The Express.
London, England, 1855-02-17 00:00:00

GERMANY.

PRUSSIA.
PONDEXT 07 TEI DAILY Nlllll.
BERLIN, Fin. 13.
A Vienna paper (the Wanderer) trumpets forth to
die world, with the would-be appearance of semi-
idol authority, that Prussia has concluded a sepa-
rate convention with England and France; that the
treaty was signed at Paris on the Bth inst.; and that
the arrangement had met with the sanction of
Austria. The Wanderer must have been wandering
again, and, in the coarse of his peregrinations,
caught another canard d /a Tartars, for the story is
totally denied by the official organ, the Prussian
Correspoluksz. I admit that this is only a negative
proof after all that the Wanderer is wrong, for we
have seen on more than one occasion that the
Prussian Correspondens has denied things that sub-
sequently turned out to have been correct, so that
the inference to be drawn from the above is one of
three things--either the whole statement is a mye-
tiflcation of the Vienna paper (which, by the bye, is
a distinguished fabricator of spurious intelligence
from the seat of war), or else the news is true, but it
does not suit Prussia at this moment to have it made
public, and least of all through the Vienna press ; or,
thirdly, that the intelligence is premature. A very
short time will show which of these three positions
is the right one.
A new arrangement has been made with the
French government for facilitating the transit of
goods and passengers' luggage from and to the Zoll-
verein in the ports of Havre, Nantes, Dieppe, Bou-
logne, and Dunkirk, where they will no longer be
liable to be searched, but may be sent direct from
the ship to the railway station, or vice versa'.
Some officials belonging to the Royal Telegraph-
office here were some time ago convicted of an abuse
of confidence, in communicating to certain persons
with whom they were in league such information as
to permit them to operate with great success on the
Stock Exchange. In consequence of something
which has since transpired, two more bankers (by
name Meyer and Goldberg, according to Voss' Jour-
nal) were yesterday arrested as implicated in the
nefarious transaction, and their account-books and

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papers seized.
Several new lines of telegraphs are ordered to be
completed, and the government bas just purchased
3,000 cwt. of iron wire, which is to be tinned over,
this processbeing said to preserve the wire from the
influence of the atmosphere.
The Minister of State, von Ladenberg, is so dan-
gerously ill that great fears are entertained for his
life.

The following mysterious h is going the
round of the papers. It is ated the Hag
Feb. 5: _ _

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" The report of a murder said to have been cam.
mitted here by a person of very high rank, already
begins to leak out beyond the walls of our city, and
finds its way into the foreign press. Our papers
here have not dared to say a word on the subject,
but the fact has become undisputed, although the
doer of the deed is never spoken of by name without
the greatest caution. The unhappy act resulted in
the death of one of the aides-de-camp of General
B—t, and those who are initiated into the
secrets of the court here will not be surprised
to hear that a lady is the cause of it. A
similar case happened about six years ago, in the
year 1849, and spread the greatest consternation
throughout all Holland. The victim then was not
an aide-de-eamp, but an official of the highest rank,
whose only fault in the matter was his wish to
interpose as mediator in a quarrel which appears
greatl7 to resemble the present one, and in which he
lost his life. The most strict silence was preserved,
par ordre du mufti, and it is likely that in this case,
as in the former one, silence will spread her veil over
the affair, once more to screen the illustrious Don
Juan from publicity."
It is asserted here, on good authority, that the
mission of Privy Councillor Niebuhr to the Hague is
connected with the above mysterious affair.

AUSTRIA.

07 TDB DAILY 1111111.)
VIENNA, FEB. 11.

In a former letter I hinted at the possibility of a
partial char in the cabinet of Austria. Since it has
been known here that Lord'Palmerston has succeeded
in forming a ministry (a piece of intelligence which -
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