The Sun.
London, England, 1850-07-30 00:00:00

GERMANY.

Prince SCHWARTZENBERG has addressed the fol-
lowing dispatch to the Austrian Minister at the Court
of Berlin :

" A circular of Baron do Schleinitz, accompanied by
an explanatory memoir relative to the treaty of peace
concluded on the 2d of July, has been handed to me by
the Prussian envoy, with the wish that Austria would,
as soon as possible, express her assent and accord her
ratification within a given period.
" We sincerely rejoice that a peace has at last been
brought about between the Prussian Government, hold-
ing the full powers to this effect from the Provisional
Federal Commission, and the Crown of Denmark. The
position assumed and maintained by the Imperial Cabinet
from the commencement of and during this prejudicial
(unheilvoltm) war, terminated by this peace, leaves no
doubt that it desired to maintain the just claims of
the confederation and the duchies, and would not shrink
from causing thgn to be rendered valid; but, at the
same time, it has seen with lively regret how greatly
the solution of the question at issue, as well as the peace
of Germany and conduct of Europe, have been im-
peded and endangered, from the movement party having
made this question its own, and from its having used
every effort to misemploy and convert it to its own pur-
poses. It must therefore be regarded as a fortunate re-
sult that we may consider this danger to be removed,
inasmuch as the ground has been won for an impartial
and conscientious test of the opposing claims by the
treaty just completed.
"Prussia merits. thereby, universal thanks; and we
hope the case will be considered on all sides from this
po

int of view. We will use endeavours upun every oc-
casion that this shall be the case, and aro convinced
that, should this affair be again used as a pretext for
fresh agitation in Germany, such attempts will be met
with decibiou.

" This being the case, we declare, as a European
Power, that we approve of the treaty concluded, without
entering into any judgment of its particular cont, nts,
and solely holding the good in view which it promises
to general interests.

"-But as regards the ratification of this treaty, we can
only be called upon to take part in such act in our qua-
lity as member of the Germanic Confederation. It is
in this quality that Austria must hold to her convictions,
expressed at all times, and especially to those of the
12th, 16th, and :28th of November, 1849, that the trea-
ties of the confederation and the constitution, resting on
the same, have still full legal validity, and must be taken
as a rule in the present case.
" It would be contrary to many important stipulations
of these treaties, if we were to propose to his Majesty
the King, our master, this treaty as a treaty of the con-
federation. A treaty can only be rendered valid for the
confederation through the medium of the constitutional
organ of the will and acts of the confederation; and
specially as, according to the 12th and 49th concluding
acts of Vienna, the acceptance and confirmation of a
treaty of peace can only take place in plenary assembly
of the confederation. The resolutions of individual
members of the confederation cannot replace the
requisite collective mode of expression, in case of differ-
ence of opinion. Practical difficulties; might ensue, to
set which aside the 'confederate Legislature is alone
competent ; in virtue of which a treaty of peace can
only be concluded by the force of the determinal ma-
jority of rotes. The convention of the 30th September
has made no charge in this respect, since it only left
the matters mentioned in the 6th article of the acts of
the confederation to the free will of Governments
during the interim, but not the power over peace and
war accorded to the plenum by the concluding acts of
Vienna. The Federal Commission, whilst it empowered
Prussia to negotiate for peace, did certainly reserve to
itself the right of approbation ; but these authorities,
which could decide nothing as regards the definite ac-
ceptance of peace, but merely refer the arrangement to
federal Governments, neither would nor could confer
full powers upon individual members of the confedera-
tion, which only belong to them in their organic con-
nexion.
" Although, according to the above, it must be reserved
to the highest federal authority to enter into delibera-
tions upon the contents of the treaty, the ratifications of
which alone belong to it, in order to pronounce judg-
ment thereon, we cannot nevertheless abstain from ex-
pressing the considerations arising from the wording of
the 4th article.
its
legal organ, el
douabnt,whether the confederation represented by
will admit the deliberations received in
this article. These start upon a presupposition that
the confederation might lack will or power to perform
the duties lying within its attributions—a doubt which
is not justly consistent with positive regulations of the
federal laws and the institution of the confederation.
The concluding passage of the article might give rise to
misinterpretations, or cause the members of the confe-
deration to enter reserves.
" We had adhered to the fundamental rights of trea-
ties, and the foregoing eventually strengthens us in our
determination.
" Far trom rendering more difficult the soluiion of
this complicated question, this resolution ought, on the
contrary, to fbeititate it. The postponement of the
formal ratifications of the treaty cf peace will not cer-
tainly hinder the federal states from acknowledging the
advantages to each and all arising from the peace, and
legal Irons co-epereting in the desirable settlement of the
question thus received. The danger of au indivi-
dual war between Denmark and the i Juchies can only
be diminished if the confederation does not abandon its
right of interference. The whole state of the question
serves again to show, and more explicitly, how essential
it is that the possibility of united action, through a
generally acknowledged organ, should be re-accorded to
the confederation. Prussia herself refers Denmark to
the confederation, and points out the authority- of the
confederation as the last barrier to eventualities, which
in their existence and progress could only be regarded
as inevitable. Does nut this show the necessity of lay-
ing the treaty before a plenary federal Assembly—the
sole authority competent to pronounce judgment—so
long as a new organ of the general will of the confedera-
tion has not emanated from a revision of the federal
constitution?
" I request your Excellency to communicate the pre-
sent dispatch to the King's Government, and to deliver
to it a copy of the same.
(Signed) " SCIIWARTZENBERG.
" To his Excellency Lieutenant-eieeeral
lieron Prokesch, &e."

_ECAY OF 13LACKFRIARS-BRlDGE.—Yesterday a
large quantity of shingle IVA,: thrown in:o the bed of the
Tnattle6 to support the abutments of the centre arch of
Blacktriars-bridge, which have sunk so much that the stones
at the crown of the arch have loosened, and the breastwork
has cracked. For some weeks divers have been employed in
the bed of the river, who have ascertained that thu founda-
tions are affected.