The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1848-05-11
Freedom in Europe.

Freedom in Europe.
| We take the following particulars OF the nsooe-
neat in Germany and Italy from the voluminoa's
details received through yesterdays mail. They
deeply interesting, as significant OF the entire
change in political relations between the people and
| what aUas the Government:
GERMANY-Proceediags of the Diet at Frankfort
| The Journal de Frankfort publishes the report Of
| the Gemanc Diet appointed to revise the Federal
Constitution, in which the recommendation OF the
committee of fifty to have one representative for
every 10000 instead of for every 10000 is adopted.
1t Is also resolved that if the excess of population
| of State be q, 200 over $4,000 for which one
member is named, then will have right to elect
second representative and that every State hav-
ing population in number below 50,0O0 will still
| have the right to elect member.
As for the election of deputies 10 the Constituent
Assembly, the eligibility is not to be limited by dis
position as to census, creed or class Any German
who is not minor, has right to elect or be elected
is it necessary thas he should be native of the
State which he is to represent In the Assembly.
The Assembly is to be convoked so as it may meet
for the first time on the lst of May. The commits
sion annexes a table showing the number Of mem
bers ob elected by each State the total amount
of which will, according to the census OF 1912,
amount to Cos
OF these Austria will send 100, Prussia 1859, Ba-
varia H. Wirtemberg %, Hanover 26, Saxony "A,
Baden 90 Hesse Darmstadt IL, Hesse Cassel II.
The remaining Ga are from the smaller States. The
total populations represented by these Cos members
30, l64 1892. The report of the committee is fol-
| lowed by the decree Of the Diet adopting it.
The committee of 80 at Frankfort has published
two proclamatons to Germany, in which the rea-
sons for the assembling Of the preparatory assembly
stated, well as the basis which it has adopt
ed for its action. The last are-berty of express.
sing opinions freely liberty Of conscience and creed,
right of meeting, protection of individual Liberty,
independence of tribunals, and institution Of trial
by jury protection for the working classes, just re-
partition of taxes independence OF parish admin
istration.
In order to insure these, continues the proclama-
ton, the Assembly has decreed the general arma-
ment of the people. We must also be armed against
the external enemy and be prepared to repulse ag-
erosion. The Assembly has admitted Sehleswig
and Eastern and Western Prussia into the Gemanic
Confederation. It has abolished the scheme Of the
division of Poland.
Whatever NAV be the consequences of this, Ger.
many is strong enough to answer for the conse-
quenees. The proclamation then calls on the Ger.
man people to proceed the work of the elections,
sahd not to rest until they have created Germany
united and free.
Prussian Members of the Frankfort General As
senbly Elected - The Prussian Diet elected its
members to the German General Assembly on the
9th They are said to be- for the most part, persons
devoted to the liberal cause.
The Rhenish members have chosen among others,
11erT t1dIS6ldIlI VI TludlCc DCpuI}
for Aix-la- Chapelle;) Herr Camphausen, President
ofthe Council and Deputy for Cologne; Herr Arndt,
the Well-knoWn lyric poet. The illustriOus Hum
boldt is the chosen of the Province of Branden-
burg. In general, the members for the Duchy OF
Posen took no part III the elechons having the op-
ton to do so or not
LoMBARDY.-Rumored Defeat Of the Austridns.--
The correspondent of Lyons journal, writing from
Chambrey under date April I, announces that ten
thousand Piedmontese, led by Charles Albert, had
routed fifteen thousand Austrians, of whom about,
one hundred were killed, and five thousand takens
prisoners | know not how far this intelligence IL
deserving of credit says the correspondent of the
London Daily News, since the latest news from Mi
Ian, dated the 3d. states that on the I'd Charles Al
bert was at Cremona, II true, we must suppose
that a body of the Austrians, leaving the main
army, had endeavored by circuitous route to sur
prise the Piedmontese in the flank or inIhe rear.
Movements of the Austrian Army.-The official
morning bulletin of Milan, of the 9th, announces
that the Province of Brescia is entirely evacuated
by the Austrians who have effected ther retreat to
the left banks of the Minco harassed by the Swiss
and Italian sharp-shooters, who have caused them
a great loss in superior officers,
The New Organization Of Haly-I learn, says
the Paris correspondent Of the Daily News, from
authority which is all but official that the basis ON
which the federaive organization OF Italy is pro-
posed to be constituted by the sovereigns who now
cooperate with the King Of Sardinia, when the
present war shall be brought to close Is as follows:
'.The peninsular will be divided into SIX great
States-lst, Naples I'd, Sicily; Sd, Pontifcal
States: 4th, the Kingdom of Etrura, comprehend
ing the present Grand Duchy Of Tuscany, and some
of the smaller Duchies; 9Th, the Lombardo- Vene-
tan States 9th, Sardinia The population of these
States will be as follows: Naples, 500 OOO Sicily,
2O5O,OOO; Pontifical States, 100000; Etruria.
1880 900; Lombardo- Venetian, 100000; Sardi-
mia, 4, 100000"
A line of fortresses will defend these States upon
the Alps, upon the Plain and on the Apprentices.
A Diet wiIlbe held at Rome, under the presidency
of the Pope the solution of great federal ques-
tons, in which each of these States will b. repre-
sented by the same number of deputies.
Notwithstanding to some adviCes, the King
of Naples had demanded of the Pope permission to
march an army through Romagna. 1t IL said that
the King Ferdinand has three steamers laden with
the most precious cargoes, including the amount re-
naming in the exchequer these ne keeps under
the protection of the Castel- Nuovo, whose com
manding artillery would insure to vessels a sate
and easy flight
PARMA.-The Duke of Parma and Placentia has
accorded very liberal constitution to speopIe.
The following are the principal points in it: The
State shall be governed by moderate, hereditary,
and constitutional Monarchy. with the representa-,
be that of the State but others are to be permitted
The Sovereign inviolable, but the Ministers are
responsible. The Legislative power Is TO be e1er-
cised by the Sovereign and Chamber OF Depnties'
Every citizen is tobe an elecfor at the age OF 20.
The Chamber of Deputies is to be assembled every
year. The press is to be free.
NJ Guizot is taking his fall like philosopher.
He has settled down quietly at Brompton, near
London, and returned to his old profession of writ
ing. Some of the late articles in the London Times
are attributed to his pen.
PROBABLE WAR IN EUROPA mostinterest-
ing correspondent, at Paris, Of the New York Tri-
bune, concludes his last letter with the following
paragraph: M