The Sun.
London, England, 1850-12-20 00:00:00

maintain the principle of the indissolubility of the Ger-
manic Confederation, we may proccEd, by free and
mature consultations, to revise and imprAe its funda-
mental law?.

" We are confident that these consultations will lead
to an arrangement which will secure an energPtie and
comprehensive representation to the intere•ts of the
totality (Gegammtheit), a wholesome and salutary deve-
lopment to the interval welfare of our common country,
while Germany, thin newly strengthened, and fortified,
will obtain a suitable place in the system of European
states, and that consequently the just wishes of the
nation will receive full satisfaction, without any impedi-
ment to the free and unrestrained movements (according
to their necessities) of the individual members of the
Conf.& deration.

" The re,ult of the consultation will artcrwards re-
ceive a solemn sanction by the assent of all the members
of the Confederation (which in their totality are alone
entitled to develop and rd. mu the Constitution cf the
Confederation), and it will be publi•Aied as a fundamental
law by the chief Federal authority which will be created
in the interim.

" His Majesty the King, one most gracious Lord,
having ins!ructc.d me to issue an invitation to the above-
mentioned conferences, wishes, at the same time, to ex-
press a hop' that the precarious state of affairs in the
German Fatherland will be rcmrdied on the old accus-
tomed plan of mutual confidence and pacific ag; eemeot,
and that all the members of the Confederation will in a
federal spirit join with him in Effecting his purpose.
" Berlin, Dec. 12." _ MANTEUFFEL,

The lnthipendo.nce of Brussels says :—" Our last
letters from Berlin call attention to a question which
cannot feil to be treated at length at Dresden—that of
the annexation of the provinces of Austria to the Ger-
manic Confederation. It appears that England and
France oppose the annexation, which would pro-
foundly modify the state of things created by the
treaties of 1815. But, as the non-German provinces
of Prussia were annexed in 1848, Austria, if not able
to obtain the adrnissie n of the whole of her provinces
into the Confederation, at least desires to annex, in
addition to her German provinces, a portion of her
non-German provinces, equal to those possessed by
Prussia; or in the event of thisnot being granted, she
requires that the non-German provinces of Prussia
shall cease to be attached to the Confederation. The
Liberal party seems disposed to support the latter
proposition, in order that Prussia may have all the
advantages of a power independent of the Confedera-
tion, whilst, at the same time, she enjoys all those
which arise from her position as a member of it."
General THUMEN has been appointed Prussian
Commissioner to act in Holstein.
The Austrian and Prussian Commissioners have
arrived at Cassel, and the Bavarian troops were pre-
paring to enter the city on th 2 17th. General VON
GROEBEN had left the Electipte and retired to
Paderborn. a'
SWITZ.EItikAIND.

A letter from Berne of th.:e 14th sass :—" The
Council of the States decided today, by 24 votes to
16, on maintaining the propoVition of the Federal
Government in the affair of the iiiilitary capitulations,
and consequently to permit the enrolments. This
decision i 3 important, as it paralyz-s the resolution of
the National Council of the 6th inst., and conies to
the aid of the Federal Goverrwnt, which, otherwise,
could never have extricated itsgf from the complica-
tions cccasion€d by the vote of4he National Council,
&chair g the capitulations to *null and void."