The Sun.
London, England, 1858-10-12 00:00:00

PRUSSIA.

The Preussische Correspondenz has the following
article :—" At the expiration of the time of the
full powers intrusted to the Prince of Prussia for
the management of the Government, the country
anxiously awaited the solution of the question
whether his Majesty, having kept himself away
from the affairs of State during a whole year, would
feel himself sufficiently re-established to resume
again the reins of government. Unhappily, the
result of the treatment hitherto followed and the
summer sojourn at Tegensee, while acting favour-
ably on the state of his Majesty generally, were
not sufficiently complete. The King's physicians
expressed the opinion that the Monarch, not to
compromise the progress of his convalescence, ought
still to avoid the fatigues .of his high mission.
His Majesty, therefore, came to the conviction
that it was necessary to devote a longer time
to the care of his health ; and in his paternal soli-
citude for the welfare of the country recogniied
that the State ought not to remain longer deprived
of a direction invested with the supreme authority
and. Royal initiative ; consequently the King has
deemed it advisable, until his entire restoration to
health, to ask the Prince of Prussia to take, from
the present moment, the government of the country
in full independence, and to direct the affairs ac-
cording to his own personal views as Regent."
A letter from Berlin, dated the 9th inst., gives
the following particulars :—The only possible solu-

tion of the Government crisis has at last taken
place, and the Prince of Prussia is appointed

Regent.

Prussia will once again resume in the European
concert and at the German Diet the rank which a
too long provisorium had compromised, and at home
the system of repression and reaction which weighed
upon us will give place to a more tolerant spirit,
and to the honest practice of the principles of
legality and constitutional right. All men breathe
more freely the air which was so parsimoniously
doled out to them, and every Prussian heart hopes
good things for the future. We know beforehand
that also abroad the new era about to commence
for Prussia will be hailed with sympathy by all
nations and by all Governments. The charm is
broken, and Prussia is herself again.
The Royal ordinance which invites the Prince
of Prussia to assume the Regency was signed on
the 7th. The last difficulties have been removed,
And there remained only certain family arrange-
mants to be settled relative to the dotation of the
Crown guaranteed on the produce of the domains.
Hitherto the Prince of Prussia has not received
any special allowance as locum-tenons for the King,
whose functions he performed for a year ; it natu-
rally becomes necessary for a provision to be made
for the necessities of his new position without levy-
ing a tax on the country. A rent of 2,500,000 dols.,
guaranteed on the produce of the Crown domains,
forms the quotation of the Crown. Now the
domains, which were formerly the patrimonial pro-
perty of the Royal Family, bring it much larger
returns, so that the surplus will suffice to provide
for the new Regency. It is not probable, however,
that the question will be brought forward in the

extraordinary session of the Chambers convoked
for the 20th inst., and which will be solely occupied
with giving the constitutional sanction to the new
order of things.
The first act of the Regent has been the dis-
missal of M. de Westphalen, the Minister of the
Interior, the Representative in the Cabinet of the
small but now not so powerful party of Reaction.
M. de Westphalen's signature is not affixed either
to the Royal decree of the 7th, or to the ordinance
of the Regent of the 9th—the name of M. Flottwell,
President of the Province of Brandenburg, figures
there instead. M. Flottwell is only Minister ad
interim, but it is probable that other changes will
soon follow in the Ministry. M. de Raumer,
Minister of Instruction and Public Worship, will
probably soon follow M. de Westphalen. The King
will leave Berlin, about the 12th inst., for Meran,
in the Italian Tyrol. The Queen accompanies her
august husband, and their suite will be more nume-
rous than was the case at Tegernsee.
The officers who accompanied the Prince of
Prussia in his recent visit to Warsaw have all re-
ceived decorations frem the Emperor of Russia.