The Sun.
London, England, 1848-08-26 00:00:00

GERMANY

AND

THE NORTHERN STATES.

PRUSSIA.
SERIOUS RIOTS AT BERLIN.
On Sunday an alarming riot took place at Berlin. It
appears that a democratic club has been formed at Char-
lottenburg, as a branch of the democratic congress of
MARK BRANDENBURG, which sits at Berlin. On Sunday
the reactionary party, which muster in great strength at
Charlottenburg, very imprudently attacked the house
in which the democratic club was holding its delibera-
tions; and, having made a public entry, dragged the
members of the club into the street, beat several of them
away, and drove others to their houses. The autho-
rities, civil and military, of Charlottenburg, witnessed
their lawless proceedings, but did not attempt to interfere.
Many members of theof the club received severe injuries,
and several were stabbed.

No sooner had the intelligence of this attack arrived
at Berlin than the democrats of that city determined to
get up a demonstration against the reactionaries. Ac-
cordingly, they placarded the city with notices calling
on the people to assemble; and in the evening au im-
mense crowd assembled at the Ossernplatze, and pro-
ceeded to attack the house of the Minister AUERSWALD,
where there was a grand soirée. A body of armed police
attempted to disperse the rioters, but were driven back.
The Burgher Guard were at length called out, and after
great exertions succeded in restoring tranquillity. The
following account appears in the Hamburgh I3orsenhalle:—
In consequence of the events at Charlottenburg, immense
crowds of the people assembled yesterday evening, and
throughout the greater part of the night, and committed
the most shameful excesses under the Linden, in Wil-
helms Strasse, and in the vicinity. They broke the
windows of the Hotel of President AUERSWALD, de-
stroyed a great part of the barrier at Linden, tore up
the pavements in the Behrenstrasse, and commenced
erecting barricades. The constables were driven back,
and many wounded, in consequence of which the bur-
gerwetor was called out, and after great exertions the
disturbances were at last put down."
On Monday M. KULIOLIETTE, the Minister, informed
the Assembly that be had presented to the KING for his
sanction a project of law to prevent the recurrence of
these disturbances.

At nine P.M. of the 22d tranquillity remained undis-
turbed.

ITALY.

PIEDMONT.

The New Ministry have published their programme,
which differs in no essential respect from the protest of
the Ministry, which appeared in The Sun of yesterday.
The following is the most important portion of this
document :

" Under the grave circumstances in which the country
is now placed, it is not a trifling task to enter on the direc-
tion of the Government; it is, therefore, not surprising, that
the composition of the present Ministry has been attended
with some difficulty. It now, however, presents itself with
confidence before the country, strong in the proofs it has
given of sincere love to the country on the part of its
members, and in the conviction that no one can exceed it
in devotedness to the Italian cause.
" The Ministry which has just retired has seen the accom-
plishment of our last misfortunes; it has not been discou-
raged, and it has made an appeal to the energy of the
country. The one that succeeds it will imitate its ex-
ample, and make, if possible, still greater efforts to recom-
pose the army, and to arm the people.
" The armistice which has been concluded must be re-
respected as a military fact, but it cannot be accepted as a
political compromise which deetroys faits accomplis, and
serves as the basis of ulterior negotiations.
" But two great friendly nations, who proclaim respect
for nationalities, and second the development of the liberty
of the people, having offered their mediation to put an end
to a war whiclnecame a European one, and to secure an
honourable peace, the Ministry hails with gratitude the
friendly and disinterested co-operation of the two mediating
powers. _ _

" It is proved that the two powers, who are aware of the
public opinion and the feeling of nations, fully appre-
ciating the actual situation of Italy and the causes which
have led to the war, will know how to arrive at durable
and honourable arrangements which may be acceptable,
and which will avoid the necessity of a war, which, from
the ardour and the generosity of the nation, and the
generous support of our powerful neighbours,
,cannot be of
doubtful result."

The Piedinontes Gazette of the 19th announces, from
the Vatellina, that Col. APICE still holds out, and that
an Austrian detachment, which had made a recognition
as far as the extremity of the Lake of Como, had been
repulsed. _

A letter from Turin, dated the 19th, quoted by the
National Savoisien, says:—" Yesterday the Political
Club, after the close of its evening sitting, went in a
body, followed by an immense crowd of people, to carry
its congratulations to GIOBERTI, PLEZZA, and COLLEGNO.
GIOBERTI appeared on the balcony, and delivered a
warm and eloquent speech, which was greeted with loud
applause. He recommended the people not to despair of
the cause of Italy. The crowd afterwards went to the
residence of the French Ambassador, hoping that he
was already returned; but he was not arrived. They
then dispersed at a late hour. The Ministry is formed,
as I have announced to you, but with this difference, that
DE FERRARIS and Coll.". have refused to form part of
it, and ad interim, their two departments are filled by
MM. SOSTEGNO and MERLO. There are daily arriving
here men from the reserve, and others who have had
furloughs granted them, but are recalled into active
service. They were all immediately sent to join their
respective corps. The enrolment of the Garde Mobile is
finished. Our army, were it only supported by a French
army of reserve, would make a supreme effort, and would
certainly drive away the Austrians ; but we must have
other generals,: and principally a new commander-in-
chief."

The Central Political Club of Turin, having, as already
stated, sent a deputation to King CHARLES ALBERT to
learn from his own mouth the real causes of the capitu-
lation of Milan, the Advocate BROFFERIO, one of the
deputies, has published a report of this mission, of
which very numerous copies have been distributed. It
contains the following passage:—
" It has pleased you to select me to give an exact ac-
count of the particular circumstances of our painful
situation. I, therefore, proceed to make known all that
was said, all that was thought, particularly by the officers,
whose opinions may be thus summed up. The arm-
will not again pass the Tesino. At no price will it re-
sume the war, because it has no confidence in the in-
habitants of the other provinces, and is irritated to the
highest degreo at having been left alone on the field of
battle after so many fine promises. This is what I heard.
But it was not all ; for there were many things said
which I must pass by in silence, although it costs me
much to do so. After what I have seen and heard
nothing more remains for the Piedmoutese than to think
of their own interests and defend their owe institutions.
I conclude with an invocation which was never more
fatally appropriate than it is at this moment—God save

COURT CIRCULAR.
OSfIoRNE, FRIDAY.—The Queen and Prince, accom-
panied by the ,Prince llohenlohe and Royal Family,
took an early walk this morning, and the Prince of
Wales, Princess Royal, and younger branches of the
Royal Family, and of the Hohenlohe Langenbourg Fa-
mily, walked and rode in the grounds of Osborne.
The Royal dinner party yesterday included her Royal
Highness the Duchess of Kent, her Serene Highness the
Princess Hohenlohe Langenbourg, and the Princess
Eliza, his Serene Highness the Prince of Hesse, the Earl
Spencer, Lady Anna Maria Dawson, and the Baroness
de Speth.

Her Majesty held a Privy Council at Osborne, at one
o'clock to-day. It was attended by his Royal Highness
Prince Albert, the Earl of Minto, Earl Grey, E irl of
Auckland, Lord Campbell, Lord Morpeth, Earl Fortes-
cue, and Earl Spencer. Mr. C. Grevillo was the Clerk
of the Council in waiting.
Lo

,rds Grey, Fortescue, Auckland, Morpeth, Camp-
bell, and Minto, left the Waterloo-bridge terminus of
the London and South-Western Railway, yesterday
morning, at five minutes before nine o'clock, to attend
the Queen's Privy Council at Osborne, Isle of Wight,
and proceeded by special train to Gosport, crossed in
the Lightning steam-packet, landed at Osborne Pier,
and arrived at Osborne at half-past twelve o'clock. The
same Ministers and Officers of State partook of a
dejeuner after the Privy Council, re-embarked in the
Lightning, re-crossed to Gosport, and returned to town
by a 'special train shortly before seven o'clock in the
evening.
Mr. llowden and Mr. M`Claren, from Edinburgh, had
an interview with Sir George Grey yesterday, at the
Home- office.

CENTURY OF CARICATURE.—The power of ridicule
no one will deny; the hardiest political candidate for fame
and the boldest contemner of the proprieties of society have
been known to wince under its withering influence. During
the last century, when caricature by the unrivalled genius of
Gillray attained a height of perfection to which it had no
pretension before, the interesting and amusing details
of
' contemporary history, secret memoirs, political anec-
dote
and extraordinary public incidents and character,
which do not fall within the province of the his-
torian or annalist, were reflected and brought before
the eye in their laughable and grotesque peculiarities with
wonderful facility, and a keen perception of the absurd and
ridiculous, by this pencil of the great artist. His produc-
tions, indeed, become the ablest illustrations of the history
of the time when accompanied by the anecdote of the contem-
porary wits and the political writers. This design has been
accomplished by Mr. Wright in his new and most entertain-
ing work, " England under the House of Hanover." In
this amusing book we have a storehouse of anecdote, jeaz
d'espr it, political songs and satires, which for variety and
extent is extraordinary, and the narrative is illustrated by
more than three hundred caricatures by Gillray.—Evening
paper.

T
HE MAILS TO DUBLIN.—A new arrangement
for the transmission of the mails from Dublin to London, via
Liverpool, will come into operation from and after the 18th
of September next. The mail packet from Liverpool will
then leave Kingstown pier at 4.30 P.M., instead of 6.30, as at
present. The object of that arrangement is to ensure the ar-
rival of the mail from Dublin at Liverpool at such an hour in
the morning as to permit it to be forwarded from the latter
town to London by the 6 A.M. train. It is said that with a
view to this as well as other changes, more powerful boats
will be put on the line to Liverpool. All the correspondence
between Ireland and those places to which Liverpool oilers
the speediest communication will go this route, all that for
London direct and the places on that line will go via Holy-
head.

MUTTON ITAms.—An importation of 92 barrels of
mutton hams has taken place by a vessel arrived from New
York, in addition to nearly 20,000 bushels of corn, and a
large general cargo of provisions, the production of the
United States of America. These mutton hams are, as may
be gathered from the term, the ham of the sheep, dried and
preserved in a mode similar to that adopted with respect to
hams of pork, and are a recently introduced article of im-
portationfrom the United States•