The Express.
London, England, 1852-03-02 00:00:00

GERMANY.

The Duke of Clotho has declared his intention of
uniting that Duchy with Coburg by a common
administration; only the finances of the two States
will be separately administered. The plan has been
more than once proposed, and rejected by the
Chamber. The Duke expresses his determination
to carry the consolidation into effect, and hopes that
the details of that proposal will not now be mis-
understood or misrepresented.
In Weimar, the government having carried its
new election law, 12 of the opposition deputies
have thrown up their seats, with a protest against
the right of the government to alter the franchise.
The distress in several parts of the Thuringian
States continues to increase, and with it the number
of emigrants. In the Oberland of Wiemar a whole
village has emigrated, together with the clergyman
and schoolmaster. The government has bought the
parcels of land and houses; the latter are to be
pulled down, and built up again in other villages.
The Frankfort Diet has rejected the Prussian pro-
position for publishing the reports of the discussion
on the German fleet. The Augsburg Gazette pub-
lishes a circular note, in which the maintenance or
disposal of the fleet is discussed. It is dated Feb. 1,
and has been rendered obsolete by the subsequent re-
sult of negotiations.
PRUSSIA.

Tho Seaats-Anzeiger contains a circular issued by
the Board of Trade for the regulation of telegraphs
in Prussia. The state telegraphs are declared to ex-
tend on and after March 1, upon the following lines :
—First from Berlin to Potsdam, Magdeburg, Os-
chersleben, Brunswick, Hanover, Minden, Henan,
Dusseldorf, Deutz, Koln, and Aix la Chapelle to
Verviers. This line is connected with the Belgian
lines leading from Verniers to Antwerp, Ostend, and
Brussels, and through these with the French lines
from Paris to Poictiers, Chalon aur Marne, Anjou,
Havre, and Calais, and hence by the submarine tele-
graph to Gnat Britain. The second great
line extends from Berlin by Interbogk, Des-
sau, Cothen, Halle, Weimar, Erfurt, Gotha,
Eisenach, Kassel, Marburg, and Giessen,
to Frankfort-on-the Maine. This line is connected
with the branch line from Halle to Leipsic, joining
the Saxon lines from Leipsic, by Dresden, to -Bode',
bach, and in the opposite direction to Hof. By the
first it is connected with the Austrian, and by the
second with the Bavarian lines, connecting Hof,
Hanau, Munich, ltatisbon, and Augsburg. Being
further joined with the branch line from Cothen to
Magdeburg, it is placed in connexion with the first
main Prussian line. The other principal lines ex-
tend from Berlin, by Wittenberg and Hagenaar, to
Hamburg, with a branch from Buchen to Lubeck;
from Berlin, by Stettin, to Swinemunde ; from Ber-
lin, by Stettin and Kreuz, to Posen, with a branch
to Bromberg ; and, lastly, from Berlin, by Frankfort-
on-the-Oder, Lignitz, Breslau, Oppeln, Kassel, and
Ratisbon, to Oder& rg, joining tho Austrian lines,
and being connected, through Vienna, with Milan,
Bregenz, Cracow, Pesth, Trieste, and Venice.
1 These lines are open for telegraphic communica-
tion. By conventions concluded with the govern-
ments of Austria, Prussia, Bavaria, Saxony, and
Wurtemberg, not only the aforementioned but those
which join them in any of the six states mentioned,
arc at the service of the public without exclusion.
The stations arc to close at 9 p.m., after which hour
no messages will be received except where notice has
been given beforehand. A number of minute con-
ditions, perhaps necessary, but fruitful in inconve-
nience and delay, are attached to the transmission of
messages in the circular quoted. A power is also
gtven to the station masters to refuse messages whose
despatch may appear undesirable for public reasons.
All the officers of the line arc sworn to secresy.
The Prussian Chambers are still discussing the
communal law and the budget. In the sitting of
the 27th ult. it appeared that the official reports of
the parliamentary debates cost the state 7,000 thalers,
a subscription to that amount being necessary to
induce the publisher to venture upon the under-
taking. The number of subscribers last year was
28, and in the year before 43.
It is stated that the Russian Ambassador has ex-
pressed
himself very strongly upon the animadver-
sions made on his Sunday ball by the editor of the
Kreuz Zeitung. Last Saturday the journal published
a semi-apologetic explanation on the subject.
The Duke of Augustenburg is at present in Frank-
fort. The Envoy of Denmark, M. Von Bulow, has
entered into direct negotiations with him respecting
his claims to the succession, and the disposition of
his forfeited estates.