The Express.
London, England, 1852-01-17 00:00:00

GERMANY.

The Frankfort correspondenee of the ministerial
Prussian Gazelle announces, that the Diet has re-
oohed that the so called North Sea fleet be given
over to such German states as shall desire to main-
tain it u their property at their own expense. There
in to be, therefore, no federal fleet. The ships at
Bremerhafen will be divided amongst the parties, at
whose expense they were got up; and if Ilanever
and the Huse towns choose to establish a navy,
they may do so. At their own cost they cannot do
so; what they wanted was, to keep a fleet at the
cost of the inland states.

General von Itonin was gazetted on the I Ith as
Prussian Minister of War in p'net of Genernl von
Stockhausen. At n grnnd dinner given liv General
von Wrangel on the Mime evening, Gen. von Bonin
was congratulated by the guests on his nomination.
111.1111.114, JAN. 13.
An appointment of new members of the revived
council has been postponed. The Prime Minister is
here to be president of the state council, which is
not the case in Austria.

The conferences with General Bonin, with regard
to his entering the office of minister of war, have
come to a favourable conclusion. His appointment
will he speedily announced. General Stockhausen,
who retired from ill health, has been obliged to quit
active service entirely, and lately appeared in the
pension list.
I now hear, that in spite of the indications given,
and the feelers put out, the goveniment will not come
forward with a reform of the constitution, but leave
it to be scuttled by various separate motions brought
forward by single fractions of the reactionary party.
The Vienna conference on commercial policy seems
to put the Austrian officials in an awkward situation.
The delegates from llanover, the Ilanse Towns,
Brunswick, and most other parts, have declared that
they arc nut empowered to enter upon resolutions, or
even express opinions, but merely to hear and to re-
port, or give information on facts. Whenever, there-
fore, a subject is brought forward, and in any way
referred to those delegates, nothing i e elicited from
them but a polite shrug of the shoulders. In the
committee sittings, Dr. flock's officious eagerness to
get up a discussion, in spite of such systematic eva-
sion, is described as having presented a highly ludi-
Irons scene.

In this day's sitting the Second Prussian Chamber
concluded the discussion on M. Claessen's motion in-
culpating the government. When several deputies
had spoken, M. Manteulfel said that as the pure and
simple order of the day had been rtjected, he would
vote for M. Eynern's amendment, which exonerated
the ministry from blame. Several warm personal
observations were made during the debate, but M.
Manteuffel remained impassible, scarcely giving
himself the trouble to deny the assertion of onu
deputy that the government had been circulating
among the members of the house a pamphlet urging
the revision of the constitution. The amendment
was finally carried by a majority of 137 against 137
votes.

The commercial treat• with Hanover was discussed
and adopted in the 1. irst Chamber to-day almost
unanimously. M. Degenkolb, in a very sharp speech,
acknowledged the great advantages whica the treaty
.••ould bring to Prussia, but doubted whether, as hi:it
been stated, all the other governments of the bill-
verein had accepted it. Such unanimity existed
among the German governments only respecting
measures of police questions. M. Manteutfel, in an-
swering the speech of one of the members, declared
that the government's good understanding with
Austria was a most cherished object, but that he
would not be carried away by Austrian views in
commercial matters.

The Augsburg Gu:elte states that in the beginning
of this month a note was received by the Austrian
government from Lord Granville, containing the
most amicable assurances, and promising to do all
which the laws and usages of England permit in
compliance with the joint demands of the great
powers.

INTEnATIONAt. thielltlGHT.—Last night's Ornette
publishes the teat of the convention between her Majesty
and the President of the French Republic, which was
signed at l'aris on the 3rd of November, WI, and ratified
on the lith instant, for extending in each of the two coun•
tries of the United Kingdom and France the I njoyment
of copyright to works of literature and of the fine arts
which may be first published in the other. By the 14th
article her Majesty engages to recommend to parliament to
pass an act to enable her to carry into execution such of the
arrangements contained in the convention as require the
sanction of an act of the legislature, and when such set shall
have been passed the convention is to come into operation
from and after a slay to be fixed by the two high contract-
ing parties. Front the date on which the eouvention shall
so come into operation, the authors of works of literature or '
of art, such works comprising publications of books, drama-
tie works, musical compositions, drawing, painting, sculp-
ture, engraving, lithography, and of any other works what-
weever of literature and of the fine arts to whom tea laws of
either of the two countries do now, or may her alter, give
the right of property or copyright, shall he entitled
to exercise that right in the territories of the other of
such countries for the same term and to the same extent as
the authors of works of the same nation if published in
such other country would therein be entitled to exercise
ouch right. The representatives and amigos of authors,
&c., are to enjoy the same rights as the authors, &c., them-
selves (art. 1). And the protection granted to original
works is extended to translations (art. 2). The author of
any work published in either of the two countries who may
choose to reserve the right of translating it shall, until the
expiration of five years from the data of the first publica-
tion of his translation, be entitled to protection from the
publication in the other country of any translation of such
work not authorised by him, if the original work shall have
been registeril and deposited in the one country within
three mouths after its first publication in the other, and if
the author has notified on the title-page of his work his
intention to reserve the right of translating it, provided a
part at least of the translation shall have appeared within a
year after the registration and deposit, and the whole within
three years after the date of the deposit. As to works pub-
lished in parts, the right is to be reserved in the first part,
but as to the period of five years for the exercise of the ex-
clusive right, each part is to be treated 1111 a separate work
(art. 3). All the foregoing stipulations arc to be appli-
cable to the representation of dramatic works and the per-
formance of musical compositions (art. 4). Articles ex-
tracted from newspapers, or periodicals of either country,
may be republished or translated in the newspapers or
periodicals of the other, provided the source whence the
same are taken he acknowledged, unless the authors thereof
shall have notified in the journal or periodical that they
forbid the republication (art. d). The importation into
and the sale in either of the two countries of piratical copies
of works protected from piracy under article's I, 2,3, and 5
are prohibited (art. 6) ; and in the event of an infraction of
the foregoing stipulations, and pirated works or articles
shall be seized and destroyed, and the infringers shall be
liable to the penalties prescribed for such offence corn- I
mitted in respect of a work or production of home origin. 11
1 If the work be one that has first appeared in France, it
must be registered at Statiouers'-hall, in London ; if in the
dominions of her Majesty, then at the Bureau de la I,i-
!ninth, of the Minister of the Interior, at Paris. But those
, provisions as to registration are nut to extend to articles in
newspapers or periodicals which shall be protected from
republication by the notification mentioned in article 5. And
with respect to the duties payable on importation, it is un-
derstood that all works published in France of which any
part may have been originally produced in the United
Kingdom shall be considered as works originally produced
in the United Kingdom anil republished in France, unless
such original matter ellen be equal at least in bulk to the
part of the work originally produced in the United King-
dom.

SUICIDE Is lILAn-ufttErr, GiIImEN-BQUARE.
Yesterday Mr. Bedford held an inquest at St. George's
Hospital, concerning the death of Mr. Robert Judd, a
tradesman, lately residing at No. If, Beak-street, who com-
mitted suicide by throwing himself from the third floor
window of his boor on Tuesday morning. Deer:twit had
been depressed in spirits for seserid VICAN and about ten
minutes before the fatal act he ordered his shopman to
enter the receipt of a post-office remittance which had come
that morning from the country, when he went back into
the parlour, and was nut seen again until he fell. Mr.
Nlut ray, the house surgeon of St. George's, stated that he
only lived two hours after admission, haring completely
smashed the knee j t and fractured the rib, on both
sides. Verdict—" That deceased died from the injuries
Call,Cll by throwing himself from a window whilst iu a state
et temporary insanity."