The Sun.
London, England, 1848-09-16 00:00:00

GERMANY

AND

THE NORTHERN STATES.

PRUSSIA.

The Ministerial crisis still continues. MM. BECKA.•
RATH and VENIRE have both arrived, and had long
audiences with the KING on the 1 I th. It is said that
the KING makes the recognition of the armistice with
Denmark the basis on which the Administration must
be formed.

FRANKFORT.
In the sitting of the 12th inst. the German Parlia-
ment resumed the discussion of the question as to the
ratification of the armistice with Denmark :
Herr Stedmann, in the name of the section of the joint
Committees, which had sat on the matter of the armis-
tice, stated that a week had now elapsed since the consi •
deration of this subject hsd been committed to them.
They had devoted themselves with the greatest earnest-
ness to the deliberation, but had not yet been able to
frame any motion which met with the sanction of an im •
portant majority. The various members of the two
committees had seemed disposed to separate into three
parties : —l. Those who voted for an unconditional milli
fication of the armistice. 2. Those who voted for an
unconditional ratification. And 3. Those who voted
for a total rejection of the armistice already concluded
They were, in all, 21 in numh.r. Of these, 11 had
drawn up a motion which confirmed the resolution
passed by the Assembly on the sth ult., that is, one
which proposed the rejection of the concluded ar-
mistice.—(Loud cheers from the Left.) The remaining
10 (who did not include the ex-Minister Hekacher, he
having renounced his vete) had determined to ratify the
armistice. He would, therefore, briefly enter into a de-
tail of their views.—(Great clamour on the Left—cries of
" The majority's motion.")
The Presideet said, if Herr Stedmann had not the ma-
jority's motion with him, he did not see how he could be
obliged to communicate it.—(Cries from the Left " Then
let him give no report at all.") ,
After continued and clamorous remonstrance on the
part of the Left and Left Centre, Stedmann desisted
altogether from further detail, and simply moved in the
name of both committees than an extra public sitting be
held on the morrow fur the purpose of deliberating on
the two reports.
It was itow announced that another Member had gone
over to Wurm's side, i. e., that of the mitjarity.—(Cheers
from the Left). This made the numbers 12 to 10.
Auerswald (of the Right) urged the Assembly to as-
sure itself that it had adequate materials upon which to
form a judgment before it entered upon this important
discussion.
Division on Stedrnann's motion was deferred.
Fuchs, amid continual and noisy interruption, more
especially from the Left, reported upon a petition to the
effect that the National Assembly should resolve to dis-
countenance the use of foreign words in their debates,
such as interpellation, insurrection, &c.—(Derisive
laughter)—and adverted also to another petition pray-
ing for the adoption of German words of command in
the German army.—(Clamorous derision.)
The committee of petitions moved the order of the
day on both these memorials.—Carried.
Another petition was read from certain districts in
Baden, praying that the Wurtemberg and Hessian
troops, which had been quartered in those districts on
the occasion of Hecker's revolutionary movements,
should be forthwith recalled ; the maintenance of these
was a grievous burden to the people, and if the National
Assembly did not lend an ear to the petition, their only
resource would be to call in the aid of France. The
committee stated that these grievance% had already
been set aside by the recal of the troops in question,
and therefore moved the order of the day on the petition.
—Carried.
Blum, Schoder, Simon, and other members of the
Left, now prayed for leave to move, as important," That
ie consideration that the affairs in Schleswig-Holstein
were daily assuming a more dangerous and alarming
aspect, and in consideration that the confederate troops,
contrary to the declaration of the ex Minister of War,
Herr von Peucker, were retiring, by forced marches, the
National Assembly resolve to send a deputation of fifteen
members to the Administrator of the Empire, and pray
him to hasten the appointment of his Ministers."
Division as to whether Blum should be allowed to esta-
blish the urgency of this motion was doubtful. The
votes were told—Noes 219, Ayes 208.
Sehloffel now moved to the following effect:—ln con-
sideration that the armistice with Denmark has been
ratified by Prussia. without finally con-tilting the Central
Power—in consideration that the Central Power has
thereby been treated with contempt, and that Prussia
has thus made an attempt on the unity of Germany and
on the national honour, the National AsseMbly resolves
that the various diplomatic documents relating to the
conclusion of the said armistice, which have been distri-
buted among the members of the National Assembly,
shall be sent to Berlin also for the inspection of tne
members of the Berlin Assembly. The Left alone voted
that Schloffel be allowed to establish the urgency of the
motion, and it therefore fell to the ground.
After a long discussion about form and routine, the
Assembly then resumed the discussion of the " funda-
mental rights." Sees. 15 and 16, after a first division,
now stand as follows:
astical act or solemnity."—Cat rit d.
" l'he form of oath shall be one and the same fir all,
and shall not stand in connexion with any religious con-
fession."—Carried. Ayes, 226; Noes, 185.
Sec. 16. " The civil valieity of matrimony is dependent
only on the performance of the civil act: the ecclesias-
tical spouse's can only take place after the performance
of the civil act."—Carried.
" Difference of religion is no civil impediment to ma-
trimony."—Moved by Mittermaier, and carried.
"The registers shall be kept by the civil authorities."
—Carried.
Osterrath moved vote by ballot instead of telling, in
case of the result of a division seemingdoubtful.—Motion
not considered urgent.
The two reports of the adverse sections of the two
committees who sat on the armistice question were then
read. 'The essential parts are as follows:
Extract from the report of the majority in the joint
committees:—
" In consideration that the armistice concluded at Mal-
moe, on the 26th August (by virtue of the resolutions
contained in its 7th and th articles, in its sth separate
article, and in both the supplementary arti des), violates
essential rights of independence which are guaranteed by
the resolutions of the National Assembly to all races re-
presented therein;
" In consideration that the negotiator dispatched by
Prussia to Alain:toe essentially exceeded the limits of the
authority committed to him by the Central Power, es
pecially in reference to the duration of the armistice, to
the separation of the Schleswig troops from those of
Holstein, to the laws existing in the duchies of Schles-
wig and Holstein, to the parties which were to form the
Provisional Government for both duchies, and no less in
deference to the condition of the duchy of Lsuenburg
during the armistice;
" In consideration,
provisions
furthermore,
contained that
inthe h
e executionconve n t
convention
several political
of Malmoe is rendered impracticable by virtue of the
unanimous
the e l
refusalatnh dev ofSchleswig-holstein General
mtung) to accede to them,
w
appears practicable and unhailnst Assemblyi
o (oers h.
aesl theurt
de-
sirable to pave the way to a truce, with a view to the
speedy negotiation of a peace.
"In consideration of all this the National Assembly
resolves:—
" 1 That the armistice of Malmoe of the 26th August
is ;sot confirmed by the National Assembly.
2 Ministry so called upon to
tak‘-ei measures That
ehthe iinfeecriaesst try to a continuation of war,
provided that the Danish Government should not prove
its read.ness to enter immediately upon negotiations 01
peace with the Central Power of the German Federai
State.