The Express.
London, England, 1852-02-07 00:00:00

GERMANY.

JAN. 3.
The Second Chamber is resting from debates on
the constitution to discuss the budget of the Ftate.
Meanwhile the government occupies itself with form.
ing a new organisation of the First Chamber, to re-
place that which legally expires in August. A con-
ference on the subject took place at the Ministry of
the Interior on the 3rd, when, besides MM. Man-
teuifel and Westphalen. several members of the party
of the right—namely, Count Alvensleben, M. Stahl,
M. von Duesberg, Count Itzenplitz., and the Under-
Secretary Nlanteuffel—were present, having been
invited on this occasion to give their opinions.
The Kreuz 7.citusy states that the Austrian go-
vernment has declared its readiness, on account of
recent events in Copenhagen, to withdraw its troops
from the Eider and the Lower Elbe ; and that it is
not improbable that their departure will commence
at the beginning of the next week.
The Ilanibury Anstsblatt has a semi-o9leMl para.
graph, stating that the representative of Hamburg
at Berlin had received an assurance of the proximate
withdrawal of the Austrians from the free city from
M. Manteuffel.

VIENNA, Fill. 2.
The fear of the possible proceedings of the French
government goes on increasing; it is acknom ledged
here as well as in England that the personal wishes
of the President are certainly not for war on account
of the dread he would entertain of a successful gc
neral ; but it is thought that he may be forced even-
tually into hostilities abroad to keep peace at home;
and in this case it is believed that his
tint attack would be either on the Rhe-
nish provinces of Prussia, or the Austrian
states of Italy. To guard against this it has been
the constant effort of the' more enlightened states-
men in Austria and Prussia to conclude a treaty on
the basis of that proposed in 1840,m hen the latitude
of France gave rule to similar apprehensions in Ger-
many. By this treaty it is desired that Austria
should support Prussia on the Rhine, and that Prus-
sia should aid Austria is Italy in case of French in-
vasion.

The treaty of commerce between Belgium and the
Zoliverein, which has been delayed so long, was
finally ratified and signed at Berlin on the 22nd of
Janry.
An enthusiast named Ilories--pmbably maa—and
who is now undergoing imprisonment for some poli-
tical offence at Prague, has made a proposal to the
Austrian government to place a discovery at their dis-
peal in exchange fur his liberty, by which they will
be able to make a clear profit of forty million of
florins in gold and silver yearly! Attention has been
given to the subject so far that he has been instructed
to communicate the nature of his discovery.
The absurd jealousy of the press is earned to such
an extent in %ienna that even the little Jew pedlars,
who are generally the correspondents of the German
papers, are watched by the police. A few days
since, one of them being just about to slip his letter
in the poet was seized in the heinous act, the letter
taken from him, and he has not since been heard of.
In fact the profession of a free lance in the middle
ages was scarcely so dangerous as that of a knight
of the quill in Germany.

DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES.

A letter dated Hamburg, Feb. 3, in the Inth!pt n-
donee Belgr, say*:

Count lleventlow-Criminil, minister for Holstein. has
arrived at Kiel, from Copenhagen, to enter upon the
duties of his new post; and the Clianitterlain Von
llille, the negotiator of the recent treaty, has just started
for London, where he is accredited as minister
plenipotentiary of the Danish government. Despatches
from our resident. at Vienna and Berlin have just an-
nounced to our Senate the approaching evacuation of our
city by the Austrian troops; their departure will take place
simultaneously with the retirement of those who, in eon'
junction with the Prussian troops, occupy Holstein. Our
population is not yet completely Treasured, but think that a
federal corps will still be kept in the north of Oersaany.