The Sun.
London, England, 1848-09-26 00:00:00

FRANKFORT.

The Journal de Frankfort, of the 23d, an-
nounces that in the sitting of the German Parliament
of the preceding day M. DUCKWITZ, Provisional
Minister of Commerce and Finance, submitted' a pro-
ject of law for a contizgent in cash of 12,000 florins
to be shared among the different states for the urgent
expenses of the treasury of the empire. He also
submitted a project for the commercial union of
Germany.
WERNHER read the draught of the proclamation to
the German people, which he had been commissioned
to prepare : it was as follows :
" To the German people:
" The German people, in the freest path of election,
have chosen the men who are to establish the freedom
of all, and the unity of our fatherland. Never had an
Assembly a greater—never a more arduous task, than
that imposed upon the German National Assembly.
Amid the pressure of events, and beset with a variety
of demands, yet, keeping the prescribed end in view, it
has gone perseveringly forwards. Though every single
resolution may not have been acceptable to all parties,
and though many a decision may have been temporarily
delayed, yet important things have happily been con-
summated.
" The one united Government for the body politic of
Germany has been organized; a firm foundation has been
hid for the rights of the people; and vigorously has the
way been paved for the future constitution of a united fa
therland. .
" But unheard of things have happened. Men have
dared to stamp the resolutions of the National Assembly
with the brand of high treason. Men have dared to
make an attack on the Parliament. Riot has arisen
openly around the House of Assembly, and in the streets
of the city. Deputies who conscientiously and cou-
rageously asserted their conviction have been horribly
murdered.

" The National Assembly, looking with sorrow and
indignation on what has happened, feels itself compelled,
in the face of such grave events, to address a word to
the German people.
" It trusts that the German people will show respect
to its own liberty in supporting the liberty of its repre-
sentatives, and that it will never suffer threats or vio-
lence to fetter the independence of the speaker or the
voter.

"It feels sure that the German people will never allow
others, either individuals or societies, to substitute their
will in the place of that which it, the commissioned
organ of the nation decrees. It knows that the German
people accords to none but the Assembly the right of
establishing the constitution of Germany.
" German people I We will not cease to protect the
liberties and to give them a safe stronghold in our
fatherland. Nothing shall prevent us from completing
the structure of German unity. Let enemies threaten
us from whatever side they may, we will stand at our
posts to a man, when the defence of our rights is con-
cerned, and never will we swerve from the places as-
signed us until Germany has united itself under a free
constitution.

(Signed) " The German National Assembly."

The President then begged the secretary to read a
motion of SCHArFBATH and his colleagues, which had
been handed in yesterday, but had been casually
omitted.
SCHAFFRATH moved—

"In consideration that the Provisional Central Power,
according to the law of the 28th of June, 1848, has only
an executive power, and therefore not even the right to
proclaim and introduce the state of siege and martial
and summary law, especially without the acquiescence of
the National Assembly at present convened; and in con-
sideration that the proclamation of a state of siege and
martial law in the free city of Frankfort is altogether
without a basis; in consideration, further, that the state
of siege was proclaimed for the first time in the city of
Frankfort on the 19th September, after an entire sup-
pressiou of the disturbances, and therefore could not be
re-actionally applied to their originators or to the parti-
cipators therein, without the grossest violation of every
principle of right that is binding in every body-po-
litic,
&c.; moreover, in consideration that such excep-
tional measures, being those of a reign of terror, are
to be adopted in respect of the most urgent danger—
danger, in fact, that is not otherwise to be averted, and
when adopted, are to be cancelled as speedily as pos-
sible, and no less in consideration that the disturbances
in the city of Frankfort eriginated with a small num
ber (?) of ill-armed persons, and in the course_ of the
following night were completely suppressed, and at all
events are no logger to be apprehended; finally, in con-
sideration that the equivocal legality, or rather utter
illegality, of the state of siege and martial law cramps
and stifles not only the free deliberations of the National Assembly, but industry also, and labour, trade, and in-
tercourse, especially in the present fair-week, the Na-
tional Assembly resolves—
" 1. The immediate annulment of the proclaimed state
of siege and martial law in the city of Frankfort.
"2. That this resolution be immediately communi-
cated to the Imperial Ministry, for speedy execution.
(Signed) " SCHAFFRATH, JOSEPH, BLUM, GUN-
THER, BRENTANO, TITUS, ZITZ
(Laughter), ZIMMERMANN, MOHR,
WIESNER, &c. (Members of the
Left.)"
The urgency of this motion was disallowed.
The House adjourned at half-past Two, P.m.
The following proclamation by the Ministry has
been published

" SEVEN, P.M.

(Address).—" To the German people!
"Germans! the criminal eTatil that hate muted in

Frankfort, the intended attack on the National Assem-
bly, riot in the streets, which had to be suppressed by
force of arms, revolting assassination, and the threats
and maltreatment of individual deputies, these things
have plainly betrayed the plans and means of a party
that is bent on bringing on our fatherland the terrors of
anarchy and civil war.

"Germans? your liberty is sacred in my eyes. It
must be permanently and firmly established by the fabric
of the constitution, for the erection of which your repre-
sentatives are here assembled. But it would be torn from
your grasp if lawlessness and its consequences were dif-
fused over Germany.
" Germans! by the law of the 28th June, 1848, the
Executive Power has been given me in matters which
concern the general safety and propriety of Germany;
I have to protect our fatherland, whether it be jeopar-
dised by foes from without, or by criminal outrages
from within. I know my duty, and I will discharge it.
I will discharge it resolutely and fully. And ye, Ger-
mans, ye who love your country and your liberties, ye,
I feel assured, will stand energetically at my side.
(Signed) " The Administrator of the Empire,
" JOHN.
(Countersigned) " The Imperial Ministers,

"Frankfort, Sept. 20, 1848."

SCHMERLUIG,
" PEUCKER,
" DUCKWITZ,
" MOHL.

AUSTRIA, HUNGARY, AND
CROATIA.

The Aix-la-Chapelle Gazette of the 24th, states
that the Vienna Assembly did not receive the depu-
tation of the Hungary Diet in corpu, but merely re-
ceived their address.

His MAJESTY has accepted the resignation of the
Hungarian Ministry, because some of them had
ministered their portfeuilles illegally. He has again
charged the former prime minister, Count BATTHY-
ANY, with the formation of a new Hungarian Cabinet.
He at first declined this, but KOSSUTH and MADA-
VASS have promised to give him all the assistance in
their power.
KOSSUTH, in a speech which he made on the 17th,
brou2ht the linngarisin repretentativot not only to
declare their determination of defending their coun-
try, but also to fortify Pesth and to erect barricades,
in case JELLACRXCH should enter the town.
From Hungary we learn that the town of Comorn
was burnt down on the 18th. On the 17th the head
quarters of the Ban had advanced to Kiss Komarum,
on the Plattensee.

BEL GI UM.

CELEBRATION OF THE NATIONAL IN.

DEPENDENCE.

BRUSSELS, SEPT. 24.—The 18th anniversary of the
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memorable days of September, 1830—the day; which
gave national independence to Belgium—commenced
on Saturday, the 23d. The morning was ushered in
with great solemnities, his MAJESTY having resolved
to celebrate it by one of the greatest military fetes
ever seen in Brussels. After a grand requiem had
been performed in the Collegiate Church of St.
Michael and St. Gudule, the officers of the House-
hold, the Secretaries of Legation, M. QUINETT, the
Minister of Finance, and all the superior function-
aries, the Communal Council, &c., repaired to
the Palace, in front of which 'his MAJESTY was to
present their colours to the deputations of the civic
guards of the provinces. A splendid throne was
erected in the square of the Palace, and after the
regiments of the army and the civic guard
had been ranged in military array, his MAJESTY,
accompanied by the QUEEN, the Duke of BRABANT,
the Count DE FLANDERS, and the Princess CHARLOTTE,
and attended by a brilliant suite, took his seat on the
throne. At this moment all the flags were lowered,
the bands of the different regiments struck up the
national anthem, the soldiers fired, the bells rang
merry peal, and the air resounded with the acclama
tions of the people.
The Minister of the Interior then advanced and
spoke as follows :
"Civic Guards of Belgium,—You are called to receive
from the hands of the King the national colours—the
emblem of liberty, order, and union.
" Under these noble colours are sheltered our constitu-
tion and our independence.
" The country confides it to your devotion, to your
courage, and your honour."

The legions destined to receive the colours were
then called successively. The colonels or lieutenant-
colonels of the legions, accompanied by the standard-
bearers, mounted the platform, and as each passed
before his MAJESTY, the Minister of the Interior
placed the colours in the hand of his MAJESTY,
who presented them to the chief of the legion, who
then consigned them to the care of the standard-
bearer.