, give the following information respect-
ing the purchase of the Southern Railroad :
" It is intended to form a company with a capital of
250,000,000 fr. to purchase the Southern, Sissek, and Tyrol
Railways, and to complete the line of Carinthia. It is said
that no shares are to be issued, as the operation is to be
effected by the Credit Institution of Vienna and the Credit
Mobilier of France."

The two following letters from Berlin, published
respectively by the Debats and the Nord of Brussels,
testify to the uncertain state of affairs produced by
the illness of the King :
" The Ultra-Conservative party is employing all its effortsto induce the Prince of Prussia to consent to a prolongation
of the existing delegation. They even represent to him
that the King can choose any member of the royal family
a 3 his delegate, and that he is not bound to select the heir
presumptive. Prince Charles, second brother of the King,
has been named as likely to be charged with the Govern-
ment, and the selection of that prince would be agreeable
to the Courts which desire to eee the question of the
Government regulated as a family affair; the Courts being
those of Austria, Bavaria, Saxony, and, it is said, Russia."
The second letter says

" Not only does the King labour under illusions with re-
gard to his malady, indulging in hopes of recovery which
every one else bas discarded, but he also considers governing
the country in the light of a duty which he must fulfil to
the last. It may therefore readily be conceived that it is
not an easy matter to modify the King's opinion on these
points. The Qtteen of Prussia has been Applied to in this

emergency—and the presence of Queen Victoria may also
be useful in this case—the Queen of Prussia, I say, has
been requested to undertake this delicate mission to her
august consort. She alone can succeed, for the counsels
which the King may receive from her will not Ore him
umbrage. The Queen therefore will have to open the eyes
of the august patient on a hard and melancholy necessity,
and in this painful task she will perhaps be aided by Baron
Manteuffel, who possesses the absolute confidence of the
King."

" The electoral movement in Prussia," says the
German Journal of Frankfort, " is now beginning in
all parts of the country, and manifestoes are being
issued by the different parties into which public
opinion is divided. The Prince of Prussia is desir-
ous that the Government should not exercise any in-
fluence over the elections ; the democratic party will
nevertheless hesitate to take part in them, for, with-
out the vote of three degrees, it will be impossible
for it to succeed. It is to the men of Gotha that it
must this time abandon the electoral field."

A letter from Grandeny, in Western Prussia, of the
20th, in the New Prussian Gazette, says :
" Since the first of this month we have had three Jesuit
missionaries in this place, who every evening preach
sermons and hold conferences in the Catholic church. In
one of those sermons the preacher took for his text an in-
scription engraved over the door of the church We all
believe in one God, aad love will unite us all.' He explained
the meaning of the inscription, and declared it erroneous
and damnable. The cure of the church then decided on
having the inscription effaced, and by his orders the words
were all struck out in the course of the night."

The above inscription consisted of words which the
King Frederick William 111. addressed to the pre-
ceding curs while passing through the town. The
local authorities have made a report to their
superiors on the matter ; and the public are signing
a petition for the re-establishment of the inscription.