The Sun. — 1850-03-20 (London, England)

GERMAN Y.  The King of WIRTEMBURG opened the States on the 15th. In the Speech from the Throne his MAJESTY pronounces an unitarian state of Germany to be a chimera, and the most dangerous of all chimeras, both as regards Germany and Europe. All the attempts made to realise so foolish a project must only lead to the opposite result, by causing the separation and dissolution pf Germany itself. The real force and union, his MAJESTY goes on to say—the true civilization and liberty of the nation—depend on the maintenance and development of the individuality and independence of its principal races. All, attempt at violent fusion of these races—all subordination of one race to :another—would be the beginning of internal dissolution, and the tomb of national existence. The KING declares one single form of constitution to be possible, namely, a federative constitution, which is more capable of consolidation than the one hitherto in existence. It was because this truth, says his MAJESTY, was first misunderstood at Frankfort, and afterwards at Berlin, that the disunion and danger of the present situation has arisen. History would reveal the objects and passions which gave rise to the alliance of May 26th. With such alliance, the greatness and union of the nation have nothing in common. It was a clever attempt at a Sonderbund, intended to cause the political suicide of the confederation, and this league being paced in the midst of those of the greatest Continental powers could not maintain itself in the moment of danger. To such an alliance without open violation of the federal compact would be impossible, and would amount to a deliberate infringing upon the solemn treaties, upon which are based the independence of their position, as well as the political equilibrium of Europe. The Speech then goes on to describe the character of the negotiation with Bavaria and Saxony in the following terms : " In the just appreciation of the dangers, as well at home as abroad, to which the alliance of the 26th of May must infallibly lead, in case the icterested parties should maintain it, and also to preserve on my part as much as possible to the whole nation the most precious pledge of its grandeur and its future tranquillity (I mean to say, the union of all the races), I opened negotiations with Bavaria and Saxony, for the purpose of coming, to an understanding:on the project of a constitution comprising the common country. These negotiations have attained the object in view, and the Government of the Emperor of Austria has declared that it wil laccept the result. As soon as the projected con • stitution of the three Royal Governments shall be made known to the Prussian Cabinet and the other federal Governments who have taken part in the alliance of the 26th of May, my Ministry will communicate them to you. lam willing to hope that the trial which we have made in the interest of political and material union, and to satisfy your just and opportune pretensions, will obtain the success I ardently desire. But whatever may be the designs of Providence with regard la us relative to future generations in this difficult question, I can testify to mylelf that I have always seen in the perfect concord of Austria and Prussia the true condition of our common prosperity, and the sole guarantee of our int?rnal tranquillity, and of our national independence ; and consequently I have, in the present crisis of our common country, regulated all my steps and those of my Government on that basis. The maintenance of the old right and of the fidelity to historical traditions which cannot be misunderstood, and which must always prevail, can alone secure us strength, duration, and safety in the storms of our time. I and the Governments who are my allies in this question wish to maintain to the nation its natural right to the representation of the ensemble. We do not wish to raise a new political edifice on the ruins of our old right—we wish, on the contrary, to give a new form to the confederation which shall be in harmony with the spirit of the age; we wish to accord the just pretensions of Prussia with the general interests of Germany. But we will sacrifice our particular interests on the altar of the country, not to such or such a power in particular, but to the ensemble. We will be neither Austrians nor Prussians; we will by and with Wirtemburg be and remain ony Germans. My Ministers will present different measures for your consideration."