The Sun.
London, England, 1848-09-26 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 26, 1818.

but if the charge be of a felonious character that pri-
vilege is denied, and although all his goods and chat-
tels may be forfeited to the Crown upon his convic-
tion, and his future prospects in life for ever blighted,
he is not permitted to obtain that which is essential to
a fair and impartial trial. The humane theory of
the British law is, that it is better that ninety-nine
guilty persons should escape the punishment due
to their crimes, than that one innocent man should
suffer. In practice, however, innocent men are re-
fused what may be essential to make their innocence
apparent, lest a guilty person might possibly escape,
by the opportunity afforded to his advocate of dis-
covering a flaw in the indictment, if any blot should
actually exist therein. Why should persons be de-
barred from the strictest inquiry into the validity
and legality of the charge, because the results are of
an infinitely more momentous character than any
that could follow an adverse decision in a civil case
or in one of misdemeanour.

Again, the trial by jury is regarded as the great
palladium of an Englishman's liberty. It is his
proudest boast that he cannot be adjudged guilty of
any offence, save on the unanimous verdict of twelve
of his peers, indifferently and impartially selected.
This is a beautiful theory, but how is it carried out in
practice? The sheriff, an officer nominated, with some
rare exceptions, entirely by the Crown, in whose elec-
tion the people have no share, nominates the jurymen as
he thinks proper. We doubt not that this extraordi.
nary power is in every instance most impartially and
fairly exercised ; but it may be abused, and in cases of
great political importance the imputation will fre-
quently be made, although perhaps most undeservedly.
Why should not every ground of suspicion be re-
moved by the publication of the jury panel a few days
before the sittings commence, and the delivery of a
copy to every prisoner who chooses to demand it ?
By this means the current of justice will flow pure
and unsullied, and be (as it ought) above the breath
of slander or reproach.

A banquet—brilliant, political, philosophic, enthu-
siastic—has at last taken place in the Champs
Fly sees. - Not the banquet of a few pottering re-
formers, sprinkled with the demireps of aristocracy,
and variegated by the colours of those statesmen who
degenerate from mob-orators to place-hunters, from
place-hunters to courtiers, and from courtiers down-
wards to the lowest grade of all, the sycophants of
kingcraft. Nothing of all this cast a gloom over
the convivialities of the Republicans who, on Friday
afternoon, dined under the green trees in the garden
of the Chalet. M. ODILLON BARROT, in the me-
morable spring of the current year, made an appoint-
ment with three millions of men on the Boule-
vards, and failed to keep it. The Parisians
could not easily forget that dereliction of political
consistency. No more patchwork improvements for
them ! no more cobbling of the old decaying consti-
tution ! no more extraction of the rotten planks, and
substitution of the sound ones as a compensation for
their evanescence ! The doom of the whole blundering
edifice was pronounced by the heroes of February.
The Past was swallowed in the Revolution. The
Present was a chaos, obscured by confusion, and dark-
ened by doubts, but lit up, nevertheless, with the
gleams of hope, and the meteors of popularity, and
the flashes of heroism, and the conflagrations
of oratory. As for the Future—it was a
region of dim anticipations, of doubts, and
anxieties, of the joy of confidence and of
the dejection of dread, a vista as fluctuating and
as feebly defined as might have been expected
from the perspective ambition of a volatile and ima-
ginative people. Talk as we may of the extravagance
of some of the leading statesmen of February—of the
despotism of the commissaries sent into the depart-
ments by the Provisional Minister of the Interior, of
the economic hallucinations of Louis BLANC, of the
rhetorical rant of FLocoN in the Reform, and the
subversive Socialism of ALBERT in the Atelier—it
must be confessed that there was at least in these men
a manliness of daring which compensated in some
measure for the total want on their part of the dig-
nity of virtue or of the grandeur of patriotism. For
these reasons we have watched the character and the
proceedings of the democratic banquet of Friday,
without that inexorable predisposition to suspect and
to abhor which obscures the judgment of those who
are filled with an antipathy for Communism.
After the speech delivered by the President, M.
AUDRY DE PUYRAVEAU, in the course of which he
took an oath of fidelity to the Democratic Republic, an
oration was uttered by N. LEDRU ROLLIN, the dis-
tinguished but unpopular member of the Provisional
Government and the Executive Commission. To
deny the eloquence of this oration would be as ridicu-
lous as to deny that its tendency, though obscure and
inferential, was in a very peculiar degree pernicious.
The orator repudiated Socialism, but in the same
breath he adopted its synonym, called Social Repub-
licanism. He reverenced not FOUNRIER, but the
ghost of FOURRIER, not Saint SIMON, but his sha-
dow, not the Organization of Labour, but the aboli-
tion of competition. He grew impassioned as he
tracked the recollections evoked over the sequence of
fifty-six years when he raised bis wine-cup to his lips
and drank To the Anniversary of the 22d September,
1792 ! The Right to Labour ! he exclaimed : Was
that Socialism ? No : it was not Socialism—it was
Republicanism ! The infinitesimal division and dis-
tribution of property ! Was that Socialism ? No : it
was not Socialism—it was Republicanism ? The
equalization of public imposts ! IVas that Socialism ?
No : it was not Socialism—it was Republicanism !
The abolition of monastic vows ! Was that Social-
ism ? No : it was not Socialism—it was
Republicanism ! " Yes ! it is Republicanism !" he
exclaimed, "it is Republicanism and the adver-
saries of the true Republic are aware that that Re-
public, if once rooted in the morals of the country,
cannot be overthrown." A sophism, that—and a
sophism to our thinking as tawdry and hollow as any
one of those shallow dogmas which have been born
from the soul of an unprincipled ambition. For a
man who insinuates the spoliations of the rich, to talk
of the morals of the country ! For a man who
hints at the despotism of the rabble over
the conscience, to talk, forsooth, of the
morality of his proposed institutions But enough
of this brawling affectation of justice—this flimsy
pretence of humanity—this tinselled mask of pa..
triotism. The violence of the sentiments enunciated
on Friday evening, in the gardens of the Chalet and
in the Champs Elysees, by M. LEDRII ROLLIN, has
done more to damage his reputation as a Republican
statesman than the insolence of his circulars or the
tyrannical behaviour of his commissaries. Hence-
forth his name will never be whispered among
those of the practicable politicians capable of
securing the
.salvation of the Republic. He can
never regain power except by building up for
himself a new popularity; and to acquire a new po-
pularity, it is necessary for him to repudiate almost
every act of his past career. History will pre-
serve his name among those men who, by a glo-
rious display of courage, or rather by a magnificent
ebullition of audacity, saved France on the 24th of
February. The glory of that event will pre-
serve his name to posterity, but the frivo-
lity of his ideas, and the rashness of his
philosophy, will cover the subsequent incidents of his
biography with the pall of oblivion, that pall which
conceals nothing but baseness and corruption. M.
LEDRU ROLLIN has had opportunity enough to be a
great man, and has been, without courage enough to
render himself a bad man—he was shot up into cele •
brity, almost by accident, and in obedience to all the
laws of moral and intellectual gravitation, is now
falling into the depths of insignificance.

SPAIN.

Madrid journals of the 20th have arrived.

General-CORDOVA and his staff arrived at Barce-
lona on the 17th. The General immediately assumed
the command of the province of Catalonia. It was
arnouneed in Madrid that AMETTLER, at the head of
400 men, had entered Catalonia.
MADRID BOLSA, SEPT. 19.—Three, 19 15 16i;
Fives, 104 ; Exchange on London, 47 80 cash.

ROYAL SAPPERS AND MINERS.—The 12th com-
pany of this branch of the Ordnance corps were medi-
cally inspected at the Ordnance Hospital on Friday last,
and their baggage put on board the Princess Royal,
hired transport ship at Woolwich, on Saturday, and the
company under the command of Captain Baillie, R.E.,
will
embark to-day, Monday, September 25, for Gib-
raltar, to relieve the 11th company under the command
of Captain Ilutehinson,
June, 1842, stationed at Gibraltar since

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris papers of yesterday.
Prince Louis NAPOLEON arrived on Sunday even-
ing. No attempt was made to disturb the public
tranquillity, as the preparations of General CAVAIG-
NAC were so complete as to render all such attempts
hopeless.
The speech of M. LEDRII ROLLIN at the Chalet is
regarded by almost all the moderate papers as a
declaration of war against society.
The Journal des Debats says :
" The speech of M. Ledru Rollin is not precisely a
chef louvre, but as it has been put forth as a pro-
gramme of the future, it is well to know to what we are
proceeding.
" To what, therefore, are we to come, or rather what
would be our fate if M. Ledru Rollin bad the guidance
of affairs ? To a general war and assignats. That
is not only the result, but it is the avowed object of
the programme of M. Ledru Rollin. The old mem-
ber of the Provisional Government remarks with
great severity on the foreign policy pursued by the
present Government ; he announces that he will
speak more fully elsewhere ; but he has already
said enough to convince us that he has nothing in his
head but revolutionary propagandism. With regard
to the domestic policy pursued, M. Ledru Rollin ex-
presses his views on financial affairs, and chooses as his
model the great citizen, Cambon. That name is too
closely connected with the system of assignats to be rea-
dily forgotten, and a reference to the Moniteur will in-
form us of all his propositions on the subject of assignats,
forced loans, suspension of the payment of pensions, &c.
There is nothing in all this to quiet uneasiness; and
when speaking of the subject, M. Ledru Rollin exclaims
with enthusiasm, 'May we not find another Cambon?'
" But M. Ledru Rollin asks other very indiscreet
questions. For instance, he demands what has been
done for the people since February? It is not for us to
reply; but had we to do so, we should say like every one
else,' Money has been wanting.' But to this M. Ledru
Rollin observes, that he could never comprehend that
objection. He is very fortunate. Let him then address
himself to M. Goudchaux, or even to M. Gamier Pages
and M. Duclerc, to all finance Ministers,: past, present,
and to come, always excepting a Cambon, and ask
them if they understand it. But that is of no conse-
quence. Our fathers,' he said, lived by expedients,
and it is thus that all revolutions are supported.'
Such, therefore, is the programme of the future. A great
country must live like a spendthrift, from day to day ;
making bills, and doubling the expense in proportion as
he devours his eapital. What a future. But it is said,
at such or such a period, in times of great embarrass-
ment, millions and even milliards have been found.
That is true. There is a great alchymist—credit ; there
is a philosopher's stone—which is confidence. But con-
fidence cannot be commanded. You may apply to it
what has been• said of a woman, She is like your
shadow; fly from her, and she follows you ; follow her,
and she flies from you.' You complain that money has
been concealed—that there must, after thirty years of
peace, be plenty of it, and that it must be found. Seek
it then, ye searchers after measures. It will hide itself
in the bowels of the earth from whence it first came, and
you will be reduced like the great citizen Gambols to
make laws against it—and that is what is called a pro-
gramme for the future—and you do not observe that it
is only the deplorable and vulgar prospectus of the past!
We know of no greater reactionist than M. Ledru
Rollin ; when he speaks we think we are listening to
a voltigeur of '93. What Frederick William wished to
do for the middle ages, M. Ledru Rollin wished to effect
for the Convention, and it is well known bow the thing
succeeded beyond the Rhine.
" The great object of M. Ledru Rollin is to make
republicanism enter into our habits, but we humbly
opine that different manners may be adopted for effecting
it. When he was Minister of the Interior he endea-
voured by his circulars and his commissaries to instil his
own republican ideas into the habits of the people. We
doubt whether he has bad reason to congratulate himself
on his efforts, and we think he must have learnt that it
is not for the country to make :itself the image of the
Republic, but for the Republic to become the image of
the country."
It would appear from the Coratitutionnel that the
spoken speech was even more violent than the pub-
lished one. That journal says :
"The speech delivered by M. Ledru Rollin at the
banquet at the Chalet, on the anniversary of the French
Republic, was, it is said,:before publication very much
corrected and softened down. This is scarcely to be
credited, for even in his well-known circulars has he
ever given way to more violence of expression. What
is here called right of labour, forced loan paper money,
&c., is nothing more nor less than universal war with all
its consequences, and that is the happiness which M.
Ledru Rollin promises to France in the name of the true
Republic."

It is abundantly evident that LEDNY ROLLIN is
now willing to go to the extremest lengths of Com-
munism in order to gratify his hatred of the moderate
Republicans.
In the Reforme of yesterday we find the following
attempt to excite the Communists and Red Repub-
licans to another rising. In large characters there
appears :—" Eighth Bulletin of the Republic of 1848.
Departure of the transported (insurgents)." Here
follows a dismal account of the departure of 550 in-

surgents for Havre, in the midst of rain and storm.
Then comes the following bulletin, equally in large
print :—" Other Bulletin of the Republic of 1848.
Fete at the President's of the National Assembly.
The musical part of the fete given this evening by
the President of the National Assembly will be com-
posed of a fragment of Eden, of Christopher Co-
lumbus, by DAVID, and of an air of the Favorite,
sung by ➢idlle. LAhIOACIERE. ‘Vive la Repub-
lique. "

We find the following resume of the present state
of parties in France in the Siècle:—
" We are far from considering as well founded the
alarms which at present are felt in the public mind; we
must not, however, deceive ourselves by illusions; the
violent party does not consider itself as vanquished; far
from being broken by the late events, they are still
closely united; they have the cohesion and the discipline
of an army, and they march forward with boldness to the
accomplishment of their designs. Let it not, therefore,
be forgotten that there are sixty thouaaud men, all ene-
mies of social order, animated by mad passions against
the National Assembly, and keeping up amongst them-
selves the most intimate relations, and that they may be
on foot either to vote or to combat on the first signal
from their invisible- chiefs, and ready, for the purpose of
securing the triumph of their Utopian schemes, to range
themselves under any standard of insurrection that may
be unfurled.

" There are many honest citizens who are discontented
with the Republic, which has not, we confess, been as yet
calculated to inspire them with much enthusiasm,:and very
well disposed, as they say, to receive pretender, provided
he presents himself under favourable circumstances, and
surrounded with a respectable cortege. This class of citizens
await Louis Napoleon, doing him the injustice to sup-
pose that he will prefer the character of an adventurer
to that of a devoted citizen. Others would., prefer the
Prince de Joinville, whose foresight, if he bad been free
or more influential, would have saved the late govern-
ment from its faults, and from their attendant ruin.
Others, again, feel convinced that the restoration of
Henry V. is inevitable; others, again, in their impatience
and discouragement, would be inclined to accept the first
comer. But let all who entertain those ideas reflect
that at the back of any movement that might be made
by any: party there would be found the army of So-
cialists, ready to turn', their demonstrations and their
efforts to their own advantage, and to trample every
standard in the dust and in blood, in order to raise their
own red flag on the ruins of our city. Let all who feel
impatient and discontented bear these reflections well in
mind. To them we would say, 'France, if united, will
triumph over every peril which may threaten her.'
The Moderate party in the country is endowed with
strength and intelligence; let it continue to be just, firm,
and vigilant, and it will have nothing to fear from fac-
tions. The Republic is France—it is us. France will
have the government which she thinks best suited to her
interests, and of which she will be worthy."

The National announces that 4,000 French troops
have landed at Venice from four steam-frigates.

In the same journal we find an article warning the
Vienna Ministry and their Archduke Jowl that their
reactionary intrigues are discovered.
Does Austria, for instance," asks the National, " be-
lieve that we are ignorant of what is passing at Vienna ?
Do we not know that the mediation, at first refused, was
only accepted at the instances of the Ministers of Holland
and Belgium, and with a view to gain time ? Do we
not know that the project of the Camarilla was to begin
by crushing Hungary, and then to return with all its
forces, not against Italy, but against Vienna, where the
democracy has broken down all impediments?"
" Does the Assembly at Frankfort, discredited amongst
the Germans themselves, hope to deceive us ? Let it
try, then, to push liberal Germany against us. As for
Prussia, we know that her King feels too uneasy about
his own throne to be thinking of us. Russia remains—
this flaming sword of absolutism, supreme hope of the
phantom of an Emperor that the Archduchess Sophia
rules from Schoenbrunn. Russia? She has a numerous
e
army but little money ; and even if she possessed ex-
haustless treasures, they would be neutralized by the
fear
int contact
le with
ry. thee
twwe west.
The he Czarof putting e
dreads
more r e than
break out and Gallicia, which out of horror of Austria
(another insult to Austria) spreads her arms to him,
would, as well as Posen, be occupied by Russian troops,
but they would advance no farther. And what do Hun-
gary and Bohemia, crushed but not enslaved, wait in
order to proclaim their entire independence ? The signal
of war."
" A high Prussian functionary said to the one of our-
selves a few days ago, and ho :is a man not disposed to
accept the republic, Before a year is about, no matter
what happens, the different German states will be formed
into a republic, not into a single republic, but into a se-
ries of Republics united by a federal link. And that
which will provoke this general revolution will be the
entry of a French army into Italy.'
"If these words, emanating from a man so well placed
for appreciating circumstances be true, the miserable
game played by Austria may retard her fall, but will not
save her. A law superior to all political combinations
rules European affairs. The old monarchical mould is
broken, and everything tends in the world towards the
constitution of the uniyereal democracy."

Paris was perfectly tranquil up to the hour of the
departure of the post last evening.
The Moniteur du Soir of Saturday says :—" Our
relations with the states of Central America have just
been interrupted. Our Consul has quitted Guate-
mala, leaving our countrymen under the protection
of the representative of Great Britain. We are as-
sured that this measure was taken in consequence of
grave insults to the new Goveriment of France, in
which insults the President CARREVA is said to have
been associated."

In the sitting of the National Assembly yesterday,
the discussion on Article 16 of the Constitution was
resumed, and an amendment accepted by the Govern-
ment and the Committee, and adopting the principle
of proportionate taxation, was adopted by a majority
of 644 to 96. Article 17 was adopted without debate,
and the discussion was going on on Article 18 (which
relates to the public authorities) at the time the post
left.

Great excitement was created among the ultra-
democratic party at Lyons by the return of the
moderate candidate. On Thursday a mob of six or
seven hundred individuals in blouses went to the
Prefecture, and summoned the Prefect to appear.
The Prefect having come forward, they demanded
with loud and confused cries the annulment of the
election of M. RIVET. The Prefect explained that
he had not the power to do what they required--
that the Assembly alone had; and that they should
petition if they had any proofs of illegality to bring
forward. " Proofs !" cried they, "we don't want
proofs, we are convinced ourselves, and that's
enough ! We have been robbed and tricked, and
will have the election recommenced !" After a good
parleying,tat the mob would invade the Pre-
gharanguing, and vociferation, the
dealfie,rcetuf
eorcfet:
cfeaal
lreidout the troops of the post and maden
them station before the railing. Subsequently the
mob assembled on the Place des Terreaux, and re-
mained to an advanced hour, bawling the chorus of
the Marseiliaise, " Aux armes, citoyens !" &c. A
band paraded the quays, roaring the same words, but
no other disturbance took place. These demonstra-
tions, however, caused great alarm to the peaceable
population.

The following letter, says the:Aloniteur du Soir,
has been addressed to the British Consul at Boulogne
by the National Guards who visited England
" Monsieur le Consul,—Being unacquained with the
administrative formalities of your country, we take the
liberty of requesting your kind intervention to thank
your fellow-countrymen in the name of all our comrades
assembled at Boulogne, for the kind care, the gracious
and friendly reception, and the respect and attention
of every kind, of which we were the object
during our too short stay in England. In the impos-
sibility, Sir, of transmitting to you the names of all
those to whom our sincere thanks are due, we restrict
ourselves to naming the directors of the Continental
steamers, and particularly Mr. Herbert, their secretary-
general ; the directors of the South-Eastern Railroad,
and Mr. Cockerton, their representative at the London
station ; to Superintendents Swan and Easel, and Cap-
tains Paul and Monger. Be pleased, Sir, on this occa
sion, to be the interpreter of our sentiments of gratitude
towards the honourable functionaries by whose delicacy
so many of our fellow-countrymen have profited. It
such conduct, Sir, leaves anything to be desired, it is the
opportunity of proving, in our turn, to your fellow-coun-
trymen, the value that we attach to this mark of sympa-
thy to the French name."

The Minister of the Finances has issued a notice
contradicting a report that the dividends on the
Five per Cents, for the present term were not to be
paid. The Minister says that the payment com-
menced on the 22d, and that arrangements have
been made giving additional facilities to the public in
order that the operation may be finished with promp-
titude.

BOURSE.—PARIS, MONDAY, SEPT. 25.
THREE o'CLocn.—The uneasy feeling which pervaded
the Bourse for the last week still continues. To-day there
was hardly nay
business done, and it was with difficulty
that the Rentes and Shares were sustained. There were
various rumours afloat of Bonapartist conspiracies, but
they were not generally credited. The landing of the
French troops at Venice is also looked upen as likely
to lead to fresh complications. For the Account, the
French Three per Cents. and Five per Cents. remain at
the prices of Saturday, but quotations are nearly nominal;
the Loan has fallen 25c. For Money, the Three per
Cents. bare risen 25c.; Five per Cents. remain as on
Saturday; while the Loan is sc. lower; Bons du Tresor
aro not quoted; Bank of France Shares hare fallen 15f.;
Belgian Bank Shares are quoted for the first time for
some weeks at 645; ditto Two. and-a-Half per Cents. are
at 39; Spanish Active not quoted; ditto Three per Cents.
not quoted; ditto Passive are at 21; Roman have risen 1
per cent. on the news of the formation of a new Govern-
ment; Rothschild's Receipts are as on Saturday. Ex-
change on London (30 days), 251. 30c.; ditto (90 days),
25f. 17ic. Railway Shares are without any material
change, with the exception of Hanes, which rose sf.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE, SErr. 25.

Boulogne and Amiens, 57—Orleans and Bordeaux, yB.l

GERMANY
AND

THE NORTHERN STATES.

B ADEN.

SUCCESSFUL INSURRECTION - PROCLAMA-
TION OF A GERMAN REPUBLIC.

The Republicans under STRUVE have made a suc-
cessful outbreak in Baden, and have proclaimed a
German Republic. According to the Gazette Na-
tinale Suisse, STRUTE had returned to the Grand
Duchy to attend his trial for certain articles which he
had published in his paper, the Spectateur Allemand.
He was received by the people with enthusiasm, who
accompanied him to Lorrach and conducted him to
the Hotel de Ville. There he harangued the people,
who arrested the magistrates and the other employes
of the Government, and imprisoned them. The
tocsin sounded, the whole of the neighbouring
communes rose, the refugees returned to their homes,
was called out, the republic pro-
republican army, divided into three
drutmhe
pro-
claimed, thelai
mLe
da dasnt
columns, Was marching upon Carlsrube, having pre-
viously broken up the railway to prevent the ad-
vance of the troops. When the last accounts left
the Republicans were completely masters of Lorrach.
The revenue collectors had taken the oaths to the
Republic, martial-law had been proclaimed against
traitors and reactionaries. Orders had been given
to the authorities to keep the tocsin ringing all day
in the different communes, and signal fires burning
on the mountains all night, to arrest all Monarchists
and sequestrate their property, and to call out
all the young men capable of bearing arms
and direct them to present themselves at the
chve lieu of the district. All these orders were
issued in the name of the Republican Government,
and signed, " STRUTE."

The following proclamation has been addressed to
the German people by the chief of the Baden insur-
rection :

" The struggle between the people and their op-
pressors has commenced. The people have been
fired upon even in the streets of Franckfort-on-the-
Maine, the seat of the impotent Central Power and of
the verbose Constituent Assembly. The sword alone
can save the German people. If the reaction
triumphs at Frankfort,, Germany will be plundered
and oppressed by legal means in a manner more ter-
rible than she could have been by the most bloody
wars. To arms,
Germans ! The Republic alone can
conduct us to the goal at which we aim.
" Long live the German Republic !
" In the name of the Provisional Government.

(Signed) " G. STRUVE.
" German Republic—Prosperity, Education, Li-
berty for all.

" Head-quarters, Lorrach, Sept. 21."
It is said that the Baden insurgents have taken
Friborg in. the Black Forest, and the French Patrie
of Sunday publishes a letter from Mulhausen, an-
nouncing that they had taken Carlsruhe, deposed
the Grand Duke, and marched upon Frankfort.

upon the new office to which his Majesty has appointed
us, and we wish to express our firm resolution ,to con-
tinue in the constitutional course which has been
adopted. We will protect the liberties which have been
guaranteed, and oppose reactionary movements in every
branch of the public service, among the civil classes as
well as among the military. The constitution which is
now being settled with the consent of the Crown will, I
trust, contribute to promote the great object which the
union of the Prussian and the German people is destined
to accomplish. We are devoted to the promotion of the
interests of the Prussian people, but we shall not forget
that it is the duty of every Government to op-
pose anarchy, and that it is the desire of the whole
country that this duty should be fulfilled. We are
aware that liberty must be united with order, and that it
is only thus that trade and agriculture can flourish. We
would hasten the work of the constitution as much as
lies in our power; and, besides the laws for the Burgher
Guard, we will soon propose others with respect to the
new orders for the communes, districts, and provinces.
We will maintain the rights and liberties of the people,
as well as the rights and the authority of the Crown. We
will communicate to you what you desire to know with
respect to the Administration, and notice your wishes.
At the same time we consider it our duty to protect the
rights of the Crown, which holds the executive power.
We enter upon our duty with a full consciousness of the
difficulties connected with it, but likewise with the hope
and confidence that a common feeling of patriotism will
promote unity amongst us."
The discussion which ensued was very animated, and
several questions were put by Herr KiecnsfANN as
to the appointment of General Vox WRANGEL to the
command of the troops, and as to the concentration of
the troops round Berlin. Vox PFUEL replied that
General Vox WRANGEL had been appointed Com-
mander-in-Chief of the troops, but that the concen-
tration of military forces in this city had no other
object than: to offer protection to the National As-
sembly, and to maintain public order, in case it were
not in the power of the Burgher Guard to do so.
A placard, evidently emanating from the National
Assembly, has been posted on the walls of the ca-
pital :

- "Citizens and Inhabitants of Berlin,—A dark cloud
has arisen, which will probably menace and put in ques-
tion the existence of the National Assembly, which re-
presents all the people—the cause of liberty—the cause
of the people. Fellow-citizens, in face of these dan-
gers, it is the sacred duty of every on• cheerfully to
devote himselt to the cause of the people and of liberty.
" Let the people of Berlin calmly and silently, and
with the rigorous observance of legal order, watch the
progress of things, in order that they may in the sequel
act worthy of themselves. This, however, we declare—
that the National Assembly will know how to execute
its mission with immovable confidence, and will know
how to repel, under every circumstance, every attempt
at violence, it matters not when or from whence it
comes."

The Cologne Gazette has the following from
Berlin, 20th inst. :—" General DE WRANGEL has to-
day reviewed the troops of the garrison. He was
received with loud acclamations by the National
Guard under the command of M. RIMPLER. After
the review he harangued the officers, and told them
that, in case of any outbreak, the troops would not
interfere until it was found that the civic guard were
unable to quell the disturbance. He said :-
3 The troops are good, their swords are well shar-
pened, and they have balls in their muskets.. But they
are not armed against the people of Berlin : it is to pro-
tect them. We will act together ; no reaction, but
respect for order, the laws, and liberty. What
a pain it is to me to see grass grow in the
streets, houses deserted, the shops full of goods, but
without purchasers, and workmen without employment.
All this must he changed; I cm about to bring wel-
fare with order. Anarchy must be overcome, that I
promise you, and a Wrangel never broke his word.
I see with pleasure the troops in such good condition;
you will maintain it so. The soldiers and the citizens
must be on a good understanding together. The citizens
are their parents, and have the same object in view, that
of maintaining the honour and the glory of Prussia, and
to found German unity with you. They are your
brethren, and they will not forget that in the ranks of
the army are to be found their brothers and their fathers.
I regret not to have seen the troops defile to-day before
his Majesty. The King is aware of the fatigues of the
service, and it is for that reason that he has granted
them an extra allowance. lam happy to be able to in-
form you of it."

The officers raised their caps, and gave three cheers
of " Long live the KING."

A Berlin letter states that General WILLISEN has
left that city on a special mission to General
CAVAIGNAC, with whom he is personally acquainted,
having served in Algeria.

Frankfort, the intended attack on the National Assem-
bly, riot in the streets, which had_ to 'be suppressed by
force of arms, revolting assassination, and the threats
and maltreatment of individual deptr.ies, these things
have plainly betrayed thy• plans and ' means of a party
that is bent on bringing on our fathefiand the terrors of
anarchy and civil war.
"Germans! your liberty is sacred in my eyes. It
must be permanently and firmly estabiisi_hed by the fabric
of the constitution, for the erection of which your repre-
sentatives are here assembled. But it would be torn from
your grasp if lawlessness and its consequences were dif-
fused over Germany.
"Germans! by the law of the 28th June, 1848, the
Executive Power has been given me in matters which
concern the general safety and propriety of Germany;
I have to protect our fatherland, whether it be jeopar-
dised by foes from without, or by criminal outrages
from within. I know my duty, and 1 will discharge it.
I will discharge it resolutely and fully. And ye, Ger-
mans, ye who love your country and your liberties, ye,
I feel assured, will stand energetically at my side.
(Signed) " The Administrator of the Empire,
"JOHN.
(Countersigned) " The Irnpe;ial Ministers,
S CH M ERLING,
" PE LTC KER,
" DUCKWITZ,
" 111OHL.
"Frankfort, Sept. 20, 1848."

AUSTRIA, HUN GARY, AND
CROATIA.

The Aix-la-Chapelle Gazette of the 24th, states
that the Vienna Assembly did not receive the depu-
tation of the Hungary Diet in coypu, but merely re-
ceived their address.

His MAJESTY has accepted the resignation of the
Hungarian Ministry, because some of them had
ministered their portfeuilles illegally. He has again
charged the former prime minister, Count BATTHY..
ANY, with the formation of a new Hungarian Cabinet.
He at first declined this, but KOSSUTH and MADA-
YASS have promised to give him all the assistance in
their power.
KOSSUTH, in a speech which he made on the 17th,
brought the llungarian representatives not only to
declare their determination a defending their coun-
try, but also to fortify Pesth and to erect barricades,
in case ETELEACIIICII should enter the town.

From Hungary we learn that the town of Comorn
was burnt down on the 18th. On the 17th the head
quarters of the Ban had advanced to Kiss Komarum,
on the Plattemee.