PRUSSIA,

Otago Witness, Issue 626, 28 November 1863, Page 7

PRUSSIA,

The Prussian rLambei«have been dissolved. The ministerial report which precedes the royal decree, contains the following:— There is no prospect that further .negotiations with the" present Chamber of Deputies ; would lead to any understanding, His Majesty the King, before his departure, was pleased to express his concurrence •with the c views 6f the minjstry, . but a definitive resolution was reserved until his majesty's return 'ihe state of things in Prussia since that time has not offered any ground for a change in the piopositions of the ministry, which his majesty has approved. On theother'hand, tendencies have shown themselves witl>in the limits of the German Federal constitution the evident aim of which i 3to reduce. Prussia from that position as a meat Power in 'Germany and Europe which is her well-reamed igUeritan^; ft^ni h,«r 1 fo I rof^b,ersj and, wh.iqh tfee

Prussian people has at all times been determined not to rulinqu s<. Un»'er taeoo circjtn Una®, it will b3 i iucumbent on the Pruw m ppop'f n> ";ive expression upon the occasion of the npjro&chiog new elections to the fact that no difference cf p-ili ical opinion is so deeply rooted in Prussia as to enria-ger the unity of tb" people, and the immovable fi lelity with which they tne attached to Ihe m'al huu-e when placed iv face of efforts trading t<> ' i ni ih the independence and dignity of Prus»ii. Tieivjists ot the last few days have only served to confirm us in our proposals, and as the new elections will require a period of twi ninths, the measures appiovd by your majisyin theshting of the council of ministers held on the IPof July must be execute 1 without delay, in order ■ f render it possible for ihe new Diet to be convoked to discuss the budget within the current year. The King of Prussia, different from his ministers, issaii to entertain a hope of getting on with th^ future Chamber. In his opinion, if it was ever possible to doubt the expediency of his military reforms he has been justified and fully borne out by events The patriotic appeal iv the ministerial mani'Cbto has been inserted at hi 3 particular request, while the idc-ntincition of sovereign and cabinet, though approved by the former, is owingto the advice and was contained in the original draught of the latter. The disappoint ment which the king is sure to meet with iv this respect must not neeessiri'y bring on decisive events Much will depend on the aJvice of the Crown Pri'ice. the energy of the Chamber, and th_ promptiivle of the people to wield the weapons they say they possess against the cabinet ; much snore on foreign events, the growing imminence of the German danger, aucl the releiiting d' 3 osition of the royal mind. The International Btatist : cal Con«r»»s wai opened on the 6th of Stpteinb^r by the Minister of the Inte ior, who delivered a short address. The proceedings took placs in the Chamber of Peers, which was decoiated for the occasion. On the motion of the Maiquis Aquila ths provisonal presidents and vicepresidents were co.-ifirraed in their function-. The Minister of the Interior was elected honorary pi-psi-deut, aad M. Engel acting president ot the Congre;9. All the 89 non- German delegates were elected vicepresiients MM Bockb. an<l Schwab were elsc'ei tferniau secretaries MM. Knymnnd and Bouchier French, aivl Mr Hamilton the English secretary. His majesty the king, after a moving interview with the' Crown Princess, seems t> be entirely reconciled with his son anl d^u^hler. We learn, sa3S a Prussian paper of the 16 th September, that all the membas of the Zollverein have consented to be present at the Conferences to be held in Berlin. It would appear, however, that they intend first assembling at Munich, in order to ejme to an underst inding respecting the attitude which they will assume at the Berlin conference, This course can evidently have no influence either on Prussia's resolutions or the settlement of the principal question — viz., the treaty of commerce between I f ranee and Pru sia. The ca^e of the editors of the seven Berlin papers has resulted in an acquittal. The accusation was for having excited contempt and hatred against the orders of the authorities by publishing a declaration hostile to the press ordinances. The text of the report of the Prussian Ministry to the king upon the question of Federal reform was published on the 23id September. The king in his reply formally rejects the propositions of Austria and her alii s, and sta'es the conditions upon which alone he could co operate iv a scheme of Fedetal reform. These are chiefly the complete equality of Austria and Pi ussin in all Federal concerns, and a different organisation of the popular representative body at the Federal Assembly from that period by Austria. This is only what every one had anticipated.