The Express.
London, England, 1853-01-25 00:00:00

GERAIANY.

The government of Baden appear to be outstrip-
ping all the German governments in its reactionary
career. The proscription of the treatise of Gervinus
has been followed up by new and vexations restrio-
Sons on travelling. Notice has been 'given to the
agents and managers of the steamboat companies
that they must not take any one on board for pur-
poses of conveyance who cannot give a satisfactory ac-
saint of the object of his journey,and produce his peas-
tine papers to good order. For say legitimailoo
passed by the stamn-boat agents and subsequently
found defective the company will be held responsible
in damages.
From Stuttgart we learn that the police have paid
visits to every bookseller in that capital in search of
Gervintuee book,withouthowever, finding any copies.
Gervinus himself, according to letters from Berlin,
will hasten back to Baden to meet the charges of the
public prosecutor.
The Austrian Emperor has abolished the Ministry
of Agriculture as a distinct department of the go-
, vernment, and assigned its duties to the Ministers of
Finance and the Interior.

The Oeat Corresponden: contains an article in-
tended to herald the coming decree on the govern-
mental organisation of Hungary, which has been so
many times announced and postponed. According
to this semi-official authority, the ancient kingdom is
to be divided into seven administrative sections, in-
dependent of each other, and each having its own
statthholder, a civil and military governor presiding
over the whole.
The Second Prussian Chamber has in its turn
given its sanction to the royal decree of August 4,
under which the present upper house was elected.
The left struggled against the ratifying the act,
but all its amendments were rtjected, and a bill of
indemnity was granted to the ministers On the 20th
the Minister of Finance laid the budget of 1853 on
the table of the house. In the same sitting the
Minister of Commerce re-introduced the bill dropped
last year for taxing railways.
The Hamburg Nachricken publishes a copy of
Count Buono despatch to M. Hubner , at Paris, in
which the Austrian government makes its reserves
concerning the dynasty of Louis Napoleon. The
despatch is dated Vienna, Dec. 29, and reads thus :
Excellency.—The French government, in notifying to us
the inauguration of the Empire, has at the same time for-
warded copies of the ftnatus consults and of the plebiscite
relative to the transformation of the government which has

been effected in France. Them documents, u relating to
the interior affairs of France, we have not here to discuss.
Regarded as such, the changes which they have effected
must be considered as out of the range of the international
relations of the two empires. In proceeding as it has done,
to the acknow:edgment of his Majesty the Emperor
of the French, and in frankly expressing its in-
tention to m►intain with his government the friendly
relations which have hitherto existed between the
two countries, Austria had no intention whatever
of paving a judgment upon the principles contained in the
plebiscite which has now become a law of the state, nor of
admitting beforehand the consequences which might be de-
duced from it in the future.

We abstain from adopting a more solemn form for our re-
serves,and we believe that we thus give to the French govern-
meat a new proof, which I trust it will appreciate, of those
conciliatory dispositions which animate us, and which inspire
the desire of avoiding all that might be calculated to interfere
with the good understanding existing between the two go-
vernments, to the invariable maintenance of which we at-
tach the highest value, for the sake of social order and the
peace of the world.
With these sentiments I have tho honour to transmit to
you the letters which accredit you anew to his Majesty the
Emperor of the French.

a strong resolution for the purpose of effecting a
change." This subjugation of Montenegro will be the
reverse of advantageous to the commercial interests of
Cattero, and Austrian subjects will suffer in comae-
' queues of the mutual dependence of the two places.
An alteration of the status quo in Montenegro, caused
by a Turkish invasion, is consequently prejudicial to
Austria, and mug; be regarded as a rupture of exist-
ing relations, Turkey never baring succeeded in en-
forcing its nominal sway. In illustration of this, al-
lusion is made to former inroads of the mountaineers
mw, the Austrian territory of Cattaro, when the
Porte never showed itself able to protect an ally
from the outrages of plundering hordes who are now
claimed as its subjects. It disclaimed all responsi-
bility on those occasions, and offered no compensation.
" Such being the case, the position of Montenegro as-
sumes international importance," in which other
powers, and not the Porte alone, are concerned.
Moreover, the religious intolerance which would fol-
low in the wake of a Turkish army, cannot be s mat-
ter of indifference to Austria.