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

GERMANY .

PRUSSIA.—We hayTreceived the Berlin journals 1
of the Ath instant, with advices from Brandenburg to
the 7th. The Prussian journals having sounded the
alarm with regard to the late acts of the King,
which they say are calculated to cause a separation
of Prussia from the central power at Frankfort, an
article appears in the &nate Anr.eiger, which con-
cludes by saying there is no separation, but the very
contrary, and Pruaia is as much a pert of the Ger-
man unity as heretofore. A meeting of the majority
of the members of the late constituent Assembly
took place on the 7th at Brandenburg, under the pre-
sidency of Herr von Unruh, at which a fresh protest
was made against its dissolution.
AUSTRIA.—From Vienna we have news to the
6th instant. Addresses seem to be the order of the
day. The Wiener Zeitung contains several from
General Cordon to the army, from the Diet to the
new Emperor, from that high personage to Windiach-
grit: and his sneerer.
In the sitting of the Diet at Kremeier on the 4th,
the debate was on the Budget, which showed a deficit
of 491 millions of florins, of which 30 millions for
the war, and 12 millions for the state treasury, are
ander the head of extraordinary expensis. A credit
of 80 millions is proposed to be raised. The project
has been submitted to a committee.

FRANKFORT, Dec. 8.
The march of the Prussian government is in double
quick time. The utmost consternation prevails among
the honest members of the party of the right in our
Frankfort Assembly. They believed that the Prus-
sian government had no object in view but to repress
anarchy in order to strengthen its hands to support
the liberty and unity of Germany, and reward all
good children who have behaved well. And now they
me this Prussian government, from which they hoped
so much, breaking and destroying everything. There
is no member of the Frankfurt parliament—not one
—who does not understand that the Prussian govern-
own, in dissolving the Assembly and publishing a
charter conceded sea favour, has destroyed every gua-
rantee for the liberties which the Prussian people bad
acquired. There is one party in the parliament which
thinks this quite right—the party of Gen. ltadowitz
and the Jesuits. But this party is inconsiderable in
point of numbers, and is composed exclusively
of absolutists and jesuita. Von \lecke'. party
the second section of the right —is in
despair
_at seeing its principle—loyalty to lawsjes-
tablished by the kin—overturned. The highest cen-
tre—the party of the Casino—knows neither what to
do nor what to say. It is stupified by the blow.
It cannot accept the charte uctooyfe, for that would be
to destroy its own influence : and it cannot reject it,
for that would be to acknowledge the legality of a
Prussian revolution. This party is looking about for
some middle couree,but such a one will be difficult to find.
This party, as you are aware, declared the noising of
the supplies by the Berlin Assembly ille ; but
to this declaration it added a proviso that t e King
ought to appoint a popular and constitutional ministry,
and that the Frankfort parliament would guarantee
the riphts and liberties of the Prussian people. The
Prusaan people have obeyed the rescript ; the supplies
have not been refused ; and the King has not only
refused to magnate a new ministry, bat he has made
a revolution by dimnissing the representatives of the
people, and promulgating an illegal charter. The
time has come he the Frankfort parliament to show
whether its promises are anything but mere empty
words, and whether it has the courage to do its duty.
All that has hitherto taken place at Frankfort has
been but the prologue; the time for action has
arrived; the crisis is at hand, and no one can con-
jecture what the dirsouement may be.