The Sun.
London, England, 1850-11-29 00:00:00

FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 29, )1859

GERMANY.

Accounts from Berlin have been received to the 26th.
The rumour that the Austrian Ambassador had de-
manded his passports has been contradicted, and it
was said that Russia had proposed the opening of new
conferences under her auspices for the preservation of
the peace.

Ai. PUITKAMMER has been appointed to the Minis-
try of the Interior, M. MANTEUFFEL being so much
engaged as Minister for Foreign Affairs.
The Trenitlnd have presented an address to his
MAJESTY, urging him to proceed with his warlike
measures.

From Vienna the intelligence is to the 24th.
The military oath had been altered in the Austrian
army. That part of the former oath which related to
the Constitution had been struck out.

Large masses of troops were advancing to the fron
tiers of Prussian Silesia.

The Government has been making immense pur-
chases in gold and silver bars. All the payments
received in all the Austrian provinces excepting the
Lombardo-Venetian kingdom, are in bank-notes,
and meanwhile the pay of all the soldiers of the corps
d'armise which has entered Italy and Bavaria, as well
as the Austrian garrison at Mayence and Frankfort,
is made iu cash,

1 The disturbances between the Prussian and Bava-
risn troops at Frankfort were renewed on the 25th.
From Hesse the intelligence is to the 26th.
The Federal army in Hesse is suffering from the
want of provisions. Their commander, Prince TAXIS,
has informed the Prussian commander that the Fede-
ral troops will be compelled to , advance. The reply
of General GROBEN has been that the troops under
his command would not fall back under any circum-
stances. In consequence of this reply no change has
taken place in the relative position of the two armies.
The Independance of Brussels thus sums up its
latest German news :—" At Berlin public opinion is
still strongly in favour of war, but little belief is
entertained that it will break out. Austria, it is said,
maintains that Prussia has not the right of permanent
occupation of the military routes in Hesse. Prussia
maintains this right. The negotiations at this mo-
ment are specially on this point. It was rumoured
that the Cabinet of St. Petersburgh bad formally
made known that a war of Prussia against Austria
would at the same time be a war against Russia.
The rumours which were spread that disturbances
had taken place at Aix-la-Chapelle, and that the
mobilisation of the landwher had caused dissatis-
tion to the Rhenan provinces, were unfounded
After Berlin, it is, on the contrary, in the Rhe-
nan provinces that the war party finds most support.
Rigorous measures against the press have been em-
ployed at Berlin. in Bavaria the populations do not
believe in war, and do not approve of it. The Go-
vernment seems to desire it, and makes great prepa-
rations. At Frankfort, where hitherto little faith
has been placed in the appearances of a conflict be-
tween the two great German powers, confidence in
the maintenance of peace was a little shaken at the.
dote of the last advicee. The same was the case at
Vienna, and the Stock Exchange was greatly agitated;
the premium on gold rose to 393 per cent. Still the
opening speech of the Prussian Chambers has produced
no impression in the capital of Austria. In the
evening of the 24th a conflict broke out at Frank-
fort between the Prussian and Bavarian
troops. In several streets the soldiers of the two
countries had sanguinary conflicts, and the interven-
tion of strong patrols, commanded by officers, could
alone put an end to them. There were wounded on
both sides, and one of the officers who commanded a
patrol received, it is said, a stab with a sword. All
the troops were ordered to be kept in their barracks.
The Austrian and Frankfort soldiers took no part in
the disturbances. Finally, our Hamburgh corre-
spondent writes that the ➢anish and Holsteiner
troops were still in presence, ready to come to blows,
and that on both sides preparations for passing all the
winter in the present encampments were being made.
The first rigours of the season had already exercised
ravages in the two armies."

I\fe read in a letter from Berlin of the 25th, pub-
lished by the Cologne Gazette Yesterday the
committee on the address of the Chamber of Deputies
held a sitting, at which the Ministers were present.
The discussion was very animated. The members of
the Left requested the idinis!er of Foreign Affairs to
give explanations as to the state of the negotiations
with Austria. M. MAaTEUFFEL replied that Prussia
demanded an equal influence with Austria in the
German Confederation, but he declined laying the
papers before the committee, as the negotiations were
not terminated. This reply was not considered satis-
factory by the Left."