The Sun.
London, England, 1848-09-08 00:00:00

FRANKFORT.

In the sitting of the German Parliament on the
4th, the debate on the question of the duchies com-
menced. It was decidedly warlike in its tone.
HECKSCRER, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, re-
cited the articles of truce concluded between Prussia
and Denmark. He confessed that he felt himself in
an embarrassing situation to find that the resolutions
of the Central Power had been nullified, and that a
Dane, Gael. VON MOLTKE, was at the head of the
new Schleswig-Holstein Government ; nor was this
embarrassment diminished by the official letter of the
Prussian Plenipotentiary, Herr VON CAMPHAUSEN,
in which it was stated that the armistice had been
concluded between Denmark on one side and the
King of PxussrA on the other, in the name of:the
Germanic Confederation. Herr Vox CAMPHAUSEN'S
special explanation was, that the fact of the Adminis-
trator having assumed the Central Power had not
been officially notified to the Ring of DENMARK, and
he doubted not that on a closer view of circumstances,
the dissatisfaction incident on a first perusal of the
conditions of truce would cease.
DARLMANN said he had, as early as yesterday
evening, prepared an interpellation to the Minister of
Foreign Affairs, in consequence of no official decla-
ration of the conditions of truce being forthcoming.
The interpellation was now superseded by M. I-lECK
SCHER'S announcement. His great objections were
to the fact of their Provisional Government having
been duly acknowledged by Prussia, and yet being
wholly set aside in this instance, he was also little
satisfied with the position occupied by M. GRAF
VON MOLTKE, nor with the agreement that the
armies of Schleswig and Holstein should be separated.
A few weeks ago the Assembly had resolved to main-
tain the honour of Germany in the Schleswig affair.
Did the Ministry mean to do so now ?—(Cheers from
all quarters.)

WALTZ moved that the fulfilment of the articles oi
the truce be at once stopped by the Central Power.
Rejected.

A party from the Left moved that the whole of the
diplomatic correspondence bearing upon the subject
be laid before a committee immediately, and that this
committee so prepare its report that the Assembly
nay discuss and decide upon the whole matter in an
afternoon sitting of that day.—Rejected.
BLum, WIGARD, TAFEL, and ethers, moved that
the withdrawal of the troops be immediately counter-
manded, and that the Assembly deliberate tomorrow
as to whether the fulfilment of the other conditions
of peace be delayed or not.—Carried.
Herr VON RAppARD moved, " The National As.
embly declares that the armistice concluded by
Prussia requires the approval of the Central Power;
that the National Assembly withholds its acqui-
escence in the conditions of the truce, and calls
upon the Central Power to continue the war with
energy, until the honour of Germany be fully vindi-
cated."—Referred for the speediest possible deli-
beration to a combination of the committee for a
Provisional Government and the internal committee.
BASSERMANN deprecated premature decisions. It
was a great European question. Prussia had acted
for itself, as well as for Germany. They had not
yet the diplomatic documents before them; and
intemperance on their part might involve them in a
war with the combined powers of England, France,
and Russia.
The Assembly adjourned very early (half-past
twelve), that the committees might immediately take
up the question.
The Prussians met in close conference after the
sitting.