The Express.
London, England, 1851-03-25 00:00:00

GERMANY

Telegraphic advices from Vienna state that the
Emperor left that city on the 21st, for Trieste, accom-
pamml by the Archduke Ferdinand Max.
Our correspondent writes as follows:
BERLIN, Matzen 72.
Little or nothing is known of the renewed demands
which Austria is said to have made, after giving
.a sort of
half consent to the last proposals made by Prussia. They
are said, by the Vossiasche Zeit ung, tube that the carrying on
of the business of the Executive of the Confederation shall be
entrusted to Austria alone, and that the votes of Bavaria in
the Plenum shall be increased to six, instead of five, as was
at first propoeed. Ministers are conferring with each other.
and with the foreign ambassadors. A Cabinet Council sat
yesterday, and this morning Baron Manteuffel had a long
interview with the representatives of Great Britain and
Russia, after which he proceeded to Charlottenburg, to have
an audience with the King.
The sub-committee of the third commission (trade, com-
merce, &c.) of the Dresden conferences, have drawn up a
draft of an agreement to be submitted to the conferences,
by which a commercial unity of Germany is to be obtained.
The introduction to the agreement, which is proposed to be
concluded between all the states of Germany, with the ex-
ception of certain free cities and ports, declares that
it is made in the spirit of art. 19 of the Bundesaktc,
which admits, hut does not prescribe one general commer-
cial system for all Germany ; but it does not do more than
acknowledge the expediency of establishing by a general
treaty free trade in the interior of Germany, and such
laws:and regulations of the commerce and navigation of the
confederation as are best calculated to promote the general
welfare. The agreement which follows the introduction
merely binds the parties to it to send plenipotentiaries in
January, 1852, to the locality of the federal assembly, in
order to examine and determine upon the exact nature of
the laws and regulations necessary. The Diet to summon
the plenipotentiaries from each state.

AUSTRIA.
VIENNA, MARCH 15.
Our relations with Turkey, just now, are hardly
less important than our Italian and German affairs. Austria
is preparing, it would seem, to interfere in the Bosnian
troubles : at least, taking many circumstances into consi-
deration, this appears to be probable. Austrian troops are
already assembling on the frontiers of Bosnia. The possibi-
lity and the likelihood of a violation of frontier by the in-
surgents would surely justify the establishment of a mili-
tary cordon; but, on nearer consideration, it would appear
that more is intended than this. The destinies of Turkey
must be fulfilled. Russia has never for a moment lost sight
of her own plans, even when she has, as lately, been most
engaged in western affairs. She has, within the last few
years, taken possession of Wallachia and Moldavia ; and,
as Austria cannot remain passive and unconcerned whilst
Russia is mastering the whole of Turkey, she must hold
herself in readiness to take her share. But the Turkish
Iprovinces nearest to Austria are Bosnia and Sen-ia ; these
have already, in former centuries, been Austrian provinces.
What is more natural than that Austria should put forth
the same claim to the possession of Bosnia and Servia as
1 Russia has done to that of Wallachia and Moldavia? On
this supposition, the concentration of Austrian troops in
Croatia is well accounted for. A long continuance of dis-
turbance in Bosnia will give Austria the same pretext for
intervention as Russia had with respect to the frontier pro-
' viziers of Wallachia and Moldavia.

GREECE.
The city of Levissi, in the island of Rhodes, has
been destroyed by an earthquake.

THE NEW ASYLUM FOR INFANT ORPHANS.—The
board of this charity have received information from A.
W. Penrose, Esq., one of the esecutors, of a legacy of 3001.
by Mrs. Nary retch, late of St. 191 m-street-road.

SPAIN.

MADRID, MARCH 19.
A motion is on the point of being presented for
the adjournment of the bill on the settlement of the
debt until after the passing of the budget.

PORTUGAL.

The Oriental Company's steam packet Iberia,
Captain C. F. Burney, arrived at Southampton yes- I
terday, and landed her mails under the charge of !
Lieut. E. Fuge, Admiralty agent. Her dates
are: Gibraltar, March 13; Cadiz, 16 ; Lisbon, 19;
Oporto, no communication from the state of weather;
and Vigo, 20th. Her cargo comprises 9 packages of
specie.
The Spanish government have given orders to the
Governor of Coruuna to issue tenders tbr the im-
mediate construction of a lighthouse on Cape
Finis-
terc. The contract tenders were given in on the
I 20th ult. .

Our correspondent writes:
LISBON, Mallon IS.
The information I conveyed to you in my last, that a pro-
ject of law had been presented to the Chamber of Deputies
to abolish the trial by jury for two years, requires some re-
marks. The state of the press in this country had for a
long time given the court much unca-iness. The Count de
Thomar, therefore, determined to fetter it ; hence the pre-
' sent law, which governs it, in the formation of which, just':
da Silva Cabral was the most conspicuous figure. Under it,
however, juries will nut convict, and occasionally its framer
rails out strongly against it. To cheek the press, the.c-
fore more effectually, it had been lung since re-
solved to abolish the trial by jury only as part
of a system which leads to the abrogation of the charter,
and the vacating of the Hall of St. Demo (where the Codes
now sit), when the events of Porte: stepped in to the aid of
the minister, who went down to the Chamber with his pro-
ject, which came OR a thunderclap upon the country, and
which has placed the government in an entirely new posi-
tion—in a position in which 80111 C ten or twenty persons
will have to make head against the nation, or quit igno-
miniously their present holdings, for the country has taken
the alarm, and the watchword will very soon be given.
The storm is gathering, and its bursting will only be a
question of time. The project was nut intended to come
out now; untoward events accelerated it ; and with it is
involved another question, that of the restoration of the
Conservatorial Courts, which must be revived if the project
becomes law. Connected with the subject of retrograding,
I must mention that the excitement which prevailed hire
respecting the ministerial crisis in England was of the
most lively description; the Count de Thomar and the
chief of the court exulting in the probable removal of '
the Russell administration ; but upon the arrival of
the news that not only the cabinet will remain as it was,
but that concessions will be made in accordance with public
opinion, the public mind has been in a state of jubilee, ex-
ulting as if fur a triumph ; perfectly certain that while the
popular cause is triumphing in England, retrograding mea-
sures can only be attempted, and perhaps tried, but cannot
be consummated here. It is remarkable that while an ex-
tension of the franchise is promised in England, an electoral
law should be going on with here, which will enable the
minister to return his nominees to the Chamber. These
questions, intended ,to confirm, will, in fact, shake his

Power.
In the Deputies the credits were voted before the esti-
mates were examined; and the Minister of Finance pre-
sents no measure to meet the deficit, but leaves it to the
chapter of accidents. This is a novel approach towards
bankruptcy ; and in consequence of the Chamber refusing
to delay the discussion of the estimates, Senhor F. P.Millo,
on the part of the left, declared their intention not to take
part in it. Any item iv, therefore, voted as a matter of
course as soon as it is proposed.
There are two questions between Spain and Portugal of
rather a serious nature. The one is, relating to the seizure
of some Spanish vessels some time ago, which were mid to
be engaged in the smuggling trade, and which the Spanish
government now not only demand satisfaction for, but the
value of the ships, cargoes, and interest thereon from the
period nt which the seizures were made. The other is as
to the right of fishery on the coast of the Algarses, which
the Spanish fishermen claim to a certain extent. The Por-
tuguese resist this, as well as the manner iu which the fish
are taken, which is represented as tending to destroy the
fishery. An ambassador is expected here charged with the
demands relative to these matters.
The government, it appears, arc determined to grant the
titulos of indemnity to the Ohms Publicas Company, which
has excited some surprise. The Minister of Justice de-
dared in the Peers that the government were always ready
to answer for their conduct in this matter.
The state of trade is lamentable. Vessels from Liverpool
which hitherto brought cotton goods, now bring coal,
Houses which paid 20 contos of rein per annum duty on
manufactures, now pay 6, with orders daily diminishing.
This shows a falling off of the trade three-fourths to the
prejudice of Portugal. The goods which formerly came
here, now go direct to Spain, while the latter country is
able to smuggle goods into this country for consumption.
The government look on this picture with perfect apathy,
while if they were but to reform the tariff, they might al-
ways preserve Lisbon as a depi,t for the supply of Spain,
and profit by the duty upon the transit of goods through
this country to Spain. Another year must now pass before
a remedy can be applied, if it be at all.
The British claims remain in :tofu too.
Exchange, 641. Discount of Lisbon Dank notes, 21 per
cent.
The military force is to consist of 24,000 men, whereof as
many are to be on furlough as can be possibly spared from
duty.
1,61.5,004,217 reis are voted for the charges of tho Internal
Debt, and 1,941,60,217 rein for the interest of the Exter-
nal. There is scarcely a doubt but the deficit fur 1851-2
will be near 4,000 contos!

SECESSIONS TO ROME.—A Correspondent says :

" During the past week Dr. Fusty, one of the patrons of
St. Saviour's church, Leeds, has been on a visit to that
town, with the object of preventing the secession of the
clergy of St. Saviour's to Rome. In this, however, he has
been unsuccessful, and some of the clergy, and at least
twenty of the laymen of the church, are about immediately
to go over to the popish church."
THE REPRESENTATION OF SOMERSET.--On Satur-
day afternoon a meeting of con creative electors was held in
the Taunton Assize Hull to bear the address of Viscount
Dungarvan, who had acceded to the wishes of the protec-
tionists, and come forward as a conservative candidate fur
the seat vacated by the death of Sir Alexander Hood. Mr.
F. Popham, having taken the chair, announced, to the asto-
nishment of many of the electors, that Lord Dungarvan was
about to explain his reasons for withdrawing. His grand-
father, Lord Cork (Mr. Popham mid) was a whip, and the
noble viscount felt that be might think it unkind if he, in
the lower house, proposed a set of resolutions different to
those which his grandfather was supporting in the upper
house. Viscount Dungaree's then addressed the meeting,
expressing his regret that circumstance, over which he had
no control should have rendered it necessary for him to
withdraw from before them. In a brief and manly address
he avowed his adherence to protestant and protectionist
principles, and retired amidst loud cheers. It was then de-
termined to present • requisition to Mr. William 11. Gore
Langton, whose grandfather represented the eastern part of
the county for nearly 50 years, and (it is a somewhat singu-
lar coincidence) was also of diametrically opposite opinions
to his grandson.
DeaTII OF NIA. SERJEANT LUDLOW.—WC regret to
announce that the illness under which Mr. Scrjt. Ludlow has
so long laboured terminated in his death on Tuesday at his
residence, Almondsbury. The deceased was one of the Com-
missioners in the Court of Bankruptcy for the Bristol dis-
trict, was formerly town clerk of that city, and for many
years discharged the duties of chairman of the first criminal
court of the Gloucester Quarter Sessions.—Gloncesfersitire
Chronick.
INCENDIARY FIRE.—On Saturday night a fire,
which was evidently the work of an incendiary, was dis-
covered in some out-houses on the farm of Mr. George
Dennison, an extensive farmer and feeder of cattle, resid-
ing near the village of Fordham, in Cambridgeshire. The
flames were promptly extinguished by the exertions of the
persons living in the neighbourhood, but damage to the
extent of about 4001. was incurred. The police have
arrested a labourer to whom strong suspicion attaches.
EXCESSIVE DISTRAINT FOR CHURCII RATES.—
, Nome time ago a church rate to a small amount was im-
posed on the parish of Washingboro', and Mr. John Norton,
who has a residence there, was peremptorily requested to
pay Is. 4td. towards the repairs of the parish church in that
village. Mr. Norton, as an unflinching nonconformist,
having refused to comply with this exaction, a seizure has
taken place, under aggravated circumstances. The " re-
presentative of majesty," in the Queen's name, having en-
tered the domicile of Mr. Norton, fur the purpose of a levy,
examined the contents of the kitchen, in which there
were tables, chairs, and other articles of value ; and,
having no one to contend with but a female, thrust
himself into the dining room, and took possession of the
mahogany chairs it contained, so that the family should
be minus of a seat in that room. The object of the fellow's
mission being evidently one of annoyance as well as that of
the execution of the law, of course it was not to be supposed
that the kitchen and the dining room contained enough to
satisfy this L. aid. demand on the part of the church, as
well us the legal expenses incurred. lie therefore officiously
obtruded himself up stairs, and after minutely inspecting
the dormitories, returned with a feather-bed, which he
placed in the kitchen • again he went up stairs, and
brought down four blankets. After this another in-
vasion into the bedroom took place, and a coun-
terpane was added to the heap of bedding below.
The whole of the property wine then huddled together,
and the raid was completed by the goods being carted
away. Col.pled with the above facts it may not be alto-
gether uninstructive to mention that the incumbent of
W.ishingbor' receives from the living 1,5541. yearly, from
whence is deducted 150!. per annum for the services of a
" working curate." It is not unlikely that this vexatious
and excessive distress may give rise to legal proceedings ;
but w”ether or not, such an occurrence as the one we have
related must give pain to the real christian, either within
the church or not.—Lincolnshire rinses. .

DUTCH RHENISH RAILWAT.--From Cologne it is
announced Oast the Prussians have already commenced
their portion of the line to join the Dutch Rhenish.