The Express.
London, England, 1849-05-07 00:00:00

GERMANY.

AUSTRIA.—The Wiener Zeitung contains the fol-
lowing official announcement on the subject of Russian
intervention :
'I he Hungarian rebellion has in the course of the last
month won such an extension, and shows so decidedly in its
character the union of all the forces of the European revolu-
tionary party, that it is the common interest of all states to
support the imperial government in the struggle against the
dissolution of all social order, which is the object of the in•
eurrection. Urn these weighty grounds has the gostra•
went of his Majesty the Emperor found itself moved Odds
the armed assistance of his Majesty the Emperor of Raab,.
This has been with the noblest readiness assured in the mod
abundant measure. The measures agreed upon on both sides
are in full nouns of execution

The Russian intervention will take place on four
points. One corps will enter Transylvania from the
Bukowina, another from Wallachia, a third through
Gallicia by Lemberg and the Dukla pass, and tee
fourth by Cracow.
FRANKFORT.—From this city our correspondent
writes as follows :
FRANKFORT, KAT 2.
Since the day before yesterday the National As-
sembly has been engaged in a fight forced upon it by
the Prussian government. The Assembly has taken
up the gauntlet which Manteuffel and Brandenburg
threw down to it. It has resolved to protest against
the last measure of the Prussian government—the
dissolution of the second chamber ; it has insisted
upon the immediate commencement of the new elec-
tions; and has enjoined peaceable agitation on all the
leaders of public opinion in Prussia. In thus
openly attacking the Prussian government the
Natiouel Assembly takes the field with its
eyes open : it is fully aware that it here-
by declares war against the Prussian govern.
meat, and is making preparations to meet the
eventual consequences. The National Assembly his
placed itself beyond the reach of actual violence or
edicts recalling its Prussian members, by authorising
the President to summon the parliament to meet at
any place he may deem expedient ; by obliging him
to convoke it at any time on a requisition signed by
100 members; and by declaring it legal to proceed to
business in a house of 150 members (100 was the num-
ber formerly). If an attempt is made to close the
church of St. Paid by force the Assembly will go to
Darmstadt or Stuttgard, and will there find the
people, and even the army, prepared to defend it ;
and even should the Prussian government recall its
lieges, there will always be 150 members found to
constitute a national assembly.
All classes in the south of Germany understand
what is meant by these decided measures. The
j younger members of the population had of late lost
j confidence in the parliament, and were preparing to

set independently of it. Binee the day before yes-
tied iy,they have renamed their alleginne- to it, for the
assolations above 'summated show that the majority
is the National Assembly who were determined not
to advance ow.: quickly than events rendered nears-
ory, wi4, now that the resistance of our princes and
annarillas leaves them no et/native, go through
with their work. The people ask nothing more than
ewe and will be sa'irfled with nothing short of it.
The public spirit ham re-awakened with an energy it
has never before displays& The most moderate men
have beer me the most determined in their hostility to
Use artisans which reveals itself in all the memorise
the more powerful governments of Germany. Repub-
lican opin:ons have been macre advanced within the
Lot fortnight than they could have been
.by prop"-
gundism in year', or possibly in centuries. The
simultaneous dissolution of the chambers at Berlin,
Hanover, and Dresden, proves clearly that there is a
preconcerted schema—that the realisation of the unity
and lihorty of Germany is rimmed by " a coospiracy
of the kings of Germany." 'Them words are in the
mouth of every man you meet. Many have long en-
tertained this opinion, but the last few days have
opened the eyes o! all who have no interest in keep-
them shut.
Wortembarg, agitation, within the limits of the
Jaw, has overcome the resistance at the king. who has
surrendered without giving battle ; and tor this rea-
son the pemle have been moderate, and cry " God
save the King!" It is to be feired that legal and
pacific agitation will not produce the same resulta in
ether parts of Germany. Blood has already been
shed at Berlin ; they. have been fighting there again,
and the probability is that in the long run the pen
will have the upper band. The legal and lre
agitation, consomme, d with the sanction of e parlia-
ment, will ran through the whole of Germany, and
el the Prussian dominions in particular. It may be
passible to resist it by artillery in Berlin, Bres-
lin, and some other great cities; but it will
be impossible to meet it in every town and
village, and ere long Berlin will be almost isolated in
Prussia. Ido not believe that the government will
long be able to maintain this position ; but the more
obstinate ther efforts to =attain it, the lees will
they be able to encode it without leaving behind
them the last remains of moral authority, perhaps of
material power. The .Mier acts with goodwill
against mere &urgers, bat he will act reluctantly
when he sees the whole people arrayed against him,
rich and poor, great and little, men and women. The
King of Pius's' has staked everything upon the
hazard, and he will lose the game.
The peaceable and legal agitation has began ha
Rhenish Prima*. The town council of Cologne here
Invited all the music pal corporations of the Rhine
province to meet on the B'h of May, to deliberate as
what measures ought to be adopted, and to send •
deputation to Berlin to 'slight= their most religious
sovereign.. This example is sare to be followed is the
ether provinces. In Bavaria—especially in Rhasish
Bavaria—the affair annum, a more threstimiow ao.
peat : thee the people are beginning their rele;able
@illation by providing thees with arms.
The most carious part °Mee' proceedings is that the
rialisttr ies, both in sad outer the parliamest, are
pepersuaded that all this will tend to realise their dar-
ling sebum of making an Empnor Frederick William
I. It will be a rare eight to see an emperor ht
handcuffed to Frankfort to undergo a
No : the King of Prussia has lost the imperial crown,
and certainly will not regain it by the blood that has
Sowed, and has still to flow, to overcome his resistance
to the establishment of the liberty and unity of
(Jemmy. I know many imperialists of yew
terday who are republicans to-day, and who
were imperialists merely, because they thought that a
stage must be pawed through to reach a mum
distant terminus. Thole who imagine that the Kimg
of Prussia will come out emperor from the battle in
which he is about to be beaten and baffled, either are
very blind, or have a very strong faith. fhe gate sof
Berlin are shut against the pacific agitation, for there
Wrangel's sword bears sway ; but that sword once
broken, the gates of the palace will be open to those
who last year halted at the foot of the throne, but
will met halt them this time unless some god works a
miracle.

BRUNSWlClL—lmroarster Pamela:owe OF
run CHAMBER or Dartrrne.—On the 2nd inst.
the Brunswick Chamber, after reoeiviog from the
special committee on German affairs an able report
(in which it was asserted that the conduct of the
Prussian, Hanoverian, and Saxon governments would,
in all probability, lead to serious coot, ets), passed a
resolution to the effect that ministers should notify
to the central executive in Frankfort that all the
armed force of the duchy is at its disposal for the
maintaining and carrying out of the German imperial
constitution—leaving it to the above executive to de-
termine the way inwhich that force may be employed.
One of the members observed that when there was an
appearance of popular anarchy last year, the govern-
ment distributed weapons for its suppression. He de-
nanded,now theta sWI moreterrible kind ofanarohy was
instated is high quarters, that the same precautionary
measure should be taken. Another member stated that
the King of Prussia had urged all the German govern-
ments to put down agitation, and had offered for that
purpose the assistance of his troops, and at the same
time held out the prospect of Rand= aid. " Those
governments," observed the honourable member, "that
attack the National Assembly and the conatittvion
are in the position of external enemies of Germany,
and such foes mast be strenuously resisted. In the
evening sitting of the chamber on the 2nl, ministers
announced that, as smatter of course, all the resources
of the duchy were at the disposal of the central execu-
tive ; that they considered a genteel arming of the in-
habitants of the duchy necessary ; and that a
diatribe. ion of arms should take place. The chamber
meber
expressed its satisfaction at the statements of the ca-
binet, and adjourned.
B AVARIA.—REPOBLICAN INSURRECTION.—Saas
thousands of ultra-democrats, the majority of whom
are armed, are at present in a state of open isannee-
tion in the palatinate. They have declared the go-
vernment guilty of high treason, appointed a one-
mittse of safety (composed of five members, all repub-
licans), and issued a proclamation to the army, calling
upon it to aid the canes of the people, and not that of
" treacherous prime.'