The Sun.
London, England, 1850-11-15 00:00:00

GERMAN Y.

The Paris Journal des Debats gives the following
resume of the progress of the negotiations between
Austria and Prussia. It should be recollected, in
reading this sketch, that the Journal des Dibats may
be considered as almost the official gazette of the
Austrian embassy :
We have received several letters from Berlin under
date of 10th instant. The information famished by our
correspondents is derived from the best sources, and
may be summed up as follows:—It was in the evening
of the 3d November that the King accepted the resigna-
tion of M. de Radowitz. On the same day the Kiag con-
fided to the President of the Council, Count de Bran-
denburg, the portfolio of Foreign Affairs, thus become
vacant. M. de Brandenburg having fallen ill in the
night of the 3d, that department was confided provi-
sionalty to M. de Manteuffel, Minister of the Interior;
but already, on the very day of the retirement of M. de
Radowitz, the Count de Brandenburg had sent a courier
to Vienna with fresh propositions, founded on the prin-
ciples and on the rale of conduct agreed on at Warsaw.
These propositions had three objects-1. Prussia to en-
gage herself definitively to renounce her system called
the restricted union, and to henceforth consider the
constitution of the 28th May, 1849, as null and void.
2. If Austria consented not to demand for the
moment that Prussia should recognise at present
the decrees :of the Diet of Frankfort, and
consider them as binding on her, Prussia de-
clares that she is ready to withdraw any opposition to
the execution of whatever military measures it may suit
Austria to take conjointly with her allies for the re-
establishment of order in Electoral Hesse. Prussia also

expresses a hope that a similar understanding may be
come to for the arrangement of the affairs of the Duchies.
I. Prussia makes known her views with regard to free
conferences; she makes known what she understands by
these conferences, and how and when they are to be held.
These propositions of the Prussian Cabinet were for-
warded from Berlin to Vienna on the ad. Count do
Brandenburg, who was taken ill a few minutes after
the departure of the courier, died in a short time after,
and his aeath became the signal for a violent reaction
in the councils of the King of Prussia. The note of the
3d had scarcely had time to arrive at Vienna; it had
not yet been communicated to the Imperial Cabinet,
when the Prussian Government decided on the mobilisa-
tionincluding the Landwehr: it issued
l' s for this measure, so that the army
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in a few days might bo carried up to an effective force
of 340,000 men. It did more; General Groeben, who had
previously received instructions ~to c3reFully avoid any
conflict between the two armies,' received orders to act
militarily and without delay. It is known that the
Prus-ian general, in conformity with his fresh instruc-
tions, commenced hostilities on the Bth, and opened the
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Prussia, but she demanded the immediate Cabinet to the communication of the 3d reached Berlin
eva-
cuation of Hesse by the troops of that Power. Every-
thing, therefore, appears to announce that the two
Powers are nearly come to an understanding, and that
these bases will be definitively adopted as the foundation
of the arrangement which will cause the disappearance
of the last chances of a war. It is doubtless to the im-
pression produced by the reply of the Imperial Cabinet
that we may attribute the sudden and unexpected eva-
cuation of Fulda and of Cassel by General Groeben,
the news of which reashed Paris yesterday. At Berlin
may be remarked ; the
spirit
which holds such a great place in the character
and nr army
two-fold
-afthenolddm manners tendencyer s therioefople t Prussian,, excited
by the military
have warmly en-
tered into the quarrel against Austria, and they impel
the Government towards war, the perils of which they
certainly have not calculated; whilst the more enlight-
ened and independent classes do not see without uneasi-
ness the development of a movement to which they never
for a moment believed that the Government would yield.
Now it is thought that the counsels of wisdom and mo-
deration will prevail. This will ba to the glory of Mde
Manteuffel, who accepted without hesitation the post of
successor to the Count de Brandenburg, and who will
probably secure the triumph of the policy of peace which
he supported with his regretted colleague. M. de Man-
teutrA is now the only one of the Ministers of the King
of Prussia who never despaired of the victory of good
sense and right. He is also the only one who has constantly
opposed that sort of impulse of public opinion which
was systematically followed by M. de Radowitz, sup-
ported, and encouraged by the coterie of Gotha. M. de
Manteuffel may be said to have saved his King and hi,
and glorious
countryunt do Brandenburg
in - November,
, by uniting himself with the
co
struggle in which that statesman engaged against the
will a second.. time owe their
re-
volutionary passions which were everywhere triumphing.
His King and his country
theteuffel the illusions of a still more dangerous feeling—the blind
safety to him if ha succeeds in defending them against
exaggeration of a national patriotism, which would en-
gage in an unjust struggle, the chimerical object or which
is the conquest of Germany and the more probable issue
powerof which
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derstood; it is this tendency which he has undertaken to
oppose. It must be said that he has been seconded by
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the conduct of Austria—conduct full of moderation,
calmness, and firmness."
It is amusing to find these absolutist powers talking
about the restoration of " order" in Hesse. When
and how has order ever been disturbed in Hesse
save by the entrance of the Austrian, Bavarian, and
Prussian troops? It is the old story of the pickpocket
raising the cry of " Stop thief."
Intelligence has been received from Berlin of the
12th. The differences remaining between Austria
and Prussia are very slight, and there is
i every pro-
spect of a settlement. This intelligence s confirmed
by a letter from Vienna of the same date, which
states that Count Doasnor had brought decisive
. and
acceptable propositions from Berlin, and from an
article in the semi-official Austrian Correspondence,
which states that the Austrian agents at Berlin had
been met with a feeling of justice and moderation. This
sudden cessation of the arrogant tone hitherto as-
sumed by the Emperor of AUSTRIA is due,
it is said, to the arrival of RADETZLY, who censured

the Cabinet in the strongest terms for the arrogant
tone they had assumed, and the aggressive policy they
had adopted, and pointed out to them that the inevita-
ble consequences of engaging in a war would be the
certain loss of the Lombardo Venetian kingdom, and
probably that of Hungary and Gallaeia also.
From Frankfort the intelligence is to the 12th.
The-Prussian troops will continue to occupy Cassel.
The Prussian head quarters are at Friediveld. Hers-