The Sun.
London, England, 1848-11-16 00:00:00

THURSDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 16, 1848,

do so from the police or from myself. Any person bear-
ing arms without this permitsion is to be immediately
disarmed.

" 9. The legally constituted authorities retain their
functions, aid will receive my full support in so much us
they act in accordance with the present decrees.
" 10. The city of Berlin is made responsible for any
damage that may befal public or private property, in
the suppression of any armed resistance to the military.
" 11. The usual course of public business, of Govern-
ment and private works, of commerce and industry, is
not further limited by the declaratiin of a state of
siege.

Berlin, 12th November, 1848.
" The Commander-in-Chief of the troops in the
Marches, General of CavAry,
"VON WRANGEL."

The announcement of the state of siege was made
in different quarters of the town by officers of the
staff on foot, escorted by a strong detachment of
infantry. The reading of the decree was preceded by
three rolls of the drums, at the signals of the drum-
majors. The announcement was brief, and was re-
peated at the angles of all the great thoroughfares. In
general this announcement was received with laughter
or with ironical cheers.

The National Assembly immediately declared it-
self en perntanence, and passed decrees denouncing as
guilty of high treason all those who had advised the
KING to adopt those proceedings, and also all who
should take part in executing them.
The Magistrates and Communal Council refused to
co operate with WRANGEL, and the constabulary force
merely goes on duty pro forma, so that WRANGEL'S
troops are kept perpetually patrolling and will be
fagged out in a few days. Groups continue to
assemble in the streets. They disperse immediately
they are ordered to do so by the military, but
soon re-assemble at another point. The 13th passed
off quietly. On that day the Hall of the Assembly,
the Schutzen-guild, was occupied by WRANGEL'S
troops without resistance. Groups are assembled in
the streets, who are harangued by the Liberal leaders,
and invariably urged to abstain from violence. The
military tear down all placards; but they are, never-
theless, circulated throughout the city by boys, who
manage to baffle all pursuit. The soldiers have pa-
trolled the streets for three days and three nights,
without being able to make a single arrest. Never
was there such a triumph of passive resistance. The
affairs has been brought completely to a dead-
lock, by the prudence and discretion of the Assembly
and inhabitants of Berlin.

At nine o'clock on the evening of the lath a pro-
clamation was issued by the town commandant, Gen.
l'uomEN, in which it is declared that in consequence
of the disregard paid by the people to the proclama-
tion of General WRANGEL, and the insults offered to
the troops, notwithstanding their forbearance, the
military should at once fire upon all persons who at-
tempted resistance, or persisted in assembling or re-
maining together after their being summoned to
withdraw. Even this will fail in giving the KING
the opportunity he so ardently desires of wallowing
in the blood of his subjects. They will not resist,
and they will not remain together after having been
summoned to disperse. Their cause must eventually
be successful. General WRANGEL and his troops
will soon be required elsewhere, for the city of Bres-
lau and the entire province of Silesia are in full in-
surrection, and the chateau of Count BRANDENBURG
has been burned.

The Prussian Staats Anzieger, of the 13th, con•
tains the following proclamation of the Ministry of
State :

"Although his Majesty the King, by virtue of the
prerogative of the Crown, has, by a Royal Message,
under date of the Bth of this month, commanded the re-
moval of the Assembly convoked for the constitution to
Brandenburg, and its adjournment until the 27th of this
mon th, a portion of the deputies of this Assembly, in-
stead of obeying this ordinance, continue to hold sittings
here, and to form resolutions which must bring about the
lamentable consequences, and forcibly violate that peace
from which alone emanates the general weal.
" This lawless proceeding appears the less justifiable
in proportion as the charges against the members of the
State Ministry are groundless.
" Animated by the purest motives, the Ministry of the
State, fully determined most conscientiously to carry out
the reiterated promises of his Majesty the King, con-
tained in the proclamation of ti,is day, and of esta-
blishing that liberty, must most decidedly repudiate
every calumniatory attack upon its sense of duty and
its views.

" The Ministry of State feels called upon by the pro-
ceedings of the above-named deputies hereby to declare
public!) that the transactions and resolutions which
have emanated, or shall emanate, from that portion of
the Assembly since its prorogation are all and each
illegal, and cannot be recognised by the Government of
his Majesty the King. The public, therefore, are cau-
tioned with a view to its own interest, not to be misled
by the illegal proceedings of the Deputies still assembled
here, into any acts whereby the public order shall be in
anywise infringed, abd which will, in no case, remain
unpunished.
(Signed)

" The Ministry of State,
" Count VuN BRANDENBURG
" VON LADENBURG
" VON STROTLIA

" VON MANTEUFFEL.

" Berlin, Nov. 11t1i, 1848."

The Prussian Staats Anzieger likewise contains a
fresh proclamation of the Royal Prefecture of Police,
stating that as the magistrates of Berlin have refused
their cc-operation in carrying out the Royal Procla-
mation of the 11th of this month, relative to the dis-
solution of the Burgherwehr, because such an obli-
gation is not expressly imposed upon the civic autho-
rities by the Burgherwehr law of the 17th of October)
the Prefecture of Police has been charged by the
Minister of the Intirior to effect the surrender of the
arms given by the State to the Burgher wehr, at cer-
tain epecified places, at five o'clock in the afternoon
of the 12th. The arms are to be deposited by bat-
talion, and duly numbered, so that on the re-organi-
sation of the Burgherwehr they may be restored in
the same order.

The time allowed the Burgher Guard for giving up
-their arms has since been lengthened.
N. GRABOVV has been to the KING to endeavour to
mediate between his MAJESTY and the Assembly—
the KING referred him to his Ministers.
The accounts from the Rhenish provinces, in the
Cologne Gazette ofyesterday, are decidedly adverse to
the Royal cause. At Dusseldorf, as elsewhere, the
attempt of the Brandenburg Ministry on the rights of
the people had provoked the gre.test indignation
amongst all classes of the population, whilst the
courageous resistance of the Assembly was highly
approved. The Common Council and other public
bodies had already transmitted congratulary addresses
to Berlin, and the popular club had declared its
sittings permanent. The accounts from Treves are
the same.