The Express.
London, England, 1849-08-14 00:00:00

GERMAN Y.

AUSTRIA.—Vienna dates are to Aug. 9. Several
important ofllial communications come like rain after
long drought.
following bulletin has been received at the
War-ministry from General Haynau, relating to the
capture of Szegedin :
I had already, on the Ist of August, ordered the brigade
of Bilabials., which bad pushed he outpost* up to Bastions.,
to undertake a recorwisistanee as far as the entrenchments of

the enemy, to ascertain the stria.* of the garrison, and to
observe Ater movement'. Tue enemy was already begin-
tie retire from flueedin.
y on the 2nd, General Sirefrielten executed this re-
, essnaimanee, found the entrenchments, as well as Old
firlegodin, an the right bank of the Theis,, evacuated, feed at
Sin I s ssendnitectspied the town provisionelly, till, in the
Atm:nem the brigade of Jablownowoky entered, end took
possession of all Important whits. In tee castle were found
anasidemble stores of powder and cartridges, with large sup-
plies. The hospital contained 379 sick, among whom were
22 Austrian °Meets. A deputation received me before my
entrance into the town. Here also the terrorism of the
leading rebels had produced much alarm, confusion, and
misery. Several inhabitants are fled.
Thus fell this important point, without a blow, into our
bands, and by this means the whole Middle and Lower
Thew is secured to me. Rich supplies became our: and
nothing now stands in the way of our communication with
the south army under the Ban, Which has been relieved by
the tetreat of Goyon. This event I hope to announce in the
course of a few days. On the 3rd of August, at four in the
afternoon, I ordered the brigade of Jabloweoweky and a
part of the brigade of Benedek to attack the rear-otard of
the enemy, posted en the left bank of the Theis., and to
support this attack by a part of the artillery reserve. Lieut.-
Field-Marshal Prince Franz Lichtenstein conducted this
undertaking with wonted circumspection. While the bat-
teries of the enemy were silenced by our superior artillery,
I caused two battalions of the brigade of Jablownoweity to
cross in boats above Sz.gedin, and take the eneroy in his
right flank. The effect of our brave artillery was destruc-
tive end decisive. Our rocket batteries proved particularly
effectual, and in a short time set a fire New Bs•gedin, where
the enemy made an obstinate defence. The stretching sea
of flame presented a tarried. app &ranee. After the enemy was
dislodged from his position on the bank, the brigade of Be-
nedek began to ferry over their trove. The enemy was ex-
pe.led from New Bsegedin, and the construc:iou ot a bridge
began. Posiii in after position was carried; one cannon sod
several prisoners takes. At eight in the evening. the whole
tete-de pant was in our hand*, when the enemy made a new
violent attack. General Beoedek, who headed hie keeps
with signal courage, was slightly • our.ded bye ricochet. I
cant a battalion of the Russian division as a r. in'ororment to
New Ss- gedin. Lieut. Field-M 'rebel Lebkowitz now un-
dertook the commend of Al the troops on the other bank.
At 10 at might*. tete.de pone was swiftly in our heads, and
the enemy retired oat of cannon shot. After midnight the
bridge was thrown over the Th•iss, and the tete•de pont
armed with sufficient artillery. At dawn on the 4th the
enemy once more opined fire from 4 batted s against the
tete deponl, probably to cover his retreat and prevent pursuit.
The extmention of my troops evokes a day of rest indispens-
able. The first corps, however, enters M.ko to day, and
threat. ns the enemy's line of retreat. The 3rd carps crarrnie
s ill, if possible, cress the Theist tonight at R. mita.
According to the last bulletin made known at War-
saw, General Grabbe gave the following account of
his punnet of Gorge), :—" Having arrived at Szagary
be received notice of the pursuit of the rebels through
Gyarmath, need entered Altehol on the 21st of July to
bar the enemy from the mountain towns. Marini
there that (sorgey was making for Miscolcz, he
marched on the 22 id to Lcsancz. His mere appear-
ance dispersed the insurgents, who bad rested them-
selves there, and especially in Detwa : the barricades
erected b.,- them were destroyed. From Losortez he
marched towards Tokay ; and, on the 24th, was at
Bijs, not far from Tornallya a-id Gomor."
The following details are given by the °ester-
ichische Correspondent concerning the capture of
Miskolcz and fissa-Fared, and the peerage of the
Theis' by the 4th Russian army-corps:

On July 22, the day of Georgy's arrival at Miskolc, the
4th corps was a march off, at the villein of Abrary. Oo the
second day after (24.11) Gen. Tcheoditjeff sent Ueu. Kusnie.
cow with the vanguard to reconnonte, The vanguard
having left the village of Watts at half-past 10 in the morn-
ing, eneountered the enemy in the wood at the village of
Hereany, expelled him from thence, and chased him fur
several wenn to the strong position which Gorgey hail
taken up on the hi ighta of the road leading to lliskoles.
The only troops of ours engaged were tie 41st regiment of
Don Cossacks, and the 4th baralion of Greoth-Jigers. On
the 24th our patrols discos% red that Gregg, leaving behind
only a part of his troops, had decamped with the rest for
Miskolc: to procure supplies' of food. Our vanguard imme-
diately put itself in rnoton, and expelled the rebels from all
position, which theytheopied in sucererioa. In this attack,
which lasted till late in the evening, the artillery operated
nearly exclusively. Nightfall found our troops on the
Oa the 25th Gen.TcheodsjeffreachedMWtolcs. Gorgey took
up, three wenn from the then, a strong position on the left
bank of the Sejo. The bridge over the river was destroyed.
A reconnaissance proved that the position upon the heights
commanding the road was very strong. Gorgey had with
him 30,000 men, with numerous cannon. On our side, four
foot a.,d three horse batteries were immediately set in play.
The fire of these lasted from ten in the morning till six in
the evening, and silenced the guns of the enemy. On the
26th Girgey, at half past five in the morning, left the posi-
tion and advanced against Tokay. General Tcheodsjeff
intended to pursue him, but received orders trout the Prince
of Warsaw to step the pursuit, as the only aim of this
museum was to prevent Uneasy from marching to Tina-
Fared, to hinder the passage of our troops over the Theiss at
that point. But as eight of our battalions had already
crossed over to the left bank, sad the bridge war on the
point of Wig re-established, pursuit war nanesenary.

The foold;ten-Freund
.gives the following impor-
tant intelligence concerning the operations of Pnnos
Peekiewitch, dated from Debrecsin, on the 2nd
instant:

Field-Marshal Parkiewiteb, having heard that L. was.the
intention of Gorgey to make a stand spinet General Orabbs,
behind the lisjo, ordered the 4th corps to advance from
llitio-Havesd to Mack; with the 00MIlliedOR to form a
;section with Grebes and drive Gorge, behind the Theis&
la order to support these operations, the Asidtharshil
marched on the 30th alt. with the tad corps to Nisi, and
posted the 3rd in Canter, where a bridge was thrown over
the Thai's. On the 81st the deld.mar lel bossed that
Gorge, bad withdrawn to the Thet. witheett inking to be
attacked. Aescediagly, the Bain geserai adored Gummi
Osten-Sedum, who was amain lima Menhaa, to march
rpvtia to Tokay, and occupy the pump the river. Mean-
while he himself Viskiewitch) from Peed to
Qom, crossed the Theis by the thrown over there,
reseltedUj-Verce on the let,ead as the bid. This
town was occupied by a seeped 111,0111 rebiliiwithiooinnoo,
under Nery7fiendor, whiny neteleed es restatanse, had placed
their batteries in patina, and ripened a violent Are spinet
the Rumba vanguard. Bat the nanmess 12-poander bat-
tethe whisk were directed against the enemy answered hie
like with each effect that, alarmed by the simultaneous
charges of the Museulmen regiment and of the Manila
Hunan and by the storming columns of the Johnny, betook
to flight. A whole battalion of Hound was eat ia pieces,
and sit cannon and 2,000 prisoners were taken.
PRUSSIA.—Oar correepondeat writes:
BERLIN, Aoo. 11.
To-day the Second Chamber held its fourth sitting.
1 The chief Ix:sinews was the election of the president.
The result of the first scrutiny gave 28.5 vote-tickets,
of which 13 were found uninscribed. Of the remain-
iagg 272, Count Schwerin had 176, Simeon 84, Stiehl 7,
Sthaffrawck 2, Count Arnim 1, Von Arterawald 1,
Leming 1. Count Schwerin wan thereupon pro.
claimed president.
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The speech with which he entered upon his omoe
wes neat, emphatic, and highly applauded. He said
that the great object of the Cambers ought to be to
work out the union of Germany. The country was
weary of theories and disputes about abstract prin-
ciples, and something practical must now be achieved
upon the ground of oonstitutonal freedom. The
ministers and the iirmy bad saved Prussia. Simeon
was chosen vice-prent by 140 votes out of 282, 14
tickets beicg tlar.k; the absolute majority was I•',.F.
Lensing, the president by seliority of toe iast Chaco•
ber, was elected second vice-president.
The election of Count Schwerin has been attended
with some facts which require notice. At first mi-
sisters declared that the choice of president would be
left an open question; bat no sooner was Sia-
m, the president of the Lae Frankfort Amem-

bly, started as a candidate, and pretty certain,
from theatrength. of the constitutional oonservatires
—who maybe said to form the opposition party—of
being returned, than the nine ministers, unsaying
what they slid. the date before, declared that they
should rceigu if Simeon were elected. Tao raison of
this lies in the fact of fi'mson having been the
delegate from Frankfort who was charged with a
pr.posal to the executive for the dismissal of the
Brandenburg-Manteuffel ministry. The government
therefore saw in the candidateship of Simeon
an indirect vote •of censure. To be met by
such a hostile move in their outset with the
Chamber is certainly not very encouraging.
The Simeon party did not push their point,
for the obvious reason that office is not yet ripe for
them ; and, if ministers resign, the last chalice of a
constitution for Prussia is gone ' • for the successors of
Manteuffel and Brandenburg would inevitably be men
of the extreme right. There was another flaw in
Simeon which made him oblectionable in higher
quarters. It was he who headed the unlucky Frank-
fort deputation in April, who came to offer the impe-
rial crown to the Kiog of Prussia.
Count Schwerin is se near a match to the political
colour of the ministers as could well be found, with
constitutionsliem upon his lips at one moment, while
he is the spaleglst of pure despotism the next. lie
was, before the days of March, a deeded liberal, and
one cf the mos: energetic assailants of the Botta-
schwingh ministry. But whon he held office him-
self as minister of public instruction, he disappointed
every one by his weeklies,. Nevertheless, he passes
for a man of excellent intentions, and his election is
on Vas whole not uisatisfactory. His speech, which
laid great emphasis %lion the r enmity of carrying out
'he Prussian &Icy with regard to the unity of Ger-
many, elicited general and !warty applause. Schwerin
was also a member of the Frankfort Assembly, as
well as ore of the bat ministerial speakers in the last
Second Chamber.

The Bret stung of the First Chamber took Piece
on the B.h. On the side of the opposition only six
seats were occupied by their former owners, and
llansemann, Milde, and Braeht were missed. The
Pelee, with the exception of Potworowski, were
absent. Ttc betche,, of the extreme right were
scarcely 1048 empty. Count Bulow, M. Diniele, and
a few others, sat in this quarter. Count llykro, who
has accepted a seat in tue (Second Chamber, was in
the gallery. All the ministers, among whom was the
new ministtr of foreign attire, M. vm Bchleinitz,
were pre,ent. The sitting was opened by the presi-
dent, Von Auerswold. Tim protocol of the iittina of
the 27th of April was read and agreed to. The pre-
sident announced the death of can member, M.
Neidschie z.

A number of members had vacated their seats by
accepting promotion in the service of fhe govern-
ment. Others, among whom were Thecae, Von
Bickerath, and Von Bismark, had accep od seati in
the Second Chamber. A cousideraVe number—Von
Beckedorf, Count Reichenbech, Wichmann, Caradze,
Von IViLickl.n., Hoffmann, Scholiz, and others—had
resigned their seats. Lastly, six new members
Lad been ch.wen. Von Astrawald, then, after
an appropriate allusion to the resumption of
their Labours, proposed that the house should
express their acknowledgment of the servirva of the
army, which l:ad save! the country, by standing np, '
whereat the whulu house rose. Tne minister of war'
(Von Strutha) returned toanks for this token of
acknowledgment. An urgent motion was brought
forward by Count Entezburg, proposing that
the organisation of the buryhericehr should be
stopped throughout the realm, until the law on the
biirgni rwehr of the 17th oflOctlber should be revised,
on the base, and after the introduction of, the ordi-
nance fir the regulation of communes ; and that until
such time the burgh, rwehr already, ecablialud shall
be set aside. This motion, having ken duly sup-
ported, was referred to the committee. Manteuffel
laid upon the table two documents justifying the ex-
traordmary measures of the government in subjecting
Benin and Erfurt to a state of siege. The sitting then
and ibo Chamber adjourned till Monday.