The Express.
London, England, 1851-01-18 00:00:00

GERMANY.

A correspondent of the Cologne Gazette, dated'
Jan. 14 says—Tee great buskers& of the conft recces
appears to be over. The middle States are said to
have consented to the plan of the " executive," or
" central power", arranged bttween Austria andl
Prussia—viz.: the estabiehment of a directory
with 11 votes. MM. Ptortden and Munchansen
have, in consequence. as w, 11 as Prince Schwarsen-
berg,left Dresden. Tee Danish Finance Minister,
Count Sponeck, is shortly expected to visit officially
both Berlin and Vienna. There are roomers of au
appmachirg chanue in the Danish ministry in favour
of the rad,cal party
Oar correspondent writs s

DRESDEN. JAN. 13.

Prince Schwarzenberg does tot await here the
meeting of the monarchs of Austria and Prussia, the
period tor which is not yet decided on, nor can it be,
since I understand that it will not take place until
the conferences have re-established the foundations
of the enfederation, and a prospect is afforded of a
harmonious restorati in of the central power. The
Austrian premier therefore quitted Dresden this morn-
ing, and travelled by the railway to Prague,
on which the first special train throughout
was placed at hie dsposal. Baron Mseteuffel lett
yesterday morning, together with the Hanoverian
Mir biter for Foreign Alf tiro, and the learned gentle-
man who presides over the Bavarian cabinet, Herr
Von der Pfordten, will leave tieday or to-morrow.
The departure of these great men tells us pretty
plainly that the main political questions which had
assembled then here have been discussed and
settled. I mentioned in my last that Schwatzenberg
and Manteuffel had prepared a joint plan for tto °ego-
nisation of the central power, which, if accepted, would
result in the restoration of the old Buctlestae
with an alteration only iu the number of Trees. My
statement was perfectly correct. This plan would
appear to have been submitted to the first and second
commissions which met together both yesterday and
today, and hes, I learn, met with very general appro-
bation. The restoration of the old Bundestag is, in
fact, the only resource of the conferences, for any other
proposal which did not divide the chief power De-
mme Amens and Prussia, would have been rejected
by the latter and by the smaller principalities, while
Austria certainly w,,u11 not have proposed it. Prince
Scbworsenberg, however, desires most earnestly to
reduce the weight and importance of the smaller
states in the confideratioe, seeing that in all questions
of importance they are the formidable allies for
Prussia from their number. Any plan, therefore,
which could reduce the influence of the latter, with-
out increasing that «I the middle states and minor
kingdoms, and at the same time adding to
the influeece of Austria and Pribsia, must re-
eeive the support of those who desired either
the restoration of the Bur destog or the division
of the central power between Austria and Prussia.
The opposition of the smaller states hu been removed
by the plan which the two ministers have agreed
to. The Engem-roth and the plenum are to be
restored ; the former with a less number of votes. i
I have not been able to learn whether the number
of votes is to be nine or eleven, bat incline to
the belief that the latter is the figure. In
either ease Austria and Prussia, which at present
poem. bet one vote in the Eagere-rath, are to re-
crave two apiece. With regard to the plenum,
I am not c-rtain in what manner the relations of
'Austria and Prussia towards the rest are to be affected
11whether by an increase in their present number of
votes, or a decrease in those of the others. But in
i this manner is the central power of °rummy to be
teetered. Your readers ma, not be so :. ciently inti•
Imam with tbie intricate question to know that the,
Engere-nth is the executive, aid the plenum, the
deliberative or legislative organ of the confederation.
By the Bundesakts the former body comprises 17 and
the latter 69 votes. In the Engere-rath 11 votes are
held byAustria, Prussia, Bavaria, Saxony, Wirtembsrg
Hague..., Baden, Hems Cassel, Hesse Darmstadt,
Denmark for Holstein, and the Netherlands for Lux-
emburg; the remaining six votes are subdivided
among the smaller principalities. The Plenum com-
prises 63 votes, Austria, nevi*' and the other
r kingdoms holding each four ; Baden, Here Cassel,
Hess Darmstadt, Holveic, and Luxemburg, each
three; Brunswick, Mecklenburg Schwerin, and Nas-
sau each two, and the remaining small states only
one. In both assemblies, however, the same
parsonages appear. I am not oertaio whether
any alteration p to be mode in this regula-
tion, but I believe not. The absurdity of this
Mmast be apparent; it must not be forgetter,
ug, that the Imperfections of the Bundesakt were