The Express.
London, England, 1851-08-16 00:00:00

GERMANY.

BERLIN, Aco. 1 .
The three duchies, Anhalt Dessau, Gotha, and
Bernberg, have, the National Zeituny announces, sent in
a formal declaration to the Diet that they wish not only to
bring their separate constitutions into harmony with that of
the Diet, hut that they desire is to have one constitution com-
mon to all the three states, that is, of course, the grand
dukes of these duchies have come to this resolution. And
as it is not improbable that other applications of a similar
kind may be made to Frankfort, it will be well just to refer
to the power which belongs to the Diet on this ques-
tion. By the sixty-first article of the Vienna con-
cluding. act, the Diet is not authorised to in-
terfere in the internal affairs of any state, or in any con-
tentions between the prince and the people, except in the
cases designated in the 28th and 26th articles of the same
suit, viz., rebellion against authority and encouragement of
revolutionary movements and open revolt. By a resolution
of the Diet, however, of the 28th June, 1832, the interven-
tion of the confederate authority was permitted whenever
the chamber of any state should refuse to grant taxes ne-
cessary to carry on the government, or should directly or
indirectly act so as to incur the interference on the part of
the Diet authorised by the 25th and 26th articles
of the concluding act of the Vienna treaty. Fur-
ther, in the second commission of the Dresden
conferences, it was proposed that the diet should be made
competent to interfere with all constitutions, especially those
which arose from the revolution of 1848, that were in con-
tradiction with the Bond. In the sitting of the diet on the
29th of last month, the two great powers, and several of
the middle states, proposed that even these powers should
be enlarged, but this proposition met with resistance from
several of the small states. Actually the diet possesses no
other legal authority to interfere in the affairs of other
states than that given by the articles above specified of the
concluding act of the mina treaty. It seems likely how-
ever, that its powers in this respect will be enlarged, as
proposed by the Dresden conferences ; that is if the other
small states should not imitate the example set them by
Anhault, Dessau, Gotha, &c.
The King returned to Berlin this evening. Ile will
shortly leave again to visit Ischl and on a Hohenzollern tour.

FRANKFORT•ON-THE-MAINE, Auo. 13.
The question respecting the publication of the pro-
ceedings of the Diet of the Confederation, was settled in
one of the last sittings, in a manner worthy of the character
and antecedents of that august body. It has resolved to
acknowledge the correctness of the principle involved in
the proposal, which your readers will remember was made
at the instance of the Austrian government as a kind of sop
to public opinion ; but the Diet has so cunningly contrived
the method of applying the principle,that it loses alias value.
The resolutions of the Diet arc to be published, it is true,
but only three months after they have be.; I determined
on. The minutes or protocols of the usual sittings
aro to be withheld, as usual, front all but the
members, while the minutes of the confidential, and there-
fore the most important, sittings ore to be guarded with
greater seeresy than ever. The thing is a farce, which
could only he played by German diplomatists on the boards
of the federal theatre. In recommending this compromise,
the committee to whom the question was referred have
evinced a perfect knowledge of the nature of the federal
inslitutions, for, were the proceedings of its legislative au-
thorities to obtain regular publicity, the confederation would
expire ere a year could pass.

THE OVERLAND MAIL.

INDIA AND CHINA.

We have received the following further telegraphic
despatches from Marseilles and Trieste :

MARSEILLES, Amo. 15, 1 A.M.
The India Mail has arrived with intelligence from
Calcutta to July 3; Bombay, June 7 (the mail which
was detained) and July 3; and China, June 23.
Exchange at Calcutta, 2s. I d. to 2s. 14d. At
Bombay money is more abundant; exchange, from
la. 111 d. to Is. 11,id.

" ALEXANDRIA, Aro. 7.

"The London mails of the 7th June reached
Bombay on the 2nd July, in twenty-four days nine-
teen hours from Southampton, the quickest passage
on record.

" Lord and Lady Dalhousie and the commands
in-chief are at Simlah.

" Three vessels had been wrecked, viz., the Parsee
Merchant, off Madras ; the Belgian vessel Philomtlne,
in the llooghly ; and the Cheban, off Batavia. The
English vessel, Sons of Commerce, had been wrecked
near Aden, and a portion of her crew murdered by
the natives.

" It was rumoured that four English officers had
been murdered in Cashmere. The cause is said to
have been killing a cow, and insulting some native
women.

"A lasear has been convicted for wilfully setting
Ike to the Ariel in May last, on her way to China.
" Heavy rains had fallen at Bombay.
" A heavy decline in cotton.
" The steam-sloop lteynard is reported lost, so is
the ship Larpent, from Liverpool.

~ lIONG-KONG, JVNE 23.

" Business dull."

THUNDERSTORM AT CHELMSFORD.— A violent
storm of thunder and lightning, with a heavy shower of
rain, skirted this town on Wednesday evening. The only
intances, however, that we have heard of in which its
effects were personally felt are the following ..—Mrs. Drake,
a fruiterer, residing at Springfield, was knocked down by
the lightning and seriously injured. At the King's Head
public-house, Great Beddow, about nine o'clock, a flash,
which was immediately succeeded by an awful clap of
thunder, was seen to strike the upper part of the back of
the house. The fluid entered the lodgers' room, and passed
down the side of tho chimney into the tap-room, removing 1
a portion of the brickwork. Two bricklayers, named Clarke
and Taylor, were sitting in the room; the former was
knocked down by the electric matter, and the hat of the
latter was scorched, but neither sustained any materia: injury.
The fluid thence traversed the passage to the front door, at '
which Mr. Patten, the Landlord, was standing, smoking a
clay pipe, and leaning against the door-post. He was
struck upon the right side, and knocked down, remaining,
for some minutes, insensible, and the pipe being shattered
into a thousand fragments. He still feels the effect of the
shock in his right hand. The flash appears then to have
entered the front parlour, whence it passed through the
ceiling into a bed-room, where a gun was standing, the
stock of which it shattered, and perforated the wall in
several places, ultimately escaping through the breast of the
chimney. A second flash, it is supposed, almost simultane-
ously entered the back parlour, wnere it cracked a square of
glass, and, entering the bar, wrested the handle from the
beer engine. It then took the direction of the front door, its
last effects being visible on one of the studs which it shivered
on quitting the building. The storm was very severe in
Duninow and its vicinity, —Chehns ford C'hronick.
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MYSTERIOUS DEATH.—On Thursday last an in-
quest was held Bishopmeignton, Devonshire, on the body
of a young lady, Miss Jane Emily Wyse, who was
found dead in her room at the house of • Mr. and Mrs.
Hele, on her return from any archery meeting, u long
ago as the 14th of May last. On the day after her death
the coroner attended and made inquiries, when Mr. Om,
• surgeon, having stated his opinion to be that the young
lady died in • fit, it was thought unnecessary to hold an
inquest. Since that time suspicions having arisen that the
died from the effects of poison, and her uncle, Major Ellison,
of Boulton-hall, Lincolnshire, having written • letter to Mr.
Hele, declining to receive that gentleman and his lady as
Madan at his house, Mr. Hele, to remove any
thought it desirable that an inquest should be held. The
body was consequently exhumed, and Mr. Herepath, of
Bristol, employed at the investigation before the coroner's
jury. Mr. Herepath gave it as his opinion that the death
of the young lady was occasioned by prussic acid. Witnesses
were examined to show that she had been in the habit of
using essential oil of almonds, and a letter, which was found
Miter desk after he/decease, put in in evidence, in which were
the words, " I have thought it not improbable that I might
die suddenly," and requesting certain trifles to be distributed
to her friends. The jury returned a verdict that she came
to her death by taking essential oil of almeads, but whether
with an intend= of putting an end to her lib or not they
could not say.