The Sun.
London, England, 1848-11-20 00:00:00

GERMANY

AND

THE NORTHERN STATES.

PRUSSIA.

The Berlin journals of the 16th have arrived. The
Prussian Staats Anzeiger of that date contains the
following official notifications :
"CIRCULAR TO ALL THE ROYAL GOVERNMENTS.
Ass come to my knowledge that in several parts
of the country, very considerable agitation has been
caused by the spreading of a report that the Government
of the kingdom intends that the laws for the amelicira-
tion of the agricultural population which have been sub-
milted to it, and in part promised, shall not be carried
into effect. The Government is, however, firmly ye-
solved to pursue the path it has entered upon, and to
grant the agricultural inhabitants every admissible alle-
viation.

" I therefore enjoin all the Royal Governments to.in-
form the agricultural populations of their respective dis-
tricts, with all possible speed, of these intentions of the
State, and to cause the magistrates to contradict the
said reports in the said respective villages of their juris-
diction, and to assure the landed proprietors and agricul-
tural population that the Ministry of State is firmly re-
solved faithfully to carry out all the concessions made
by his Majesty the King, and most especially to further
the weal of the agricultural population with all their
power.

"THE MINISTER OF THE INTERIOR.
" Berlin, Nov. 15."

"PROCLAMATION.

"As the term fixed for the voluntary delivery of
arms has again expired without the command having
been responded to, that the Burgherwehr should give
up the arms given to them by the State, to be used
in the Imperial service, it now become the duty of
the authorities to take decided measures for taking
them away.

" Special care shall be taken that the burghers
do not again have their weapons taken away from
them forcibly by unauthorised persons, as has been fre-
quently the case. _

"By command of the Commandant, therefore, •to-
morrow morning, at nine o'clock, military patrols will
appear in the streets, having with them transport wag-
gons, and as the patrols beat the drum, all the arms
which have been given away at every house, and all
the ammunition, mud he laid at the threshold of the
house, where they will be received by persons duly
eta powered.

Should this command 'also not be obeyed, the
householders and possessors of arms have themselves
to blame for the inevitable consequences which are
connected with house-searching and forcible ts.lting of
arms.

" The military authorities expect, nevertheless, from
the honourable sentiments of the burghers, and especi-
ally from the judicious co-operation of the overseers of
each district, that they will aid the troops in their diffi-
cult task, and not, by unlooked-for opposition, call forth
the most fearful danger upon the city and the country.
" The sum of one mark will be give❑ for every weapon
which is given up. " VON TuumEx,
" Major-General and Commandant."

" Berlin, Nov. 14."

The following proclamation shows that Martial-
law has been proclaimed in the city :--
" The following proclamation, which on the evening of
the 13th was published, at the beating of the drum by
the zarrison of this place, and also by public placard, is
hereby again brought before the public.
" In pursuance of my proclamation of the 12th of this
month, I hereby make known that all persons in Berlin,
or those environs which are with it included in the state
of seige, who shall, by any act of treachery, endanger or
pf
r section
18, part 2, of the military penal code of April
3, 1835, be forthwith brought before a court-martial.
" Berlin, Nov. 15." " VON WRANGEL, GeLOral."
General WRANGEL has also published the following
proclamation :
" In reference to my proclamation of the 12th of this
month, I hereby inform all the inhabitants of this city
and those districts which are declared in a state of seige,
under penalty of being subject to punishment by mar-
tial-law, that they are bound to give information of all
strangers dwelling with them, according to the existing
police laws, whether or not they have given previous
notification, till to-morrow, the 17th, at two o'clock in
the afilernoon, at the respective police offices and in the
prescribed form.
" The Commander-in-Chief of the troops in the
Kirch,
" Berlin, Nov. 15." "`SON WRANGEL.
The burghers of Schingen have sent the following
address to the National Assembly of Berlin :
" Upon soveral occasions, and more especially upon