The Express.
London, England, 1848-06-17 00:00:00

GERMAN Y.

The members of the Frankfurt and Berlin consti-
tuent assemblies have been, like our own legislators,
erjoying their Whitsun holidays. And their con-
stituents have been embracing the opportunity (as
used to be the case during such recesses here) to
hold meetings for the purpose of letting their repre-
sentatives know their minds. It would be unin-
structive to enumerate ill these meetings, but some
samples may serve to indicate the state of the public
mind in Germany. The apprehended Whit-Monday
demonstration in Frankfurt came to nought. A
republican meeting was Mid os the 12th on the
verge of a fir-wood near Affimbach, a s•nall roulade-
turiug :own in the Darmstadt territ,iry, about three
miles from Frankfort. Some thousands were present,
but no disturbance occurred. On the preceding even-
ing, some soldiers who had been placed under arrest
at Alfehbach were I:berati d by their comrades and
smite citizens. Um geoid tired with ball on the
liberators, and some ten persona were wounded. It
could not b.. discovered who had eiven orders to file.
Troops were forthwith detached from Darmstadt and
Affenbach. Whatever the o igin or nature of this
collision, no advantage appears to have been sought
to be taken of it by the parties holding the meeting.
On the same flay a meeting, i 0,000 strong, of persons
from Hesse Darmsmdt, Electoral Hesse, Nassau, aed
Franktort, was held at the wine-famous
town of lioeheitn (half-way between Frankfort and
Mayenee). Several members of the assembly, be-
longing to the extreme gauche, were present, and ad-
dressed the meeting.
AUSTRIA.—It is semi-officially stated in Vienna
that the Emperor—thanks to the efforts of Herr
eu Dabblindf and Weesenberg, who depicted to tiM
Majesty the real state of the Austrian capital—has
resolved to return shortly to it, and, alter showing
himself to the inhabitants, to proceed to Persenbeug
until u e meeting of the Diet. The Emperor has re-
fused to acknowledge the provisional government in
Prague. The national committee in Bohemia has
declared in favour of the two-chamber system.
The communications received by the Ailgemeine
Zeituny from lanspruck (to the 10th inst.) corrobo-
rate this news. The minicers were said to be urgent
with his Majesty to remove to some place nearer to
Vienna, as a preparatory step to his return. Count
Stadion was daily expected at Innspruck. Mons.
Morosini arrived there from Rome late on the even-
Mg of the 10th. The Pope's letter to the Emperor,
which we published some time ago, appeared in the
'Keno). Zeitung of the 9th inst. The provincial
diet of Tyrol met at Inn,pruck on the 10,h. The
Italian Tyrol has not sent a single deputy. The
busicess at the filet meeting was entirely of a formal
and routine nature.

According to the Austrian Lloyd of the Bth, the
ha!hut squadron returned and fired some guns at the
harbour, which were answered from the batteries with
such effect, that the ships got out of range as quickly
as possible. Austria seems threaten. don other fron-
tiers; besidca its maritime one. Our information leads
us to believe that, whether the report of a Russian
army having crossed the Pruth be true or not, a strong
Russian force has been concentrated in the province
of Bessarabia.

DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES.
The Copenhagen paptra ut the 10th June contain
the Danish version of the affair at Sundewitt. Gen.
Hedewitt claims a victory, on the ground of the attack
of the Germans on the Duppeler heights and the
head of the bridge having failed. He states that, on
the evening, of the sth, his troops occupied their
crigical position, but says nothing of the operations
of the Gth. The wounded on the Hanish side are said
to bo 199; the number of killed is not mentioned.
The affair seems, after all, not to have been a decisive
one. We are without liter intelligence from the
German side.

A letter from Malmo in the ifaniburyer Borsen-
lacge estimates the Swedish force assembled there
on the 6th at 15,000 men, and 60 to 70
guns ; and goes on to say : " The embarka-
tion of the Swedish troops at Gothenburg, on
board the Daniel ships sent to receive them, com-
menced at 1 a.m. on the 7th; the Danish steamers
took the transports in tow about 9 a.m." Complaints
are made by the writer who transmits this informa-
tion to the Hamburg paper of the insufficiency of the
transports sent by the Danes, and he represents the
Swedes as irritated in consequence ; but this is pro-
bably the view of a German partisan.
A large Russian squadron was seen at anchor on
the 13th between Moen and Erdsee.

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge honoured
Miss Coutts with their company at dinner yesterday cowling.
RESIGNATION OF COL. REID.—We learn that Col.
Reid has resigned the governorship of Barbadoes. This
demission is understood to have had its origin M the trans-
actions in St. Lucia now before the committee of the Privy
Council, the beginning of whose deliberations on the subject
were reported in yesterday's Express.
CALLS TO THE BAR.—INNER TEMPLE, JUNE IG.
A further call to the bar of students of this society was made
this evening. They comprise the following gentlemen :
Henry Edward Bennett, of St. John's College, Cambridge,
8.A.; John Joseph Arthur Shakspear, of '1 rinity College,
Cambridge, 8.A.; and Joseph Houston Browne, of the Uni-
versity of London, B.A.
DEVONSHIRE, New York packet-ship, left the
London Dicks yesterday with 73 cabin and 153 steerage pas-
scrigers, 340 tons of railroad iron, nal a large quaatity of
other freight.