New-York daily tribune., 1858-12-27
PRUSSIA.
From Our Owr Correspondent

In a former letter told you how sudden a turn
wss given to the general elections by Mr.. Fott-
wells confidential warning TO the middle class not
to oyerdo the "reviyal" scene. Accordingly full
sweep was made If the III ddle class radicals. On
the other hand the inferior classes stood in need
OF warnings, they abstsined voluntarily aud
rather contemptuously from using the fsrccal right
of casting a vote which. by virtue of the electoral
law counts for nothing whenever, as in the present
case first rate AID second rate wealth have decided
upon common cOurse. The few places where,
as ia this town for instance, you fnd
the votes of the minority of the ratabe
working classes recorded, you may be
that they acted under compulsion on mot dOrdre
intimated by their employers. Even "Ihe London
Times Own Correspondent" (NhO sees everything
oouieur de rOSe cannot but ayOw, IN the columns OF
the British Leyiathan, that the passive attitude
taken by the masses inspired his stout heart
with dark misgyinss. So, then, the elections are
altogether liberal III the ministerial sense. The
Krcu--Ze,trngs party has disappeared by the
move Of magical wand. Two of its magnates
even have found their way back to the chambers
here they used to dictate, and some owe their
turn solely to the magnanmity of their rivals The
havoc made among them may be inferred from the
single fact that out of - Ldndrdthe but q have
been reelected. Altogether they viii reappear in
the shape Of by no means respectable minority.
But such is the frail nature of Prusslan consti-
tutOnalsm that it has taken fright ut the magn-
tude of IFS own victory. The elections having re-
suited in Chambers representing the liberalism
of the Ministry, II is evident thst the Ministry
represents the liberalism Of the elected Chambers,
and ey this simple process becomes actually con
yerted INTO n party Ministry, a. parliamentary
Ministry Just the domination that ought not tO be-
Consequently, the Minister'S had to oprotest at once
in the Stats An,eger against the new situation
created for them. They, the elected Councillors
of the Prince, appeared all at once transformed
into the chosen Executive OF the country, and
their power to emanate from popular delegation In
their prOtest-the only name one can give To their
profession of faith inserted III the StaatS 1n-eiger--
they as.eyerate IN highlOwn sentences that Parlla
meitary Ministry or party Government Ii IN PrGs-
sa quite out Of the question: that tho King, by the
grace of Od, must remain the exclusive source of
power: that the Ministers cannot serve two uas-
tiers: that it is all right on the part of the country
to have carried the elections IN It's senses but that
instead Ot the country now expecting them 70
follow the initiative of the Chambers, the Ministry
expects the Chambers to walk obscquiously IN the
footsteps of the Government.
You see where We are. They are Parliamentary
Government aud they are no Parliamentary Gov,
eminent They have, through the elections ousted
the party of the Queen, out already Iney S shoM
Themselves anxious tO break the ladder by which
they entered the premises of power. With the
King still living with the Queen still intriguing,
with powerful and organized interests still hiding
themselves under their banner the Prince could
not secure his place but by chooslnga liberal Minis
Try, and that Ministry could not hold It's post but
by appealing TO the general elections. The electors
sending back from below the tune played from
above, the Ministers became party Ministry and
the Prince became middlecass Dictator. But
then all at once, he, the expectant heir, by the
Grace of God to the throne of Prussia, recognizes
the false position in which events have placed hun,
and in his angry weakness, nagines that by words
he can blot out facts that by phrases half didactic
half menacng, he can change the real conditions of
his tenure Of power, and tnat the electoral man1u-
YER once got through with, he viii be able 70 reas-
sume the traditional airs Of Prusslan hing. lie and
lis men, while iancyng that they can impose upon
the country. betTay only their own bad latin aud
exhibit the grOtesque spectacle of the maldde
lnaigre iu la their anxiety to hush up the politics,
revival, they are only emanci ipatug II from their
control. AS all appendage OF the Ministerial pro-
test must be considered the speech in the State
Council of the Prince, speech published at full
length because the Queens camarilia harped upon
some isolated sentences of the hirangue.
Now the Prince, like the Ministers, turns IN
most Msty self contradiction. He has chosen =
new Cabinet because he considered the dismissal
of the old one no real change. lie wants some
thing new but the new thing must be new edl-
tion of the old one. He condemns the Constitution
of the Municipalities, forced upon the country oy
the late Government, because II extInguished the
last spark of municipal seli-government; tut he
will not have il altered because such an alteration
might work dangerously in the present termeuti-
tion of the public mind. lie proposes 10 extend
the influence OF Prussia BY pacllc means only,
and, consequently dwells upon the Ut cessary aug
meutation of the army, already a rulnously huge
eycrescence He cUniesses that for the latter pur
pose money is wsnted, and that, despite the crea
non of State debt since the revolution the EN-
cheouer turns deaf ear to the demands pressing
upon H. lie announces the creation oi neA taxes,
and. al the same time, lnyelghs against the I'M
mense strides credit has made III Prussia during
the last decenuial epoch. AS his Ministers want
electors in their sense, while Lot admitted 10 De
Ministers in the sense of their electors, he, the
| Regent wants money for his army, but wants no
| Il oneyed men. The only passoge IN lis speech
| which smaks of decided opposition 10 the lAte
regime lie his ilvectye against religious hypocrisy.
| This was q pi4ue he owned 10 the Queen but lest
| the public should take the same liberty, be, Pro-
,,stsnt Prince had simultaneously Berlin congre-
cation of free Catholics Dispersed BY She Police
| force
Now YOU viii sdmt that such nondescrpt
self.contradictory, suicidal policy would, even un.
| der ordinary circumstances, prove provoking ana
| dan eerous enough. but the circumstances are M
| ordinsry ones. There IL the revolution threaten
inr from France. 70 show front aeAIns. which tle
| Prussian Government. must feel comfortable ai
home. The only prospect OF dcis.inI The reVo'H'