The Express.
London, England, 1849-05-22 00:00:00

SPAIN.

Our correspondent's writes as follows :
MADRID, May 16.
Testcreley a cabinet council sat in debate from
one o'cicck to four, in consequence of the lost news
from Germany. This fact, united with other circum-
stances, lead ,us to believe that the Spanish govern-
ment is camprehended in the holy alliance of the
northern powers krainst freedom. Since the down-
fall of the rebelhoo, there has been evinced a great
tendency to fawn upon the clergy of which the sub-
sidy to a bishop going to New Holland is a proof.
A letter from Aranjuez stye that the dismisael of
Men, Pidal, and Bravo Murilto will take place after
the shutting up of the Codes.
The Cortes us still discussing various amendments
on the budget.
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ITALY.

ROMAN STATES. The Ville de Marseilles
packet brought news from Civita Vecchia of the 14thi
inst., according to which General Ondinot had left
Palo with his head-quarters, which had been esta-
blished at Fiumicino. He had made no hostile move-
ment against Rome.
Our correspondent writes as follows
ROME, Ma,v 12.
The French, after coming within half a mile of
Rome, became frightened when their scouts told
them of the formidable state of defence in which that
capital is now, capable, as I said before, of befflivg
100,000 men, who, if they got inside, would be in-
fallibly all massacred by the men, women, and children,
all having pikes and knives supplied by government.
They are trying to pass the Tiber, but Garibaldi is
gone out with a detnmined lot of Romans to put a
stop to that attempt, and put to the sword any who
have crossed. _ _

The victorious detachment who scattered the Net-
politans at Valmontone have come in to-d.y, with
three pieces of cannon and a number of paisonerr.
Every town in the linnan States must be bom-
barded before yielding. The civic guard from Pe-
rugia, 120 miles off, has come in this morning.

The fallowing letter front Father Ventura, dated
Civita Vecchia, the 12th inst., will be found interest-
ing: " It is certain that the French are marching on
Rome, only however to make a demoestration, and
not to attack the town. M. de Raymvel, who has
arrived hers, has gone to the head-quarters of Gene-
ral Ondinot, to bring him orders not to attack, as
Pius IX. has forbi..den it, saying that he had been
deceived ; that he had been made to believe that the
approach of the French or Neapolitan troops would
have brought on a reaction a loner than in Tuscany.
Sines this was not true, hewished not for war oreffu-
sion of blood. He will ed not for the ruin of Rome
and its monuments."

Another letter from Father Ventura says:
I u Ondinot is very much tired of priests; his soldiers
I wish to fight against the Neapolitans and Austrians."
The Boman Monitore, of the 11th, announces the
arrival at the post•offioe of a groat number of letters
from Naples, addressed to the officers of the Neapo-
litan army; the writers imagining of nouns that the
king', forces had already occupied Rome. The King
of Naples has had a "Te Daum " sung at Albano, to
celebrate his victory over Garibaldi. The triumvirs
have addressed a proclamation, in French, to the
French soldiers, recommending them not to march
strain against their Roman brethren. The French
army, which had again advanced, retired on the 121
from the vicinity of Rome.
The Bolognese still held out on the 13th instant.

SARDINIA.—We have dates from Turin of the
17th inst. The king was indisposed, and had been
bled twice. The mission of Count Balbo to Outs is
known. The Piedmontese government has deter-
mined to co-operate in re-establishing the Pope u a
temporal and constitutional prince on certain con-
ditions, such u that all places shall be secularised,
that some of the pricipal forts should be held by the
national guard, and that the College of Cardinals
should no longer occupy Wolf with political affairs.
It is doubtful whether the Pope would accept co-
operation on those conditions.
NAPLES.—The official journals of Naples, from
which city we have news to the 14th inst., announce
the entry of Filangieri into Palermo on the 13th
inst. Reinforcements were being sent off to the
Bing of Naples at Albano.
The Fives had fallen to 87, but on the arrival of
the news from Palermo, they got up to 88.

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IMPORTANT PROCEEDINGS IN 7HE FRANK-
FORT NATIONAL ASSEMBLY.
On the 19th instant, after six members bad ex-
pressed their determination to take oo further share
in the pmeedings of the Assembly, the hat e re-
sumed the debate on the motions of the Committee of

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Thirty respecting the oondoct of the vicar of the
empire, and also regarding the choice of a supreme
head for Germany.
Herr BULLER denied the right of the Assembly to
abolish the central power. The prevent contest wag one nct
between freedom end reaction, but between anarchy and re-

action.
Heir WELCILTA contended that something decide° must
he One in the present condition of Germany. A reign of
despotism must be expected if the present contest ministry
should remain in office, a ministry which had declared that
the vote of want of confidence should not prevent it from
doing so, and from directing, as it should think proper, the
affairs el Germany.
Herr Voor remarked that reference bad often been made
in that A sembly to the constitusionel system; but, he would
ask, how had that system been followed up ia PRIM*
Saxony, Hanover, and other states 7 He must be a bad am
who, rather than vote on the side of the left, would wish es
see Germany destroyed. He denied that the late insurrection
in Dresden was • socialist one. In no cam was the right of
property violated by the democrats engaged in it. On the
other hand, the troops of the red moea chy totally plundered
a jeweller's shop in the New Market in the above city. In
Praasonia the people were prepared be the wont, Ma they{
would go further then a refusal to fly tax-s. In order to
destroy the present obnoxious ministry, it ft necemary
to abolish the central executive. Much had been
Bald about anarchy. Did it reign at present in
Baden, or in the Bavarian palatinate, where property
and personal liberty were safe ; or in Saxony, whore
sanguinary edicts followed one another in rapid encomia& I
The impending mutest was a European one—ones between
light and darkneps, opprtrion and freedom. In one of the
glorious eamp,igns of the French republic (continued Herr
Vogt, in conclusion) General Roche placed a gallant bat.
tsidon in a defile, which wee the last point of defence.
" Maltz," mislaid Roche, "you will maintain your post
to the last." " Yes, general," was the reply. "Yon will
have to make a desperate stand, and perhaps you will be ell
cut down." "Yes, genera." " But u will save the army
1, and , mos." " Yes, general." Now, gentlemen, the
German people tell you also that you will succumb, but yen
will save Fatherland. Will you also answer yes ?
The speaker eat down amidst the most enthusiastic
cheers, which lasted during several minwes.
The following all-impor:ant roe elution was then put
to the vote, and can dby a majority of 126 to 116:

That the Assembly elect forthwith, if pu,ible, from
sacmget the reigning princes, a stadtholder of the empire,
who, 11.2 to the time sat forth in the resolutions of tt e 4th
of May (Nos. 5 sad 8), sh.ll, according to the 3rd section
of the imperial constitution, enjoy the rights and fulfil the
duties of the supreme head of the empire.
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The other sections of the resolution provide for the
taking the oath to the constitution on the part of
the stadtholier and public functionaries, for Ws carry-
ing out the decision of the Assembly relating to the
next elections and the convocation of the first imperial
die t. for the exercise by the present Assembly
of all the rights of the imperial diet until the latter
be convoke°, and for continuing the stadtholder in his
office, even after the imperial diet has been convened,
in case there should be insurmountable obstacles to
the conferring of the supreme dignity on tie
sovereign of the greatert, or the mat greatest,
state of Germany. The last section declares
that, with the carrying cut of the revelation in
question inasmuch as the work of es'ablirklng
the constitution of Germany will be then completed—
the power of the cent, al executive will cease, and oil
its at•ributes will be transferred to tae stadtholder of
the empire.
The following resolution was also adopted :
That, in case the vicar of the empire, as threatenel by the
ministry, should transfer his limeys otherwise than into the
hands of the National Assembly, such transfer be declared by
the National Assembly null, illegal, and nut binding.
The sitting closed at 4 p.m. ; it had opened
at 10 a.m. under the greatest excitement f the
people. 129 deputies, all the minist• re end the
royal commissioners, the ball. The Minister
of Justice, Von Kleinechrod, read a programme of the
ministry. It was coldly received. Thereupon litre
Kolb moved:
1. The chamber declares that it recognises the constitu-
tion decreed and proclaimed by the National Assembly as
law for all Germany. The chamter rev ryes to itself to
bring into play all lawful means for the introdu .ton of that
' conititotirs. As the first means it decides upon an address
to his majesty the king in this sense.
2. F.r the drawing up of such an address it names forth-
with a committee, to consist of seven members, who are to
deliberate immediately, and it possible to present their
r.-
port to-day.
A long and violent debate ensued. When it car
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to the -vote, Count Hegnenberg, who presided,
declued that ho would not put the first part of the
vote, even if 'he m%jority decided for it, as it was
against all precedent to do so until approved of by
esesanttee. Kolb then withdrew the first part for
the present; the second pert was carried by a mak,-
rity of 61 to 69 votes. The " right" demanded the
calling out of each voter's name, when the result
was 71 to 68. Another account reduces the majority
to 7. President Von Lercbenfeld resigred his (.floe.
The committee fur the address was then elected in a
reeret sitting.
PRUSSIA.—We have received the following letters
from our correspondent :
BERLIN, MAT 18.
I When I wrote to you yesterday my conviction that
the government would not all the chambers together
within the time appointed by the constitutioa of
December, I hardly expected that the ministerial
organs would so soon have announced this contem-
Vviolation of the kiag's octroyed charter. The
ische Reform of this evening curtmenoes its
leading article with these words :—" The el coons
for a new Second Chamber must be pore-
poned urgent as they appear, they_ must be
postponed." It gore on to say: "We need a
new electoral law. The government has not
been slack in preparing such a one. What we have
heard of their project b ads us to believe that thereby
a dam will be oppased to the threatened deluge ; that
no longer, according to communist principles, in
atomic fashion, the bare number of heads will be con-
sidered, but reciprocal rights and duties will be laid
in the scale. No one, however, on this account will
be excluded from the right to vote." Here, then, we
have a semi-official intimation that the government
have framed a new electoral law, which extinguishes
the principle of universal suffrage. There can be
hardly any doubt, from the other indications, that
the population will be divided into electoral closet,
corresponding to the categories of the clam-tax,
which is something like our income-tax—and
that the number of votes allowed to an elector will be
proportionate to the class-tax which he pas; so that
the parliamentary influence of people will be in the
direct ratio of their wealth. Whether the Prussian
people will condescend to exercise such an infamously
mutilated franchise is another question. Such legis-
lation will be ripped to pieces by an inevitable revo-
Ration. But on every side the same danger threatens:
ems can see ne hope of avoiding civil war.
Anna; the 77 persons found put in arrest by the
_Retain}
government of Dresden were many
; also the Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, under the
await of Count Stolzenberg. All Poles were on the
17th ordered to quit Dresden.
The " msgistrat" agreed yesterday to present a
dutiful address to the king, in answer to his procla-
mation to the people.
Several of the Berlin landwehr men have been ar-
rested at Potsdam, for insubordination.
At the last meeting of the royalist club of the
" Treubtmd," the Princess of Prussia was present,
with suite, and General Wrangel. At a moment
when the police is raging with the utmost severity
against democratic clubs, the countenance which the
club of an extreme fanatic political puty receives
from the court shows the same want of dignity and
judgment which characterises the rest of their beha-
viour. One would imagine their aim was to exaspe-
rate the people as much as possible.
A change is contemplated in the garrison, which
will unite at Berlin all the Pomeranian regiments
upset when fidelity moat reliance is placed. The
21st mime* st infantry is to replace some batta-
lion, which are sent to Charlottenbarg and Potsdam
fa ails prudes. I may take this opportunity el
staling that the greater part of the Premise infaatsy
are armed with a heavy long-barrelled minaret, whisk
to leaded at the breach, and which they oil

ehots may be fired in ths same time as one
with a common musket. It kills as far and
carries with the same precision ea a rifle, as the recent
practice at Potsdam, witnessed by the King and Ge-
neral Wrangel, prove". It is calculated that its use
will have a considerable effect in modifying the opera-
tions of warfare; and military men here pretend that
light batteries will sot be 'usable in the face of in-
faLtry No armed, for the Ziimlnadel-Gewehr men will
be able to pick down the gunners at their cannon
within common range. I have heard Prossian officers
express the wish that, if there is to be a war, it will
come on sa soon as partible, while the Prussians are
the only infantry armed with the Ziindnedel-Geniehr.
They profess the utmost certainty as to the result of a
conflict with the same number of troops armed in the

common way.
The Ostece Zeitung contains the Mooing commu-
nication from the Danish government to the English
consul at Stettin :
It has been sought in every way, both through the press
and through emissaries, to inspire neutral captains o ships
with the incorrect idea that several of the blockaded port et
the Baltic, and in particular Stettin, are not effectively
blockaded, and that oa this account these pert could easily he
entered in spite of the blockade.
These representations are ineneet, for the ports are I
•ffeetivaly blockaded ; bat the Danish cruiaen have hitherto
sought to avoid firing into neutral ships, which they have
repelled from the ports, sad bringing them to, even when it
,ggss perfectly evident that these ships were well
aware of the blockade, but made the attempt, if possible,
to clip through. M. antler, should neutral ships continue to
make attempts of this kind, we shall be necessitated thereby
to employ against them the rigour jug ified by national law
and the blockade regulations and on this account all ship-
captains of friendly and neutral powers are warned not to
allow themselves to be tempted to such trials by the eolleita-
lions thereto proceeding from the enemies of Denmark.
Ministry of Marine, at Copenhagen, May 9, 1849.
(UntiersigaW)
The workmen at the fortifications of Kiinigsberg,
made a sort of emeute on the 14th. The democrats
attributed the row to instigations of the police, that
the commandant might have an excuse for proclaim-
ing martial law. The other party declared it was
merely a strike for higher wager.
The landwehr-men of the Memel battalian have
most of them gone to Kiinigsberg. The government
does not appear sure enough of its power in those
parts to recut this falling out of the ranks, for it has
allowed the metes ion, and assigns, as a reason for this
extraordinary indul. ence, that vAuntters enough can
be found to take their places.
An official communication from Tilsit reports that
the Emperor of Russia would pass through Konen on
the morning of the 19th (to-day), on his way from
Petersburg to Warsaw.
The Saxon ministers Beast and Behr have arrived
here.

AUSTRIA.—Oar dates from Vienna are to May 17.
The news from the Banat is very unfavourable to
the Austrian,. General Maurhofer had no troops.
Generals Count Clam, Baron Reischach, and Baron
Bianchi, all three from Italy, have joined the army in
Hungary. Edmund Prince Schwarzenburg is ap-
pointed general of the 3rd army corps, in the place
of Simonich, who goes as general of division to
Vienna. Prince Colloredo Mannsfeld is entrusted
with a command. General Baron Gather retires on
haltpay. The first Russian columns through Cracow
and Ilradisch, under Sass, have r. ached Tyrnau. The
bombardment of Peath continued on the 9th and 10th.
The inhabitants were for the most part encamped in
tent. by the wood outsider the town, called the Stadt-
waldchen. Colonel Puffer, who had undertaken the
command of G. neral Thodorowieh's brigade, had been
completely beaten by the Magyare, who were push-
ing on to Panesova, two posts from Scalia.
The report was still afloat that the Russians have
been beaten in a pit le d battle by tin Magyars ; but
where the engagement took place, with other particu-
lars, are entirely wanting. Wounded Ruts'an soldiers
h eve been broneht to the hospitals at Vienna. All the
fortresses of Bohemia are to be placed upon a war-
footing. Great preparations are going on in the for-
tress of Ohnutz, in fortifying and mounting with
cannon. On the 11th inst. 'Theresinstadt was de-
clared in a state of siege, and martial law proclaimed.
1 he same fate was destined for Kuoigsgratz.
The Wiener Zeitunq announces, from Hradisch,
that, on the afternoon of the 12th inst., another bat-
talion of Russian troops arrived, and within two days
at furthest a corps of 20,000 Russians would be con-
, centrated there.
On the 15th 15,000 Russians passed through Vienna,
to take the Glognitz rail to CErlenburg.
The Russian vanguard, of 6,000 men, entered He.
liheh, the first town within the Hungarian frontier
from Goding, on the morning of the 11th.
The Craeneian Gazette has been suppressed.
The Ost-denteehe Post, ono of the best-informed
Vienna papers, says that it received, on the 16th, a
circular addressed to the whole " redaction," from

the military commandant, strictly forbidding the
publication of news from the seat of war as to the
position and ettength of the troops, not derived from
official sources. Neither the Wiener Zeitung nor
Lloyd contain, the least intelligenoe from the seat of
war.

The Emperor of Austria has issued the following
proclamation to the Hungarians :
A criminal party, lad by revolutionary men, without con-
science, after heaping CAMe on crime, and exhauptiog all the
means of lies and infatuation, to seduce you to high treason-
able breach of allegiance, and divide the country which for a
long series of years hat held our people in friendly concord,
carries on open war against your king, in order to rob him of
his hereditary rights, and appropriate to themselves the do-
minion over you and the property of others.
Under the deceitful pretext of your nationality and free-
dom being in danger, this party sacrifices the blood of your
brethren and sons, the property of the quiet citizens, the
welfare of your fisurishiag country, and calls you to arms
against us, your king, whs has given to all his people—even
to those who p.'ssessed nose sub before--a free con Mullion,
guaranteed to all the nationalities of his great kingdom, and
assured to all equality of rights.
And this party limits itself net to its wicked beginning.
Disregarding our earnest warnings, it Bette support among
the refuse of foreign countries. Thousands of peace dis-
turbers and adventurers, men without means or morality,
bound together only by a community in crime, are in their
pay. Already are they become the leaders of the rebellion;
at your cast, with your blood, shall their shameful plans
executed. They will use you u blind tools for the subver-
sion of all true freedom, of all lawful order in other hands.
To put a stop to such criminal endeavours, to free you from
your oppressors, and secure to our monarehy the Peace
warmly desired by the vast majority, is therefore not only
our duty, and our unshakeable purpose, but also the mission
of every government which has to guard the repose and wel-
fare of the people entrusted to its providence from this uni-
versal mew el pow sod order. Filled with these feeling',
the Emperor of Berate, ear illustrious ally, has united with
us to fight against the teessasea messy.
Upon our desire, and is the (sliest understanding with
as, his armies have appeared In Hungary, in erder, joined
with us, to bring the war that desolates your fields to a
speedy conclusion.
Consider them not as enemies of your °pantry ; they are
the friends of your king, who support him in his purpose to
free Hungary from the oppressive yoke of suspicious and
foreign miscreants.
With the same 'discipline of my own troops will they
afford to every citizen the protection which he deserves, and
with the same rigour in the mastery of the rebel-
lion,r°e
until God's blessing gives the victory to the just cause.
Given at our palace of Bchiinbrun, May 12. 1849.
Faasz JOSZPI. • I
(Countersigned) H. SCHWARZINBURO.
The details are not given, but the report had at
Vienna arrived that Rub is at length again in the
bands of the imperialists, who took the town by storm,
after an obstinate resistance.
BAVARIA.—The chambers were opened on the
17th instant It is understood that an alliance,
offensive and defensive, has been concluded be-
tween Prussia, Austria, and Bavaria. The provi-
sional government of the Palatinate is composed of
the following individuals Reionardt, Cullman,
Hept, Schuler, and Kolb, who were elected at a meet-
ing of dAuties from popular assemblies in the Palati-
nate, held at Kaisenlantern. So far, the Palatinate is
now severed from the parent state. The deputies also
resolved to form an alliance, offensive and defensive,
with Baden.
BADEN.—The capture of General Hoffman (late
minister of war) and of 18 pieces of artillery
civic guard of Neustadt,is confirmed by the
Evenssig Gana* of the 19th inst. The national
committee for Baden have declared the ministerial
posts vacant, and have resolved to invite Hooker to
return from America. The strictest order prevails
throughout Baden, and the arming of the people in