New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-04-18
GERMANY.
The Berlin Conspiracy.

Correspondence of The N. Y. Tribune:
LONDON, Friday, April l. 1853
AT length the fifth of the Great Powers" Prussia
enjoys the good fortune of having added of her the
great discoveries made by the Austrian Police, with
respect 10 the demagOgical Vaccinations of the
lutlOniStS. The Government we assured by its
official organs having obtained proof that the chiefs of
the Democratic party held continued relations with the
revolutionary propaganda ordered d0mciary visits to
be made the 18th of March, az Berlin and succeeded
in arresting 40 individuals among whom Streck-
fuss, andt the exmembers of the PrusSian \ Assembly
BehrenS, Waldeck, etc. DOmciary visits were made
in the houses OF eighty persons suspected of paricp-
ton in conspiracy. Arms and ammunition found
Not content with publishing these startling facts in
its official papers, the Prussan Government thought
proper to forward them by telegraph to the British For
eign Office
In order to lay bare the mystery of this new police
farce, is necessary to 60 somewhat back Two months
after the coup d. at OF Bonaparte, Mr. Hinckedey the
POLICE President of Berlin and his inferior Mr. Seber
the POii-ei Rah cOnspred together the to become
PrusSan Maupas, and the other to become Prussian
PifTe. The glorious OmnpOtence of the French police
perhaps disturbed their sumbers Hnckedey addressed
himself TO Herr Won Westphalen, the Minister OF the
Interior making unjust representation that weak
minded and ianaca reacti0nist Herr Won Westphalen
being my br0ther-inlaw had ample opportunity of be-
coming acquainted with die mental powers of the MANI
the necessity of concentrating the whole police force
of the Prussan State in the hands of the POLICE PraeS
dent Of Berlin. He stated that in order to accelerate
the action OF the police it must be made independent of
the Minister of the Interior and ntrusted exclusively
10 himself The minister Won Westphalen, represents
the ultra PrSSan arsocracy and the President OF the
ministry, Herr Won Monteufel, represents the old
bureaucracy the two are rivals and the former behed
in the suggestion of Hnckcldey although it apparently
narrowed the circle of his department. of
INJECTING blow his rival, whose brother NJ Won
Maneutel the director in the ministry of the In
terror and especially charged with the control of the
entire police. Herr Won Wcstphalcn therefore sub
mtted hispropositiono council of State presided
by the King himself
The discussion yeryangry Manteuilel, supported
by the Prince OF Prussia opposed the plan OF establishing
an independent ministry of police. The King inclined
to the proposition of Herr Won Westphalen and concu-
ded with the SOlomOnan sentence that he would follow
the example Of Bonaparte and ministry of pO-
lice, the necessity Of that step proved 70 him by
facts Now, the affair of the Cologne Communists was
chosen by iinckedey and Seber to furnish these facts
GU are aware of the heroic performances of those men
IN the Cologne trials After their conclusion the P,ussan
Government resolved TO elevate the openly nerurod
Steber, the man who had been Kissed whereyer b /
showed himself in the streets of Cologneto the dignity
of PoHzei Director of Cologne. But NJ de Bethman
Holweg and other wellmeanng conservative deputies of
Rbepish Prussia INTERVIEWED representing the minis
ters that such open insult TO the pubcpnion ofthat
nrovipce might have very omlnOus consequences at
moment when Bonaparte coveted the natural limits of
France The Government yielded conentng itself with
the nominaon Of Stieber as Poiize Director of Berlin
in reward for his perures committed at Cologne and his
thefs committed at London There, however, the affair