The Sun.
London, England, 1850-12-05 00:00:00

GERMANY.

The Deutsche Reform, the official organ of the
Prussian Ministry, has the following :
" For the present we do not think that all differences
have been removed and all difficulties overcome. Nor is
it to be supposed that a few days will cause the disunion
of years to merge into the desired satisfactory and last •
ing understanding. But there is reason confidently to
trust that the possibility to preserve the peace of Ger-
many fur the blessing and welfare of Prussia and Aus-
tria is now no longer a subject of hope, but that it has
come to be a probability."
Some further light is thrown on the subject by
the letter of a correspondent of the Kolner
Zeitung, who states that the Government has
made important communications to the " Address
Committee" of the Upper House, viz., that the Free
Conferences should be held at Dresden, and that
the Federal Diet (at least in its relations to the
German Constitution and to pending questions)
shall be suspended. Prussian and Austrian Commis-
sioners will proceed to Holstein to persuade the
Stadtholders into a cessation of hostilities. If this
peaceable intervention were to prove unsuccessful,
it will be left to Austria to enforce her will
by an armed intervention. In Electoral Hesse,
the two powers will attempt to effect a
reconciliation between the Elector and his Estates.
The Constitutionel Zeitung adds to these news that
the above agreement was condemned in the Cabinet
Council of the Ist inst., but that it was accepted on
the 2d, and that Baron Ladenberg had insisted on
resigning his post. We learn from the same
paper that the Cabinet have appointed General Brese
to act as Prussian Commissioner in Holstein, and that
M. Niebuhr has been sent to Cassel to threaten the
Common Council with the occupation of their city by
Bavarian troops, and in this manner to induce them
to send a deputation to the Elector, and to submit to
the payment of taxes.
It is said that these propositions have excited the
greatest disgust in Cassel. Messrs. Niebuhr and
Delbruck have, however, received reinforcement in
the shape of two officers, General Brese and Captain
Boddieu, of whom the Cassel journals say :
" We understand that these gentlemen likewise have
entered into negotiations on the same subject, but there
can be no doubt as to their having failed in inducing the
authorities of Cassel to certain steps, which some
people at Berlin may think desirable, but which are
at variance with the just claims of the country—
which cannot be reconciled to the honour
and to the attitude of a people which has never for a
single moment neglected its duties to its Sovereign, and
which bas, in no manner whatever, given an occasion
for his departure from Cassel. If the Elector returns we
will give him a hearty welcome; if he will reform his
government be shall have our blessing; but our enmity
against Hassenpflug and his associates will never cease,
and death is preferable to infamy."
The same views are expressed in the last number
of the Deutsche Zeitung, which protests that if the
Elector were but to dismiss Hassenpflug, and if by
this means he were to become reconciled to his
people, the occupation of Hesse by Austrian and
Prussian troops must cease, and one pretext fur dis-
cord at least would be removed.

On the part of the Elect(); it is generally stated that
he is very eager to return to Cassel, but that shame
and the fear of M. Hassenpflug combine to hold him
back. He regrets that he has gone to such extremi-
ties, and in short he is in a fit condition to accept
almost any compromise which secures to him the en-
joyment of his private fortune and a legal authority
in the Electorate. Such, at least, are the statements
of the Frankfort Journal.

It is said That neither Prussia nor Austria will di-
minish their military force until the free conferences
shall have been concluded. The presence of the
Russian Minister at the Olmutz conference has given
great offence to the national pride of the Germans.