The Express.
London, England, 1848-03-06 00:00:00

THE EXl',. SS, MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 6, 1848.

It was reported on Friday evening in Paris that the
Bank of Vienna had stopped payment It is certain
that its notes were refused by the discounters and
money-c Changers.
The urlertthe Gazette of the 2nd says that peti-
tions had been laid before the chamber demanding
the general arming of the people for the following
objects : The free election of officers ; a German par-
liameut, freely elected by the people ; every German
who has attained hie twenty-first year to be an
elector ; one elector for every thousand souls, and one
deputy for every 100,000 ; every German who has at-
tained his twenty.fi. th year, of a hatever rank, fortune,
or religion, can become a member of parliament;
the German parliament to be held at Franckfortren-1
the-Maine ; the parliament to make its own regula-
tions ; absolute liberty of the press; complete liberty
in all affairs relative to religion, conscience, and in-
struction; trial by jury; the general rights of a Gee'-
man citizen ; income tax ; welfare and education of
all; protection and guarantee of labour; equitable
and economical popular adminieiration ; responsibility
of ministers and public efficei s ; abolition of privileges.
In the afternoon, after the sitting of the chamber, an
immense crowd repaired to the castle, which was
guarded, as a measure of precaution. Some voices
were heard to demand a political amnesty, and to
request that the persons taken into custody on the
eve should be set a liberty. Five of these persons
were set free. Several deputies of the Opposition
requested the crowd to withdraw, a request which
they complied with. Patrols of cavalry went round
the city, in the evening. The avenues to the Town-
hall and the prison were guarded by the military.
The Cologne Gazette of the 3id says :—The Baden
government have announced the abolition of the cen-
sorship, the establishment of a civic guard, and the
introduction of the jury system.
From Berlin, under date of Feb. 29, we learn that
a courier from St. Petersburg arrived that day at the
Russian embassy. The contents of his despatches
were immediately communicated to the court, where
they made a very profound impression. It was as-
serted that the courier brought the intelligence of the
serious illness of the Emperor of Russia.
A few extracts from the German journals may
help to indicate the tendency of German public
opinon and feeling towards the new state of affairs
in France. From Berlin the Allgemeine Preassische
Zeitung, of 2d March, declares:—
As yet only some isolated seen,s of this last new revolu-
tionary drama have been but imperfectly developed before
us: through them we can detect on .y two agents in the
rapid transformation, " faithlessness and brute force."•••••
Above all, we adjure the German princes and peoples to
be strong in union. All the history of our time—in the
face of our western neighbours—preaches this duty to us.
Far from to be any thought of meddling in the internal
affairs of France, which that country may fashion
oat r its own good pleasure; but a lively remembrance
of a period not far removed, and of the degradation of Ger-
many, commands us sharply to watch the movements of
France, that Germany may be ready to repel in blood any
new passion for improving the happiness of her peopleathord•
ing to Fr.neh theories. • • • IVe will tolerate no sub-
version of the treaties which have been the foundation of a
European peace of thirty years' duration. We will regard
every breach of them as a deetarotitm of war.
From Leipzig, the Deutsche ...Illgenseine Zeitung
issues its manifesto. On the; 28th of February the
news of a regency was announced, with sympathy and
congratulation, by this journal : a note appended to
the article declared, however, that since it was written
the editors had heard with fear and trembling of the
installation of a republic. Even amid its terrors,
however. and while proclaiming the necessity of
keeping on the alert, it protested on the 2d of
March :
Before everything, in regard to France, let there be no
intervention—no attempt to excite reactant—no Russian
alliance. Let our policy be national.
From Munich, the Austrian organ, the Allgenteine
Zeittiny (February 29), speaks thus :
Weedier the republican term of government in France
bespeak lung life or short, there can be no doubt that the
excited spirit of the nation will too soon impel its forces
*cr.., the frontier towards Italy and Germany. Every re-
flecting man must be full of this anticipation.
Two of these journals are organs of the two most
powerful governments in Germany ; the other is a
firm advocate of popular government. The Prussian
organ professes a desire to avoid intervention, but
paints the revolution in the most hateful colours, and
appeals to treaties which may easily bo twisted so as
to afford a pretext for aggressive war. The organ of
Austria proclaims that there is no doubt that Germany
will be invaded, and that the country mast arm.
The reforming organ evidently shrinks from the idea
of a republican party, from distrust of that form of
government—partly from fear that the effect of its
establishment may drive the German princes to rash
acts of frantic fear. These indications, combined:with
the universal call to arms from German authorities,
are, notwithstanding specious protestations that de-
fensive measures alone are in contemplation, the
reverse of tranquillising.
The Journal de. Franefort of 2nd March announces
a remarkable motion made in the Darmstadt Second
Chamber. It was of an address to the Grand Duke
to move the Dietof the Germanic Confederation to the
effect that an interim chief (or head) of Germany be
authorised to provide for the security of the nation ;
and that he be empowered to enact laws and impose
taxes, with the assistance of a council of princes and
a council chosen by popular election.

MALTA, FEB. 2d.
On the 14th a Mr. E. Baker was married to the daughter
of Mr. E. Goodenough, the proprietor of the Malta Mail.
The day previous to the marriage the young lady abjured
the protestant religion, and was baptised in the Cathobo
church. The bridegroom has been a widower upwards of
three mouths ! Mr. B. an intimate friend of the Jesuit
Padre Esmonde. This conversion, or rather the taking up
of a religion, will no doubt be the subject of a long article in
the Tablet. The triumph will he the greater, when they reflect
that the Malta Mail hay, until the last two months, been the
moat bitter of all the enemies tha Jesuits had in Malta. Even
now there is a criminal information out against it fcr a libel
on Padre Esmond.. I understand that this is the only in-
stance known, in Malta, of the conversion to the catholic re-
ligion of a person born and educated in England. The lady's
grandfather is Archdeacon Goodenough, of some place near
Bath. The double fact has occasioned no small sensation.
The French steamer, Alexandre, arrived here e irly in the
morning of the 19th from Alexandria, having on board his
Highness, Mehemet Ali, Pacha of Egypt, secretaries, phy-
sicians, and suite, to the number of 64 persons. His highness
was saluted by the battery, and by the Ceylon. He landed
in Fort Manoel to perform his quarantine. Every attention
was shown him by Rear-Admiral Sir Lucius Curtis. The
Austrian, French, Neapolitan, and Brazilian consul' waited
in Ai tan Bay, and lett cards for his highness. lie is suffer-
ing severely from dysentry, and has hien recommended to
try Naples or Pisa, for a change of air. The Odin has been
placed at his disposal wh he chose. to sail, which, it is
said, will be in a few days. The Locust started the same
evening with despatches for the admiral, to &worm him of
the l'acha'e arrive/. Mehemet Ali passed a very bad night
on the 19th and 20th. The day after his arrival, the night
of 20th and 21st, he passed more favourably. A bulletin,
issued to visitors on the 21st stated, " Better this morning."
Since then Mehemet Ali has wonderfully improved. He
will take pratique on the 2,.,d March. A wing of the palace
ha been prepared for 'ids reception. lie will probably
remain some time hete, as he finds his health so much int-

proving.
Sir Thomas Reatle intends to pension, at two dollars each
per month, the Arabs who behaved so humanely to Lieut.
Woke and the survivors of the Avenger.
A mat melancholy suicide occurred on the might of the
22nd, at the Princess Royal Hotel. The unhappy person
was the Rev. R. Irvine, incumbent of St. John's, Waterloo..
road, London, who arrived here three months ago, to. im-
prove his health—in fact, he appeared quite reoorr red ; his
former weakness had altogether left him, and he confessed
that the air of Malta had so far restored him that he had
never been se well for twenty years. He wulound in his
room early on the morning of the 23rd, with both carotid ar-
teries completely severed, and the razor in his hand. His
death must have been incantaneons..

ATHENS, ran. 20.
I informed you in my last that the holidays were
over, and that the senate was discussing the project et the
jury law. The ministry bad not the least doubt but the
reinforcement they bad smuggled into the senate in the
shape of new members would enable them to carry every
qu• stion before them. They reckoned without their host.
The opposition succeeded in opening the eyes of the minis-
terial members to the iniquity of several of the clauses in
the project, and notwithstanding all the efforts and eloquence
of M. Culocotroni, the senate decided by a majority of 21
to 16 to continue the system now in force until next May.
The budget of 1848 has not yet been submitted to the senate.
The budget of 1817 is not yet pissed. A project of a law
for 130,000 drachmas has been presented to the Chamber
of Deputies, to indemnify the national bank for the
lU,s it suffered during the late ettoeule in Petra'.
M. Mussur..s has performed twelve days quarantine at
Bain', on account of the cholera at Constantinople ; he will
get pratique this morning. Many are anxious to see the
presentation of the sturdy old Turk to his Hellenic Majesty.
There is a rumour afloat here, that the King of Bavaria is
coming here in propria persona, end that Lola Monies and
her bud-dug is coming with him. The ministers declare
they have no objection to the old gentlemen and the fair
Mdesian, but protest in tun) against any more bulldogs.
They h ,d enough last year when they had to pay down the
• interest of the loans, and recently another baiting to pay the
I 30,000 drachmas guaranteed by the English consul at Petra",
'.. to the rebels, as ransom for the town of Patras. They have
been compelled to yield.

CONSTA.NTINOPLE, FEB. 17.
The long-pending boundary question between
' Turkey and Persia has been at length brought to • close.
The tresty, a copy of which was published in the lir-
press ith,re than twelve months ago, was ratified on the 15th
instant.
Five hundred Italisns dined together yesterday at the
Hotel d'Angleterre, to celebrate the recent events in Italy.
The banqueting hall was hung with banners, and the B.sg of
England was in several conspicuous places, draped with that
of the Cisalpine republic, of Venice, and of Genoa. The
Nuncio reused to be present at the dinner. Several pa-
triotic toasts were drank, and eloquent speeches made in
praise of Pope Pius IX., and of those principle a which are
now convulsing Italy. On the 13th inst. Baron Tecco, the
Sardinian minister, gave a diplomatic dinner in honour of
the Nuncio. Today a similar dinner will be given by the
Russian ambassador, in honour of Signor Ferrieri, which
will be followed by a ball, for which EOM hundred invita-
tions have been issued.