The Sun.
London, England, 1850-03-02 00:00:00

GERMAN Y.

The GRAND DUKE of Baden has convoked the
Chambers for the 4th of March.
The Austrian Minister of War, Count GIULAI, is
definitively to quit the Ministry. M. VON DEGEN-
FELD will undertake the provisional conduct of busi-
ness, and it is stated that he will eventually take the
War Department.
The Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung has the fal-
lowing article from Gotha, under date of the 23d
February :
The Duke of Saxe Coburg, after having dispatched a
courier to London to the Queen of England, suddenly
quitted Gotha for England, on the return of the mes-
senger. Matters of the highest importance connected
with the next agnat of the house, his Royal Highness
Prince Albert, are stated as the motives tor this journey.
The grounds, therefore, are probably a desire to arrive
at an understanding relative to the proposed arrange
ment for uniting the domains of the two duchies, which
are very properly connected with the new project of
union, and the deliberations upon a new constitution. It
is possible also that the eventualities of a voluntary ab-
dication of the countries may be negotiated in case the
union should not be carried into effect."
The same journal announces the election of Baron
STOCKMAR, as deputy to Erfurt from Coburg, and
pays a great tribute of praise to that experienced and
talented politician, whose name is coupled with so
many important events in the modern history of the
house of Coburg.
A telegraphic dispatch from Berlin, dated the 27th
of February, announces the retirement of General

STROTHA from the War-office. He retires on the
ground of ill health, and is succeeded by Lieutenant-
G eneral STOCKHAUSEN.

The following speech was read by Count Branden-
burgh, on the prorogation of the Prussian Assembly,
on the 26th ult.:—
" Gentlemen,—We have arrived at the close of a long
and fertile session—the first regular session of the Prus-
sian Chambers—a session which in the annals of Prussia
will Le recorded as peculiar of its kind. For what you
has e done I cannot here venture to express any
acknewh-dgments. In this place lam not justified in
doing it ; if I possessed that justification, the
expi ession of gratitude would only he a
repetition of what you have already heard from the place
empowerel to give it—from the Throne itself, from the
mouth of his Majesty—expressions which, on the occa-
sion of that Lever-to-be forgotten act of the taking the
oath to tho Constitution, were frequently repeated in
these walls in a less solemn manner. I cannot leave un-
mentioned that expressions of similar recognition have
conic to my knowledge on the part cf the Prince of
Prussia, whom the service.of the King and country de-
tains at a distance from Berlin,

" I cannot avoid a short retrospect of your activity,
and to remind you that not merely the comprehensive and
important work of the revision of the Constitution has
been brought to a close, but that LO laws and bills have re
ceived the assent of the Chambers, of which 24 have been
already published in the collection of statutes. Among
them are laws of the most import nit de.,cription,—
such as the law regulating landed property and
the organization of rural communes. Besides these the
budgets f 1849 and 1850 have been settled, a great mass
of petitions and other propositioni and motions have
been considered. This, gentlemen, is the result of your
exertions since the 7th of August of the last year till the
present time, comparatively a short space cf time, a ro•
cult which certainly affords a satislact )ry retrospect of a
memos able session.
" It will be the task of the Gore. nmeat to advance on '
the course with which you have declared your coin-
cidence, and that wo shall proceed on it with our
best pow er., with publicity and good faith ; that this
will be the policy of Prussia I herewith give you the
assurance.

H With respect to the finances which your confidence
has placed at our disposal, we shall not forget that the
industry c•f all classes is concerned in it, and that we
shall make such a use of it as the interest and honour of
the nation requires.

" In the name of his Majesty, I declare the present
sossion of the Chamber to be herewith closed, and the
sitting of to-day as ended."

The Town Council of Elbing has unanimously,
voted an address to the Prussian Cabinet on the pre-
sent state of the Danish negotiations. The address is
as follows :

" According to the statements of the public journals,
it appears that with the opening of the spring we are
again threatened with a renewal of the blockade of the
harbours of the Baltic by the Danes.
This Get imposes on us, as the authorities of a tra-
ding town that will suffer irreparable damage by the
measure, the imperative duty of laying before his Ma-
j esty's Government a request that it will put a decisive
end to this unhappy state of affairs.
"The war has been begun, and there are only two
ways in which it is possible to end it.
Either the force at the command of Prussia is not
equal to that of Denmark, in which case it is an im-
possibility to continue a war with a stronger Power; or
it is equal to that which Denmark possesses, and in this
case the nation has the right to expect that the war
will Le cat rind on with an energy that shall compel the
Danes to make peace.
But as it is, the present state of things drags on
from year to year. The blood of our brethren serving in
the army is abed uselessly, and the commerce of the
Baltic provinces is completely ruined. The interior is
hermetically closed against us by Russia (the ally of
Prussia); the sea is shut to us by the Danish ships of
war; thus alt commerce and traffic become an absolute
impossibility.
" We are situate at a distance from the immediate
theatre cf the war and the centre of the diplomatic nego-
tiations. We do not know whether the dark rumours
that circulate through the country relative to the Danish
war are true or not. But one thing we do know, that if the
harbours are year by year blockaded, and intercourse
with other countries rendered uncettlin, the commerce
and with it the welfare of the land must go to ruin, and
that nothing can avail in this case but decisive mea-
sures. In the interest of the trade of our town we
therefore address to the Government cf his Majesty
the prayer that it will take measures to put an end to
the present uncertain and insupportable state of affairs."