The Express.
London, England, 1849-01-25 00:00:00

GERMANY.

SCHLESWIO-HOLSTEIN.—The bureau of the
states of Schleswig-Holstein resolved, on the 161, to
convoke that Assembly at Schleswig for the 26th.
HAMBURG.—Our correspondent writes under
date Jan. 19:
The thaw which set in on Saturday evening, continued
with very little intermission. Yesterday morning we had
slight irost again, and should it last for another day or two,
we ere sure to have the shipping opened again, the ice in
the river being on the move. I observed by the London
evening papers of the 16th that the two Hamburg mails of
the 6tb and 9 h, which were prevented by the frost to be
shipped from Cuxhaven, were sent to Holland, and conse-
quently arrived much later than they wiuld if they had been
sent by Ostend, there being a railway all the way from Ham-
burg to Ostend, %boreal' there is none to Holland. It is
satosishing that the General Post-office in London should
not mind this circumstance, and should keep on giving the
preference to the old road by which the communication is
so much delayed. Indeed it would be better to give up the
direct steamers al,ogether, and send the mails by Cstend
throughout the year, the transit being so much more regular
and every day, instead of twice a week. It appears certain
now that the Senate will publish the German bill of rights
within a few days, adding an explanation to it.

MADRID, JAN. 17.
The sitting of Congress yesterday was taken up
with the question of Galin Canero (editor of the Clamor
Publico) on the military executions which I have mentioned
as having taken place at Villareal, in the district of Castel-
lon de la Plana, Valencia. There cannot be • more marked
example of the atrocious excesses p rpetrated by the sangui-
nary tools of the present government. Brigadier Llorens,
one of the recently rehabilitated Carlists, was sent to Va-
lencia four months ago with • recommendation to the Cap-
tain Gene• al for active employment. Villalongs sent him to
Castellon de la Plana, the very district in which he had
served as a Ca:list colonel during the civil war, with orders
to mate • clean sweep of all troublesome subjects ; in fact,
unlimited license to murder whom be had a mind to, in a
place where the furmer cabecilla, nicknamed the
Alcalde of Villareal, could not fail to have
many personal resentments and grudges to feed
fat. Llosens has used this bloody warrant to shoot 29
citizens of Villareal, the cut of whose beards was not to his
taste. These victims were not even allowed confession, •
edieearcumisntantaisce woohunicttiryhpugauelyd
thagyar vbact.thees the the

paraded through the streets of the town incorto-777---"L
one of the saes executed, made some resistor*, and
rouse his fdlow-altisens by his min to Mem Mu,
upon he was taken bask "to the privin, brand 'duke.",
upon a ladder, gagged and covered with klackets, sadial
carried to the plus when he was shot.. Io
halves Caner°, Figueroa, Minister of War, had
better to say than that the men executed thus, lobbed
form of trial, were malefactors; that two wen la the 4
of getting drunk is admitted by the ayuntesioatoo.6
have presented a petition to congren on the mkt
Ogres Csaero drew the attention of akii 6-1""*".
to mother enormit Niggly notable. seell •
hand* of the political) cbl.t of Ciudao•Realorsiok
6,000 reds for every head of a toragido (outino. 1.72
the personal security of a district unser a pressat"zz
he may get 601. for murdering the 6r4 man he
taking his head to the magistrate, accompanied by
ilsothimilii
who swears that the victim is a foragido. Thies us ammo
of the government of General Narveta.
Among the pujects of law laid before the Corta by gis
government is one whisk guarantees on the part of tilt stay
to the shareholders in the railway of Loaves, coogftetid
by the Asturian Coal Mine Company, an interest 01 ps,
cent. upon the capital invested. The Duke of liisessrei
understood to be an extensive shareholder in this cote •
The section between Gijon and the first coal beds, •
of five leagues, is pretty forward

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FLORENCE Jan. 13.
For some days past Florence has been looking toy.
ward, not without a certain degree of agitation, to the coo&
log of the chambers, already announced. Such of yew
readers as take en interest in Dalian grain, ,q
remember probably that the present ministry, showy
after coming into power, dissolved the lower ohm
tier, and " appealed to the country." It was the oil
s
course for them to adopt. They had been ands • '
Mrs literally by the mob of Florence, and that Ima
mob, and by no mew a violent or dangerous one, whin,
assembled every evening for a few night' together in tic
Piazza Oranduca, and made a noise, and cried "demo
this, and " morte " to that, with much energy and pm
severance. The dragoons—some 20 or 30 hersemen—non
called out, and ordered to disperse the mob. but of caws
without hurting them. They endeavoured to do so. Bet
the smooth flagstones with which the stn eta of Floreute sit
paved, bad for horses at all times, were especially aappny
consequence of a shower of ruin, and, sad to tell, sandy, of s
the dragoon hones fell. The mob shouted with delight
The gamins laughed. The crestfallen troopers had to pin
themselves up as they best might; and their commando
was fain to send them back to their barrack with a "Beton
brave army, and don't kick up a row." The next day no
ministry of moderator, old Capponi and his frond', it.
signed I The poor &sae, at his wits', rid sent fir Non&
nelli, and commissioned him and Guerrezzi io form a minims
Their first act was to dis one the t.hasuber. They won 2
hays had at that time no chance of a majority in either home.
Now, although the composition of the lower chamber is bat
little modified, it is expected that the "minister) den.
cratico" will command a good " working majority." Tig
truth is, that the government of this Ouerrani, recently
state prisoner at Porto Ferrajo, and whose advent pawn
was dreaded by the whole noble to
and bourgeois class as the
proximate dissolution of all thing*, has turned oat to be
something more like a rational government, more akin to
real guidance and regulation than anything that Tommy
has seen for a long time. I say the " government of Otion
razzi"—for he is the leadinu man—the int inning spirit sl
the present ministry. And whatever doubta many my
have, or profess to have, respecting other points of his chance
ter, there is in ne at all as to his greet away, Mesta
talent, and commanding energy. As to Montanelli the
opinion of his fellow-citizens m y be described
pretty *early exactly the reverse. None doubt his sincerity,
h nes yof purpose, and elevated vi-ws. But he is on attic
siast—a " fanatico"—a visionary. His great hobby b tit.
" constituente"—as it is also, fur the nonce, that of the pops.
lace. But, if general report speak true, Ouerraw, who m.
bably knows that with an honestly composed lower this
and an upper one however unenlightened, most readily
!tightened into a very compliable name of mind, no sentry
need seek more elementary means of reforming its miss
constitution—is by no means anxious for the chapter of
chances and hazards which the convocation et this imitate
end. would open.
It is thought that this diversity of view between cat
two statesmen has been the reason for deferring the
meeting. of the chambers, originally convoked for a day some
weeks since. However, at length, " expectata dies aderst"
The morning. way ushered in with ringing of bells notes
for the opening of all the parliament' of Christendom
I There was a tremendous marching and counteranichiag of
bo lies of national guards, all in their best, with their chaS
cal looking helmets, streaming with black horse hair. Is
tense blaring of trumpets, and an caper diture of guorwde
in cannon firing, which I fear might b- deemed to indica
an almost reckless exuberance of spirits under the prism
circumstances of the exchequer, all contributed to COOTiIIO
the Florentines that eometbieg grand and glorious was ass
to take place. As usual here with every species of armor
whether military, civil, literary, or political, teeniest")
parade was put in requisition to eke out the chow. The
was to be a Te Deem (pronounced Taydy omayl at th
Duomo, se the faded old church finery was had out, andta
customary upholstery hung up on the accustomed nails, in
the r. gunk. number of squalidly filthy laced surplices wee
hung on the backs of the encl.. elastics' figurantes, and tit
grand gala allowance of tapers were lit, Cr Taydy•ooM
takes a vast quantity of candles unfortunately, and would h
otherwise quite a cheap luxury ; and all was done to ropes
the fair city with the conviction that the event placedtlang
quite upon a par with the Purification of the Virgin, or an
other such high day and holiday.
From the Duomo the two assemblies marched in preemie
to the chambers reigned to them in the PIIIPZIO 'Kan;
penubduco,ld.bhuieihldihnL, ttietnntl,edstwremi,hui nitt.ogfrimthelassol
was, and whose associations, if ever those of any look)
oethhldeatwrgrealls almost every act that made Florence what at as
were, are calculated to rouse aspire' ions of patriotism in Ms
members of a popular aresably once again summoned"'
meet within its walls. There the first and only ben
'ess of the
_day was to hear the duke's speech to the