The Express.
London, England, 1849-03-22 00:00:00

GERMANY.

PRUSSIA.—Oar correspondent writes :
BERLIN, MARCH 19.
This was a great day in the Second Chamber. To
detain you as little as possible with mere formalities,
it was agreed to &smog the address as a whole, and
not by paragraphs. Toe first speaker was Vert Berg,
but as tho speeches of Jacoby and Waldeck were
those which fixed almost exclusively the attention of
the house and the crowded trtbunee, I shall proceed
at once to them. _ _ _ • _

Jecoby roes after Count Renard, whose cmcladiog
words will serve by way of introduction
That there exists no suck chasm between the people and
the king is proved by the now general enthusiasm for the
unity of Germany, which looks tor a rating dynasty to " the
king by God's grace." (Cheers from right, laughter on left.)
I hold it our duty at least te fill up every trace that yet re-
mains of this cleft. In the English navy there is drawn
through every ash!' a scarlet thread ; the address of D'Ester
winds round the throne a broad red band. (Cheers on right,
ironical cheese on leg.)
Jacoea —I most express myself wholly against the pro-
ject of address, because it seems to me based upon wrong
premises, namely, that the odsoyed coustitation u valid sta-
tute law, or will undue* to the re-establishment of the
public welfare. It seems to me neither the place nor the
time to speak to us is this sort. Not the pleat, because this
important decision cannot be so opportunely expressed is
an address which gim no occasion for it; sot the
time, because the tested austitutioo, which the king
has sworn to, is still in force. 13,th the origin and substance
of the constitution are against the project of address. The
geode of odroying contradiebt the national and atonal ca
well as positive right The right of the people to co-operation
in the work of legislation, which is acknowledged in the law
of April 6, is infringed, while the will of a single menu is
thrust by the help of *zee upon the community. The right
of the majority has been math dwelt upon. This right is
the foundation of the constitution, but has its limits ; it can-
not turn black into white, any more than it can deny that
the constitution has been given act in the way of law
bat by force, and the apology it, that it hasa
been dose so for self-preservation. It is held
that the people has reeognisfd the constitution by making
the elections under it. I will not here renew the dispute
whether the grant is an act of self-preservation or the start-
ing-point of a wide-epread cionspiracy of diplomatists. I will,
to me a uhihterial exproseismOsave this question to the
judgment of impartial history. Peopletalk of recognition by
Ow people; this assembly is, however, the only legitimate
organ, sad we have not yet expressed this recognition, nor
are we le the position to do so Dohs* the work of revisioe, se
people have thous to call it, be cameludth. In regard to the
substance of the ecestitatiew, I slitisseal say that it 'airiness
the two most impsehmt patina. which have, since
the revolution of Ilseekihmel Meognition, namely,
equality of rights grA solloreaumnat ; the first through the
establishment of the bet distmliwt and the second through a
privilege of the ~. I lowiriving and taxation, which
eves Ware Nara wen a *kg nphened of. So long as the
sanstltstima lees art mem the MI OW* of legislation
and self.tasedon by the peep* we mitt not to give our
sanction to it; and without our uneaten, the constitution
has no validity whatever. The question is, whether we
stand here as free men, or free only at the pleasure of the
"king by God's gran ? "
After Scherer of Doserldorf bad spoken in favour
of the constitution, Welds& mounted the tribune,
and said:
We of this side (left) desired to avoid this dispu'e about
principles, on whisk account we protested against the address.
Do you really believe you have robbed the people of their
rights beams you have seeks them away in the address?
Yon are mistaken. In the sesetialtionthe right of atropin,
is sanctioned, and niobium sass nkeelawa without the chain-
ben ; finally, all hafinimatal *hiers sannoed by them