The Sun.
London, England, 1850-07-30 00:00:00

GERMANY.

Prince SCHWARTZENBERG has addressed the fol-
lowing dispatch to the Austrian Minister at the Court
of Berlin :

" A circular of Baron de Sehleinitz, accompanied by
an explanatory memoir relative to the treaty of peace
concluded on the 2d of July, has been handed to me by
the Prussian envoy, with the wish that Austria would,
as scon as possible, express her assent and accord her
ratification within a given period.
Wo sincerely rejoice that a peace has at last been
brought about between the Prussian Government, hold-
ing the full powers to this effect from the Provisional
Federal Commission, and the Crown of Denmark. The
position assumed and maintained by the Imperial Cabinet
from the commencement of and during this prejudicial
(unhei'vollln) war, terminated by this peace, leaves no
doubt that it desired to maintain the just claims of
the confederation and the duchies, and would not shrink
from causing them to be rendered valid; but, at the
same time, it has seen with lively regret how greatly
the solution of the question at issue, as well as the peace
of Germany and conduct of Europe, have been ' im-
peded and endangered, from the movement party having
made this question its own, and from its havirg used
every effort to misemploy and convert it to its °en pur-
poses. It must therefore be regarded as a fortunate r( -
sult that we may consider this danger to he removed,
inasmuch as the ground has been won for an impartial
and conscientious tes f the opposing claims by the
treaty just completed.
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" Prussia merits, ther univerid than and we
hope the case will be c ered onlW si rom this
point of view. We wit use endeavours every oc-
casion that this shall be the case, and aro convinced
that, should this affair be again used as a pretext tor
tiezh agitation in Germany, such attempts will be met
with decision.

" This being the case, we declare, as a European
Power, that we approve of the treaty concluded, without
entering into any judgment of its particular contents,
and solely holding the good in view which it promises
to general interests.

"-But as regards the ratification of this treaty, we can
only be called upon to take part in such act in our qua-
lity as member of the Germanic Confederation. It is
in this quality that Austria must hold to her convictions,
expressed at all times, and especially to those of the
12th, 16th, and 28th of November, 1849, that the trea-
ties of the confederation and the constitution, resting on
the same, have still full legal validity, and must be taken
as a rule in the present case.
" It would be contrary to many important stipulations
of these treaties, if we were to propose to his Majesty
the King, our master, this treaty as a treaty of the con-
federation. A treaty can only be rendered valid for the
confederation through the medium of the constitutional
organ of the will and acts of the confederation; and
specially as, according to the 12th and 49th concluding
acts of Vienna, the acceptance and confirmation of a
treaty of peace can only take place in plenary assembly
of the confederation. The resolutions of individual
members of the confederation cannot replace the
requisite collective mode of expression, in case of differ-
ence of opinion. Practical difficulties might ensue, to
set which aside the confederate Legislature is alone
competent ; in virtue of which a treaty of peace can
only be concluded by the foroe of the determinal ma-
jority of votes. The convention of the 30th September
has made no charge in this respect, since it only left
the matters mentioned in the 6th article of the acts of
the confederation to the free will of Governments
during the interim, but not the power over peace and
war accorded to the plenum by the concluding acts of
Vienna. The Federal Commission, whilst it empowered
Prussia to negotiate for peace, did certainly reserve to
itself the right of approbation ; but these authorities,
which could decide nothing as regards the definite ac-
ceptance of peace, but merely refer the arrangement to
federal Governments, neither would nor could confer
full powers upon individual members of the confedera-
tion, which only belong to them in their organic con-
nexion.

" Although, according to the above, it must be reserved
to the highest federal authority to enter into delibera-
tions upon the contents of the treaty, the ratifications of
which alone belong to it, in order to pronounce judg-
ment thereon, we cannot nevertheless abstain from ex-
pressing the considerations arising from the wording of
the 4th article.

" We doubt whether the confederation represented by
its legal organ, will admit the deliberations received in
this article. These start upon a presupposition that
the confederation might lack will or power to perform
the duties lying within its attributions—a doubt which
is not justly consistent with positive regulations of the
federal laws and the institution of the confederation.
The concluding passage of the article might give rise to
misinterpretations, or cause the members of the confe-
deration to enter reserves.
" We had adhered to the fundamental rights of trea-
ties, and the foregoing eventually strengthens us in our
determination.
" Far from rendering more difficult the solution of
this complicated question, this resolution ought, on the
contrary, to facilitate it. The postponement of the
formal ratifications of the treaty of peace will not cer-
tainly hinder the federal states from acknowledging the
advantages to each and all arising from the peace, and
from co-operating in the desirable settlement of the
legal question thus received. The danger of an indivi-
dual war between Denmark and the Duchies can only
be diminished if the confederation does not abandon its
sreigrhvetsoafgianitnertfo show,erence The whole state of the question
gitenisertahnayt the possibialintdy moorreunexitepdlicintelytioho t
hessential
acknowledged orgau, should be ro-accorded to
the confederation. Prussia herself refers Denmark to
the confederation, and points out the authority of the
confederation as the last barrier to eventualities, which
in their existence and progress could only be regarded
as inevitable. Does not this show the necessity of la) -
ing the treaty before a plenary federal Assembly—the
sole authority compe!cut to pronounce judgment—su
lung as a new organ 01 the general will of the confedera-
tion has not emanated from a revision of the federal
constitution?

" I request your Excellency to communicate the pre-
sent dispatch to the King's Government, and to deliver
to it a copy of the same.
"
(Signed) " SCHWARTZENDEAG.
To his Excellency Lieutenant-General
Baron Prokeich, &c."

.DECAY OF IiLACKPRIARS- BRIDGE.--Yesterday a
large quantity of shingle was thrown into the bed of the
Thatnes to support the abutments of the centre arch of
l3lacktriars-bridge, which have sunk so much that the stones
at the crown of the arch have loosened, and the breastwork
has cracked. For some weeks divers have been employed in
the bed of the river
time are affected. who have ascertained that ties feunda-