The Sun.
London, England, 1848-12-02 00:00:00

PRUSsIA.

The following is the report of the proceedings at
the sitting of the Assembly at Brandenburg, on
the 27th :

The -galleries were all crowded long before the hour
appointed for the commencement of the proceedings ;
but the loge of the diplomatists was more thinly occu-
pied. From half-past ten till eleven the deputies con-
tinued to arrive. M. Hansernann was able to attend the
present sitting, and, on his entrance, was warmly greeted
by the deputies collected in groups on the floor. The
Ministers did not arrive till a quarter past eleven.
Count Brandenburg was one of the first in his place.
The chair was not taken till a quarter to twelve, and the
interval was filled up by a lively conversation in everypart of the Hall,
especially between the several Minis-
ters and their supporters.
M. Von Brunneck having taken his seat, opened the
proceedings by proposing that the minutes of the pre-
vious sitting should be read ; he also proposed that the
minutes of the last sitting in Berlin, on the 9th instant,
should be read and confirmed.
This gave rise to a short discussion, in which MM.
Baumstark and Reichensperger opposed the reading of
the protocol of the 9th, on the ground that the
Chamobreirnc(atpoacailtlyatpo pass a legal vote as it was yester-
pearance) was in the same condi-
tionday. It was, therefore, resolved to pass at once to the
minutes of yesterday, leaving those of the 9th to be
dealt with hereafter; the former were then read and con-
firmed.

The President then proposed that they should either
call over the names or suspend the proceedings for an
hour, to hold a conference with the Ministry, as to whe-
ther it would in the present sitting state the next step it
was prepared to take.
As a m Ater of form the proposition of an adjourn-
ment had the precedence; it was put and agreed to,
and at twelve o'clock the sitting Wt as suspended till one.

welrte wieassumheadlf. past one o'clock before the proceedings

The President then stated it was necessary to call over
the names of the deputies formally to establish the fact
that there was not a legal majority present.
The appel nominal was then gone through in the usual
manner; none of the Ministers were present during this
part of the proceedings. The result of the call was a
Chamber of 159 deputies—still far from being the neces-
sary 203.

There was a tendency in one or two deputies to renew
the protest of the previous day against the right of the
Crown to remove the sittings from Berlin, and the de-
sultory discussion upon it; but it was checked by the
general sense of the Chamber, and an appeal from M.
Bremer, who exhorted them to be united now, even
though they might have their individual scruples.
The President then said he had communicated to the
Ministers the result of the call of the Chamber; he knew
not whether the Government woul I make the same pro
position it did the day before—(Laughter)—but should
this be the case, he thought they ought again to adjourn.
The Ministers at this moment entered the Hall,
Count Brandenburg at their head. They were saved the
trouble of making the proposition alluded to by the Pre •
ski( nt, by
M. Simons, an advocate of the Court of Cessation at
Berlin for the Rhenish Provinces, who ascended the
tribune, and moved the adjournment of the Chamber till
the following day, at 11. They were bound to give their
colleagues full opportunity to come and take their seats
with them; it was probable that the following day
might bring the Assembly an increase of numbers.
Should they then still find themselves unable to proceed
with their discussions, another adjournment might be
moved till Thursday; on that day he should propose
that the Ministry formally summon those who did not
on that day present themselves. On !Thursday he
would more fully develop the motion which he to day
only announced.
Immaliately M. Simons had concluded, Count Bran-
cinhfios place, and stated that the motion
wee conformable with the intentions of the
Government,
which were to hasten as much as possible
Bran-
denburgg o
theenbe l'V oc
uxracrt sdeliberations of the Assembly on the Constitution,
that it might be settled in concert with the Crown. If,
therefore, the Chamber should determine to give a day
or two longer to the endeavour to form its number, he
should not oppose it. The statement was received with
great applause.
The motion of M. Simons was then put, and carried
unanimously, without discussion or opposition, and the
Assembly adjourned.
M. GEABow has resigned his seat.
Accounts from Thuringia and Magdeburgh repre
sent not only the people, but the troops also, as ripe
for insurrection.

FRANKFORT.
In the sitting of the German Parliament on
the 28th,
Reisser brought up the report on the funeral ceremony
of Robert Blum. Tne committee, he said, appointed to
arrange the funeral ceremony in memory of Robert
Blum had had to struggle with great diversity of opi-
nion. Nevertheless, in bringing the matter thus unex-
pectedly before the House, he was sure he might declare
that party feeling had in no case been at the bottom
of this inability to agree. He fully believed that his
,
colleagues, like himself, were solely actuated by a wish
to arrange for the mourn ul right in the spirit of the As-
sembly's resolution, according to which the lamentable
and premature death of a member, and, indeed, his un-
lawful execution should be the basis of a ceremony in
every way worthy- of the octasion. But the committee
having resolved itself into a majority and minority, he
felt obliged to ask the Assembly whether the committee
was authorised in at once making the necessary arrange-
ments according to the decisions of its majority, or
whether it must lay a statement of its plan before the
House.

Levercus called the attention of Members to two se •
parate statements in the local journals. The Ober-Post
Amptv Zeitung reported that Herr Jucho, the Member
for Frankfort, had formally communicated to the
Frankfort Constituent Assembly the intended cele-
bration of a funeral rite in honour of Robert Blum,
and had moved that that Assembly attend the same;
a motion that was unanimously carried. The
Frankfort Journal, on the other hand, stated that Herr
Jucho had, in the name of the Imperill Assembly, in-
vited the Frankfort Assembly to attend. Various unions
and deputation from a great number of places had sig-
nified a desire to be present; but it was not the inten-
tion of the Imperial Assembly to ordain a public com-
memoration of Blum's death.—(Clamour on the left.) It
was to be a rite in which the Members of the Assembly
should formally be understood to engage.—(lncreased
clamour, and cries of " Enough.") It was not the in-
tention of the Assembly to give occasion to any popular
demonstration.—(Enough, enough.) He would, how-
ever, beg to ask the committee whether Herr Jucho
had been authorised to invite the local authorities to this
funeral solemnity ?
Jucho said he must first contradict a statement made
in a public paper, to the effect that he had called him-
self a member of the committee in question, and had
invited attendance in the name of the committee. The
facts were these. The committee had met for consul
tation on Friday evening last, and Herr Riesser, the
presiding member, had invited him• to attend its deli-
berations, as being a Frankfort citizen, who might be
able to give him a welcome hint or two. It was that
evening resolved that a formal invitation to the local au-
thorities and other parties was not advisable, but that a
direct communication of the time, &c , of the ceremony
sh uld be made to them. He (Jucho) had done no
more than make a preliminary communication ; he
therefore, left it to the last speaker to draw his own
conclusions as to the truth of current reports.
The Left declared, as a body, that they abstained
from all participation in the debate.
Soiron then put the question thus:—Shall. the Com-
mittee arrange for the funeral ceremony without further
co-operation on the part of the National Assembly ?
(Negatived—Noes, 241 ; Ayes, 156.)
Oster rath, Lassaulz, Beseler, Von Linde, Beda Weber,
and others, moved that the House pass to the order of
the day on all motions for a funeral solemnityin honour
of Robert Blum, assigning as a reason for this—l. That
no particular ceremony of the kind had ever been or-