The Express.
London, England, 1849-12-12 00:00:00

GERMANY.

We have received the following letters from our
correspondents at Berlin and Vienna:
BERLIN, DEC 8.
In my letter yesterday I mentioned a report which
is in circulation resoectiog another Au trian note.
This report is now fully confinn.d. In it the Au'.trian
government declares that it entertains tears for
the public peace of Germany, if the Erfurt parlia-
ment should really be assembled, and that it is deter-
mined to interfere to prevent any such disturbance of
the peace. The note, then, is not directed against the
assembly of the Erfurt parliament, but sgaiust its
probable consequences.
lam assured that the Prussian answer is worded
equally energetically ; some% hat to the effect that
Prussia sees in the convocation of the Erfurt par-
liament not merely no source of fresh troubl• s, but, on
the contrary, the best meaLs of pr. serving lastmg
tranquillity in Germany ; it declares the fetus of
Austria.to be perfectly unfounded, but soppasir g even,
what is really improbable, that disturbances should
arise, Prussia has already shown that it pow wee the
power of restoring peace and order, even at a time
when Austria was prevented from rendering it at
assistance.
The difficulties which have hitherto retarded the
institution of the Interim Commission Lave according
to the Constitutinn net been entirely removed, end the
two Prussian commissioners will leave for Frankfort
in the course of the next week.

VIENNA, Dec. 4.
The Cologne Gazette publishes a telegraphic des.
patch from Vienna, dated the 6th, which rays that
the minister of war has sent orders, by electric tele-
graph, to the Alexander regiment of infantry, which
is at present at Thee, sienstadt, in Bohemia, to hold
itself in readiness to march within twenty-four hours
to Saxony.
Tne Pope and Tuscany will join the Zollverein of
Austria, Modena, and Parma.
Dr. Bach remains a member of the cabinet. Ile is
at present suffering from a sore throat.
The King of Prussia's sanction of the ordinance for
convoking the Reichstag at Erfurt has bet n a great
shock to the Vienna cabinet, whose attitude on the
German question was always assumed on the suppo-
sition that Frederick William would at the eleventh
hour find some means of evading the meanu• which
was steadily premed upon him by his ministry and
by the constitutional party. This seemed the more
probable from the decided preference which the King
personally continued to exhibit towards the ultra.,
headed by M. Gerlach, who have always ridi-
culed and scorned, and striven to bring to nought,
the scheme of the Drei-konigs-bund ; and re-
pudiated the Reichstag as the means of denational-
ising Prussia, their real hostiiity to that proposed re-
presentative body being motived by the ascendancy
which the German moderates, arch-enemies of the
Stock-Pretrasen,or Gerlach party, would he sure to ac-
quite in such an assembly. But several circumstances
have esmbined latterly, and not least the immense
sensa'ion produced by Waldeck's trial, to bring the
fanatic party of the liven: kitting into discredit, and
to prove to the King that to coofide the government
of the country to such hands would be too
perilous rt game. After temporising as long
as possible, he has been driven to decide
between a Reichstag ard a Gsrloch ministry, at a
moment when the nation was deeply incensed against
the party of the latter. His decision has probably
saved his throne; but it has deceived those with
whom he was most intimately connected. The extent
to which the King of Prussia has pledged himself to
the Emperor of Austria can only be matter of conjec-
ture; but the breaking of the moot solemn engage-
ment would not have produced mote surprise and
indignalon in the court circles at Vienna. Tele-
graphic orders have been sent to the Bohemian army
to hold itself ready for the occupation of S irony, a
measure which will throw Merritt stilt further back
in Germany, and give her rival a fresh advantaze.
It is more than ever matter of conviction with
the 0 rmsn party here, that the policy of the
Schwarzenberg ministry has given the fieishmg blow
to the di c tying supremacy of Austria in Germany ;
and that henceforth, unless an entirely opposite
system he adopted, that stipremety most pus into
the handset Prussia. This is one of the aldee on
which the ministers are attacked with greatest bitter-
ness and violence; and perhaps it is the side from