The Express.
London, England, 1848-11-14 00:00:00

ITALY.

By a privies letter from Turin of the Bth we learn
that the vote of confidence in the Sardinian ministry
was carried by a majority in the chamber; but our
correspondent does not state the relative amounts of
the votes or the number of the majority.

GERMANY.
AFFAIRS AT BERLIN AND VIENNA.
PRUSSIA.—The following is • more detailed
account than we gave yesterday, of the proceedings
at Berlin, which come down to the night of the
10th instant. The King has fouud a minister
in his natural brother, Count Brandenburg, to pro-
voke the National Assembly, declare its con-
duct and its sittings illegal, and in consequence dis-
solve it. This act was effected by the march
of an overwhelming force, under General Wrangel,
who occupied every point of the city. No resistance
was met with, and to the great disappointment of the
reactionists, no opportunities were offered for triumph,
or for the spilling of blood. The burgher, or citizen
guard, though ordered, refused to have any hand in
these proceedings. It was the act of the military
alone, and the order of the court, which have undone,
1 and without immediate resistance, the achievement of

the revolution.
It remains to be seen whether the court and mili-
tary leaders will attempt to establish their dictator-
ship, or whether the King, in suppressing the turbu-
lence of the lower orders, is still resolved to conciliate
the middle classes, and carry out, not his old ideas of
" intelligent despotism," but the promise of a genuine
representative government and system. So far gene-
rally. It was to be expected that the proclamation,
transferring the Assembly to Brandenburg, would
meet with decided opposition. On the morning of
the 9th, when the Assembly met, the ministers with
Count Brandenburg at their head came in, and as the
latter gentleman was about to address the Assembly,
the president interrupted him, saying that he
I had no right to speak without the permission of the
house. Upon this Count Brandenburg banded to the
president the proclamation above mentioned, which
was read amongst violent uproar and cries of "Never,
never—We protest, we will not consent—We will
perish sooner—lt is unconstitutional." Count Bran-
denburg answered these protests by saying that they
were of no avail, and then quitted the Assembly. So
soon as the tumult had somewhat subsided, the Pres -

dent (Unruh) rote, and declared that he was not
justified in proroguing the chamber without having
first consulted the house, and he therefore put the
question of whether the house would or would not
consent to the prorogation. Upon this at least two-
thirds of the house rose in favour of rejection, but
some members, not being satisfied, demanded the
nominal ballot. The following three resolutions were
then 'passed almost unanimously :
I.That the Assembly will continue its sittings at Berlin.
2. That the Assembly cannot be prorogued, removed, or
dissolved by thc King; sod 3. That the Assembly holds
those officers who had advised the King to issue this message
to be unfit to administer the government, and guilty of a
violation*of their duties towards the King, the people, end the
Assembly.
The National Assembly Ulm declared itself per-
minent, and a committee of ten was appointed to
remain in permanent sitting.
During the 10th the Chamber maintained the same
attitude. The government now announced its intention
to employ force to expel the members. Count Branden-
burg transmitted a formal protest to the president, de-
claring the measures of the Assembly illegal, and the
burgher guard was called on by the police to dissolve
the Assembly, but it refused. In consequence of this
refusal, • military force was applied for, and on
the afternoon of the 10th, 15,000 regular
troops entered the city. General Wrangel entered
the square, called the Genedarmen Plate, at three
o'clock, with his staff, and sent an aide-de-camp to
inform the precident that be had orders to close the
doors of the Bing academy (where the Assembly
meets). After some delay, an answer was returned
to Wrangel that the Assembly would only yield to
force. Wrangel replied that he would blockade the
building for a week, if necessary. The greater num-
ber of deputies then left the Assembly, after drawing
up • protest and a proclamation to the nation. The
Chamber has not, however, been prorogued, but was
only adjourned till next day, when they intended to
meet at some public piece, there to continue their
deliberations. Whether they will be permitted to do
so still remains to be seen.

The troops bivouacked on the night of the 10th in
the streets and squares of Berlin, and General
Wrangel himself took up his quarters in the palace.
The railway stations were guarded and every precau-
tion taken against outbreak. Up to the latest mo-
ment Berlin was tranquil; not the slightest symptom
of disorder was perceptible.
AUSTRIA.—Our letters from Vienna of the Bth
inst. have reached us, together with others of older
date, kept back by military obstruction. We publish
accounts of the late insurrection and resistance, by
eye-witnesses. They give a fearful account of the
ravages and brutalities of the soldiery, especially
the Croats, who indulged in general pillage, and
slew numbers of women and children that opposed
them or were in their way. Windischgrats is busy
ransackins the city for victims, and sending them to
be shot, d they are at all known as connected with
the insurrection. He is making a general press of
the working class to fill the ranks of the army ; and
as he hopes to employ the army next time against
Sclavonian malcontents, he will thus afford the Vien-
nese the indulgence of revenge. For students there
is no mercy. And as these are not Viennese, but the
sons of the better families of all the towns of the Ger-
man provinces, each of these families gives a victim
to Windischgritz : and it may be supposed what
loyalty to the Emperor is created by such massacres.
Blum, Frtibel, and Or:tater of the German parlia-
ment, have been taken prisoners and brought to
Schtinbrunn.
The Wiener Zeaung of the 8 h, contains the reply
of the Emperor to the loyal address of a depu-
tation of the Tyrol Diet, in which the Emperor
makes the reiterated assurance that all the pri-
vileges guarantmd by him shall be faithfully adhered
to. It likewise contains a proclamation of the com-
munal council of K'aitenturt to the inhabitants of
Carinthia, exhorting them to steady prseverance in
the maintenance of peace a the only guarantee
Ise the securi•y of their liberties, the preservation of
their commerce, and the safety of their country.
The communal council of Vienna has issued a
proclamation to the effect—that during the pre-
sent distress into which the inhabitants of
the city have been plunged, it is the earnest
desire of the council to give assistance to poor persons
rite% sexes, by providing them with work, for which
we fan ii to be paid 15 kreutzers per diem, and
every mother of a family the sum of' 15 kreutzers per
diera. Single persons are to receive 10 Lreutzers per