The Sun.
London, England, 1849-05-08 00:00:00

GERMANY

AND
THE NORTHERN STATES.

FRANKFORT.

The German Parliament met on the 4:h, and the
business transacted during the sitting was most im-
portant. The Committee of Thirty presented the
following resolutions, preceded by a long preamble,
in which different reasons in support of ithem were
set forth :

" 1, The National. Assembly summons the Governments,
the legislative bodies, the communes of the German
States, and all the German people so to act as to
cause the Constitution of the German Empire, promul-
gated on March 28, to be recognised and obtain the
force of law ; 2, it fixes the 15th August for the open-
ing of the first Diet of the Empire of Frankfort, in con-
formity with the Constitution ; 3, it fixea the 15th
July for the elections of the Chamber of Representa-
tives of the people throughout all the German Empire ;
4, if, independently of the Austro-German provinces,
the exceptional pos!tion of which is provided for by
Art. 87 of the Constitution, acme German States
should not be represented in the Diet, at:d if, conse-
quently, some articles of the Constitution should not
be executed, those articles shall be provisionally changed
according to the mode indicated in the Constitution, up
to the period at which the Constituti, n shall have every-
where obtained a force of law; 5, if Prussia, in conse-
quence of the non-recognition of the Constitution,
should not be represented in the Diet of the Empire,
the chief the most important State among those repre-
sented in the Chamber of States shall be invested with the
rights and duties of Chief of the Empire, and shall take
the title of Lieutenant-General of the Empire; 6, imme-
diately on the Constitution being recognised by Prussia,
the dignity of Chief of the Empire, conformably to the
Constitution shall pass to the King of Prussia, who may
be reigning when that recognition shall take place; 7,
the Chief of the Empire shall swear to respect the Con-
stitution before the National Assembly, and he shall
afterwards open the Diet of the Empire. At the moment
of the opening of the Diet the National Assembly shall
be dissolved."

The debaters these resolutions was not remarkable
one deputy, however, declared that the Bavarian Go-
vernment would not send representatives to the Con-
ference at Berlin proposed by the Prussian Govern-
ment; and another said that if the Princes of Ger-
many should do so their thrones should be swept
away. A communication from the President of the
Council complained that the Prussian Governimnt
had cot sent its circular of 28th April to the Central
Government (this caused great astonisnent), and
aiserted that Prussia exceed«l her rights in declaring
that she would protect the Governments against
anarchy, as that duty, he said, belonged to the
Central Government alone, and it was resolved to
execute it. Several radical amendments were brought
forward hut rejected. In the course of the sitting
some sensation was caused by the announcement of
resignation of the three Prussian deputies, among
them M. DE BEKKERATII, Minister of Finance.
The propositions were agreed to after a long dis-
cussion.

PRUSSIA.
There was an emezde at Berlin on the 4th of May,
in the evening, and several persons were wounded.

AUSTRIA AND HUNGARY.

COMPLETE EVACUATION OF HUNGARY

BY THE AUSTRIANS.

The Cologne G;;;iiesTates that the Austrian troops
experienced a clefeht near to Atsch, and lost several

cannon, and that General WELDEN has evacuated

HungP.ry. The Magyarz:, to the number of 15,000
men, and 30 cannon, have penetrated into the district
of Turocz, and possessed themselves of St. Martin and
Mossccz, and in►end to cross the \lraAp.
General BEM has entered the Bannat, and occupied
the Karawsebes and Lugos.
According to a letter from Vienna of the 23, the
first corps of the Russian army was to consist of an
advanced guard of 8,000 and a corps d'artnee of
17,000 ; it was to be at Goding on the 3.1, and to pro-
ceed to Presburg, where it was expected on the 6th
or 7th. The Hungarians were near Presburg, and
the report of cannon from that direction was heard at
Vienna. Entrenchments were being thrown up around
the town. _ _ _

The Cologne Gazette of the 6th has the fol-
lowing :—" It is said that a proclamation of the
Emperor of RUSSIA is in the following terms :
In virtue of the treaties of Vienna, and
with the permission of the EMPEROR, I. as-
sist in combating with a revolt which is no
longer Austrian but European. My subjects are
fighting on the side of rebels. I have placed at the
disposal of the Emperor of AUSTRIA 80,000 men, be-
sides the corps which has already entered Transyl-
vania. All the troops are paid and kept up at my
expense, and I claim no indemnity. All idea of con-
quest is far from my mind.'"
The news of the last Hungarian victories is com-
pletely confirmed. The Austrian army consisted
after its retreat from Perth and Ofen, of three corps,
which were kept apart by the successful execution of
DEMBINSKI'S plans. The corps of JELLACHICH
consisted of Croats, so me battalions of infantry of
regular Bohemian regiments, and a regiment (the
Walmoden) of heavy cavalry. These troops, which
were to have covered Ofen, were, by the hold move
of General VETTER, who crossed the Danube at
Foldvar, and occupied the Stuhl-Weissenburg and
Weszprim road, cut off. from the main corps ; and
forced, in order to avoid being blockaded in Ofen, to
make southward for the Croatian border. But this
route was already cut off. General VETTER was
posted at Kiss-Bee with his corps, reinforced by the
landsturm of the Tolna, Eisenburg, and Salad coun-
ties, and, falling foul of the Ban, routed him so com-
pletely that his corpsis no longer in existence ; while
he himself, a fugitive, took the road apparently to
Essegg, before reaching which place he might possi-
bly fall in with some of the free corps of Perczel.
The second corps, consisting of between twenty-
five and thirty thousand men,
under WziLDEN, to
avoid being likewise cut off, sought to mike good
their retreat out of Ofen along the right bank,
through Acs and Raab, to the Austrian frontier.
The Magyars, under KLAPRA and GUYON, hung
close on their rear, and overtaking them opposite
Comore, inflicted that disastrous defeat which is also
just beginning to be known The Austrian vanguard
reached the frontier town of Bruck, on the Leitha,
entire, and the wreck of the rest of the army under
WELDEN is nay! attempting to be collected and put
in fighting condition at Parensdorf, under the very
walls of Vienna.

The 3d corps, that of WOIILGEMUTII and JABLO-
Now!Kr, which, reinforced by the divisions forced out
of Upper Slovakia, might amount to some 16,000 or
20,000 men, were attacked and defeated by GEORGEY,
at Neiihausel, so that the whole of the island of
Schutt had to be evacuated, and the road was open to
Presburg, which is probably already in the hands of
the Hungarians. The extreme northern wing of the
Hungarian army has been equally successful. The
whole valley of the Waag has been cleared of the
Austrians by a corps consisting of armed czikos
(herdsmen), 15,000 strong, so that Sullein, St. Martin,
and Czacza, at the mouth of the Jaclunka Pass, have
fallen into the hands of the Magyars, who now
menace Austria, Silesia, and Moravia.
The 'Wiener Zgitung of this day says—" We are
informed that, on the 18th, the Magyars took Cavan.
sebes, and on the following day Lugos ; all the inha-
bitants fled in the direction of Wersee."

SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN.
ALTON A, MAY s.—From the railway reports which
have arrived from the north, we learn that the Prus-
sian troops have at length entered Jutland ; but how
many, and for what peculiar purpose, is not men-
tioned. General VON PRITTWITZ has paid Colding
a visit to review some regiments of Holstein insur-
gents, to make their personal acquaintance, and
promised them to return soon again with orders to
advance, and, if the above report be correct, of the
crossing of the lionigsan by the first batch of
confederated auxiliary troops, he has so far kept his
word. The Holstein troops do not think proper to
venture without a strong reserve from some quarter
or another to make any advance further into the
province of Jutland; and those reports which have
been circulated through the Hamburg]) papers of
their having ventured near to Viele on one Fide, and
Freidericia on the other, without discovering any
Danes, are far from being correct, as nothing of the
sort has occurred ; on the contrary, those worthies
are in daily alarm, fearful of the third edition of the
conflict from the Danes. The headquarters of
General BONIN have been removed from Wansvld to
Colding, and those of General VON PRITTWITZ to
Chriitianfeld.

The grand rumour, circulated a few days ago, of
the intended bombardment and storming of Alsen,
has ended like many others, in a" bag of moonshine."
All is reported since, officially on the part of the
Ilanoverian General WYNEKER, and confirmed by
those from Copenhagen, as perfectly quiet. The
sentries smoke their pipes mutually together b9twcen
the outposts after their respective duties are per-
formed, and, as well as they can, exchange their per-
sonal grievances.
The Holstein army fired away at Colding, in all,
77,248 rounds of ball-cartridge on part of the infan-
try ; 190 shots from 24-pounder guns, principally
Ehells ; 351 12-pounder ; and 289 rtrA
z:vt rouild n and skell ros
part of the artillery.
The Dunes are very indignant at their claim-
ing a victory in consequence of bombarding towns
which they ought to have spared. They give

it a term of victory upon the principle of "
They retired from the cenflict to spare the towns, not
for any other reason.

There are rumours of peace, but they are not con-
firmed from any quarter upon which reliance can be
placed. It is likely, however, that negotiations would
have led to the raising. the bloeliade upon neutral
vessels, had BONIN not entered Jutland so hastily,
and which has been done by the orders of the insur-
gent Regency of the Duchies, which they will, no
doubt, be made answerable flit.. A mass of dirty in-
trigue seems to be carried on, but whether it will
answer the purpose of the Regency and the Frank-
fort ParliAment or not remains to be seen, after what
the King of PRUSSIA has now done in throwing down
the gauntlet on his own behalf and that of the Sove.
reign Princes of Germany. A civil war may be the
result, and already there are strong symptoms of an
early outbreak of the revolutionary party. In that
event, Denmark may playa different game with
them.

DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES.
The Government of Schleswig-lie! stein an-
nounced, on the 2d, that the Ministry of the Empire
bad ordered the seizure of the property of the
Danish Crown and of the Danish vessels in the Ger-
man ports, as a set cff for the German vessels seized
by the Danes,

The Lubeck Gazette publishes the following extract
of a letter from the Minister of the Hanseatic Towns
at Paris, dated the 27th ult. :—" The proposition of
an armistice between the King of DENMARR and the
Central Government of Germany, and which was
energetically supported by Russia, has been favour-
ably received by the Danish and German Plenipo-
tentiaries. The former has even declared that he was
ready to sign a protocol. M. DE BUNSEN said he
could not give orders to the Commander- in-Chief of
the German troops, but that he would write to Frank-
fort, and warmly support the proposition, and hoped
that it would be favourably received."