The Sun.
London, England, 1850-01-04 00:00:00

WIRTEMBERG.

The Stuttgani Official Gazette publishes the fol-
lowing address from the KING to his subjects :
4‘ Animated by a sincere desire to satisfy the
exigencies of an epoch replete with progress, and faith-
fully to fulfil the promises which we made, we convoked
the assembly of the deputies of the country to deliberate
with them upon those changes in the comtitution which
wero considered necessary by the abolition of the pre-
rogatives of the nobility, and to conclude with them an
ulterior fundamental compact. Moreover, upon our

accession to the throne we agreed with our people upon
a constitution, to the maintenance of which the deputies
solemnly pledged themselves in the name of the whole
country, after our solemn promise to maintain that con-
stitution firm and inviolate, to execute it, and to pre-
serve it from eta ry infringement.
" We were led to hope the changes involved by that
Constitution Might be carried out in a short time, and
that considering the mutual good-will and known
loyalty that prevailed, our Government might be able
to consecrate all its efforts to the best interests of the
country, is hich had recently suffered so much, which it
was impossible to do so long as there was any question
relative to the constitution. But experience has most
painfully convinced us, since the convocation of the
Assembly, that the procedure adopted by the majority
of its Members could not lead to the desired end,
and that the excitement of passion threatened the
real interest of the uallitry. A few days before the
opening of the Assembly the majority arrogated to itself
the right of a private sitting to discuss the validity o!",„a
royal ordonnance, and to consider the abrogation of that
ordonnance as the legal right of the country, although
such an act of the individual Members of the States is
prohibited by the Constitution; by which, also, it is not
allowable to a party comprising the majority of the
Members of the States to adopt a resolution before it
shall have been discussed and voted in constitutional form
by the States in a sitting.
" This procedure diminished cur well-founded hope
of the co-operation of the national Representatives with
the Government, and it has been quite annihilated since
the sittings of the Assembly, by the total absence of all
impartiality in the debates. Under pretext that positive
right must give place to a pretended national right, the
majority of the Assembly has broached principles, and
declared consequences, which are utterly irrcconcilble
with a monarchical constitution, making the Constitu-
tion and the Government of he country dependent
upon the arbitrary will of an accidental majority of the
deputies. By a sage equilibrium of the rights of the
organs of the Executive, however, the constitutional
monarchy guarantees the liberty of all its subjects, and
is bound to ensure the same. But this constitution
cannot subsist if this right, given to the Sovereign, be
arbitrarily overturned by the will of the organs who are
called to take part in the administration of the Govern-
ment. The resolution adopted by the majority of the
Assembly charges our Government with having taken
up a position altogether hostile to the States of the
Germanic Confederation, and with standing aloof from
any new form which the Constitution of Germany may
take.

" Every impartial person will understand that such
contempt of the Germanic Confederation would involve
the most serious consequences to the whole country, and

that the other German Governments would nottiuMr
such an infringement upon the national duty which one
state owes to another.

" We are convinced that the majority of the people
desire that this policy should not be adopted. It would
inevitably involve the ruin of the country and deprive
our Government of every influence in the settlement of
the affairs of Germany."

HESSE DARMSTADT.
The Chambers were opened on the 31st ult.

BAVAItIA.

Accounts have been received from Munich to the
27th ult;rno.

The KING has appointed the Minister Vox DER
PFORDTEN President of the Council.

The Royal patent has just been issued, authorising
the emission of the loan of 7,000,000 granted by the
Diet. The rate of interest has not yet been fixed,
but is to be left to the discretion of the Minister of
Finance.