Central Germany.
The adjourned debate on the election of his Majesty the King of Prussia to the Imperial Crown of Germany was resumed in the sitting of the Frankfort Parliament of the 19ih instant. The discussion was on this occasion opened by M. Wydenbrugk, who said the speaker before him (M. Vogt) had proposed to appoint a dictator and to make war with Austria. M. Wydenbrugk showed the evident folly of such a step, and concluded by saying " the house of Hohenzollern will be but the repieseniative of that Majesty n which we all bend — of the Majesty ot the nation." Mr. Raveaux warned the house cgainst Prussia, and protested he should vote against M. Welcher's motion. M. Schulz (from Darmstadt) then rose to move an amendment, which was received with loud and general laughter. M. Schuli's amendment proposed to elect the King of Prussia, with the condition that that monarch should immediately declare war against Russia. Messrs. Waitz and Mohl made lengthened speeches against the motion before the house. M. Eisenmann, too, made a long and rather confused speech on the relations of Prussia with Germany, and of Germany with Austria, and after M. Ahrens had spoken against the motion, and M. Bauer (a Bavarian) for it, the debate was adjourned to Tuesday, the 20th instant. The Kolner Zeiiung has a letter from Frankfort staling that Austria had proposed that the powers who were parties to the treaties of 1815 should hold a Congress to settle the whole of the disputes now pending in Europe, including the organisation of the German Confederation and its modifications, in order to strengthen the right of inteferecce by the sanction of Europe, The letter states that this news came to Frankfort on the lOih instant, and that its truth has been confirmed by the latest advices from Berlin. The Prussian Cabinet repudiates the Austrian proposal, and protects Germany from its consequences. The reply of Prussia to the Austrian invitation was to the effect that the internal affairs of Germany couid not fittingly be arranged by a Congress of the Great Powers.
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New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume V, Issue 418, 4 August 1849, Page 3
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348Central Germany. New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume V, Issue 418, 4 August 1849, Page 3
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