The Express.
London, England, 1849-05-18 00:00:00

(DRESS OF THE IMO OF PRUSSIA TO
HIS PEOPLE.

BERLIN, blot 16.
The king ham determined at last to speak to the
Prussia& people and to the world, not indirectly and
in tones mated up, in the diplomatic phrases of the
Brandenburg- Manteuifel set, bat face to face, in an
aadible kingly style.
The Skies Asuairr of this minim cattails the
Mowing royal address
To my People.—Under the pretext of the G. MIDI,
the enemies of the fatherland, first in mighbouriag Saxony,
then Is aim& regions of South Germany, have planted the
banner of itemees&a. To say deep sorrow, in some parte
of oar esemey, blinded persons have snowed theasedme to
be harried elms to follow this banner, sad ander it skis open
reballemret the legal authority, to subvert divas and
lumen erg.
la se aveleie sal dangerous • time pay feelings urge ate to
'dome a pulpits word to may people.
Imola sot mesa the ear et • mown from the German
If edema Assembly, beams the Assembly had not the right
ie give away the own whisk le staid to me • Ithaca the
huheed tot the Ohs= gieseameets; because it was offered
to me under eseilhiss of the assepasme a a meditation
Isiah we net eimpetibie with the sights and security of
the Oevana MMus
I be Itehasaly aught sad exhausted all mesas to arrive
oil en imadessinaillisg with the National Aessably. I lime
OMNI= horde to lead them best to the grand at
Ihdr sad atm law, whisk esesistad ant in the ir-
saleable saahlishaeat nima ask own indepeadost
=but la the Joist leespelidlle (efireeitherleett) a
'sad eivereame besseemise of mat
Ileilletheterritir la the hope er • peanut hems, nos
Alarm with the Assembly.
Bat Om the Amembly decrees, against which
eaulleite menoutogglad upon their side totally
abeedimed the gaud ef right. of the law, and of duty ;
eMs ibey essansim ell Wilting the pesos because we &t-
-imid viscorieuey stmemeare that were solicited by oar di-
lemma neighbour, after they excited to open re.
ashieseedem m the governments who wi h me seemed
awl mamba the pernicious resolatimm
the ably, it broke off all relations with Praia.
The Amicably is, is its majority, se Wager that union el
we MKS whom Germany looked with pride mid confidence.
A great number, when it entered upon the path of ruin,
voluntarily seceded ; sad, through my tediums of yesterday,
I recalled all Pramaian deputise who still belonged to the
Assembly. The like will be dens by other German govern
mutts. A party now rules is the Assembly which is leagued
with the menet termites, whom sake the salty of Germany
a pretence inc kindling a war of godlessness, admits, and
pleader against the throne, in order to subvert with
them the protection of right, freedom, and of property.
The bonen which have been, seder the hypocritical my
of Cite= unity, perpetrated in Dresden, Bres-
lan, and Elterield, afford raournful proofs of this.
New horrors have taken place, and are being prepared.
While trough such crimes the hope wee destroyed to see
the unity of Germany attained through the National As-
sembly, with kingly loyalty and perseverance I have not
deepened thereof. The government has, with the plenipo.
Untied's of the greater Gamma states, which united with
me, again taken up the work of the constitution begun in
Frankfort.

Th!s constitution ought and will grant to the satin',
within the sitortestterm, what it jutly degree and expects—
the nation's unity, tad by • united central execu •
hoe power, which L foreign relations will represent
the name and interests of Germany worthily and
with strength, and is beedoot strewed by • popes.
let regementsglon with legislative faculty. The pro-
ject ed lice einethation premed by the National As-
' twenhly is mummi as the base of this new conattallon, and
INV OM OMB bone been altered which, produced by the
etheggles and andendons of parties, are deck dly detrimen-
tal to the weal alike fatherland. This constitution will be
lafd before a dist (reichstrig) of all the stem which minor
pude themselves in the nundutaat for examination and
eggiermal. Let Germany trust herein the pauidirot and
sews el Julia of the Prussian govorament ; its confidence
will not be deceived.
That fa my way. Only teensy or mendacity an, in the
face of such tame, humid the aversion that 1 have give it up
the muse of German unity, that I am untrue to my earlier
eenviction and my promisee.
!nada is called to the mission in so difficult a time to
poem Germany minket the inner and outer foe, and she
mut and will tidal this duty. On this account I call my
now to arms. Oar object is to re-establish order and
our own country sad in the other Gamin slates
where oar help is solicited. Oar object is to found the unity
of Germany, te protect its freedom from the domination by
terror of • party which will acrid), morality, hawse, mad
pod faith to their putioris,—of • petty which hie nansemied
throwing a net of infatuation and delusion over a pert of
the ale.
The danger is great, but before the gonad sense of my
people the work of lies will not stand ; to the call of the king
the old Prussian loyalty, the old glory of Prussian arms wed
respond. If my people stand true to me, as Ito teem, united
in loyalty and confidence, God's blessing and therewithal
glorious victory will not fail
FRZDIRICII. WILLIAM.
Narlottenbair, May 15, 1849. B&LMDJUIZURO.

The following proclamation was issued on the 15th
by the committee of estety in Mberfeld :
TO TUB OBAYLN PROPLI.

Brothen,—Blic;r4Tdhis alien iiilierdostitation of the
empire. It has sot allowed its ens to fight against their
own freedom and their owe brothers by aiding the anti-
Germ= attempts of the government. The Orman
flag, the black, red, and yellow one, floats over
the Town-hail of Elherfeld. The armed inhabitants
have this day sworn fidelity to the arnatits'im of the empire,
and have placed themselves at the disposal of the National
Amiably in Frankfort. Is order to tear down again this
German flair, Pennies soldiers are now marching against
alserfeld. But that town will &had itself and the German
dose to the utmost of its power. Germans, we beg of you
metro howled brothers in the larch (im Stiche sw (assert);
SIM amliamMudligasee still nemeady. Secd us them ,as well
es messy end parnhisas ; aay, better still, come yeoman.%
nod kin with you odd sad sessaunitiem. Join the centre
dtr dovestest wide bee bees originated here. who
• ell MOO/ let him one quickly. Time presses, and
Ns MO* OM as eft Is very shortly commenced. German
monad and will sot look on quietly. Help !
rea:Ma unity and freedom of our fatherland are now in
emetisa. (Signed) The Ctoenaltwe of Safety.
Up to the 16th inst. the greatest order prevailed
fa Elberfeld ; that is to say, no enemies had been
eammitted by the insurgents. Several known
serialists and communists have lately been ordered to
Celt the town.
BADEN.—The defection of the Baden troops
la Cathedra has decided the contest in favoir
of the partizans of the republic, which has been
Am* proclaimed in that city, as well as in
awes other places of the grand duchy, or rather
or;-grand duchy. A provisional government has bran
framed in the fortress of %Bradt, the works in which
still matinee, under the direction of an artillery
officer, who is compelled to give his services.
In Maanheim a committee of safety was formes
on the 4th instant. It is composed of military
era and eivilians. In this important town aim
the soldiers have sworn to the constitution. The three
state prisoners, Struve, Bornstedt, and Bland, have
been set free by the insurgents in Benched.
Previously to the success of the insurgents, the
members of the rand ducal government had refused
to resign except in a constitutional way, that is to way,
through a heetile vote ors the part of the next diet.
At a great meeting of depatiee to an aesembly in
Offeabarg, a declaration was drawn up to the east
that the treachery of several German princes, and
this coaspirasy to destroy the freedom of the people,
remained no longer matters of doubt; that they. have
evoked the assistance of Russia for the suppression of
liberty; that the people must oppose the "princely
rebels," and that the Baden nation will support the
insurgents in the Bavarian palatinate.
According to the latest accounts from Baden, a re-
volutionary ministry has been formed at Carlsrahe,
'with Brentano for president.
SAXONY.—It has gone the round of the papers
that, among other barbarities exercised by the soldiers
in the Dresden insurrection, one party of presence
were flung over the Elbe bridge- and then shot as
they were struggling in the water. The truth of
this fact admits of not the least doubt, as it is attested
by a crowd of eye-witnessee, who could survey the
scene distinctly from the windows over the river is
the Neastadt—only there is a alight discrepancy as to
the details. The Nene Preussuche Zeitung sweets
that the victims were not common prisoners, but
deserters. The MOO paper pretends that among the
papers of Bekunin has been discovered a letter of
Weldecles to Todt, compromising Temme and
Kirchinan.
AUSTRIA.—Dates from Vienna are to May 12.

The news from Hungary affords further confirma-
tion and a few fresh details crowning the bombard-
ment of Path from Ofen, and of Ofen from the hills,
by Otirgey. Hentzi, a Crest, is the commandant of
the fortress. It is armed with 120 mortars, which
throw shells of the largest sire and mod destructive
kind into the sister city, on the opposite bank, which
Hee completely exposed.
,„,The Wiener Z.i4us contains a lcogomety, and

'confused account of the recent engagement with the
HFrribblir between Kowa: and Zinkendorf, in
which the Austrians sustained a decided defeat, so
cohered, however, in this official report as to appear
a brilliant operation, crowned with complete swum
The notorious defeat of Gen. Berko, in North Run-
=ft mentioned by Lloyd in these words : "Major-
&rho, who it'tempted to penetrate into the
Unghvar county by Wtretzke, and, in consequence
of the obstacles which be there found, was obliged to
turn back, has htppily effected the junction of his
brigade with those of Generals Vozel and Benedek."
A striking instance of the fearful and unexampled
smothering of all publicity in Russian-Poland is given
by the feet that as yet not one Polish paper, not even
the official Charier of Warsaw, hes announce 1, or
even alluded to, the march of the Russian arry into
Austria. Samples of the incredibleignoraue of the
odium as well as men are given in intelligent corres-
pondence from Craoow. At Wanowice they asked
after the rebel Beer ea if the conqueror of Transylva-
nia were some Jack Cade in the neighbourhood. at
the head of two or Grim hundred riotous ragamuffins,
and said they would soon catch him, and hang him
with all his rabble rout of followers.

A letter inserted in the Wieser Zeierssgg from Lem-
berg, of the 7th instant, stat-s that theAtussian army
ciZwhich will move on Hungary through that
tal consists of S divisions of engineers, 26,000
try, and 7,300 cavalry. 7,000 infantry and 1,700
cavalry are to follow; then 9,000 infantry and 900
6211. thmegh Rumple, 15,000 infantry and 2,500
ry ; throag'h Pilaw, 22,000 infantry and 6,850
cavalry ; through Jordanow, from Cracow, 17,000 in-
fantry and 1,600 cavalry; total, 96,003 infantry and
20,850 cavalry ; artillery and engineers, 2,000; con-
sequently the whole army-corps advaccing through
Gallica& wll amount to 120,000 men. That through
Moravia will form some 25,000 more; and 30,000
will be dire ted against Transylvania.
From D.kla this correspondent was informed on
the 26th ult. that Benedek had effected a junction
with Vogel at Leitschan, and both expected Berko,
who would bring them some two or three thousand
man. All three united might muster 10,000. Dem-
binski was in Epiree, with 5,000 Pole,.
The Wiener Zeitung mays that yesterday (11th), at
four in the morning, two great trains of 100 maggots,
laden with Russian troops, arrived frcm Oderbarg at
Prerau ; they were immi diately f,rwardsd towards
Vienna, and at noon would reach Godiog, frcm which
place they would march against Hungary.
In the scarcity of news from Hungary it is painful
to behold another issue of information closed by the
state of siege inflicted upon Prague. 'the Bohemian
press tas, during the last months, furnished the
earl( at and most valuable news with regard to the
real state of affairs in that quaver, while the Vienna
papers abound with the most delusive misrepresenta-
tions, and the grains of truth which came to light in
the Cobstitutieeelles .Blatt aua .1341nen were a pre-
cious supplement to the reticence. of the Wiener
Zeitung, and an antidote to the lies of Lloyd.
BAVARIA.—At a great open-air meeting near
Noremi,erg, on the 13th lost, not less than 60,000
men, many of whom vete armed, took a solemn oath
to stand by the German constitution. Tney also
agreed to an address to the king, in which his depo-
sition was plainly hinted at in case he should still
persist in his refusal to acknowledge the constitution.
About thirty political unions sent deputies to the
meet ng. About 600 Bavarian troops have gone over
to the side of the people in Kaiserslautern, and have
taken the oath to the constitution.
FRANKFORT.—Oa the 151 inst. the National
Assembly remind to place Rhenish Bavaria under
the protection tif the empire, and to urge the central
executive to take measures for securing that protec-
tion during the movement iefthe Palatinate in favour
of the German constitution. It also resolved to re-
quest the central power to send two commissioneis to
Baden, in the interest of the country, the empire, and
the constitution.
HANOVEIt.—The King of Hanover has resolved
to join the Zollverein.