The Express.
London, England, 1851-12-31 00:00:00

GERMANY.

A telegraphic dispatch, dated Vienna, Dec. 28,
announces the retirement of the Finance Minister,
Von Krauss, who is replaced by the Minister of

Commerce, Von 13aumgakner.
A letter dated Vienna, Dec. 27, says :—ln St.
Petersburg as well as here, Louis Napoleon is re-
garded as the conqueror of anarchy. An autograph
letter from the Emperor Nicholas has testified that
Monarch's high approbation and satisfaction.
In another, written on the 25th, we find the

following :
In addition to the total sum of 68,413,600 forms collected
by the loan is an item of 17 millions raised partly on
the old invasion bonds," and partly on account
of certain public institutions ; so that, according to
the official report, upwards of 85 millions and a
half were contributed. To judge by the self-complacent
tone of the ministerial journals, in reviewing the list of the
sums contributed, one would bo led to suppose that the
effects of the loan were at least commensurate with the

result so pompously announced. But this is, as you are
aware, far from being the cure---the market tieing still de-
luged with paper money equal to about 230 mil:ions of
florins, and gold and silver are at a premium of something
more than 20 per cent. In fact, the loan was universally
declared to be a complete lailure, in so far as its effect upon
the course of exchanged served as a criterion, tbo only
marked improvement for months past in the value of go-
vernment paper having arisen since the c2rce.ts__at_Patis_._

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BERLIN, Dac. 27.
The Sardinian ambassador extraordinary. here,
Marquis 1)e Ricci, has been recalled from motives of
economy. Count Redern will consequently be re-
called from Turin, and give over his 'business there
to a simple chargé d• affa ires. Baron D'Ohsson' who
acted as Swedish ambassador here from 1835 to 1850,
died yesterday at the advanced age of seventy-two,
universally respected and regretted.
The Krenz-Zeitung pointedly asserts to-day what
it lately hinted, that the King of Naples has been
required to act es umpire in the differences about the
demarcation of the confines of Holstein and

Schleswig.
Lord Palmerston is said to have sent a conciliatory
reply to the collective note of the Frankfort Diet,
calling the attention of the cabinet of St. James's to
tho manner in which political refugees abuse the
asylum granted thorn, and inviting the British go-
vernment to assume a position more accordant with
international duties and friendly relations to conti-
nental states. _ .

The German federal commission for marine affairs
has drawn up its report, setting forth that the North
Sea fleet must comprise at least four frigates, four
corvettes, nine war steamers, and twenty-seven
gun boats. It distinguishes six maritime dis-
tricts, namely :-1. The Mediterranean; 2. North
America, Mexico, and the West Indies. 3. The cast
emit of South America and the west coast of Africa.
4. The west coast of South America and the Pacific.
5. China, the Indian Gulph, New Holland, and New
Zealand. 6. The Indian Ocean, from the Moluccas
to the Cape of Good Hope. The first district, it says,
is sufficiently protected by the Austrian fleet; and it
would require too large a navy to keep ships perma-
nently stationed in all the other districts • but the
vessels of the North Sea fleet, it is proposed, shall
visit them all a few times every year, " in order to
inspire respect for tho German flag, and assure the
consular agents, and other Germans abroad, that
protection shall not be wanting in case of need."

The Leipzig Journal states—, that in consequen

of the Cuburg chamber having rejected the project
of uniting that duchy. with Gotha,' the duke
intends going to Vienna, in order to advise about the
best mode of effecting his proposed reforms. This
report, however, is quite at variance with the liberal
character hitherto assigned to his highness.
As delegates to the Vienna conference have been
further nominated :—Nassau, president Vollpracht ;
Oldenburg, M. von Philippshorn ; Saxony, upper
post director von Schimpf ; Hesse Darmstadt, M.
von Briegleben ; Brunswick, director von Amsberg,
not M. Krueger. A Vienna paper says that Baden
will appoint the Austrian commissioner Dr. Hock,
which must surely be a mistake. Lippe Detwold
has declined sending a delegate, on account of its
intimate relations with Prussia. Several dele•
gates will propose that in future consuls shall not
be appointed by separate German states, but only
by the Commercial Union. The Austrian ministry
also contemplates raising the excise duty on beet-
root sugar, as provided in the treaty between Prussia
and Hanover; an abolition of the river dues on the
Elbe within the Austrian territories is mentioned.

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The political divisions of the Austrian state are to
be consolidated. The Serbian Woiowodina is to be
attached to Hungary ; the coast district with Fiume
joined to Trieste; and Upper and Lower Silesia an-
nexed to Moravia. One of the motives of Baron
Jellachich's visit to Vienna is said to be the
obtaining of the imperial sanction for a rail-
way, which a Croatian company wishes to build
from Agram to Fiume, partly at its own
expense. The Ban supports the project on account
of the high military importance of such a means of
communication.

An Austrian, Captain Knechenbaecker, who
desertei to tho Italians in 1848, was arrested
in Paris among the barricade men on the 4th of
December, and delivered over by the French police
to the Austrian authorities, who will now carry
out the sentence of hanging, which they some time
since performed in effigy .
The final reply has been sent by the Vienna cabinet
to the Porte, relating to the difference about offence
given to an Austrian official by the Governor of the
Dardanelles, whose dismissal is demanded. It is
toilistly believed that this will be complied with,
big mops-Sod by Iteschid Puha, whose influence
is dim sal cob earnestly desires to reconcile his
gewerament with Austria.
llse remonstrance on the subject of the refugees,
addressed by the Federal Diet to the cabinet of St.
James's, was not voted unanimously, the non-assent-
ing plenipotentiaries were those of Hanover, Den-
mark (for Holstein), and Holland (for Luxembourg).
DEC. 28.
A railroad will be commenced next spring from
St. Petersburg, eia Wilna and Bialystock, to Warsaw,
nearly 700 English miles, to be completed in five
years, and without recourse to a loan.
The commercial treaty just concluded between
Prussia and Holland abolishes the differential duties
on Zollverein produce imported into Dutch colonies
from Dutch ports, in Dutch or Zollverein ships; ad-
mits , several specified articles into those colonies
at a very low duty, namely mineral waters,
Nuremberg wares, silica, &c. • places the Zollve-
rein's ships in the Dutch colonies, as regards
port dues and export duties, on the same footing as
Dutch ships; and materially reduces the transit

duties for the Zollverein's commerce through I follan&
The project of a central federal German police
commission has been abandoned. Since the Parisian
coup-de-main the German governments no longer
find it necessary to keep people in a fever of alarm
at pretended socialistic and democratic conspiracies.
The Austrian fleet has anchored off' Castel Nuevo,
with a view to prevent any landing of Turkish troops.

VIENNA, Esc. 20.
When Austria recovered possession of the South
Tyrol, in 1814, she found the system of municipal
government in a state of very high perfection.
Every little town, nay, every village, had its local
administration, and regulated its own affairs. Even
universal suffrage was established. Every one, ex-
cept the great landholders, was satisfied. So de-
sirable a state of things, however, was not of course
allowed to last ; the old obsolete forms, and so forth,
came back with the rule of Hapsburg mid °ppm-
akin. All existing regulations, no matter how wise
or necessary, were at once destroyed, and an army
of new officials, with titles ten and twelve syllables
long, impeded alike the course of justice and the
march of improvement. At length some show of
remonstrance appears to have been got up, and the
affair forms one of the most immediate difficulties of
government.
A great deal is being said about the present tran-
quillity of Vienna, and this fact appears more or less
to falsify the accounts daily received in England of
the disturbed and discontented state of Austria. It
must by no means be inferred, however, from the
apparent calm that these accounts are incorrect.
The elements of discord are fermenting beneath
the surface ; the next outbreak will be a tre-
mendous explosion, but till then the police
are too strong for any petty disturbances
to show themselves very often. Nevertheless,
• few evenings since, on a play called the " Carl-
whaler" being performed, a very decided demon-
stration was made in favour of the republican prin-
ciples it contains. They were applauded to the echo,
and the emperor is said to have left his box. The
play has been since forbidden. This is a tolerably
strong evidence of the state of public opinion, con-
sidering it can find no vent in the papers.
The salt treaty between Austria and Itu.ssia ex-
pires next year, and negotiations have already com-
menced for its renewal.
On the 18th instant, it being the birthday of the
Emperor of Russia, a solemn act of homage was
offered by the Austrian court at the Russian em-
bassy, every one except the Emperor himself appear-
ing in the presence of Count Nleyendortf, the Russian
minister, in their uniforms of state.
An English architect, Mr. Clark, is occupied in
building a winter haven at Petah. It is to be made
largo enough for 1,080 vessels.

Dye. 24.

Accounts from Russian Poland state the last year's
harvest to have been so very bad that no more corn is
likely to be exported from that quarter. Throughout
Austria, both in town and country, the prices of provi-
miens have risen enormously; a factpartly to be accounted,
for by some of the peasantry refusing to cultivate
their land under existing regulations. Large tracts
of land, formerly devoted to the cultivation of tobacco
in Hungary, are especially lying waste from this
reason.
The necessaries of life throughout Austria have
risen nearly So per cent., from the combined causes
of bad government, and the depreciation of the cur-
rency. So little, indeed, is the paper money esteemed,
or, rather, so universal is the distrust in it, that
people are not persuaded without great difficulty to
sell anything they can keep, and merchants distinctly
refuse to execute extensive orders unless from
abroad, where they will be paid in silver ; it is a cri-
minal offence to insist on this condition in Austria.
It might be supposed that the value of land and
houses would rise enormously under such circum-
stances, and that people would be anxious to invest
their capital on almost any terms; but this is com-
pletely contrary to facts. Sales of estates can scarcely
be effected at all • and the reigning desire of every
one is to have all they possess either in foreign se-
curities or in as portable a form as possible.
The Austrian Lloyd's Company, at Trieste, have
sent to England to buy five new steamers for their
service. Baron llruck, the enlightened ex-minister
of Commerce, is chief director of this company.

We have received Athens papers of the 17th in-
stant. The emirrier trAthenes contains a report of
a stormy debate which had taken place in the ,
Chamber of Deputies. M. Chourmouzi attacked the;
ministry, and particularly the minister of war, on
the subject of the brigandage, the violence oommit-
tod by the mobile columns, and the protection ac-
rordtsl to the fatuous brigand, Sigditza, which the
chsmber of accusation had sent before the courts,
but *horn M. Spiro Milio had, notwithstanding his
crimes, sheltered in the ranks of the army. M.
Chouritiouzi proved that brigandage had not been
suppressed as it might have been. So '
violent did the debate become, that, at the
order of the President, the gendarmes in-
vaded the tribunes, and prepared to (clear the
chamber. Order being, however, re-established,
this measure was not rendered necessary, and the
debate proceeded, the speeches on both sides being
full of furious invectives and personalities. Eventually
the chamber declared the explanations of the Minister
of War to be satislactory. The project for giving a
pension of 3,00 dnaehnuis a month to M. Georges
Condouriotis had been adopted by a large majority of
the chamber.
The same newspaper contains a long answer from
the Greek government to the memorandum addressed
to it from the Foreign-office regarding the brigandage
prevalent during the past few years. The ministry
state that their efforts have barn continuously and suc-
essfully directed to the repression of piracy and rob-
bery within their jurisdiction.

Cbe Court.

WINDSOR, Dec. 30.

The Queen walked in the Ilome-park and Slopes
this morning. The Prince of Wales, the l'rineess Royal,
ponyouner of the royal family, took their usual
and walking exercise.
Prince Alhert went out ohnoting this forenoon, accom-
panied by Prince Nicholas of Nassau, Baron lhntinek, and
lord Cowley. Colonel Bouverie attended on Prines: Albert
sad Baron lladeln on Prince Nicholas of Nassau.
At the rural table last evening at the Cantle were the
Duchess of {tent, Prince Nichol.' of Nassau, the lady in
waiting to the Duchess of Kent, the Baronesa de $ teth,
the Bares Bentinek, Lord and Laity Cowley, the Right
ilea. 11. Labouchere, Baton lladeln, and Baron Roggen-
back.

Earl Granville, the Queen's Principal Secretary of State
for Foreign Affnrs, held a diploniatie levee at four o'clock
ymerday afternoon, at the Foreign-oftlec, Downing-street.
the reception eras MtenclAl by the Ansbaseador of France
Wount Walewdei). The Ministers of Belgium (N. Van de
W,yer). Baer,. Ayres (M. Moreno), Bavaria (Baron de
(AV)), Russia (Baron Brunnow), Prusoia (Chevalier Bun-
gee), Sweden end Norway (Baron de lath:awn), United
Fates of America (Mr. Abbott Lawrence), Greece (Mr.
Trienupi), Turkey (M. Musurus), Austria (Count Boot),
l'artiqal (Count de Lavradio), Brazils (Chevalier de Ma-
redo), Nardi., and the Two Walks (Prince Carini), Persia
(•hitfee Khan). CharOs d'Affaires of Pere (Mr. Rivera),
Is smirk (M. tic Mello), Spain (M. Comps), t3ardinza
(the Marquis ()Odin), Guatemala sad Costa Ries (M.
Walk rant' snit Colonel Facie. Their Riesileasise sp
pared in their respective diplomatic osetainee, sad each u
were memliers of unites of knighthood woes their rospese
tile insignia. The reception was ecnielessed at Ulf-put
ustlock.

(Pros at Wars Gasefte.l

WlNDsnit CAsrt.g, DEC. 29.—This day had an-
Ciller of her Majesty:—His Excellency Mons. Alexandre
Cabana Waleereki, Ambassador from the French Republic,
to deliver a letter from the President of the French Repub.
Lc, accompanying • preeent of tapestry from the French
satim on the occasion of the Meat Exhibition; and the
baron de Mutineer, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister
Irknipotentiary from the Emperor of all the &Isaias, on his
'aura to England, after a temporary absence : to which
they were respectively introduced by the Earl Granville,
her Msjesty's Secretary of State for Fordo Affairs.
CoIIYISSIONS SIGNED ET TILE LORD-LIEUTENANT
or Fireentits.—John Amtruther Thomson, Esq., Roger
Sinclair Aytoso, Eq., and James Touneend Oswald.
to be deputy ►ieutenants.

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COMMISSION SIGNED BY TILE LORD-LIEUTENANT
or LAM:ASH I 11.11.—Itobcrt Montague llornby, dent., to be
ensiun in the 3rd Regiment of the Duke of Lancaster's Own
Mania.

LORD NORMANDY we are assured has never written
anything on French politics to any Frenchmen not at the
time connected with the government of France. And in
alluding in this journal to papers tcised by the police
agents of Louis Napoleon, when General Cavaignac was
arrested in Paris, on the morning of the coup data, it was
not intended to impute any improper conduct to the English
ambassador in that city.

MR. LABOUCHERE, THE PRESIDENT OF THE
B,IA•D or Tutor., is at present on a visit to Manehestar.
He is the gust of Mr. Thomas Bailey, president of the
Maseheder Chamber of Commerce.
BISHOP PHILI.POTIN AND TILE EVANGELICAL
CL/ACM—The Bishop of Exeter seems determined eat to
tolerate the evangelical cicrgy in his diocese. flues he
has, as we announced the other day, issued • inesition
against the Rev. 11. Newton, who wee selected, Are his
well-known piety and seal, by the Rev. W. Howard, rater
of St. Thomas, near Exeter, as the curate of that mai
The parishioners, naturally very indignant at this pew&
lag on the part of their diocesan, are making greet mil
sums's] cautious to indemnify Mr. Newton he
the loss of his curacy. The Rev. John Matehnni.
of St. Andrew's,. Plymouth, whe has frequently mitered the
hits with the melt rev. combatant, and to wham It vas
rumored the bishop bad extended the olive Irma Miss es
a late visitation to that town, hes ppaabiiely eseribeid
the fund. It will perhaps be remsmlered that, emme time
ago, the Bishop of Exeter refused to license a mei NW.
mated by the Rev. J. W. Humorof Torah_ ea ogee'
gelical divine of some note in the deeds Hems. The poserds
of refusal were the " baptismal regmeradea swesties."
and Mr. Burroughs being determinist net to Lee a herr
ran curate of the bishop's stamp has riled In the wire eme
of a Scripture reader, with whose label" in
and at th direction of the vicar, it is esid,the e=tr:
not interfere. Rumour says that If the fight rev. pikes
eas, by any possibility, rake out the dying rasa slam
di MUM against this procedure, he will be sure to de it.
Tax EDINBURGH RuPOl.3l COMMITS* amminble
la Ifeiday next to mature measures for bailee apubile
merig to ascertain the sentiments of the mmmWty at
tie nitlempuisoseleret of Parameter, rediew—ilmeineri.
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