The Sun.
London, England, 1848-11-23 00:00:00

ENING, NOVEMBER 23, 1848

every placeman, from the well-paid Commissioner
down to the hard-worked Exciseman, who had
obtained office through the interest of Mr. JOHN
ATTWOOD ? Yet "to this complexion we must come
at last," if disappointed boroughmongers are permitted
to play these " fantastic tricks" to gratify their spleen.
Unless every small borough in England is to be at
once converted into a Pandemonium of Envy, Hatred,
Malice, and all Uncharitableness, the Legislature
must devise some means by which the voter can be
effectually protected from the tyranny of the man of
the money bags. There is but one such remedy, and
that is THE BALLOT.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris papers of yesterday.
The Bishop of BOURDRAUX has addressed a pastoral
letter to his clergy in favour of the candidateship of
General CAVAIGNAC for the Presidency of the Re-
public.
M. COQUERAL, the celebrated Protestant Pastor,
has published a distinct denial of the statement made
by the Presse, that he had recommended LOUIS
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE as a candidate fur the Presi-
dency.
The discussion on the events of June, which is
fixed for Saturday in the Assembly, is looked forward
to with the most intense anxiety by all parties. M.
DE LAMARTINE, who was at Macon, has been sent for
by telegraphic dispatch, in order to take part in the
discussion.

The proceedings of the Assembly yesterday were
confined to the discussion of the Budget.
The command of the proposed expedition from
France to La Plata has been offered to Admiral
LAISNE, who was mentioned in the Debats as one of
the most distinguished officers of the French navy.
A duel took place in Paris, on Tuesday, between
Colonel REV, Governor of the Hotel de Ville, and M.
EDMOND ADAM, Deputy-Mayor of Paris under the
Provisional Government. The latter was wounded
in the thigh.
A duel took place yesterday between General BA-
RAGUAYD' HILLIERS and M. GOUDCII4III%. Shots were
exchanged, but neither gentleman was hurt.
The Presse publishes the following " communi-
cation :"
" REASONS Wily THE FRENCH REPUBLIC HAS NOT
YET OFFICIALLY RECOGNISED THE CENTRAL GERMAN
GOVERNMENT.- _-
" Some few days since M. liastide said in the tribune
of the National Assembly that the relations between
France and the Central Goyernment of Frankfort were
uncertain. lie might have added that they threatened
to be suspended in consequence of the reiterated refusal
of France to recognise officially the ' Central German
Government.

" It may be remembered that the French National As-
sembly having by a solemn vote proclaimed the principle
of fraternity with Germany, the Vicar of the German
Empire, when scarcely installed, hastened to send M. de
Raumer to Paris in order to open official relations with
the French Republic. M. de Raumer remained here
nearly a month before he was admitted to an audience
of General Cavaignac to deliv©r his letter, notifying the
accession to power of the Vicar of the Empire. Baron
d'Adryani, the Envoy of the Vicar, having been, how-
ever, received by Queen Victoria, it was thought that the
Chief of the Executive Government could not but do as
much towards M. de Raumer. Two months, however,
have since elapsed, and the French Government has nut
yet recognised an official character in the Envoy of the
Vicar of the German Empire.
" The Central Government at Frankfort has recently
sent instructions to M. de Raumer to obtain from M.
Bastide a eategorical explanation as to the intentions of
the French Republic with regard to the Central German
Government. If we are well informed, the answer of
our Minister of Foreign Affairs was, that the French
Republic had postponed the official recognition of the
Central German Government from two motives:-1.

Because England had not yet done so; and 2, Because
the constitution of the new German Empire had nut yet
been voted.

" On the first point, M. de Raumer has been charged
to reply, that it was at the express command of Queen
Victoria that Lord Palmerston presented Baron d'Adry •
ani to her Majesty; besides which, the Queen hastened to
reply, in the most friendly terms, to the letter by which
the Vicar of the German Empire notified to her his ac.
cession to that office.

" On the second point, M. de Raumer has been in-
structed to reply to M. Bastide, that the European
Powers did not wait until the French National Assembly
had voted its new Constitution before they officially re-
cognised the Government of the Republic, which has,
therefore, shown itself more punctilious on diplomatic
points than the old monarchical powers of Europe.
" M. Bastide, who could not deny the justice of these
observations, then brought forward in excuse the pre-
sent precarious state of affairs in France, everything
remaining vague and uncertain until the President should
have been elected, and as that event might bring about
a change of Ministry, he desired to leave to his successor
all liberty of action on the subject
" Informed of this declaration, emanating from the
Minister of Foreign Affairs of the French Republic, the
Council of Ministers of the Central German Govern-
ment, decided that M. de Hamner should remain in Paris
until atter the election of the President of the Republic,
but that if after that period the French Government
should throw any further delays in the way of the offi-
cial recognition of the Central German Government the
flatter would withdraw its representative from Paris, and
leave it to time and reflection to make France bitter
understand that a sincere and close union with Germany,
which reckons a population of 70,000,000 souls, was fur
the mutual advantage of both countries."
BOURSE—PARIS, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 22.
THREE o'CLocK.—The discuSsion in the Assembly yes-
terday, and the expectation of a boisterous debate on
Saturday next, made a strong impression on the Bourse)
to-day the funds consequently fell nearly 1 percent. The
general belief is, that the debate must seriously injure
General Cavaignac, as it is supposed he will be severely
blamed. For the Account, the French Three per Cents.
have declined 85c.; the Five per Cents. 90c. ; and the
Loan If. 10c. For Money, the Three per Cents. have
declined 75c.; the Five per Cents. 90c. ; and the Loan,
in which hardly anything was done, 65c.; Bons du
Thisor not quoted ; Bank of France Shares have fallen
25f.; Belgian Bank Shares not quoted ; ditto Five per
Cents. have declined f per cent. ; Spanish Active not
quoted ; ditto Threes have advanced i per cent. ; Pas.
sivo not quoted; Roman has advanced k per cent.; and
Rothschild's Receipt: ti- per cent. Exchange on Lon-
don (30 days), 25 50; uitto (90 days), 25 37k. Railway
Shares have also receded.

BUSINESS DO}?IE,..IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT TLIIi

LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE, Nov. 22.
Boulogne and Amiens, 5% ex coupons—Luxembourg
(101.), 11/2—Namur and Liege, s—Paris and Strasbourg, 1%.

GERMANY

AND

THE NORTHERN STATES,

PRUSSIA.

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We have received intelligence from Berlin of the
20th November. The Prussian Staats Anziegcr, of
that date, contains the following circular ifrom the
Ministry of State to all the Royal Governments of the
kingdom :
"It is already known to the Royal Governments of
the kingdon that the fraction of the National Assembly
convoked for the formation of the constitution, which
disregarded the message of his Majesty respecting the
tranfer to Brandenburg, continued to hold their sittings
without the participation of the representatives of the
Crown, and passed se►eral resolutions—among others,
that till the measures adopted by Government should be
recalled, the payment of all and every tax should be
refused.

" Although it may be presumed that the sound sense
of the country will be perfectly convinced of the formal
and material illegality of a step which in its ulterior
results would plunge the whole country into a state of
utter lawlessness and indescribable confusion, we never-
theless consider it our day to Call the attention of the
Royal Governments to this subject, that if, and when-
ever, contrary to all expectations, any realisation of the
above resolution should appear to proceed against it
without delay, and, in case of need, if a preliminary in-
struction respecting the heavy legal penalties of such
refractoriness should remain fruitless, to resort to the
most severe compulsory measures. All the commanders
of the troops have received orders to obey the necessary
requisitions of the Royal Governments to be appointed
by them for this object.
"At the same time, the Royal Governments are spe-
cially enjoined to take heed that the compulsory mea-
sures to be adopted against refractoriness shall not be
extended to the rayment of such taxes as are in arrears
on account of pecuniary inability of the rate-payers.
"Although the unavoidable expenditure of the Trea-
sury makes the punctual and immediate payment of
!axes most desirable, it is nevertheless foreign to the ob-
ject in view to keep out of sight measures of mildness
and consideration towards those rate-payers who are in
distress, or have met with misfortunes.

" Therefore the extraordinary excenses incurred by
the extraordinary compulsory measures to be employed,
are to be imposed only on those rate-payers who refuse
to pay their rates from obstinacy.
"Berlin, Nov. 18, 1848.
(Signed) .6 Count Vox BRANDENBURG.
LEIDENBERO.
MANTEUFFEL.
VON STROTRA.
VON lIINTELEN.
" To all the Royal Governments.''
The official Gazette of the 18th has the following :

" A report has been circulated by several journals that
the British and French Envoys, Lord Westmorland and
M. E. Arago, had, in const quence of the transfer of the
National Assembly, proceeded to Potsdam, in order to
remonstrate with the King against this measure. We
are authorised, cons( quently, to declare, in 'the most
positive manner, this report to be an empty invention."
The following appears in the German' Reform. It
should, however, be stated that the supporters of the
KING deny its authenticity :
"After the sitting of the National Assembly on the
7th of September, in which the proposition of the De-
mocratic party had obtained a strong majority, his Ma-
jesty the King, in a memorandum, stated his position in
regard to the people, to the constitution, and to the Na-
tional Assembly.
" The memorandum WAS addressed to the Central

Power at Frankfort, to the Governments of Austria, of
England, and of Russia. The following is the transla-
tion :

" In the revolution of March the King hearkened to
the voico of his people, and promised the most liberal
institutions to the country.
" 4 This condescension has been cast at him as a re-
proach, from different quarters—as weakness and
cowardice; but, long accustomed to false interpretations,
this appearance did not hinder him from listening to the
dictates of his heart. He placed the weal of his people
before the name and reputation of his Government.
" In consequence of his promise, a National As-
sembly was convoked, chosen by universal suffrage in
two degrees, and ho had the happiness to form, in con-
cert with it, a new constitution. But the National As
sembly evinced from the very beginning, that it mis-
took for weakness the condescension and the sacrifices of
the Crown to the cause of liberty and the country.
" Finally, the Assembly went so far as to arrogate
to itself ostensibly all the rights of the executive power,
and completely to annihilate the rights of the Crown.
The King could
,not, seriously considering his duty as
a Sovereign, any longer tolerate these encroachments.
He,therefere proposes to take the following measures to
ward off those anti-constitutional machinations, and to
guarantee the rights of the people:—
" 1. Seriously to compel the National Assembly to
confine itself within the extensive limits of an assem-
bly called to create a constitution in concert with the
Crown.
" 2. To transfer the National Assembly from Ber-
lin, in order that it may be entirely free from external
influence, and that the moderate party, truly inde-
pendent, may deliberate unfettered for the good of the
country.
" 3. To concentrate the military forces at Berlin
and its environs, for the purpose of supporting these re-
solutions, in case of need, by force of arms.
" ' According to the opinion which the King has taken
two eventualities only present themselves in the pre-
sence of these relations; either the National Assembly
will consent, and thus the hope be induced that the dis-
cussion of the Constitution will be happily brought to a
close; or the Assembly will oppose itself to these views.
" In the latter case, the King demands expressly and
solemnly only that co-operation from the Central
Power by which it will keep from the Prussians all in-
terference by foreign Powers.
"' He will then immediately proclaim a constitution
which shall be, in all essential points, a copy of the Bel-
gian constitution, not, however, in that which regards
the census—for the King has several times declared
himself in favour of universal suffrage, and which shall
offer to the country the surest guarantee of his sincere
constitutional desires, unhappily not supported by the
National Assembly.'
We are assured that the Vicar'of the Empire, and
the friendly powers, have given assurance of their ener
getic co operation, and that the constitutional Govern-
ments have rendered full justice to the sincere and po-
pular tendencies of the Crown of Prussia."
It is said that the KING contemplates dissolving
the National Constituent Assembly, on which the
Assembly would refuse to breakup, as having been
summoned for the specific purpose of drawing up a
constitution, it is not competent to the KING to dis-
solve them until their task shall be completed.
Should the Ministers persevere in their evil courses,
the Assembly have determined to issae a proclamation
to the army, declaring that orders issued by Ministers
who are under the accusation of high treason are not
binding, and are not to be obeyed.
There has been no regular sitting of the Assembly
since the non-payment of taxes was voted, but the
Members meet every day to receive and to reply to
the addresses promising support, which are pouring in
upon them from all parts of the kingdom. The whole
of Silesia and of Prussian Saxony, Munster, the
capital of Westphalia, the greater number of towns
in Pomerania and the Prussian Marches, the whole
of the grand duchy of Posen, Dusseldorf; Cologne,
Aix-la-Chapelle, Coblentz, and the whole of the towns
in the Rhenish Provinces, have declared in favour of
the Assembly.

The Burgher Guard of Berlin have sent repre-
sentatives into the provinces to concert with the
Burgher Guards of the different towns measures of
defence against the reactionary policy of the Court.
In the mean time the Ministry is in a state of the
greatest confusion ; BRANDENBURG advocates con-
ciliatory measures, whilst MANTEUPPEL urges the
KING to dissolve the Assembly at once.
BECKERATH and CAMPHAUSEN have both arrived
at Berlin. They, however, refuse to accept office un-
less the decrees removing the sittings of the Assem-
bly to Brandenburg, and declaring Berlin in a state
of siege, are at once revoked.
The number of arrests are numerous, so much so
that the prisons are overcrowded, and some of the
prisoners have been removed into the great peniten-
tiary recently erected outside the walls. They will
not be tried by martial law, but referred to the ordi-
nary tribunals.

The general opinion is that affairs will be amicably
arranged by mutual concessions on the part of the
KING and of the Assembly. The KING will, it is
said, recal the decree removing the Assembly to
Brandenburg, and the Assembly will cancel its re-
commendation not to pay taxes.
The Town Council of Berlin has ordered legal pro-
ceedings to be taken against one of General WRAN-
GEL'S officers for violating the Ilabeas Corpus Act,
by forcibly entering a private dwelling.
BERLIN, Nov. 19.—The Constitutional Corre-
spondence announces the arrival of Mr. 13ECKERATH
at Potsdam ; he has been charged by the KING with
the formation of a new Ministry. The Composition
of the new Cabinet may be expected to-morrow, or
the day after at the latest.
Mr. SCIIMERLING, it is likewise stated, has arrived
at Potsdam, charged with carrying on negotiations
of the highest importance. It appears to be the in-
tention of the Archduke JOHN of Austria to retire
from the central power, in consequence of the events
which are taking place in his own country.
It appears that about fifty or sixty members of the
fraction of the National Assembly have declared their
intention of going to Brandenburg with the Mem-
bers of the Right. General WRANGEL has been ap-
pointed effective General of Cavalry, and Lieutenant-
General Count BRANDENBURG has been promoted to
the rank of General.

The PrussianSt aats Anzeiger, of the 21st No-
vember, contains a proclamation of Vox WRANEGL,
stating that during the state of siege, the Burghwehr
Congress, which has already been convoked, dare nut
be held. It also contains proclamations from some of
the Royal Governments, calling upon the inhabitants
in their jurisdictions to pay the taxes as usual. It
also contains numerous loyal addresses, likewise,
BASSEMAN N'S very important official report respecting
affairs in Berlin.
CHANGE OF MINISTRY IN PRUSSIA.

The Aix la Chapelle Gazette, of the 22d, contains
a telegraphic dispatch from Cologne, stating that the
Brandenburg Ministry has resigned, and that BECKS-
RATH is charged with the formation of a new
Cabinet, in which GaABOW and CAMPIIAUSEN are to
take part.
COLOGNE, Nov. 21.—Positive information from
the National Assembly at Frankfort states that by
276 votes against 150, consequently by a majority of
126 votes, the Assembly has declared that the reso-
lution of the fraction of the Prussian Assembly re-
specting the refusal of paying the taxes is illegal.

ration respecting the execution of ROBERT BLUM,
likewise of the execution by martial law of MESSEN-
i
! lIAUSER.

HOLLAND.

THE ITAGuE, Nov. 18.—The Amsterdam Bourse
contains the following paragraph :—" The first step
taken by our Ministry in the way of economy has
been made known by the publication of their report
to the JUNG. This report has been hailed with great
satisfaction, and its result was a very considerable rise
in all the Dutch funds. His MAJESTY, on receiving
the repOrt, made the following reply :
" Acquainted with your report of the 13th of this
month, and fully convinced of the necessity of introducing
various reductions in the exrenses of the state, we ad-
here in general to the ideas developed in that report.
Nevertheless, we deem it expedient that publicity should
be adopted in all that concerns the adminiszration of the
affairs of the state, and in cons( quence of the communi-
cation made, with our approbation, on the 13th, we com-
mand, in compliance with the wish of the Second Cham-
ber of the States General, tint this report be made
public, and we authorise you to take steps to this effect
by these presents.