The Express.
London, England, 1852-11-19 00:00:00

NAPLES.

The Risorgimentoase;il;esthe release of MM.
Leopardi and Scialoia, political prisoners at Naplcs,
to the good offices of M. Ferdinand flarrot, miuister
of France to his Majesty of the Two Siciiies. M.
Leopardi, formerly a deputy to the parliament of
Naples, and minister plenipotentiary of hit Own so-
vereign at Turin, has been condemned to perpvteg
banishment after an imprisonment of more than
three years.

GERMANY.
I'ItChSIA.

The Berlin Gazette of the l•ith contains the pro.
clamation convoking the new members on the '_nth
inst. The supplementary elections rendered neces.
sary by several double returns, are ordered for the
17th and 19th. The Prussian newspapers generally
express but small expectations of the work to be
done in the new parliament. "The United Diet of
1847 " says, the If Z, dung. promised more then
does the popular representation of 1852. Then the vs-
rious provinces vied with each other to send their most
able and best considered men ; to-dav the best they
can do is to accredit to Berlin what fterlin has first
sent to them—officials and rural councillors. This is
not the way to obtain a worthy representation of a
great state." The constituencies whose members
derive their right exclusively from the payment of
the highest amount of taxes, send 90 deputies to the
First Chamber. Of the 99 just elected 68 belong to
tho titled classes, and only 15 to the commons.
Among the 6t4 there are two liberals; among the 15
there is one. A better set of men is expected from
the thirty towns whose councils have the right of
electing to the First Chamber.
Our own correspondent writes :
BERLIN, Nov. 14.
. .

A commercial treaty between France and Prussia
is said to be in preparation. The Minister of Trade,
M. von der Ileydt, is about to hold a conference with
the French minister, M. Magee, at Saarbruecken.
France, it is believed, offers to put Prussian ships on
the same footing as its own, to reduce the import
duty on cattle, and to repeal the export duty on raw
and thrown silks, in return for which Prussia is to
reduce the import duty on French wines.
The express trains from Cologne to Berlin are
about to be still more accelerated, so that the post
' from England and France shall arrive at one instead
of three o clock, and thus enable the letters .o be deli-
vered before 'Change time. The Austrian government,
i too, talks of arranging express trains, by which the
journey from Vienna to Paris shall be accomplished in
torty-eight hours. Tho railway accounts for the
present year prove that the German railways are
very flourishing concerns. The gross returns on the
capital invested were, during the first nine months
of this year, as follows :—Berlin•Stettin, 15; pet
cent.; the Upper Silesian, 11,1; Berlin-Anhalt,
The Upper Silesian Railway had made nearly 30,0001.
more than during the corresponding period of last
year.
Count Rechberg has been definitely appointed
Austrian president of the Frankfort I tier, and Cons
Thun comes as ambassador to Berlin at the end el
this month.

M. Otto Huebner, who has gained considerable
reputation u a writer on political economy and
statistics, particularly by his collection of tariffs of
all nations, his statistical survey on a single Act;
and his Statistical Annuary has, for sonie time pita,
corresponded with all governments, request in,: to be
furnished with their statistical reports, and mitring
in return to furnish on application whatever sinhlar
notices may be required regarding ahy branch
or country, more espedit iously !hen they
could be got through diplomatic sources. His
undertaking has been very favourably received, the
British Board of Trade, among others, haring fur-
nished very copious materials. M. Huebner has
thus been enabled, entirely by private means, to torte
• central statistical archive of reference, which he
most liberally puts at the disposal of all scientific
men who may apply to him, personally or by letter,
for information.

The Austrian government has published rigidre-
gulations for commercial agents. Persons doing
commi•sion business require a special license, specify-
ing the provinces for which it is granted, and which
will be given to no foreigners for more than a yes!.
A commission agent dare not du any business on his
own account, nor trade with any hut nu rehants,
manufacturers, and tradesmen, nor dare he himself
forward goods; he is restricted to showing patterns
and samples and taking orders, whieh must be en-
tered in a book accessible to the polity; finally, he
must pay, if licensed fur several Austrian province',
a duty of 408. monthly. Travelling clerks kept by
Austrian houses are not subject to these regulatiene,
which aim at restricting the business done in Austria
by foreign houses through agents there. A new
protectionist dodge!
The Augsburg (;a:ette announces that on the 4th
inst., at Moravetz, in Moravia, Prinetss CArola Wass,
on reaching her majority, publicly went over to the
Roman catholic church, with the consent of her
father, :and under tho guidance of the Bishop of
Bruno.