The Sun.
London, England, 1816-12-24 00:00:00

GERMAN PA PERS;

The ithanische Matter' makes the following o,b-
servations In the richest and taires.t regions of
Europe discontent prevails to such a degree, that
whole families are every where abAutliming their
country, and seeking a home among Idei4n men
and in a foreign laud. lit Italy and Ireland, in
Switzerland and several. parts of Germany; the
emigrations are hardly .discontinued 'dining the
severe season of tt)e. year. , France and Simi') have.
driven out thousands of industrious citizens in
good cirenmstaures to enrich other States; btu those .
who remain behind are not the more happy.' The
spirit of uneasiness and discontent is so general aud
so widely spread,. that it must toive a init.ch deeper
causethan ordinary limnan levity. Whoever Would
in this alone find the cause which .drives men from
the land of their fathers, must have indeed but
little knOwledge of human nature._ With the eter-
nal hands of nature we.feel ourselves- cbained to
the soil on which we first were kindly received in-
to life, on ,which', in our best years, we tasted its,
sweetest enjoyments, and where the bones of de-
parted parents, iclations,- and friends, are: laid
and these hands can only be loosenqd by a power,
which is stronger than all these friOdly feelings.
He must, indeed, be !Fitly farfrom at ease who
resigns a certain present for a doubtful future, a
home for a foreign,land, and acquaintances for
Strangers. The best and Only convincing argu-
ment against emigratitinis to make it desirable to
men, that they should fempin at home. The or-
gitmCnts against this diseas., as it is called, which_
we frequently hear, bear a great reSemhlance to
those against suicide. What can arguments do in
the dreadful condition in which a man is desirous.
of his own annihilation ? Emigration is a sent of
'suicide, as it separates us from almost all that
gives a value to life, I can conceive how banish-
ment may appear more dreadful than death, and
the times in which this teeling was not unusual
are to be termed .happy. But woe to 'the people
among whom the. citizen can only be retained lvf
a severe superintendence and the dread of punish-
ment, like a prisoner in his dungeon."
FROM PRUSSIA.

In the publitOonrnals much is now said about
a Prussian .constitution, and it is even affirmed
that the division-,of the States into an upper and
a lower House has been irrevocably fixed. We
hOwever, that such a determination luta
.not been come to The Royal Edict of the.22d,
May says nothing of an upper-Housei.tiot merely
mentions a,' division into Provincial Stales; and
States, of the Kingdom ; in oar opinion n .lucky
thought, if two divi,ions are necessary in the re.
presentation'of the people. 'To those ho
loudly
demand an tipper Liotoe, we ‘voilld ask -from
Whence they could obtain their, Peers?. A Peer
must possess new merit, or old. dignity and a' great
propertyi entitle him to a share in, the repre-
:sentation of the people, sind*sie find hi :PillsOa
whole provinces Withont.tt single individual poi-
sessed of all the. three propertits.;- for even %then
,the . other reqnfsites4re 4posilessed de-
,gree, an independent fortune is for the-tiost par
•T'
awanting, {: •