The Sun.
London, England, 1848-12-05 00:00:00

GERNIAZY

AND
THE NORTHERN STATES.

PRUSSIA.

The Prussian National Assembl, met at Branden-
burg on the Ist instant. BRUNNECK took the Presi-
dent's chair at eleven o'clock. Afer the call of the
names had been concluded, the Pesident announced
the numbers to be 260 present, and 15 absent but
agreeing; which altogether gale 275 acquiescent,
and 131 absent. M. SCIINEIDEI then mounted the
tribune, and read a paper agreed upon by about forty
of the Left Centre, to the effect that they had come
forward because Government had manifested the in-
tention of calling on their substitutes ; and that if
UNRUH, PHILLIPS, and others of the Left Centre,
were not present, it was becaus3 they remained at
Berlin, seeking to persuade the remainder of the
Left Centre and Left to follow them to Brandenburg.
M. PARICENS then proposed that, in order to give
time to M. UNRUH to move, the sitting should
be adjourned until Monday. This question being
put, was negatived by 145 to 113. SCHNEIDER
then returned to the tribune, aad declared
that, as the proposition of adjournment was not
agreed to, he and his friends were resolved to retire,
which they did forthwith. In the midst of the up-
roar and confusion arising from this proceeding, M.
BaustarAuK rose and stated that the name of M.
UNRUH had been coupled with that of " President,"
whereas M. UNRUH was not President, and could not
be so until re-elected. M. BRUNNECK then proposed
that the House should proceed to the nomination of a
President and a bureau, but as, on counting the slips
of paper dropped into the ballot urn, only 172 names
were found, M. BRUNNECK declared that the election
must be null. Whereupon M. SIMONS proposed that
the Assembly should request Ministers to convoke
the substitutes of all those members who had retired,
this retreat being tantamount to abdication of their
seats. This being pat to the vote, 73 voted in favour
of the motion, 9 against, and 82 abstained. M.
BRUNNECK then declared that he would communicate
the result to the Ministers, and the House broke up
amidst i"describable confusion.
vn the zo cis till,. Lae Board of Aldermen of Berlin
proceeded to Potsdam, to present a congratulatory
address to the KING, on the 25th anniversary of his
marriage. In the course of his reply the KING said—
" You have spoken about your loyalty ; I shall now
speak of mine. Under different circumstances, loyalty
assumes a different aspect. The orders which I have
been obliged to issue of late were given with a heavy
heart, but according to the dictates of duty and con.
science. It was for you that I was acting, an order to
free my good old city of Berlin from men of blood,
tyranny, and slavery. Nevertheless, be convinced that
I shall not retract that which I have promised—that I
fulfil my promises. My support will never be wanting
to you."
The KING added, " The late address from the alder-
men to their fellow-citizens is an historical document,
and is one of the best I have ever read. I am fully
aware that the gentlemen of the aldermanic board
may just now be of very great service." About the
time that this scene was passing in Potsdam the mill-
tary were ransacking the house of Herr IIILDEN..
HAGEN, one of the secretaries of the National As-
sembly, and seizing all his papers.
BERLIN, DEC. 2.—The residence of the Deputy
HILDENMAGEN is now occupied by the military ; they
were an hour and a half gaining admittance per
force. Of course every thing has been searched, and
the papers seized. Two carts full of them have
been taken away, under military escort. M. Hin-
DENHAGEN had under his charge the bureau of the
Deputies assembled at Berlin.
The Gazette du Rhin et Moselle reports a serious
affray at Coblentz on the 30th. A large number of
individuals belonging to the Landwehr and the war-
reserve had convened a meeting for that evening in
the Coling Hall. But just as the sitting was about
to be opened, a number of soldiers of the 26th regi-
ment of infantry, who had assembled before the
doors with sabres in their bands, began grossly ill-
treating the persons who were repairing to the place
of rendezvous. An affray was the consequence, in
which several individuals, soldiers and others, were
seriously wounded, and some killed.