Extra Supplement
No. 38, July 8, 1848.
Neue Rheinische Zeitung.

We have a new ministerial crisis. The Camphausen ministry has been overthrown, the Hansemann ministry has stumbled. The Ministry of Action had a life span of eight days, despite all household remedies, cosmetic plasters, press prosecutions, arrests, despite the conceited impudence with which the bureaucracy again raised its dust-covered head and hatched petty, brutal vengeance for its dethronement. The “Ministry of Action”, composed of utter mediocrities, was still so infatuated at the beginning of the last sitting of the Agreement Assembly as to believe in its unshakeability.

At the close of the sitting it was completely shattered. This momentous sitting convinced the Prime Minister von Auerswald that he must hand in his resignation; Minister von Schreckenstein likewise no longer wished to remain Hansemann’s train-bearer, and yesterday the entire ministry betook itself to the King at Sanssouci. What was decided there we shall learn by tomorrow.

Our Berlin correspondent writes in a postscript: “A rumour is just now spreading that Vincke, Pinder, Mevissen have been urgently summoned to help form a new ministry.” If this rumour proves correct, we shall then at last have passed from the Ministry of Mediation through the Ministry of Action to a Ministry of Counter-Revolution. At last! The very short life span of this ministerial counter-revolution would suffice to show the people, in full life-size, the dwarfs who again raise their little heads at the slightest breath of reaction.