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 Prusssia to the German INTAtional Assembly, on
the ground of the resolution of the Confederation of
March 30 and April 7, 1848, and our decree of the llth
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.

"FREDERICK WILLIAM.
"(Signed by the Ministers.)
" Charlottenburg, 14th May, 1849."
The ordonnance is preceded by a report from the
Ministers to the KING, in which they endavour to
establish that, the Assembly having persists d 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 are being
strengthened. The Kolner Zeitimg 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. We
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 Cameo to suppress the insurrec-
tion on the Rhine and in 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 Elherfeld 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
competent to call together such a diet.
The landwehr called out in Westphalia exhibit a
spirit of insubordination which shows how little the
Government can depend on this all-important force.
At Paderborn one of the wehr-men made a speech
reflecting on the illegal mode in which they had been
summoned, by single men, and not in companies.
The Major wanted to arrest him, but his comrades,
applauded his speech, would not permit
his spleen. They declared in a body they would
himwho to higbhe touched, and the Major was forced to di-
gestly
not fire on the people, and 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
Übe German question. LERCEIENTELD has sent in
his credentials as Plenipotentiary fur Bavaria, SruYE
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
lispatch from Frankfort on the 12th inst., in conse-
Pence of which he sent in his resignation to the
Central Government.
BERLIN, MAT 16.—Tbe Prussian Stoats Anzieger
of this day contains a long and affectionate address
from the KING to his subjects, in which he elucidates
the motives by which he has hitherto been swayed,
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 I.4ibeck, and carry to Copenhagen proposi-
tions on the subject of the armistice.

AUSTRIA AND HUNGARY.
The EMPEROR, accompanied by Prince ScnwAnT-
IIIENBERG and General VAN BEY, arrived at Presburgh
on the 10th. He will there await the arrival of the
Russian Prince PASYEIWITSCH.
According to the journals and letters of Vienna of
the Iltb, 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 BEM, GovErnor of 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.
crOliCial, is said to be advancing on the Moravian and

Silesian border, at the head of 80,000 men. A slight
engagement had taken &ace at Salim, in consequence
of which, after losing 40 hille.t, the Austrians with-
drew to the right batik of the Waag.
The•Pesther Zeitung of the 6:h 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 l lungary and all the countries thereto
apprtnining, had appointed the following Mini try :
—Minister of Interior and President of the Council,
BART HOL CZ EM ERI ; of Foreign Affairs, Count
CASIMIR BATMAN Y ; of Finance, DUSCIIEK ; of
Public Works, CZAIS TI ; 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, S;.:hwaben,
and I3lo:ksberg.

The bombardment of Pesth from Ofen had 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 GOUGEY was re-
que,tvd by the Government commissioner IRANYL to
send an otTicer to Ofen to parley, and stop the con-
tinuation of hostilities against, Pesth, on pain of the
garrison being put to the sword on the capture of the
thrtress.

FRA NKFORT.
The German Gazette of Frankfort, of the 14th
says:--

Last evening the Prussian and Austrian non-
commissioned officers and soldiers were guilty of
most revolting excesses towards inoffensive citizens.
One citizen was seriously wounded, and, as already
stated another was killed."

The sitting of the National Assembly at Frankfort
on the 14th was a very stormy one. The President
of the Assembly gave an account of an inter-
view he had had with the Vicar of the Empire, in
which the latter announced to him that he had
formed a Ministry, and that its programme had been
settled ; but that, before making either known, he
wished to communicate with the Prussian Commis-
sary, who had just arrived.
The President informed the Assembly that he had
received from the Minister of War the assurance that
the deplorable events of the preceding day should be
submitted to a rigid investigation. The same assur-
ance was given in a letter from M. DEETZ, the com-
mandant of the city.

Propositions relative to the sending away of the
troops belonging to the states, which have not recog-
nised the constitution, were presented by MM.
SCHLOFFEL, NAUWERCK, and JUCHO. They pro-
ceeded to the vote upon the urgency of these pro-
positions. The, votes being equal, the urgency was
rejected.
The motion of M. LOEWE, from Calbe, to suspend
the sitting till four, and to invite the Minister of
War to be present, was adopted; that of StmoN, of
Treves, to the effect that the Committee of Thirty
should be ordered to terminate its report before four
o'clock on the propositions above, was rejected by 163
votes against 147.

On the resumption of the sitting at four, it was
understood that the majority of the Committee of
Thirty recommended that the Central Power be in-
vited to change the garrison at Frankfort, and only
leave there the troops of those Governments that
have recognised the Constitution. The minority de-
manded an order of the day, grounded on the ex-
planation of the Minister of War. A short but
violent debate ensued, in which the Minister of War'
declared that measures for preserving the public
tranquillity had been taken ; and the house was
proceeding to the vote on the order of the day pro-
posed by the minority of the Committe when the
post left.
A letter from Frankfort of the 14th says—" The
Prussian Commissary, who arrived here last evening,
is stated to be the bearer of an engagement on the
part of Prussia to recognise the German Constitution
on these conditions :-1. That Austria shall be at
liberty to enter the Federal State ; 2. That the title
of Emperor shall be changed; 3. That instead of the
suspensive veto the absolute veto shall be admitted;
4. That the electoral law shall be changed."