The Express.
London, England, 1852-12-09 00:00:00

GERMANY.

A telegraphic despatch from Berlin, dated the
evening of the Gth December, announces that the
former minister, M. d'Uhden, has been elected Presi-
dent of the Second Chamber of Prussia, by 151 votes,
after three ballotings. Count Schwerin obtained 131
votes. The 42 catholic deputies abstained from
voting. Count Waldbott-Bassenheim was elected
IFirstVice-President.

The New Munich Ga:eitc of the 4th states that
M. Von der l'fordten, who has conducted the Bava-
rian government through the difficulties of the last four
years, is about to resign his ministry. The ne.
cessity of an approximation of Bavaria and Prussia
—to which latter state M. Von der Pfordten is avow-
edly hostile—is stated to bo the reason of this
change.
According to the Frankfort journals, the negotia-
tions between the Austro-Gcrman Postal Association
and France arc being carried on with great activity.
An understanding has, it is said, been already come
to relative to the weight of single letters, which was
one of the principal obstacles to the conclusion of the
treaty, the weight allowed in France being less than
that of tho association. Several provisions of the
eitstnnir union concluded between Austria, on the
ono hand, and the D ,ehies of Purina and Modena, on
the other, have come into operation from this day.
Negotiations arc being earrwd on between Austria
and several German governments for the purpose of
concluding a convention, in virtue of which the sub-
jects of the contracting powers in either of the States
will when ill receive gratuitous medical advice and
attendance.

The organisation of the reserve of the Austrian
army will be carried into execution at the end of this
mouth. The duration of service will be eight years ;
about one-eighth of the total of the army will enter
into the reserve in December of every year; by this
means, the Austrian reserve will be about 90,000
strong on the Ist January, 1834.

BERLIN,Dre. S.

A Konigsberg firm, Pollack's heirs, has obtained a
concession for a line of steamers from Stettin to St.
Petersburg. The ministerial gazette warns mer-
chants to send their shipments for the Levant via
Hamburg or London, and not by Trieste, because all
packages are opened by the Austrian custom house
officers, and not only damaged by careless re-
packing, but also not unfrequently pillgged. Tra-
vellers through Austria, too, frequently have to
complain of missing things, particularly shirts, after
their trunks have been searched by the Austrian
&maniere at provincial stations. The number of
ships which have entered the port of Hamburg this
•ear down to the 30th of November is 4,190, includ-
ing 682 steamers; the number during the same
period last year was 3,931, including 566 steamers.
This year there were 3,714 arrivals from European,
and 446 from transatlantic ports.
The editor of the catholic Church Journal here, Dr.
Kuenzcr, a popular catholic preacher, has been im-
prisoned for a fortnight, for a libel on a protestant
clergyman. The last number of the journal was
confiscated yesterday by the police.
The construction of railroads in Hungary is
actively proceeding. In addition to those, which the
government is building, the Danube Steam Company
will build one from the great coal mines of Fuca-
kirchen to Mohacs; and the great Vienna banker,
Baron Sins, will build one from Ofen, via Raab, to
Vienna, thereby opening the shortest way for the
transport of the immense supplies o: corn front Wiesel-
burg, and making the capital the chief graiu market.
But he has a more direct private interest in the
undertaking, because the lino would touch some large
estates of his, and also greatly increase the traffic on
the suspension bridge between Ofen and Pesth, of
which he holds almost all the shares.

In the province of West Prussia, with a population
of 405,000, the cholera carried off—in 1831, 3,624 ;
in 1837, 841 ; in 1848, 1,911 ; and this year, 5,231.
The circle o Idarienburg, which lost only 271 in
1831, has lost this year 1,529.
The Prussian statistical bureau gives some in-
teresting data on pauperism in Prussia. Tho agri-
cultural districts, with 11,691,000 inhabitants, the
field labourers and village mechanics, forming a
population of 3,745,865 souls, counted 312,635 per-
lions, or 8.33 per cent., requiring relief, and receiving
lon an average 17s. each in the course of a year. In
the towns, with a population of about five millions,
472,215 persons wore relieved, in 1831, with 255. a
head on the average. In Berlin, with 436,000 in-
habitants, the maintenance of the poor, in 1851, cost
86,6001. The number of paupers regularly receiving
alms was 7,419, besides 2,927 children wholly sup-
ported by the parish ; the expense for each pauper
was 31. 155., and for each child about 21. Bs.

The Saion government has announced that the
persons imprisoned for their participation in the in-
surrection of 1849 will be pardoned, and set free
before Christmas. Dr. Herz, of Dresden, Advocate
Steinert, of Zwickrau, and an official named Kranz,
of Gruenhain, will therefore be liberated from the
dungeons of Hubertusburg, to which they were
condemned for life.
Following Prussia's example, the Saxon govern-
ment has ordered all Saxon mechanics employed in
Switzerland to quit the Swiss territory by the 3:st
December, in order that they may not be infected
with the communistic notions prevalent there.

ITALY.
PIEDMONT.

A correspondent, well acquainted with Turin,
writes from that city on the 29th ult. : " The rapid
extension of the capital of Piedmont is truly sur-
prising. After a two months' absence I have re-
turned hither, and felt almost like a stranger, as I
saw tho new mansions which have sprung up one
after another in the neighbourhood of the Porta
Nueva, Porta Po, Porta Snsa, and looked at
tho elegant cafe!. which stand on what was
yesterday waste ground. Two new churches, the
protestant church and La Chiesa, arc rising, and are
likely to be the chief ecclesiastical ornaments of the
capital. Wealthy capitalists have embarked freely
in building speculations, and are paying large prices
for sites of paleczi to supply the increasing demand.
The protestant publication called Buena Novella
states that in the district of Chi, near Genoa, a
number of protestants have been imprisoned on a
charge of making converts to the evangelical faith,
and that a number of bibles published by the British
and Foreign Society, and found iu their possession,
,have been seized.

From the financial statement made by Count
Cavour in the Chamber of Deputies at Turin on the
2nd, it appears that the total budget of expenses of
the kingdom of Sardinia for 1833 is fixed at
146,t411,073f., and the receipts are valued at
107,01,370 f., showing a deficit of 39,329,703 f.
Compared with last year, there is a diminution of
731,18X1f. in the ordinary expenses, but an increase
of 8,2.16,872 f. iu the extraordinary ones. On the
other hand there is an increase of 3,386,230. in the
public revenue. The treasury has to provide in the
blowing year for a deficit of 47,500,000 f., being the
accumulation of the deficits of the preceding year, to
meet which the inscription of two millions of francs
of Renter is proposed. Count Cavour also shows
that, in order to restore equilibrium between the re-
ceipts and the expenditure of the state, the former

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Genoa on the 2nd. The state of the island is far
from satisfactory, the new enclosure law having
greatly increased the numerous class of wandering
shepherds, who were lutherto allowed to gnat their
docks freely everywhere without any charge, tag
who often destroyed valuable trees and plants in
return. These people arc so enraged at the loss a
this liberty, as they call it, that they openly threaten
the landowners with death who would enforce the
new law.