The Express.
London, England, 1852-02-12 00:00:00

GERMANY.

BERLIN, Faa. 8.
A clause in the will of the late King of Prussia
las come to light, forbidding the royal family to
anisire any possessions whatever in foreign countries.
This is a very wins provision, and aims at forcing
the family of Hohenzollern to link all its interests
sad stake its whole fete on the welfare of Prussia.
lame years ago several German princes, feeling that
mantes were getting unstable in their country. pur-
chased possessions in the south of Russia, with a
nes of having a place of refuge, when their reek-
Iry policy caused a crash. it was believed, too,
that Louis Philippe, with a similar view, made large
imotinents in America. It was with a view to
preventing a similar course here, that the late King
Nude the clause in question, rendering it imperative
es his 'Kenyon to avoid producing a revolution,
instead of seeking to escape from its effects.
All our newspapers, of whatever party, continue
their unanimous attacks upon the proposed new
stamp duty; neverthekas they are convincing them-
selves of the inevitableness of the measure, because
the arguments brought against it are evidently cal-
cuistid to strengthen rather than to shake the go-
ternmt nes resolution. The injurious effects which,
von the newspapers' own showing, the imposition
el the stamp duty will have upon the press, are such
the government most desires, and has long in
via attempted to produce by censorship and Gehl-
nary police proceedings.

WITHDRAWAL OF THE AUSTRIAN TROOPS
FROM HOLSTEIN AND HAMBURG.
BERLIN, Fss. 9.
I have just received positive information that the
vuadrawal of the Austrian troops from Holstein
tad Hamburg commences to-morrow. The directors
d the railway ria Wittemberge and Magdeburg,
km received orders to make preparations for for-
yarding a battalion daily, till the whole of the troops
lan have paired ; and the Prussian Minister of
Ru has been requested to give due notice to the
unitary officials and commanders of fortresses on
tie route which the Austrians trade.
Lunt Palmate has been appointed as Sardinian
Arsheasador at Berlin in place of the Marquis of

BELGIUM.
On the 10th inst. the affair of the Builletift
Franraia came before the Tribunal of First Instance,
te the demand of M. Beine'mane, the aggrieved
publisher. The appellant prayed that the act of '
leisure authorised by the Juge d'lnstruction might
e dtelsred null, as arbitrary and illegal. The
Attorney General argued that the tribunal had no
tteopptenee in the cause, and that the act of the
ante was within his attribution, and not con-
My to the code. He asked that the appeal might
to durniterd, and its author adjud to mak
tonoode of 300 francs. 'I he court deliberated threelitartirn of an hour, and then decided against the
Pvbhsher, whom it ordered to pay the coats, bat
*Thud to dant any amende.

NEW GRANADA.
!Attila and peptn have been received fres
Ivo.. Nes, Uneoda to the let ultimo. A conventiss
into end Maned on the 13th of December be-
-11.• nr. O'Leary, her Mmeety's cltarg6 Wallin, and N.
4"''... tie Grenadian Minister of Finance, fur db• lasi
tvi, as at of the tirenedian proportion, being 60 per amt.
''.• larktf cod long pending claim of Mr. Mackintosh
I

Sll.l‘c, or THE ATLANTlC.—Yertorday, it three
k.a, the United States wail iteamwhip AUantie, Capt.
Iktt the Mersey for New York direct, having on
g emenetrs, and a fell cargo of Sheffield and Man-
m&