EXCITEMENT IN GERMANY.

New Zealander, Volume 4, Issue 228, 5 August 1848, Page 3

EXCITEMENT IN GERMANY.

RIOTS AT KONIGSBKRO. The Boiscnhallc of the 18th has letters from K ou " igsbcrg to the 14th instant, which report gave (listuib 1111 " ces in tliat city on the previous day. An immen 80 concomsce assembled around the building in which the Municiple " Resource" was billing, and lefuscd to disperse when the niceiing biokc up although imploredto do &o by M. Walesrode, a great popular favourite. Tile cm aged multitude proceeded to the police station, where they toie up the p.ivcment, broke all the window!, hewed the shuttcis in pieces with .ixcs, and vowed vengc.mce .lgainsl the Police l'lcsidcnt, L.iulei bach, a man univeis.illy detested. The gtndaimcrie and police could not aircst the violence of the crowd and the soldieiy were equally impotent. At length a furious chctigc was m.ulo upon the people by the Cuiassicis, who displayed the same brutal ieiocity as at Colongc. Mauy ptaeiblc citizens were scvcicly wounded and two Uilled. Several were sent to piison. On the 14-th, the tumult was sullveiy aUrming.

MORIt KIOTB IN SAXONY.— ItEKUSAL or THE TItOOrS TO FIKC ON THE I'KOI'I.E. New and more serious riots look place at Dicsden on the 15th of March. The troops rciuscd to foe on the people. The civic guard cleared the sticets. Energetic measures have been taken to prevent the return of the disorders. It was stated at Leispic that a new ministry lias been formed, composed of M. Brnun, Minister of Justice and Religion ; Yen Dcr Pfordlon, Minister oi Interior and I'oieign Affairs; Georg.y, of Finances; Count oi Holzcndoiff, of War. Some of the nominations arc piovisional. The ministry announced th.it no cxtiaoulinaiy Diet is to be convoked on the 20th of March, ami that they agiccd with the King about the following points :— The soldieis aic to swear on the Sa\on constitution ; abolition <oi ever of thf censorship; a law establishing the libeily of the pi ess, with abolition of privileges and bails ; introduction of trial by jiuy, and lefoimation of the system of law suits on the basis of publicity and orality of the debates ; right of association ; equality of public ciceds ; energetic coopei.ition for obtaining a popular representation noar the Gci manic Diet.

COMI'Er.LtNG A I>OTENTAI H. In Cassel, the Elector hardly escaped with his life the mob, finding that pci suasion was of no avail, deteimincd to have recouibc to force With this view 'they blockaded his palace, and he, seeing that their demeanour was most threatened, attempted to escape by the gaidens ; he was detected and taken back by a black* smith of herculean power. This worthy cairicd him into the drawing room, the door of of winch he looked, and put the Key in his pocket. He then walked up to Elector, and insisted on his complying with the people's demands. He lefused a decided refusal : upon which he lai.scd his brawny arm, and with one blow shattered a marqueteiic table to pieces, then shaking his fist in the Elector's fice, he exclaimed—" But you shall, or you do not leave this loom " The Elector yielded to the powcihil icasoniug of the smith, and piomisi'd compliance, but the latter would not trust him, and compelled him then and there to write a proclamation, wherein he " willingly accoided his people's just icquests," and thereby "saved his land and life.

rUP Sit DISTUKUANCES IN IiAVARIA. Fresh distuibaiiccs liave talicu place «it Munich. On the Kith, ii largo crowd attacked the police office, winch they cnlcml, and set the piisoners whowmc tlii'ie at liberty. The troops, however, with the aid of tlic sludents aud U»c citizens, roblored order,

buatino inn I.4NHKO ruon^i'.ioiw. Tlio accounts fium (lie distmljcd d/f diets ia Unra.m, Wurtembm^. find Marten ,tic n>wl (Ii&(rt"-',in». A Jcttor d.Ued Nuicniimifr, llili mstiuit, hliiVch Uic pon'-nnts t»«n' commcncci! nets of violence aj</iiiist the prisons of tl.r* lnnilrd pioput'loi.s. A Karon iCunlwiff, ni'ni Licliicn-li-ls, was so srvnrcly beaten tli<it Ills' lil< is despaixd of; and m.my otlieis only saved tiion Jives by .1 \nccipitatc ilighl.

TUMULT AT IiKHNSWIfh. On tlie I.sth of March, .sonic uvuheini'>a foinvd .it Brunswick, and tlncw stones at the Civic (>n,uii. Sonic shol3\verc fired on both .sides. The CiviV (maul had fifteen or twenty wounded. Some iiiumpot tain luinpoilaiit tumults took place at Biunswiok on Uie Uitli. ThcDuko had modified his ministiy, and comoKcd llu> extiaoidinary Diet on the 1-lth ol Apnl nibtead ol tlm 31st.

AEFAIRS AT ISADKN. On the 18th of March, was published, nt (hilsiuhc, the decree which giants i genoril .minesly lor .-ill political offices. The itiMinoclion of the peasants in the Orfcnwald and in the inoimtaiicous p.ui ol IJ.ulen and AViirtomburg, } s JWu fully on the incieisc. A republic him been piocLiimed at Constance (liaden). Troonß Jiavc been sent thithei : and it h o-sjicc'tcd that the troops at Manhciin wiJl l>c .sent ilicru also.