The Express.
London, England, 1849-05-21 00:00:00

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852.] LONDON, MONDAY, MAY 21, 1849. [THREEPENCE•

which are presented do not represent the feelirgs of
the people ; bat you may guess how easy it is for his
agents todo and say what they please in these small
villages where tie bayonet rules. I most assure you
also, that throughout Sicily few regret the refusal of
those disgraceful conditions offered by France and
England."
It appears that the Neapolitans have destroyed or
plundered all that eame in their way from Catania to
Palermo. In fact, the army is so demoralised with
this system of warfare, that it would be diffiealt to
avoid such a result, even if it were attempted by the
oommanding officer. I expect every day to hear a
sad account of Palermo, for I mach question the
power of the Sicilians to resist against the 10,000
royal troops, supported, as they will be, by a power-
ful steam fleet. However, the best authorities say,
" th&Palermitans may yet triumpb."
Niples is pefectly tranquil. We bear nothing from
Rome. In fact, no letters or newspapers have ar-
rived for many dm=xcepting those brought by the
steamers from ee.
MAT 11.

RUSSIA.

As the poet did not leave for Marseilles, as pro-
pos d, yesterday, I had hoped to 1. arn some fresh news
from Palermo ; but, no steamer arriving from Sicily, I
can only give you the report about the town to the
effect that "the royal troops have entered Palermo."
Ido not, however, believe It. The ofkial journal of
this morning has printed nothing from Palermo; and
as the alms of the Neapolitan army invent a new
story every day, I have no doubt this is one of them.
The governing* most be in possession of telegraphic
news, and h it heat favesueble, I Franz% aim
fisemesessmdisia, ihiesealitswe Use puWilied.
Admiral lUndin was met at sea and ordered home
immediately.

The following uhase, reistiog to the Rusian inter-
vestinie is Hungary, has been published in Ht.
Pettmharg
Br the Vows of God, We, Nicholas 1., Baps*, and
"1""=""K ad the Rimane, An, declare to the nation,
=it, by our anallesto of the 14th of March, 1848, in-
°or Rh** Of the miseries which Meted Western
Europe, we at the use time nada known how we were
molly to meet our esemies wheren r they might show them.
selves, and that we should, without sowing ourealves in
ocalussellen indissoluble with our sawed Russia. defend
W benwar of the Run= name, and the inviolability of
oar fecaffess.
The esimodons and rebellions of the west have not since
thin seseki. Guilty delusion, enticieg the thoughtless crowd
with visinguy dreams of tiat prosperity which can never
be the ben of wilfalnesi and obstinacy, has entered the
rest and the desaicioes contiguous to us, subjoins of the
Turkish empire, via, Moldavia and Wallachia. Only by the
pregame of our troops, together with those of Turkey, has
order been restored and maintained ; bat is Hungary and
=lnnis the efforts of the Austrian government, dis-
til:say by soother war with foreign sad domestic
enemies I. Itaty, bays not yet been alio to triumph over re-
bellies. Oa the entrary, streegtheniog itself by hordes of
oar Pell* traitors of 1831, AMU of others, foreigners, oat-
ems, naaways, enl vagrants, the rebellion has developed
itself then to $ nail threatening ism,.
la the midst of these unfortunate events the Emperor
GIANI& his addressed himself to us with the wish for cur
assislnnes against oar coasts 111111131119. We shall not at-
free him

GERMANY.

dates from Berlin are to the 18th

PRI
of May.
The news bad officially arrived there on the lith,
and was communicated by electric telegraph on the
same evening to Cologne, that liferlohn and Elberfeld
had been evacuated by the insurgents without resist-
ance. They had previously, howevtr, levied 6,000
rix-dollars in Elberfeld, and are (to the amount of
600 armed men, it is said) on their route to ‘the Pala-
tinate. Cologne was quiet.

FRANKFURT.—Our dates are to the 18 h inst.

Having galled to the assistant* of this righteous Enter-
prise the Almighty Leeds, of Battles and Lord of Victories,
we Ire eirsantsuded ear armies to more forward for the
gl rebellies, and the destruction of audacious and
id a
aiena law, vialeaders= to disoub the seas el
Let Gut be with us, and who shall be agate* to ?
Be—we are *evinced of it—so heir, so hopes, so aspires
our God-preserved nation, every Itasnan, every trite subject
of oars, sad Russia will fulfil her minion.
Given at St. Pstetsbarg the 28th day of April, in the
year Thom the birth of Christ, 1849, and the 24th of our
reign. (Signed) NICKOLAS I.

In the sitting of the National Assembly of the pre-
ceding day, the president communicated the pro-
gramme of the new ministry. The following is the
substance of it :
By /anus of the law of Jane 28,1848, the central power
does not conceive it to be within the sphere of its attributes
to co•operate in the practical introduction of the constitution.
Nevertheless, being well disposed to pave the way for a es
cognition of the constitution by this governments, it regards
it ea the other hand as a duty imposed open it by the pros-
perity and security of Germany, confided to its ear*, to
oppose by all the means at its disposal the unlawful attempts
and violent enterprises under the pretext of introducing the
constitution, and that too as soon as the respective govern-
menushall claim the succour and intervention of the central I
power.
The central power has taken, and It is resolved to take, as
part in the establishment of the constitution, reserved to the
National Assembly ; but it considers it a duty to noise my
infriegement on the executive power, which below M k
exclusively.
(Signed) GRAB-TELL, JOCHMOII, DETMOLD, Mum.
Immediattly after the reading of the programme,
among other motions was one by M. Freudenthisi,
declaring that the new ministry cid not possess the
confidence of the National Assembly.
In the sitting of to-day, the 18th, Mr. °riven,
President of the Council, in reply to a question from
M. Simon, of Treves, declared that Hessian sad
Wurtemberg troops have been concentrated on the
frontiers of the grand duchy of Baden, not with
views battle to the constitution of the empire, bat to
take posse mien again if the federal fortress of
Rastadt, and protect the states bordering the grand
duchy of Ba,,en. He then declared that the ricer of
the empire, in the hope of an amicable arrangement
of the differences respecting the constitution of the
empire, had thought it right to send a courier to his
Prussian Majesty, and that the answer to his over-
tures would s.ree as a guide to his ulterior conduct.
The vicar of the empire, he added, had received
his mandate from the National Assembly, and his
power had been conferred on him in the name of the
governments by the Germanic diet. When, there-
fore, it will be requisite to lay down his mandate, he
will only do so in the'midst of the Assembly ; but as
far u concerns his power, he will resign it into the
bands of the governments. As for the ministry of
I the empire, it conceives itself bound to remain tem-
porarily in power, notwithstanding the distrust im-
plied in the vote of the National Assembly.
The Assembly then weed to the order of the day,
that is to say, to the discussion of the propositions
from the Committee of Thirty, for the formation of a
regency of the empire. The discussion wee adjourned
to the following morning.
BADEN.—We have dates from Carlsruhe and
Mannheim to May 18. Carlsruhe was in a very un-
settled state; several thousand volunteers hid arrived,
and a greet number of persons had fled to Wurtem-
berg or France. The soldiers had proceeded to the
election of their officers; very young men had been
'amid captains and majors.

HAMBURG. MAT 18.
The proclamation d the senate, to which I al-
luded in my last, has not had the desired effect:
the political agitation is still going on. The Work-
men's Committee, as they all themselves, published
another address to their fellow-citizens, in which they
stated that their demand of a penny subecription, for
the purposes of • general armament, is a legal step,
and that the senate has no right to prevent either that
or any other for the same purpose. Another meeting of
the members of the Burgher guardsmen Club took plans
the evening before last, to which none but active mem-
bers were admitted. The meeting paired two reso-
lotions, which they published yesterday. They de-
mand—let.
That the burgher guard, the military,
end the civil functionaries of the state, take the oath
on the constitution of the German empire, and they
declare the senate inimical to the coomitution if their
desire is not complied with within 48 hours from the
time cf the publication. 2nd. They desire a gene-
ral armament of the people, to be ordered by the se-
nate, within the same number of hours.
According to accounts received by this morning's
train from the north, the Prussians took possession of
the city of Aarhus, on the Itith inst., and the bom-
bardment of Fridricia began yesterday.
To-day, at 12 o'clock, the British war steam-ship
Sphinx arrived off Cuxhaven; the captain went on
board a Hamburg steamer at 1 o'clock, to come up the
river. The Sphinx must have hoisted a flag of truce
to get through the blockading squadron.
The French steam-vessels are going to ply win
regularly between this and Havre ; but the thine
Hull steamers are still at anchor off Heligelsed.
Several vessels, under Russian colours, but originally
Haniburghers, and a Spaniard, who wanted to pto
sea last Sunday, were sent back by the Dad*
cruisers, with hard words. On the intercoolers d
their consuls, however, they at lad got permissin to
proceed.
By to-night's train the bombardment of Fridricia is
confirmed, and it is further reported that the Duke of
Saxe Coburg has sent a request to the commanding
officers of Friedricheort and Labor to grant a free
passage to an English man-of-war steam-frigate,
which is going to enter the port of Kiel, ooming from
Copenhagen. A Danish gun-boat is said to have
bees attacked by the Schleswig-Holden artillery,
and knocked to pieces, near Diippel, in the Sundevritt.
The Danes left two pieces &ordnance and upwards
se a thousand tons of coals at the island of Lylt,
Mich the Schleswig-Holsteiners captured. Their
'Waal gun-boat in Biel Harbour saw outside, about
11 (German) miles distance, three el the enemy's men-
of-war.

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