The Express.
London, England, 1848-09-12 00:00:00

GERMANY.

FRANKFORT.—We have Frankfort papers of apt
9th. It appears certain that. the question of the
armistice hes taken a favourable turn, and the reach
of negotiations that have taken place allows ns (says
the Coloyne Gazelle in an extraordinary edition) to
state con6dtntly that the rej,ction of the armistice is
no longer to be feared. As regards the ministerial
oriel. nothing hu been settled.
PRUSSIA.—The papers from Berlin of the Bth
have arrived. The official journal does not breathe a
word on the question of Stein's motion, but the Co-
logne Gazette announces in its extraordinary edition
that the Auerswald-Hansemann ministry were about
to resign in cons. queuce of the vote of the constituent
assembly. This will perhaps lead to a better under-
standing between Prussia and the central power.
AUSTRIA.—The If lener Zeitung of the 6th which
has reached us contains no notice of any change in
the ministry. A letter from Vienna of the 6th
in the Breslau Gazette says, however, that the
minister of public works, Von Schwszer, had retired.
Herr von Dubblhoff resigns the ministry of the in-
terior to the :iresent minister of justice, Bach, whose
ministry is given to Strobach, president of the diet ;
he has, however, refused to accept it. Dobblhoff re-
tains a post in the ministry of worship or instruction.
The ministry of public works would be given to Herr
Maier, a deputy of the Frankfort Assembly. The
same letter mentions a fact which does not agree with
the statement mane a short time since by our core-
spondent. It says that Batbyany, Estrrhazy, and
Desk, had u yet come to no resolution in the
Croatian affair. Meanwhile the Bann has taken par
session of the navigation of the Danube, and advanced
to Bukowar.

HESSE-HOMBURO. 7- Prince Gustavus, land-
grave of Hesse-Homborg, died on the Bth inst. of
apoplexy. He is succeeded by his brother, Prince
Ferdinand.

MADRID, Starr. 5.
It is said that Gen. Pavia is to be replaced by Cop-
dare, who remains ir erector of infantry, the duties or which
post will be discharged by Lersanai during his absence.
Brigadier Benz and not Lerrandi, is to command the
column destined to act against Pico in La Mancha.
Troops are daily lesvirg Madrid in the directions of La
Mancha, Cuenca, and Catalonia. Sans will have the mili-
tary command of the provinces of Talk-do, Cuenca, and
Ciudad-Reel. The civic guard also, which was concentrated
in Madrid in canrequrnee of the insurrections of March and
May, will be re-dispersed through the provinces, resuming
their poets from which they were called.
Arrow continue. fluor Croc, a leading liberal, was taken
yesterday for having been heard to express his intention of
signiu a petition :or bringing Count Vista-Hermou to trial
in oonseqoence of the infamous penalty he inflicted upon
Palacio, in the bull.amph'theatre. At least, this is the pre-
text assigned by his friends. Barmiento, • commandant in
the depot of half-pay officer+ at Alenagro, was arrested an
the 31. t and conducted to Madrid. Filly-four political pd.
sown had unwed at Cadiz by sea from Valencia. From a
statement in the Dierio It appears theyt the re-
ceipts of the municipality of Madrid from the beckoning of
this year te the end of July, have been 112,3971., which
would make the annual income of the ayuniuniento little
short of 200,0001.
From time to time a paragraph appears in the ministerial
pipets to hold the public in cheerful expectation u to Mon's
finance projects. What these will be is pretty evident.
Those who know him best say that he will raise • new forced
loan of two millions sterling ; that is double the amount of
Orlando's, Roses, Catalonia, baa been occupied by the re-
publican and Cerlist factions. Letters from Cuenca announce
an attempt by a band of 20 insurgents upon Canete.

St HELENA, JULY 30.—Tees thAva TRAM.—
Prises to the Penelope, Favourite, Heroine, Ferret, and
Contest, cruising on the west oust of APO*, have arrived
tai bin the present month. Contest's prise had 500 slaves
on board, and was captured off Qniunca, on the south
coast, on the 7th July last. She war boarded several times
on that coast prior to taking in her slaves by the Heroine,
Ferret, and Contest, when she had • clean hold and papen
as a Portuguese ouster between Benguela and Losado •
indeed, but two days before, she was boarded some 80 mile•
to the northward of the place where she took in her alms,
and war afterwards captured. This shows the great hollity
and rapidity with which provisions, water, slave decks. and
slaves can now be shipped, and the extraordinary energy
with which the traffic is still conducted, notwithstanding the
obstacles that our gallant officers and summate so zealously
opposing to it. Quicenia bay is a secluded place, come ten
miles to the southward of Noes Rotondo, from which 650
slaves were shipped and get clear of the oust the week before
the Contest made her appearance there.—The Penelope's
prise is the Teresa steam-vessel, of some 60 or 70 hone
power with high pressure engines. She was cap need at sea, la
the latitude of "Cabinda, and arrived here in charge of Lieut.
Howell. She had been as far north as the Gallium, off
which coast she was driven by the activity of our
Sorely premed in the Bights, too, she attempted toctlairrno.
fags in her old quarters, the south aces, from which she
hid made several notesafal trips, taking as many as 1,000
at a time ; but there she met with bar match in the Pene-
lope. This is the same venal that beat off the beats of the
Siren, in the Congo, in Jan. last. The other prises were
empty bet doe noels. The fortilleatioes on this and the
neighbouring island of Anniston en being increased and
strengthened, in consequent* of the recant extraordinary
intelligence from Borland.

TM& MOUNTAINS OP INDIA.—The mean height of
the Himalaya is stupendous, certainly not leas than from
18,000 to 20,000 feet, though the paha esseeding that Man-
dan are not to be numbered, especially at the swarms of the
Sutlej ; indeed, fro that river to the Hales the chile ex-
hibiie an endless soccereion of the lot deist mountains on earth ;
Cony of them surpass the height of Chimborazo, the highest
but one of the Ando., and many reach the height of 25,000
feet at least. 8o rugged is this part of the magi. Mutat chain,
that the military parade at habathoo, half a mile long, and
a quarter of a mile broad, is said to be the only level ground
between it and the Tartar frontier on the north, or the valley
of Nepaul to the east. Towards the fruitful valleys of Ne-
pali& and Bhotan the Himalaya is equally loftsome of the
nuttntains being from 25,000 to 28,000 fest high, but it is
narrower, and the deem t to the plains excessively rapid,
especially in the territory of Mots°, where the dip from the
table land is more than 10,900 feet in ten miles. The valle)s
are crevices so deep and narrow, and the mountains that
hang over them in menacing cliffs are so lofty, that these
abysses are shrouded in perpetual Ithum, ezeept when the
rays of • varietal sun penetrate their depths. From the
steepness of the descent the rivers shoot down with the
swiftness of en arrow, filling the caverns with foam and the
air with mist. At the veep base of this wild region lies rho
elevated end peaceful valley of /McKee, vividly green, and
shaded by magnificent forests. Another rapid descent of
1,000 feet leads to the plain of the 04ages. • • • •
Most of the parses over the Himalaya are bat little
lower than the top of Moot &WIC; many are higher,
especially near the Butlej, where they are from 18,0001
to 19,000 feet high ; acd that north east of Illicionswur
is 20,000 feet above the level of the sea, the highest
that has been attempted. AU are terrific, and the fatigue
and suffering from the rarity of the air in the last
600 lest is not to be described. Animals are se much dis-
tressed as human beings, and many die. Thousands of buds
perish from the violence 9f the wind ; the drifting mow is
often feel to travellers, and violent thunder-storms add to
the horror of the i.urery. The Niti pass, by which Mr.
' Kamera% amended to the 'Lewd lake of Manama in Tibet,
is tremendous; he and 'fie guide had not only to walk bare-
footed from the risk of slipping, but they were obliged to
creep along the most frigh.ful chasm', holding by twigs and
tufts of grate, and sometimes they erased deep and awful
crevices on a branch of a tree, or lets, stones thrown across ;
yet then are the thoroughfares for calumet.", in the
Himalaya, n repaired nor sruc,ptible of im_prow meat,
from the frequent landslips and torrents. The loftiest

peak. heleg bare of mow give great variety of colour and
Nan to the
_screry, which in these, passes is at all times
D . g the day the stupendous size of din
eneneteles, their interminable extent, the variety and sharp.
mem of their toms, and, above all, the tender c.eaese gf
their distant outlive ris
m melting into the pale blue Hy, ea.
treated with the deep same above, is described as a seem cy
wild and wonderful beauty. At midnight, when myriads of
stern sparkle in the black sky, and the pure blu •• of the
mountains looks deeper stil!, beltw the pale white glean of
the earth and anowlight, the strict in of unparalleled an.
leeway, and no language can describe the splendour of *
sunbeams at daybre k s reaming between the high peakn
and throwing their gigantic shadows on the mount& s
There, far above the h.ihitation of min, no beteg thim
exists; no wand is heard; the very echo of the traviller's
tootatem startles him in the awful solitude and silence that
reign in these entrust dwellings of everlasting snow,—mrs,
Somerville', Physical Geography.