The Express.
London, England, 1848-06-19 00:00:00

GERMANY,

RIOTS AT BERLIN.-RIOTS AT PRAGUE,

AND CANNONADE OF THE TOWN.

PRUSSIA.—We Lave received the Berlin papers
up to the date of the 15th, and tho•c from Cologne
of the 17th. We learn film them thut serious riots
had occurred on the 14th, a collision having taken
place between the people and the military, daring
which it is said some people were killed. The attack
on the part of the people was chiefly made against
the gate? and iron railings of the royal palace, which,
though ordinarily open to the public, Led been spe-
cially ordered to be close d.
A correspondent of the Caoyeer Gazette writes from
Berlin on the evening of the 14th as follows:

We have again had a day of ilistur'iance and tumult.
Great precautions had been taken for ensuring Ue safety of
the constituent sesembly , in which a deoote (et that very
suhjt et was being very hotly caeca, d no. Yesterday placards
had been posted in the town, signed by the president of
police, prohibiting the assembling of people in tomes in the
Castanienwald, and apparently in order to give fome to the
prohibition, five battalions of the civic gnarl were posted at
an early hour in the morning on that spot, as well as in all
the thoroughfares leading from the Sing Academic, Tumult
was first caused by an a.tempt to clesr the place of the
thickly pecked crowd which had assembled there. The
greatest annoyance had for some time been caused
by an order of the head marshal of the roue
closing the portal of the royal palace, the court
being ordinarily used at a thoroughfare. It was
thought that this order would not he put in Joyce, hut when
the gates were closed to day a cry wan robed, " Barricades
must he made before the palace," and a large crowd com-
menced cam ing this threat into execution. The gates
w. re forced front th-ir hiNges, and were about to be thrown
into the water, when a student who was by said that they
would be useful elsewhere. and culled on the people to wee
them to the university ie order that they might teem for
the beta r security of the students. This advice was fol.
lowed, and the gates and bars wore brought to the Univer-
'mt. From thence the mob again went to the palace, the
portal of which had meanwhile been ccrupi, d by the civic
guard. It was then that one Muller, who
led the people, proposed that all the hors round
the palace should be removed, and sa they were
proceeding to do so, they passed before the arsenal
where it was suggested that arms should he obtained. By
thin time the civic guard had orcupied all the avenues. An
.dhcer attempted to read a proclamation, but the tumult in-
ch asod, and the people crying " To arms, to arms," the
streets by the ars. nil were besieged by the people, who en-
deavoured to effect an entrance *vino it by breaking in the
wall. The Castanienwald and the Linden wore also thickly
covered with tumultu us crowds. Tile movement in the
whole city, in fact, is very great, and it is devoutly to be
hoped that the matter may set end eaceuhly.
What may have been the end of the effoir cannot as yet
be learn'.

BOIIEMIA.—The Le Gw:ette, of the 13th,
says that intehigeece was re ceiv. d at Leipzig on the
14th inst of riots at Prague on the previous day. It
appears that the Czech patty had got up a demon-
Aration on the 12th, and that crowds had assembled
in consequence to listen to some inflammatory
-peechea from the leaders of the party. Ihe malt
was as intended. The people, bee,,min4 excited, about
midday assembled before the house of the command-
ant to give him a charivari. A body of grenadiers
who were consigned within the place came forth;
and the crowd having been uselessly summoned to
disperse, blows ensued, wiii h led ultimately
to a get.eral fight, and the raising barn-
cedes on the part of the people. The Com-
mandant, Prince Windischgratz, caused the alarm
to be beaten, and gave till four o'clock to the people
to take down the barricades. The tumult, however,
increased every minute, And fresh barricades were
made. A mass of people attacked the house of Prince
Windischgratz, and the princess hemlf was wounded
in the head. The prince ordered heavy guns to be
I brought out, and a strong cannonade took place, which
lasted from five till ten in the afternoon. he fight
was then interrupted, but resumed with fresh vigour,
and was still continued up to the later moment on
the 13th. The amount of killed and wounded was
not known. The news of the break-out in Prague
was announced to the r eighbouring country by innu-
merable beacons, which were to be seen burning on
all the surrounding mountains.
FRANKFOHT.—TtiE NATIONAL AS,zEMBLY.—Ia
the sitting of the 14th the following resolution was
adopted :—" The Germanic Diet shall be invited to
assign by constitutional means, fur the purpose of
founding a G.Tman navy, a sum of 6 millions of
thalers, the use of which is to be accounted for by the
central provisional power to the National Assembly;
the half of the above sum to be immediate 'y rased,
and the remainder to be used es it may be wanted."