The Sun.
London, England, 1848-12-06 00:00:00

GERMANY

AND

THE NORTHERN STATES.

AUSTRIA.

In the course of the sitting of the Diet at Krem-
sier on the 27th, M. RIEGER rose, and accused the
Deputies who had remained at Vienna of high
treason. He made some remarks on the subject of
the recent martial executions at Vienna, and highly
lauded the Bann JELLACHICH.
N. SCHUSELICA said that he considered it-ine to
his dignity, and that of his colteagues, to reply to the
speech of N. RIEGBR, which was nothing more
a denunciation ; that the Members wbo eoatirraid to
sit at Vienna from the 6th to the $ of October
were ready to answer for all theyffai done ; and
that for his own part he would not bp to at any
rt
moment to submit to the cou.mfold 4 Prince
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WINDISCHGRATZ.
i
After Prince SCAWART2ENRIIR‘ h, ', the
programme of the Ministry (which a. a • , n The
Sun of yesterday), Al. SCHUSELRA o.
.:-., leiive to
put some questions to the Ministry i .. i :inineisced
by expressing his thanks for' thetot ;,.nit in
k eneral, but added that, for the inters of .t .
narchy, he should put the following q 7 2-*
"1. Does the Ministry take upoik its* 4 # tespon -
sibility for all that is at this moment done
~,Tienna,
at Limberg, and what may be done in a , - ji. ; or
will Austria continue under military . •. • I ' ?
"2. Is sanguinary justice to contidit ,ionna?"
N. SCRUSELKA then, turning to the Miiiiitir BACH,
added, may it not do for Vienna what *llia done
for Prague ? -,.
"3. What position does the Ministry .riZ ,
„. to as-
sume in the melancholy affair of Roe . is, in
regard to the Frankfort Parliament, and dilbSile of
tv
Germany ?"
He set aside the innocence or the cullity of
Buns', and considered the case in a nrere#eTolitical
point of-view.
The President requested that these questawis should
be given him in writing, promising to give, a reply,
ikt with a detail of the motives.

The Alllgemeinc Zeitung of the Ist Decethber says
that the Government intends to impeach 'l2 of the
Deputies, and among them President Smoix2k.

PRUSSIA.

The Prussian National Assembly was adjourned on
the Ist December to the Thursday following.
The meetings and conferences of the, Deputies of
the Opposition being prohibited by the military, they
have resolved to hold them at Brandenburg," in order
to he beyond the state of siege.
The garrison of the city had been reinforced by a
battalion of the Landwehr of Pomerania..
It was generally believed that the conmuence of
the hostile spirit manifested at the last sitting of the
Chamber, by the Opposition, would be a dissolution.
BERLIN, DEc. 4.—The Prussian Staats Anzieger
of this date contains an address from the members of
the Right and Right Centre of the National Assem-
bly, asxembled at Brandenburg, to the inhabitants of
Prussia. It is as follows :
" TO THE COUNTRY.

" Once before on these eventful times we have ad-
dressed ourselves to you, inhabitants of the kingdom
of Prussia. You have received our word willingly,
and the result has justified you in confiding in us;
now, also, confidence and union alone can serve the
country.

" Vat portion of the National Assembly which
opposed the transfer to Brandenburg, commanded by
necessity, continue to sit for .;a time, regardless of
the division and confusion which it thereby created
in the country; it finally decreed the refusal of
taxes, and thus combined avarice with the political
question.
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" The nation has replied to this Nu Ii x Ignoble
and illegal measure: as became a nattelk Nt it re.
spect for the laws and pol' .1 urd
tinued loyal to its King, 1 (
which has always distingui.
" We, the other Deputies,
mons contained in the Royal
have assembled here, at Br,
November. We came hitl
days which had elapsed wou
and induced a deviation fro?
We cherished the convict'
country, that the abyss to t,
their precipitate steps . had
would have recalled cow
possible that all of us
sons of the past, invigora
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dangers overcome, would
framing of the Constitutio
long expectations of the w
consolidation of our
back order, and
copious streams of our
flow freely, and soon shed
than hitherto on the burg. - P
on the labourer and the artisan, on trade and coin
merce, on the arts and sciences, and every Ilenevolent
institution. In short, that it, would spoad p, blessing
on every one, whereby our country,
.which stood
forth so great and so glorious, might stki4s6 still.
"The way hereunto was made. plain t -the other
party. The decision of the National - arliament
of Frankfort, the sentence of the univerai ies and of
the high courts of justice, addresses with numerous
signatures, have declared for the rights of the Crown,
and the power of events has sided with them.
"Any of the other party that was not satisfied with
this might have reserved his right respecting a view
of the past by a public declaration, and
then unreservedly join the National Assembly at
the point at which it was prorogued on the 9th,
and re-opened on the 27th of November. For the
weal of the country proceeds; it does not retrograde.
This, according to the testimony of history, has been
the mode of procedure in innumerable cases. Thus
will those always act who aim at the welfare of the
country."

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SAXE ALTENBURG
The Prussian kaats Anzeiger contains the official
announcement of the abdication of the Duke JOSEPII
in favour of his brother GEORGE, in consequence of
the continued misunderstanding between himself and
his beloved people, and his desire that it should ter-
minate amicably.

SWITZERLAND.
The new Federal Council of Switzerland has made
the following appointments :—To be Minister of Jus-
tice and Police, M. Dnuar • of Foreign Affairs,
President FURRER ; of War, 'Colonel OCHSENHEIN;
of Commerce, M. FREI-HEROSE ; of Finances, M.
MUNZINGER ; of the Interior and Public-Worship,
M. FRANSCHINI.
A letter from Berne, of the 30th ult., says :
" Before separating, the Federal Assembly passed a
decree of great utility, by which the administration
of the post-office is to be centralised for the whole of
Switzerland from January 1, 1849. The grand
Council of NeuchAtel havin ratified the measures
determined on by the five cantons coultt o sing
the dio-
cese of Lausanne, for the exclusion of M. Erisrias
MARILLEY from that Episcopal set, and for the re-
organization of the Bishopric, the doors if,the chit-
teau of Chillon were opened to. the captirik Prelate,
who, it is said, proceeded to Gex, wilirtAitsi_,Poste
ment has been for some time engsgfotstlWv

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