The Sun.
London, England, 1849-05-19 00:00:00

GERMAN PARLIAMENT.-MAY 16.

The President said that the administrator had sent
for him at thrse P.M., and had announced to him the
atrival of Colonel F'escher, the expected Prussian Com-
missary, who, he added, was fur nished with two-fold in-
structions:—l. To order the retirement of the Prussian
Deputies from the National Assembly. 2. To see how
affairs in Frankfort stood.

Peals of laughter followed the latter announcement,
and a groan or indignation the former one. Thirty-
t ight Prussians at once put in a written protest against
the order cancelling their mandate.
Widenmatm immediately moved as urgent, that no
individual Government had a right to nullity the elec
tions to the National Assembly, and thereby threaten
the dissolution of the Assembly; and that the order of
the Prussian Goverum,,rit was accordingly invalid, and
in no way binding. Widenaninn added that it would be
only offering an insult to the Assembly to waste a word
in the defence of his minion.--(Loud cheers.)
The motion was carried. Ayes, 287; Nees, 2; majo-
rity for the motion, 285; non-voters, 10.—(Cneers.)
Mittermaier moved to the same effect, with regard to
the order issued by Austria, in April last, for the renal
of her deputies.
His motion also was carried by a large mljority. It
will be remembered that two-thirds of the Austrian
members, er more, haVe already left.
Grawell and Reichensperger announce their retire-
• ment from the Assembly.—(Sensation.) A pause of a
few moments and Grawell is seen entering in lull dress.
A burst of clamorous laughter is his welcome. The
Members and the ladies in the gallery rise spontaneously
from their seats out of pure excitement. Grawell seats
himself on the Ministerial benches. The wrath and
ridicule of the Assembly is poured forth plenLously
upon him.
The President said he had an announcement to make.
Simon rushed to the rostrum. The Committee of
Thirty, he said, had, with sixteen votes against twelve,
framed the following resolution :-1. That a Regency of
five Members be elected to carrry out the Constitution.
2. This Regency should take oath to the Constitution.
3. That, with the administration of the said oath, the
agency of the Central Power should cease. 4. That the
Regency cease to govern the moment the constitutional
head of the empire enters upon office.
The Administrator's party fiercely opposed both
the urgency of the motion as regarded immediate debate,
and the making it the subject of discussion to-morrow.
Considerable altercation ensued. The motion for a
sitting on the morrow, the 17th, was rejected. The Left
immediately mustered 103 signatures, and called upon
the President to appoint an extraordinary sitting for
the 17th.

The Conservative party grew wrath again, and ex-
pressed doubts as to the genuineness of the signatures.
The President said it was his business to satisfy
himself on that point ; the demand of the 103 Mem-
bers was in perfect order, and he must, theretore, ap-
point a sitting, as requested, for tour P.M., to-morrow,
the 17th. The determination of the order of the day,
would, in this case, rest with the Member who had de-
manded the sitting.
Grawell, who had left the Assembly more than once,
at last made his appearance.
The President then notified the receipt of a note from
the ad interim Minister, Herr Von Gagern, informing
the Assembly that the Administ:ator had appointed Dr.
Grawell (of Frankfort-on-the-Oder) to be Minister of
the luterior and ad interim President of the Council.
Grawell said a fcw words about his consciousness of
the difficulty of his situation, his readiness to do his
duty; it being evident, at least, he said, that in his
advanced age, neither vanity nor ambition had induced
him to accept the post assigned to him. The House
would acknowledge that he Could not have done
otherwise than retire from the Assembly, as it
would not have been advisable to have taken up a hostile
position in respect of a power with which he, as
Minister, would have to negotiate.—(Clamour and de-
rision.) The other members of the Cabinet, as far as
the latter was complete, were—Detmold of Hanover,
Justice ; Jochmos, Foreign Affairs; Merck, of Ulm-
burgh, Finance. He would lay his programme, he added,
la,fore the Assembly to- morrow.

Simon at once intvrpellated the new Ministry. Was
it ready to carry out the constitutioN?
Grawell said his programme would answer this ques-
tion so clearly that he need net el:Ito:into the subject to-
day.

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The House adjourned at a Tiqrter to tight P.1.:7

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