The Sun.
London, England, 1848-11-28 00:00:00

BELGIUM.

By royal decree of the 20th of November it is
ordered, that in pursuance of the law of the 6th of
May, 1848, there are to be issued immediately Trea-
sury Bonds of 20, 60, 100, 200, and 1,000 francs,
which will be exchanged against the receipts of the
two loans authorised by the laws of the 26th Feb.
and 6th May, 1848. To each of these bonds will be
attached three coupons of annual interest, payable
respectively the Ist November, 1849, the Ist Nc,vem-
ber, 1850, and the Ist November, 1851, at the diffe-
rent agents of the general cashier of the State. The
interest due up to the 31st October, 1848, will be
made good on all the receipts by a coupon pro rats to
bearer, payable on the Ist June, 1849.

" Weaie assured that the Council of Ministers have
come to a determination with respect to the punishment
of those who have been found guilty for takinc, part in
the affair Risquons-Tout. By a recent royal decree the
punishment of death has been commuted to imprison-
ment, the duration of which varies according to the class
in which the prisoner has been placed. They are to
undergo their punishment in the prison of iluy."—L'ln-
dependance Beige.

GERMANY

AND

THE NORTHERN STATES.

PRUSSIA.

The following protest has been published by the
Deputies of the Left against the misrepresentations of
13EssEamANN to the Frankfort Assembly.

" HIGH ASSEMBLY.

" Berlin, Nov. 22.

" The Under-Secretary of State, Bessermann, in the
118th sitting of the German National Assembly, made a
report of his mission to Berlin. We disdain to enter into
any discussion with M. Bessermann as to how or whence
he has drawn his conclusions of the state of the town, or
the conduct of its population, in presence of the violent
measures taken by Government. The 9th of November
has already fallen within the domain of history. Let
the press undertake to prove that every line of M. Bes-
sermann's description is incorrect ! But, when a func-
tionary of the Germanic State attempts to circumvent
the National Assembly by officially making use of false-
hoods whose results may be so prejudicial, to remain
silent would be a betrayal of the holy cause for which we
will nobly combat, and (if necessary) fall, and which shall
not be murderously dealt with if it depend upon
us. We, the undersigned, therefore make the following
declaration. That M. Bessermann, deputed by the Cen-
tral Government, had not and did not seek to hold any
direct communication with the National Assembly col-
lectively, or with members who remained here. The
only measures taken by him, as far as we can ascertain
after careful investigation, were—first, merely to wait
upon the President, M. Unruh, to whom he stated that
he came as a private individual, and to whom he made a
proposition, utterly unacceptable; and secondly, that he
availed himself of a visit to a sick member of the Left
Centre, to hear, and then misinterpret, the terms of a
transaction of which he did not understand the correct
import. We have only to add, that it is untrue that the
Prussian National Assembly would only consent to enter
into arrangements with the Crown upon the conditions
asserted by M. Bessermann.
(Signed) " RODBERTUS, and 199 other
Deputies."
The Cologne Gazette of the 26th says that the me-
diation of the Imperial Commissioners in the Prussian
conflict has hitherto been quite ineffectual, neither of
the two belligerent parties being ready to make the
first concession. The bases of the mediation, as pro-
posed by the National Parliament, are these :
" I. That all the Berlin Assembly was confessedly
under the terrorism of a portion of the inhabitants, and
their dignity and freedom of deliberation was not se-
cured as it ought to have been.

" 2. That the Crown was thereby induced, in order
to secure the freedom of an Assembly convoked as the
representatives of the whole nation, and not of the Ber-
liners alone, to frame the Constitution, to transfer the
Assembly to Brandenburg, an act, the legality of which
was disputed by various, parties, because it emanated
from the Crown alone.

"3. That the Crown, for the carrying out of this
measure, appointed certain men to the Ministry, who
do not by any means possess the confidence of the
people.
" Under this view of the case it was impossible that
the decision of the German National Parliament should
be otherwise than—

"1. By quelling the popular terrorism in Berlin to
restore the freedom and dignity of the Assembly there.
2. When this shall have been done to abolish the
decree respecting the transfer to Brandenburg.
3. That the Crown shall choose Ministers possess-
ing the confidence of the people."
The Frankfort Parliament has, therefore, avoided
taking part either with the Crown or with the
Berlin Assembly: it has adopted a higher standard,
that of effecting a mediation between the belligerent
parties.

The Government, however, is of opinion that it
must insist, at least as a preliminary, on the transfer;
it does not abide by this resolution as a question in-
volving principles ; but, although the Deputies might
now meet safely at Berlin under the protection of a
military force of 25,000 men, and while the city is in
a state of siege, but that the state of things would be
different if these should be removed. It desires by
no means to degrade the National Assembly, but it
demands guarantees that the former state of affairs
does not recur, and the conflict is not resumed in the
course of a few weeks. The 250 Deputies of the
fraction insist, on the other hand, that the transfer,
however temporary, shall not take place, and here the
ties splitpar..M. SIMSON has returned to Frankfort
for a while, his negotiations having been hitherto
unsuccessful. The state of things isj melancholy.
The Ober Posts Ampts Zeitung says, " The fate
of Germany will be decided in '
The Cologne Gazette is of opinion that both the
parties should appeal to the Central Power and the
German Motional Parliament, in order that the deci-
sion may be the result of justice and liberty, not of
force on the one side, nor of faction on the other.
DussELDonr, Nov. 24.—The market-place has
been occupied by strong detachments of troops, and
the bureau of the Burgher Guard has been surrounded
by a piquet of infantry' the arms al.d ammunition
have been taken to the barracks, as well as the two
standards belonging to the Arquebusiers. All
strangers who cannot give a satisfactory account of
themselves are to quit the city within forty-eight
hours. Six members of the Government College have
been suspended.
BERLIN, Nov. 26.—The Ministry of State has
issued the following proclamation relative to the
meeting of the Prussian National Assembly at Bran.
denburg