The Sun.
London, England, 1849-05-18 00:00:00

GERMANY

AND

THE NORTHERN STATES,

PRUSSIA.

Prussia has recalled her Deputies from Frankfort.
The Berlin Gazette of the 14th contains the follow-
ing decree :
" We, Frederick William, Scc., King of Prussia, on the
advice of our Ministers, decree as follows:
" Ist. The mandate of the deputies, elected by the
states of Prusssitt to the German National Assembly, on
the ground of the resolution of the Confederation of
March 30 and April 7, 1848, and our decree of the 11th
of the latter month, is anulled.
"2d. The present decree is to be communicated to the
deputies by our Plenipotentiaries in Frankfort, with the
notice to refrain from taking any further part in the pro
ceedings of the Assembly.

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The ordonnance is preceded by a report from the
Ministers to the KING, in which they endeavour to
establish that, the Assembly having persisted in its
resolution to promulgate the constitution, without the
consent of the Governments, no longer legally repre-
sents the German nation, and that, consequently, its
mission is at an end. They add, that it cannot be
hoped that the Assembly can co-operate effectually in
the regulation of the affairs of Germany ; and they
declare that its resolutions on Prussian intervention
in Saxony are most hostile to Prussia.

The state of the insurgent town in the Rhine pro-
vinces and Westphalia has not changed. The barri-
cades of Elberfeld, Hagen, and Iserlohn aro being
strengthened. The Kolner Zeitung gives, a list of
Westphalian cities which have partly sent reinforce-
ments to the insurgents at Hagen and Iserlohn, while
others are being fortified against the military. IVe
find among them the names of almost all the market
towns of the Mark and the Sauerland. Iserlohn is
held by 5,000 well-armed Westphalians, most of them
capital shots with the rifle; the bridges many miles
round the town have been destroyed, and the defiles
of the mountains occupied by advanced detachments.
The Prussian Government are concentrating a large
army on the heath of C amen to suppress the insurrec-
tion on the Rhine andin Westphalia.
The rebellion against the royal authority spreads—
most of the towns and communes in the district of
Mark have revolted, and declared that they will sup-
port the Constitution. At Iserlohn on the 13th, the
people resolved to defend the town to the last ex-
tremity, and it was strongly barricaded. The women
and children were sent away. Armed assistance was
immediately sent to the insurgents from Hagen, and
13 other communes. There were 5,000 combatants
in the town, all well armed and well supplied with
ammunition. For some leagues around Iserlohn all
the roads and bridges were occupied by the insur-
gents. The communes of Essen and Atenessen have
been declared in a state of siege.
A deputation arrived at Dusseldorf, on the 13th
instant, from Elberfeld, with an offer to capitulate if
a general amnesty were granted, and the troops pro-
hibited from entering the town. It does not appear
that the Government at Dusseldorf agreed to the
conditions.

The Gazette of Elberfeld says that tranquillity was
restored in the town.

The municipality of Konigsberg summoned a mu-
nicipal diet throughout the circle to consider what
resolutions it were best to take in relation to the
German question. The chief of the civil administra-
tion, after having approved this step, has just pub-
lished an order forbidding the assembly in question,
and declaring that the Konigsberg corporation is not
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him to be touched, and the Major. was forced to di-
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they pledged themselves
to stand by the German constitution.
The royal ordinance of the 10th instant, creates
everywhere the most profound disgust, particularly
that article which enables every petty officer to play
the tyrant in his district, by declaring it in a state of
siege.
There is no doubt that RADowiTz has been charged
with the representation of the Prussian Government
at the conference called together at Berlin to decide
the German
uestion. LERCLIENFELD has sent in
his credentials as Plenipotentiary for Bavaria, STEVE
q
for Hanover, and BEUST for Saxony. BEUST is still
at Dresden. Berlin is crowded at this moment with
fugitive families out of Dresden. The most horrible
stories are in circulation concerning the atrocious
murders committed by the soldiery in the storm of
the houses in the Alt- Stadt. The central !commis-
sioner at Dresden, BRIEGLEA, received a telegraphic
dispatch from
Frankfort on the 12th inst., in conse-
quence of which he sent in his resignation to the
Central Government.
BERLIN, MAy 16.—The Prussian Staats Anzieger
by which he has hitherto been swayed,
of this day
contains a long and affectionate address
from the KING to his subjects, in which he elucidates
the motives
and by which his future conduct will be actuated.
He earnestly exhorts them in the present time of
danger to prove themselves true Prussians by rallying
round the Throne of their MONARCH, and relying
implicitly upon
his faithfulness and affection for them.
The Gazette de Cologne of the 17th says—" A
Cabinet courier was dispatched this evening to em-
bark at Litbeck, and carry to Copenhagen proposi-
tions on the subject of the armistice.

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on the 10th:
AUSTRIA AND HUNGARY.
The EMPEROR accompanied by Prince SCIINVART-
RRERG and General VAN BEY,
arrived at Presburgh
He will there await the arrival of the
Russian Prince PASKEIWITSCLi.
According to the journals and letters of Vienna of
the 11th, there is no doubt that the Hungarian Diet
has formally decreed that the House of Austria has
forfeited the Hungarian throne. The Diet has de-
creed an additional levy
of 50,000 men, and has even
ordered battalions of women and young girls to be
enrolled. It has named Bam, Governor ot Transyl-
vania, with a voice in the ministry, provided, how-
ever, says the decree, that he should not prefer to be
generalissimo of the armies of reconquered Poland.
oatorg, is said to be gidivoing on the Mervin And

Silesian border, at the head of 80,000 men. A slight
engagement bad taken place at Sillim, in consequence
of which, after losing 40 killed, the Austrians with-
drew to the right bank of the Waag.
The Pesther Zeitung of the 6th instant, contains
the following news KOSSUTH, in a report to the
National Assembly, in which he terms himself, in
accordance with the national desire, President and
Governor of Hungary and all the countries thereto
appertaining, had appointed the following Ministry :
—Minister of Interior and President of the Council,
BARTHOL CZEMERI of Foreign Affairs, Count
CASIMIR BATIIYANY of Finance, DUSCHEK ; of
Public Works, CZANYI ; Worship, MICHAEL HOR-
VATH, Bishop of Czanad ; Justice, BAKOVICS ; War
and Commerce to be named later."

According to the last report of four o'clock on the
afternoon of the 6th, Ofen had been bombarded during
28 hours, and already a breach opened. The Hunga-
rian batteries are planted on the Adler, Schwaben,
and Blocksberg.
The bombardment of Pesth from Ofen bad begun
on the 4th instant, and been exceedingly destructive
both to property and life. On- the afternoon of the
6th the tiring on Pesth ceased, and GORGEY was re-
quested by the Government commissioner IRANYI to
send an officer to Ofen to parley, and stop the con-
tinuation of hostilities agakst Pesth, on pain of the
garrison being put to the sword on the capture of the
fortress.