The Express.
London, England, 1849-05-01 00:00:00

IMPORTANT FROM GERMANY.

DISTURBANCES AT BERLIN.

PRUSSIA. We hays neared the following letter
from our correspondent:
BERLIN, Amur, 28.
The news whisk I sent you loot night of the mes-
sier of the unarmed einem in the Doehof-Plats
was oceirmed to me an hour later in every particular
ea my pellets a visit to the ground. It was than
abet 1%
By the septet of the sheets it was visible is a
ammo& rat one of those events had occurred, which
desamenieate a shock like an earthquake throughout
the city, and shake the hearts of a whole population
deanbaneoludy. The inhabitants were in anxious
=at their doors, looking ell one way down the
while • stream of mss, chiefly of the proletaire
oleeme, whose sinister expressions seemed to make the
wain shriek as they mead, swept towards the
scene of action.
I found the great squate of the Donhof-Plata,
which is thinly planted with trees, entirely emptied
of
peosliealiiizdtafilled with soldiers, of whom strong posts
were at the months of all the streets which
led into From thence I went down the Leipsiger-
straws towards the Potedammer Thor. Here, as in
many of the streets, the gas-lamps were antis-
, as the moon, although not many days old,
firsithe gloom. A considerable space lay vacant be-
tween the soldiers at the mouth of this street and tie
first weeps. A little farther there was a barricade,
at the -opener of the Markgrafer-strasse, and the
peo
ple were so thickly crowded about it as to
postage a matter of some difficalty
But not one of them had any arms. Thip
barricade was constructed chiefly of the long planks
with which the sewers are covered. These had been
torn op, stuck on their ends, and steadied by masses
of paving stones, barrels, and other objects. It messed
strange at first that no attempt was made on the
Clthe military to impede this work; bat I
that the democratic leaders had exerted
themselves to atop this rash, premature, improvised,
and unorganised movement, which would only have
led to the immediate defeat and slaughter of the fer+
most insurgent*, and damaged in every way the
popular cause. At the corner of every street which
crossed the Leipsiger-straws were the traces of a
similar barricade, which bad been already
voluntarily undone by the people; and just
in front of the British embassy, a few planks
barrels, and paving-stones denoted that here also was
a nascent work of the same kind. The whole street
was crowded with groups, who were mostly discussing
the murderous deed of the Donhof-Plats. Later these
dispersed quietly; and to-day the town is quite Use-
gall ' - bat no one believes that it will long remain
so. In fact the gross stupidity of the government
gives their violent tyranny an aspect of butcherly
brutality, which excites universal disgust The pre-
amble of the decree of dissolution is marked with the
same poverty of intelligence which has characterised
their attempts at law-making and speaking.
Tte statements upon which the dissolution is
grounded are impudently false. So far from the le-
gislation of the chamber being vitiated by the oscilla-
tion of the majority. from one side to the other, this
has been the very circumstance which has pruned the
excess,s of both parties.
On the one hand, the liberal majorities have purged
the Right of Assembly Bill from those clauses of un-
conditional subjection to the police, which have been
admitted neither in England, France, Belgium, nor
any other country that can be said to possess a con-
stitution ; while, on the other, by the conservative
majorities, enough of restriction has been retained to
give the executive • wholesome power of control.
Besides, the motion of Unruh fur removing the state
of siege was carried, not by a majority of 1 or 2, but
of 45 (184 leggiest 139). Such divisions are termed
the result of accident, and the revision of the con-
stitution must not be left to chance. Suppose
the English government had reasoned in this
way on the passing of the Reform Bill through
the House of Commons, can any doubt what answer
the people of England would have given to such mi-
nisters? But suppose that on the same day the
military had fired upon the unarmed people (say in I
Trafalgrequare), whose only crime was standing
quietly in a public place, and left half a dosen dud
en the ground, women among them. Can any one
doubt what the answer of the people of England
would have been to such • government? A cruel,
deed is never more detestable then when it follows
an unjust word, and the actor dyes his hand in
blood to bear out his violent falsehood. Yet the
Ups of some rulers, who butcher their subjects
pelernally
.in the streets, run over with phrases
of evangelical unction—soinetimes also with wine.
A compound less likely to prop the falling credit el
royalty is these days it is not, indeed, easy to emu
tabu Tallayrand said that a blunder was worse
than a crimes but when to both blunders and crimes
are vices, and vices so mean as hypocrisy
andsenseadded ftisce, it must be confessed that a crown
slam asp untraliee the mixture.
Tkeiwlsttlss was so sudden that the Prince of
Prude 111 set know of the decree until half an hour
eher it bed been read in the chamber. Vincke and
thembele of his party were taken quite by surpriee.
The Deb and Dockets of Parma passed through
Berlin yesterday on the way to Olmiits. The king and
the Prises of Preemie oame to visit
hie: at the Hotel
de Rued., between 9 and 10 at nig an hour later
the travellers started by the railway. A great por-
tion of this line, about Frankfort, is at present over-
flowed by the Oder.

mpe that ig imiegised is beam* a einkilate, - The dorrameni goes oa to erplain to the people
he hes asked Oat be sksold be sew" and not secessity of keeping weed the promise made in the I have just been at the Thinhof-pia+z, which sere..
that he Aida auk deeds& He eye OA kr from armistice, and el:eclat* by annoenciog the entry into here to be what the Place of the Hotel de Ville is at
baing Aiken khis smistioe that be is offing rightly, Alumnae's of the Austrian forces, reOOIIIIIIN ding a Par,, and the centre of all ensostss. The Converse-
WWI lee emmmed at Park and at Lidos' on the dignified tranquillity on the part of the people. It is tionalle. a esti, where the left of the chamber held
salmi of Yin dekko ealy more and one sonars signed by ell the ministers. their meetiogs. was shut up. A temporary building
in
him he it; but 01 am not liable he stye, "to have -The system of deception carried on in respect to the Plats, for housing workmen, wee occupied by abort
toe Mk hope k truth, or in myself in the woke of Akan sairk has been asset barefaced. Two facts one hundred constables. I saw shoat fifty of these
truth. Bat most amusedly my presence would not within my own knowledge will prove this beyond chasing some boys who had been distributing keen-
overseas so meek hostility end activity on the part digs* Per the motive lam at a loss to guess. diary placards to the crowd. A bend
of my ekeervezise, so mask limited= and weskuses The fret eases. facto is, that I bad the news of the stationed near. answering the °811:::a= hem
ea the part el my friss& More is required then the supposed treaty of peace I asnoenoed to you in my their bold in the opposite dirootiosh and kolas&
argametts sad eurticies of one man to offset such letter of yesterday magma this morning, as from down gas of the lads, who was then cap-
II peopWe minds. Wire Ito enter soca* d the highest authoi ity ; and as respects . tared end brought back amid the bode Cl
bit= atmosphere, I might enervate myself as well that it would not be given op to the Austrians." the mob. The emstabile nearly shook the row
as many ethers, or might redouble the irritation of This was at eleven rielosk, and I consequently die- renal to pies" which ourawraww7 Tifahsee la di.
these who an already irritated, and the troabk of believed a rumour whisk I had heard, vie., that per- of dety drew forth auks af stray
these who ere already much troubled oa my account. sons arrived from Alsemsdrie bad affirmed that " di. • .th
eom the shopkeepers who were
In the Assembly, were my elation as spontaneous Austrian troops were there ; that they had seen .at their doors. They wear swords, whisk
es Leould wish at to hooey pert would be very dffil- them." they frequently draw, end la on. flat and
oak to play, and I take epos myself a heavy he The second fact is that a sailed at the edge, with meth
if= - vffiL This corps
hy ekoptmg it without imitation. Then is no part, cuss et the journal the ' • and mated the amount to some Modred, and ate