The Sun.
London, England, 1849-05-10 00:00:00

PRUSSIA-.

On the Bth May, at Cologne, upwards of 500
members of all different municipal corporations
throughout Rhenish Prussia met in private sitting at
the Casino, where the following resolutions were
carried by acclamatior. A copy of them was for-
w:rded to Frankfort by express, and likewise official
notifications to the authorities at Berlin. Mr. Zell
and Mr. Werner, who presided, are both members of
the Left Centre in the Frankfort Assembly :
The Prussian Government having dissolved the second
chamber after that chamber bad voted the unconditional
acceptance of the German Constitution of the 28th
March inst., and the said Government, having by that
measure deprived the said Prussian people of its repre-
sentation and voice in the present decisive moment, the
undersigned delegates of the cities and districts of the
Rhenish provinces have assembled to consult about the
steps to be taken to the salvation of the country.
This Assembly has this day considered the following
motion, and adopted the same as their resolutions, viz.:-
1. This said Assembly makes declaration and pro-
tests that the constition of the German empire such as
the Parliament proclaimed the same on the 28th of
March inst., is to the said Assembly binding and con-
clusive, and that the said Assembly takes the part of
the said constitution in the conflict which the Prussian
Government has commenced with the Parliament.
2. And this Assembly calls upon the whole population
the Rhenish countries, and especially upon all men
the, are fit and proper to carry arms, to assemble in
their respective districts, and thence to issue joint decla-
rations, testifying their resolution to stand by the Ger-
man Parliament, and to yield implicit obedience to its
decrees.

3. This Assembly humbly petitions the German
Parliament, praying that the said Parliament will
speedily adopt more energetic measures, so as to consoli-
date the pepular opposition in the individual German
States, and especially in the Rheinish countries, and to
impart to that opposition that strength and singleness of
purpose, which alone can prevail against the attempts
of the organised counter-revolution.

4. Andthis Assembly furthermore humbly petitions
the Cabinet of his Highness the Regent, praying the :aid
Cabinet to cause the German troops to be sworn on the
Constitution, and to provide a concentration of the said
troops.
S. The undersigned take the solemn engagement to
use all legal means in their power to promote the effec-
tuation of the German Constitution in their respective
districts. _ . _

6. The said Assembly is of opinion that the dismissal
of the Cabinet of M.M. Brandenburg and Manteuffel,
and the issuing of %rite for a general election, without
any change or alteration of the electoral law, is an impe-
rative necessity.
7. This Assembly considers the late partial sum-
moning of the Land wehr as a measure which is not
warranted by the circumstances of the conntry, but
which cannot but endanger the country. The Assembly
expects the immediate revocation of that measure.
S. In conclusion the undersigned express their convic-
tion that the non consideration of the contents of this
declaration must be fraught with the greatest dangers
for the country, and that by it, even the existence of
Prussia in her present composition, would be placed in
jeopardy.
Resolved at Cologne, May 8.
Signed by the delegates of the cities and districts of the
Rhenish countries.

The above resolutions were immediately followed
by the following proclamation of the Chief President
of Rhenania :

" The declarations made by a certain meeting which on
this day was held in the Casino Saloon, makes it incum-
bent o❑ me again to point out to the inhabitants of the
Rhenish countries that this meeting has no claim whatever
to any representative or official character, and that the
said declarations onght to be considered as merely ex-
pressing the private opinion of those that signed them,
At the end of these declarations I see, to my great sor-
row, a threat of a violent secession of the Rhenish pro-
vinces from the Prussian monarchy, or, to speak more
plainly, a threat of civil war and rebellion. I find comfort
in my confidence in the loyalty of the inhabitants of the
Rhenish provinces, and trust that they will turn with hor-
ror from such resolutions, that they will nut stray from
the path of legality, the glory of the Rhine Province,
and that they will not place the Government into the
lamentable necessity of making use of those means of
force which are at the disposal of the Government.
" The Chief President of the Rhenish Provinces,
" Cologne, May 8."
EICLIMANN.