The Sun.
London, England, 1857-12-22 00:00:00

PRUSSIA.

The following despatch, dated the 12th, was ad-
resserl by Baron de Manteuffel, President of the
Council of Ministers in Prussia, to M. de Kamptz,
Prussian Charge d'Affaires at Hamburg, to ex-
plain why the Government of Berlin refused to lend
money to that city in the late crisis :
"By a talegraphic despatch of the 3d you announced
to me that the Senate has resolved to send to Berlin the
President of the Chamber, M. Mohring, to obtain from
us a loan of from 2,000,000 to 3,000,000 dialers. M.
Mohring called on me on the 4 hon the subject, and
offered me as security notes of the Chamber and railway
shares. I immediately deliberated on the affair with the
ether ministers. We had a strong desire to acquiesce in
th+ demand of a friendly town, connected with our Go-
vernment by so many interests, and we know that in
aiding the commerce of Hamburg we should be useful
to that of Prussia. Nevertheless, we could not-disguise
from ourselves that in according the loan applied for,
we should diminish our power of assisting our own
commerce and manufactures, and that if the Ham-
-1 burg loan proved insufficient, grave embarrassments
might arise for Prussia. Now, we felt convinced that
the sum demanded by the town of Hamburg could
not be sufficient ; our deliberation in fact was inter-
rupted by the news that Hamburg proposed to borrow
a sum of 30,000,000 mares halloo. It was therefore
impossible to come to a decision in th 3 first sitting.
When M. Mohring returned to Berlin, after the toad
of Hamburg had decreed a loan of 15,000,000 mares
banco, we declared that the state of our fioancial
establishments did not permit us to grant a loan under
existing circumstances. The Na' ional Bank of Austria,
which was not embarrassed by the same circumstances
as the Prussian Bank, relative to the realisation of its
notes, could lend to Hamburg 10,000,000 mares.
Notwithstanding that, we could not, to our great
regret, indulge in the hope that the situation of
Hamburg would become instantaneously better ; and
in point of fact the authorities are now deliberating on
the extraordinary measures to be taken to maintain
s)ma of the most important firms. Allow no doubt to
exist as to our manner of regarding the question, in
spite of all our sympathy, and all our good -will' we
should not have been able to afford such assistance as
would ensure an energetic, effioacioua, and durable
remedy."

The Zeit of Berlin confirms the rumour that the
opening of the Prus,dan Chambers is definitively
fixed for the 12th January.

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ITALY.
A letter from Turin of the 16th says The
Chamber of Deputies yesterday held its first public
sitting, and al:hough the orders of the day were
relative only to undisputed election returns, the
tribunes were crowded to see the new deputies.
About 169 deputies were present. The old liberal
deputies who have been re-elected quitted the placesa
they used to occupy on the right, for others
iu
centre and at the loft. On the election for_
flac-
conigi being mentioned, the bureau Pr°Pd°ciedbethtin spite of some petty objections it shol
it would
ap-
proved of ; but M. Depretis remarked that.t
until the
be better to postpone a discussion
andde debate
in sopni
taeloi thef ssome
md disputed potpt tpeods
jetlieoent elections
ash:eau:l should
;reedcom e ot
on.,
proposed that the
Count de Cavour afterwards
tb..--e
taken into consi-
deration elections should
not
after reports on
until twenty-four