The Express.
London, England, 1849-12-21 00:00:00

GERMANY

---
The fullowinx letters are [tom our corm') sedents
Vienee rod Brain:
VIENNA. DECEISIIBII It.
In the beginning of the mouth a repor. . went the
round of the papers that a telegraphic des-
patch had been seat from Vienna with orders
to the army in Bohemia to move towards
the Saxon frontier. Whether this mevsure
was intended to over-awe the Saxon demo-
crate, or to menace Prussia, or to do both, there is
little doubt at present that the Bohemian corps has
gemmed a far more warlike attitude than was ex-
pected when assurances were given to Prussia that
the collection of so large an armament near
her frontier was motived simply by the conve-
nience of the position for consolidating the Hunga-
rian and Fallen troops newly won by the suppression of
tee revolution in both those countriee. It is now
rumoured that this corps is to receive a considerable
reinforcement from Russia, about 8,000 men. It ap-
pears certain, according to tne Wanderer, that the
dir. ctions of b rth the Olmiitz and S.lesisn branches
of the North Railway have received instructions to
hold all in readiness for the transportation of large

bod es of troops.
The Pesther Zeitung brings a now list of court-mar-
tial sentences. in which the names of some important
personages figure. Uedecin Count Raday, obergespistx
of the county •.:f Nesgrad, who continued to take part
in the debates • f the upper house after the impe:ial
proclamation cf f!ctober 3, aid raised volunteers for
the insurgent army, has been condemn: d to tiro years
imprisonment in a forirrse. George Count Karoly.
Sig.-) a member of the Diet, has been fined 150 000
florins. The three months' imprisonment to which
he wen sentenced has been remitted by Ger.eral Hay-
wee. Michael Toth, a Calvinist preacher at Dtbrec
zin, who served the c iuse of the insurgents with great
zeal, both as a journalist and public speaker, and led
tee Debreczin . atonal guard to take part iu the siege
of Arad, was condemned to be hanged, which doom
' was commuted into imprisonment in a fortress in
heavy irons for the term of twenty years. All his
property is confiscated. Lewis Hadja, a Calvinist
preacher at Szentes,who bestirred himself with mach
energy to raise recruits for the Hungarian army,
and to call out the landaturm, tanning pro-
clamations, and making fervid speeches to rouse
the lower classes, received the same sentence and
commutation of putishment as Toth. Motesiezky,
the organiser of the Getman legion, and Bela Tassy,
member of the court-martial at Szegedin, were con-
demned to five yews' imprisonment in a fortress, the
latter in irons. Karlowsky, engineer of the Pesth
railway, who directed the operation of pulling up the
rails al d sinking them in the Theis', was sentenced
to three years' imprisonment in a fortress in irons.
The Presbueg papers also contain a list of sentences
Iby court-martial against several insurgents of less

note.
The Archduke Ferdinand D'Este died lut night ee
Bliion, of typesus.
BERLIN, DECEMBER 17.
The reports published by the Minister of Finance
are of such importance, that I forward further
details upon the subject. I must remark
here that Vie more circumscribed nature of the
report on the present occasion does not arise,
as I hinted at in a former letter, from the will ar.d
pleasure of the Minister of Finance, bat from
the desire of the chambers for economy.
Whether the saving consequent upon the suppression
of the de•ain of the income and expenditure of the
state be sufficiently great to balance the disadvantage
of the discontent of those wishing to Wain a closer
insight into the condition of the country, and the
mode in which their money is spent, is a question
which 1 must leave to the chambers themselves to
decide, contenting myself with iuforming you that
that discontent is by no means trifling among a
large Lumber of the better-ilformed inhabitants or
Berlin, who regard the suppression of the details as
en omen for the future financial resolutions of the
legislative body.
In the report on t
etherty expenses for
1849 and 1850, tog 201 millions dollars, the
Minister of Finance declares that the debt bearing
interest will be increased only by the sum of 3,170,00er
dollars, being the amount of the caution monies which
the government intend to employ, and the deb'
not bearing interest only by about 9,100,000 dollars
in Treasury bills. The first disadvantage he con-
siders to be completely counterbalanced by the Lc',
that the bonds fur the national debt are already ie
circulation, and that, therefore, no new paper need tR
issued ; that the railway loan will be reduced by 5
millions through this measure; turther, that no
tear need be Entertained respecting the IN pay-
ment of the caution moneys, as for every official wt.o
leaves the public service another one enters it, who
has immediately to deposlt the same amount of
elution money, and finely that no disad qintage can
laclrue to the money market from putting into circu-
lation the national debt bonds, hitherto held ii.
deposit, because 1,400,000 dollars will be immediately
employed in electing the annual reduction of the
debt, wit a similar sum in the ensuing year. The
Minister of Finance further declares that the Trea-
sury bills already in circulation to the amount of
9,100,000 elollars, and which he proposes to continue,
cannot prove dangerous, as experience shows that the
total amount in circulation hardly ci rresponds with

the amend.
The custom try reference to other countries is not
w nting upon this occasior, in order to exhibit the
comparatively prosperous condition of the finances of
Promos.
An addendum to the report respecting " the extra-
ordinary expenses for the military administration "
shows that the !um of 6,981,970 dol..rs will be re-
quired to cover the expenses incurred during the last
six months of the present year.