The Express.
London, England, 1846-11-19 00:00:00

iesire for this country ? A single thing is wanting to ;
double its wealth—freedom ot trade. Let us drink to its
attainment." Other toasts. among which were the heaalis
of the ladies of Seville, and of Mr. Schwabe, Mr. Cobden's
travelling companion, were proposed and drank; and
several speeches were delivered by Senores de lee Rios,
Pests y Soler, and other gentlemen.
BELGIUM.—The discussion of the reply to the
recent speech from the throne commenced on the 16th inst.
in the Chamber of Representatives. The delude was opened
by M. Delfosae in a remarkable address, who, in reference
to a certain paragraph in the royal discourse, asserted that
' his Majesty was deceived, when he was informed that the
political situation of the country was a calm one. He (M.
Delfosse) maintained that considerable discontent existed
among the public, and that that discontent might be directly
traced to the continual increase of burdens; to the defective
system of taxation; to the revolting partiality exhibited in
the distribution of government posts; and, above all, to the
ascendancy of the clergy, particularly with reference to
public education. M. de Broutikere severely condemned
the government for secretly threatenin; todismiss public
functionaries unless they ceased to belong to political
association. Thep remarks called up the Minister of the
Interior (Comte de Then:), who contended that the moral
influence of the clergy was always considered to be au
additional guarantee for the suffering classes of the com m unity,
and that it could not prove injurious to the country. lie
maintained that it was impossible for the clergy to exercise
any domination over the temporal power. The minister
iustified the conduct of the government with regard to pub-
lic functionaries, on the ground that the latter could net con-
sistently belong to associations having in view the withdrawal
of certain constitutional powers from the King, and a system
of electoral refocus, which was considered dangeraus by the
cabinet. The discussion was resumed this afternoon (the

17th instant).
A singular case of abduction of a married female,
and imprisonment of a British subject, occurred lately at
Ostend. An Englishmen, named Hall, arrived last week at
the above port from England, accompanied by his wife,
a native of France. Immediately on landing they were both
arrested, and the lady, in spite of all her remonstrances, was
burriedoff by the Commissary of Police to an hotel where her
parents and her brother were staying, and Mr. Hall was
conducted to prison by five indvuluals in the pay of the
police. It transpired that the lady, who is entitled to con-
siderable property on coming of' age, eloped about four
months ago from France, and was married in England. The
plea for the imprisonment of Mr. Hall during an entire
night WM, that his passport was two days out of dale. The
case was submitted by Mr. Currie (the English consul at
Ostend) to the attention of the English ambassador at the
Court of Brussels, who has forwarded it to Lord Palmerston.
Mr. Currie, in spite of all his exertions, could not procure
the liberation of Mr. Hall until the latter had been twelve
hours in prism, and his wife beta conveyed in a carriage
across the French frontiers.
NETIIERLANDS.—ItorrEnDax, Nov. 14.—The
spirit of emigration appears to begin in this city ; several
families are going on board a ship bound to America, with a
great number of natives of Zealand and other provinces,
who are going to seek their fortune in a foreign land. Many
more families ere preparing to fellow their example.
THE HAGUE, Nov. 16.—We understand that all
thepersons condemned for the disorders at Delft have w ith-
drawn their appeal to the Court of Cessation, and have
signed a petition for pardon.
GERMANY.—BERLIN, Nov. 13.—The following
cabinet order has been issued respecting gun-cotton and
other similar preparations :—" As the explosive substances
known by the name of gun-cotton and other similar prepa-
rations being preparations of cotton, wool, &c., which, with
respect to their rapid explosion, are at least as dangerous as
gunpowder, I hereby order, in consequence of your report
of 27th last month, that from this time throughout the ex-
tension of the whole monarchy, that all legal measures and
police ordinances and penalties relative to the manufacture,
safe keeping, transmitting, and sale of gunpowder at present
existing to prevent danger, shall be fully applicable in re-
spect to the above-mentioned manufactures. You are to
publish this decree, by my order, in the bulletin of the laws.
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Von Duesherg.
Nov. 12. Among the many rumours men-
tioned of measures to relieve the financial crisis, s loan
is said to have been attempted by the Seehandlung with
Messrs. Rothschild in London, but did not succeed. Another
I rumour is now current, which, if correct, refutes many un-
favourable reports, namely., that the taxes due to the state in
December are not to be collected till March next. This
would tell well for the state of the treasury, and would be a
great relief when money is so scarce, for it is beyond a doubt
that nearly in all circles pecuniary means are not equal to the
wants. This might become a greater evil for the working
classes, should it necessitate an interruption in the railway
constructions. Every measure has or will, however, be taken
to prevent so alarming a, crisis.
PnaNxFoRT, Nov. 13.—The new loan contracted
by Hanover is still the subject of conversation in financial eir•
des. The panic which the first news of it caused on the Frank
fort Bourse, and which did not even spare the Austrian Five
per Cent. Metalliques, has subsided. This is to be partly attri-
buted to the fact that the Berlin Bourse was not greatly affected
by it. The contracting parties (Mears. Lehmann, Cahn,
Michel, Berend, Ezechiel Simon, and Adolph Mayer, of Ha-
nover) have, according to all accounts, engaged to pay into
the llanoverian treasury the sum of 4,600,000 dollars, in ten
lots, from the Ist of February to the Ist of November, 1847.
Participation in the loon has been offered at Frankfort, at
1 from to commission, but little has been done.
VIENNA. Ilia Excellency Count d'Appony,
Austrian Ambassador to the C curt of the Tuileries. left
Vienna for Paris on the ith instant. The director of the
Hungarian Commercial Company, Szabo, whose flight was
mentioned in a former number, has been arrested at Laibach,
and sent to Pesth.
HAMBURG, Nov. 9.—Want of money was never so
severely felt at Hamburg as at the present moment. Dis-
count has risen to six per cent., and funds and securities have
fallen considerably. Hamburg-Berlin railway shares have
been sold in large lots at 901, although the opeMilg of the
line is fixed for the first of next month, and the receipts of
last month were above 800 dollars daily. The ware-
market shares the fate of the money-market. On Thursday a
meeting is to be held to hear the resolutions of the
senate on the financial condition of the state, and to con-
cert final measures for the loan of four and a half million
dollars. That this sum is required for ths completion of the
railways no one can doubt for a moment ; but it may be
questioned if those works ire of such pressing necessity as to
call for funds procured even at a sacrifice, or if it were not
better to postpone them to better times. Another method
were practicable to relieve the market—the issuing of paper-
money—the objections to this are placed in the invalidity of
such an operation. But extraordinary times demand extra
ordinary means, and it is not the issuing of paper-money
which may be bjected to, but the bad use which often is
made of it. There are, however, many states which,
notwithstanding bank-notes and treasury bons have
remained honest, and to such would Hamburg belong. The
Danish Government is said to have agreed to the additional
statutes of the Berlin-Hamburg railway, and to have agreed
to the opening of the whole line on certain conditions
accepted by the company. The whole line will thus, in all
probability, be open to the public on the 15th of Dseciubcr
next.
Bniltswlca.—Universal joy has been spread here
on the news, just received, that the Zollverein has provision-
ally allowed the free-importation of corn, flour, B:c.-Ifogde-
Intern Zeitung.
SAXONY.—ANNABERG, NOV'. 11.—A disburbance
took place here on Monday last, owing to 600 workmen
keying entered the manufactory of Messrs. Fisenstuca and
Co. demanding the destruction of a piece of machinery
which they said threw many of them out of work. No such
machine was found. They smashed some of the other
machinery. Order has since been re-e.tablished.
AFFAIRS OF SCTILESWIG.—In the sitting of the
States of the 9th instant, M. de Leeaen proposed the adop-
tion of the Prussian currency in conjunction with Hamburg
and Lubeck. He said that Prussian money had long been
current in the duchies, and that it was already adopted in
Oldenburg, that Mecklenburg was inclimeal to do the same,
and that at Hamburg the principal commercial houses had
declared themselves !nits favour. In conjunction with these
reasons, he notified that the adoption of the Prussian cur-
rency would be another step towards a closer union with ,
their common German fatherland, and to this alone was to
be attributed the endeavours of the government (led by
Count Charles Moltke) to maintain the existing cur- '
rency in the duchies. " But," he added, " the ob-
stinate will of a single individual cannot long with-
stand the tide of events." Many of the members
opposed the motion; among others, Jensen, who alluded to
the difference of exchange, and Count Reventlow, who said
that the time was not yet at hand. The commissary did not
question many defects of the present system, but referred the
meeting to a proposition of the king already before the
states for a new division of the bank dollars. The motion
was referred to a commission by 24 voices against 13. The
prohibitions of publications still continue. Wienborg's
pamphlet on the Nortorf meeting has been prohibited and the
copies seized. A Copenhagen journal, the Fadrelaudet,
announces the assembly of the States of Schleswig to be
nothing less than revolutionary, and others call upon all good
Scandinavians to stand up in the defence of the integrity of
the state and Danish nationality, which are menaced.
The nine prdfessors of Kiel, who published a work
on the "succession in the duchy of Schleswig," have received
a mild reprimand from the king.
Meetings ace being held all through Germany to
concert measures for providing cheap food for the poorer
classes of the population.
According to the Etberfeltl Zeitung, a meeting of
dealers in red-coloured yarns was held in that town on the
12th instant, in order to draw up a petition to the minister
of finance relative to the announced increase of the duties on
twists. It was agreed that the above functionary be solicited
to grant a drawback of three thalers per cwt. on all exports
of red-coloured cotton-woollen yarns, and that Herr Witten-
Stein, a member of the council of commerce, be sent to Berlin
with instructions to urge the claims of the petitioners on the
attention of the government, and, if necessary, on that of the
King.—lt appears, according to the latest accounts from
Schwerin, that the German journals (amongst others the
Vossische Zeituaig) which announced the proximate seces-
sion of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg to the Zollverein,
were, to say the least, premature in their statements. No
negotiations on the subject had even been commenced up to
the 10th inst. On the contrary, at that date, the States of
the Ducey were discussing a proposed system of taxation
widely different from that of the German customs union. i
The Deutsche Allg. Zeitung states that a violent
explosion took place on the 12th inst. at Berlin, in an estab-
lishment for tho preparation of gun cotton. Considerable
damage was done to the premises, and three men were
dangerously injured. The Crown Prince of Bavaria left
Munich on the 12th inst., en snide fur Palermo, The