The Express.
London, England, 1852-02-05 00:00:00

AUSTRIAN ITALY.

The Official Gazette of Venice publishes a military
sentence of the 28th ult., condemning two men to the
gallows, and one to 12 years' bard labour, leaving pro-
ceedings suspended for want of proof with respect to
another, for having killed Colonel Marinovich, in the
Arsenal of Venice, on the 22nd of March, 184 H,
when tho insurrection broke out. The sentences of
death were executed immediately.

GERMANY.

AUSTRIA.

VIENNA, JAN. 28.
M. de Brentano is announced as having consented
to relieve M. de Baumgartner of a portion of his
multifarious duties, and all matters connected with
the state loans, bank and exchange affairs, aro to be
henceforth committed to his direction.

The new customs tariff comes into operation on the
2nd Feb. It is understood ro have given a consi-
derable impetus to trade, though its immediate effect
has been unfavourable to the exchanges, owing to
the large demand for foreign bills to purchase arti-
cles hitherto prohibited.
Baron Knlmer has been raised to the rank of privy
councillor, and is to have a seat in the Iteicharath.
The new treaty between Austria and Russia re-
specting the navigation of the Danube will be shortly
published. It may be remembered that the provi-
sions of the former treaty, which are understood to
be still retained, were often used as a severe subject
of reproach to Prince Nletternich, who was to
have imprudently surrendered the mouth of the
Danube to a power whose interests must be always
really opposed to those of Austria.
A new law for the administration of the state
mines is under consideration, and M. do Thuinfeld
(Minister of Agriculture), to whose department they
belong, has given unremitting attention to the sub-
ject for a long time past. The abuses in the manage-
ment of the estates of the crown generally in Austria
exceed all belief, and ministers have found it one of
the most difficult things possible to get any accurate
information from their subordinate employls. That
plundering on a large scale, however, certainly has
been always going on is sufficiently evident, from
the fact that in Austria, as in Russia, many officials
employed in this branch of the public service, and'
whose salaries do not exceed nominally 30/. or 40/.
a year, live not only in the utmost luxury, but amass
large fortunes.
The expulsion of the English missionaries from
Pesth has created a good deal of sensation. Of
course the legal right of the Austrian government to
take this step cannot be disputed, but it was un-
doubtedly a harsh measure to compel met to break
up their 'houreholds, and travel with their families,
in the middle of a winter unusually severe—quiet,
inoffensive persons, too, in no way concerned with
politics. An order has subsequently been issued
forbidding the entry; of any more English Bibles
into Austria, and the schools established by the
missionaries have been closed by the police.
The feeling of Austria towards France is certainly
beginning to be characterised by an increasing
degree of suspicion as may be sufficiently evidenced
by the state of the funds and public securities. In
spite of the high quotations for foreign bills their
real value is considerably higher, and the monied
classes seem to be generally of opinion that it is
altogether impossible that things can end well. The
Lloyd of the 25th January, in a laboured and
able article, endeavours to show that it must
be the President's interest to preserve peace, as
"he could not expect the people to share a
national misfortune with him, and if disposed
to be warlike ho cannot count with much security
upon victory." The secession of' M. Persigny to
power and the intended sale of the Orleans estates
are looked upon equally unfavourably.
The American revolver pistol is about to be intro-
duced into the Austrian cavalry, as well as some
other changes in the arms and equipments of the
troops generally.
PRUSSIA.

Flus's Garetle states that the Zollvcrein congress
will meet on the Ist of March. The degree of pro-
tection to be given to beet-root sugar, Rhenish and
Silesian iron, will form, after the treaty with Hano-
ver, the principal subject of discussion. It will also
be proposed to abolish one of the Lcipaic fairs, so as
to reduce the number to two in a year.

WURTEMBERG.
Letters from Stuttgart represent the dissolution of
the Second Chamber of Wurtemberg as imminent,
the government being resolved to set aside the fun-
damental laws promulgated by the Archduke John,
which have hitherto been accepted as a part of the
institutions of the country, and the chamber offering
every resistance to its wishes.

DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES.

On the 28th ult. Count Sponneck, the new minis-
; ter of finance, announced to the Landsthing the
formation of the new Danish cabinet. Councillor
Blubme, premier, and provisionally minister of
foreign affairs, made a simtlar communication to the
Volkathing. These two, with M. Bang, minister of
worship, charged ail interim with the portfolio of
the iaterior,ooostitute the peculiar cabinetof Denmark
proper. The ministries of foreign affairs, war, marine,
and finance, held by M. Blchme, Oen. Hansen, Com-
modore Steen Bills, and Count Sponneck. are common
to the entire monarchy. Lastly, Count Charles
Moltke is minister for Schleswig, and C mint Havant-
low Criminil for Holstein and Lanenburg.
On the same day the new constitution of the mo-
, narchy was read to the Chambers.
In this document the Ring alludes to the failure of the
deliberations held at Flensburg in 1850, fee which reason I
the government must content itself with developing end
ire roving existing institutions. While the integral main-
tenance of the Danish monarchy in its territorial extent is
for the future assured with the aid of the great powers, the
union of its various elements in • co-ordinated whole ia:tent.
porsrily secured by a common administration, exercised foe
common interests by common authorities, as well as a common
constitution to be put in vigour as soon ma possible. The I
distribution of administrations, above stated, is here intro-
duoed. The joint interests of the two duchiee—euch as the
university or Kiel, the equestrian order, the Schleswig-
Holstein canal, the assurance, penitentiary, and benevolent
be regulated by a joint council formed of
the chiefs of the special department of the duchies. All the
ministries are located at Cqpenhagen ; all the ministers ,
form the counell of state. The special ministers for
Schleswig and Holstein are responsible to the King
alone ; the responsibility of the other ministers
towards the Diet is confined to their conduct in
respect of Denmark proper. The provincial 'seem-
blies of estates for Schleswig and Holstein have a represen-
tative character with deliberating voice. A project on this
subject will he at once laid before the provincial assemblies.
That relating to Schleswig will give to Danes and Germans
complete equality and efficacious protection. The provin-
cial estates of the Duchies will he convoked as soon so prac-
tirable ; new elections will take. plan. The Doke of Au•
gustenburg's rote vita is abolished. As soon as the
authority of the sovereign is completely established in Hol-
stein, the Duchy will be administered according to the ex-
isting laws, which can only he changed in • constitationd
manner. The customs line of the Eider will also be sup-
pressed, in order to introduce an improved system through
out the monarchy. The amnesty of 18.51 will he revised
and amplified. The proclamation is dated Christianeberg,
Jan. 28, and is countersigned by all the ministers. •
The Hamburg correspondent of the Mamie Co-'
zette writes that a telegraphic order for the with•
drawal of the Austrian military from Holstein
Lauenberg and Hamburg was received there on the
30th ult. front Vienna On the foilowing day a con-
sider.sble movement was observable among the int-
perial troops, which was taken to indicate their
speedy doparture.