The Sun.
London, England, 1850-05-29 00:00:00

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GERMAN Y.

A telegraphic dispatch from Berlin of the 26th
instant has the folloviing news :
" llis Majesty has slept well during the greater
part of the night. The fever was slight, and the
swelling, but not the painful feeling in the arm, is
lessened. The wound presents a favourable appear-
ance, and the suppuration continues.
" Von MANTEUFFEL."

The Berlin papers of the 25th inst. publish the text
of the note which the Governments of the Prussian
League have addressed to Austria. It is to the fol-
lowing purport :
" My letter of the 31 inst. informed your Excellency
of the invitation which the Austrian Cabinet addressed
to all the members of the Germanic Confederation
appointing a meeting at Frankfort-on-the-Maine.
When we received that invitation I could only say
that his Majesty's Government would consider the
subject, but that a definitive resolution could only be
come to after a consultation with his Majesty's
allies : for to act in concert with them is not only
the wish but also the duty of his Majesty's
Government. That consultation has now taken
place, and his Majesty's Government is fully
satisfied with the strong sympathies it met with
among its allies, and which are a guarantee of a fa-
vourable progress of an affair in which we are all
equally interested and concerned. I am therefore
now enabled to empower your Excellency to make
the following declaration to the Austrian Cabinet,
and I trust that that Cabinet will recognise in this
declaration an earnest desire of his Majesty's Go-
vernment to do all in its power to bring this question
now pending in Germany to a favourable issue. In
considering the invitation of the Austrian Cabinet, we
and all the Garman Governments have but one starting
point, viz., our consideration for the welfare and safety
of cur common country. The union of all Germany,
the regeneration of the old Confederation on a
basis which answers to the real wants of the nation,
is to us of such vital importance that we think it our
duty to try every means by which success can pos-
sibly be achieved, and our sorrow at the prevailing
want of harmony has been so great as to make us
joyfully seize every opportunity by which this state
of things may possibly be changed. We likewise
recognise it as an immediate desideratum to provide
at least for a provisional superintendence of our
common affairs. All the German States are
equally interested in this, and a consultation
of all the Governments cannot therefore ap-
pear in any other light than as the most na-
tural and indeed federal way of arriving at a
general resolution. We are therefore happy that the
Austrian Cabinet has taken the first step on this
path, and we are prepared to respond to the invite,
tion, and to send our Plenipotentiary to Frankfort.
We do not think there can be any doubt as to the
character of the conferences to be held in that city.
We understand them to be free consultations of the
Sovereign States of Germany, on an international
basis of perfect freedom and independence, and
whose meeting and union must therefore result
from their own free will. 'We protest against the
convocation of a Congress on the basis of the ex-
tinct presidial functions of the dissolved Federal
Council ; and we cannot recognise to this meeting
the character of the former ' Plenum' of the late Fede-
ral Council. We consider this Assembly as a meeting
of 35 German Governments for certain and definite
purposes. We cannot, therefore, allow that meeting
to take resolutions in the name of the Confederation,
and such which would be binding on dissentient
Governments. No consequences whatever can re-
sult for the latter from such resolutions, except that
the results of the meeting do tot apply to them.
We trust that this supposition will not be realised,
and that the interchange of views will lead to a har-
monious co-operation of all Governments. But this
very hope makes us the more positive in demanding
the perfect independence of all States. We therefore
openly protest that we will not consent to any recon-
stitution of the Federal Council which neglects to
secure to all Governments the principle of a free union
on the basis of Federalism. We make this statement
with the same candour which we expect, &c.,
" Berlin, May 16. " SCIILEINITZ,
" To his Majesty's Ambassador, the
Count Bernstorff, at Vienna."