The Express.
London, England, 1852-03-23 00:00:00

BELGIUNI.

The trial of MM. d'llaussonville and Alexandre
Thomas, with four other defendants concerned in
the publication of the Bulletin Francais, took place
on Saturday at the assizes of Brabant. Only a
limited audience was permitted to witness the pro-
ceedings. Among the distinguished persons present
were the Due de Broglie, father-in-law of M. d'Haus-
sonville, with his two bona, General Lamoriciere, with
MM. Creton and Labrousac, Count do Nlarogro, the
Bavarian Nliuibter, and a crowd of magistrates and
representatives of the nation. The court was com-
posed of MM. Van Camp and two assessors, and a
jury, led by M. *rremens, the banker. The
Attorney-General Bavay conducted the prosecution,
andiM. Jules Bartels assisted t ho defendants with hisad-
vice in formal and technical matters. MM. Berryer
and 0. Barret were not present, MM. Thomas and
d'Hanssonville haring declined asking them to take
a step which might cause them inconvenience in
Paris. 14. 13avay spoke with much warmth against
the defendants, who defended themselves with dig-
nity and frankness, taking upon themselves the whole
responsibility of the publication and exonerating the
co accused, who were discharged in the course of the
case, the indictment against them being withdrawn.
They had come to Belgium as free men to a free
country, to scatter truth broadcast, and trusting to
the legislation of the last twenty years to guarantee
them m the exercise of that liberty. They were not
men of disorder, they were not working in secret,
and yet they had been treated as criminals. They
had, however, full confidence in a Belgian jury. The
court rose leaving the process unfinished, and ad-
journed the sitting to yesterday.

GERMANY.
PRUSSIA.

BERLIN, MARCH 18.
The King of Wurtembcrg, a couple of years ago,
referring in his speech to the plan of raising the
King of Prussia to a sort of protectorship over
German states, used so offensive expressions that
Prussia at once broke off all diplomatic relations.
Now, at length, an ambassador from Wurtemberg,
M. von Linden, has arrived at Berlin. This tends
to remove some apprehension, entertained by our
ministry, that Wurtemburg, which is more under
Austrian influence than even Bavaria, might assume
a hJstile position at the Zollverein's conference.
The majority of south German states, Wurtem-
berg, Baden, Hesse Darmstadt, have declined con-
ferring with Hanover about the establishment of a
North Sea fleet. Bavaria, Saxony, and the smaller
northern principalities have promised to attend the
meeting. The Electorate of Hesse has not yet de-
cided. Saxony will send minister Von Don't to tee
fleet conference. _

The chambers have just been opened in Wurtem-
berg, Nassau, and Oldenburg. The chief business in
all these assemblies is to revise the constitutions,
with a view to cancelling all clauses that guarantee
popular rights or enable the popular will in any way
to influence affairs of state. The governments of
the three states named have strong majorities, as
everywhere else in Germany.
The gaming table at Homburg is kept by a com-
pany of shareholders, who have just received, from
last year's returns, a dividend of 44 per cent. !
Gambling seems to be • safer business for the bank-
holders than for the players.
A letter from Constantinople, from a well-informed
party, writing on the 3rd inst., says that Austria
was reported to have demanded from the Porto a
cession of territory, as indemnification for injury sus-
tained through the assistance given to the Mange-
rim)s during the late war.
AUSTRIA.
The (Jest. Currespondenz has o very
indignant article on the non-invitation of Austria to
the approaching Customs Congress at Berlin. It
gives its readers to understand that a demand for ad-
mission will be presented in one of the first sittings.
The same journal contains an article announcing
the intentions of the government towards English-
men travelling in Austria. It would seem that Primo
Schwarzenberg is getting ashamed of the petty
menace to English travellers conveyed in his letter'
to Count Buol. The writer in the Oest. Correspon-
d, n: has been instructed to declare that, hr from
wishing wantonly to annoy British subjects during
their travels in Austria, they will be treated on the
same footing with other foreigners. Every native
of Great Britain wishing to enter or to reside in
Austria must be provided with a passport issued
by the competent British authorities. This regula-
tion will not be enforced till the Ist of May.
Those Englishmen already in Austria who have
foreign must exchange them for English passports'
within three months. The same regulation applies
to natives of the lonian Isle., and it is a strict con-
dition that the passport shall state whether the
bearer is a British or an lonian subject. The English,
coining direct from the East Indies, by way of Alex-
andria to Trieste, in Lloyd's steamers, will enjoy the
same exceptional privilegesin respect totheir travelling
documents as heretofore. In future no Englishman
or lonian travelling with a rt issued by foreign
authorities will be admitt into Austria. The moat
noticeable part of the article is the lust sentence, in
which we are assured that "it can never be the
wish of this government to expose to potty annoy-
ances the subjects of a country, with which Austria
is connected by interests and :sympathies arising from
great historical recollections.'

Amos.% Igo), ('ultr.tstr.—Creditors under this
estate have been e.illed upon to come in and prove their
debta, and an official manager is to bo appointed to windup
tha affair,.