The Sun.
London, England, 1848-11-14 00:00:00

morning.

The following address from the Operatives' Union
of Berlin was likewise presented to the Assembly:—
" Representatives of the People !—The workmen of
Berlin thank you for the manner in which you have
faithfully done your duty, in which you have rejected
the pretensions of the faithless councillors of the Crown.
The liberties gained by the blood of the people will be
worthily defended by you. The workmen of Berlin are
prepared and ready to obey your call, should any at-
tempt be made to trench upon the rights of the people,
through the persons of their representatives. [How came
the workmen mot to declare this when the working
classes were furnished with cords to hang their deputies
on the 31st?] They offer you their bodies and their
hearts' blood against all enemies who may attempt acts
of high treason against you or the liberties of the people."
The President then addressed the Assembly in a
speech of great moderation, in which he recommended
them to maintain a dignified state of passive resist-
ance —" Every drop of blood shed through our fault,"
said he, " must injure, but cannot benefit our cause."
He added, that he would exert every effort to inspire
the Burgher Guard and people with similar senti-
ments, and to desire that the Burgher Guard placed
round the building should, in case of aggression,
limit their defence of the house to passive resistance,
and avoid every act that might lead to conflict. " The
blood of our citizens," continued M. Uriauff, " must
not be squandered. It must be reserved for other oc-
casions." A proposition was then made, that all
Members not prevented by sickness should be sum-
moned to attend in their places, and publicly declared
defaulters should they refuse to appear. After a short
discussion this proposition was carried nearly unani-
mously.

The Assembly continued sitting en permanence,
and at two o'clock the President of the Police issued
a proclamation declaring, that in consequence of the
state of passive resistance assumed by the Burgher
Guard and the Assembly, a reinforcement of troops
would enter the town. Accordingly, at two o'clock,
the troops commenced entering the town, and at four
o'clock General WitaxGor., accompanied by his staff,
approached the hall of the Assembly. He sent his
chief of the staff to wait upon M. UNRUH (the Presi-
dent), to communicate to him and the Deputies sit-
ting en permanence, that his orders were to close the
Flail of Assembly, and to cause it to be evacuated.
The Deputies answered that they would reply after
deliberating upon this communication. At the end
of half an hour a message came from the house, say-
ing they could only yield to positive force. To this,
WRANGEL replied that he would not lay his hands
upon them, but that he would blockade the building
for eight days, if necessary, and permit no communi-
cations. In the course of another half-hour, the ma-
jority of the Deputies, having drawn up a protest and
proclamation to the
,nation, quitted the Assembly,
and the troops drew back to allow them to pass.
The Deputies had, however, only adjourned to the
next day. On the 11 th they met at the Schutzen
House, and resumed their adjourned sittings. The
following motions were proposed, declared urgent,
discussed, and forthwith carried. The first of these
was to the effect that a commission of sixteen should
be appointed to draw up a full explanation of all that
occurred, in the form of a report, and that this report
should be published for the information of the whole
nation; the second was the nomination of a commis-
sion of eight, to consider and report upon the ex-
pediency of impeaching the Ministers as traitors to
the country; and, in the event of the Crown
persisting in its resolution, of also considering
the expediency of refusing supplies. Both
these motions were passed unanimously.. In
consequence also of a report having reached the
President, that a decree of the Crown, addressed to
the Commander of the Burgher Guard, demanding
the immediate disarming of the Burgher Guard, was
about to appear in the official paper, a motion was
made and also carried, declaring that those who ad-
vised these measures were traitors to the country ;
that the Burgher Guard should be forbidden, on pain
of being themselves declared traitors, to surrender
their arms, and that they should be ordered and
directed to defend themselves to the last drop against
all attempts to disarm them—a defence to be sanc-
tion by a vote and decree of the Assembly.
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These resolutions will bring matters to a crisis.
The city was quiet on the 11th, but the next post
from Berlin will probably bring intelligence of the
commencement of a civil war.