The Sun.
London, England, 1850-11-15 00:00:00

GEttMAN Y.

The Paris Journal des Debats gives the following
resume of the progress of the negotiations between
Austria and Prussia. It should be recollected, in
reading this sketch, that the Journal des Debats may
be considered as almost the °E:jai gazette of the
Austrian embassy :
We have received several letters from Berlin under
date of 10th instant. The information furnished by our
correspondents is derived from the best sources, and
may be summed up as follows:—It was in the evening
of the 3d November that the King accepted the resigna-
tion of M. de Radowitz. On the same day the Kieg con-
tided to the 'President of the Council, Count de Bran-

denburg, the portfolio of Foreign Affairs, thus become
vacant. M. de Brandenburg having fallen ill in the
night of the 3d, that department was confidEd provi-
sional!), to M. de Manteuffel, Minister, of the Interior;
but already, on the very day of the retirement of M. de
Radowitz, the Count de Brandenburg had sent a courier

to Vienna with fresh propositions, founded on the prin-
ciples and on the rule of conduct agreed on at Warsaw.
These propositions had three objects-1. Prussia to en-
gage herself definitively to renounce her sy stem called
the restricted Union, and to henceforth consider the
constitution of the 28th May, 1849, as null and void.
2. If Austria consented wit to demand for the
moment that Prussia should recognise at present
the deerces of the Diet of Frankfort, and

consider them as binding on her, Prussia de,

Glares that she is ready to withdraw any opposition to
the execution of whatever military measures it mly suit
Austria to take conjointly with her allies for the re-
establishment of order in Electoral iielBse. Prussia also

expresses a hope that a similar understanding may be
come to for the arrangement of the affairs of the Duchies.
3. Prussia makes known her views with regard to free
conferences; she makes known what she understands by
these conferences, and how and when they are to be held.
These propositions of the Prussian Cabinet %ere for-
warded from Berlin to Vienna on the 3]. Count de
Brandenburg, who was taken ill a few minutes after

he departure; of the courier, died in a short time after,
and his aeath became the signal for a violent reaction
in the councils of the King of Prussia. The note of the
3d had scarcely had time to arrive at Vienna; it had
not yet been communicated to the Imperial Cabinet,
when the Prussian Government decided on the mobiliza-
tion cif the army, including the Landwehr: it issued
the necessary orders for this measure, so that the army
in a sew dass might be carried up to an effective force
of 340,000 men. It did more; General Groeben, who had
previously received instructions .to c -irefully avoid any
colithet between the two armies, received orders to act,
militarily sod without delay. It is known that the
Pius ian general, in confirmity with his fresh instruc-
tions, commenced hostilities on the Bth, and opened the
posts. The reply of the Imperial
campaign by' a sudden attack against the Austrian and
ttoretaipns
Bavarian advanced
communicatione
of the 311 reached Berlin
Cabinet to the .
en the Bth. Austria accepted in a great part the propo-
tete, of Prussia, but she demanded the immediate eva-
cuationPo ers of
nearlyb e b by
tmh
e thing, the ref .re, appears to announce that the two
of
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vethat
these bases will bs definitively adopted es the foundeiien
f the arrangement which will cause the disappearance
of the last chances of a war. It is doubtless to the ini-
oression produced by the reply of the Imperial Cabinet
hat we may attribute the sudden end unexpected eve •
cuation of Fulda and of Cassel by General Groeben.
the news of which re a led Paris se.terday. At Berlin
a two-fold tendency may s be remarked ; the
army and the people, excited by
the military
spirit which holds such a great place iu the character
and in the manners of the Pressians, have warmly en-
tered into the quarrel against Austria, and they impel
the Government towards war, the perils of which they
certainly have not calculated; whilst the more enlight-
ened and independent classes do not see without uneasi-
ness the development of a movement to which they never
for a moment believed that the Government would yield.
Now it is thought that the counsels of wisdom and mo-
deration will prevail. This will be to the glory of M do
Manteuffel, who accepted without hesitation the post of
successor to the Count de Brandenburg, and who will
probably secure the triumph of the policy of peace which
he supported with his regretted colleague. M. de Man-
isuffeil is now the only one of the Ministers of the King
of Prussia who never despaired of the victory of good
sense and right. He is also the only ono who has constantly
opposed that sort of impulse of public opinion which
was systematically fellowed by M. de Radowitz, sup-
ported, and encouraged by the coterie of Gotha. M. de
Manteuffel may be said to have saved his King and his
country in November, 1848, by uniting. himself with the
Count de Brandenburg in the difficult and glorious
struggle in which that statesman engaged against the re-
volutionary passions which were everywhere triumphing.
His King and his country will a second time owe their
safety to him if he succeeds in defending them against
the illusions of a still more dangerous feeling—the blind
exaggeration of a national patriotism: which would er.-
gage in an unjust struggle, the chimerical object which
is the conquest of Germany aed the more probable Mlle
of which would be to give a severe blow to the glory and
power of Prussia. This is what M. de Manteuffel un-
derstood; it is this tendency which ho has undertaken to
oppose. It must be said that he has been seconded by
the conduct of Austria—conduct full of moderation,
calmness, and firmness."
It is amusing to find these absolutist,.
, powers talking
about the restoration of " order Hesse. When
and how has order ever been disturbed in Hesse
save by the entrance of the Austrian, Bavarian, and
Prussian troops ? It is the old story of the pickpocket
raising the cry of " Stop thief."
Intelligence has been received from Berlin of the
12th. The differences remaining between Austria
and Prussia are very slight, and there
is every pro-
spect of a settlement. This intelitgence is confirmed
by a letter from Vienna of the same date, which
states that Count Doru4sor had brought decisive and
acceptable propositions from Berlin, and from an
article in the semi-official Austrian Correspondence,
which states that the Austrian agents at Berlin has
been met with a feeling of justice and moderation. This
sudden cessation of the arrogant tone hitherto as-
'timed by the Emperor of AUSTRIA is due,
it is said, to the art ival of RADETZICT, who censured
the Cabinet in the strongest terms for the arrogant
tone they had assumed, and the aggressive policy they
had adopted, and pointed out to them that the inevite.
ble consequences of engaging in a war would be the
certain loss of the Lombardo-Venetian kingdom, and
probably that, of Hungary; and GJLicia also.
From Fratikfort the intelligeece is to the 12th.
The PrusSian troops will continue to occupy Cassel.
The Prussian' head •
quarters-are at Friedrreld. Hers.

feld is garrisoned by the Prussians, who thus corn-
mend the roads leafing to Thuringia and to Cas*el.
Tne King of BAvAutA has giv.-n orders for the
immt dive mobilizitiou of the whole of the Bavarian
I at my.

The military convention between Baden and Prussia
will be riicontinued.
The whole Prthoian army is on a war footing ' •
large masses of troops are marching from the Rhenish
Provinces to the south.
A letter from Hamburgh, of Nov. 10, in the Ade-
pendance of Brussels, says :—" he new liinoverian
Alini,try has inaugurated its entry into office by an act
which renders it unpopular in Germany. The ratifica-
tion by all the German states of peace with Denmark
being at present accomplished, subscriptions amongst
the inhabitants in favour of the duchies have just been
severely interdicted in Hanover. In the midst of the
grave events arising in Germany, it is easy to remark
thel during the last tew days a notable change has taken
place in Hanover relative to the course to he pursued
with respect to Austria and Prussia—a change which
places it in a strict neutrality. Before long we may ex-
pect to see diplomatic relations rt,sumed between Prus-
sia and Hanover. A Minister Plenipotentiary will be
mutually accredited at the two Courts. The King
of PRUSSIA lately wrote a long letter to King
ERNEST, to which a friendly reply was made.
Prussia is consequently gaining ground in that
direction, as, in place of having on her flank an
armed enemy, she will henceforward find in
Hanover a neutral power, but amicably inclined.
To the summonses sent by the Diet of Frank-
fort to Holstein to disarm, this latter has replied by
new military measures and various nominations of
officers. Since the late change of views at Berlin
on the 6th, the men at the head of the movement
in the duchies have taken fresh courage, and
although an armed intervention into the duchies
is looked for from Austria and Bavaria, every-
thing indicates that the resistance will be desperate.
Our city has been since this morning free
from Prussian soldiers. After an occupation of
fifteen months, which cost Hamburgh 2} millions of
francs, the last battalion left the city to-day, to join
the troops which are being concentrated at Gerleberg
with those coining from Meeklenburgh-Schwerin.
It is only just to say, that during the period of their
occupation the Prussian troops preserved the strictest
discipline at Hamburgh."