The Express.
London, England, 1846-11-16 00:00:00

established, the Pope's visit became an Cpl consmem4-
ration of peace and union among Christian fees."
It is worthy of remark, that since the empeasion of Pius IX.
in June, the number of crimes committed against the person
as well as apinst property in the diatiiet of Rome has dimi-
nished in the most extraordinary ratio—the month of June
offering about 500 cases, July 340, August 230, September
200, and last month's calendar falling to 112 : the old ad-
mirers of the red tape system, coercion, and routine, can
make nothing of it. It seems to them a sort of " witch-
craft ;" ay, such as that by which Othello compassed the
willing affection of Desdemona.

GERMANY.—VIENNA.—Lord Ponsonby, British
Ambassador to the Court of Vienna, was admitted to an
audience of his Majesty on the 4th instant. Archduke
Stephen arrived at Vienna from Ofen on the evening of the
6th, having left his father, the Archduke Palatine, in a
better state of health. The Archduke was to leave Vienna
for Prague in a few days. Owing to the late events in Swit-
zerland the Austrian government has ordered the infantry
regiment Ilesse-Homberg of Linz. and the Cheraux-ligers,
Prince Lichtenstein, of Webs, to advance toward' the Swiss
frontier. A regiment is also to advance from Bohemia.
The nuptials of the Duke of Bordeaux with Princess Theresa
of Modena is to take place on the 7th inst., by procuration,
at Modena, and on the 16th at Frohsdorf.
BERLIN, Nov. 9.--It is now certain that in the
new penal code for the eastern provinces of Prussia which is
to be presented to the states next session, corporal punish-
ment is entirely abolished. It was owing to the fact that
corporal punishment was maintained in the project of the
new code last session, that it was then ejected.
A letter from Leipsic states: "Messrs. Scherzer
of Vienna, known as great exporttra of Austrian and Hun-
garian wines, and who have considerable vineyards at
Vonlan, sent some thousand bottles of Voeslauer to the fair
of Leipsic : it is the first Austrian wine which has been
served at Saxon banquets. The wine found a ready sale,
and fresh exportations from Austria are to be made.
FROM THE ELBE, Nov. 6.—A Nuremberg corre-
spondent writes: I can positively affirm that the commercial
treaty tencluded between England and the Zollverein in
1841 will not be renewed, and this service is due to a govern-
ment of Southern Germany which has always shown great
zeal for the interests of the Zollverein. The moment is now
come for forming some definitive arrangement regarding the
differentiaiduties. Two projects have been proposed: one
by M. de Renate, the other by M. d'Arnim. Both tend
to protect the national flag, and to introduce a reciprocal
system. M. de Roenue wishes the differential duties to be
regulated by a law ; M. d'Arnim by treaties. The financi
ii
party, under M. Kuhne, oppose the system of differential
duties, but that party lies fallen since the treaty with Eng-
land is not to be renewed.
GREECE.—A Bavarian Correspondent of the
Cologne Gazette -writes="'lbe French papers have been
writing the most extraordinary nonsense on the Greek suc-
cession. They have lately stated that Prince Luitpold had
refused to change his religion, which was requisite if he de-
sired to succeed his br Aber, and that King Otho (who has
no children) had, therefore, proposed a prince of Oldenburg
for his successor. The greatest or wilful ignorance of Greek
affairs can alone account for such misstatements. The Lou-
don treaty of 1832, betweenthe three protective powers and
the King of Bavaria, as guardian of his son, then a minor,
says nothing of adhesion to the Greek religion as requisite
to ascend the throne, and if Buell had been decreed at a later
period, it would not be valid without the sanction of the
guaranteeing powers. And if it were in the will or the
power of Prince Luitpold to resign his claims for himself and
children to the throne of Greece, according to clauses in the
treaty the throne would fall to his younger brother, Prince
Adalbert, and to his heirs."