The Express.
London, England, 1849-01-23 00:00:00

GERMANY.

PRUSSIA.—We have received letters and jo.
from Berlin under date Jan. 20.
The &oats Anssiyer of that date publishes two
projects of law relating to the administration of com-
munes, and of provinces and districts. Those bills
(which will be laid before the Chamber shortly after
their otavooation) set forth that all exemptions from
the comma land or house taxes are abolished (ex-
cept in ewe where the state taxes of the above kind
are not required) ; that every Prussian, 24 years of
age, who has been a resident in his commune daring
one year, and who is in full possession of all his civic
rights, le eligible for all the offices in the communes,
and that the qualification for communal electors are
land or house property of the value of from 200 tha-
lers (30L) to 500 *dere, according to the population
of the respective communes ; or clear yearly incomes,
varying also according to population, from 150 thalers
(about 221.) to 200 thakrs. It is proposed to elect
the members of the communal councils for three
and to pay the burgomasters. Some of the eaadiiafrr
in Silesia are holding out to the peasantry the paw
pect of a division of landed property.
General Wrangel has issued • proclamation, threat-
eniag to prohibit all assemblages of the electors hit
which political subjects, not referring to the similar,
are introduced. With such a threat, the liberty of
election is a mere farce, so: far as Berlin is enneersel.
In fact, the government, whilst straining every nerve
to deprive their opponents of all chance of @mem at
the fortheominkelections, are not over choiee in their
mode of promoting their own views. In some parts
of the country it has transpired that the to&
Cary officers have summoned their men, and have
urged them to elect so-called "men of confidence,'
with the commission to choose the electors in the
second degree, those who immediately t led the ems-
didate foe the .scared chamber. By this manceuvre
Ithe government render the mode of election even less
direct than it is now, and raise up a body of men as
primary electors, over whom the officers (who, as a
body, are reactionary) may exercise immediate and
overpowering influence. The Roman catholic bishops
hi Prussia have given great offence and no slight
sammial (even to their own flocks) by their direct in-
tedlisesco with the liberty of election —their pastorals
(without one exception) insidiously conveying. the
idea that the opponents of the government are irre-
ligious and godless, and promoters of anarchy.
AUSTRIA.—We have intelligencefiom Vienna up
to the evening of the 10th. Ihe goverr or (Baron
Welden)had published another army bulletin(thelsth)
from Prince Windischgrits, stating that a column
of the rebels" alder General Bem, after having
failed in their attempt to enter Gallia', ad
Kaschau, proceeded towards Klausenburg, with
the view of penetrating into the Bukowina. The
insurgents (it is added) devastated the entire neigh-
bourhood, and drove back to Kinpolung the few
troops under Colonel Urban. The latter retreated
further into the Bukowina. where he was reinforced
by the troops of Lieut. Field-Marshal fdalkovrsky,
who were assembled around Cxarnowitz. He again
acted on the offensive, and drove the insurgents as far
as Watra-Dorna. Meantime Baron Hammerstein
had amembled a great number of troops and stationed
them near Stry. It is stated in the army bulletin
that the " brave peasants" supported the military
placed along the Gallioian frontiers, and vowed death
to all insurgent@ who should attempt to padres.
All the passes leading to Hungary are striedy
guarded by the imperialists. On the 13th In-
stant, Count Althann's troops entered Paps, she
"clearing" the Oldenburg and Bisenburg consitats.
It was his (Althanu's) intention to push on in the
direction of Wessprim and the Bakonyian forest, in
which some of the dispersed troops of Percerl had
assembled. On the 13th, the brigade of Baron
Nenstadt had an engagement near Assod with a por-
tion of thiem, during which the impirialists lost
e d' Lient-Colonel Baron Geramb. It
is ease in the proclamation that the imperialists
successfully returned the fire of the enemy. A brigade
of General Simonich's had marched Irma Meant
towards Verebelly.
The Journal of Austrian Lloyd's announces the
arrival at Trieste of the Turkish ambassador at the

court of Athens (Museums Effendi). He was re-
ceived with the usual honours, and was to proceed to
Olmutz, in order to congratulate, in the name of the
Sultan of Turkey, the Emperor Francis Joseph on his
accession to the throne. _ _

It was asserted in Vienna, on the authority of letters
from Stalin, that several thousands of Berman troops
had crossed the Danube, with 30 pieces of artillery,
in order to join the imperialists.
Moonlit g to accounts from I emberg, the imperial-
ists, under Lieut.-Col. Springesfelt, had attacked the
insurgents near the frontiers, and driven them back
into Hungary Proper. Cossacks were stationed all
along the Moldavian frontiers, in order to repel Gen.
Bern if he should approach them. According to other
lintelligence, however, it would appear that Bern had
ismeeded in reaching and taking posemion of Czer-
novits, an important town (in the Bukowina), situated
on the Pruth, near the "frontieri of Gallicia.
BAXONY.—The Saxon Chambers were opened on
the 17th inst. by the King in person, who, in the
course of the speech from the throne, expressed the
hope that the now all but completed work of the
German constitution would prove advantageous for the
rational freedom, unity,and stren#th of Germany. His
government would contribute all in their power to the
attaining dm& ends. It was cielsially stated by one