The Express.
London, England, 1852-06-29 00:00:00

♦t the end of half an hour the proces verbal wee
mfirmed, and
M. Billault declared the session at end.
The house then broke up, amid loud cries of
Vise le President."

The Chamber of Deputies, having done their work
for this year, are going to inaugurate the nine
nine months' vacation by a banquet at Lemardelay's
Rooms, in the Rue Richelieu, which is fixed for to-
morrow. They held a council to deter mine the ques-
tion, whether the ministers should be invited. M.
de Kerdrel and others remarked that, since the con-
stitution had separated those functionaries as much
as possible from the Legislative Body, the latter
would hardly consult their own dignity in making
officious advances, which seemed neither opportune
nor in any way called for. It was therefore decided
nut to invite the ministers.
The articles of M. Delamarre upon the Corps Le-
gislatif, reading a lecture to that body upon the mu-
tinous spirit of opposition which has appeared in
their ranks, and warning them mot to meddle with
matters supra crepittatee, have drawn upon the pro-1,
prietors of the Patric several sharp expostulations
from his legislative colleagues, to which he has given 11
only embarrassed and stammering replies. His crest
is much fallen these last few days, in co sequence of
the rebukes administered, and he has been obliged
to offer apologies for his presumptuous attacks.
The Belgian journals have not been distributed
yet. I unuerstand that they have undergone a more
strict examination than usual at the office of M.
Latour-Dumoulin. After the close of the debates of
• the Corps Legislate, less obstruction will be offered
to their circulation. But at present the //dependance
is stopped daily.
The last official reception at the Elyake for the
present season took place on Saturday evening,
nearly the whole of the members of the Senate,
Legislative Body, and Council of State, were
present.

GERMANY.

BERLIN, JUNE 26.

This morning, in answer to a free-trade deputation,
who waited upon him with an address, M. von
Manteuffel replied as follows:
I thank you, gentlemen, for the confidence which you
have evinced in presenting this address. You appear before
me as representatives of a principle. You will sot expect
from me that I enter on the merits of your principle; it
has long becu decided; at I, ast, my conviction in its favour
has long been fixed. You will also not expect that
I should give you • pledge for its full realisation.
Ilut thus much I can assure you, the commercial
policy of Prussia will make the promotion of the gene-
ral interest its undeviating aim. I hope, therefore, that the
secession of the southern states, which was at first regarded
with such violent apprehension, will be more coolly contem-
plated ; that the untasine,. on that wore will everyday sink
more into the back-ground and totally varidt. It can sur-
prise nobody if we seek to throw off elements which would
tan clog our feet like leaden weights, for it is our vocation,
shove all things, to vindicate Prussia's independence.
The concluding sentences of this reply clearly
prove that M. von Nlanteuffel ii nowise disposed to
conciliate the Darmstadt coalition. Ills reception of
a frm-trade deputation rather indicated his desire to
have an opportunity of giving the coalitionists a hint
how much they are mistaken if they reckon on Prus-
sia's flexibility.
The London protocol of the Bth of May, regulating
the Schleswig Holstein affair, has reached Berlin,
and deeply wounded the German sympathies of all
classes. Criminations and recriminations are heard
on every hand.
The Gotha Ginette announces that his Highness
the Duke of Coburg-Gotha is engaged in the pre-
paration of a large work on the Schleswig events of
1849, which is to be not only a history of the war,
but also an elucidation of the political questions
involved.

The Vienna Gazette contains an act of grace,"
by which 103 officers undergoing punishment for
their share in the Hungarian war are set at liberty ;
the sentences of six are commuted to four years im-
prisonment, and those of ten others are reduced to
one-half. The same number of the Gazette contains
sentences pronounced by the court-martial of Her-
mannstadt against 40 Transylvanians, many of
whom are condemned to death. Among the sen-
tenced is Baron Kemeny, who expired suddenly in
London a few months ago.
The Prussian minister. M. Biamark-Schunhausen,
has been invited to Tenth, to meet the Emperor.
The Post Gazette of Frans fort states, on the au-
thority of a letter from Vienna, that the reserved
shares of the Bank of Vienna will not be issued until
after the half of the new loan shall be paid up.
After that period each holder of a bank share will be
entitled to ono of the reserved shares.

In a protest against the projected issue of 4,600,000
of thalers in railway notes by the directors of the
Friedrich-Wilhelm Northern line, signed by the pre-
sidents of the Haufmannsehaft, and 28 of the princi-
pal houses of Cassel, the followingstatcment occurs
respecting the excess of paper money in the Elec-
torate:

We have already in tho Electorate of Hesse paper money
to the amount of 32 thnlers per head of the population, and
even the insignificant crisis of 1850 had the result that this
currency, although guaranteed by the State, could not be
placed in circulation to any other State but with a loss of 8
or 10 per cent., and was continually thrown back upon our
imooverished land. If the present plan is really carried
into effect, the paper money of Hesse will overage 10
thalers per boa, of the population, while in Austria it is not
estimated at more than seven or eight; yet there all
' kinds of coin have disappeared from circulation, and the
financial and commercial affairs of the State have thereby
fallen into the greatest confusion. We are, therefore, com-
pelled, in order to save our business from inevimble ruin, to
make the distinct declaration that we will not accept the
said notes as the medium of payment., and we express, at
the same time, the conviction that the trading interests of
the whole country, as POOll as they are informed of the plan,
will imitate our example.