The Sun.
London, England, 1859-10-10 00:00:00

GERMANY.

The Prussian Government has sent a note in re-
ply to the. Austrian circular of Count Rechberg re-
lative to the proposed reform of the German Con-
federation, and the recent speech of the Duke of
Saxe Coburg Gotha.

After acknowledging the receipt of a copy of
Count Rechberg's note, Baron de Schleinitz, the
Prussian Minister, says :
" The opinion which his Royal Highness the
Prince Regent has deigned to express is,
that the full confidence which he placed in his
cousin and friend the Duke of Saxe Coburg
Gotha did not allow it to be supposed that there
existed motives to reserve the rights of other Ger•
man Princes, either of one in particular, or of all of
them together, and that the words of the Duke,
Which expressed the often-repeated want of a re-
form of the Federal Constitution, excluded all en-
couragement of tendencies to achieve that end by
illegal means.
"As regards the tendencies which now manifest
themselves in Germany towards such an end, the
Government of the King had recently an opportu-
nity of expressing itself on that point in the reply
made, by order of the Prince Regent, by Count
Schwerin to the Stettin address, which the public
journals must have brought to the knowledge of
Count Rechberg. I nevertheless subjoin a copy
of that reply, to be made use if requisite.
" Strong in its honourable intentions, the Govern-
ment of the King does not think that, because the
name of Prussia is brought forward without its
sanction, it is necessary to make any further decla-
rations than those it has already made to its own
country.

" If (continues the despatch) there are great
questions to be resolved Prussia will not act in a
selfish manner, but in the interest of Germany."
This despatch is dated the 23d of September, and
is signed by Baron Schleinitz.

A letter from Zurich of the 7th says :—" Peace,
which, according to all hopes, was to be signed in
the course of this week, experiences a fresh delay,
again occasioned, it is said, by the Austrian pleni-
potentiaries. It is known that between these and
those of Sardinia there remains but one difficult point
to settle—that of the debt; it is also known that on
this important question France partakes the opi-
nions of Sardinia; it was thought that Austria
would yield on this point, but it appears we were
mistaken. Austria resists ; hence the delays in
the signature of the treaty of peace; otherwise we
must suppose that these delays proceed from a want
of agreement between the Austrian and French
plenipotentiaries on the separate treaty to be signed
by those two parties, and which relates to the conse-
cration of the preliminaries of Villafranca, that is to
say, to the restoration of the deposed sovereigns, to
the Italian Confederation, to the amnesty, the
forms, and, in short, to all the points which it is
known are not submitted to the deliberations of the
Sardinian plenipotentiaries. However this may be,
Count Colloredo yesterday despatched a second
courier to Vienna, and the hopes founded on the
arrival of instructions from Biarritz are not con-
firmed. Until Count Colloredo receives a reply to
his last despatches the conclusion of peace will be
suspended, and God grant that fresh accidents or
incidents may not arise still further to impede it."