The Sun.
London, England, 1849-03-16 00:00:00

PRUSSIA.

The Chambers were still occupied on the 12th in
discussing the Address. The paragraph relating to
German unity has been postponed until the decision
of the Frankfort Parliament upon WELCKER'S propo-
sition shall be known.

FRANKFORT.
In the sitting of the German Parliament of the
12th March, WELCKER moved that the hereditary
dignity of Emperor should be conferred on the house
of Hohenzollern. This motion took the Parliament
by surprise, but the general opinion is that it will be
carried.
The following is the report of the important sitting
of the 12th March.
Schuler (of Jena) asked the Minister for Foreign Af-
fairs whether he was aware of any protest having been
made by Russia to any of the German Governments, or
whether any such
nistry ? protest had reached the Imperial Mi-
The Minister answered in the negative, adding that
he did not believe any such protest had been made by
Russia.

Raumer reminded the Ministry that it had been em-
powered by the Assembly, many weeks back, to treat
with Austria in a suitable way, and at a suitable time,
in reference to the future re-elections of Austria to the
German State. The Ministry had in consequence dis-
patched a note to the Austrian Government, under date
of the 22d January ult. Had Austria returned any
answer to that note ? And if so, what was the present
state of the negotiations ?—(To be answered to-morrow.)
The President then gave notice of a motion of
Welcker's, the urgency of which the mover prayed for
leave to establish. Amid a general hush and great at-
tention, he then read as follows:
" Motion of Deputy Welcker.
" In consequence of the critical condition of the father-
land, the Nations' Assembly resolves—
" 1. In the face of the manifold reports now abroad con-
cerning the intentions of foreign powers to interfere with
the constitution which is to be elaborated by the National
Assembly, the said Assembly resolves to declare, as far
as regards all foreign powers, its feelings of indignation
at any such thought of encroachment on the holiest pri-
maeval right of every free people, and to express its ab-
horrence, as regards any individual German, whether
prince or burgher, who should treasonably evoke such
encroachment; and, at the same time, the. Assembly
expects that the German nation will defend its honour
to a man, and rebut every attempt to violate it.
"2. The German Imperial Constitution, as it is now
presented in a revised form, in which due regard h s
been paid to the wishes of the Governments, shall be
adopted in one single comprehensive resolution by the
National Assembly, and every salutary emendation that
may hereafter be necessary shall be left to the next Con-
stitutional Imperial Parliament.
"3. The hereditary dignity of Emperor of Germany,
as determined in the revised code of constitution, shall be
conferred on his Majesty the King of Prussia.
4. The German Princes, in a body, are invited to
close magnaminously and patriotically with this reso-
lution, and to further its realization to the best of their
power.
" 5. A large deputation of Members of' the National
Assembly shall be sent to notify to his Majesty the King
of Prussia his election to the herediatry dignity of Ger-
man Emperor.
" 6. His Majesty the Emperor of Austria, as sove-
reign over the German Austrian lands, and the kindred
races inhabiting those lands, singly and collectively, are
now and for ever invited and called upon to enter into
the German Federal State.
" 7. The German National Assembly solemnly and
eternally protests against any and every right assumed
by the Government of the German •Austrian lands, or
by those lands themselves, to detach itself or themselves
from the German fatherland, and from the Constitution
resolved upon by its collective will.
" 8. The German National Assembly is ready, as long
as difficulties shall exist, which may chance to prevent
the realization of the full entrance of the German-Aus-
trian lands within the pale of the Constitution, to main-
tain existing brotherly relations, so far as is consistent
with the unimpaired independence of the German Impe-
rial Constitution."
A tremendous sensation was created by the reading of
this motion. For fall five minutes the proceedings of
the House were intermitted, the Members being in ani-.
mated conversation in groups. Among the reporters
there was considerable doubt that the name of the mover
had been heard rightly; but this was completely set
aside when the repeated calls,
effect, and Welcker ascended the
" To your places! to your
rpolsatcreusmr; bfeogratnhetoqntaekstion as to whether a hearing should
be granted him having previously been put, the House
rose in a body.—(Loud cheers from the gallery.)
Welcker then ,sairl—" Gentlemen, allow me to at-
tempt, in a few words, to establish the urgency of the mo-
tion that has just been read; and previously to this, let me
disabuse the Assembly of
i the idea that I have been in-
consistent in bringing t forward. The endeavours I
made against an hereditary supremacy .and for a di-
rectory, were not the consequence either of any aversion
on my part to Prussia, or of any predilection for
Austria. It was the hope of consummating German
unity, of providing for the weal of our fatherland, that
actuated me.—(Loud cheers on the Right and Centre.)
I thought, at the time, that the plats of the directory
might mike it possible for Austria to enter into the
federal state. I could not convince myself that Austria
either would or could not do so, but I had not the
policy of the Austrian Cabinet iu my pocket. Now I
am convinced that, under existing circumstances, Austria
cannot join us, and it was of this that I wished to be con-
vinced before I went to extremes. Willingly will I give
my political friends the glory of having seen further
than I did; but they must allow me also to be proud
of having delayed the rupture with Austria so
long as it was consistent with the welfare of our father-
land to do so. Think only of the opprobrium that would
have been cast upon us, could it have been fairly
said that we, by out: hasty and intemperate measures,
had excluded Austria? We have not done so; we have
waited till to wait longer were a crime; and by the mo-
tion that we now adopt, we may still prove to our Aus-
trian brethren that we have German hearts, and are
ready at once to extend to them the hand of brotherhood
when they are willing to receive it.—(Loud cheers on
the Right and Centre.) It is and will be of great ad-
vantage to us that we have not been hasty—in the eyes
of the German people, in the eyes of Europe this will
do us service.—(Great cheering.) Gentlemen, need I
tell you what dangers hover over us. Shall I suppose
that you will wait and hesitate till the intrigues of
Cabinets have grown too powerful for you? No; wait
or yield we will not. We will stand up in one consoli-
dated body confronting foreign Powers ; and if the
contest comes, Germany shall be victorious. —(G rest
cheering.) Yes, I doubt not that even the Catholics of
Baden and Bavaria are keenly alive to the conviction
that Germany must be saved; and that against every
attempt from without, and against every endeavour to
baffle the independent growth of the Constitution, our
people will rise to a man in the defence of its liberties.
Let us even suppose that Austria yields eventually, yet
we cannot wait for months till it makes the resolve; in
the meanwhile it is to the King of Prussia that we must
look for protection. And supposing there should exist
a bare possibility of Austria's compliance, it must still
rest with the King of Prussia, as Emperor of Germany,
to fix the ultimatum. Whatever Austria resolves to do,
let us, at any rate, be ready. Our country .is in danger
—oh, save our country!"—(Loud and continued cheers
from the Right and Centre benches.)
Vischer (of Tubingen) begged to remind the inter-
national committee of his motion respecting the intru-
sion of Russian soldiery into Siebenburgen. The report
would soon be ready.
The order of the day lead to the second reading of the
chapter of the constitution, entitled " The Imperial Court
of Judicature," when sec. 127 of the constitution was
attempt to debate on the next
adopted as follows:
" The jurisdiction appertaining to the empire is exer-
cised by an imperial court of judicature."
It was found advisable to adjourn before eleven a.m.,
after a very imperfect
section, so great was the excitement caused by Welcker's
motion, which was ordered to be printed,
.the President
proposing to place it on an early
occasion, probably
Thursday, on the order of the day.
SCHMERLING has resigned his appointment as
Austrian Plenipotentiary.

Tau NETHERLANDS.
THE lIAGuE, MARCH 13.—The project of law re-
lative to the revenue, which was submitted to the
Second Chamber, was accompanied by voluminous
financial documents, from which it appears that the
State, which at the close of 1847 presented a surplus
of nearly 900,000 florins, showed at the close of 1848
a deficit of 11,148,543 florins. This was occasioned
in part by the sun) of 1,559,600 florins granted addi-
tionally to the War Department for the regulation of
the monetary system,
&c. The budget of the expen- ,

VICE-CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.)
(Before Vice-Chancellor KNIGHT BRUCE.)
TWINING V. POWELL.
Mr. TOLLER said this was a petition of Miss Mary
Powell, one of the defendants, and several other persons,
to whom she had conveyed a piece of land for the pur-
poses of an almshouse, which she had built and en-
dowed with a sum of 14,0001., at Bidswell, in Leicester-
shire. The object of the petition was that out of the
sum of 14,0001., standing in court, 6,000!. should be
appropriated to the purpose of endowing those alms-
houses. Elizabeth West, the testatrix in the cause, gave
all the residue of her real and personal estate to her
brother and niece, James Powell, and the petitioner,
Mary Powell, having previously given a legacy of 10,000/.
to a lady of the name of Lydia Moss, with a proviso
that should the said Lydia Moss and the petitioner,
Mary Powell, die and leave no children living at their
deaths, the property so left was to go in charity.
The case, on a previous day, came on for further
directions, and his Honour declared that the petitioner,
Mary Powell, in her own right, or in right of the said
James Powell, deceased, was entitled absolutely to the
clear residuary estate, except the petitioner should die
without having a child living at her death; and that
one moiety (excluding certain property not pure per-
sonalty) would be applicable from that time to charita-
ble purposes. Then there was a reference to the Master,
and the Master made his report that 14,000/. odd, con-
sols, was the sum in question now to be disposed of,
under the provisions of the testatrix's will. Miss Mary
Powell, the petitioner, in the month of December, 1847,
executed a deed by which she conveyed some land in
the parish of Bidswell, in Leicestershire, to the other
petitioners, having previously built some almshouses on
that land. The short provision of the deed was, that
the trustees named in the deed were to have the nomi-
nation of the occupiers of those almshouses, subject to
Miss Powell's approbation, so long as she lived; and then
after her death the nomination was to be in the trustees
alone, two of the trustees, who were at-officio, being the
clerg) men of the parish of Bidswell and the adjoining
parish. Miss Powell was now desirous of relinquishing
her interest in 6,000!., part of the 14,000/. Consols; pro-
vided that sum was to go to the permanent endowment
of the almshouses in question. That scheme had been
approved of by the Attorney-Genet;al.
His HoNoun. asked if the land was now officiall
in mortmain, and if the charity was now fixed on they land ?

Mr. TOLLER replied that the charity was now fixed
on the land. There were twelve persons who would
occupy the almshouses, and the income of the 6,000/.
would be 180/. a year, exclusive of income. tax ; and it
was now proposed that the trustees should apply ss. a
week to the twelve occupants of the almshouses,
which would a mount to 656/. per annum, and it
was also proposed that the surplus should be re-
tallied by the trustees to meet any contingent expenses