The Express.
London, England, 1851-05-02 00:00:00

GERMANY.

The Frankfort correspondent of the Aury. Alg. Zeit. I
intimates that Austria has determined to yield the
joint /retire presidency to Prussia, on the condition of ,
the incorporation question being successfully carried by
the Diet. The French Colonel Sadlicr, a friend of
Dc Lamartine, is gone on a diplomatic mission to
Vienna ; what the mission is is not known. Serious
differences have arisen between the Austrian and
Prussian commissioners and the Danish general, on
the frontier question. Count Plessen has arrived at
Vienntion especial mission, says the Deutsche Zeitusg,
from Breslau, on the subject. M. Giraffe, condemned
by the military tribunal at Cassel to three months'
imprisonment, has been acquitted by the highest
legal authority, the Stoats Procubatur. His work
on the " Constitutional Struggle in Hesse," a very
temperate and patriotic production, furnished the
charge against him. These acquittals of the Cassel
patriots are thought, though most just, to be collusive.
Our correspondent writes as follows :
BERLIN, Aram 29.
According to the Lithographed Correspondence, the in-
structions of the Prussian plenipotentiary in Frank-
fort will be of the following nature: Prussia will de-
clare herself decidedly opposed to the enactment: of
any kind of laws contrary to the federal constitution,
and will cause it to be understood that alterations in the
constitutions of individual states are beyond the province of
the Diet. The immediate objects to which the attention le',
the Diet ought to be given are the establishment of a pes.m.
' ful executive, in which Austria and Prussia shall possess
equal rights, the speediest possible institution of thi.,autho-
rity. Prussia will further declare that the admission
' 1 into the confederation of the non-Cie rm., pm-
rimes of Austria is a purely German question, that
p ate will not oppose it, unless the condition., made in War-
SSW liglattild. The consent of all the other FrovenimenW
, 1 Mi.
of Gennsay will be indispensable. Tl.,e Prussian govern-
ment will eke reject any prapalad, should such be made, for
deciding questions before the Diet by simple majorities."
1 It is very possible that these passages may contain the spirit
of the instructions for the Prussian plenipotentiary.
. They are entirely in accordance with the negative
i
pokey which Nis government hrpursued sines
1
the opening of the Dresden conferences. The reference to
6 the Warsaw conditions is not quite clear, seeing that those
P.11.1C hr lien von liadc wit.. referred t: th^ r'ght t 1 tt:e

government of Germany to form a closer onion within the
confederation, and to the inexplicable question of a parity
between the two great powers us the administration of the
affairs of the confederation. The unintelligible character
of this reference must not be regarded as proof against
the statement. There have been several instances since
Baron 3lanteuffel took into his hand the ministry for
Foreign Affairs, of his having blindly adopted portions of
the pulley of his predece.sor, without understanding more
than their superficial character. This wu the case
with the admission of the Austrian provinces. Herr von
Badowitz consented to it, because the results would un-
Germanise
Austria, and place the contemplated Northern
Union more completely at the head ,if the German states. i
Baron Manteuttel, droppinir the plan of the northern union, ;
has maintained the concession to Austria, defending himself i
on the ground that it had been made by his predecessor.
Although therefore the reassertion of the Warsaw conditions
be unintelligible, it must not be disregarded altogether.
Time will show what Baron Mannteutfel means. I
Dr. Delmer Monmargue, the correspondent of the Journal
les Ilarats, was ordered two or three days ago to leave
Berlin. I believe that his moderate opposition to this order
has procured its withdrawal. Dr. Grimier is a Parisian.
Prussian passport cards, or single journey passim, are not
respected in Austria. All persons attempting to enter
Austria with one are turned back. Saxon subjects may
travel a whole week in Austria upon such a legitimation.
The government do not intend at present to propose any
further alterations in the tiesiseinderrningsig (parochial eim-
stitutions) ; they will wait until it has been introduced
throughout every province of the kingdom, to ascertain hew
it works. In the meantime, however, measures are taken
to nullify all proceedings under the law which prove disa-
greeable to the government. Wherever a democratic paro-
chial, or rather communal council is elected, the elections
are annulled. This has been the case in Marienburg, in
East Prussia.