Show EUROPEAN NEWS pubic public at antion in europe was chiefly occupied wih with the frankfort congress of germanic sovereigns preparations for which had been progressing op on the largest scale for several week i previous the chance oe at seeing all at once some thirty crowned heads was wag not ot a thing thins hat that was offered every day accordingly 11 str trat argera gers from all parts of germany n and europe doured into frankfort to a obtain taina taira a lodging at any of the prin principal or second rate rata hotels was ludee lud iud eel cei cel i out of the question from the first as they were all at once eg engaged aged for the princes aha and the retinues which they wee wee to bring w with ith them the E of austria arrived on the evenin evening of the the irbe princes all paid him a visit vasi ft in the evening and on sunday dined with his bis imperial majesty on monday august 17 the bg business siness of the congress commenced the german and the represents ave s of the four free cities held their first i sitting bitting in the federal palace in the h elmer eimer i gasse some of the princes were joudy cheered aa as they drove in state to the place illace of mee wee meeting and the most popular among 0 theril seemed to be the emperor of austria the kings kinza of bavaria and hanover danover and the duke of C obura the emperor opened the congress by a speech in which be he said that his object in convoke conco il R the assembly semMy as was waa to brino bring about a reform german bund that should be la in keeping with the ther necessities ot of the times his majesty declared that be he aa as actuated by no selfish motives and he expressed a hpe h pe thattis federal allies would assist I 1 im in the task which he fie had bad undertaken the emperor spoke at some length and closed bib bis most conciliatory speech b by lamenting that P was not represented a power which in germany is on the same level with austria the fisl fist fi st sitting of the congress lasted an hour and a half and it is rumored that it was a bal sal sais baig is factory one the members of the theau au gmt glut assembly are pledged to secrecy crecy ee the we ia embers abers of the congress unanimously resol reso v d ato to senai a pressing letter of invitation to the ibe king of prussia the leter was read and approved and the king of saxony will take ke the missive of the german princes to liden ilden baden the first portion of the scheme chame brought forward sard ward by austria is that of the new federal executive the german government Is is proposed e d to consist of eleven members tb three ree to be to c chosen 1 e n by austria three by prussia three by livaria and only two by the rest 0 f G germany e r with irith ita its varied interests and large pop ul atton in ardi addition tion to a federal executes Exec Exe cutis uthe e there T Is to be an upper chamber which chich is to bri tra have the power to elect one third ot of the members lessof of the lower or representative chamber T the he representative bodies in the different federal states to send delegates to 0 o the frankfort Ass asb assembly emby the number of delegated dele gatea gaea to be au aus S iia ila to se send n d 75 from the states stales li Vi elo eio nging longing to the german bund blind prussia 75 bavaria 27 saxons saxony hanover wurtem burg 15 each baden 12 liesse hesse cassel 9 0 liesse hermstadt 9 holstein and lauenburg 5 luxemburg and Lim limberg birg 4 brunswick brun Bruu swick 3 the two meck edenburgs den burgs bures 6 nassau 4 saxe weimar 3 saxe meiningen beiningen saxe coburg gotha and saxe altenburg 2 each easby oldenburg 3 and ani each of the other states stales and free fre cities I 1 leach each in states in which there are ati two tho 0 chambers the upper house will elect one third and the lower house hoube two thirds of the delegates |