The Regent of Germany has issued to the Governments of
all the Ger- man states a circular manifesto, officially recounting the facts of the rising in Frankfort on the 18th and its prompt suppression by his Government; and seizing the opportunity to call for the energetic cooperation of the states in the support of the new and constitutional liberties and guarantees lately secured. "A considerable military power was assembled at Frankfort within a few hours, by the aid of which not only insurrection has successfully been overcome but all future attempts of the same nature will effectually be prevented. Martial law was proclaimed, a general disarmament decreed, and justice is busily engaged in examining and judging the prisoners, and in tracing the guilty who have fled; but the Central Power does not erroneously believe that as task thereby is completed": it does not fail to perceive that after the tremendous shocks under which Ger- many has lately suffered, a lamentable spirit of discord has broken out, threat- ening to produce civil war, and "compromise the very liberty just secured." "A longer duration of this state of affairs cannot be suffered." ' * "it is the intention of the Central Power, jointly and hand in hand with all German Governments, to adopt measures calculated to check this spirit and to give fresh strength and new life to all laws that have of late so unfortunately been put aside. The Provisional Executive Power does not entertain the slightest doubt as to the energetic cooperation of all German Governments who have guaranteed to their people liberty and freedom, and therewith its fruits—tran- quillity and peace.
"In this sense the Central Power now claims the coOperation of the respective Governments, so far as that they will most earnestly exhort all such authorities, officers, and other legal institutions where neglects may have occtirred, hu- mediately with the greater zeal to return to the fulfilment of their duties' Bo that a powerful barrier may speedily be opposed to the rapidly increasing anarchy under which the friends of true liberty alone have to suffer."
The attempt of Struve to proclaim a republic in Baden has utterly failed. General Hoffman came up with the insurgents near Staufen com- pletely routed them; and then passing by Krotzingen, advanced through the Hexenthal, or Valley of the Witches, in two divisions, on Staufen, which he completely surrounded. After a somewhat obstinate resistance, the town was taken by storm. Some houses were burnt down; a great number of the defenders were slain and some hundreds of prisoners taken. Among the latter was Struve himself: he and eighty of his immediate followers, were immediately tried by court-martial, condemned, and shot. A corps of about 1,000 escaped into the Munzerthal; but they are said to be surrounded by a large body of Wurtemburg troops.
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