The Express.
London, England, 1853-03-05 00:00:00

GERMANY.

A Vienna despatch, dated Wednesday, reports a
rapid improvement in the health of the Austrian
Emperor. On Tuesday, as another despatch an-
nounces, the Emperor received the foreign ambas-
sadors, and also heard mass in his chamber. Not-
withstanding this amelioration, it had been thought
necessary to appoint an adjunct, or alter Ego, as the
despatch de*ignates him, to his Majesty, in the per-
son of his cousin the Archduke William. This prince
is a major-general, and 26 years of age.
The Augsburg Gazette states from Pesth, 23rd
ultimo:

It is fully believed that an mode was to have broken out
here on Monday lea, but wrs prevented by the energetic
measures adopted by the authoritiia. It is said that 600
persons were arrested on that dry. To-day all the garrison,
which has been considerably reinforced, occupy the streets
of the town and the bank of the Danube. Archduke
Albert is to peas them in review. It is thus wished to
show the rioters what force can be brought against them if
they should dare to move.
The Voss Gazette has the following from Vienna of
the 26th ult. :—" To-day it is announced in the city
that a number of seditious individuals, among whom
were several Italians, have made an attempt on the
fortress of Comore. Their intention was to seize the
fortress and liberate the political prisoners. The
attempt failed through the fidelity of the soldiers."
A vehement debate arose in the Second Prussian
Chamber on the 28th ult., the subject being the
abolition of the exemption from land-tax at present
enjoyed by the feudal proprietors. The representa-
tives of the landed interest opposed this pro-
position, which emanates from the government
and includes an indemnity to the parties
affected by it, as essentially revolutionary, while the
liberal members demand an unconditional abolition
of an unjust principle, and oppose the grant of any
indemnity. The ardour of one of the leaders of the
feudal party led him in the course of the debate to
speak of the western provinces as territory conquered
by Prussia, but he was reminded by M. Vincke that
there were men in that chamber from the Rhine
who had shed their blood to rescue it from the
foreigner. M. Settler added, "If we are called re-
presentatives of conquered provinces we must cease
to sit here." The Chamber broke np amid great
agitation.

THE EXECUTION OF LIBENY.
A letter from Vienna of the 26th of February
gives the following account of the execution of Libeny, the
attempted assassin of the Emperor of Austria :—" The
condemned culprit was, at 7 o'clock this morning, brought
out of the prison in the Sterugaase, under a strong escort,
and taken through the Fischergate by the giacis and the
Wisden faubourg to the place of execution, in as open
vehicle, occupied also by the priest, the hangman, and three
soldiers. Three closed lines of troops were drawn up round
the scaffold. Libeny cast a heal glance at the gibbet;
his appearance was haggard in the extreme. He kept his
eyes fixed on the priest, and repeated after him the prayers
he said in the Hungarian tongue. His fetters having been
taken off; his sentence was read aloud. The officiating offi-
cer then in aloud voice declared that ' mercy now belongs
to God alone.' The hangman and his aids then approached.
They took off the unfortunate man's coat and laid his neck
bare. The priest continued to pray. In another moment
the lifeless corpse was dangling in the air. The body was
cut down at 6 in the evening, after sunset, and buried by
the hangman and his assistants in a trench dog about 30
yards b.hind the scaffold, in presence of an immense con-
course of people.