The Express.
London, England, 1848-12-15 00:00:00

poet of inea's thoughts, not • mere in fesate
volumes. Bat this advantage would tabbed by org
imp airinganising ,
m
in each county or police disiziet
a board for anaging, and applying th,
bell rates, elected by the ratepayers. The
imatlemea with a tarn for public b.sinem wotZult4
aaqde nom for millivatisg it at such a board, 1,4
'pea them the shako of the ratepaprs wadd is the
mdsdlyef owe be likely to falL The duties of few
st sloe dioki police, police judge, er, and eh/
jsim in oases where a limited amount missile
at Mos, would be most advantageously devolved is.
• pallemkmal ellioial, who might be appointed eiQ
by °
ale bowl: er by the vote of the ratepayers, so the
now Mist advantage of such an arraugeeteet "situ
be ardor official aptitude in these local coasts. The
wen would be the avoidance of these
slinablo respecting jurisdiction, to ide:tit
rand at the outset, with their tendency to bawl
I medal torture on the unfortunate accused, and seap
those to failitate the escape of the guilty. Aud a eat
ogkopertrat consideration is the greater
tom weld be the result of combining in soens°ll2
slut pans dut.es now performed after a ene
and inadequate fashion by a multiplicity of offic4
some of them entirely irresponsible. But to earners
the efficiency of this remodelled organisation of too
police, it would be a to attach to each police
magistrate an officer a to the proems*
fiscal in the sheriff and burgh courts of fo3thed,
This officer is in point of fact the public promeatte
the district--an official quite as necessary for a gtoi
system of police as a public prosecutor in the sumo
courts for a good system of penal law.

GERMANY.

PRUSSIA.—We have Berlin journals of the 12th
instant.

Sommerfeld, who commanded the detachment of
soldier. that drove away the members of the National
Assembly from the Schtitzenhans on the 13th alt., hea
been dismissed the service for not reporting to hes&
quarter. the letter which he received from a liaM.
nant of his company, declaring that all persona who
took part in the proceedings against the National as.
sembly were traitors to the state. As for the lint&
nant (Herr von Wiedburg), he has been sent to the
fortress of Spandau.
AUSTltLk.—Accounts from Vienna are of Dec, g,
Military executions are not yet over. On the Bth, a
blacksmith, named Horvath, was shot outside the city
because he had concealed a gun and some ball Carte
ridge in a warehouse in the Leopoldstadt
It is supposed that the Austrian government wal
shortly foltow the example of the Prussian one, and die.
solve the Assembly at Kremmier, after it has voted, sr
refused to vote, the credit of 80,000,000 of florins
demanded by minister.. The vote in favour of the
demand will in the eyes of ministers render the pm
sent diet ono , and the refusal will ahibit
it as a useless appen ge to government.
The Pesth House of Reprtsentat:ves hu declared
the throne of Hungary. vacant, and the home cl
Hapsburg unworthy to reign. It is said that Keesth
has written to Mr. Styles, the United States minister,
in order to request him to use his influence with Wis.
dischgritz to utdme the last-named to consent to
three months' truce with Hungary.
The Moravian diet has decided that the ward,
" gentle and good" shall be added to the name of the
Emperor Ferdinand in the annals of Moravia and the
documents of the diet.

During the sitting of the diet at Kremsier on the
7th inst., the Minister of the Interior stated that no
military dictatorship existed in Vieut4 ; that tlis
executive power would be fully exercised by the Rm.
peror, under the responsibility of the ministry; that
extraordinary occurrences had brought about the en.
ceptional state of things in Vienna and Lemberg;
that the force of arms most be employed to pat don
the insurrection in a neighbouring country ; that all
the papers relating to the execution of Hobert Blom
bad been banded to the two commi.sionere from the

central executive of Germany • that the laws pseud
by the Frankfort National Assembly respecting the
inviolability of the members of that body, had Dot
been officially communicated to the Austrian mem
meta ; and that such laws were not binding spot
Austrian tribunals, until the relations betweenAistria
and Germany had been fully determined by astral
consent.

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The tol:owing is a copy of the letter written by tin
unfortunate Robert Blum to his wife an hour beim
his murder :

My dear good I,ll44—Farewell. farewell fur the tiros gra
call eternity, but which will not be so. Brice up our—ire
only your—children to be honest men ;so they arm
disgrace their father's name. Bell cur little property with
the aid of our friends. God and all good men will help you
also. AU that I feel and would say at this moment maps
me in tears ; only one* more, then, farewell, my demist.
Consider our children a treasure of which you must maks
the bat no.. and honour thus the memory of your faithhl
husband, Farewell, farewell ; recites the last Mims of
luyour Robert. Yimsns, Nov., 1848, floe o'clock in the alma-
g •, at six all grid be over.—P.B. I had forgotten Gloriosa;
on that of oar betrothal I pees for you a last kiss ; my seal-
ring is for Hans, the watch for Richard, the diamond stud
for Ida, the chain for Alfred, as memorials. All the rut di•
ride as you please. They are coming ; farewell.