The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-05-16

imports for the first quarter of ls4s The Imports exceed
by rather than four millions OF metz cal qainsls
however falling of IN the exports, and conseq uenty
The movement Of navigation The number of French
vessels employed was 1000 less than in the first three
| months OF lS47.
From the Morning Chronicle oil the April
We have received papers from Berlin of the goth from
Cologne OF the 9th; from Heidelberg. of the 25th and
lsth and from Augsburg, OF the cath, from which we
extract the following Intelligence;
Prussia
The AHgemeine Preussiche Zeuung informs us that in
the embargo aid upon the Prusslan ships
the Prussan minister nj Copenhagen has received nstc
lions to demand his passport The paper states that
the Cermanc Diet has sent the Hanseatc minister
tor Banks London to cooperate with cheyaler Bun
SEM in providing measures Tor German fee and the
protection OF the German commercial interests In III
| Baltic.
PosEN.--The Agemeine Pre,Ssiche Zeitung publishes
the most shocking accounts OF the cruees which were
perpe,raed by the Polish insurgents at Trzemezsno the
10th inst They shot every who seemed TO sympathze
with the Prussan military imprisoned number OF Ger
mans and Jews, Omen and women) and kept them for
three days without giving them any food AT Wreshen
they slit open the slomachs anu cut OH the breasts OF
The royal commissioner, General Wisen, publishes
declaration in the AAgsms'ne Preussieis Zeitung IN
which he defends his conduct and his since he
held his office in the Grand Duchy OF Posen Nevehe-
less his policy led facts like those We have just stated
BERLIN, April "a.
The elections to the Constitutional Assembly of Franc
FORT and of Prussia, which to take place in the first
degree the OF May next, absorb the attention OF all
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great interest which all classes take in the pro-
ceelings is unexpected but at the time satisfactory
This interest taken up 50 generally is another proof that
NJ de Boleschwngh, when he stated himself, and
caused also be stated by others, that the country
not ripe for liberty, committed serious error Every
thing is passing as IN constitutional countres clubs
are forming in different quarters of the capital candi
dates make of the journals to publish their IDEAS and
the line OF conduct they intend to pursue They are all at
heart liberals many obliged to make for their
past opinions being liberal The great difficulty appears
TO be how TO avoid state OF confusion, part and parcel
of universal suffrage, in elections even of the first
degree The different quarters OF the city are adopting
different measures for endeavorlng to avoid this confu
sion Some are engaging the electors to draw up and
forward TO the committees the lists OF candidates they
propose put in nomination. The committees will then
cause the of the selected candidates TO be dsrbu
ted at preparatory meetings and then the different names
will be examined and decision will be come to. As
may be naturally expected there is great difference Of
opinion between the different quarters and the commit
tees In the faubougs and the poorer quarters of the
city they radicals in the centre OF the city more
moderate; and, general rule they all want new
men, and preference is given to all who have in any
way suffered or been prosecuted by the late ministry The
converted royaiss are dsrusted and the extreme rad
calls are feared The above is sample OF what is pass
ing at Berlin the subject of the elections We shall
soon be in possession of what is moving in the provinces
Southern Germany
The information contained in the karlsruhe letting OF
the disturbed districts in the Grand Ducy OF Baden Is TO
the effect that the last OF the nsurgent bands
have been beaten and dispersed Freibug on Easter
day the scene of some otons movements but the rioters
(about ,20O) successfully attacked and beaten by
General Hoffman at the head OF some Baden battalons.
The bands of German Communists from France under
the command of Mr. Herwegh, still vainy trying to
effect their entrance into Germany They cannot Cross
the Swiss frontier, for the passes guarded by the
Swiss Contingents; while the German army Of obserya-
tion concentrated the districts OF the Rhine, scares
them back wherever they dare to show their faces.
Germany" says the Cologne Gazette, "Germany, in
her immense majority aGhos republic Whatever n Tsa.
many has not combaed for her young liberties to yac
Eo.Sh Ia AIM
only to give civil war and all its horrors
. Rhenisil Prussia
The Cologne Gazette reports that the 26th of April,
in the evening" crowd of operatives gathered before the
house of Burgomaser Sonore, to whom they addressed
several requests, which not compiled WITH AS dis.
orders feared, the drums beat to arms in several
FASTENED to their posts The crowd dispersed and no
other disorders took place Stones were threwn at the
civic guard. by which some were slightly wounded On
q the nth some disturbances took place in neghborng
village and it was feared the rioters would return In the
evening to Cologne and by movement the whole civic
: guard had been ordered out
Poland.
n The Cologne Gazette writes, under date Of Warsaw
the 18th of April, that order from the Prince governor
prohibited, until fresh orders, the expectation OF specie
O with the exception of small sums for paying the travel
hundred silver roubles On the other hand the frontier
towards cacow which had remained open ill the pres
lowed to pass without the most vexatous formales
The Insurrection In Baden.
y We have just received the following official report
" DEPARTMENT THE MINISTER OF THE INTERIOR,
Carruhe. April a.
s yesterday afternoon, between and O'Clock, at tho
the the point OF entering the town
OF Fribourg the band of rebels who had assemble near
rodmar down the mountain in the n-ghborhood OF
Gunersthal this the troops marched Oft against the
band. The firing lasted from four till seven o'clock The
rebels dispersed, and the troops bivouaced in the
neghborhood, and marched forward this morning to me
About o'clock they opened fire. with muskety, the
same time bombarding the town AT hall past eleven tho
troops entered, having forced the bacades and the eb
He'd The troops in quiet possession of the iowa
We have letter, also, from Carlsruhc, dated 9th
: April at night, which says:
"We have just received the Information that the o.
Fbong in which many thousands Of the rebels were shu
up, summoned surrender to the generain-cht
Hoffman. This having effect upon insurgents, the
midnight and then taken by assault by the troops of Mas
sau The insurgents have been routed The town, rom
report has suffered severely they calcnlte between ~
and 80 The number of killed Martial proclaimed in
the districts of the Upper Rhine and til, akeof Con tance
"We have had this afternoon here Carlsruhe, ds-
turbancc, the moment OF their being brought into the
own artlleryman who be shot desertion On
this occasion another arteryman, who struck his ohco
: was killed by his comrades 4"
Belgium.
BRussELs, April GA curious fact which until the
present moment has not been completely explained men
toned by the Independence Beige Many of the Polish
refugees from London and Paris who passed days
ago through Belgium route for their country, have
I come back and passed through Belgium second lime,
= frmed BY letter from Magdebug. dated the 23d OF
April, in Gazette of Ar Ia Chapeie, and which states
that the entry Prussia is refused at the railway station
of Ocherseben the first station the PTussan territory