The Express.
London, England, 1849-08-27 00:00:00

GERMAN Y.

PRUSSIA.—Our correspondent writes :
BERLIN, Av n. 24.
To-day the German que:rtion was brought f r scrod
in toe First Chamber. ft.e dtbate w. 6 opaced by
Count Bulow, Under-B,m t iry of the F.,reign De-
pattment, who hid upon tile tab!c a fermichbl..-look-
tug tul!o, which constituted what we shall c.lll tke
.4 blue baole," on the subject, snd of which he =-
pinked the general natura of the coattnts in the
speech.
Its begin by stating that the documents is question 'mild
bon :plain the measures of tte =fasten: aiin, the ad-
journment of the sheathe!. The con= ,n attars of Germany

v.tild only be regulated by prompt and dteisive 'massif's.
The chantbor would !Pal what had bsen actually eff,ctad in
than slacuusents. Thee w.tts of Ursa sons :.Ist, such as

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regarded the draft of a Gersten constitution and the alliance
of Slay 26 euncluded by the gove rem nt with Saxony and
liwover ; 2nd, such, tor iistarce the protccol, as were pre-
liminary to the former, awl which contained an eximitiou
of their motives ; and, 3rdiy, such as concern the prognsieione
cf ate government to the Austrian government with :he VieW
of oboaning Austria's adherence to the alliance. The
speaker then cohered into a biro f statement of the views eirieh
woich the Pruseien goeern:gent regarded the G. man efli r.
lie reminded ti-0 members of recent sumo., sod Noe conflict
that sprang up bets ecn the Prumign governs'. rt and the
National As.emhly at Frankfort. The twenty-eight govern-
ments, which at tiut hail gone baud in heed
with Prussia, left it, joined the National As mbly, and
thus the German canes seemed lost. A ericciui.l piety,
whose object wan to overthrow every conttitathin, made nee
of the German constitution, so partucly drawn up by the
national coestitunon, as their tanner, un.:er the ; reiteetion of

which they sought to overthrew the monarchical govern.
menu of Germany and to Introduce r ipublios. Toffs par y
was soon put down.
The obscrvatione immediately suceeeding halve merely a
further detailed justificaties of the government, we pass to
the wind-up of it, wherein he sass that the gre.it di-turbine
events of the year 1848 will not.be calmed down, ti at the
crisis will not be brought to a favourable inter, uetil, in nidi-
tion to the victory over tee revolution, the unity of the
nation shall be brought about, and the requittitious of the
people satisfied in this sense. Reece the government re-
newed the initiative fur • unite n stone, even its of. a mon cir-
cumscribed extent. The documt eats in question would
lueidste the basis which the government went up tn.
Tree &hence of the 26th of May had • t eofold object :
acting in common abroad, and restoration of enter . t
home. He particularly called the attention of tee house to
the fact that the more ci cunneethed ted ral state as coneem-
plated by the alliance io question was realised by the volun-
tary accession alone of the re-pt.cnve governments.
A heap of otti,ial documeete, as well as the press, have at-
' tacked the government with the aecuiatinn that Prussia
wanted to elbow Austria out of the confederation, wee aiming
at the head, and striving to emit her own territory and
power. The poei.ion taken up by Preemie is not the cries/-
guy ea of her free choice, but the result of all ht r acts and
of events. Whatever opinions may I.c entertained with re
geed to the federal state, two conditions must always be
clung to, if expectati ins are to be sari-find. A etroag t re-
entire power must steed at the laced which can represeut the
federatems with dignity in foreign relations, and which sae
uphold order in the interior, and there must bee legtelative
power embracing all the 4lf steno, and administered by the Ile-
nipotentiaries of the states in agreement with the represents
tires of the people. The first of these conditions ie Lupin-
ticable with • directory, or with two great powers at the
head. Toe least consid-ration of the eircumeianees of Aus-
tria leads to the conclusion that Austria cannot stand at tee
head of Germany. The centre of gravity of Austria li. e
outsi le Germany, and, with the best will in toe world,
Austria could do nothing for the good of Germany. S..a
cannot submit to a ble-man parliament. Through the eon-
'Phalan of March 4 all portions of Austria aro so bound
toother that the admissibility of foreign legislative power is
impossible for her. This position of Austria fs a let which
offered a basis for the arrangement of the German question.
Thereby alone c mid Prussia entertain the goes-hot whether
a Bundes-staat could noel sl.culd be formed or nor, eta the
reproach of having excluded Austria from the confederation
falls to the ground at once. If the new federation mast be
formed without Austria, the bonds which connect An-tria
with Germany, to whose greatnees she has ecteributed,
ought not to be 'filthily sundered. This c lcration ru--
gered the project of a union of the rest of Germany with
Auer* which is to he found is the papers laid on the
table. The fundamental idea therein is this, that
after the solution of the question of the csnstitution
butts states should be united as respected foreign relations,
but separated with regard to internal. Austria decidedly
negatived this proposal ; the decision of this question must
be therefore reserved for the future. The right of the go-
vernment to form this league (off the three kings) upon to^
ground of the 11th article of the Peaty of cenfederation has
been denied. Certainly our relation to the confederation
(band) is a very peculiar t ne, but the eonfederetion is not
thereby annulled. If Prussia, by the 11th article its quer: ion,
is not allowed to form alliances with our German states, she
be so much the more authorized to form &Mantes with un-Ger-
man states. The old c enfederation is not annulled so long
as each state fulfils the old obligations imposed upon it.
The College of Princes, to which is committed the initiative
in proposing laws en the plan of may 28, is in fact a directory
under another name. We cannot yield up the real priyile ges
achieved by our fathers. If the Buades-stast. with the supre-
macy of Prussia, be accepted, we shall be found ready ; it
I not, • return to the old confederatron is infallible. (This
passage in Count Below's speech seemed to cr. ate great sur-
prise and disappointment among those who wet,• prepared for
encreet lc acts from the government.) Title principle, laid down
in the instructions sent to the plenipotentiary at Frankton,
must be openly expressed. Ilse government will, in an for as
it can, continue in the wile of justice and peace to striae after
the unity of Germany. Ue to the preeent time, the league his
been joined by Bailee, Electoral lit ate, Nissau, Rex. WSJ-
Anhslt Bernherg, Brunswick, Sore Altenberr, and
Mecklenburg Belits. Wi h reserve of refill :align' we hove
been joined by Rene Darmstadt, Base-C thursth-Gathe,
Behwerzhurg-Rudoletadt' Oldenburg, and the free cities of
Hamburg and Bremen. Readiness to join has been express-
ed by Luxemburg, Anhalt Deegan and Anbalt Rotten.
Waldeck, Lippe, Romberg. Bavaria has reserved her de-
claret leg.
This speech of Count Bulow has oecoirnei great
disappointment among those who hope that the ener-
eetic expressions used on th's subject in the speech
from the throne were sincere, and meant samethirg
deeded. But Rallowitz is *nix ea to speak to-mor-
row, in the Second Chamber, in another strain.
Yesterday the May prisoners were liberated. They
met afterwards in the house of the medical Dr. Wal-
deck. There KM a row in the street, and fightinT be-
tween the people and the constables, and the military
were called in.
AUSTRIA.—Dates from Vienna are to August 22.
The feeling of joy which the news of Gorgefs
submission, and the prospect of the immediate terms-
nation of the Hungarian war spread in the capital,
were beginning to be succeeded by misgivings, which
are not lessened by the protracted silence of the go-
verment concerning this mysterious event. Up to
the above date nothing official had Wen at t -red on
the subject beyond Haynau'a telegraphic dcspetch.
All the rest was gleaned horn bulletins out f War-
saw. Oa the 22nd, the reports from Hungary
took a fresh turn. The party which propose

to carry out the war are nisi to be in
by no means E 0 tte4k and sitbducd a lOW as wes
at first imagined. Dembi. ski has taken tie chief
command, and a (=thimble put of Gorgey's tu'eet
that refused to lay. down aims, is united with the.
corps that retreatea F-13-eau. these forces
Dembinski is concentrating his position towerds
Transylvania, atd is resolved not to give up the war
without risking 01 di c'sii-e battle. None of 'he otter
leaders had followed Golzey's example. Neither the
Camera nor Pet ardein garrison thought cf cur-
rendering; amid Kltpka, Vetter, Guyon, Perczel, and
others of equally heroic t miter, were resolved to die
sword in hemd rather than eLtrrender unconditionally.
COBLENTZ, Arc. 24.—The lofty tower of the
Camelite elm•c4, and rubsequently the whole edifiri,
has been entirely destroyed by fire.
fl DEN.—Tree Cvt qne Gazett. of Aug. 26 informs
us thrt en I.mnesty would be proclaim. don the 29J,
ti e bran tertival of the grand duke, for a gtea•
part of the incur; cute not seriously compromised ;
and, further, that from this day no mote summary
executions v:oul I take l lice, as the drum-head courts-
matted would then eutuend their lal.ours. Kinkel, as
wes rumoured, won d be spured.

GALLICIA.-131100r, Auo. 19.—A fire broke cut
on the rich hire, Isytt g the griattst part of the
town iu a.h; F. On the 18 It the fire had lui.t its in-
temity ; 900 17emst s, ineM•libig the handsomest and
lergee't ti re totally nonsnasedi no lives hui keen
:04, but ir.e flatus here nut yet compldely cz•u:
guistad.