The Express.
London, England, 1849-09-07 00:00:00

SPAIN.

MADRID, Seer. 1.
The Gaylie of to-dvy contains a lengthy " Bull "
from his holiness the Pope, written in Latin and
Spanish, nominating Manuel Lap. z Santaella com-
missary-general of the Crusade, and conceding the
penal indulgences for rating meat, in certain c
The negotiations fur the arrintement of the affairs of
the clergy are said to be alm st concluded.
The Cortes will be convoked on the 10th of
Oc-
tobse. The decree of convocation will bs published
lon the 16th of November.

No lem titan a hundred person have ben robbed
within this bet week on the high roads to Madrid,
within a few leagues cf the capital.
The Clamor Publiro, with reference to this act oaks,
whether the government intends to recognise robbery
as a legal profession. Things are at such a pass that
thieves armed with blunderbuss,* have been seen 1
strolling about before sun-down in the lanes of the I
public walk•, and derasad as policemen. The tele-
graph line between Valence and Madrid has begun to
be used. Yesterday the authorities of Valet ce sent
their congratalatiena to General Nervosa en hie feast-
day by telegraphic despatch. The general set ont this
at ernoon for Puerto Llama to take the baths again.
He was accompanied as tar as the suburbs by the
ministers and other influential persona
Half the columns of the daily prin.' are taken up
with electioneering flotilla. General Villalongv, the
captain-general of Valence, has pnbli-hed another san-
gutnary decree, that out-Zurbanoes those of the terra-
cicala Zarbano. It is in the form of a circular ad-
dressed to the ju-times of the duff rent small towns
and villages of the province under his command. Ic
a to forth that, though fortunately he has been
able to do away with the whale gab m•trde:s
robberies that daily took place in tie s-
trasgo, there were yet a number of iSJ-
latcd ruffians prowling about the country,
or hiding themselves till they fled an r poor-
rani'', to begin again. That the villager, end, ab,re
all, the small landed proprietors,. called mosareros,sre
►bove all the meat Interested in the disappeerance
of these perverse wretches, whose eats cox is
incompatible with the traaquillity and welfare of
that worthy cleat of the population. That the
captain-general, in addition to the ordinary means
employed, order* that the mesosaree, shepherds,

PRUSSIA.—Our correspondent writes u follows
feom Berlin Sept. 4 :
'the Second Chamber held to-day a mere interesting
sitting than mud. The miaieter of flumes brought
forward a bill few granting funds for the completion
of certain lines et railway. These were the &item
the Westphalian, and the Snuhriick lice. The
minister observed that in now caning forward
with succour foe theme undertakings, which must
otherwise fall to the ground, the state was
I only carryi• g out the engegemeets which bad
been formerly made by the councle of the provincial
assemblies. By the execution of these works not only
would the workii g classes find profitable employment,
but the value of lintel property, at present so de-
preened, would be raised, need trade and travelling be
promoted. A reking ex imp.° of the commercial de-
vil ipment which attended even delimited enterprises
of this description already achieved, was furni-hed by
the coal trade of Silesia and Westphalia. Formerly
Silesian coal nt vor penetrated beyend Breslau ; and
Westphalian e I.orn came as far as Jmich ; but now
both were ditfueed throughout the interior. With
regard to Weetphali in coal, however, the regotia-
lions were not yet concluded with those governments
through whose tees it had to psi before it could
reach the cap;til. Tne consent of the Hanoverian
government was yet desiderated. Between 1837 and
1847, twenty-nie.e lines of railway had teen granted.
Of these tweety-one have been oompieted, and four,
although discontinued are near completien. For the
Aix and Mastr.cht line, the government bad gua-
eanteed the interest on the shares so far as the Prue,
sian poeition of the line was concerned, end for the
remainder hod applied to the goy( inmeut of
the Netherlands to follow its exstatic. These
twenty-nine radways require a capital of 241 millions.
The 21 already completed hive cost 125 millions ;
the six uncAnpleted, 20 millions; so that Primed&
had laid out on railroads 145 millions of thelers. The
two railroads, which had already formed the subject
of committees of ti e provincial assemblies, the Posen-
Breslin, and the Posen-G.cgan, have not been com-
pleted, but preparatory works have been undertaken.
The great railway work which now reouires the most
especial attention is the Erstern. Af er the other
provinces have obtained the advantage of communica-
tion with the capital, it is a duty of the country to
extend this ben. fit to the provinces of Ear. and West
Premise The direction of the Emmen Railway was
already dee rmired by the National Assembly. It
passes through Keistin, Land.berg, Bromberg, Dire-
chin, E b.ng, and Konigsberg. From Derrchau
there is a branch lino to Dantzie. The com-
pletion of this by private capital was im-
practicable. * Last ye at, two millions were ex-
pended on bridges, &c.; this year only one million
could be applied. By 1855 U.. goverment hopes
that the communication with Konigsberg will be
completed. Fur the continuance of these works the
government hopes, if quiet continuer, to gain enough
from the crdinary revenue ; but if this hope should
be deceived, it must apply to the Clambers for autho-
risation to contract a loan cf three or four millions.
The minister of commerce, Von der lieydt, pro-
posed teat the government railway bills should be
handed over to the committee for trade and industry.
Hereupon the president übeerved that the engage-
meets of this committee made it desimble to appoint
a special committee for so important a subject. M.
Riedel moved for a special committee of 14 members ;
to which motion, on the ques ion being put, the
Chamber sesentet, by a large maj
Another subject awakened a mural interest in the
Aesembly, and called forth some striking expressions
nem the leade:s of the constitutional party, which
show the distrust with which these regard tic osten-
tatious activity of the government on the German
question. M. Hermarn had brought forward an
urgent motion tr consider the best means of relieving
the distress of the Westphalian and Silesian spinneret'
and weavers. The committee appointed to report on
this motion re fused to recognise its urgency, welch
admitt d would enable it to take pt....cede:me of other
subjects for debate. In the cptnion of the c-m-1
mime those motions only Meted be admitted
as urgent which had reference to the Ger-
man question and some others. Now it so hap-
pens that st this moment there prevails so univers,l
a consciousness V: at the fuss made by the government
about the German question is the most arrant hum-
bug, that the postponement of a subject which had a
real vital interest, to the sham erlemnity of a diplo-
matic farce of th et sort created throughout the house
a species of indignant shame. At the same time it is
not to be coteealtd teat the epinner and weaver dis-
tress is tot a subject of a merely sentimental k nd,
hut substantielly. a pocket question, which touch, a
the protectionis- interest. The notion of considering
such subordinate in importance to the German
question struck every one as a weak and poor
coativance at the hypocrisy of the government ;
and Hat kot, a leading man of the centre, exclaimed
with scornful emphasis, " You may prate ebeut poli•
tics, but here is a matter on which you may do some-
thing." The urgency of the motion WAS recognised
by a large majority.
There is a phenomenon at present in Berlin, which
seems to produce abroad an impr salon wh ch is by no
means felt here. I allude to the apparent d .nger of
the swarm of democratic clubs. Tae clubs are a spe-
cies of outlet for the pent-up activity of men, when
activity for agitation was disabl. d by the state
of siege. The result of their present @tiering will be
to subject the tart of the community with themselves
anew to that disagreeable pressure. In the wear-
time the club law is at this moment being mod fled
iu order to snuff them out. Thirty of these clubs
meet to-night, seventeen of which hold their mcetines
regularly every Tuesday.
The late minister for ferelgn effete, Von Arnim,
has accepted a seat in the First Chamber for Neuwied.
The Reichsverweser, with his wife and ean,reached
Frankfort yesterday.
The Grand Duchess Helena, continued her journey
last night by a special train to Warsaw.
The Hanoverian parlismenteuy elections are com-
pleted. The ministerial and opposition parties are
equally balanced. There are about five member*
whose votes are uncertain.

A striking illustration of the inconvenience to Prus-
sia of Huever not being a rellverein sate was tar-
nished to-day, by theipeech of the minister of finsnce,
who said that Hanover had not yet consented to the
free trontit of Westphalian coal along the Cologne and
Berlin railway.
AUSTRIA.—Dates from Vienna are to Sept. 2.
We extract the following from a 1, ter written in
the camp of the besegers mar Ace : "We are still be-
fore Cos oru, without knowing what wade, or whe-
ther any, have been come to. Looking at he mme-
ments of the different besieging wry+ we thit k it
will oome to a siege. Bquipa.ge fur herdic*, steamers,
op especially technic-it el:vision', are daily joining
the besieg ng corp, which in a few hours can be
made to approvh quite near from this rather discon-
, noted present line of siege. The pontoons sad boards