The Express.
London, England, 1848-10-07 00:00:00

NATIONAL AI3I3I{MBLY.--TauisDAY.
After some Mather of no public interest, the President
'announce -1 the order of the day for the dissuades of the 40th
snick of the constitution, which wee adopted. After some
discussion the debate oa the section of the cionetitatioa, rola •
Siesta the ciente, power, was then commeaced.
DI. Faux PTAt spoke la tallier of the nomination of the
president by the Assembly. He instituted en analogy be-
tweet the government and the human body. He Said the
government ought to be made in the image of man. A man
is a goternment, the brain is the deliberative power, the arm
is the executive power, but the brain and the arm are part of
the man. A pessimist, then, should be one. A purr•
meat with two powers, both emanating from universal suf. 1,
tug*, would resemble a human moister, with two heads.
(The thantricidss of this speaker exelted lend and longp
continued laughter in the Assembly.)
M. de TOCQUEVILLS, in the name of the melamine*, de-
clared that it persisted in demanding the nomination of the
president by universal andrige. As a persistent mode of
election, the nomination of the president by the Assembly
would be incompatible with the good government of the
country. It must be granted at lout that the elution
by the people must be the rule; but it was
contended, that for the drat time the president
should be named by the Assembly. The nomina-
tion by the country wee at fist the elmeet unanimous
opinion in the bureaux, nor wu it then changed. The
Assembly bad a right to decide that the president of the
republic should be elected by the legislative assemblies fur
the future, but can 1t confer upon itself that right of elec-
tion ? The speaker then canvassed the prevailing opinion
on this eutipet He did not see any sufficient motives or
reasons for depriving the people of their right of election.
Such a measure would be to constitute a democracy minus
the people. Let the Assembly put itself frankly at the
head of the country which wishes the republic of order ; let
it put itself there after burning its vessels—(hear)—and
it will have nothing to tear from those who regret the pest,
or from those who adopt a name instead of a man. The
speaker supplicated the Assembly not to show itself dia.
trustful of the people.
The sittiug wes then suspended for a short time, after
which the debate was resumed at the moment our rep star
clued Lis despatches.

MADRID, SEPT. 30.—An occurrence took place
to-day which is likely to make some noise in the dip-
lomatic world. The government, through its police
agents, has offered a gross affront to the minister of
the United States, General Saunders. At two
o'clock the general's lady and two daughters had just
seated themselves in their carriage, which was stand-
ing before the embassy door, when a party of civic
guards approached, and prevented the coachman
from starting. Their leader then inquired which of
the embassy-servants was Fernando. The individual
in question, who was no other than the footman, then
putting up the step, on hearing his own name from
the mouth of a policeman, who stood with a
warrant in his hand, made a precipitate • re-
treat within the ample portal of the embassy.
Meantime the ladies, in considerable alarm, alighted.
The general was not at home ; but it was soon ex-
plained to his family that about two years back Fer-
nando had been drawn to serve in the army, but had
then procured a substitute ; which substitute having
just been shot in Catalonia, Fernando became liable
to serve in his place. The civic guard remained
baulked of his prey in the portal of the embassy till
the goiters' came in. Meanwhile the ladies proceeded
on foot through a shower to the place of their engage-
ment. When the general entered he observed with
considerable surprise a large crowd of common people
about his door, with the three-cornered hats of the
tall gensd'annes in the midst. The chief policeman
attempted to explain his mission and show his warrant,
whereupon the general observed that be was not
in the habit of receiving messages from the govern-
ment in that form, refused to look at his warrant, and
expressed his intention of extending the fullest pro-
tection which the American flag could afford to his
servant; and upon intimation on the part of the
policeman, that the latter would be put to the dis-
agreeable necessity of entering the house in order to
seize the servant, admonished him of the responsi-
bility, which he, his employers, and the Spanish go-
vernment, would incur by violating the domicile of
the minister of the United States. After this warning,
which the general, who is a tall dignified person of a
commanding aspect, delivered with due solemnity, he
withdrew into his apartments, where I understand
that he is now preparing a very energetic note to
Fidel, demanding satisfaction from the government
for this singularly audacious violation of his ambas-
sadorial privileges lam also informed, upon good
authority, that unless the general receives the amplest
apology, as well as the assurance that the exemption
of his footman from military service will be respected,
be will strike his flag and retire from Madrid. Fer-
nando has been upwards of a year in the general's
service.
I hear a report that, at a council of ministers held
last night, the dismissal of Enoiso from the head of
the police department was decided upon.

GERMANY.

THE MURDER OF COUNT LAMBERO CON-
FIRMED. PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT
IN PESTH.
AUSTRlA.—lntelligence was received at Vienna on
Oct. from Perth up to the midnight of the 29th
Sept. The murder on that day of Count Lemberg,
the newly-appointed commander-in-chief of all the
troops in Hungary, announced by us yesterday, was
the signal for open insurrection.
The Diet, on the 28th, unanimously passed a resole-
ties, to the effect that, in the absence of a govern-
ment, it elected, u a provisional one, the committee
et six who were appointed a fortnight before to aid
Bethyani in war matters—ench committee to have
=limited and tall powers. Up to midnight all the
national guards were under arms, and great excite-
ment prevailed.
The way in which Count Lemberg was murdered
was as follows :—So soon as the infuriated populace
of Path had learned that he had arrived to replace
the Archduke Stephen, they assembled are the
house in which he had intended to take up his resi-
dence. Finding that the crowd was ripe for mischief,
he contrived to leave the premises, and crowed over
the bridge to Buda, where he sought refuge in the
house of the commander-in-chief. The building,
however, was speedily attacked, and the count, in
disguise, attempted to regain Path in a carriage, in
order to deliver his credentials to the Hungarian diet
Whilst crowing the bridge he was recognised, his
name was pronounced aloud, and he was instantly out
down by a number of men armed with spades and
scythes. He was then literally hacked and hewed to
pieces. He has left a widow (a native of Ranges') and
eight children to mourn his unhappy fate. In another
account it is stated that the count first proceeded to
Buda, and that it was whilst making the second at-
tempt to cross the bridge, in order to communicate to
the Diet the order of his imperial muter, that he was
killed in the manner described. It may be stabil
here that the national guards had previously resolved
not to obey the royal commissioner, and that the Did
itself had denounced as a traitor any person vie
should attempt to give publicity to any royal airman
not duly countersigned by ministers. The committee
of six had given orders for the arrest of the murderess
of Count Lemberg.
During the
. late contest at St. Thomas's haleness
the H and the Servians the Samar lint
1,300 in killed and wounded and 16 guns.
On the 27th ult. the Hungarian Diet declared null
and void all the ecdonnanoes of the Emperor not oun-
tanigned by a minister, and forbade. Count Lemberg
to take the command of the Hungarian troops.
The Austrian Minister of War has forwarded a
circular to all the officers of the army, warning them
against indulging in any expressions hostile to the
oonstitutional institution granted by his Imperial
Majesty to his people. The quarrel of the reporters
of the public press with the Condiment Assembly
had been settled, the former having obtained all that
they required, us. a suitable entrance to their gal-
lery, and a general room for assembling in. There
were 40,000 troops in Vienna and its immediate
vicinity.
The Hungarian ministers, Bathyani and Eotvos,
had arrived at Vienna from Perth.
The ministry having determined to publish an ap-
pendex to the laws of the ran without ou=
the amembly, some fresh disturbances; were
at Vienna.
BAVABIA.—The eight members of the committee
of the democratioal union of Munich have been m-
iasmal from prison, as the information laid sgaiost
them was a totally false one. This affair has again
excited much discontent in the Bavarian capital. It
is not true, as reported, that Prince L.Wallerstida boa
been arrested at Munich. The republican Rambo
of several deputise to the teachers' and stades&
congresses in Eisenach have awakened a spirit of dis-
content and even open insubordination mama a
portion of the soldiery.
PRUSSIA.—T he trial ofthe post, Freiligrath ,at Dus-
seldorf, for having published a poem exciting to in-