REVOLUTION IN PRUSSIA.

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

REVOLUTION IN PRUSSIA.

We hare received the following account of the disfuibancts which took place .it Beilin on ihe 15lh and K>th of March. Wh t-ikc it liom the I'uhuiih (ln:itt< — . •' During the day of the 1 Sili numeions galheimgs m all the sheets asscmbl^d'about noon on tin 1 Schlo<-s-platz. The crowd was immense. As evening closed in the people began to thiow stones fiom the pavement at the soldiery stationed at the castle gales. The icquests to the crowd to dispciso were of no avail, and Ihe Hlono throwing continued. It was necessary to call out llio cavalry to clcur the place. The crowd, in then flight, ran into the Biit Strassc, whcie they endeavoured to make a stand, as well ns in other ncijhboiuing streets, and attempted to impede the motions oi the tioops by breaking up the streets and budges. The soldiery sen* to icsist these movements weie again assailed wilh stones, and it was only by having rccomsc to aims that they could induce the people (o disperse. The icsioration by oidcr and tranquilily was not effected without bloodshed. Poisons have been wounded, and others, it is said, killed. This moining the authorities bad been inlojmcd of one death. The people .ldoplcd every expedient by which they could harass the soldieiy, who showed the most pciitct cnlmncsss thioughout. The members of the protesting commission, whicli hart been foimcd among the citizens, used the most laudable endc.tvoijis io induce the people to dispcisu. At eleven o'clock at night tranquility was completely rcstoied ni all the streets." Such is the iccount of the Prussian Gazette, but to judge by other coirespondence iiom Berlin, the affair was much more important. On the 15th, at night, a kind of conatnbti'ary iorce was formed whose members woie, as a distinctive mark, a black ami white stripe ou the left unn. A proclamation was issued claiming for the comtables the respect of the people. The military authorities promised to retain the Boldiery in their banacka so long an thra pet sonal safety of the public was icspccted. But the infantry suddenly charged tin crowd on the Castleplace at the moment when the conttubulary were mixing with tbem f and exorted them to disperse. The people were violently thrown back upon the streets in the vicinity of the castle. They halted and established several banicades, which tlwy defended with atone* iigainst the soldiery scut to dislodge them. The troops made use of their fire arms, and hied M'vernl limes. A great many men of the people fell. Tin* infantry nrid. the cavalry went to pursue those who fled, and killed neveral, with the same brutality which they have ex* hibitcd throughout the disturbance, and -which lias excited the strongest indignation in the mind of the nurrators of events at Beihn. The Minister of the Interior, Count de BoduUhewingh, has instituted an inquiry into the conduct of a trmp of cuirassiers, whom the citizens accußc of charging the people without any provocation. Several gun and iron shops aie said to have been plundered, and numerous arrests aic said to have taken plure. The number of the wounded and killed is not yet exactly known, but it must ho considerable. Many soldieis were wounded, it is said, by the stones thrown by the people, and the fix s with which many amongst the crowd were aimed. On the 16th, the htuudenls of the Universities of licUin and Halle, forming a procesßion of about one thousand eight bundled men, went to the royai pa\uu: to piCEcnf a petition to tbe King, who bad departed in all baste to Potsdam. A telegraph despatch, addressed by tho Minister of the Interior to tho President of the Rue* nish province, and dated Berlin the 17th, annouucivi that tranquility bad not been disturbed hincc the picviousday. Disturbances also took place on the IGtU at Magdenburgh, thn chief town of Prussian Saxony. The military appeared mddcn'y andchuigcd lliu peo* pie sword in hand. Many persons have been wounded. At Solinguen, a kind of Uheinish JJ unim/ham on u small scale, the revolted wot k people have dcstioyud, the ironworks belonging to the Piussian Maritime Society, whom they accused of deprhing them of then* employment by the impediments they offered to pu vate enterpiise, Tioopß have been despatched how Djsseldoif. In the little Rhenish principality <>£ Wettgenstiem, the country people have revolted, and aro doing great damage to the small towns of Luasphe and Berlebourg ; they went to tlie castle, and exported from the Prince several concussions respecting the use of the princely forests. At Lippstadt. fh« citizens foimcd spontaneously a civic guard, armed thcrnsclvca with cudgels, and maintained trnnquihty, afCer takui'j into custody nine or ten of the nngieadeia.