The Express.
London, England, 1852-04-20 00:00:00

salted with regard to the reinstatement of those who
have bean condemned by those authorities. But by
the present bill this question is referred to the cone-
oil of state, which becomes thus erected into a sort of
supreme tribunal. M. de Montslambert is said to be
strongly opposed to several features in the bill, and
will no doubt move amendments to it.
A decree of the Prince President of the Republic,
dated yesterday, enacts that the keeping up, repair-
ing, or construction of national palaces, shall be exe-
cuted under tho direction of architects, assisted by a
certain number of inspectors and agents. It regu-
lates the duties of the architects, and declares that,
instead of being paid by fees, as heretofore, they
shall receive salaries, to be fixed by the minister of
state, under whose jurisdiction they are placed. It
also divides the inspectors into five classes, with sa-1
laries varying from 2,000 fr. to 5,000 fr., and the
spats into two classes, with salaries of I,Boofr. and
I,Boolk.
The eldest son of Prince Lucien Murat has just
engaged himself as a private soldier in the 3rd regi.
ment of the Chluiseurs d'Afrique. The Prince Pre-
sident complimented the young soldier before his de-
parture, on his determination to demand his grades
only from loyal and real services.
The Monsieur publishes the official tabular returns
of the revenue on imports during the first quarter of
the present year. The amount is 32,328,847 fr., an
increase of 0,769,022 fr., as compared with the corres-
ponding quarter of 1801, andel' 4,873,618 k. over that
of 18W.

The Presse, in its weekly commercial bulletin,
says:
• have to remark a partial resumption of business
during the last few days in the home trade, and the receipt
of some orders for exportation, and, although some branches
of industry are still in ?ether a stagnant state, the general
appearance of business is more satisfactory. Some of the
important commercial houses have begun to depart
from the system which they have invariably adopted
for the last two or three years of doing business only for
cash or bills of very short dates, and now take them at from
GO to 90 days' date. The houses which are at present most
badly occupied are those which deal in ready made ar-
tieles of all kind.. The nest fortnight in the present
month has been excellent for then agosts de nouveau: es,
and moat of them have done more business than at the
oorrespouding period of last year. The coachmakera
have also received considerable orders, and the construc-
tors of machinery have enough to employ them for many
months to come.
At the Bourse the Five per Cents. closed without
change, at 101-20; the Threes fell 23c., and closed at
71.93. Bank of France shares fell sfr. Railways
fluctuated a good deal, but most of the lines closed
with a rise. Rouen rose 13.73 ; St. Germain, 12.30;
Northern, sfr.; Teste and Bordeaux, 7.50; Bordeaux
and Strasbourg, 2.30 each ; Orleans and Central fell
2.50 each.

GERMANY.

PRUSSIA.

BERLIN, Aran. 16.
The new constitution for the Electorate of Hesse
has been published at Cassel on the 14th inst.
Having been drawn up by the federal commissioners
and M. liassenpflug in the plenitude of arbitrary
power, it may be taken as a fair sample of the sort.
of thing which absolutists in Germany are willing
to let pass under the name of a constitution. That
it offers no real check to the governing power may
be presumed. The now Hessian charter establishes
two Chambers; the first composed of princes, nobles,l
and certain high officials; the second entirely founded
on class representation, namely, sixteen members
elected by possessors of estates containing not:less than
200 acres; 18 members elected in the towns by an
assembly composed as follows : one-third of aldermen
and common councilmen, one-third of masters and

members of guilds, one-third of manufacturers and
wholesale merchants; and, lastly, sixteen members
elected in the rural communes by the mayors, ad-
juncts, and churchwardens. No person under thirty
years of age can vote or be elected. The chambers
to be assembled at least once in three years, and not
to sit longer than three months. The laws and resolu-
tions of the federal diet become as such, and by the
mere foot of their promulgation, component parts of
the Haim code. Officials cannot take a seat in
the Second Chamber without permission of @epo-
de's; no public debts can be contractedl no new
taxes imposed, and no new laws enacted, without the
consent of the Chambers. Noverthelese, when the
Chambers are not sitting (i. e., at all times, except-
ing three months once in three years) the ministry
has the right of octroying. The enjoyment of civil
rights is made dependent on the confession of Chris-
tianity, whereby the emancipation of the Jews in
Hesse is totally rescinded.
The municipal authorities and the Chamber of
Commerce of our town urge the establishment of
commercial fairs at Berlin, similar to that of Leipzig.
The grand requisite for such a fair is the consent of
the ouritesn-house to allow foreign goods in bond to
be taken to private warehouses, and to open with the
merchants running accounts for the payment of
duties. A merchant, for instance, imports and de-
dares five tons of English cotton goods destined for the
Leipsig fair; he is debited by the custom-house with
this quantity, and has to pay the duty after the fair only
on each quantity as he does not re-export. This is not
only a great convenience, but a great alleviation of
the restrictive power of the tariff. The merchant in
question need only export five tons of German cotton
goods under English marks, and deliver in the certi-
ficates of exportation, when his account is thereby
balanced, and he sells the English cottons duty free.
The great German fairs would cease were it not for
this privilege of running amounts with the customs ;
nevertheless, the governments and the protectionists
are both very ill satisfied with the matter; it is,
therefore, almost out of the question, that a new
privilege of the kind should be granted to Berlin,
where it would certainly be observed to a far greater
' extent than elsewhere.