The Express.
London, England, 1849-05-09 00:00:00

vernment acknowledged, in which he did not nomad.
The riflemen, who cause at halt-prat twelve, were
immediately rated, partly at the b-idge, at d
part at the prison. Some attemrs were made fr.( m
the Old Town to distribute the placards ef tee pro-
visional government among the soldiery, but the dis-
tributors were seized and conveyed to the cavalry
barracks.

At four the trues was-at an end. The military
moved into their previous portions. Anxious groups
were gathered in the Neuatadt, listening for the first
cannon shot. But the attack did not begin on the
side of the military; nor was there any onslaught
front the Old Town, which is strongly barricaded,
and swarms with armedi people. The number of the
insurgents was swelled with adherents who came flock-
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ing i; from Pirns, Freiberg, Lommatecb, and Wild-
end; and before nightfall 200 men came in from Leip-
sic. These left the railway at Kotschen-broda, there
crossed the Elbe, and marched along the left bank to
Dresden. Weapons the insurgent., mem to have in
plenty : many were furnished by disarming the com-
munal guard, which showed a disposition to be
neutral. About 6 the Minister of War arrived from

furnished, according to report, with full
power, and alighted at the prison.
Towards nightfall negotiations were entered on for
the evacuation of the bridge, which however led to no
result. /is to what is going on in the heart of the
city we in the Neustadt ere are very imperfectly
informed, the bridge being completely blocked, and
communication with the left bank only possible
by boats. The military had five killed in the
arsenal; amongst them Lient. Kreg von Nidda. To-
night at 10 the body-guard came in by the railway.
The Dresduer Zeitung contains the following pro-
clamation of the provisional government:
ilsznis!—The brave' Bann soldiers have sathfied the
biddies of duty towards the holy interests of the country.
The mend is given up and aecepied in cosmos by soldiers
and national guards. Germany owes thanks to the Salon
military.
lianas !--Ries like one 111•11. The people, the whole pee.
*Osseo. Oar tan is »dewed is oembseirig the reirelpt
p enemy. The freedom, the salty of Germany, depends on
you. The matey, the provisionel government, counts on
you.—Dresdea, Kuy 4,1840-
The provbimal government of the Saxons,
Tramline',
Hymn,
Tony.

DRESDEN, MAT 6.
The following placard has been posted op in the
Nenstat
The events of yesterday and to-day, Is truly painful to my
heart, which broke oat in a violent attack upon the arsenal,
Ind even upon my pals... while a great part of the com-
a:=renounced its duty*, ecreperaing for the ra-
t of peen end cord' r. oblige me for a while to
lase Dusan, and betake myself to the fortress of Kos*
stela. Vieille I scrupled to accept the prnposals made to me
from many skim to recognise immediately the German con-
stitution gesslimed at Frankfort, I did so from the deepest
coavietion of the asesseityr of a temporary ntspensisn of those
neessues, eadi nemen.led wanly the wel'are of oar common
coonny, end by erg
_deekba tranogrtmed in no wise the
Emits of my aaMalea geereptive.
I hop funs dle emir se often proved rens* of my be-
lewd Serous for judo sad legality. that further merlons
measures wel not he needed, end that I shall soon be enabled
to esters to my deer city cf residence.
Cue he. bees tehea to provide for the uninterrupted
march of the government daring my abeenos.
Dresden. May 4. 1849. FILEGIRICX AUGUSTUS.
Countersigned by Dr. FZILD. ZSCRINSILT.
The undersigned ministers MIR their duty in publishing
the above prodeanation of his Majesty the Ring. They have
make' abandoned the king nor the government of the coun-
try. They have returned immediately to their posts, after
assuring the king's personal seenritv.
They hold it their duty, in the name of his majesty, to
prated against the establishment of a provis:onal govern-
ment. They hope that the Saxon yeople will follow the call
of the laws, the duties of loyalty, and the suggestions of
prudence.
BISIIST.

Dresden, May 5.
PRUfzSIA.—The following is the letter of our cor-
respondent :
BERLIN, May 6.
Do not believe what the papers say about the Saxon
row being over. It is only just begun. The Prussian
gov rnment has sent the regiment of the Emperor
Alexander to Dresden, and, if recessary, will send an
army thither to crash the revolution. A little impe-
diment, however, has just occurred, which will at
least protract the execution of these repressive mea-
sures for several days. The Saxons have pulled up
the belt part of the rails which run through their ter-
ritory to the capital, both on the Prussian and Site-
eau line. I believe that as yet no Prussian troops can
have reached Dresden, as I bear that yesterday the
first battalion seat from Berlin was still at Juterbogk.
A great portion of the railway between Breslau end
Dresden has been torn up near Gorlitz. It is clearly
dangerous in the present mood of the public mind—
which by the way has received a most decided tinge
from the Russian intervention in Austria—to reduce
at all considerably the garrisons of Berlin, Magde-
burg, Breslau, or Frankfort-on Oder.
I must put you on your guard also against another
error, moat industriously spread by the absolutists—
namely, that the Saxon insurrection is of a republican
character. It is the first breaking out of a civil war,
which will spread throughout Germany, between the
Frankfort parliament and the German sovereigns.

AUSTRIA.—There is no news of importance from
Vienna. Walden had moved his head-quarters to
Laxenburg, six miles from the capital, and near the
strong fortress of Schwechat.
Some thousands of Crews bad been cat off and shut
up in O!cn. They are let &one, because the Hunga-
rians do not wish to expose Perth to a bombardment.
It is asserted that the Magyar-Poliet insurgents
in Hungary have made the following propositions to
the great powers :—A Coburg to be King of Hun-
gary ; the Duke of Leuchtenberg, King f Poland;
the-Kir g of Prussia to be re ooznieed as Emperor of
Germany ; Russia to withdraw Pstroope from Molda-
via and Wallachia, and those provinces to be made
over to Turkey.
lIANOVER.—Oar dates are May 5. Only 20
students of the Polytechnic School (which has been
closed by order of government) have given up their
arms, as required by the authirrities. The rest posi-
tively refuse to surrender them, and are encou-
raged in their resistance by the c:vic guard, who have
unanimously refused to disarm the students, at the
demand of the government. The 10th company of
the civic guard have op taly declared in favour of the
German constitution.
FRANKFORT.—It is asserted in certain political
votaries that the central executive will protest
against the employment of P. mum troops in Saxoey,
oa the ground that no other power except the central
one has the right to dispose of German troops for im-
perial purposes. The central ministry feel that if
Prussian troops are quietly allowed to make a demon-
stration in Dresden in favour of the °pimento of the
German constitution, they may in a very short time
make their appearance in Frankfort itself, with the
avowed object of putting down the originators of
that constitution.
HESSE-DARMSTADT AND HESSE CASST

—Letters and joursals from these states depict in
a'rang terms the enthusissm of the people in favour
of the German constitution, and their determination
to uphold it vi et armis. Already it has become the
custom to appear armed at the popular meetings, arid
an insurrection against the " treacherous princes " of
Germany is openly thri atened.
BAVARIA.—In nearly every part of Bavaria the
landwehr, which may be set down as the army of
reserve, has declared in favour of the recorition of
the German constitution. A portion of the Bavarian
troops stationed in Frankfort has left that city for
the scene of the disturbances in Rhenish Bavaria.
The antral executive has also despatched a com
sioner to the Palatinate.
POSEN.—AII accounts from the grand duchy of
Posen agree in stating that the Premien slice of
Poland will in a short time become again the scene
of a fierce contest. A few more vict riles on the part
of the Magyar-Polish army in Hungary Proper, or
eves the appearance of a Magyar-Polish corps in
Gallicis, and the Polish inhabitants of Posen, ever
active, ever deeply attached to their Polish father-
land,, will be again in arms.

POPULATION, PoollB' RATE, &c.—An official re-
tarn just published gives the fallowing facts respecting
populeti, poor.' rate, &e : Population in 1841, Ragland
mid Wales, 16,906,741; Ireland, 8,174,668; &Wand.
12,620,216. Annul valart of property rated to the Poore'
rate in Zealand, 87,320.6871 ;la Ireland, 13,187,4211. • in
Scotland, 9.320,7841. Expenditure for the relief and us'air-
tiaance of the tretr for Inland, ended
;dingyLa4v- 180,
Instead, 8.180,7651. ;in 1,218,8791 Seonssal,
644,8341. Rate in the pound of expenditure ler the relief,
&c., of the pow, on annual value of property rated to its
Ce:zate in Waited, Is. 10d. • is Ireland, le. 101r1
d, la. 1-16 d. Total naosisor of paupers relieved, in
coastal poor, 1,878,641 in Reglasd ; 1,467.194 in Ire-
lan•
d; 227,647 in Scotland. Proportion per out., of sastior
of paupers relieved to populating' In Rosiest, 11.8 ; is Ire-
land, 17 8; is fleotland, 86. Rate per bead of expenditure,
or total number of
deed
relieved, 31. 6e. 1844., Rog•
land ; Bid. is Indeed ; and 21. 7s. 90. is booties&