The Express.
London, England, 1848-04-07 00:00:00

Complaints are heard on the Berlin Bourse respecting
the delay in the publication of their accounts by seve-
ral railway companies and other joint-stock concerns-
The Prince of Glucksberg and his brother, both
officers in the Prussian army, have taken service
under the provisional government of Sle-wig-Holstein.
It appears that the Polish committee of Posen
demanded at first the total separation of the grand
duchy from Prussia ; but in consulting with the
Polish committee formed in this capital it was
resolved to modify the demand and to claim only the
reorganisation of the duchy in a Polish point of view.
This modification was brought about by the appre-
hension, that if declared independent of Prussia, the
grand duchy might become an appendage of Russia.
The King of Prussia has, however, made concession
after concession to tke Polish inhabitants of the
duchy, so that, in fact, its present and future
prospects are now all but exclusively placed in
their hands. Several protests against this state of
I things in the duchy have been drawn up by the Ger-
I man portion of the population. The bilesians con-
tinue still in dread of the vast Russian force which
(to quote the expression of a Breslau journal) extends
like a black gigantic serpent along the frontiers. In-
cendiariem appears to be the order both of the day
and night in Upper Silesia. It seems that Russian
troops are also gathering on the frontiers of Gallicis.
" Hannibal ante portal " will probably soon be, if
not the cry, at least the sentiment, both of Austria
and Prussia.
rue working classes of this capital are freely in-
dulging in their newly acquired right to hold public
meetings. They have resolved to assemble for the
future twice ► week (on Sundays and Wednesdays), in
order to discuss questions relating to the interests of
their class. Each trade, moreover, has resolved to ap-
point a committee to make known its respective
wishes to the General Assembly. A popular publica-
tion will also be established. A great meeting of the
working classes, pursuant to the above resolution, was
held yesterday, near the Botanical Garden.
A morning paper states that two regiments left
Spandau yesterday, in order to join the troops des-
tined for the protection of the " German" provinces
of Sleswig and Holstein.
The chief men of the civic guard have resolved not
to allow the military to keep guard at the palace or
at the gates of the city, and that where there is a
mixed guard of citizens and soldiers, the chief com-
mand shall be vested in the former.
According to the timsisehe Xritteng, of this day,
a Russian courier has just brought en important
manifesto of the Emperor Nicholas (dated from St.
Petersburg, March 21;), whereby he declares that he
will remain neutral with respect to the recent events
in Ile: lin. The same journal asserts, on the authority
of information derived "from the moet credible
source," that the Russian army will be increased from
80,000 to 200,000 men. It appears that in Russian
Poland the intelligence of the day circulates from
mouth to mouth, as if printing had not yet been in-
vented. During several days all foreign journals
were seized at the post-office. A few newspipers are
now issued, but in a mutilated form. On the other
hand the people are treated more kindly since the
French and more particularly the Berlin revolution.
Imposing forces have been ordered to Warsaw.
It was reported in filsit on the 27th ult. (says the
Berlinische Zeitung of this day), that Warsaw had
been bombarded by Prince Paskewits from the cita-
del, and was in flames. Such a report (adds the
above journal) is not au incredible one.
The Prussian Minister of Foreign Affairs has in-
formed a deputation from Stettin that the Prussian
cabinet some time ago forwarde•i a note to the
Foreign-office, London, urging the British cabinet to
take measures for the protection of the Baltic trade in
ruse the Sleswig and Holstein question should be
further developed.
The trading and commercial classes of Breslaw
have urged the directors of the bank of that place to
discount bills after goods have been deposited to the
value of two-thirds of the money advanced.
FRANKFORT.—A full report of the sitting of
the preparatory assembly on the 2nd inst. appears in
the journals. The first question proposed was as to
the method of electing the permanent committee of
50. After mach discussion, the assembly adopted a
motion made by M. Blum, to the effect that the
names of the 50 members to compose the committee
be inscribed upon the election bulletins. This motion
was protested against by several members, who wished
a resolution to be passed not on the election itself but
on the mode of election. MM. R,bert Blum, Dr.
Zitz, Dr. Strecker, Dr. Jaccbi, Vogt, De Behr,
Dupre, Itzstein, and the brothers 'Aisles, presented
the following motion :
The assembly should declare that, before the Germanic
Diet can discuss the affair concerning the farmation of a
constituent assembly, it must repudiate the exceptional laws
passed contrary to the federal constitution, and remove from
its body the men who have concurred in their promulgation
and execution.
Dr. Zitz supported this motion in a long speech,
and was followed by M. Bassermann, who said that
its adoption would be a means of obtaining the per-
manence of the assembly, which had been previously
rejected. He therefore moved that the motion should
be thus worded :
This assembly declares that it will demand that the Diet,
in seizing the question concerning the formation of • na-
tional constituent assembly, should disavow any exceptional
resolution of the Diet contrary to the lederal act, and remove
any of its members who may have concurred in passing
them, and putting them into execution.
This motion of Mr. Bassermann (which we gave
yesterday) was voted after a considerable discussion ;
that of -Dr. Zito being rejected by three-fourths of
the assembly. The result having been immediately
made known, the members of the university, with the
exception of the co-signers of the motion (Messrs.
Blum, Jacobi, Vogt, Dupre, d'ltzstein, and the two
Drs. Leisler), left the assembly, and part of the tri-
bunes were evacuated with some noise. On tran-
quillity being restored, Mr. Glaubrech proposed that
one of the first tasks of the permanent committee
should be to organise a national guard all through
Germany, with permission to choose its own chiefs.
This being put in the form of a motion, was
unanimously adopted. The assembly, after voting
the publication of a proclamation for the tran-
quillisation of the public mind, determined that
the electlons of the members of the committee
should take place as follows :—Each member to mark
on the printed list of the members of the preparatory
assembly the names of fifty persons whom bethought
proper to form the committee. Each suffrage, bearing
the signature of the voters, to be laid, on the 3rd, on
the chairman's table.
On the 3rd the assembly again met, and received
from the Diet a resolution, in which it consented to
the abolition of all exceptional laws decreed by it.
Count Colloredo Wallace, president of the Diet, in-
formed Mr. Mittermaier that he was convinced that
those members who had taken part in the formation
of those laws would conform to the wish expressed by
the assembly. The assembly then closed its sittings.
The names of the committee were to be published on
the 3rd.
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