The Express.
London, England, 1852-07-19 00:00:00

SPAIN.

MADRID, JULY 13.
The Gaulle contains a royal decree declaring the
following places in the Canary Islands to be free
ports: Santa Cruz, Tenerife, Oretava, Cnidad Real,
Las Palmas, Santa Cruz de la Palma, Arrecife de
Lauzarote, Puerto de Cabras, and Saint Sebastian.
M. Daniel Weisweilcr, the representative of the
house of Rothschild, has passed some days at La
°ra', where he has had several conferences with
the Minister of Finance. People are loot in conjec-
tures as to the probable object of these conferences.
It is still the general opinion that the Cortes will
be dissolved towards the end of August.
The suppression of the journal El Barceloxis in the
teeth of the verdict of acquittal by the jury con-
tinues to be the subject of indignant comment.
The French squadron under Admiral de la Busse
has left Mahon for Toulon.

The Spanish Mediterranean equadron anchored at
Palms de Mayorques on the sth.
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GERMANY.

BERLIN, Jon, I&
The King and Queen of Sweden have arrived at
Lubeck, on their way to the bathe at Kissengen. The
prince regent of Baden, who came to visit the Em-
peror of Russia here, will remain awhile at Potsdam,
studying military arrangements. His visit was re-
11am propitious for the preservation of the
E.iry—crein ; it will be remembered, however, that
Baden did not sign the Darmstadt treaty, and is not
bound to the coalition, though it has hitherto sided
with it.

The Krems Zeituu, u might be expected, was
confiscated yesterday evening for the third time.
This evening it issues merely a handbill, declaring
that

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Saliseriptions have been opened at several German
univasities for yearly contributions in support of the
protesests dismissed at Kiel. Gottingen has been
very liberal
The federal army is to be raised from one to two
per cent. of the population in Germany, whereby it
will be made to amount to nearly 800,000
men. This is, however, merely nominal; because
the federal states only keep a small portion of their
contingent on a war footing, and really at the dis-
posal of the Diet. The determination of the nominal
federal force is made chiefly as a standard for
respective contributions in money for the Diet's ex-
penses.
The new constitution, which M. Hassenpflug has
octroyed in Hesse, is not capable of burking all oppo-
sition. Upwards of a third of the members of the
First Chamber refuse to appear, whereby the forma-
tion of a house is frustrated. The minister is sending
courriers after several who have gone to the baths,
and hopes to induce them, by expostulation
or menace, to taco their scats ; at the same time nine-
teen members of the Second Chamber have refused
to take the oaths; they have presented • protest to
the effect that they cannot swear to a constitution
which has not yet been revised and cofirmed by the
legal authorities. In consequence of this, the Second
Chamber, too, cannot be opened, from want of the
requisite number of members.

ZOLLVEREIN.
BERLIN, JULY 16.
At the last sitting of the 7,ollverein's conference a
discussion arose on the stipulation of the treaty of
7th September, whereby the duty on molasses is re-
duced to 65., raw sugar paying hss. per cwt. It was I
objected that, if the molasses duty were so dispro-
portionately low, the revenue would bo defrauded by
the importation of syrup, or liquified sugar capable
of crystallisation, entered as molasses. The Hano-
verian and Prussian commissioners, however, replied
that this might easily be detected.

T/IE STOCKPORT ItIOTB.—On Friday, the magis-
trates resumed their investigation into tho circumstances
connected with the late disturhancts, but the inquiry was
again adjourned. Several additional persons have been ar-
rested within the last few days ; and the total number of
persons in custody is non• j. 7, of whom about 40 are nightly
let out on bail.