The Sun.
London, England, 1866-09-01 00:00:00

CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
PARIS, Friday Evening.
The Moniteur has no news to-day of the least
importance, and the other papers hardly contain
anything worth notice. The Prussian Government
is preparing, in concert with its allies, prompt mea-
sures for the establishment of the Confederation of
the North. The resignation of M. de Beust, Prime
Minister of the King of Saxony, and the appoint-
meut in his room of Baron du Konneritz, Saxon
Ambassador at Vienna, is connected with the ac-
complishment of the measures which Prussia has in
view. M. de Bismarck has it all his own way at
present, and it appears that he imposed upon Saxony
the condition that M. Beust should be compelled to
retire. King John, as one of the Paris papers ob-
serves, becomes only a sort of hereditary Prefect of
the:King of Prussia, and is making arrangements to
recall his ambassadors and all his consuls in
foreign countries.

Peace being signed between Austria and Italy,
the question which now occupies Italian politicians
is, whether the treaty will be submitted for ratifica-
tion by the present Chamber, or whether a new
Parliament will be called for the purpose. The
Italie contends that for a new state of circumstances
a new Parliament is necessary, and supports this
view by referring to the natural laws and the ple-
biscites of 1848 and 1860. The policy of the future
cannot be like that of the policy of the last six
years.

The .Siecle, in reference to the arguments of M.
Bismarck in the Prussian Chamber, says :---" We li
have never seen in M. Bismarck a man of principle,
and his argurnents.in the Chamber prove that in
the present circumstances he belongs to the Machi-
avelli school. To attain his objects he will make
an arrow of any kind of wood."
According to the private correspondence of the
Coustitutionnel the following will be the position of
Prussia :—" All the States of the north and centre
of Germany, with the exception of two, have con-
cluded with Prussia ' a treaty of alliance, offensive
and defensive, for the maintenance of the indepen-
dence and the integrity, as well as the internal and
external safety of those States.' The object of this
alliance will he definitively insured by a Federal
Constitution upon the basis of the Prussian princi-
ples of the 18th June, 1866, with the participation
ofa Parliament to be convoked in common. The
allied Governments undertake to summon at the
same time as Prussia the election of deputies for
the Parliament according to the electoral law of the
German empire of the 12th of April, 1849, and to
convoke the Parliament in common with Prussia.
At the same time they will send plenipotentiaries
to Berlin to establish, according to the principles of
the 10th of June, 1866, the project of - the Federal
Constitution which is to be submitted to the deli-
berations and the vote of Parliament. The troops
of the allies are to be placed under the special com-
mand of his Majesty the King of Prussia."
The weather to-day has been worse than yester-
day. Violent winds prevailed in the early part of
the morning, and it has been raining and miserable
all day.
The Journal des Debats says :—‘, The Gazette de
la Croix continues to transform the great struggle
of which Germany has just been the theatre into a
trifling, miserable conflict between Prussian Royalty
and the Prussian Parliament. We do not think
that journal truly represents the feeling of the Go-
vernment, but, at all events, it does not represent
the feeling of the country. It is not one of the
least defective points of the policy of M. Bismarck
that he is under the necessity of being compelled to
accept, were it only for one day, the compromising
alliance of the party of which the Gazette de la
Croix is the organ. This alliance is much to be
regretted. We deplore it without thinking that from
this circumstance the work of M. Bismarck should
meet with entire reprobation."