The Sun.
London, England, 1850-05-27 00:00:00

GERMANY.

The Kolner Zeitung of the 24th, publishes the fol-
lowing telegraphic dispatch of the state of the King
of PRUSSIA'S health :
" To TIIE PRESIDENT OF THE RECENCY, M. DE MBLLER.
" Yesterday afternoon his Majesty had a slight attack
of fever; a healthy suppuration has commenced in the
wound, the arm being slightly swollen and somewhst
painful. His Majesty slept well during the night, and
this morning there is less fever, and the suppuration
proceeds fsvourably.

" The Minister of the Interior,
" Berlin, May 24." " DE MANTEUFFEL,
The following facts have been ascertained respect..
ng the assassin. His name is MAXIMILIAN JOSEPII
SEPEL OGE ; he is the son of an army surgeon ; he was
born in Wetzlar, and is 29 years of age. He was
educated at the Military Orphan Asylum at Pots-
dam, and has served eleven years in the fifth
company of the Foot Artillery of the Guard.
On the 26th of October, last year, he was
invalided on account of physical weakness and a dis-
eased, if not totally deranged, intellect. By special
permission, however, he still resided in the barracks
of the corps, and provided himself with a uniform.
He seems to have quitted the service with great re-
luctance, and made frequent attempts to be reinstated ;
he was possessed by some extraordinary fixed ideas ;
for instance, that he was the real inventor of gun
cotton, and had been unjustly passed over in the dis-
tribution of prises given for some peculiar preparation
of that article; he had a similar delusion with respect
to a certain sort of chocolate ; he had also a plan fur
founding an African colony with the help of the Bey
of Tunis. On all these subjects he pestered the Mi-
nistry, and it is said the King, with petitions and me-
morials it was impossible to answer, and the ne-
glect of his repeated applications for reinstate-
ment in the army, and patronage for his schemes,
it is supposed exasperated a mind already crazed.
A letter from Berlin, 231 inst., says :
" The Prince of Prussia, who it is stated by all the
journals this morning had left for Warsaw, and who in
intention
suddenly was to have started to-day, changed his
suddenly last evening. his Royal Highness will not
leave until Saturday. Dispatches of a very serious nature
which have been received from Frankfort are said to have
caused this delay. It appears certain that the intended
meeting at Warsaw is nothing more or less than a con-
gress. If in addition to the Emperor of Austria and the
Prince of Prussia, the other German Princes do not at-
tend there in person, they will take care to have themselves
properly represented. The Prussian Minister at St. Pe-
tersburgh, M. de Rochow, will also go to Warsaw,
M. de liadovritz, M. de Carlowitz, and M, de Schlei-
nits, are designed as members of the next unitary govern-
ment, and consequently ministers of the union. The
two last are naturally but the mere instruments in the
hands of the first. M. de Gagern and M. Sitnson were
at first thought of, but the name of the former was not
in favour in a high quarter, and the latter preferred his
position at the Tribunal of the Union to that of
Minister. There was a report that the Diet of Erfurth
would be convoked for the month of July, but it is now
said that the Cabinet has decided this morning that it
shall meet on the 20th June."