The Sun.
London, England, 1848-07-25 00:00:00

GERMANY

AND

THE NORTHERN STATES.

FRANKFORT.

In the sitting of the German Parliament of the 21st
the following portions of the scheme of fundamenta
rights were adopted :

ARTICLE I.

" Sec. 1. Every German has the right of citizenship
of the German empire. He may exercise in every Ger-
man land the rights which accrue to him by means of
this right.—Carried.

" With regard to ,the right of electing into the Ger-
man Imperial Assembly the German imperial election
law makes its depositions.—Carried.
" Sec. 2. Every citizen of the German empire has the
right of making his sojourn or fixing his dwelling
in any place in the German imperial territory—of ac-
quiring landed or house property—of pursuing any han-
dicraft, trade, profession, or calling that tends to a live-
lihood—and of acquiring the right of a freeman in this
or that town, borough, parish, district, &c. (Gemeinde-
burger-recht).—Carried.

"-The conditions of sojourning and dwelling will be
definitively settled by a territorial law : those for the
carrying on of a trade, profession, handicraft, &e , by a
trade and profession regulation,, enacted by the Imperial
Government.—Carried : ayes 224, noes 193.
" Until the enactment of an imperial law, the settle-
ment, &c., of every German in every German state, is
under the same conditions as those to which the iohabi
tants of that state are subjected.—Carried almost una-
nimously.
" No German state can make a difference between its
own members and those of another state, either in
burgher rights or in the rights of civil or criminal pro-
cess, in such a manner as to disparage the last-mentioned
members.—Carried almost unanimously.
" The whole of the motions contained in section 2
were then carried in a body.
" Sec. 3. No other conditions can be attached to re-
ception into the state-citizenship of a German state than
those which relate to the irreproachable character and
the sufficiency of means possessed by the applicant for
the support of himself and family.—Carried.
" Sec. 4. The penalty of loss of citizenship (capitis
diminutio) shall not exist. On the day of proclamation
of rights, the validity of the capitis diminutio shall cease.
" Supplement. And when the penalty is already im-
posed, it shall be declared null and void, provided ac-
quired private rights are not impaired thereby.—Car.
ried :ayes, 238; noes, 195.

" Se;. 6. Liborty of emigration is not limited by the
law of the state.—Carried.
" Supplementary motion of Raclowitz.—Emigration
affairs are under the protection, and are the care, of the
empire.—Carried.

" Emigration forfeits (gabella emigrationis) may not be
exacted.—Carried."

A motion for the abolition of the passport system
was rejected.
By an ordinance dated the 16th the Minister of the
Empire for the Department of War has notified to
the Ministers of War of the different states of Ger-
many that the ARCHDUKE, Regent of the Empire,
has assumed the supreme command of the entire
armed force of Germany. He desires the different
Ministers of War to assemble on parade on the 6th
of August, 1848, all the federal troops of their respec-
tive garrisons, to inform them that the ARCHDUKE,
Regent of the Empire, has taken the supreme com-
mand of all the federal troops, to read to them his
Highness's "appeal to the people," to make them give
three vivats in token of homage to the REGENT. From
that day the federal colours will be worn by the
German army.