The King of PRusine is really about to give his
people a consti- tution : so says the Paris Sieck, gravely averring that it has veri- fied the report. It remains to be seen what the constitution that has been so long brewing is worth. FREDERICK WILLIAM has shown manifest faintheartedness in letting his people go alone with- out his parental guidance ; he has been as reluctant to trust them out of his own immediate keeping as a wary hen to let her brood of ducklings take to the water. Expectation will not be raised very high. Probably he will devise a pageant Legislature to register his edicts and to be a taxing-machine. Possibly he may do more, and may give to Prussia a real constitution, such as will incalculably raise her in the scale of nations, and with her exalt his own super- incumbent throne. At all events, such a change, once begun, must hereafter proceed ; and not very many years hence better institu- tions will exist in Germany than any which FREDERICK Wmusit may vouchsafe of his royal pleasure.
