The Express.
London, England, 1851-11-20 00:00:00

SPAIN.

MADRID, Nov. 14.

A considerable supply of muskets made in the
government manufactories is about to be sent to
Cuba. Some days of vacation are expected to in-
terrupt the labours of the Cortes on the occasion
of the Queen's deliverance. The sitting of the
Chamber had no political interest.
The Spanish government, on the demand of Lord
Ifowden, has pardoned 23 English subjects w•ho had
taken part in the expedition of Lopez against Cuba.

TURKEY.

CONSTANTINOPLE, Nov. 5.

The question of the Holy Places is becoming
grave. M. Titoff has declared to Reshid Pasha
that the Greeks had rights anterior to the trea-
ties on which France insists, which the Czar is
obliged to maintain. He added, that unless the
status quo were strictly observed in Jerusalem and
elsewhere that he had orders to break off diplomatic
relations with the Porte and return with the whole
legation. The Porte had to settle the question with
Russia before making any new arrangement with
France.

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NI. Iteculot, first secretary of the French Embassy
at Constantinople, has arrived in Paris to receive
instructions from his government on this question.

GERMANY.

BERLIN, Nov. 17.
The explanation demanded from Ilanover by the
Diet, touching the appeal of the Ititterschaft against
the " new organisation," has been sent in. It has
not yet been published, but all accounts agree in
stating that it contains the most decided refusal on
the part of the Hanoverian government to acknow-
ledge the competency of the Bund to interfere at all
in the question. This proceeding had the sanction
of the king, whilst he was able to give any atten-
tion to public affairs. This act, therefore, may be
considered as the last political act of his life.
M. Manteuffel will be shortly called upon—at
latest when the chambers meet—to express himself
clearly about the decree of the Bend of Aug. 23. In
abolishing the " fundamental rights," the Weimar
government declared that the constitution remained
perfectly unaltered, intimating that the Diet had
no competency to interfere in constitutional ques-
tions; whilst the Weimar Ritterschaft have ad-
, dressed a written petition to the Bund, corn-
Idaining of this interference. On the other
hand, Anhalt Dessau has abolished its entire
constitution, by virtue of, it is declared, and in
obedience to, that decree. In Bremen a like proceed-
ing, on the same authority, has been adopted; and in
Hanover the Diet has attempted to susper.d laws
which have passed the parliament and have been
sanctioned by the King; albeit with the consent of
Prussia. It is time, therefore, that the Prussian
government spoke out on this question; and as it has
the Chambers almost immediately to meet, it is
thought that its declaration will be against at least
the interpretation that has been put upon the decree
of the 23rd August, for its object is just now not to
exasperate but to conciliate the liberal and constitu-
tional party.
VIENNA, Nov. 15.
That the Austrian empire continues in danger, and
that the police minister considers it therefore neces-
sary to pursue his energetic proceedings against
those whom he considers the plotters and conspira-
tors, is evident from the fact that the numerous ex-
pulsions of Wednesday and Thursday were greatly
exceeded yesterday, and have nut ceased to-day. A
Belgian journal some weeks ago praised the mo-
narchy-saving activity of the celebrated Chevalier
Weiss, and boasted that he had expelled 20,000 or
30,000 individuals from Vienna within a month or
two after the city was occupied by the imperial
troops. At the time the praise seemed to me to be
overdone, and the activity of the police minister ex-
aggerated. I was mistaken. His doings of the last
three days have exceeded everything that an Eng-
lish mind can compass in the shape of police inter-
ference, not merely with resident foreigners, but with
subjects of the empire and citizens of this metropolis.
His expulsions have proceeded for three or four days
at the rate of a hundred or one hundred and fifty a
day. Every five minutes of day-light during that
period witnessed some one or two well-dressed indi-
viduals led into the Stadthauptmannschaft in the
custody of gendarmes, their exit after a short stay
with passports, ricer, for the frontiers. The accusa-
tion against the individuals so treated was on the two
first days, the mere suspicion of having improperly
trafficked on 'change; yesterday and to-day the ac-
cusation of improper dealings in money has been
extended to dealings in grain, and corn speculators,
whether bona fide purchasers or forestallers, have
been treated with equal tyrannical absurdity. Yes-
terday, however, the kind attention of the police was
chiefly directed to the Polish sews, who, in their
long beards and greasy kaftans, were treated with
much less ceremony than the cloth coated gentry of
the money market. The calif in which they are ac-
customed to transact business was surrounded by
gendarmes, and dozens at a tine were hurried off to
the next frontier. The officers employed on the oc-
casion replied, to every inquiry , that they were acting
under authority, and refused to permit an appeal to
head-quarters. From their method of pro g, it
is evident that the police authorities, with Chevalier
Weiss at their head, have no distinct charges against
their victims, or else the latter would speedily have
been delivered over to the tender mercies of the
courts-martial. Can anything be more absurd or
wicked than this desnotic interference with the
liberty of the subject and the natural regula-
tion of the money and grain markets? The
consequence to the latter is, that there is
an absence of dealers, an insufficient sup-
ply, and that the millers and bakers complain
that they will be obliged to go or send into Hungary
and Poland, to purchase the grain and meal they
require. Of course they will have to pay more for
it there than they would here, especially as the
enormous purchases making by goverument have
become known throughout the empire.
Several of the most respectable merchants and
bankers have represented to the ministerial autho-
rities the impropriety and evil consequences "of the
sadden police expulsion of many men of business
connected with most important commercial transac-
tions." This and similar representations are in Vain.
Government will listeu to nothing.
Another instance of female persecution by the
police, in i esth, has just conic to my knowlege. A
sample girl, of highly respectable family, was de-
pounced to the authorities, for accompanying herself
on the piano and singing a revolutionary air.
1 hough quite alone at the time, she has been arrested
and confined in the famous Neu-Gebaude, where
all political prisoners are incarcerated.