The Express.
London, England, 1848-04-25 00:00:00

APRIL 25, 1848.

... ...ova that the parliament grant
_ power to the of santive to collect the reve-
nues of the state, and satiety its obligations with the
following modifications :-1. The land tax shall corn-,
mance to be duo from April 18, 1848, according to
the basis which existed before the rectification of the
registers.-2. The tax on milk to beduced 090
holf.-3. That the payment be suspeof 19,702
ounces,enteredinchap.47 of the budget, for the interest
of two loans made by the Treasury of Naples; and of I
213,798 ounces entered in the 86M0 budget for the
r*
civil list.—After some discussion the powers vee
granted. It wasdecided to discuss the whole question
of the system of finance ut next sitting. A commis-
sion was appointed to consider the law relating to
organisation of municipal power. In the sitting of
the 30th a message was received from the peers. in-
viting the Commons to join with them in a mixed
commission for drawing tip a new code of laws. This
was agreed to. On the 30th the ministers resigned
—why is not stated. A commission had been formed
for making a new system of finance. On theist of
April the Palermitans took down the Austrian arms
from the consulate, and set them pas a g
mark. On the 4th the Chamber voted unanimously
the restoration of Messina as a free port.

GERMANY•

PRUSSIA.—Our intelligence from Berlin is
22nd. Our correspondent, writing from Cologne on
the 23rd, says'—" Notwithstanding all the rumours
to the contrary, and the apprehensions that e
re
ein
entertained, the day of the 20th passed off quietly
Berlin, with the exception of a considerable degree
of excitement and the shoats and cries of a few isolated
bodies of the lowest classes. I have often had occa-
sion to write in terms of praise of the tact, prudence,
and moderation of the working classes of Berlin.
Throe characteristics were fully displayed D
int Thurs-
day last, for so soon as they found that the ended
processio to the palace would be considered illegal,
and would be likely to lead to the disturbance of
public peace, and, consequently, afford a pretext to
the retrograde party to continue their intrigues, the
various trades resolved to take no Dart in the demon-
stration. 'fhecivic guard, great numbers of the members
of which are mere operatives,mustered about 10,000
strong, and took possession amt an early hour of the
bridges leading to that p where the pa-
art of the city
lace is situated, and strong detachments were posted
around the arsenal, the bank, and other public esta-
blishments. Then ilitary did not appear, but they were
all kept ready itheir barracks, to act at a moment's
notice. Had not the working classes of Berlin, who
almost exclusively defeated the military on the 18th
and 19th ttlt., the good sense to disapprove of the pro-
posed demonstration, there would have been in all
probability one of the most sanguine contests that ever
took place in the streets of the Prussian capital. It
must be stated, too, that the students in a body, as well
as several very popular men, protested against the in-
tended procession. The author of au inflammatory
placard, calling on the working men to make the de-
monstration at all risks, was arrested on the 20th. On
the previous evening a significan: royal ordon-
nance appeared, declaring that the civic guard
were fully empowered, like the military, to
make use of their weapons ia CS6O of attack,
or when any riotous assemblage refused to disperse
after having been twice summoned to do so. The
popular head of the police, Herr Minutoli, also ad-
dressed abrief but forcible exhortation to the working
classes, to refrain from the procession. It is satisfac-
tory to find that a love of order and a sprit of obe-
dience to the laws pervade the overpowering majority
of the Berlin operatives.
The government has announced a series of bills for
abolishing all feudal dues. The residents in the
agricultural districts are urged to make known their
respective wishes and wants by means of petitions to
the executive.
About 100 persons have been arrested in Aix-la-
Chapelle, on the charge of being implicated in the
late fatal riots.
The accounts from Prussian Poland continue to be
most melancholy. According to the Deutsche Allots-
'twine Zeitung, the Polish insurgenta are coined
it as
the grossest excesses. They have broken ap, ap-
pears, into small bands, and they are now wanderingl
about the country, levying black mail on the inha-
bitants.
One of the four great division. of the Polish army
had taken up its station at Wreschen, and it is stated
that before it withdrew from that place it grossly ill-
treated the Germans and Jews. The greatest ani-
mosity towards the Poles prevails in Posen, and thou-
sands of operatives demand arms to march against
them. Gen. Von Sleinacker, however, refused to Rlacthis
e
weapons in their hands. The Cologne Gasette ot
day adds, that the entire Duchy of Posen is inwsx has
a state
of the " wildest excitement." guerilla
commenced, the object of which no one can tell. The
Germans loudly blame the government for their con-
tinual concessions to the Poles, and for their approval
of the measures taken by the royal commissioner,
Gen. Von Willisen. The common council of Posen
has demanded that that city be also considered a part
of the German territory, which is to be annexed to
the Germanic confederation. According to
idd the Br
ln es-
lau °uae, the Polish troops have dive
their
into
small bodies, in order to carry on war, on
own account. It adds, that be week
elapses, " organised bands of robbers" will
appear on all points of the province, and hundreds of '
murders will be committed. It is now clear thatit
would have been far more prudent on the part.of
government to adopt Gen. Willisen's suggestion, to
regularly organise a Polish army, than to disband and
disperse those troops, according to the fatal sugges-
tion ot Gen. Colomb. At Breslau, on the night of thei
1 ith, an immense crowd of persons belonging to the 1,
destitute classes of society (Proletarion), attacked'
numerous shops in the Ohlan-street. The civic guard,
who were ail under arms, fired several times upon the
rioters, many of whom returned the shots. It appears',
that in some parts of the town the civic guard were
defeated. The aid of the military was at last in-
voked by the armed citizens, but the rioters did not
offer any further resistance. The Breslau corre-
spondent of the Cologne Gazette states, that one per-
son was killed and from 30 to 40 wounded, and adds
that it is now clear that the 12,000 civic guards are
not wrong enough to maintain order.
According to the Aix-la-Chapelle Gazette, the mob
were about to attack the prison, when they were
pacified by the liberation of the three rioters who had
been confined there. The rioters did not disperse

before 11 P.m.
It appears that an alarming insurrection has broken
out in the town of Kosten, in the duchy of Posen.
The garrison, according to accounts from Posen up to
the 16th, was held in a state of siege by the popula-
tion. Troops had been forwarded from Posen.
Prince Frederick Charles left Berlin on the 2hers at
proceed, by way of Hamburg, to the head-quart
Itendsburg.
The FrankfortPostonits Zeitung of the 21st says:—
"We learn from a positive source that the energetic
intervention of Prussia in the affairs of Schleswig-
Holstein does not so much emanate from Messrs.
Camphausen and lian.emann, as from the King and
Baron d'Arnim. England has offered at Berlin her
mediation in the affairs of Denmark, but the Prussian
cabinet has declared that, as the war was to take
place in virtue of the decree of the Germanic Diet, the
proposals of mediation must be made there."
AUSTRIA.—Our dates from Vienna are to the
19th. The Emperor has definitively accepted the re-
signation of Count Kolowrat, which took place some
time since. The count had been engaged in the
service of the state above 50 years. The meta.Empe
acceded to the proposals of the Germanic Diet in re-
gard to the electious of deputies to the German par-
liament, which is to assemble in May.
The Weiner Zeitung of the 19th has the following :
The intelligence from Italy reaches to the 16th. Field
Marshal Itadetzki has concentrated ali las troops
has be-
tween the Mincio and the Etsch. An armistice
with the
been determined upon and has
been observed
exception of a few slight skirmishes.
The delays which are taking place may be
ascribed to the declaration made by the Bri-
tish government to the court of Turin. quarter,
h we are mowed from an undoubted quarter,
has not only expressed decided disapprobation at the
irruption of King Charles Albert into Lombardy,
but has also declared that if, whichequence of the
late procedures of the King, are contrary to
the treaty, Savoy should be separated from the
Sardinian states, or Genoa declare itself in-
dependent, he must ascribe these losses to
himself alone, and be individually responsible for
any other consequences which cannot yet be cal-
culated upon, and which may result from his breach of
the treaty.