The Express.
London, England, 1851-01-29 00:00:00

GERMANY.

The papers re-assert that events in France have
frightened the conference in Dresden into the
rewind= of establishing a provisional central power
—a new interim, in fact—to be placed in the hands
of Austria and Prussia alone. The impracticability
of the scheme lately proposed will be fully
proved should this provisional power be set up.
A force of 100,000 men is to be placed at its disposal,
and Austria has signified her wish that the command
of this force should be given to Prussia. The papers
'gee, in this apparent generosity on the part
of Austria, a design to identify Prussia as
mush as possible with despotism, by making her
its executioner; by which, as the great police power
of all Germany, she could render herself universally
unpopular. Austria is still making all efforts to gain
proselytes to her Zoll union projeet, and the agita-
tion against it on the post of Prussia and her
confederates is increasing daily, At the meeting
of the Zoll Congress at Vienna, fourteen of
the deputies left the Assembly, as the Minister
of Commerce had prohibited the discussion of
principles. Prohibition and protection were the only
two principles recognised. The introduction of free
trade was repudiated alike by the Minister of Com-
merce and all the deputies, but a tendency that way
was apprehended by some. The deputies who had
threatened :to throw up their missions have re-
turned to the Assembly, on the declaration of M.
von Bruck that protection is the principle on which
all their proceedings are to be based. M. Kraus,
President of the Second Coart of Cessation, has been
appointed the successor of M. Schmerling.
A proclamation was placarded in the streets of
Hamburg iin the 25th, announcing the arrival of the
Austrian troops, and calling upon the inhabitants to
give them a suitable reception. Those on whom
troops are quartered, are to receive, to lighten
the burthen, twelve shillings (Hamburg money) per
day, of which the city pays eight shillings. The
Austrians were expected at Hamburg on the 28th.
Bitux, hot. 27.—Voluntazy Loan, 1081 ; New Loan,
Foot and eMalt per Cents., 100; Natioaal Debt, 841; Com-
mercial Marine Society. Premium, 127 ; Bank Shares. 96.
VIENNA, Jaw. 25.—Five per Cent. Metalliques, 951;
Pour-and-a-Half per Crate., ditto, 831. Bank Shares,
1137. Exchange on London. 12.40.

UNITED STATES.
Our correspondent writes :

NEW YORK. Jaw. 14.
This abolition movement received its greatest impulse at
the teat Presidential eli mom, when Mr. Van Buren, being
disappointed in his aspirations for a re-nomination and re•
election, took ground against the southern states, whose
cause he had always previously supported. His son,
a clever, wiry, and fluent youth, " took the stump"
I and produced such a division in the democratic ranks that
General Taylor, the whig candidate, was materiuly assisted,
Mr. Van Buren's plan was to hold the balance of power and
compel the denvoraticconse rvatives • ithe r to uni to an behalf of
Ilia fatter (Cr a third rate for the presidency, or of himself as
United Sates sen►tor from New York. In this he has been
most signally defeated. His followers have forsaken hint,
his party is dispersed, and there is none poor enough to do
him reverence.

Oa the evening of the Bth of January he had the boldness
to atend a public ball at Tammay Hell, a well known place
of public resort, which is owned by a democratic society of
this city. He was rudely received, requested to withdraw,
and insulted in various ways. He bore this treatment with
great good humour and firmness, for he saw how critical his
position as a politician was. He carrieu himself bravely
through the whole night, but his feelings must have been
sorely tried. At the end of each toast three groans wore
celled for and given at the mention of his father's name, and
the manifestations were strong and violent.
Our news from Nicaragua is interesting, but not very
encouraging. A large number of American travellers have
crossed by that route, but they have met with great delays
and difficulties. The last party which came across were
nearly a month on the wey, and were subjected to great
difficulties. They navigated the lake in a sailing vessel, and
came down the river in bungoes. Since the Americans have
made their appearance in that quarter prices have nearly
doubled. At Grenada, Rye or sir hotels or taverns have
been opened by the Yankees, and the people there are in
ecstasies with the prospect of having business and commerce
with the United States.

Our local news is somewhat interesting. The arrival of
the City of Glasgow at Poilsdeiphia his been the subject of
great rrj icing. This is the first time it foreign steamer ever
entered that port. To solemnise the occuion properly, the
legislature of the state came down in a body to Pailadelphia
to see her and bacquet on board of her. The usual quantity
of speeches were made, and of toasts ware given. Here we
rather smile at the exaggeration of a trifling incident. Still,
yin may perceive what pleasure it gives as to lacrosse the
intercourse between your nation and ours.

DR. POSEY ON THE PRAYER-EOM—Dr. Posey,
in a " Letter to the Bishop of Loudon in Explanation of
some Statements by the Rev. W. Dodsworth," says, " It ie
worse than idle to talk, as some have done, of putting down
' Tractarianfsm,' in order to check sooenione to Rome. Such
might drive hundreds from the church for tots; but while
that precious jewel, the Prayer•bouk, remains, they cannot
destroy or weaken Tractarianiam. It was out of Holy
&rictue and the formularies of the church that Tractarianism

arose. It was cherished by oar English &elute. It war
ripened by the fathers. It war ripened while most of the
writers koew scarcely • Roman book, and only controver-
'lolly. Trattarianism was entirely the birth of the English
church. Ita lite must be co-existent with the formularies
with which it is embodied. Tracteriaciam was net beheaded
with Laud, nor trampled under foot in the Great Rebellion,
nor corrupted by Charles 11., nor expelled with the non-
jurors, nor burnt, together with the Common Prayer-book,
to Scotland, nor extinguished by the degradation of the
church through Walpole, nor in America by the long.deeied
episcopate. Even the pared and :maimed Prayer-book ot the
church in the United States still affords it a home • and the

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sameness of the struggles implies the sante priccip • of e. 4
Referring to the anii•P•pal excitement the rev. gentleman
•ays " That cry has come in part from undefined fears, in
part it comes from thou* who would desire an amalgamation
of protestantism, by destroying what is the charactenstio of
the church of England. Its real aim mast be, not man nor
their teaching, real or supposed, but the mane and swan•
tee of that teaching, the Begliah prayer book. That prayer
book poreree the hearts of the people, the real people of the
char.h of England, her devout communicants, whether
amoog the educated or the village poor. A louder cry would
rise up in its &lance, not to the earthly sovereign, but to
Rim who would hear—the Ring of kings, and the Lord of
lords. The prayer book, as it is, blase hearts faster to the
church of England than the episcopate. The very feeling
which has now been raised against innovations (whatever
they be) would tell with tenfold force against any mutila-
tion of Mom services, wherewith their fathers and their
lathery' fathers praised, prayed to, and worshipped God,
The prayer book, which passed through the fanfare of the
rebellion, will net be allowed to perish now."
FILE AT THE New CROSS RAILWAY STATION.—
Lest night a lire broke out at the carriage depot omnected
with the New Cram Station of *a Loudon, Croydon and
Bright.' Railway. This building, which was formed almost
exelmively of timber, was within a short dktaues of the
booking offices, and was some hundred feet long, and of ran.
tient width to allow of three lines of rails. Ta• latter were
moored with carriages, consisting of woad and third class
and a few of the first class. The Are commend at a few
minutes after 10 o'clock, and wham dlemeered wee ramming
up the timber walls. An Instant alma wee given, and
aristanos tiering arrived, the most sersanoss exertions were
made to cut off the spread of the lame sod remove the
various carriages. Untortaaately, the lams travelled with
tha rapidity of lightaiag, aad ow "sedgy measly 150
het in length of the *eddies promoted toe 111M1.01110
sheet of dame. • gnat many aerrhges of all obsess
were pulled out of the biasing praoles, wets in a
amoral state of ignition, bat aMt ember, probably as
many se 20 or 30, took fire almost dookeasonaly, and the
cal y caws there appeared of saving the smeesiader of this va'
liable property was by pulling down thabhaffing at the points
nes yet reached by the fire. The to the
railway emespany, with those of thess="l4l, West
of England Company, and others, under the personal
soperiatodenes et Mr. Ihaidweed, Mr. Henderson, the
chief dams of the district, and Mr. Csanorton, rendered
all the aid that was poasible ; bat at half-patt one o'clock this
••the are was far from being entirely extinguished,althoug all danger of any further extensioa wee over. The
dosage doe ono be very considerable. Ons thing is
fortunate, that otwithatanding the great ices of .
the buinass of the liras
will not
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' WINDSOR, TITMDAT, Jaw. 28.
The Queen walked this morning in the Slopes.
The Hoyal Faintly took walking and pony exercise in the
groan& ironed the Castle. Priam Albert went out hunt•
ing this morning, attended by General Wilms' and Lieut.-
Colonel P. U. Seymour. Lnd John Russell and Lord
Seymour left the Castle to-day.

The Queen will hold a Privy Council on Monday
next, the 3rd February, at Buckingham Palace. Sum.
menus were ironed yeeterday from the Privy Couneil•ot6a
to the limisten sad Offioen of Bute.

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A cabinet council was held at half-past two o'clock
yesterday afternoon, at the Foreign-office. The Martinis of
Lansdowne arrived in town in the forenoon, front he seat,
Bowood Park Wilts, and wee present at the meeting. Lord
John Rimed returned to town yesterday from Windsor
Castle, and attended the oenacil. The other ministers
present were the Lord Chancellor, the Eirl of Minto, Sir
George Grey, Viscount Palmerston, Earl Grey, the Chancel-
lor of the Exchequer, Bir Francis Baring, the Earl of
Carlisle, the Right Mon. Henry Lsbauchere, the Marquis
of Clanricarde, and the Ri4ht Hon. Fox Maul.. Sir John
Hobboues arrived in town at half-past three o'clock, and
joined his colleagues. The council eat three hours.
Mr. Howe bad an interview with Earl Grey yes-
terd!y.sttheColonial -

Mi.. Rude, M.P. for Paisley, had an interview
with the Chancellor of the Eschequer yesterday. The Chief
COMI:041101111r of the Poor Lowe had also an interview with
the Right Hon. Baronet yesterday, at his residence in
Downing Street.
Lord Seymour returned to town yesterday from
Windsor Castle.

The Postmuter-General had an interview on Mon-
day with the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial
Office trom the governor of the North American Colonies.

Lord Ebriagton is about to retire from the Secre-
taryship of the Poor Low Board, and will be succeeded by
Mr. R. W. Grey, as parliamentary secretary. Mr. Nicholls
also retiree on account of ill health, and w ill be succeeded as
permanent secretary by Lord Courtenay, who baa already
acted so a poor-law inspector for eereral years.

The Rev. Mr. Brodie, second son of Sir Benjamin
Brodie, has been appointed by the Bishop of Winchester
to New Alresford, but whether as its incumbent, or only
as curate to the Rev. George Sumner, rector of Old Alresford,
is not, as yet, certainly known in the parish.

(Prom lilt nlittt's Caulk.)

DOWNING-STREET, JAN. 2l.—The Queen hen been
pleased to re-appoint Sir Charles Augustus Fits Roy, Kat.,
to be Capt.-General and Governor-in-Chief in and over the
colony of New South Wales, and to appoint him to be Cop-
t►in.Gsneral and Governor-in-Chief in and over the colonies
of Van Diemen's Land, Victoria, and South Australia, and
to be Governor General of all the colonies of Australia,
including the colony of Western Australia; further been
pleased to re-appoint Sir William Thomas Denison, Kat.,
Captain in the corps of Royal Engineers, to be Lieutenant.
' Governor of the colony of Van Diemen's Lind, and Sir Henry
Edward Fox Young. Knt., to be Lieutenant. Governor of
the colony of South Australia, and to appoint Charles Joseph
La Tube, Esq., to be Lieutenant-Governor of the colony of
Victoria.

FOREIGN-OFFICE, JAN. 27.—The Queen has been
graciously pleased to appoint Lieut-Gen. the Earl of West-
morland, G.C.8., now her Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary
and Minister Plenipotentiary at the Court of Berlin, to be
her Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Pleni•
potentiary at the Court of Vienna; also been graciously
pleased to appoint Rear Admiral Sir Edmund Lyons. Bart.
and G.C.8., now her Majesty's Minister Plenipotentiary to
the Swiss Confederation, to be her Majesty's Envoy Extra-
ordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at the Court of
Stockholm; al,o been graciously pleased to appoint Arthur
Charles Magesis, Esq., now acting Minister Pleaipoten•
tiary at the Court of Vienna, to be her Majesty's Minister
Plenipotentiary to the Swiss Confederation; also been
graciously pleased to appoint the Hon. Henry George
Howard, now Secretary to her Majesty's Legation at the
Court of Lisbon, to be Secretary to her Majesty's Legation
at the Curt of Vienna._ _ _ _

FOREIGN-OFFICE, JAN. 27.—The Queen bas been
pleased to approve of Mr. Thomas Hailing as Consul at
CCM. s for his Msjesty the King of the Belgians.
FOREIGN-OFFICE, JAN. I s.—The Queen has been
graciously pleased to appoint John Bell, Esq., now British
Vice-Consul at Oran, to be her Majesty's Consul in Algeria.
WIIITEUALL, JAN. 27.—Her Majesty has been
pleaeod to grant the office and plate of Reader of Physic in
the Usiver►i:y of Cambridge unto Henry John Holies Bond,
M.D., in the room of John Haviland, Id.D., deceased.

CUIdhIIBBION SIGNED BY THE LORD LIEUTENANT
OP LANCASlillill. —Joseph Jones, En., to be Deputy-
Lieutenant.

NAVAL MEDALS.—Admiralty, Jan. 25.—Three
years and seven months have now elapsed since notice was
first issued by command of her Majesty, in the Gazette of
Ist June, 1847, requiring all persons to make application
who should consider thews/len qualified to receive a medal
for their services during the late wars, ea therein specified.
Although above 17,000 officers, seamen, and marines, and
soldiers serving as marines, have, alter investigation, been
declared qualified, it is supposed that none claims may be
still outstanding. My Lords the Commissionen of the
Admiralty therefore direct, that all remaining claims, under
the Gaunt notices of Ist June, 1847, let June, 1848, and
11th February, 18i0, .be brought forward without loss of
time; and notice is hereby given, that no claim will be taken
into consideration unless it is submitted before the Ist May
next ensuing.—By command of their tordehipa, J. PARKEL