The Sun.
London, England, 1850-12-24 00:00:00

GERMANY.

The Wiener Zeitung of the 18th publishes the cor
respondence between Lord PALMERSTON and the
Austrian Government on the Haynau affair. I
appears that as HAYNAU had declined prosecuting
personally, Lord PALMERSTON did not feel disposed
to institute an ex officio prosecution, and the Austrian
Government declined to interfere further, reserving
to itself the right of reciprocity in analogous cases.
Accounts from Berlin of the 21st state that NAN-
TEVFFEL was to leave for Dresden on the following
day.
Baron vois LADENBERG took leave of the Directors,
Secretaries, and officials of the Ministry of Public
Worship on the 21st, in the following address :
"I have to-day a mournful duty to fulfil. I hale to
bid you farewell. His Majesty has been pleased to re•
lease me, at my own request, from tho duties of thin
Mini-try. His Majesty has had, at the same time, the
goodness to retain me still in the service of the State.
To the reasons which led me to tender my resignation,
I naturally cannot further allude; and can only intimate,
that my idea of the honour and welfare of Prussia com-
pelled me to take the unwilling step. I may have erred in
my conception, but my euty as a faithful servant of the
King compelled me to act, according to the feel-
ings I entertained. It was, I need scarcely repeat it to
you, a resolution I was reluctant to take, the more so,
in proportion as activiiy in the sphere I have to leave
was valued by me. For twelve years I have been un-
ceasingiy employed in it and during the whole time I
have had not only your if,
but I may venture to
say, your subjective support also. In parting from you,
I wish, from my heart, that it may be given you to con-
tinue to labour for the good of the Church, for the deve-
lopment of tcience, and the instruction of the peolle, as
far as they can be promoted from this centre, in the same
spirit of cheerfulness, devotion, and trust in God. Pre-
serve a Lienrily remembrance of me, as I shall ever re.
main attached to you."
The oldest member of the section of the Ministry
that has the control of the affairs of the Church, the
Court Chaplain, EHRENBERG, replied in a brief ad
dress, expressing the sense of the general body of
the loss it sustained in the retirement of Baron VON
LADENBERG, and the ceremony closed.
Baron DE PECISLIN is appointed Danish Plenipo-
tentiary to the Conferences at Dresden.
It appears that Messrs. VON DER PFORDTEN and VON
LINDEN, Prime Ministers of Bavaria and Wurtem-
berg, as well as the prime or principanlinisters of
almost all second and third class German States, will
attend the consultations concomitant upon the open-
ing of the conferences,
The Conferences were to begin early on the 23d.
The proceedings would probably be opened by an
Address from Prince SCHWARTZENBERG. The chief
points of the settlement to be proposed will be the
establishment of an executive power of the Confe-
deration separated from the Legislative body ; that
this executive power will be exercised in perpetuity
by Prussia and Austria together and in common. A
reduction and re-distribution of the number of the
votes of the states in the Diet will be made. Prussia
and Austria will each receive two; four monarchies
one each ; the other minor states will be divided into
five groups, each group having one vote ; thus the
central organ will include only thirteen votes, instead
of seventeen as under the old Confederation.
An order has been issued for the reduction of the
Bavarian army.
The following are the nominations already made
by the different states of their Representatives at the
Dresden Conference :
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"Austria, Count Pool- Sehonhaustn ; M. Prolieseh-
Ostcn, the Austrian Ambassador at Berlin will also at-
tend them, and Prince Soh wartzonberg, the President of
the Austrian Cabinet, will Le present at the opening
sittings.
" Prussia will be represented by Count Alvensleben,
with Count Flemming as coadjutor. M. von Mamteutful,
who was to have betn present at the first sittings only,
will now most probably remain in Dresden during the
whole o.nierenee, as it is hoped the business will be
brought to a close sooner than anticipated.
"Hanover has nominated M. von Scheele and M. von
Monchnusen.
" Bavaria sends the Minister of State, von der
Pfordten.

" The Government of Saxony is on the spot, and
though the formal appointment of a Representative has
not been made, the duties will probably devolve on the
Minister von Beust.
sends M. Harsenpflug, the fountain and
source of the evil the whole Conference is held to re-
medy, or rather of the circumstances that brought the
evil to its crisis, by occasioning a collision between
Austria and Prussia.

" Brunswick has appointed M. Liebe.
" Nassau, the Minister von Win!singerode.
" Hamburg, Syndic Banks.

"For the tolc-hy of Holstein, as a state of the Con-
federation, the Kivg of Denmark (as Duke of Holstein),
has nsined .711ron von Pechlin, the negotiator of the
Treaty of July, 1849, who has represented Holstein in
the Diet ef Frit.kfort for a long series of years.
" Lubcck sands the Burgerrnrister Brehmer.
'' Mecklenburg Schwerin is represenied by Count von
Below.

" The Thuringian States have not yet named all their
represents tires. '
A dispatch from lie:se states that the Upper Tri-
bunal of Cassel has agreed with General VON
PEUCWER, the Prussian Commissary, to put in force
the orders of the Ch of September, reserving the
question of legality to be dt cided after the termina-
tion of the Dresden Conferences. On the other
hand, if the decrees are enforced, the Prussian and
Austrian Commissaries will withdraw the whole of
the Executive troops.

DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES.
The Danes have thrown a bridge over the Schlei
at Csppeln, and have fortified so strongly as to make
the passage of the Schlei at that point impossible.