The Sun.
London, England, 1849-04-03 00:00:00

FRANKFORT.

The following declaration, signed by the 108 Mem-
bers of the minority of the German Parliament, ap-
pears in the Frankfort Gazette of the 30th ult.:—
" Considering that the National Assembly has received
from the German people the mission to prepare a con-
stitution for all Germany, but that the resolution
adopted yesterday relative to the Chief of the Empire
threatens Germany with a fatal division ; considering
that the duty of the Assembly was to make a constitu-
tion, and not to create an Imperial dynasty ; consider-
ing that the hasty resolution on the subject of the Chief
of the Empire has annulled the resolution of the As-
sembly itself to negotiate with the Imperial Austrian
Government, with respect to the relations to be entered
into between Austria and Germany, the undersigned
declare that they did not consider themselves authorised
to take part in the election of a Hereditary Emperor of
Germany, which has taken place this day, and they
accordingly decline all responsibility regarding that re-
solution and that election.

"Frankfort-on-the-Maine, March 28."
Of all the Austrian deputies who were in the Na-
tional Assembly of Frankfort on the election of the
Emperor of the Germans, not one voted for the King
of PRUSSIA. Twenty-two of the liberal deputies of
Prussia abstained from voting. Of the sixty-eight
Bavarian deputies, fifteen or sixteen voted for the
KING ; all the Hanoverian deputies, twenty-four in
number, did so; eight out of the twenty-six Wurtem-
burgers, five or six out of the twenty-one Saxons,
and five out of the nineteen Badeners voted in the
same way. The majority, consequently, was princi-
pally made up of the votes of the representatives of
the little states.

AUSTRIA.
The Wiener Zeitung of the 26th publishes the
official account of RADETZIET'S victory at Mortara.

TURKEY.

Accounts from Constantinople of the 20th announce
that MAIIMOUD PACHA has been named Commander-
in-Chief of the Imperial Guards, and that ISHMAEL
PACHA has been appointed Minister of Commerce.
The recent Ministerial changes have given great sa-
tisfaction to Sir STRATFORD CANNING. The military
preparations are urged forward with all practicable
haste, and before the autumn Turkey will have an
army of 250,000 fighting men.

At Worship-street, Mr. James Smith, a trimming
manufacturer, in the Bethnal-green•road, was thud
51., and ordered to find bail to keep the peace for six
months, for having brutally beat his wife with a broom
handle. Mrs. Smith, who is only in her eighteenth
year, has been married to him only five weeks, and has
once before been forced to apply to a magistrate for
protection from his violence. Within a week of the
marriage he made a vio!ent attack on her with a poker.
A man, named Charles Parker, who had for seven
years been in the employ of Messrs. Barlow and Brett,
lace manufactures, of Wood street, Cheapside, as por-
ter, was yesterday fully committed from Guildhall, on
a charge of having robbed his employers ot goods to a
considerable amount. The stolen property was found
concealed on his person.
ETON COLLEGE.—Mr. William Lampriere Lewis,
who was recently elected the Duke of Newcastle's
scholar, obtained a scholarship at Trinity College, Ox.
ford, some months since. He was under the tuition of
Mr. H. M. Birch during the five years the latter was
tutor at Bt9n•

" I have the honour to lay on the table the correspon-
dence which has taken place between the English and
French Admirals and myself, as Minister of Foreign
Affairs. This correspondence is only given under the
form of communication pas,ing with the admirals, be-
cause the Government through me had formally declared,
both verbally and by writing, that the consideration of
such propositions should not belong to it, but to the
general Parliament of Sicily. The kilmirals agreed to the
principle, but they did not view the d;fficulty as essential,
considering the necessity by which the Sicilian Ministers
are obliged to present to Parliament communications
made in that form. We, gentlemen, persevered to the
last in our first de:ermination of refusing to lay before
Parliament any Act proceeding from au authority not
only unrecognised in Sicily, but cond:inned by a decree
of Parliament. Such a proceeding would have caused
me to incur the penalty of high treason, but we felt the
propriety of informing the Legislative Chamber of
the motives of the propositions made direct'y
by the admirals of the two krcat Powers,
leaving you to decide on their value, since the executive
power never could give consent to acts directly opposed
to the fundamental laws of the suite. For
this reason I lay on the table the whole of the corre-
spondence that has passed between myself and the ad-
mirals. You will observe, that in my first reply of the
7th instant, acknowledging the receipt of the document
' alluded to, I declared that I could not present it because
it was unworthy of appearing before the Parliament and
Sicilian people. Another point di..cussed in the cor-
respondence with the admirals was with regard to the
extensive publication which these admirals wished to
give to their notes of the 7th of March, and the road
missibla document. I verbally and in writing stated,
that the only regular mode of effecting that object was
to lay the documents before the Legislative Chamber, by
whom, if necessary, they might be divulged ; but I ob-
served at the same time that the form adopted was not
regular, and that in no case could the Parliament take
any cognizance of acts which accompanied their com-
munication. The admirals, however, thought pro-
per to publish, in many parts of the city and of the
island, the documents which they had brought with
them; but I have the satisfaction to know that in every
place the Neapolitan proposition of conciliation was
looked upon with aversion and rejected. In the two last
notes of the 18th, by Admiral Batelin, and the 19th: by
Sir William Parker, I was informed, after a repetition
of the same arguments, that the admirals had sent a
steamer to Naples to acquaint the English and French
Ministers of the state of the negotiation, at the same
time giving us notice that in case a favourable issue did
not take place the armistice was to be denounced, and
that the suspension of hostilities would be at an end on
the 29th. To this notice we answered that time ran for
the Sicilians as well as for the Neapolitans, and that we
would renew the war at the expiration of the term if our
interest so required. Such is the information I lay be-
fore the Chamber. I now only await your judgment re-
specting it."

- This speech was received with tremendous applause
by the Chamber and the open tribune, and both the
Members within doors and the public without joined
in the most fervent approbation of the Ministerial
conduct. The Provisional Government published the
following proclamation as soon as the Admirals gave
notice that the armistice was denounced, and that
hostilities might be recommenced on the 29th :
" Sicilians! The shout of v:.ar to you is a cry of de-
light. The day of the 29th of March, on which hos-
tilities with the despot - of Naples are to recommence,
will be hailed with the same welcome as that of the 12th
of January, and with good reason, because liberty can
only be gained by the price of blood. Tho peace
which you were offered was ignominious. It destroyed
at one blow every interbst created by the Revolution.
You have won the admiration of all Europe; but if you
had been more forgetful of your rights, and had again
submitted to the lying despotism of a tyrant, what would
that world have said ? Sicilians ! Even though victory
be not certain, when honour is at stake a nation, like an
individual, has the superior right to immolate itself.
Better will it be to be consumed in the flaming ruins of
our country than to exhibit to Europe the spectacle of
vile cowardice. Death is preferable to slavery. But, no ;
we shall conquer—we confide in the sacred nature of our
cause and in the ardour of our souls.

" Look there. See the flaming desolation of Messina.
War, then, is for us the symbol of vengeance and of love.
One city of Sicily alone groans under the yoke of the
enemy of liberty. To arms ! to arms I Then, there, we
must conquer or die.
(Signed)

" RUGGIERO SETTIMO."

CITY OF LONDON GENERAL PENSION SOCIETY.—
Yesterday a general meeting of this institution, founded
in 1818 for providing a permanent relief, by means of
monthly pensions, to decayed artisans, rucehahnics,
sons
nufacturers, tradesmen, and the widows
loisle of electing
who are above 60 years of age,
Tavern, Bishopsgate-street, for theespuernpd
two femai,
s,
four additional pensioners, two males WAS heldot:
1 Themas Bedford,
on the funds of the charity. J
chair, the Secretary proceeded to
such
rorndon
Esq., having taken the
preliminary business before the elec-
tiondispose of the usual
the report it appears 1 since
the sin c,,
commenced. From
society to
1818
no 11 ss than iiC62
the establishment of the
poor, decayed,
d and aged persons have been pensioners on
and that the amount d' '
the funds of the charity, . . istrit. uted
in monthly pensions to the recipients of this relief was
•of 54 61
upwards ,
1/. A
in great feature in fav ur of the in-
stitution is, that distributing its benefits it looks not
to trade, business, profession, religion, or country. The
election was then proceeded with, and shortly after three
o'clock the names of the successful candidates were an-
nounced. A vote of thanks to the chairman terminate d
the proceedings.
PROFITABLE USE FOR FARRINGDON-MARKET.—A
portion of this mstrket, next Shoe-lane, has been con-
verted into a Ragged School, and the remainder, for
several years totally unoccupied, is proposed to be fitted
up as a model lodging-house, and as public baths and
,
wash-houses.