The Express.
London, England, 1849-01-16 00:00:00

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745.1 LONDON, TUESDAY, JAN. 16, 1849. ITHREE PENCE.

March, in cenfonnity with the moieties of the As-
sembly adapted on Friday. The result has been each
as to render it certain that another report will be
returned to the Assembly precisely the same as that
which it rejected on Friday. The committee
Ilwhich has been named consists chiefly of
ultra-democrats and Montagnards. There is but
one named in it favourable to the principle of the dis-
solution of the Assembly at an early epoch. The
following are the members of the committee : MM.
Roux Lavergne, Billaut, Dupont de Buuac, St.
Gaudens, Marie, Degonsee, Pierre Bonaparte, Ser-
rano, Grevy, Lugnier, Jules Favre, Liechtenberger,
Combarel de Leyval, and Regnand.
M. Combarel de Leyval is the only member favour-
able to La early dissolution. The debates which took
place in the several bureaux were most animated.
Must o' the leading members of the Assembly spoke,
among whom were MM. de Lama:tine, Molt, Du-
here, and Davergier &Hammer..
It is probable, if not mends, that the report which
will be returned to the Assembly will s rongly de-
nounce any resolution fixing a de,fieitive date for its
dissolution. It will probably propose a list of organic
laws, which must be puled before dissulteioa be
thought of. In effect, the report will prep mos the
digs lution of the Assembly indefinitely.
In the 11th bureau the candidates for the place on
the committe were M. Mole and M. Ortvy, this latter
being a Montagnard, and the author of the rep.rt
which the Assembly rejected on Friday. M.
Grevy, nevertheless, was elected, in preference
to M. Mole, by thirty votes against fifteen. In
short, it is no quite apparent that, in spite of the
vote of Friday, the majonty of the Assembly have
adopted the fixed resolution to maintain its powers
without fixing any definite date for their termination.
If the manifestations from the departments which
have already commenced, and have only
been suspended in the expectation that one
or other of the projects should paw, be resumed, as it is
supposed they will be, and that they are accompanied
by like manifestations on the part of the National
Guard in Paris, most serious consequences may be
looked for. The Assembly appears determined to
take a resolute stand against public opinion, and
to maintain its powers in spite of the wish
of the country that they should terminate. Under
such circumstances, violent measures of some kind
are feared. One of the expedient. which has been
more than once threatened to be adopted, is that the
minority shall withdraw and resign their commissions.
Of the speeches made in the bureaux to-..ay,
that which has produced the greatest sensation, is
the speech of M. de Laturtine, which is that which he
had intended to have delivered had the debate of
Friday been adjourned. It is reported to be one
of his most successful speeches. He commenced
by declaring his respect and devotion for tl.e
Assembly, and the gratitude he felt in common
with France for the vast benefits it had already con-
ferred upon the country. He demanded, however,
that for its owe sake it should resolve upon its disso-
lution at the earliest practicable period. He declared
that his past conduct ought to place him above all
suspicion in advocating this, for it was he who in the
P roe isionalG overnment struggled with most ardour:and
perseverance to make the national and moderate re-
public prevail over the dictatorial, conventional, and
demagogic republic. He declared that be entertatned
a profound conviction diet the Assembly ought to
surrender its functions to the country, because it has
been already attacked in its inviolability and
its dignity. The vote of the 10th December, by
which six-sevenths of the electors returned the actual
president, was an attack on the inviolability of this
Assembly, precisely because the Assembly had pre-
virertly pronounced too emphatically in favour of
General Cavaignec ; precisely because that vote
showed that six-sevenths of the Assembly were op-
posed by six-sevenths of the electors on this
most vital question. lie contended, moreover,
that it was attacked in its dignity by the chief of the
cabinet on Friday, when M. 0. Barret, representing
as he did the opinions of the great msjonty of the
constituency, boldly declared that the Assembly had
lost all power of doing what was good and what
was useful for the country. In such a situation
the Assembly might, it was true, overturn the
cabinet, but M. de Lemertine considered such a course
questionable and perilous, and that it were infinitely
more noble and generous respectfully to withdraw
before the manifestation of public opinion, and give
play once more to universal suffrage, &Vowing ano-
ther Assembly to be elected, which should in-
disputably represent the will of the people.
A contest has already commenced as to whether the
question for the dissolution, when it comes to be de-
cided, shell be resolved by ballot or by open voting.
A considerable number of members insist on the
principle of open vo mg in t mem it being suo-
posed that many members would oppose the dissolu-
tion by secret voting who would not venture to do so
by their open vice.
It is at last understood to be decided that M. 0.
Barren will maintain his position at the head of
the cabinet, and will not b.- put forward as a can-
didate for the vice-presidency. The names men-
tioned, as likely to be candidates for this offi
are MM. Defame, Bentley (de la Meurthe), Abe-
tucci, and Vivien. Of there the Assembly would pro-
bably select M. Hafitare.
Some extraordinary movement is taking place in
the French ports. Orders have, it is said, been trans-
mitted to Cherboutg by the Minister of the Marine to
fit out the Forte, Aleeste, and the Clorinde frigates,
and the Gurnee steam slop. The insurgents on board
the Triton are to be landed and placed in the forts,
and that vessel also fitted citt. The Thisbe corvette,
at Lorient, is also to be immediately fitted for sea.
The President of the R.publie has just made the
munificent donation of filty thousand francs to the so-
ciety formed in Paris fur the erecion of buildi-gs, in
different quarters, as lodg.egs for the working-cl mete
of the comfort and salubrity of which most of [them
are now destitute.
The Petrie states that the distribution of letters by
the post daily in Paris, which before the reduction
of the postee,^e was only 81,000, now averages
120,000.
A duel has just taken place between M. d'Alton-
ghee, ex-peer rf France. ant M. C. Delesclue,
principal edimr of the journal La Rfrolution Dim°
eratigue at Sociale. Sb e was wounded
in the hand, and his antagonist in the arm.
Pena Jan. 13. teem Lai,. Three per eeete.. 45 55;
raw per urea, 73 63 ; 14110 Loma, 73 60 ; roars, Heaven
25
mak
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t 4 las 1642, 861
Rod, ; .ples Routes, 79 Roam Loss, 6s; Tressen
Bends. Beak Mans. 1720, ..sebeage an Loudon. 30 days,
25 al nab ; 95 dap, 23 32, orb.
ILLILWAR—Parr sad Orison, 720 ; Berle sad met 440
Rouen and Bane, t 42 30 ; Avignon and !gentian, ; gene.
Weirs sad Bel', 63; i.t.n.ve %%wade. 151 50; Ankles Bou.
Woe, 200; Bordeasi, 376 r 3; Berta, 363 72,

ITALY.

LOMBARDY.—The Mtlan Gazette, of the 6th
inst., announces officially the intention of convoking
the deputies of the Lombardo-Venetian provinces of
the empire, in conformity with the ministerial pro-
gramme of the 27th November last, in which the
integrity of the monarchy is laid down as its basis.
SARDINIA.—The committee of the Duchies of '
Parma, Piacenza, and Modena, having solicited of the
king permission to send a deputy to the congress of
Brussels, to confor as to the interests of those duchies
with the Sardinian envoy, the king has appointed
Count Louis Sanvitali to that office.
Advice. from Turin of the 10th instant, announces

that a commission had been appointed to inquire what
measures could be takes by government in the gem ral
interests of Savoy, and to propose the reforms which
appeared necessary.
MODENA.-0a the 4th inst. (says the ellbo of
Florence) serious agitation, which it was feared
would lead to grave consequences, occurred in Mo.
der.a, on account of the resignation, en masse, of the
municipal employ's. The artillery were called out and
were ready to act ; the shops were all closed, and
serious results appeared likely to ensue, bat at two
o'clock tranquillity was restored.
TUSCANY.—Letters from Genoa, of the 10th inst.,
state that Prince Joseph Pouiatowski, colonel of the
Civic Guard of Florence, arrived on the th inst. at
Genoa. Toe Tuscan government has, it is said,
charged him with a mission to Paris, Loudon, and
Brussels. He was to leave on the 10th inst., and
would, it was expected, arrive in Paris on the 15th.
ROMAN STATES.—The Constituent* was pro-
claimed at Ancona on the 31st ult., under a salute of
101 gaps. Letters from Bologna of the 6th inst.,
direct attention to the movements of the Austrians,
who are concentrating large bodies of troops at
Piacenza, Modena, and Ferrara, supposed to be with
a view of armed intervention in the Roman States in

aid of the King of Naples.
The Corriere Mercantile of Genoa, of the 10th,
says: Some person who have arrived from Civita
Vecchia, assert that a report was prevalent there
that the Pope had issued a bull of excommunication
against the Roman people.

GERMANY.

DEFEAT OF THE AUSTRIAN MINISTRY.
AUSTRIA.—The Vienna mail of the 10th inst.,
has rtached us. The statenmnt that Koestith
had fled to Debreczin, with the regalia of Hun-
gary and the bank-note press. is confirmed by the
Brestauer Zeituny, which adds that he has been
joined by the Committee of Defence, and by those
members of the Diet who had declared the throne of
Hungary vacant, and that his partizans ex* some
12,000 strong. On the 6th, the let army corps
of the Imperial troops left Path for Debreczin.
la opposition to ministers, the Diet at Kremaier
voted, on the Bth inst, by a majority of 196 to 99,
the following motion, which is tantamount to a vote
of want of confidence: " Resolved, that the Diet
&clam that it discerns with regret, in the state-
went of ministers made on the 4th instant„
previous to the commencement of the debate on the
first section of the fundamental law, a statement in I
consequence of which the utterance of the most loyal
seatiments, curing the voting of that paragraph,
will appear u a forced opinion, and not as a
tree unshackled decision—a deviation from the prin-
ciple of free expression of opinion—a deviation, more-
over, incompatible with the dignity of free repre-
sentatives of the people,and at variance with tke posi-
tion of the Constituent Diet as admitted by the
imp.rial manifestos of June 3 and 6, 1848." The
gist of this confused motion is, ttat by ministers de-
claeing that the first section of the fundamental law
(a section which has been already read the first time)
had given rise, as a theory, to rebellion and
murder, was guilty of a breach of the pri-
vileges of the house. The section itself
merely sets forth that the people is the source of all
power, a principle which, ministers assert, caused
the murder of La'our in Vienna ! Before the
motion was put to the vote, Herr Fiechhoff
accused ministers of doing all in their power to
lower the Diet and itemenibers in public estimation,
and referred to the vituperation of the ministerial
press. Nlinis.crs, moreuvet, had issued laws relating
to the recruiting system and the press, without con-
sulting the Diet. Herr Schee Ike observed that
I liberty and honour were in danger. After rejecting a
motion for proceeding to the order of the day, and
vo:iug the motion as above given, the Diet broke up
in great excitement.
he Brainier Zeituhy semis that the ministerial
decree had arrived in Prague, by which the univer-
sity of that city is declared to be a Sclavonian one,
and all yrofeinure appointed by toe state are ordered
to impart instructions in the Bob, mien languege. It
is thought all the Germat, students and professors will
leave Prague, en maw, as their countrymen did one*
before, in the time of Huse.
FRANKFORT.—Our advisee from this city reach
to the 12,h inst.
Tre adjourned deb de on the Austrian question and
the ministerial programme was resumed.
Herr L. SIMON °leery, d, that a few months ago its
Atsembly gn ranteed th- entices .1 rights of the Pols-
yoniens inhabiting tke Gem territory ;at linnet Ger-
many could not do es much for a consi.lereble por-
tion of his own eons. (Cheers.) In fact—to the dis-
prae • of U twiny et Germans had beta placed at
the mercy of the Salevontai.s. The opprt-s,ion of Italy and
Hungary wee the whine to the present nate of things.
The speaker next made some *even remarks on the ineon-
sisteat connect of Herr Von Ilthaterlirg, who in Frankfort
expreased sentiments quite d ffer. nt from those set forth in
hi. address to his a ,nstituents in Vienna, and who displayed
the o'd German banner its the one city end the purely Au..
tai n flag in the other. Let tho-e who wished to make
the Bing of Prussia Emperor of °enmity, reflect on the
hostility of Austria, Bavaria, and fiszonv. If the propel-
tion of the minority of the commi,tee (the one upheld by
miuisters) be adopted, then the man who exclaims " No
Prussia, no Aseria, hut a united Germany." will no longer
be Vicar of the empire, a, d the new cry will be " A Prussia
or at Austria, ho: no G•rma, y "
Herr Ravitaus (member tor Cologne )—lt is possible to
separate Austria from Germany, but the National
Assembly has not the power to briug about such a
division The question for Austria is whether she
will remain German oe h'cnme Selavonian ; and that
elevation must be decided in Veneta. is the duty of the
Assembli not to gin up 'he 0 rmans in Au-iris. I do not
wish for a civil war, but 1 ' os adopt a res notion in the
Spirit of the people's polies, and it wig Lot he without avail.
Nowhere is wore lively sympathy telt for Germany than in
Austria. Hers Ravesux, after eiving a mehteeht ly account
of the present condition and prospects of the empire, stated
' that he was in favour of a republican form of government
foe Germany at large, although he thought it advisable for
the separate states to rein the enonarehial one. Gentlemen,
observed Herr Awaits in conclusion, you know I am from
Cologne. In that city stands the synth .1 of German unity,
if we remove one enlumn from the cathedral, the edifice
will fall to ruins. (Much 'pollen's.)
The MINISTER or Fixates stated that be bed learned
from a good quar,er that the Austrian Diet would be occu-
pied, for some three months to woe, with the discussion of
the fundamental laws, before it came to the constitution.
N -ow, if the National Assembly were to defer voting**
constitution until meters were finally errarged in Austria,
it wield be exposing Germany to great danger in 'he present
state of the world. To wait upon Austria would bring death
upon German unity. (Crime.) All the ministers were de-
termined to stand or Gil by the programme. (Hisses and
ch• ere )
Herr Von WTDENBURCI declared in favour of the pro-
position of the majority of the committee, and against the
plans of Priests, with reference to which he remarked that
freedom could not be bestowed at the point of the bayonet.
He was ivory that the Austrian question was made a minis-
terial 'me, but he eat higher value on the German
people in general than on one men, even if he
were the beet amongst them. It would ha a gram
anachronism to refer at present to the sets of the German
confederation. end to piece Austria again in its former rela-
tion to Germany. A place should b • left for Austria, in
order that when oppress-ed by despotism or by Scleynnians,
she may find that reception summit Germans which, like
every other German nation, she may claim. If Austria be
replaced In its gamer relation to Germany, D.nmark and
Holland may claim to be set on the same footing with res-
pell to their German territory. He was in favour of the
modification of the second and third sections of the first
*Miele of the constitutioe.
Herr WORTI (undersecretary of state in the Von
Behmerling ministry) blamed the present administration for
raising doubts respecting the poseibility of uniting all Ger-
tatt.y. From the remotest pried, of -history, the German
provinces of Austria farmed menus of **German empire.
By seamisaisa the division et Germany, the National As-
sembl would be making it over to its internal and external
err Germany, wittiest Austria, would be alteamber