The Sun.
London, England, 1849-05-09 00:00:00

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GERMANY

AND

THE NORTHERN STATES.

THE REVOLUTION IN SAXONY.
The people in Dresden have been completely vic-
torious, and have appointed a Provisional Govern-
ment. The city of Leipsic has also joined the
movement. The civic authorities of the latter city
have placed themselves under the protection of the
Central Government at Frankfort, and have dis-
patched assistance to the Provisional Government at
Dresden.

announces, on the part of the Provisional Government,
the fraternisation of some of the troops with the
people, and the surrender of the arsenal, which up to
A proclamation, published by the Dresden Gazette,
the latest accounts was still occupied in common by
the artillery and the insurgent civic guard.
In the Neustadt (the part of Dresden occupied by
the troops) a royal proclamation appeared on the sth
instant, announcing that the KING, in consequence of
the excesses committed on the 3d and 4th instant,
and the dereliction of duty on the part of the civic
guard, had been obliged to leave the capital for the
fortress of Konigstein, in the so•called Saxon Swit-
zerland. His .111AJzsrr adds, that in refusing to
acknowledge the Constitution for Germany, he is
acting for the good of fatherland; expresses the hope
that he may be soon able to return to the metro-
polis, and declares that during his absence mea-
sures have been taken for carrying on the busi-
ness of Government. The proclamation is signed
" FREDERICK AUGUSTU S and " Dr. FERDINAND
ZSCHINSKY." To this proclamation was ap-
pended another, signed by two Ministers, and
announcing that they had neither abandoned the KING
nor the Government of the country; that they re-
turned to their posts immediately after they found
his MAJESTY safe ; and that they protest against the
appointment of a Provisional Government.
Previously to the commencement of the insurrec-
tion in Dresden, the Ministry issued a species of
manifesto, setting, forth that the assent of the
Government of Saxony to the decisions of the
Frankfort National Assembly was necessary
for rendering them binding in that Kingdom ; that
Ministers had endavoured to bring about a con-
cordance between that assembly and the respective
Governments of Germany; that it could not be ex-
pected that Saxony should renounce its independence
whilst other states of Germany, particularly Prussia,
" without which a German empire cannot be ever
thought of," refuses to acknowledge the Constitution
should recognize that Constitution,
voted by the National Assembly. So soon as Prus-
sia,
wouldwever follow the example. This manifesto
is " Dr. ZSCHINSKY, VON BEREST. RUBEN-
oa Saxony
shT signed

Some Prussian troops arrived at Dresden on the sth.

PRUSSIA.

It was reported at Berlin on the sth that the pea-
sants had risen in Lower Silesia, and had destroyed
the railroad, in order to prevent the passage of the
Russian troops to Hungary.

AUSTRIA AND HUNGARY.
We announced exclusively in the fourth edition of
The Sun of last evening, that Hungary had declared
,her independence, and had chosen KOSSUTH as Pre-
sident of the Executive.

We now publish in extenso—
THE HUNGARIAN DECLARATION OF INDE-

PENDENCE.

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tended with the publicity and solemnity befitting so
great an occasion, the sitting was held in the great
Reformed Church, in presence of thousands of the people.
Ludwig K.ossuth President of the Committee of
National Defence, reported upon the battles won, and the
victorious career of oar brave army. Then he declared
that now the time was come for Hungary to strip off the
shackles which she had worn for three hundred years,
and to take the rank which she deserved among Euro-
pean states. Now, once for all, must she renounce all
submission to the sceptre of a dynasty which had repaid
her services with ingratitud9 and her allegiance with
treachery. This decree of the National Assembly was
longed for by the nation, who had borne with loyal and
patriotic readiness the burdens of their struggle for
liberty ; it was demanded by the army, which had
poured forth its blood so liberally to save the country;
it was necessitated by circumstances, in order that Hun-
gary might be properly represented at the European
Congress which was contemplated, in order to settle the
new face of things in some more possible shape than the
entirely broken up old one was. In one word, tho
country, the world, God, all required from the House of
Representatives this final resolution.

The President of the Government then proposed
the following motions :
" 1. Hungary, together with Transylvania, and all
parts, lands, and provinces appertaining to the Hunga-
rian kingdom, is publicly proclaimed as a free and in-
dependent European State. The unity of its surface is
declared indivisible, and its integrity inviolable.
" 2. The House of Hapsburg-Lorraine, through its
treachery, perjury, and employment of armed force
against the Hungarian nation, no less than through the
boldness with which it has dismembered the territorial
integrity
of the land, by severing from Hungary, Croatia
and Transylvadia,
shrieked not from the slaughter of
the people with armed forces, has, with its own hands,
torn up the pragmatic sanction, and sundered that bond,
which, upon the base of a mutual connexion, subsisted
between the said house and Hungary with its annexed
lands. This perjured house of Hapsburg-Lorraine is
fur ever excluded from the soveiguty of Hungary, Tran-
sylvania, and the parts, provinces, and lands appertain-
ing to the Hungarian kingdom, in the name of the na-
tion, deposed, and banished from the enjoyment of the
ground and all civic rights.
" 3. While Hungary, according to her indefeasible
natural rights, eaters into the European family of states
as a semi-dependent, independent, and free state, she
declares at the same time that it is her firm resolve to k

observe towards all the other states, as long as her own
rights remain [uninjured, relations of peace and friend.
ship, especially towards those states which were hereto-
fore united with and under the same, sovereign, and to
live on terms of good understanding as well with the
Turkish empire as with the Italian states, god to lay
with these the foundation of a friendly intercourse upon
reciprocal interests.
" 4. The future system of government will in all its
details be brought to completion by the National Assem-
bly. Meantime, until this is done, the country in its
whole extent will be governed by a President of the
Government, with the Ministyrs, to be appointed by
him, at his side, under his own and their personal re-
sponsibility.
The representatives of the nation, with one will
and one voice, accepted the motion of the President,
KOSSUTH; and thousands of the pe.)ple expressed
with the most fervid enthusiasm, their unanimous ad-
herence to the resolutions of their representatives.
Upon the 4th proposition of LUDWIG KOSSUTH the
house chose him by acclamation for First President
of the Government under the new order ^f things.
The committee of three chosen consists of KOSSUTH,
EMERICII CZACZVAId., and STEPHEN GOROVE.
The President of the Upper house, Baron PERENG,
put to the vote, on the same day, the resolutions
adopted in the Lower, NA hich were passed with enthu-
siastic unanimity, all the members rising up from
their seats.