The Sun.
London, England, 1848-06-22 00:00:00

JUNE 22, 1840.

The report of the Finance Committee has been pre-
,ented to the Asse:nbly. It is against the proposi-
tions of the Minister of Finance, whom it accuses of
blunders and of miscalculations. The report calcu-
lates the deficiency of revenue for the year at one
hundred and fifty million francs.

The receipt of the direct taxes, which for the month
of March was 57,580,100 E, and for the month of April
49,007,000 E, fell during the month of May to
22,922,400 f. The extraordinary impost of 45c.,
though liable to be immediately exacted, has not been
better paid than the ordinary tax. Of the 191,270,0001.,
to which it amounts, only 51,585,600 f. were recovered
on the Ist June.

A letter from Napoleon Vendee (formerly Bourbon
Vendee) says—

" One of the officers of the 46th regiment of the line,
with his company, being detached on the coast, surprised
an English vessel at the moment when its crew was oc-
cupied in disembarking muskets destined to arm the
Chouans of the country. About 3,000 stand nt arms
were seized and transported to Napoleon Vend6e."
We can scarcely credit this statement. If it be
true, we trust that the English Government will at
once, and unasked, put the Alien Act in force
against those foreign intriguers (for the arms must
have been purchased by foreign intriguers located in
England) who abuse our hospitality by plotting
against the peace of a friendly Power.

The Finance Committee, at its meeting yesterday,
fixed the salary of Ministers at 36,000 f. per annum.
Under Louis PHILIPPE the salary of a Minister was
80,000 f., with the exception of the Minister for
Foreign Affairs, who had 100,000 f. M. TIMES de-
fended high salaries on the ground that low salaries
were aristocratic, as none but rich men could accept
high places under Government.

The Sardinian Minister has demanded of the
French Minister of Foreign Affairs an explanation of
the hostile expressions in the exposé des motifs, rela-
tive to the Garde Mobile. M. BASTIDE declared the
only object of the measure was to defend the integrity
of France.

There has been an enzeute at Nice, in which the
people attacked the office of the Echo, a French
journal, and did considerable damage to the property.
This may perhaps increase the unpleasant feeling
existing between the French Executive and the King
Of SARDINIA.

There was a duel yesterday between M. NA-
POLEON BERTRAND and M. GODCUAUX, the son of
the banker, in which the latter was wounded. The
difference was a political one, BERTRAND being a
Bonapartist and GODCHAUX a Republican.
BOURSE.—PARIS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 21.
THREE O'CLocK.—This has been another day of
stagnation at the Bourse. Every one is waiting to see
what the Assembly will do with the railways, and
until that question be settled, matters will continue
here is a state of doubt and depression. The Rentes
and Three per Cents. were both weak, and gave way
slightly. Vieille Montagne Shares have fallen
75f. • to 2,071. For the Account, the French
Three per Calm have fallen 50c.; Five per Cents. have
fallen 25c. For Money, the Three per Cents. and Five
per Cents have fallen 25c. each; Bons du Tresor are at
23 to 24 discount; Bank of France Shares have fallen sf.
Belgian Bank Shares not quoted; Belgian Two-and-a-
Half per Cents. not quoted; Spanish Actives, nothing
done; Roman are the same as yesterday; Rothschild's
Receipts, at 71f. 50c. Railway Shares for the Account,
Settling of 30th June:—Northerns have fallen 27f. 50c.;
nothing else done. For Money, Orleans, louens, Mar-
seilles, Bales, Bordeaux, Northerns, Nantes, and Lyons,
have all Callen H. 25c. The rest are the same as yes-
terday, with the exception of the Muntereau and Troyes,
which have risen st.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE. JUNK 21.
Dutch Rhenish, 1/2—Luxembourg, I—Namur and Liege,
2th.

GERMANY

AND

THE NORTHERN STATES

AUSTRIA AND BOHEMIA.
The Vienna Gazette of the 16th publishes a tele-
grapic dispatch, received the day before from the
Burgomaster of Prague, which states that the bom-
bardment of the city recommenced that morning,
and was continuing when the dispatch left.
The following letter in the Leipzig Deutsche
Allgemeine Zeitung, of the 18th, gives fuller particu-
lars of the progress of affitirs between the contend-
ing parties ; it brings intelligence up to the morning
of the 16th :
"On the 13th at mid-day the military had completely
the upper hand, and Prince Windischgratz determined
to restore the communications between the old and new
town. For this purpose he caused the chain bridges
over the Moldau, which had been broken, to be repaired,
and the barricades on the lesser side to be taken by
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down their arms. The Czech party, however, required
that Prince Windischgratz and the military should leave
the city; cons( quently every idea of accommodation was
abandoned. The rumour was spread on the night of the
13th that there would be a general attack on alt the Ger-
man inhabitants of the town. Great fright was caused by
this, and whole families might be seen to fly through the
gates out of the town, leaving their all behind. After
the breaking off the parley the people 'retired to Pod--
skal, where they concentrated themselves, and where
the (yagers and hussars followed them, to attack them.
There a terrible slaughter ensued on both sides; twenty-
six hussars were thrown into the Moldau by the people.
and the battle lasted until the 14th of June, at half-past
nine. On that day General Count Mensdorff arrived
from Vienna, in order to assume the command in chief,
in the hope that as the Bohemians seemed to have taken
a vehement dislike to Prince Windischgratz, the as-
sumption of command by Mensdorff might restore
peace. This was, however, a vain hope; the tumult in-
creased every moment, the fight was renewed, and the
Czech party obtained possession of the town. Prince
Windischgratz then abandoned the town with the mili-
tary and retired to the mountains round the city, from
thence to bombard the town. The Loren.zoberg, the
Marienschanze, and the Ziscaberg were occupied with
cannon; and the Clementinum, Carolinum, and There-
sianum strongly cannonaded. Such was the state of
affairs on the morning of the 16th, to which date our
accounts reach. Count Leo Thun had beeu obliged to
fly in the disguise of a servant."
A letter from Inspruck, dated the 15th, says that
the EMPEROR had been suffering for some days. His
nerves have been greatly tried by the extreme excite-
ment in which he is incessantly kept by the various
reports from Italy, Vienna, Hungary, and Croatia,
and the innumerable deputations and audiences
which he has been cornpely to receive and give. It
Imperial Family will quit Ins-
is expected that the I
pruc _
k in the course of the week, but the route is not
definitely fixed. It is, however, probable that the
with WESSENBERG and
Court and diplomatic corps,
DOEILHOEF, will first Froceed to Salzburg, while the
Archduchess SOPIIIA and her suite will repair to
Ischel.

Ii UN GARY.

A letter, from Pesth of June 12 says:—

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" Last night a report was suddenly spread through
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the barracks of the Jarlitz. At nine o'clock the generale
was beat, and the tocsin sounded from all the steeples.
The National Guards repaired to the barracks from
every quarter, and an immense number of people were
assembled armed with swords, guns, clubs, iron bars,
and stones. Shots were bred from the windows upon
the crowd, but happily they did not do much mischief.
At twelve o'clock the regular military surrounded the
barracks and guarded all the doors. Cannon were
drawn up facing the building. The Minister of War
went into the barracks and in vain endeavoured to induce
the Italians to lay down their arms. It was not until
one o'clock on the following day that they were dis-
armed and carried off to Komorn. The Minister now
repaired to the Palace to pacify the free corps, and
K chsuth made a powerful address to them, pointing out
their duty, to remain quiet, to harbour no thought o:
revenge, to avoid everything which might tend to re,
new this lamentable conflict, and to reserve all their
energy and strength to meet the enemy who is menacing
their country."

Herr Camphausen; Public Worship and Education,
Auerswald; Finance, Milde ; Interior, Pinder, or
Eichmann ; Public 'Works, Hausemann ; Foreign,
Usedorn, or Lychnowski ; War, Schreckenstein.
The Prussian Government has recalled General
VON COLOMB from Posen, where he distinguished
himself by his severities against the Polish inha •
bitants. He is replaced by General Vox 13stusixEcK.

POSEN.
The Oberlandesgericht- Assessor (Assessor of the
Supreme Court) Fischer in Posen, has made the fol-
lowing protest against the choice of electors and the
election of a Deputy from the district of Posen to the
German National Assembly :
When his Majesty the King had by a Cabinet order
of April 12th declared, in accordance with the
opinion of the Ministry, that the organization promised
to the Polish inhabitants of the Grand Duchy of Posen
should not extend to those portions of it where the
German nationality predominated, but that on
the contrary the annexation of them to the
German Confederation should be demanded without
delay from the German Federal Assembly, the latter,
on the application of Prussia, in its 39th session, April,
22i, resolved--
" That several districts of the Grand Duchy of Posen,
adjoining the German federal territory, in which the
majority of population, amounting to 593,000 souls,
should, according to the wish of the inhabitants, be re-
ceived into the Germanic Confederation."
By a supreme Cabinet order of April 26th, again,
several portions of the Grand Duchy of Posen were ex-
cluded from the Polish organization, and on May 2d, in
the 45th sitting of the Federal Assembly, upon the ap-
plication of Prussia, the city and fortress of Posen, with
the districts connecting them with the above-mentioned
territory and a population of 273,500 souls, were also
received into the Germanic Confederation.
The first application. according to the tenor of which
the annexation to the Germanic Confederation was to be
effected agreeably to the wish of the inhabitants,
contained an untruth, because the will of the people
had pronounced itself against it in a legal
manner, through its usual organ the assembled Diet ;
because another organ for ascertaining the will of the
people was yet wanting, and not heard ; because only
individuals and individual communities had pronounced
themselves for the annexation to Germany, whereas
the opposed will of the Polish people had manifested
itselt unmistakably, especially: by the general wearing
of their national colours ; and, finally, because the Po-
lish population, trusting to the public promises of the-
Government, the fulfilment of which it expected, had
no cause for general and open protests and declarations.
The second declaration violated the promises made to
the Poles ; it put in place of justice, which Germany
and her organs asked for, seltishness--and instead ot
separating the German from the Polish nationality, and
putting au end to the oppression of the Poles, a fortress
which, with its surrounding forts, is as much built for
oppressing the Poles as for repelling a foreign foe; a few
Germans, who for the most part had left their German
fatherland, already under ancient Polish rule, were
taken as a pretext for annexing to Germany hundreds
of thousands of Poles living on the land inherited from
their forefathers, against their wish, and even without
being listened to ; they were made the pretence for
severing the greater half of the Polish population of
the Grand Duchy from that portion which was to be
re. organized.
General Von Pfuel considerably increased the por-
tion annexed to Germany by his declaration of May 12,
by which pure Polish portions of the districts of Shroda,
Adelnau, Shrimm, Posen, Kosten, Kroben, Krotoshin,
Mogilno, and Wongrowiec, are excluded from the orga
nization, and united with ,the Germanic Cenfederation.
General Von Pfuel was not authorised by his instruc-
tion or powers to make this declaration or increase.
Now, iu this part of the ancient Polish kingdom, almost
entirely inhabited by Poles, in which only the city of
Posen contains a considerable German population—out
of 40,000, about 9,000 souls exclusive ot the families of
civil and military officers, and most,of those descendants
of Germans, who by virtue of especial privileges bad
settled in the old Polish kingdoms ; now, from this part
of the country a deputy is to be chosen for the German
National Assembly, and I, as a German employe, not
having been able to leave this territory, notwithstand-
ing reiterated requests, have been summoned to take
part in this election.
I protest against this election, because the ancient
Polish territories can only then be received in the Ger-
manic Confederation, when after the re establishment of
peace and order in Me land, after the cessation of the pre-
sent rule of force, the will of the people, can unreservedly
and distinctly pronounce itself ; and when upon the de-
mand of the inhabitants of each and every district, that
desires a separation from the Grand Duchy, the Ger-
manic Constituent National Assembly on the one hand,
and the legal organs that are to be constituted by the same
Assembly on the other hand, have concluded the act of
annexation to Germany, and because only after this an.
nexation the respective members of the Union are en-
titled to send representatives to the German National
Assembly.
I protest against the election, which is to be proceeded
with, on the ground of acts for which neither his Ma-
jesty the King, nor the Ministers of the State, nor the
Germanic Confederate Assembly, were competent, at a
time when the people and their rights are no longer ob-
jects of the absolute will of Govertments—when the
only existing legal organ of the land has pronounced it-
self against the annexation:to Germany—has never been
heard on the subject of the projected parti-
tion—and when more than halt a million of
Poles protest against this act. The law of the
22d May, 1815, had, in section 4, pronounced, that the
attributes of the representatives of the land are to ex-
tend over all subjects of legislation concerning the per-
sonal rights of every member of the state; the Legida-
tore of the states had confirmed these rights; —and
should we now dispose of man's most important right— '
his fatherland and nationality—without listening to the
people or its representatives, amidst the thunder of can-
non mowing down those that oppose such a proceeding?
I protest against the election, because ail bonds of
order and law in the Grand Duchy of Posen are riven
asunder, and because the law is violated not only by the
Poles, Germans, and Jews, but also by the authorities,
supported by 30,000 to 40,000 bayonets.
General V. Pfuel and the highest civil and military
authorities of this province have violated every legiti-
mate authority by proclaiming martial law, which is
abolished by a supreme Cabinet order, and which re-
moves the inhabitants of the Grand Duchy in certain
cases from their personal judge to the discretion of mili-
tary authorities; they have done so without the pro-
mulgation of a law for the purpose passed in a legiti-
mate manner; they have done it of their own accord,
without full powers, or even the assent of his Majesty
the King or his Ministers, although, by virtue of the
most recent changes in the constitution, even his Ma-
jesty has the power of reintroducing it (martial law)
only with the consent of the representatives of the
nation, since this law comes within the category of ex-
ceptional laws mentioned in section 2 of the decree pro-
mulgated April 6, concerning several fundamental points
of the future Prussian Constitution.
This is not the place for deciding who is the cause of
the present condition of this country, in how far it is to
be attributed to the patriotism of the Poles, to their
long oppression, to the measures of the authorities, to
the prevailing want of confidence in them, aggravated
by the treatment of the Poles and broken promises; to
excesses and abuses on the part of the Poles; to an un-
restrained agitation of such Germans as have left their
German fatherland, and are afraid to lose the open
arena of their egotistic;activity ;—it is not for us to
decide in how far the measures for the protection of
Germans—to which they are entitled even in a foreign
country—are necessary, and will be so for a longer
period; but, in the present state of this country, to pro-
ceed with elections which are to decide on the most im-
portant rights of a people, is a measure on the part of
the authorities which puts their relation to the move-
ment in this country in its proper light—a movement
which has been distorted in the eyes of Germany, dis-
torted even by official accounts, if I may believe the
words of German eye-witnesses, officers and actors in
those events.
We still have in this province the same authorities
(I do not speak of highly honourable individual excep•
tions) whose doings the Supreme President Flottwell
has so well described in his well-known report, pub-
lished March 15, 1841 ; we have still the same military
rule and German bureaucracy, which shows itself now
in its most unrestrained and most barbarous form—
which laid hold of excesses committed by individual
Poles in order to render itself, as a consequence of its
own measures necessary, and now, for its own protec-
tion, proceeds to elections, by the results of which it
hopes to justify the previous accounts of its steps.
They proceed with the elections at a time
when everywhere the most respectable Poles—
who have not yet fled their country—if they allow
themselves to he seized, without any legal ground
from pretended precaution, upon a mere suspicion, upon
the denunciation of a Jew, are arrested by the military,
dragged to the fortress, often liberated after a longer or
shorter imprisonment, and often detained; at a time
when Poles, arrested upon a mere suspicion, are mal-
treated and shot by the troops during the transport—
when Polish prisoners, escorted by soldiers, are in the
streets of Posen publicly beaten with clubs by Germans
and Jews, excited by members of the so-called German
Committee—at a time when hundreds of arrested and dis-
armed Poles are butchered by the soldiery with bay-
onets or the butt-ends of' their muskets—when mansions
and villages are plundered and reduced to ashes—when
the plundering Prussian soldier, after murdering and
chasing away the inhabitants, burns the sick and
wounded Poles in the dwellings which he has plun-
dered—when I hear German officers and officials ask
each other, with a feeling of horror, whether this bar-
barity of the infuriated, uncivilised Germans—whether
this bestial desire for murder, which delights in tor
menthig and exterminating even the conquered enemy.
is inherent in the nature of the German—they proceed
with the elections at a moment when no Pole can show
himself in the streets of Posen without being ill-used
by Jews and Germans; when Poles are disarmed, and
Germans and Jews provided with arms; when Poles
dare no longer to meet in consultation on their affairs,
for fear of being attacked, maltreated, and arrested for
some pretended plot, by Jews, Germans, and soldiers; at
a time when, in a word, the Pole appears to be an outlaw
IN ISIS OWN NATIVE LAND.
These facts are here well known and publicly related;
I do not doubt their trutb, because I know the spirit of
the civil and military authorities in this province, and I
am ready to adduce more circumstantial facts, and bring
forward witnesses, Germans as well as Poles.
I do not believe that these facts, omitted by our au-
thorities in their official reports, were unknown to them,
because I have heard persons, who surround them con-
verse about them.
As a test of the view which the authorities take Of

this state, it may suffice to mention, that on inquiring
whether the prisoners were marked, as I was told by
• oute Poles, I wits informed that they had one hand and
one ear blackened with some permanent chemical pre-
paration, but by an order cf General V. Pluel, they
had now only one hand dyed.
I think that amidst such unfortunate circumstances,
every upright Geiltian ought to abstain from the elec-
tion;, ile will, on Gorman soil, among our honest Ger-
man people, insist on his full political rights; but the
rights which he claims for hinisolf, he ciaims also for
other men and nations. He desires a separation of the
German and Polish nationalities,—unconditional pro-
tection of the Germans settled here; but he does not
desire, in favour of those Germans who have lett their
German fatherland, to rob, by immoral means, the Poles
of those rights which are due to them, as the ancient in-
habitants of this soil.

(Signed) CHRISTIAN FISCHER.
Oberlandesgericht-Assessor in Posen.
Posen, May 19th, 1848.
The ab,ve protest was sent Ito the municipality of
Posen with the following note :
Worshipful Magistrate,—At the primary assembly of
electors for the, 2d electoral district of Posen, which
met to-day for the election of an elector, who might
take pan in the choice of a Dcputy to the German
National Assembly, I was going to make a protest
against this election, but, it was rejected by the presid-
ing Oeknomie Rath Wendtland, because, by virtue of an
instruction given him by a worshipful magistrate, the
election was to proceed without any discussion.
I know but two organs for exercising political rights,
the Primary General Assembly and the Assembly of
the Representatives of the nation.
In the first, where alone every individual has a right
to present himself, I think I ought not to have beer. re-
fused to make my protest against a violation of rights.
I therefore pray a worshipful magistrate to insert my
protest, which I have been obliged to make in writing,
among the minutes of the election proceeding
,of the
2d electoral district, and to communicate the same to the
German National Assembly at Frankfort.
(Signed) CHRISTIAN FISCHER,
Posen, May 19th, 1848. 0. L. G. Assessor.
—From the Berliner Zeitungs Halle, May 24.