The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-05-22


Considerable reinforcements, consisting of two
battalions of infantry, with strong deachments OF
artillery and cavalry, are said to be their way
from Laybach to Corr. They take with them IL
portable bridges to assist them in crossing the nu-
nerous rivers Palma is completely invested.
state OF Affairs In Prussia.
BERLIN, April 10, 1913.
You can hardly credit the relief which we have
all felt here from the perusal of Lord Brougham's
truth-teng speech. To hear the truth, and so
spoken, is, indeed, refreshing in this atmosphere
OF mingled anarchy and tyranny. With pride ana
stration in London, and of the energy and WIS
dom Of the glorious duke. What spectacle tor
Europe, and what contrast TO what we see around
us! There is no government here. The MINISTER'S
are under the control OF SO se-constuted dictators
at Frankfort There is no confidence or courage
any where; ruin coming on apace upon all the
bankers, merchants, and shopkeepers; credit gone;
all the great houses shut up; servants and work
men discharged; no rents paid In town or country,
proprietors attacked in their chateaux, and Obliged
to give all that is demanded see their property
pillaged and burned. Such is the state OF things
Mobs parade the streets at all hours, exercising
the government. The day before yesterday they
intruded into the bakers shops under pretence
of examining their weights and measures; yester-
day the master taiors were attacked, and made to
give higher wages and less work; tomorrow an at
tack is organised on M. Camphausen, the president
of the ministers, to force him to substitute direct
instead of indirect election.
"The Burgher Guard affect to keep the peace,
but on all occasions show their fear of the mob;
worn out with their months service, they yet dare
not call in the troops, or even allow the 5000 who
are in barracks here to show their faces or mount
guard anywhere except inside the prisons and
work houses. All authority Is set at Defiance
The tyranny OF the press Is supreme, and every day
produces the grossest pamphlets and carlcatures
against the very highest personages of the land"
BERLIN, April 2l.-The demonstration Of yester.
day is regarded by all parties as decisive and
lafo damn NlICn
of Berlin 1t is supposed that they will not again
expose themselves to the chance of collision with
the majority of their fellow citizens, especially
when those citizens have arms In their hands, and
OF disloyaty and discomfort is no longer appre-
hended; but that from which it arises remains
viz: great poverty and great misery, con}!oined
with want of respect for the law and dislike to
the government, as consisting of persons who have
failed in their principles and fasifed thelrpromses
The effects of the revolution are felt, and its bene
fits not yet perceived by the working classes: They
know thatemployment and wages are more difficult
to procure than they were formerly, and that even
where they are able to extort higher pay from their
masters, they cannot secure for themselves con-
slant occupation for those wages. Thus the
joiners of Berlin, who had grand demonstration
yesterday, and feast to celebrate their triumph
over their masters, by forcing them to give higher
pay, are, ! am told, destined to-day to feel the
effects Of their victory IN diminution of employ
ment, and at the end of the week will not find
u
turned out" The dsaffection to capitalists
tlnues amongst the skilled workmen; whilst as to
rude labor, 1t appears to be In so miserable a
condition Prussia, that the benevolent project of
the government, to give employment public
works, to the poor of Berlin has attracted such
numbers to this city from other parts of the king
dom, that the police minister has felt himself under
the necessity of issuing prohibition against the
residence in Berlin of persons who have travelled
thither, seeking for employment. Individuals so
situated, are ordered to leave Berlin Immediately
and in they do not do 80 the strongest punish
ments which the law permits against I" unemployed
Them Such, then, is the state of the poor in the
towns of Prussia, whilst the disorganlZed condi-
ton of the agricultural population testified by
proclamation from the minister of public works,
who in declaring that law has been prepared,
and will be laid before the next Diet for &c the
speedier and quicker abolition of all feudal and
territorial services and payments, and especially of
the feudal and proprietorial fief rents" observes
that cit is hoped by the government that a con-
tdcnce in its good intentions, which are already
proved by its readiness to alleviate in legal
ner those burdens which are justly complained of
by the agricultural population will be sufficiently
great to put end to the excitement which pre-
walls in the country districts, and thus has led, in
too many places, to the combination OF the wishes
and prayers of the agriculturists with demon
STATIONS that were directly at variance with the
law
The working classes, whether in town or coun-
try, perceive that great political changes have been
effected by violence, and, initiating lesson which
they have so successfully practiced, they are
willing to resort to violence to effect great social
changes for their own advantage.
A curious instance Of the desire to obtain every
thing by violence occurred yesterday. 1t appears
that the minor class of criminals confined in the
Berlin House of Industry (Arbeitshan), dissatisfied
with the food allotted to them, as well as the refu-
sal to remit portions of the punishments to which
they have been condemned, rose in insurrection
against their gaolers, overpowered them, and broke
from the house into the courtyard, where they
tore up the paving stones and commenced forming
barricade, when the aid of the burgher guard
was called for. The latter attacked them, and in
few minutes defeated them, took about twenty of
the ringleaders prisoners, and carried them of to
the town Jail, where no doubt severe punishment
will be inflicted upon them.