The Express.
London, England, 1852-02-18 00:00:00

GERMANY.

VIENNA, Fen. 13.
The official papers confirm the fact of a despatch
having been received by the last American poet,
from the Chevalier flulsemann, Austrian Charge
d'Affaires at Washington, stating that " he had
broken off all diplomatic intercourse with the govern-
ment of the United States." The position of the
American representative at this court has long
been both difficult and disagreeable. The be-
haviour of both the court and the cabinet towards
him has been even suffered to be commented
on in the censor-ridden press, and after a residence
in Vienna of about twelve months ho is stated never
to have been received by the Emperor till within
this last week or so, and then very coldly, and not
in a private audience.
The Danish question, with the exception of the
Duke of Augustenburg's claims on the crown, hav-
ing been settled, the Austrian papers sound the note
of triumph. German statesmen generally, however,
appear to think that this boasted settlement is no-
thing but the commencement of fresh difficuities,
which bid fair to be almost perpetual. The mutual
distrust between the king and the states, the part
the Diet is likely to play in every question, and the
consequent acquisition of strength to the opposition,
are likely to produce anything but a pleasant state
of affairs, and it is remembered that precisely a si-
*miler state of relations as that now existing between
the crown and people of Denmark led to the late war
in Hungary.
Some admirable laws have just been published re-
specting that dangerous class of offenders who have
lately been so often detected in doing wilful damage
to railroads and telegraphs. The punishment=
awarded them will beestimated by the mischief done:
for any injury to property the offender will be impri-
soned five years; if any danger is incurred to life or
limb this term will be doubled ; and if death is occa-
sioned the criminal will suffer the extr=nalty of
the law, just as if ho bad committed in any
other way.
A long article appears in the Ifraisiseer, the only
paper in Vienna not actually known to be in the
pay of government, respecting the nest debates in
parliament on the dismissal of Lord Palassites.
The writer states that it was by no mad the map
if Etat of the 2nd of December which led to the down-
fall of that statesman. He adds that it had been
long preparing; hints that the wart and the ether
members of the government were in fa, of the
Orleans family, and as Lord Palmate* was knows
to have a grudge against awls, it woo dotowniasi to
get rid of Lim. "Lord Palmed"' esie the Wm-
derer, " was no stranger to the Boniegse expedition
in 1840, and ho has never forgiven the &paned Mar-
riages."
The Customs Congress is dill sitting, although
there is no longer any doubt that its labours cannot
end in any immediate result.
The new levies will be very strictly raised, and
the preliminary proceedings of the authorities have
already produced great discontent in Hungary,
where, if there is one thing which the pea-
, entry hate more than another, it is being
forced into tho Austrian military service. Even
Trieste is to lose one of her ancient privileges ne a
free port, viz., that of freedom from military service.
It seems that mothers far and wide came to Trieste
that their children might be freeborn, and at length
this has aroused the Jealousy of government, and
the privilege is to be abolished.
A " disconto" bank is to be immediately esta-
. blished at Venice, and will be • great advantage

to Austro-Italian commerce, if placed under proper
control and superintendence. Foe the fortunes
hitherto made by private bankers in any crisis in
the affairs of trade have been a diagram to govern-
ment. There is no country in the world where
private bankers have made such enormous profits on
the ruin of all other into este as in the Austrian em-
pire.
The Jews, who have bought up at a discount
the discredited six-kreurer pieces in Lombardy, have
taken them to Croatia and disposed of them at •
premium, to the astonishment of less successful spe-
culators.

The government papers say that trade is beginning
to revive and the confidence of the capitalists to
return, and that the effects of the new tariff arc
already favourably felt in the commerce of the Em-
pire; but these practical things, the eschange and
In^tottng of the tondo, do not seem to bear out the
assertion, and London yesterday stood at 12.28.
Silver at a premium of 211 per cent.