The Sun.
London, England, 1848-11-23 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 23. 1848,

outbreak of the 6th of October. A dirge chaunted 1
over the body of LATOUR, one of the most ruthless
intriguers of this or any other generation, the mem-
ber of the University of Oxford exults over the
brutalities perpetrated by the savage horde of
Croatians who marched against Vienna under
the banners of Jzt.LAcutcu. To enforce this
exultation still more remarkably, the writer in-
dulges in a panegyric upon that sanguinary and
bucaneering Condottieri. Whether the eulogium on
the Ban of Croatia is rational or extravagant the
subjoined passages will attest :
" The old generals who recollect Austerlitz, Moscow,
and Leipsic are comparing with the most brilliant ex-
ploits of Hannibal and Napoleon, Jellachich's march
across Hungary— a hostile and most difficult country—
at a time when the Emperor had repeatedly ordered him
to submit to the rebels, and had left his army wholly un-
provided for. On that dreadful night of the 31st Octo-
ber, I saw the glorious fellow, a young and magnificent
looking man, by the blaze of the burning houses and the
flashing of 200 cannon, lead his wild Croats and Servians
to the storm, his tall white plume shining, like Henri
Quatre's at Ivry, as the pole-star of the whole army. All
agree that he is one of those remarkable men who are
raised up Irons time to time to mould the destinies of
nations." _ - _

--Further on, after acknowledging that he had enjoyed
the hospitality of the Viennese, and had been welcomed
with particular affection by the students of the Aus-
trian Universities, our English traveller coolly re-
marks :

" On Sunday morning, the 29th, my friend 11-- and
I managed to escape from ono of the advanced barri-
cades, whither we had been pressed, into the Leopold-
stadt, where we were most kindly received by the troops,
both officers and men, to whom we were able to give va-
luable information as to the real state and disposition of
the rebel forces."

So that this English Gentleman, this honourable
member of the University of Oxford, was literally a
spy among the unfortunate Viennese, and the un•
blushing informer of JELLACHICH and WINDISCH-
GRATZ I We envy our Contemporary its pride in the
dignity and credibility of its vaunted Correspondent.
To our obtuse comprehension the character of the
member of the University of Oxford, who first be-
trays the Viennese, and afterwards traduces them, is
not one jot less despicable than that of DOBBIN,
the Irish spy, or that of POWELL, the Chartist
informer. Hear him, however, rejoicing over the
do wnfal of the noble capital of Austria, although the
" beautiful suburbs were being riddled with shells
and shot," although his senses were stunned by the
" roar of cannon, the whizzing of rockets, and the
roll of musketry," although " weeping wives, sisters►
and daughters were picking literally piecemeal out
of the ruins the consumed bodies of their relatives,"
and although he, a civilian, was then for the first time
" literally tasting blood"—blood dashed over his face
and clothes when a round shot carried off the head of
an artilleryman !

" It was a beautiful, clear, sunshiny, autumn day, and
all felt that there were trembling in the balance, not
only the fate of the grand old Austrian empire—' An
Siegen and an Ehren reich,' the Monarchy of
Charles V. and Maria Theresa, and so long the
bulwark of Christendom against the Turks but
with it the peace and safety of Europe. At length
the firing behind us gradually slackened, and then
died away, and towards sunset the victorious Impe-
rialists marched back from the field of battle, having
utterly routed the Hungarians, and driven 3,000 of
them into the Danube, which will roll their dead
bodies down to Pesth—a fearful tidings of their defeat.
You may fancy what cheers now arose from the Im-
perialists, and what yells of despair frons the rebels,
whose offers of a conditional surrender were now
scornfully rejected."

Not only were the conditional stipulations
thus sternly and " scornfully rejected," but the sol-
diers of Absolutism consecrated their victory
by deluging the capital of their native land with
the bloody libations of vengeance. They were
conquerors over their own kith and kin, desolators of
their own hearths and altars, destroyers of their own
parents, their own brothers, and their own children.
And, with all this, they were implacable ! When
Democracy triumphed in February, the people, by a
sublime decree, abolished the Punishment of Death.
When Autocracy triumphed in October, it proclaimed
a wholesale massacre—the legalised murder of the
multitude ! ROBERT BLImI, a representative of the
German Empire in the Parliament of Frankfort, was
killed in cold blood. Jumns FuccuEL, his com-
panion, was condemned "to be hanged by the
neck until death should ensue," and only escaped
destruction by a miracle of good fortune. Mcs-
sENHAusErt, the unfortunate leader of the National
Guard, was shot on the 18th, after having
passed before the veriest mockery of a tribunal.
AIGNFR, the Captain of the Academic Legion,
was merely preserved from a barbarous assas-
sination and a premature grave by the gratitude
of DOBLHOFF, who was saved by the heroism
of that young patriot when the people
would have beaten his brains out in their fury on the
13th of September. Such are a few of the most
prominent consequences of the capture of Vienna by
JELLACHICH and WINDISCHGRATZ. And in alluding
to the rigour of the victors, the Oxford University
spy and correspondent is in a trance of exultation.
" Martial law," says he, with a cynical sneer of in-
difference, " is of course proclaimed, and the leaders
of the revolt are being shot in batches as they are
caught"—mentioning the inhuman battue as calmly as
though the victims were so many wild boars and
jackals I But listen particularly to the following
record of these atrocities, and say if the passage is not
despicable for its depraved and inhuman callousness—

" We have seen the execution of several of the chief
students, who had rather 'fraternised' with us as Eng-
lish University-men on our first arrival, but who latterly
had become too great men to condescend to notice or
protect us from outrage ; so we feel no pity for them.
The great hod), of the students who have borne arms
sre to be forced to serve as common soldiers among the
savage Croats, Jellachich drily remarking, in yetter-
.lay's proclamation, that as they had been pleased to
play at soldiers without being called on, they should now
have an opportunity of exercising the profession in a
legitimate way.'"
Surely these sentences need no comment. If an
example of the lengths to which party spirit will
carry a writer had been desired, one more flagrant
than the foregoing could scarcely have been imagined.
Again, we lament that our Contemporaries have de-
generated into the organs of continental absolutism—
that they have compromised the dignity and truthful-
ness of English journalism by enunciating sentiments
which can only excite horror among the abused and
struggling nationalities of Christendom—that they
have condescended to calumniate the population of a
conquered capital, and that they have had the teme-
rity to enforce their misrepresentations with the narra-
tive of a man who announces himself to be a spy and
an informer at the very moment he is paraded before
us as a Student of Oxford and a Gentleman of
England.

The speculators of the Stock-Exchange are indeed
a difficult and impracticable body to deal with. It is
impossible to say what will satisfy their expectations.
They are continually craving for information, and
although every reasonable demand is complied with
they remain querulous and discontented. The expla-
nations offered may be perfectly clear and explicit,
the facts distinct and incontrovertible, the conclu-
sions reasonable and fairly deducible from the
premises. Something will, however, be discovered
to find fault with—something on which to hang an
Sowith°Vti.t.hee
objection. It is said that—
and their interestsilsaßlßeear
" The man convinced against his will
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"Bearish" i:frrnaatitieet still."
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with
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ciuTheiral
fo
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dicesforce
inpreventing conviction, and maintaining a determined
scepticism.
Some weeks since there was a universal outcry for
the publication of the accounts of
and mischievous
r.ii.
several railway
companies ; the most unfounded
schievous n
re-
ports were circulated. 4sein
i mal journal, the
Weekly Share List, published statements respecting
sh the
different companies, which, if well foundedweuid
that their prospects were of the most unfavourable
description, and that Inevitable ruin would speedily
overtake the proprietors unless they immediately aban-
loned such desperate undertakings. The effect of
those injurious publications was indescribable; the
shareholders were thoroughly and completely
frightened; railway stock of every description
was depreciated to an extent that could scarcely
be credited. A general panic prevailed on
every side. The amount of capital still
required was grossly exaggerated. It was gravely
asserted that calls to the extent of 60,000,0001. to
70,000,000/. sterling per annum should be made for
the next three years, and that the country would be
unable to bear so enormous a draw upon its resources.

It was also stated that "dividends' could not he
maintained unless the traffic was iucreased to an

extent far beyond that which could reasonably
be hoped for. The "Bears" seized upon the
golden opportunity, and for a time the most
extraordinary success attended their operations.
An unexpected change, however, speedily took place.
Several of the most influential companies published
authentic statements of these affairs, which completely
upset the " erroneous statements and calculations"
that had appeared, and proved their own soundness
and stability. The points chiefly relied on by the
" Bears," viz., the sums that should be raised to com-
plete the works, and the amount of traffic required to
maintain the dividend, were made perfectly clear, and
the effects at first were of the most beneficial cha-
racter, prices having improved at least twenty per
cent. upon the appearance of the statement of the
London and North-Western Company. Other " state-
ments" have since appeared, all of them most satisfac-
tory. But the " Bears" maintain the contest, and have
actually, in some instances, turned to their own pur-
poses matters that should have had the most opposite
effect.

We yesterday commented upon the statements
just put forward by the Eastern Counties
and Midland Companies, and gave a full
analysis of the former document. It might
have been supposed that an immediate improve-
ment in the prices of the stocks of both com-
panies would have followed the appearance of
accounts calculated to dispel every apprehension from
the minds of the shareholders. A Contemporary,
whose hostility to the railway interests has passed
into a proverb, in speaking of these statements, says—
" They confute at once some of the more extravagant
estimates that have been drawn up by adverse and
suspicious scrutineers, and form an authentic ground-
work for future and more particular inquiries ;" and
yet, notwithstanding such an admission from a quar-
ter not inclined to regard anything respecting rail-
ways in a favourable point of view, shares
in both companies were yesterday quoted at
lower prices than on the preceding day. We yester-
day showed how unwarranted was this-Jesult, so
far as the Eastern Counties stock was concerned. We
shall now briefly point out the chief features in the
Midland statement, which should prove perfectly
satisfactory to the shareholders, and the community
in general.

The total capital of the Midland Company—under
every head—will amount, when the works are
completed, to 12,726,2051. Of this 11,957,2601. was
expended up to the 24th October last, and 768,2451.
only was still required, to meet which outlay the
company had the power of making calls to the extent
of 2,602,6151., and were possessed of 9,007 shares of
401. each not yet issued, but valued at 360,2801.
There would, therefore, be a surplus after providing
for the future expenditure, of 2,194,6501., which
would be applicable to the repayment of loans.
The company will possess 498 miles of rail way,
30 miles of canal, and 13 miles of tramway under its
own control, and a pecuniary interest in 92i miles
of railway, the traffic of which is likely to increase
that of the main line.

The consolidated stock (including a nominal
addition to capital from shares issued at a
discount previous to the amalgamtion of
627,4631.) amounts to 11,421,6201. 2s. 4d., of
which 1,191,5411. 4s. 6d. has been paid up. The
debentures, loans, &c., amount to 3,766,4191., but, as
we have already stated, 2,194,6501. will be applicable
to the reduction thereof, which will leave the perma-
nent debt very moderate in proportion to the paid-up
capital.

The estimated average receipts per mile per
annum required to pay a dividend of six per
cent. when the works under contract are completed
and paid for, is about 2,850/. There is every
reason to hope that this sum, which requires
only an increase of 2301. per mile on the receipts of
the year ending the 30th of June, which was a most
unfavourable period, will be fully realised. Sundry
undertakings, for which Acts of Parliament bad been
obtained, and which would require an expenditure of
4,630,3251., have been abandoned for the present, and
will not be commenced without the previous sanction
of the shareholders.

The report of the proceedings of the Tory majority
of the town-council of the borough of Lyme Regis
(which appears in another part of our impression of
this evening) completes the history of the art and
mystery of ATTWOODISING boroughs. The story of
the rise and progress of that art is to be found in the
evidence taken before the several Parliamentary
Committees appointed during the course of the last i
session to try the petitiens complaining of undue
returns for the boroughs of Harwich and Lyme
Regis, of Kinsale and of Athlone. The inventor of
this wholesale system of boroughmongering is Mr.
JOHN ATTWOOD (of Small and Attwood notoriety)
who, fired by the desire of obtaining political
influence, without possessing one single legitimate
qualification by which such influence can be ob-
tained, imagined that those honours might be pur-
chased which could not be won, and that money
might be made a most efficient substitute for wit and
eloquence, and knowledge and statesmanship, and,
accordingly, investing his money in consciences instead
of as heretofore in coals, purchased the power (not the
right) of coercing certain of the voters of Harwich, of
Lyme, of Kinsale, and of Athlone, and, like a
horoughmonger of the " good old times," endea-
voured to return his nominees for each of these
boroughs. At Athlone, at Kinsale, and at Harwich,
he succeeded, although the Members for Kinsale and
Harwich (one of the latter of whom was the great
boroughmonger himself) were, on petition, unseated
for corrupt practices. At Lyme his man was beaten
by a small majority, and it would appear almost as if
Mr. ATTWOOD himself had felt some doubts as to the
result of the Lyme contest from the care with which
he selected his candidate. It was no ordinary person
who was chosen to fight the battle of borough-
mongery at Lyme—it was a man of great talent,
great eloquence, great tact, and not altogether
unacquainted with, or over-scrupulous as to the em-
ployment of, those measures by which a return may
be illegitimately secured. Sir FITZROY KELLY, who
having matriculated in corruption at Ipswich, had
afterwards graduated at Cambridge, was the indi-
vidual chosen by Mr. Jour( ATTWOOD to Ipswichise
the borough of Lyme. Mr. ATTWOOD had, however,
for once been out in his calculations. After a severe
contest, Mr. ABDY, the independent candidate, was
returned by a small majority, and an attempt made
by Mr. ATTWOOD to unseat him on petition also
signally failed. Mortified by these repeated defeats,
and smarting from the pecuniary losses he had ex-
perienced—for our boroughmonger had found Lyme
anything but an eligible investment for his cash—he
determined to teach all who were opposed to him
" a great moral lesson ;" after the true CASTLEREAGH
and Absolutist fashion; and having managed by means
of various " gentle influences" to obtain the return
of a majority of Attwoodites to the Town
Council, he forthwith proceeded, through the
instrumentality of a druggist, named HANDER,
to purge the body corporate of all who had opposed
his domination. Accordingly, on the 9th instant, at
the first meeting of the Lyme Town Council, the
Attwood majority proceeded at once to dismiss all the
corporate officers in a body, and this without any ac-
cusation having been brought against them, without
any investigation having been instituted, without
complaint made, without form of trial. In the re-
cesses of a council chamber, from which all save the
Mayor and his satellites were excluded, sentence of
dismissal was pronounced against all the corporate
officers, and they were dismissed instanter. This
is " too bad" even where administrative officers only
are concerned, but the enormity of the offence
and the iniquity of the proceeding is increased
beyond measure when we find that an officer
holding a situation of such responsibility as that
of town-clerk is included in this wholesale
system of dismissal. Mr. WARING, who for thirteen
3 ears has served the office of town-clerk with great
credit to himself, and to the great advantage of the
town,
has been summarily dismissed without the
allegation of a single fault against him. The line of
policy thus pursued by Mr. ATTWOOD is as short-
sighted as it is despicable. Violent courses beget
violent retaliations. Mr. ATTWOOD, during the
reign of the Tory Ministry, was,
as Member for Har-
wich, one of their ardent supporters, and Mr. ATT-
WOOD is too shrewd a man of business not to have
exacted and obtained his full share of governmental
patronage during the time his friends were in
power. What would he think of a Liberal Minister
who, carrying out the Attwood policy, should dismiss

every placeman, from the well-paid Commissioner
down to the hard-worked Exciseman, who had
obtained office through the interest of Mr. Jon:i
ATTWOOD ? Yet "to this complexion we must come
at last," if disappointed boroughmongers are permitted
to play these "fantastic tricks" to gratify their spleen.
Unless every small borough in England is to be at
once converted into a Pandemonium of Envy, Hatred,
Malice, and all Uncharitableness, the Legislature
must devise some means by which the voter can be
effectually protected from the tyranny of the man of
the money bags. There is but one such remedy, and
that is Tim BALLOT.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris papers of yesterday.
The Bishop of BOURDEAUX has addressed a pastoral
letter to his clergy in favour of the candidateship of
General CAVAIGNAC for the Presidency of the Re-
public.
M. CoQuEBAL, the celebrated Protestant Pastor,
has published a distinct denial of the statement mude
by the Presse, that he had recommended Louis
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE as a candidate for the Presi-
dency.
The discussion on the events of June, which is
fixed for Saturday in the Assembly, is looked forward
to with the most intense anxiety by all parties. M.
DE LAMARTINE, who was at Macon, has been sent for
by telegraphic dispatch, in order to take part in the
discussion.
The proceedings of the Assembly yesterday were
confined to the discussion of the Budget.
The command of the proposed expedition from
France to La Plata has been offered to Admiral
LAISNE, who was mentioned in the Debats as one of
the most distinguished officers of the French navy.
A duel took place in Paris, on Tuesday, between
Colonel REY, Governor of the Hotel de Ville, and M.
EDMOND ADAM, Deputy-Mayor of Paris under the
Provisional Government. The latter was wounded
in the thigh.
A duel took place yesterday between General BA-
RAGUAYD' HILLIERS and M. GOUDCHAUX. Shots were
exchanged, but neither gentleman was hurt.
The Presse publishes the following " communi-
cation :"
" REASONS WHY x$F, FRENCH REPUBLIC HAS NOT
YET OFFICIALLY RECOGNISED THE CENTRAL GERMAN
GOVERNMENT. _ _ _

" Some Jew days since M. Bastide said in the tribune
of the National Assembly that the relations between
France and the Central Government of Frankfort were
uncertain. He might have added that they threatened
to be suspended in consequence of the reiterated refusal
of France to recognise officially the Central German
Government.

" It may be remembered that the French National As-
sembly having by a solemn vote proclaimed the principle
of fraternity with Germany, the Vicar of the German
Empire, when scarcely installed, hastened to send M. de
Raumer to Paris in order to open official relations with
the French Republic. M. de Returner remained here
nearly a month before he was admitted to an audience
of General Cavaignac to deliver his letter, notifying the
accession to power of the Vicar of the Empire. Baron
d'Adryani, the Envoy of the Vicar, having been, how-
ever, received by Queen Victoria, it was thought that the
Chief of the Executive Government could not but do as
much towards M. de Raumer. Two months, however,
have since elapsed, and the French Government has nut
yet recognised an official character in the Envoy of the
Vicar of the German Empire.
" The Central Government at Frankfort has recently
sent instructions to M. de Raumer to obtain from M.
Bastide a categorical explanation as to the intentions of
the French Republic with regard to the Central German
Government. If we are well informed, the answer of
our Minister of Foreign Affairs was, that the French
Republic had postponed the official recognition of the
Central German Government from two motives:-1.
Because England had not yet done so; and 2, Because
the constitution of the new German Empire had not yet
been voted.
" On the first point, M. de Raumer has been charged
to reply, that it was at the express command of Queen
Victoria that Lord Palmerston presented Baron d'Adry •
ani to her Majesty; besides which, the Queen hastened to
reply, in the most friendly terms, to the letter by which
the Vicar of the German Empire notified to her his ac-
cession to that office.
"On the second point, M. de Raumer has been in-
structed to reply to M. Bastide, that the European
Powers did not wait until the French National Assembly
had voted its new Constitution before they officially re-
cognised the Government of the Republic, which has,
therefore, shown itself more punctilious on diplomatic
points than the old monarchical powers of Europe.
" Al. Bastide, who could not deny the justice of these
observations, then brought forward in excuse the pre-
sent precarious state of affairs in France, everything
remaining vague and uncertain until the President should
have been elected, and as that event might bring about
a change of Ministry, he desired to leave to his successor
' all liberty of action on the subject.
" Informed of this declaration, emanating from the
Minister of Foreign Affairs of the French Republic, the
Council of Ministers of the Central German Govern-
ment, decided that M. de Raumer should remain in Paris
until after the election of the President of the Republic,
but that if after that period the French Government
should throw any further delays in the way of the offi-
cial recognition of the Central German Government the
latter would withdraW its representative trom Paris, and
leave it to time and reflection to make France better
understand that a sincere and close union with Germany,
which reckons a population of 70,000,000 souls, was fur
the mutual advantage of both countries."
BOURSE—PARIS, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 22.

THREE o'CLocK.—Thediscussion in the Assembly yes-
terday, and the expectation of a boisterous debate on
Saturday next, made a strong impression on the Bourse
to-day the funds consequently fell nearly 1 percent. The
general belief is, that the debate must seriously injure
General Cavaignac, as it is supposed he will be severely
blamed. For the Account, the French Three per Cents.
have declined 85c.; the Five per Cents. 90c. ; and the
Loan if. 10c. For Morey, the Three per Cents. have
declined 75c.; the Five per Cents. 90c. ; and the Loan,
in wTrofi:ohricilliothaqrudoltyeda7Btahliinkgof"l'a'srandcoonSelia6rsec.s Laßveolf'salldu
en
25e.; Belgian Bank Shares not quoted ; ditto Five per
Cents. have declined 4 per cent. ; Spanish Active not
quoted ; ditto Threes have advanced 4 per cent. ; Pas-
sive not quoted; Roman has advanced 4 per cent.; and
Rothschild's Receipts it per cant. Exchange on Lon-
don (30 days), 25 50; uitto (90 days), 25 374. Railway
Shares have also receded.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE, Nov. 22.
Boulogne and Amiens, 5% ex coupons—Luxembourg
( I%—Narnur and Liege, s—Paris and Strasbourg, 1%.

GERMANY

AND

THE NORTHERN STATES.

PRUSSIA.

We have received intelligence from Berlin of the
20th November. The Prussian Staats Anzieger, of
that date, contains the following circular !from the
Ministry of State to all the Royal Governments of the
kingdom :
"It is already known to the Royal Governments of
the kingdon that the fraction of the National Assembly
convoked for the formation or the constitution, which
disregarded the message of his Majesty respecting the
tranfer to Brandenburg, continued to hold their sittings
without the participation of the representatives of the
Crown, and passed several resolutions—among cotters,
that till the measures adopted by Government should be
recalled, the payment of all and every tax should be
refused.

" Although it may be presumed that the sound sense
of the country will be perfectly convinced of the formal
and material illegality of a step which in its ulterior
results would plunge the whole country into a state of
utter lawlessness and indescribable confusion, we never-
theless consider it our duty to call the attention of the
Royal Governments to this subject, that if, and when-
ever, contrary to all expectations, any realisation of the
above resolution should appear to proceed against it
without delay, and, in case of need, if a preliminary in•
struction respecting the heavy legal penalties of such
refractoriness should remain fruitless, to resort to the
most severe compulsory measures. All the commanders
of the troops have received orders to obey the necessary
requisitions of the Royal Governments to be appointed
by them for this object.
"At the same time, the Royal Governments are spe-
cially enjoined to take heed that the compulsory mea-
sures to be adopted against refractoriness shall not be
extended to the payment of such taxes as are in arrears
on account of pecuniary inability of the rate-payers.
"Although the unavoidable expenditure of the Trea-
sury makes the punctual and immediate payment of
taxes most desirable, it is nevertheless foreign to the ob•
ject in view to keep out of sight measures of mildness
and consideration towards those rate-payers who are in
distress, or have met with misfortunes.

" Therefore the extraordinary expenses incurred by
the extraordinary compulsory measures to be employed,
aro to be imposed only on those rate-payers who refuse
to pay their rates from obstinacy.

"Berlin, Nov. 18, 1848. -
(Signed) " Count VON BRANDENBURG.
LEIDENBERG.
MANTEUFFEL.
VON STROTEIA.
VON lIINTELEN.
" To all the Royal Governments."
The official Gazette of the 18th has the following:—

" A report has been circulated by several journals that
the British and French Envoys, Lord Westmorland and
M. E. Arago, had, in consequence of the transfer of the
National Assembly, proceeded to Potsdam, in order to
remonstrate with the King against this measure. We
are authorised, consequently, to declare, in the most
positive manner, this report to be an empty invention."
The following appears in the German Reform. It
should, however, be stated that the supporters of the
KING deny its authenticity :
"After the sitting of the National Assembly on the
7th of
.September, in which the proposition of the De-
mocratic party had obtained a strong majority, his Ma.
jesty the King, in a memorandum, stated his position in
regard to the people, to the constitution, and to the Na-
tional Assembly.
"ale memorandum was addressed tq the Central

Power at Frankfort, to the Governments of Austria, of
England, and of Bussi►. The following is the trwitda-
tion

" In the revolution of March the King hearkened to
the voice of his people, and promised the most liberal
institutions to the country.
" This condescension has been cast at him as a re-
proach, from different quarters—as weakness and
cowardice; but, long accustomed to false interpretations,
this appearance did not hinder him from listening to the
dictates of his heart. He placed the weal of his people
before the name and reputation of his Government.
" In consequence of his promise, a National A -
sembly was convoked, chosen by universal suffrage in
two degrees, and he had the happiness to form, in con-
cert with it, a new constitution. But the National As
sembly evinced from the very beginning, that it mis-
took for weakness the condescension and the sacrifices of
the'Crown to the cause of liberty and the country.
" Finally, the Assembly went so far as to arrogate
to itself ostensibly all the rights of the executive power,
and completely to annihilate the rights of the Crown.
The King could
,not, seriously considering his duty as
A Sovereign, any longer tolerate these encroachments.
He.therefore proposes to take the following measures to
ward off those anti-constitutional machinations, and to
guarantee the rights of the people:—
" ' I. Seriously to compel the National Assembly to
cub Rile itself within the extensive limits of an assem-
bly called to create a constitution in concert with the
Crown.

" 2. To transfer the National Assembly from Ber-
lin, in order that it may be entirely free from external
influence, and that the moderate party, truly inde-
pendent, may deliberate unfettered for the good of the
country.

"' Z. To concentrate the military forces at Berlin
and its environs, for the purpose of supporting these re-
solutions, in case of need, by force of arms.
" According to the opinion which the King has taken
two eventualities only present themselves in the pre-
sence of these relations; either the National Assembly
will consent, and thus the hope be induced that the dis-
cussion of the Constitution will be happily brought to a
close; or the Assembly will oppose itself to these views.
" In the latter case, the King demands expressly and
solemnly only that co-operation from the Central
Power by which it will keep from the Prussians all in-
terference by foreign Powers.
" He will then•immediately proclaim a constitution
which shall be, in all essential points, a copy of the Bel-
gian constitution, not, however, in that which regards
the census—for the King has several times declared
himself in favour of universal suffrage, and which shill
offer to the country the surest guarantee of his sincere
constitutional desires, unhappily not supported by the
National Assembly.'
" We are assured that the Vicar of the Empire, and
the friendly powers, have given assurance of their ener-
getic co operation, and that the constitutional Govern-
ments have rendered full justice to the sincere and po-
pulartendencies of the Crown of Prussia."

- It is said that the KING contemplates dissolving
the National Constituent Assembly, on which the
Assembly would refuse to break up, as having been
summoned for the specific purpose of drawing up a
constitution, it is not competent to the KING to dis-
solve them until their task shall be completed.
Should the Ministers persevere in their evil courses,
tl'e Assembly have determined to issue a proclamation
to the army, declaring that orders issued by Ministers
who are under the accusation of high treason are not
binding, and are not to be obeyed.
There has been no regular sitting of the Assembly
since the non-payment of taxes was voted, but the
Members meet every day to receive and to reply to
the addresses promising support, which are pouring in
upon them from all parts of the kingdom. The whole
of Silesia and of Prussian Saxony, Munster, the
capital of Westphalia, the greater number of towns
in Pomerania and the Prussian Marches, the whole
of the grand duchy of Posen, Dusseldorf, Cologne,
Aix-la-Chapelle, Coblentz, and the whole of the towns
in the Rhenish Provinces, have declared in favour of
the Assembly.
The Burgher Guard of Berlin have sent repre-
sentatives into the provinces to concert with the
Burgher Guards of the different towns measures of
defence against the reactionary policy of the Court.
In the mean time the Ministry is in a state of the
greatest confusion ; BRANDENBURG advocates con-
ciliatory measures, whilst MANTEUFFEL urges the
KING to dissolve the Assembly at once.
BECKERATH and CAMPHAUSEN have both arrived
at Berlin. They, however, refuse to accept office un-
less the decrees removing the sittings of the Assem-
bly to Brandenburg, and declaring Berlin in a state
of siege, are at once revoked.
The number of arrests are numerous, so much so
that the prisons are overcrowded, and some of the
prisoners have been removed into the great peniten-
tiary recently erected outside the walls. They will
not be tried by martial law, but referred to the ordi-
nary tribunals.

The general opinion is that affairs will be amicably
arranged by mutual concessions on the part of the
ICING and of the Assembly. The KING will, it is
said, recal the decree removing the Assembly to
Brandenburg, and the Assembly will cancel its re-
commendation not to pay taxes.
The Town Council of Berlin has ordered legal pro-
ceedings to be taken against one of General WRAN-
GEL'S officers for violating the Habeas Corpus Act,
by forcibly entering a private dwelling.
BERLIN, Nov. 19.—The Constitutional Corre-
spondence announces the arrival of Mr. BECRERATII
at Potsdam ; he has been charged by the KING with
the formation of a new Ministry. The Composition
of the new Cabinet may be expected to-morrow, or
the day after at the latest.
Mr. SCHMERLING, it is likewise stated, has arrived
at Potsdam, charged with carrying on negotiations
of the highest importance. It appears to be the in-
tention of the Archduke JOHN of Austria to retire
from the central power, in consequence of the events
which are taking place in his own country.
It appears that about fifty or sixty members of the
fraction of the National Assembly have declared their
intention of going to Brandenburg with the Mem-
bers of the Right. General WRANGEL has been ap-
pointed effective General of Cavalry, and Lieutenant-
General Count BRANDENBURG has been promoted to
the rank of General.

The Prussian Staats Anzeiger, of the 21st No-
vember, contains a proclamation of VON WEAicEGL,
stating that during the state of siege, the Burghwehr
Congress, which has already been convoked, dare not
be held. It also contains proclamations from some of
the Royal Governments, calling upon the inhabitants
in their jurisdictions to pay the taxes as usual. It
also contains numerous loyal addresses, likewise,
BASSEMANN'S very important official report respecting
affairs in Berlin.
CHANGE OF MINISTRY IN PRUSSIA.

The Aix la Chapelle Gazette, of the 22d, contains
a telegraphic dispatch from Cologne, stating that the
Brandenburg Ministry has resigned, and that BECKE-
RATH is charged with the formation of a new
Cabinet, in which Guettow and CAMPHAUSEN are to
take part.
COLOGNE, Nov. 21.—Positive information from
the National Assembly at Frankfort states that by
276 votes against 150, consequently by a majority of
126 votes, the Assembly has declared that the reso-
lution of the fraction of the Prussian Assembly re-
specting the refusal of paying the taxes is illegal.

ration respecting the execution of ROBERT Ili.um,
likewise of the execution by 'lnitial law of MESSER-
HAUSER.

HOLLAND.

THE HAGUE, Nov. 18.—The Amsterdam Bourse
contains the following- paragralFh:—" The first step
taken by our Ministry in the way of economy Las
been made known by the publication of their report
to the KING. This report has been hailed with great
satisfaction, and its result was a very considerable rise
in all the Dutch funds. His MAJESTY, on receiving
the report, made the following reply :
"`Acquainted with your report of the 13th of this
month, and fully convinced of the necessity of introducing
various reductions in the exrenses of the state, We ad-
here in general to the ideas dlveloped in that report.
Nevertheless, we drem it expedient that publicity should
be adopted in all that concerns the adicints ration of the
affairs of the state, and in cons( qutnce of the communi-
cation made, with our approbation, on the 13th, we com-
mand, in compliance with the wish of the Second Cham-
ber of the States General, that this report be made
public, and we authorise you to take steps to this efftc
by these pre;;ents.