The Sun.
London, England, 1848-11-20 00:00:00

GERMANY

AND

THE NORTHERN STATES.

PRUSSIA.

The Berlin journals of the 16th have arrived. The
Prussian Staats Anzeiger of that date contains the
following official notifications:—

`.CIRCULAR TO ALL THE ROYAL GOVERNMENTS.

ri has come to my knowledge that in several parts
of the country, very considerable agitation has been,
caused by the spreading of a report that the Government
of the kingdom intends that the laws for the ameliora-
tion of the agricultural population which have been sub••
'pitted to it, and in part promised, shall not be carried ,
into effect. The Government is, however, firmly re-
solved to pursue the path it has entered upon, and to.
grant the agricultural inhabitants every admissible alle-
viation. •

" I therefore enjoin all the Royal Governments to in-
form the agricultural populations of their respective dis-
tricts, with all possible speed, of these intentions of the
State, and to cause the magistrates to contradict the
said reports in the said respective villages of their juris-
diction, and to assure the landed proprietors and agricul-
tural population that the Ministry of State is firmly re-
solved faithfully to carry out all the concessions made
by his Majesty the King, and most especially to further
the weal of the agricultural population with all their
power.

• . ___
" ME MINISTER OF THE INTERIOR.
" Berlin, Nov. 15."

"PROCLAMATION.

"As the term fixed for the voluntary delivery of
arms has again expired without the command having
been responded to, that the Burgherwehr should give
up the arms given to them by the State, to bo used
in the Imperial service, it now become the duty of
the authorities to take decided measures for taking
them away.

" Special care shall be taken that the burghers
do not again have their weapons taken away from
them forcibly by unauthorised persons, as has been fre-
quently the case.

•• By command of the Commandant, therefore, to-
morrow morning, at nine o'clock, military patrols will
appear in the streets, having with them transport wag-
gons, and as the patrols beat the drum, all the arms
which have been given away at every house, and all
the ammunition, must be laid at the threshold of the
house, where they will be received by persons duly
empowered.

" Should this command :also not be obeyed, the
householders and possessors of arms have themselves
to blame for the inevitable consequences which are
connected with house-searching and forcible taking of
arms.

military authorities expect, nevertheless, from
the honourable sentiments of the burghers, and especi-
ally from the judicious co-operation of the overseers of
each district, that they will aid the troops in their diffi-
cult task, and not, by unlooked-for opposition, call forth
the most fearful danger upon the city and the country.
" The sum of one mark will be given for every weapon
which is given up. "YON THUMEN,
"Major-General and Commandant."

" Berlin, Nov. 14."
The following proclamation shows that martial-
aw has been proclaimed in the city :

" The following proclamation, which on the evening of
the 13th was published, at the beating of the drum by
the garrison of this place, and also by public placard, is
hereby again brought before the public.
" In pursuance of my proclamation of the 12th of this
month, I hereby make known that all persons in Berlin,
or those environs which are with it included in the state
of siege, who shall, by any act of treachery, endanger or
prejudice the troops commanded by me, shall, by virtue
of section 18, part 2, of the military penal code of April
3, 1835, be forthwith brought before a court-martial.
" Berlin, Nov. 15. " VON WRANGEL, General."
General IVRAINGIEL has also published the following
proclamation :
" In reference to my proclamation of the 12th of this
month, I hereby inform all the inhabitants of this city
and those districts which are declared in a state of siege,
under penalty of being subject to punishment by mar-
tial-law, that they are bound to give information of all
strangers dwelling with them, according to the existing
police laws, whether or not they have given previous
notification, till to-morrow, the 17th, at two o
clock in
the afternoon, at the respective police offices and in the I
prescribed form.

"The Commander-in-Chief of the troops in the
March,
" VON WRANGEL.
" Berlin, Nov. 15."
The burghers of Schingen have sent the following
address to the National Assembly of Berlin :
" Upon several ~ceasions, and more especially upon

the 31st of October, it has cppr,ared most incontrover-
tibly that the National Asfembly in its deliberations and
resolutions, is under the terrorism of a lawless democracy.
" The repeated proposal to afford the Asseiltbly the
requisite protection has been most inconceivably and
un%varrantably refused. That which may have appeared
to afford it protpction and to elicit important decisions
has proved itself wholly insufficient.

"-A cry of disgust and of the most decided indigna-
tion has been raised both here and throughout the whole
country, and we can by no means recognise resolutions
adopted under such terrorism as the true and deliberate
expression of the sentiments of the High National As
seuebly, far less as those of the sshole country.
" We are convinced that the High National Assembly
owes it as a duty to the dignity of the country to issue
a law for their protection; and further, that every delay
increases the general confusion, tends to impoverish the
middle classes, and increase the misery of the lower
orders, and that the whole country is brought to the
very brink of universal and unbounded destruction.
" Unhappily the want of requisite protection has here
and there caused the death and the shedding of blood of
several of our fellow-subjects. Wherefore the burgher
union of this place, while it at the same time expresses
the sentiment of the whole body of burghers, wishes and
demands that the High National Assembly will speedily
and in due form take heed that it obtains that protection
which is indispensable to it 'in order that the members of
the same may deliberate and resolve according to their
conviction and their conscience.

" The measures for the protection of the German
National Parliament in Frankfort assembled, are thus
guarded, and we most decidedly expect the adoption of
similar measures for Berlin; and, further, we consider
it indispensable that in case of need they shall be main-
tained and carried out by the armed. force.
" We are fully persuaded that the High National
Assembly will do all in its power to set bounds to that
lawless and anarchical procedure which impedes them in
their highly-important work, so that the work of the
Constitution—of the Administration which is so gene.
rally longed for, may be speedily Lccomplished.
" Signed by the Presidents of the Burgher Union..
" Schingen, Nov. 9, 1848."
We on Saturday mentioned the' fact that the
Assembly had on the 14th voted the refusal to pay
taxes after the 17th. The Dusseldorf Gazette gives
the, following account of the proceedings on that
occasion :

DUring the sitting of the National Assembly in
the hall of Mielenz, and- while the refusal to pay
imposts was being discused; a 'major and several
officers appeared in the hall.. The major walked to
the President, and after having spoken a few words
to him. in an under tone, The President demanded of
him whether he had a written order to dissolve the
Assembly ? The major replied that he had brought
only a verbal order from General Wrangel, who had
refused to give him a written order. The President
contested his right; the major then retired with his
men, while great agitation prevailed in the Assembly.
The major himself was visibly agitated, and conducted
the whole business with the greatest delicacy.
AS soon as he had quitted the hall a general cry
was raised, Let us proceed to vote,' and the As-
sembly, amid great acclamations, proceeded to vote
the refusal to pay taxes after the 17th. The vote
was followed by indescribable expressions of joy,
tears, embracings, &c."
The Guzette de Cologne says, the committee of the
members of the right and centre of the National
Assembly also have ceased t(5 sit, and have sent to
Frankfort two of their members, Messrs. Ostermann
and Reichhensperger ; they have addressed the fol-
lowing letter to the Ministry of State :
" The nnder-signed committee of all those Deputies
who, fiithful to their conviction that the transfir of the
National Assembly does not infringe upon any right,
either of the people or of, their Representatives, have
submitted to the order of the Crown under date of the
9th of this month, regard ,it as their duty to ask the
Ministry of State without hesitation whether it has
already ordered the immediate 'convocation of the
National Assembly in consequence of the suspension of
the Habeas Corpus Act, commanded this day for the
city of Berlin ?
!. The Committee is of opin:ion that this convocation
should take place immediately, conformably with the
laW of the 24th September last, if they do not wish
to violate the sacred rights:of the people.
" THE COUNSELLOR OF THE RIGHT AND OF
TUE ItiGIIT• CENTRE."

We learn that this step, has' been crossed by a reso-
lution of the Ministry, which, of •its own accord, an-
' ticipated this desire. The Convocation of the Na-
tional Assembly at Brandenhurgh is to take place
shortly befbre the 27th. • • •
The: delegates of the city have: adopted an address
to -the National Assembly, declaring themselves in
faVour'of a refusal to pay:the taxes.
On the morning of the l&th several companies of
troops were stationed before the Hotel de Ville to
preveni the deputies from attending the sitting of the
National Assembly, which •was fixed for eleven
o'clock. A small body of • offiters- and men were
also stationed within the building, who were corn-
' rnisioned to prevent, with great- politeness, the en-
trance. of the deputies, wijile the :armed force placed
at • the right and left plainly indicated that a refusal
would be followed by serious measures. A plenary
sitting could not, therefore, be thought of. The
deputies made reiterated and vain attempts, and
each individual made a sqlemn protest. Every
d-puty as
_he protested ,was loudly cheered.
The deputies, considering that they have done enough
to-show their non-obedience to the prorogation, will,
it Is understood, desist from any• further attempts at
assembling. The search :for arm's had commenced on
the 16th, and had proceeded with uninterruption, but
it had hitherto been confined to the aristocratic quar-
ters of the city. • g
:In the meanwhile the soldiers and even the police
are wavering in their allegi4nce: The President of
the Police- has protested against. WRANGEL'S order
suspending the publication ;of Certain newspapers.
He has been in consequence dismissed, and HEN.
KELLEY of Nuersburgh•appointed as his successor,
but a .concourse of the Burg'erwehr, &c., of Vurse-
burg, fell on him at the railway station, and prevented
him fiom.prosecuting his, journey.
-The Aide-de-Camp of Colonel SOMMERFIELD, who
directed the attempt against the Hall of the Assembly,
has been placed under arrest, 'for saying that the
Colonel, in doing so, had been guilty of an act of
treason. The name of this Aide- de-Camp is WYDEN-
DRUCK. He has since been sent .to Spandau.
'There *as a rumour in Paris• yesterday that the
affairs. of Prussia were in a fair Way. of being settled
artricably.' It is said that mutual concessions are to
be made on the part of the KING and of the Assembly.
The Ministry would be changed, and M. GRABOVP
authorised to form a new Cabinet. It is said that
the French Ambassador offered the protection of
Ftance to the Assembly, and that the latter rejected
it .with great dignity. To this :circumstance is, in
some degree, attributed the conciliatory disposition
that has arisen. The disarming• of -the civic guard
was proceeding peaceably, and it.was understood that
the force would be re-organized.
„Intelligence has since been; received from Berlin to
the 17th, at which date all was tranquil.

AUSTRIA:
.Acoounts have been . received from Vienna to
;he 12th. •

The Wiener Zeitung,: of :the 12th, contains the
financial survey of the last eleven months, and shows
a deficit of-not less than sixty millions of florins.
On the 11th a great mercantile house failed for
25,0,000 florins.

M. STERNAN a young, author of much merit, was
shot on the 10th. Since•the•arrival of the Ministry,
the sanguinary WINDiscOn:ATz has been baulked of
his victims—his murderous Land has been stayed.
Not only has FROI3EL been set at liberty, but MES•
SENHAUSER has been reprieved ; and twenty-two per-
sohs, arrested on the 31st.ult.; have been discharged.
A notice of the Communal' Council of Vienna con-
vokes, by order of the Ministry,. the electors of the
diStrict of Saint Poelten : to proceed to the election of
a deputy to the National. Assembly of Frankfort.

• SAXON Y.
The news of the murder Of IP.uk excited an im-
mense sensation at Dresden and Leipsic. At Leipsic,
where he resided, and which: city he represented in
the German Parliament, the people rose and tore
down the Austrian arms from the residence of the
Austrian consul. BLum's children have been adopted
by the•Demoeratic clubs of Germany, who took upon
themselves the duty of providing for his widow and