The Express.
London, England, 1853-01-04 00:00:00

SPAIN.

Private letters from Madrid of the 20th ult. state
that the cabinet is perfectly united, and that no mo-
dification is expected. It is thought that the elec-
toral committee of the moderate opposition will soon
be dissolved. The defections are numerous, and the
influence of the committee declines every day as that
of the ministry increases. It is said that the new
measures relative to the liberty of the press, which
are to be published shortly in the Gazette, will be
modelled after M. Pidal's legislation on the periodi-
cal press. The jury in such cases is composed of a
certain number of judges of the first court and ma-
gistrates, whilst the jury at present is composed of
he inhabitants paying the largest amount of taxes.
The Clamor Public* of the 27th ult. says:
The decrees which have just appeared in the GM/MI,
naming to governorships if provinces two persons who
combatted Bravo Marino's policy, have, in the present
state of things, a great signification. MM. Balbra and La-
pita, the new governors of Grenada and Bareeloaa, signed
the manifesto of this moderate electoral committee, from
which we infer that the government is disposed to reader
a tribute of respect to the principle of tolerance in political
opinions, and may, therefore, be expected to restore the ex-
ercise of the right of writing.

GERMANY.
AUSTRIA.

The Wanderer of Vienna states that the King of
Prussia is expected in that city in a few days, on •
visit to the Emperor of Austria.
A letter from Vienna, of the 30th ult., in the
Brealaw Gazette, states that the Austrian govern-
ment has resolved, on the recommendation of a mili-

tarp commission, to surround the capital with a con-
tinuous wall of fortification, the extent of which will
be five German miles (about 22 English miles).

BAXONY.
LBIPSIC, Dlc. 29.
The municipal elections have gone entirely against
the conservative party. Not one of their candidates
has been chosen. This result has occasioned great
excitement in Dresden.

RUSSIA.

The Emperor of Russia has given orders that in
future strictly seientific works shall come under the
standing prohibition, which hu hitherto forbidden
newspapers to make any application of legislative,
financial, or commercial principles to the actual state
of things in the imperial dominions.

TURKEY.

On the 28th ult., Count Wimpffen, Austrian go-
vernor at Trieste, published la the Osservatore
Triestino a notification that the Turkish government
had communicated its intention of blockading the
coast of Turkish Albania from Dulcigno to its north-
ernmost point. This statement of the intentions of
the Porte differs, it will be seen, from that derived
from the Austrian Correspondence, which we
gave yesterday, under caution. Castel Nuevo,
the port at which, according to the Cor-
respondence, the Turkish forces were to disembark
beloogs to Austria, and would certainly be closed
against the expedition. The Vienna Gazette, in epi-
tomtsing the intelligence of the Trieste journal, states
that the blockade will extend from Dalcigno to the
northernmost point of the Ottoman dominions on the
Adriatic coast, but this is a mistake. The littoral
border of Montenegro and Herzegowina, above the
northmost point of Albania is Austrian, with the ex-
ception of a tongue of land which runs out to the
Adriatic opposite Sabioncello.
Letters from Trieste in the Neuc Prussian Gazette
state that several Austrian vessels stationed at that
port and at Pola have been ordered with all despatch
to the Bocca di Cattaro, towatch the expected move-
ments of the Turkish flotilla.

By telegraphic advices of the 23rd, from Zara, we
learn that it is generally believed that Russia has ad-
vised Prince Daniel to give up the fort of Zabljak,
and to withdraw into the mountains. Such, probably,
is the advice that the Czar would give, as the forces
of Montenegro are too small to cope with those of
Turkey in the plains, not to mention that their
habits unfit them for regular warfare, while that
Paella would be most infatuated who should pursue
them into their mountains. Moreover, in the lode-
pendence of Montenegro, Russia gains her point,
and the aggrandisement of the principality may very
well be postponed. The port of Cattaro is overhang
by the " black mountains;" a Russian transaction
with Austria, for securing this to Montenegro u to
an independent state, would be to the Czar, in his
permanent relations to the Petrowitch family, in all
respects equivalent to the acquisition of a lttusian
pert in the Adriatic.