The Express.
London, England, 1848-04-03 00:00:00

delay, I shall beat satisfy the wishes put forth in the amidesses
by the formation of the new representative body, the
more so sa the wishes expressed elsewhere will then come
also under consideration. The want of confidence mentioned
in the addrea in some of the members of the ministry, urges
me to declare, that the more determined my resolution, a
the stranger my convictions, of the necessity to surround
myself only with eounallonanswerableto the representation,
and in which it may trust—the more it in necessary for me
to allow the voices of the legitimate organ to decide in the
matter, first, in the united diet, and then afresh in the pro-
posed new representative aosembly. It is sny earnest web
to attain the objects by which only the duration of the great
institutions of a sestinas beguaranteed.—Potadiun. hiarch 28.
Some troops have, by common consent, been
brought back into Berlin to assist the civic guard in
the task of watching, &c.
War between Russia and Prussia seems imminent,
says a letter from Berlin in the Cologne Gazette. The
Ruasiaa ambassador at Berlin, Herr von Meyendorf,
has left that capital with his family and the whole
personnel of the embassy. The 2nd regt. of infantry
has been ordered to the Russian frontier. The re-
mainder of the Poles who gained their freedom at
Berlin by the amnesty, were to leave Berlin on the
29th for Pawn. They were to go armed. Mieros-
lawski has sent to request that all the Polish emigrants
in England and France should return as qu ckly as
possible, in order to assist in the resurrection of
Poland. It is stated that there is every possibility of
a force of 40,000 Poles being brought together in the
grand duchy. In case Sweden seizes the proper
moment and invades Finland, there is no doubt that
Russia can no longer keep back.
The King has issued the following rescript :
1 intend to constitute a separate ministry for trade, com-
merce, aud public works, and, by these presents, charge the
minister of state speedily to lay before me proposals for
effecting the necessary changes in the existing central boards.
—Faitoxiiica WILLIAM.. -Berlin, March 27, 1818.
A meeting of delegates of Pomerania is to take
place at Stettin on the Fith April, and they are to go
from thence to Berlin on the 18th, to make to the pre-
sidents of the citizens the following declaration :
1. That Pomerania does not admit their right to act es
they have none, and will not follow the example of the other
provinces who tolerate a like pretension of the capital.
2. That Pomerania his seen with pain the massacre in the
streets of Berlin of its fellow-citizens who have obeyed the
orders of the King. 3. The deputation demands of the pre-
sidents of the citizens to return to their duty and obedience,
and to co-operate with the Pomeranians in the establishment
of order.
AUSTRIA.—Our latest intelligence from Vienna is
to the 28th of March, and contains the movements et
that and the two preceding days in the capital. An
under-tone of distrust and apprehension appears to
exist. The lectures in the university had not com-
menced; students refused to matriculate until entire
freedom of teaching was assured and some of the
professors changed. Some trifling expressions of
discontent—and apprehensions of more serious de-
monstrations—on the part of the working classes,kept
the citizens in alarm. On the 26th a deputation of
labourers asked to present, in person, a petition to the
Emperor, requesting him to fix the day's wage at a I
florin and the hours of work at 10. Witbd
some difficulty they were persuaded to desist from '1
their intentiou. The municipal guard were on the
alert; the military were at their quarters, but did
not appear : it was, however, quille pour la pew%
Thu news from the non-German provinces of the
empire is cause of anxiety. On the 28th the intel-
ligence of the expulsion of the Austrians from Milan,
if it had reached Vienna, was kept secret. The success
of the insurgent party at Venice, and the proclamation
of a republic, was deui,d. Murmurs began tobe heard
that ti e Hungarians had ulterior views incompatible
with the union of the provinces, and there was much
captious snarling at the nomination of the liberal
Kossuth, as Hungarian minister of finance. The
decree, establishing liberty of the press, had not yet
made its appearance, and was anxiously expected.
All these disturbing causes interfered to paralyse
industry, and bad the most injurious effect on public
credit, in itself sufficiently weak. The course of
exchange was unsteady, with a downward tendency.
Want of money was complained of on all hands.
The citizens murmured that their service in the mu-
nicipal guard interfered with their business. The
court camarilla was busy in these circumstances, but
all influence appears to have departed from it. A
proposal bad been submitted to ministers for strength_
ening the committee of the States General, by sum-
moning additional members of the provincial diets to
join in its deliberations.
The estates of the marcbionate of Moravia
were to meet on the 30th of March. An im-
perial reply was despatched on the 23rd of
March. The use of the Bohemian language in all
administrative offices and courts of law was conceded
to the full extent. An incorporating union of the
provinces of Bohemia and Moravia was refused.
Hopes of an electoral reform were held out. Reform
in the courts of law was promised through the instru-
mentality of the Bohemian I)iet. The abolition of
feudal tribute in kind was promised, on condition of
a moderate compensation to the feudal overlords.
Hopes were held out that elective municipal corpora-
tions would be granted. Liberty of the press, it
was said, had already been conceded. The appoint-
ment of Bohemians alone to government offices in
Bohemia, it was said, would be strictly enforced for
the future. A reduction of the taxes on articles of
consumption was promised. Ministers were said to
be busy devising an organisation for a municipal
guard. Modifications in the system of military con-
scription were promised; and also educational reforms.
Austria has addressed a note to the Germanic Diet
protesting officially against the Prussian proclamation.
BAVARIA.—The preensions of the King of Prus-
sia have excited great indignation at Munich, meet-
ings taking place up to the 29th, the last dates, when
resolutions declaratory of their non-reception by
Bavaria were passed, and deputations to that effect
sent to the King. Addresses from the inhabitants of
Munich to those of Berlin and Vienna have been pub-

lished.
The committee on the address of the Chamber of
I>eputies has submitted its work to the chamber. The
project of address is long, and we extract the salient
points. After the usual loyal preliminaries, the ad-
dress goes on as follows :
The sublime wards, " I am proud to be a constitutional
king," show the Bavarians that their prince knows the only
situation which can be assigned to thrones by the gravity of

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poses to make, the address goes on to say :
With whatever joy we may have received the announce-
ment of a reform in the proceedings in law, we would see a
gap in the future legislation on this question, which must
necessarily rest on the principle of publicity and orality, on
' judge the application of punishment guaranteeing the tier-
eel liberty of citizens, and granting them the rightto meet
and address petitions. The armament of the people has a
doubleobject. It will ensure the internal order of the
con , thus armed, will take an imposing atti•
hid the y of the foreigner, and will be strong enough
to n people of Sleawig and Holstein, or
the noble meats of German honour on the borders of the
Rhine fistula, from falling before the arms of any
external power. Germany will defend the smallest parcel of
its territory. Let Germany then unite in raising the German
standard, and in protecting, energetically the industry and
commerce of the Confederation, in order that they may not
be obliged to yield to the supremacy of fureign nations. We
respectfully beg of your Majesty to allow the two chambers
the initiative in proposing projects of law, particularly on
the subjects of the reform of the legislation on taxation, and
for fixing shorter financial periods which will give a greater
security to the treasury, and by necessitating a mere fre-
quent assembling of the diet, will entertain and reanimate in
the people the national sentiments. We fix the attention of
your Majesty to the defective state of the education of the
people, and on the necessity of liberty of teaching, which,
by bring granted, will tend to preserve from all subversive
tendencies.
HAMBURO.—Latest dates are to the 28th. The
Sleswig-Holstein States are convoked for the 3rd
of April. The troops of the King of Prussia will not
pass by Hamburg. Schleidan, deputy of Slesvrig-
Holatem, has a promise of 6,000 men from Hanover.
A general committee has been formed at Hamburg,
ways the Gazette de Colagne, to aid the people of
Sleswig-Holstein against Denmark.
SAXONY.—Minister of State von Pfordten has be-
come Minister of Public Worship, says a letter from
I Dresden of March 26. M. Oberlander has been
named to the ministry thus vacated.
HESSE-DARMSTADT.—At a meeting of the
Chamber of Hesse®-Darmstadt, on the 27th March, the
minister said :
The government has just reason to fear that the peace et
Europe will be cFsturbed. It is indifferent whether a go-
vernment shall directly declare war or allow armaments to
be made on its territory to disturb the peace of other coun-
tries. According to the communication I have made to the
chamber such a state of things exists between Germany and
France. The speech of M. Ld..ru Rollin, the most Witten.
tial of the French government, is in all the journals. tinder
these circumstances, the duty of government is to warn the
ionthe danger, and to take the necessary sammeres of
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