The Express.
London, England, 1852-12-27 00:00:00

GERMANY.

The Prussian Chamber adjourned on the 21st inst.
to January 6, 1853. Max Ferdinand, brother of the
Emperor of Austria, has been made proprietor of the
3rd Prussian Dragoon regiment, and has received
ths Order of the Black Bogle. General Griinne,
adjutant of the Emperor, has received the Red Eagle
set in brilliants. A Leipsie paper, the Ileutsche Allye-
tneine Zeilung, states that M. Manteutfel has written
to the Prussian ministers at German courts, inform-
ing them that the recent visit of the Emperor al
Austria was entirely unconnected with politics; but
letters from Vienna of the2Oth'statethaton the very day
that the Emperor left his capital, a ministerial council
was held, at which the Zollverein question was the
I special object of deliberation. The Emperor received
oti that occasion two reports; one from Count Buol,
ea tho present state of the customs question ; the
other from M. Baumgartner, Munster of Commerce,
on the progress of the customs conferences held at
Vienna.

Count Charles von Kattacb, brother of the Princess
von Liegnits, who is widow of Frederic William 111.,
has abjured catholicism, and been received into the
evangelical church.
A letter from Dalmatia states that the Austrian
government is expending immense sums oa the de-
fence of the Dalmatian coast at Lars, Lesira, and,
most of all, at Cattaro.

ITALY.

PIEDMONT.

In its sitting of the 20th, the senate of Twin com-
menced the discussion of the articles of the Civil
Marriage BilL Marshal La Tow reminded the senate
that it owed some respect to the declarations of the
Piedmontese bishops against the bill, and te the
letter adereased by Pius IX. to King Victor Emmanuel.
The Minister of Justice opposed this, declaring that
the acts alluded to were arbitrary and deserving of
no consideration, adding that the publication of
the Pope's private letter was a most inexcusable
abase. The Chamber then praseeded to vete.
T. Art. Ist, which declares " that the civil law
considers matrimony solely in its relations with
civil society, leaving the duties imposed by reli-
gion, out of tie question," M. Roberto d'Aze-
gilt, had moved the following amendment :—" For
thameitizens who poetess the religion of the State,
the matrimonial cornmet shall not produce civil,
effects unless after the religious oevinnony." This,
ameadment, which would rat once have done away
with the principle of the bill, was rejected. The
original article was afterwards put Lathe vote, and
rejected by 39 votes to. 38. This vote, which vir-
tually rejects the whole bill, causeth considerable
astonishment, and wow rewired with profiled silence,
and the sittiag was adintiraed.
In Wesitting of the 20th the Chamber of Deputies
at Twin adopted the bill for the provisional execu-
tion the budget of tsca, by 99 votes to 2il.
Immediately after the audience in which M. His
dm Bensinal presented his new letters of credence to
the Lap of Sardinia, his Majesty honoured the first
secretary of the French legation, Court de Com.
Imingss Guiana, with. the decoration of Knight
Commander of the Order of Pt. Mauriceand Lazarus.
It may be remembered that M. His de &genre' wu
decorated brit yam with the Grand Cross of that
order.

A solemn mar was mleleated at Genoa on the
20th, in the•oharal of fik. 'Donato, foe tie political
prisoners lately executed at Mantua. The church
was very fully attended on the occasion.
The Risorvinsinsio of Turin states that a pastoraL
hitter of ➢consignor Freewill, the exiled Archbishop
a/Turin, sgairet the law of marriage, was read in all
the churches of lis diocese on the 19th.

WANE, Deo. 20
At the Frensh ambassador's reception, on Tuesday
evening, a atd portrait of Napoleon 111., in his
Imperial robes, was insagarated in the second saloon,
but it bas not as yet had the effect *I producing the
otHeial escognition of the revived dynasty by the
court of Rome. Always averse to. shange, the papal
government, notwithstanding its anbouided
obliga-
tions to France, will most likely be one of the last
amidst the European powers to acknowledge the new
Sovereign. Personally, Pio Now is said not to have
the slightest objection to give his sanction to the
Imperial regime, and the question now at issue is
whether his own propensities, and French influence,
will be sufficient to overcome the opposition raised by
Austria, and the majority of the cardinals, to the
journey of His Holiness to France. If he really
does gratify the new Emperor in this particular,
he will endeavour to combine a religious object with
the political one, by crowning the image of a Ma-
dams, in the hurch of Notre Dame de Paris, as
well as crowning Napoleon 111. By an ancient
bequest to the chapter of St. Peter's the canons are
obliged to furnish a gold crown every three years
wherewith to adorn some statue or picture of the
Holy Virgin. This epoch is now recurring, and the
jeweller charged with constructing the crown has
received orders to hasten his operations as much as
possible, since the Pope will certainly take it with
him it he decides to visit France.

Soma of the members of the Bonaparte family
resident in this city have already received solid pe-
cuniary tokens of the advantages to be derived from
imperial kindred ; but they do not all seem to be
persuaded that it will last very long. The truly
dignified observations of the Princess Canino to her
family, when General Oemeau offered to place a
mid of honour at the gate of her palace, are worthy
of being recorded. " You are now," said she to her
sons, " relations of a reigning Emperor, as I have
already been once before, but I entreat you not to be
in any way unduly elated by the acquuntion of such
rank, and rather to make use of it in benefiting
others than in adding to our own external pomp.
This sensible address produced the desired effect in
the family coancil,and it was unanimously decided to
decline General Gemeauh proffered grenadiers.
The imprisonments to which I have already alluded,
as having taken place on account of the placards and
pasquinade' indulged in by the Romans at the ex-
pense of ths new Emperor, have been continued dur-
ing the week with unremitting rigour, the arrests
being effected by mixed patrols of Roman and
French gendarmes. Some individuals have also
been interrogated on suspicion of having perpetrated
this grave Wanes, hut as it is not always easy to
prove the origin of a bon mot, or the parentage of a
pun, they have been reminded until more evidence
be obtained, or more mercy enter the hearts of the
French authorities.

Edward Murray has been safely transported to the
end of his journey, and is now lodged in the state
prison of Palliano. Exertions are still being made
in his behalf, and it is inferred, in spite of the pre-
sent unyielding spirit of the government, that a
diminution in the term of his penalty will shortly be
achieved.
Captain Edmund Vyner, a Queen'. messenger,
arrived here with despatches on the 15th, and left
again on the 17th.
The French have received a small reinforeentent.
The steam frigate Sane,Captain Rosemelle, arrived at
Chita Vecchia on tke 17th inst. with 237 dragoons
and chasseurs and 104 horses.
The Austrians in the legations are about to take
a most singular step to ensure themselves from the
event of any unexpectedly successful rising of the
people they arc called upon to protest, by dcAroying
iall the fowling pieces and muskets deposited, to the
number of t 30,000, in the Citadel of Ancona, amord-

ing to the requisitions of the legye stoNria.
wholesale destruction of private property, the contis.
cation of which is usually considered to be only ten,•
porary, whilst the state of the country is unsetticd,
committed on the plea that they are islueless and
dangerous weapons., being a tacit confession ilia.,
whilst foreign garrisons occupy the country, the 1;4;
can never be safely returned to their owners, nst
even preserved in the fortress of a citadel.

SWEDEN.

A letter from Stoskholm of Deceinher I says .
"To-day at noon, the l'rincess Royal was safely de.
;2vered of a prince. Salvoes of artillery annotinod
tub happy event, and a Te 'hum, at which the two
Queen: and the royal family were present, wa,; im
mediatel)* celebrated in the chapel of the palate.
The vernment received this morning, from the
King'sgo Minisor at Paris, the notification of the se.
cession of the Emperor of the French to the throne,
which intelligence has not yet reached the Minister
of France. Fresh tenors of credence are to he ina.
mediately addressed to Count de Lowenheim."