The Express.
London, England, 1848-08-24 00:00:00

GERMANY.

FRANKFORT.—The Deutsche Zeitung,undee date
Aug. 20, announces the nomination of the ministers who
are to convey the official intimation that the Vicar of the
Empire has entered upon the discharge of his func-
tions to London, St. Petersburg, and Paris. They
are,—M. Von Andrian, to London (M. Von Andrian
arrived in London from Paris, on Tanday) ; General
Von Auerawald to St. Petersburg; and M. Von Rau-
mer to Paris. The first-named of these envoys is
Vice President of the Parliament, and both the others
are members of that body. The Deutsche Zeitung
thus comments upon the appointment to Paris :
AL Von Hamner has, without doubt, the most difficult
minion ; for it eanoot ne taken for granted that M. Savoys,
the French Minister resident here sends despatches to his
government calculated to awaken a friendlr disposition
towards the central power, insomuch as his personal licisti
lity to it may be inferred from his habits of intimacy with
its meet vehement opponents.
The same journal speaks thus of the impressions
which the members of the parliament present at the
Cologne festival have brought back with them:
The representatives whp have returned from Cologne
bring back very diversified impressions, according as their
hopes were previously more or lees confident. Those who
wero aware how matters stied in Prussia rejoice to bare
found Germanic sentiment more prevalent than they antici-
pated; these who thought that a mandate issued from
Prenkfurt was sufficient to enforce unity see now that the
mil, way is that of mutual ooncession. But all parties agree
that the political tendency of the fe►tival was most im-
portant. The more hessrdous the attempt was in such a
period of excitement to bring together the most prominent
representatives of local pretentious, and the most uncom-
promising advocates of unity, the more salafactory is the
mutual good-will with which they parted. No ona who has
been in Cologne now entertains a doubt that the great work
of uniting Germany into a state confederation will be sitcom

The following remarks, purporting to be a private
communication from Frankfort, appear in the Berlin-
ische Nachrichten of the 20th instant. We are by no
means confident that the article is not of Berlin
manufacture, and intended to subserve the equivocal
policy of a party in Prussia, but we give it valeta
quantum :
Our new oonstitution for the Germanic Confederation
will be at all events an expensive affair. There will fell to
he paid not only the expenses of the representatives
(amounting to 2,400 dollars per diem), but the
salaries of the ministers, presidents, and their bureaus.
There has been already voted For the president 24,000
florins ; for the vice-president 10,000 ; and for the secre-
taries 6,000 are spoken of. The expenses .of the
bureaux, including the printing of the short-hand reports
are estimated at 80,000 florins. To these must he added the
outlay for attendants, for heating and lighting the church of
St. Paul's, fie. It ham been proposed to allow each minis-
ter 12,000 florins, and the president of the cabinet an addi-
tional 60,000 for exercising hd.pitality and maintaining a
due state. To these must be added the salaries of the under

secretaries and all the clerks in the offices, and the lutnre
ambasaadon, who mutt be fitted out in a way becoming the
diguity of the government. The saving from the suppression
of the old Diet is more apparent than real, for all the states
in the union will have their plenipotentiaries resident at the
seat tlf the central power, and these will receive the sense ea-
bait, as their prerlecesinrs attendant on the Diet. All this
outlay will require additional tries. The central power has
opened acredit account of two millions of florins with Rothe-
&lids to meet current expenses.

AUSTRIA. Dates from Vienna are of the
18th instant. The papers are full of gossip
about the Emperor. The Ip/deur/et verbs ad-
dressed by his Majesty to the president and
deputation of the constituent diet, in Schdnbrunn, are
now published. "Gentlemen," said the emperor,l
" you have deemed it necessary for me to come hewer
I have done my duty and here I am." With these
words he turned his back upon them, and retreated
from the audience chamber to his private apartments.
It is stated that the emperor walks daily without
attendants in the garden at Schonbrann, plainly
dressed, and wearing a black, red, and gold ribbon over
the shoulder and across the breast.
The probability of ministerial changes, alluded to
by our Vienna correspondent in the letter which we
published on Saturday, is now publicly spoken of.
It is said that Wessenberg will retain merely the
presidential office and transfer the portfolio of foreign
affairs to Count Thorn. Hornboetel, minister of
commerce, is expected to resign. Brack, the resident
director of the Austrian Lloyd's in Vienna, is pointed
to as his successor. Schwarzen's remaining in or
abdicating office it is understood will depend upon
the verdict of the jury in the cases of the two
editors Ebersberg and Lobenstein, whom he has
ordered to be prosecuted on account of attacks upon
him in their journals.
Lord Ponsonby arrived at Vienna on the 15th, and
the conferences on Italian affairs were expected to
begin immediately.
In the sitting of the National Assemble, on the 17th,
a qwetion was pot to the Minis'er of War by *mem-
ber, who wished to be informed if the contingent of
troops to be sent to Schleswig Holstein, according to
the demand of the Minister of War at Frankfort, was
ready to march? Count de Latour replied negatively,
stating that the Administrator of the Empire bad
expressed a h. pe that, in consequence of the armistice
which will shortly be concluded, the 8,000 men re-
quired will be no longer wanted.
Another member desired to know the reason why
General Leichtenstein bad entered the duchy of
Modena, and if the ministry intended to rei-state
in the duchy the former sovereign? The minister
replied that the march of the Austrian troops into
Modena was aDm ssary military operation. As to
the return of the duke, the prince was at firs. at the
head-quay ars of the Austrian army, and afterwards
at Mantua, from whence he returned voluntarily to
Modena, on the news that the Austrian troops would
be received with open arms by the inhabitants.
With regard to the war in Italy, the Mini-ter of
War made some statements which are rather im-
portant. He stated that he had received, by a
conrie• , explanations from ;eneral Welden,
which placed the whole affair in a different light.
The general had advanced to Massa, in order to
reach the left bank of the Po; he was obliged to
occupy Sermide with a small detachment, when they
were suddenly fired upon from all the windows, in con-
sequence of which he sent some hundreds of men, but
these were obliged to withdraw, as they were fired
upon from the houses and barricades. Two days after
General Welden felt himself compelled to attack the
place with increased force, as its possession was indis-
pensable to his croesing. the Po. Grenades were used,
and the place was soon in flames. The inhabitants had
all withdrawn; the Austrian troops had the satisfaction
of delivering fi om cestain death twenty-four per-
sons who had been shut up by the insurgents in a
church which had been set fire to. This fact Lad
been grossly misstated. General Welden, with his
small corps of 4,000 men, had crossed the Po, to cover
the movements of Count Leichtenstein in the flank
and rear. They fell in with a body of 14,000 Crociati ;
but the general's small force scattered them like chaff,
and pursued them to Bologna, where he received
orders from Field-Marshal Radetaki not to enter that
city, and to evacuate the legation. He had, however,
already entered into a convention with the city that
he Crociati should not halt in Bologna, in order that,
if needful for the Austrians to pass through, they
might do so without molestation. On the evening of
the 7th, Gen. Welden quitted, after having taken up al
military position, and even erected batteries, in the
event of the city not accepting these moderate de-
mends. On the morning of the Bth, several officers,
in reliance on the concluded convention, repaired to
Bologna. Three of them were assassinated, as were
also several soldiers. Upon this an armed mob rushed
nut of the city and fired upon our vanguard, by
which five were killed and sixty wounded. Perglu
had been left in command by Welden, with
orders to march on the Bth to the Po. Bologna
was bombarded, and Perglas immediately
after commanded his counter-march to the
Po. These were facts, and when soldiers
were assassinated, and when troops were attacked,
they were bound to defend themselves, and to punish