The Sun.
London, England, 1850-03-02 00:00:00

on the 26th ult.:—

" Gentlemen,—We have arrived at the close of a long
and fertile session—the first regular session of the Prus-
sian Chambers—a session which in the annals of Prussia
will be recorded as peculiar of its kind. For what you
have done I cannot here venture to express any
acknowledgments. In this place lam not justified in
doing it ; if I possessed that justification, the
expression of gratitude would only he a
repetition of what you have already heard from the place
empowered to give it—from the Throne itself, from the
mouth of his Majesty—expressions which, on the occa-
sion of that never-to-be. forgotten act of the taking the
oath to the Constitution, were frequently repeated in
these walls in a less solemn manner. I cannot leave un-
mentioned that expressions of similar recognition have
come to my knowledge on the part of the Prince of
Prussia, whom the service of the King and country de-
tains at a distance from Berlin.

"I cannot avoid a short retrospect of your activity,
and to remind you that not merely the comprehensive and
important work of the revision of the Constitution has
been brought to a close, but that 50 laws and bills have re-
ceived the assent of the Chambers, of which 24 have been
already published in the collection of statutes. Among
them are laws of the most important description,—
such as the law regulating landed property and
the organization of rural communes. Besides those the
budgets cf 1849 and 1850 have been settled, a great mass
of petitions and other propositions and motions have
been considered. This, gentlemen, is the result of your
exertions since the 7th of August of the last year till the
present time, comparatively a short space of time, a re-
sult which certainly affords a satisfactory retrospect of a
memorable session.
" It will be the task of the. Government to advance on
the course with which you have declared your coin•
cidence, and that we shall proceed on it with our
best poa ers, with publicity and good faith ; that this
will be the policy of Prussia I herewith give you the
assurance.

" With respect to the finances which your confidence
has placed at our disposal, we shall not forget that the
industry of all classes is concerned in it, and that we
shall snake such a use of it as the interest and honour of
the nation requires.

" In the name of his Majesty, I declare the present
session of the Chamber to be herewith closed, and the
sitting of to-day as ended."

The Town Council of Elbing has unanimously
voted an address to the Prussian Cabinet on the pre-
sent state of the Danish negotiations. The address is
as follows :

" According to the statements of the public journals,
it appears that with the opening of the spring we are
again threatened with a renewal of the blockade of the
harbours of the Baltic by the Danes.
" This fact imposes on us, as the authorities of a tra-
ding town that will suffer irreparable damage by the
measure, the imperative duty of laying before his Ma-
jesty's Government a request that it will put a decisive
end to this unhappy state of affairs.
" The war has been begun, and there are only two
ways in which it is possible to end it.
•• Either the force at the command of Prussia is not
equal to that of Denmark, in which case it is an im•
possibility to continue a war with a stronger Power; or
it is equal to that which Denmark possesses, and in this
case the nation has the right to expect tnat the war
will be carried on with an energy that shall compel the
Danes to make peace.

But as it is, the present state of things drags on
frcm year to year. The blood of our brethren serving in
the army is shed uselessly, and the commerce of the
Baltic provinces is completely ruined. The interior is
hermetically closed against us by Russia (the ally of
Prussia); the sea is shut to us by the Danish ships of
war; thus all commerce and traffic become an absolute
impossibility.
" We are situate at a distance from the immediate
theatre of the war and the centre of the diplomatic nego-
tiations. We do not know whether the dark rumours
that circulate through the country relative to the Danish
war are true or not. But one thing we do know, that if the
harbours are year by year blockaded, and intercourse
with other countries rendered uncertain, the commerce
and with it the welfare of the land must go to ruin, and
that nothing can avail in this case but decisive mea-
sures. In the interest of the trade of our town we
therefore address to the Government of his Majesty
the prayer that it will take measures to put an end to
the present uncertain and insupportable state of affairs."