The Express.
London, England, 1849-03-29 00:00:00

HOLLAND.

THE HAGUE, MARCH 28.—Yes'erday morning
the whole diplomatic corps was admitted to a solemn
audience of the King, when the ambassador of the
Queen of Great Britain addressed his Majesty in the
following words:
fiire,—At the moment of your Majest) 's amnion to the
throne of the Mtherlands, I hays the honour in my capacity
of dean of the diplomatic corps now assembled its your pre-
sence, to offer the impression of those feelings with which the
allied powers and friends to the Netherlands solute year
accession to the throne. By the decrees of Providence, the
illustrious House of Orange and the whole nation is
plunged in profound grief by the sudden removal tram
the affections of your Majesty and the attacheamis
of his people, and of a beloved father, a vcameted
king whose virtues and whose labour will mew a
a bright page in oar country's history. The heir of his *.
tun will also be the inheritor of the attachment with Irbil&
he inspired his people. Permit us, mire, while mernmeserag
ourselves to your grade= favour, to request that yon will be
ertoept the respectful homage of our ardiust wishes
t.hl ty and glory of your reign.
His . made the following reply :
I see with gratings the segernem of the diplomatic corps
to wait era no, LAN cdrenattesees of two-feld weighty ha-
port—the death of the King, my father, and my own ao-
comion to the throne. Your felicitations menatarallyneinglcd
with grief; end I seed not say how deeply Islam year sorrows
and yourjust requests. You yourselves are witnesses of the
erlefr of the matey and the tears of my family. You
how teadedy say father was beloved by the
country, end you are able to 'predate our regret
and oar eanstersatioa. The friendship of the allied power

is one of the Warne gIISESS MN of the iccompliehment of the
wishes which yea have expressed for the prosperity of my
reign. By walking in the siege of the late king my father,
and being sustained by the love of the Naaft mice:
providence will I trust bless my efforts for the welfare of my
country. Gentlemen. I howdy thank you far the noble
steps which yon have taken, in the same of the sonetry and
of famil.
His Majesty afterwards received the feeling and
beautiful address of the First Chamber.

All the generals in active service now in the resi-
dent*, the sidesde-camp of his Majesty, and his
royal highness the field-marshal, u well as all the
chiefs and officers of the staff, have taken the oath at
the hand of his Majesty. The other officers, in pre-
sence of the troops who were aseembled for the same
purpose, took the oaths at the hands of the Ministerof
War. The taking of the oath was preceded by read-
iodae proclamation, which has now been generally

FRANKFORT, MA= 26.
After the rejection of Weicker's proposition that of
Eisenstuck was adopted. This, which was intro-
duced in the name of the Left, was to the effect that,
considering the dangers which menace the country,
the second reading of the constitution should be voted
without discussion, together with all the amendments
of the minority of the committee of the constitution,
as well as all amendments signed by 60 members.
After thus accepting the constitution, the Assembly
will pose to the consideration of who or what shaY
form the chief of the executive. This proposition is

certainly the most reasonable ogle that could have
been made; but what is also eertvin is that a por-
tion of the Left has allowed itself to be duped by
'the Austrian and nitrite:tutu° party. 'The attn of
this party is evidently to prevent any positive result
being arrived at. It hopes by the means to bring
about a sort otregiration of the old Germanic) Diet,
and thus to overeats the revolutionary spirit by de-
monstrating its impotence to create anything whit-
ever. The leaders of this party have again promised
the Left a good electoral law if it will withdraw i
proposition for voting the met:talon without &emis-
sion. The Extreme Left allowed itself to be
tempted, and got:M. Eisenstuck to withdraw the
proposition. The Moderate Left (or, if you will, the
Right of the Left, MM. Simon, Raveaux Venedey,
&c.), has not followed this example, but
has brought on the motion of M. Eisenstuek, which
gained • tolerable majority; but the inejority wts
gained only because the e 1.4 ministerial party Teed
with the moderate Left. By this mentenvre the
Left-left has again put arms into the hands of the
Right. Instead of a complete victory, through the
Eirenstuck proposition, the Left has been beaten
with its own weapoos, which, in its joy at having
conquered, it had cut down upon the field of battle.
The constitution is now, as a matter of course,
voted each day of sitting. The altramootane party
has again attempted to make tee entire constitution
depend on a final vote, on a last intrigue of parties. It
has proposed to take a final vote on the ensemble of
the constitution, after having voted on each chapter
and article. +he aim of this proposition was no
other then that of once more, and at the last moment,
re-uniting all the disocntented or neuter members, in
order, by a single blow, to drteroy the work of a year.
This then would have been a emiplete victory for the
enemies of German unity. The Left fill into this
snare. Many of i s members had spoken in favour
of the proposi ion, when M. Venedey unveiled the
project they were pursuing, adding that M. Sehmer-
ling had told him that ho was going to M. Camp-
Wiesen to propose to him to unite with Austria to
octroy a charter for the German empire. This fell
like a thunderbolt upon the intriguers. M. Von
Schmerliog fell back upon a mere word made use of
by M. Venedey, but dared not deny the fart. When
after this blow the vote was taken upon the proposi-
tion of the Austrian ultra-montane party, it obtained
only a very few voices.
The Assembly then commenced the final voting of
the constitution; section by section. The voting of
the first section itras the consecration of the victory of
the Left over the programme .of Gagern. Tole pro-
gramme admits of two Germanism : one reunited in a
single state, with Prussia at its head, and the other,
under the influence of Austria, united with Pruden
Germany. The proposition of M. Wekker was
founded on the same system. This system
of Gegern then has been thrown over by
the fall of Welcker's motion. The Committee of the
Constitution had likewise adopted the system of
Gaem in the first section of the constitution by ad-
mitting a separate position for• Austria in the German
constitution. A considerable majority of the National
Assembly rejected the amendment of the com-
mittee of the constitution, by accepting the principle
that the German empire is composed qf the entire of
the ancient German confederation. Thu has the
system of Gegen, which was no other than that of
Prussian diplomacy, been condemned and over-
thrown. By the second section, as adopted by the
majority, the Asesmbly has alio defeated the doc-
trinaires, who desired that the German constitution
should accept the doctrinaire term of " Per-
sonal union (the anion of various countries
solely in the person of the Emperor-King),
as characterising the relations between the German
and the non-German countries of Austria. The ma-
jority iejicted this nonsense, saying that the German
countries having the same King or Prince as the non-
German, should have their constitutional government
and German administration.

Since these questions were decided, tie constitution
' has rogressd rapidly. In throe or four days it will
be finished. Then, to return afresh to the head of
the government. I almost think that in the long run
the King of Primes will always have the best chance,
for he is the sole affirmation against three or four
negative parties who oppose everything, and especially
oppose each other, and who are united only in their
hatred to the revolution, to royalty, and to Prussia.
I as yet kaow nothing positive as to a new ministry.
All that is known is that the regent has resolved to
take a ministry which shall be neither Austrian nor
Prussian, bat German; and that he will seek a leader
cut of parliament. Tide Is well Judged.
It wee said yesterday that M. Camphausen had ret
out for London. I have not had time to discover
whether it be so. But many people here believe
it not impossible that the eastern and Italian
complications may lead to an Anglo-French Prussian
Alliance. This would be a great blessing for all
Europe, and especially for Germany.

HAMBURG, MARCH. 24.
The merchants met this afternocn, at half-past two
o'clock, at the Exchange Hall, being summoned
the Chamber of Commerce to receive communications
arrived from the ministry of commerce at Frankfort.
It was the first time Israelites were seen at such a
meeting; they did not, however, muster very strong,
being their Sabbath. The chairman, Mr. T. Schiller,
said the labours of the parliamentary committee on
the project of law on the customs of the empire had
been progressing steadily, and the tariff question only
remained to be settled. 'fhe:ministry wanted to hear
the opinions of merchants on the duties to be paid on
woven auods and hardware. The Climber had
applied to the unions of those two branches, and the
former appointed Messrs. A. Sanders and Rebfardt,
the latter Messrs. Schemmann and Glaser, to corres-
pond with the ministry on those subjects.
The second communication they bad to make (the
chairman went on to say) was of much more conse-
quence, the commercial situation of Hamburg being
affected by it, as it is relating to the connexion which
they arc going to form with the Zollverbund, that
must, of necessity, pradoce an alteratiOn more or less
serious in the commerce of the place. It appears, by
what Mr. Schiller stated, that at first it was resolved
at Frankfort to annex the Hansa towns without any
distinction of other countries belonging to the league.
Considering, however, the importance of the places,
and the difficulties such an annexation would
create in executing it, and the pecuniary means re-
quired for building warehouses, &c., which could not be
raised so easily, the resolution was withdrawn, and it
was determined to have the matter investigated on the
spot by commissaries to be appointed. Custom-house
officers of experience are to be sent here for the pur-
pose of examining the localities, and to report upon
the best mode of connecting their cities and their ter-
ritories with the Custom-house league : whether
by simply annexing them, and what facilities might
be granted them in that case; whether constituting
them as free ports, or introducing the bonded IMO-
housing system wouldbe preferable; and, in ceseit was
thought advisable to leave one or more of these cities
out of the connexion, where the line was to be drawn;
to report, likewise, on the expenses likely to be in-
curred in either of these eventualities,. Concluding his
speech, the chairman said the Chamber had thought
it their duty to acquaint the merchants with these
circumstances, and would be glad to hear their
opinions about them. In order to give them time to
consider all these points, they had got their chief
secretary, Dr. Saetebeer, to draw up a series of
queries In the form of a circular note, which would
be sent round to the principal houses of each branch.
Copies of it are to be had at their office. He re-
quested the merchants to fill up those blanks
and return them with the least possible delay, be-
cause the mid oommisearies are to be expected within
a few days.
The Fres Trade Association will have another
meeting on Tuesday evening, at the Tonballe.
We do not hear anything positive about the
hostilities to be recommenced. The rerts from
Copenhagen and from Berlin on this subject are as
oontradictory as ever. Troops keep on passing to
Holstein.

The 511 h vessel to California sines the opening of
the saloon will mil at the beginning of next week, if
the Danes will permit. At the last blockade they did
not detain emigrant ships after they had convinced
themselves that there were no goods on board.

DansucrivE Film.— On Tuesday night, a fire
broke out at mane works known m " the Braids," between
Oldbury and Dudley. The manufacture carried on is chiefly
in steel and iron wares, and such was the nature of the eon-
flagrance, that at one period fears were entertained that the
immense range of buildings and machinery would have
fallen a sacrifice. By great exertions, however, the fire was
got under, but the loss will, it is believed, exceed 7,0001.
Mews. Hunt & Cs., the proprietors, are insured fa the Bir-
mingham Fire Office.

COLONIAL.