The Express.
London, England, 1851-01-02 00:00:00

ROMAN STATES.

Letters from Bologna state that on the 18th a party
of Austrian soldiers bad a skirmish with nine ban-
ditti, headed by Il Passatore himself. A soldier was
killed, and another wounded in the contest; the ban-
ditti were, however, put to flight, after the loam of one
man, named Lami, on whose body articles of value
were found.

THE LEVANT, formerly the Urgent, government
SUMO,. which rowed@ from Southawston on the 3rd inst.,
to convey wails between Barrow and itexandris, w II take
not 100 troops (rappers and mint's), lath their effioas, to
Malta.

bECE4SIONB.—A contemprary sty. that Mr. Ser.
jeact B .llaew bee beta received into the Roman cathao
church. The French papers announce ikewiee the conver-
mica to that church of the Rev. Mr. Ltrimendeir, who hts
made his profession at Marseilles.

GERMANY.
Dates from Frankfort and Cassel are of the 31st of
December. The federal troops have commenced their
march to Holstein. The corps of Gen. Legeditscla
left Fulda on the 30th ult. ' • procztded in two columns
to Fritzler and Cassel, wtence they will march to'
Cart.haten. The Hamburg papers state that these
troops will proceed by we 3 of Mszdeburg.
Berlin correspondence, of the 30th alt., states that
Prince Sc iwarzcnberg intet.ded on that evening to
leave Berlin for Vienna. He hue conferred with
Baron Nlanteuffel and the two commissiontre for
Holstein. An energetic course of action had bean

decided upon.
The following letters are from the German papers :
BERLIN, Dec. 28.
Prince Scbwarzenberg and Baron Mantenffel
arrived here from Dresden to-day at half-put one.
They were received at the railway station by several
royal Ip'railnaceee,Scwhhwearrezeanybaerrtg.
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the officers.ments had becu prepared for him. At three o'clock
all the ministers dined with the King and his Austrian
guest, at Charlottenberg. To-morrow Baron Man-
, teuffel gives a grand diplomatic banquet. This visit
is intended to be a public demonstration of the agree-
ment of the two powers. Meanwhile we are assured
that the chief difficulties of the situation are by
no means overcome. The Dresden correspondent of
the National kitting writes:—" Prussia requires such
an enlargement of the right to form alliances as shall
enable her to construct a narrower union within the
limits of the confederation, into which Austria is to
enter with all her provinces. Austria refuses to
mit such an extension of the right of union, de-
ehring that such a right would cause the destruction
of the wider confederation, leaving a sonderbund
(party league) in its steed. Negotiations are pro-
ceeding on this head at the present moment."
This report has internal probability. nlanteuffel
does not wish to surrender the Prussian constitutioo,to
which the King has sworn ; again, he does not wish to
give free play for any long time to the constitution-
alism of the smaller states. The right of free union
would preserve an expedient; but precisely on this
account will Prince Schwarzsuberg not permit it.
Instead of this the Pri.ies urges the strenehening of
the executive power, and the return to the ha•td
police ['patens of government. A division of the
executive in favour of the constitutions of Germany is
what Austria will never grant. What the nature of
the joint exercise of executive power agreed on at
Ohnutz is likely to be may be gathered from its first
attempts in Electoral Hume. We have no need to com-
ment upon the acts oldie Prussian commissary there.
Count Leiningen has swayed a dictatore in the name
of the Band to which the presence of the Prussian
commissary only lends additional Eclat. It is rea-
sonable to expect that the affairs of Holstein will
follow the same rale. Some papers, indeed, bring
intelligence, apparently official in its character, which
removes the last doubt on the subject. The Mogileberg
Correspondence and Vass contain communie aeons in
which the Holstein government is called upon to avoid
the like treatment trim Prussia which Ileum has en-
dured from Austria by speedy submiseieu. "Prussia,"
the article says, " will thus get out of the difficulties
into which she has fallen in the last two years. The
more difficulties are opposed to the mediation of
Prussia in Holstein the more energetically will
Austria insist upon interfering directly in the cause.
The con.missaries of the two governments will pro-
ceed to Holstein, and should that duchy. yield neither
to their persuasions nor threats, Auetrian execution
troops will make their appearance.
MUNICH, DEC. 25.
The government has by its blind zeal against the
press incurred a serious defeat. The editor of the
Fite den, who was prosecuted for an attack on the
Diet, which was construed into contempt of the
Bavarian government, has beeu acquitted. Every
one, except the government, saw from the beginning
that this trial must end in an acquittal. Our law of
the press makes not the slightest (Allusion to the Diet,
cr of offences against its authority. For at the time
that the law was made, in the first month of the pre-
sent year, no one dreamt of the possibility of the
Diet's continard existence. It was fur this reason
that the words "contempt of the Bavarian govern-
ment" were added to the charge. The defeat of the
government is the more keenly felt, inasmuch as it
has identified itself osteneibly, in this instance, with
the Echenheimtaseen Club. The jury. who acquitted
the accused was, as indeed all oar Juries are, com-
, red of the high tax paying and conservative class.
fhe Landtag is ummoned for the ;fed of February.
HAMBURG, Dec. 2e.
Intelligence has just ben received at Kiel of the
nomination of the Austrian General Mensdorf-Pouilly
as federal commissary, charged to proceed, with
General Thurmer, the commissary appointed for
Prussia, to Holstein, in order to endeavour to persuade
the Steathalterechaft to disarm, before recurring to
coercive measures. Looking at the national enthu-
siasm which reigns among the troops, and of the
enterprising spirit of their generals, it is not easy to
see how a disarmament can take pier:* without pro-
voking a bloody, and even a desperate, resistance on
the part of the Holstein army. In this point of view
the arrival of a corps d'ormee, undi r the order of
Field-Marshal Lsgedisch, may be considered neces-
sary, and it appears certain.
A new and extensive series of promotions has been
announced within the last taw days in the holstein
army. A coneithrable quantity of war material, with
numbers of pontoons and waggons, are daily sent to-
wards head-quarters at Rendsburg, and, if we are to
credit letters received from that neighbourhood, the
greater number of the Prussian sub-officers and pri-
vates recently called home in coos, quence of the order
of mobilisation are re-entering the Holstein army.
Their number is estimated in Berlin at from 1,300 to
2,000 men. These statements, if true, are of great im-
portance while the Dresden conference is sitting, but
they require confirmation.
It is also important to remark that the King isr
Denmark, as Duke and sovereign of the duchies of
Holstein and Lauenburg, and a member of the Ger-
manic Confederation, has been officially invited to
send a plenipotentiary to Dresden. Baron Pechlin,
who has been selected by the King to this post, ha
left Copenhagen to take part in the ennferences.
I have on different occasions written to you on the
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of the present session. The representatives
of the different orders discussed the proposed
measures separately, and, according to the Swedish
constitution, their separate decisions can only ac-
quire the force of law by the agreement of the majo-
rity of the four assemblies. The chamber of the
clergy and that of the nobility have rejected the re-
forms by great majorities; the deliberations of the
two other chambers have thus become useless, and
Sweden thus preserves for an indefinite term her re-
presentative system of four chambers—of the clergy,
nobility, citizens, and peasants.
Vizerxe, Dec. 30. Five per Cent. Metalliques, 951;
Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 821. Bank Shares, 1,146.
Exchange on L^ndoo.
BERLIN, Dec. 31.—Voluntary Loan, 105 ; New Loan,
Four-and-a-Half par Cents., 99/ ; National Debt, 841 ;
Commercial Manna Society's Premium, 120; Bank
Shares, 96/.

CARDLNAL WISEMAN.