The Express.
London, England, 1849-05-28 00:00:00

858.] LONDON, MONDAY, MAY 28, 1849. [THREEPENCE.

and then to resign the central power into the hands
of the King of Prussia How much of this is purely
conjectural, and how much true, is hard to know.
Yesterday, the police executed a razzia in the
suburb called Voighland, outside the Rosenthal and
Hamburg gates, inhabited mostly by workmen and
poor people. About fifty of them were seized and
I led off to primn. They were arrested upon an order
sent directly by the minister of justice, Simons, to the
attorney-general the night before, together with in-
structions to have the primers delivered over to
General Wrangel, as the offences with which they
were charged came within the competency of the
court-marttaL
In the promotions which were recently gazetted,
the name of Gen. Von Willisen is not to be observed,
while s.veral officers, his inferiors in standing, have
been made lieutenants-general over his head. Von
Willies°, having addressed an expostulation to the
war ministry, on the disgrace which was thus indi-
rectly visited upon him, was answered that the reason
of the omission was that he was not considered
in active service. This is doubly defective as an
excuse, because Von Willisen has not ceased to be in
active service, having been sent upon military mite
aims into Italy and Hungary by the government,
while several of those who have been promoted over
him have not been in activity. Upon this I under-
stand that he has tendered the resignation of his
commission.
It was reported that the Duke of Baden was in
the British Hotel here; but to-day I learn from a
better source that the ex•prince is at Efirsobreitstein.
The entrance of Prussian troops into Baden
now be looked upon as certain. The military foroe
teat to the south-west will be replaced by East
Prussian regiments. Some of the papers say. that the
king will, at the head of the guards, repair to the
corps which is now being drawn together at Erfurt,
and that this is the place selected for the meeting of
the next German parliament. The first part of this
report appears far from probable, and I hear from a
good source that there is no thought of sending the
guards to a distance from Berlin just at present.

AUSTRIA.—Vienna dates are to May 23.
At six on the morning of the 21st, Franz Melko,
a Hungarian, clerk at an office of the Vienna and
dloggnitz Railway, was executed by shooting, ac-
cording to sentence of court-martial, fur having at.
tempted to bribe three sergeants of the 34th Regi-
ment of Infantry to desert.
The management, ad intcrirn, of the Interior is
confided to Bach, Minister of Justice, and the de-
partment of Instruction, also presided over by
Stadion, is handed over to Thinnfeld, Minister of
Agriculture. Both these commissions are conferred
in similar "hand-billets," which seems at present the
imperial mode of doing business.
According to the Wiener Zeitung the functions of
the interior and justice have been brought under the
same minister, with a view to greater despatch in
preparing those measures which fell under both
departments, such as the provincial constitution of the
separate dominions of the crown, the law of com-
munes, changes in the administration of justice and
pollee tee.
Stadion's health is partially restored, and he is
expected shortly to resume his functions as minister
of the interior. Several projects of law were found
by his successor ad interan which will soon be
launched into the columns of the Gazette by this
indefatigable innovator. The moat important of
these is a re organisation of the government's
machinery of provincial administration. The term of
office held by the authorities will be prolonged, as it
is pretended that one great source of their weakness
is the ephemeral duration of their rule.
The Russian government ban issued an order to
ouspend the duty of exportation on corn sent into the
Austrian dominions. If, as appears probable, the
Austrian government, en the other hand, should 'sus-
pend the duties of importation, doubtless a consider-
able portion of the corn which now finds its way into
the ports of the Baltic will then be diverted
into the Austrian channeL In fact, this will
be the only way to ;recent as eeormous
increase in the price of bread. For the total obstruc-
tion, through the Hungarian war, of the Darsube
trade has cat off Austria from the source of her main
corn supplies. Meanwhile the depreciation of the
notes, which have already sunk 20 per cent., and may
be expected to undergo a still farther diminution of
value, offers a serious consideration to the foreign
merchant who turns his attention in these diets to-
wards the Austrian market. The worth of this paper
melts, as it were, in the hands of the holder, who
rises every morning a poorer man in proportion to the
money he has in his possession. The high price of
bread is very severely felt, and the government is
evidently bent upon some plan for setting limits to
this evil.
The latest news from Peeth is of the 19,h instant.
The bombardment of Peeth ceased on the lith.
At three in the afternoon of the 22nd inst. the
Emperor of Austria arrived at Warsaw, accompanied
by l'rinee Schwarzenburg. In the evening the two
emperors were present at a theatrical representation
in the Laziensky garden. In the afternoon the Czar
reviewed the troops. Count Nesselrode and Baron
Lieven, the general adjutant, have arrived from St.
Petersburg.
Baron Hayoau is at Vienna, and is to proceed to
Hungary to take a command in the imperial army.

HAMBITRO, MAT 25.
The rumours of peace having been concluded be-
tween Germany and Denmark, spread the day before
yesterday, are not confirmed. Negociations are cer-
tainly going on, bat the war by land and by sea is
not interrupted. The Schleswig-Holsteinera con-',
tine the bombardment of Fr:dricia, and took, a few
days ago,a block-house, which was in possession of the
Danes, by setting fire to it. The Prussians have attempt-
ed to cut off General Rye from the sea-shore; they stole
smirch upon him when he was at Skanderborg; they
turned his flank by taking the old road which leads
from Horsens to Aarhuus.
Our two armed steamers, Hamburg and Lubeck,
went to sea yesterday.
To-night's train did not bring any news from the
seat of war. Copenhagen papers, dated yester-
day, were delivered at 7 o'clock. They state that
M. de Reedtz is gone to Berlin to agree on the pre-
liminaries of a peace to be negociated in London.
According to those papers, the inhabitants of Aarhuns
are barricading against the Germans. If this be true,
the Prussians who marched in that direction did not
enter the town, as was reported.

SIR EDWARD EIILWER LYTTON, Sir D. Surreys,
and Captain Turner, left London oa Saturday by the
General Stearn Navigation Company's s'eam-sh;p Sir
Edward Bantu, for °stead.
VALUE OF LAND 114 WELLINGSOROCGIL—During
the last week land has been sold and re-sold for 1,200/. per
acre. This, we believe is the highest price that has been
realised in any part tithe country.
WARNING TO SMosints.—A singular case of
asphyxia is related in one of the French journals. A youth
et the name of Lemome paid • visit to an uncle, who is
farm labourer in the neighbourhood of Havre. This man
eeespied a small and ill-ventilated apartment. The nephew,
at eight o'clock in the evening, went to bed in the room.
Soon alter, the uncle and some eompanions entered the room,
and all fell to smoking. The youth was asleep. At midnight
the visitor. withdrew, and die uncle went to bed. Layi:tg
his hand upon his nephew, he found him unnaturally co.d,
and endeavoured to awake him without effect. Help was
called, some faint indications of life appeared, and a phy-
sician directed operations for the recovery of the patient.
All proved vain : the next day he expired. A post-mortem
examination was made, and the physkdan pronouseed that
he died of convection of the brain, canoed by the respiration
of tobacco smoke during sleep.
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