The Express.
London, England, 1848-05-05 00:00:00

GERMANY.

BADEN.--The republican movement is not yet
quelled. A letter from Brisgau of the 28th says that
the troops of Wurtemberg had au engagement on the
previous day with a body of insurgents at Todtnau.
An official account of the affair of Dassenbach ap-
peared at Carlsruho on the 29th. It states the number
of the insurgents under lierwegh to have been 800,
of whom 23 or 30 were killed. According to the same
report some insurgent bands are still lurking in the
Munsterthal. A letter from the Swiss frontier, dated
the 28th, says that the remains of the band which had
been driven from the Schusterinsel on the Rhine had
arrived at lianingen on the 27th in the evening. It
is said that ilecker, who, as we have stated, spent a
few days at Wele, now repents for what he has done,l
and exhorts to submission. lie is in conseqnence
called a traitor to the republic by Lis party. A letter
from Strasbourg announces the arrival there of onol
of the chief republican leaders and the death of
Boustcelt, who, it would seem, was killed at the affair
of Dassenbach.
FRANKFORT.—On the let inst. the funeral of
General Von Gagern took place at Frankfort, with
great pomp. His remains had been brought from
Kandern, and placed in the palace of the Grand
Duke of Hew. They were transported to the family
vault at Hornau. The corps diplomatique, the mem-
bers of the federal military commission, the national
guard and tro .pa of Austria and Prussia, quartered
at Mayence, the members of the committee of 17 and
of that of 50, together with the corporation of Frank-
furt, were present on the occasion.
In the sitting of the committee of 30, on the 27th,
the debate was engaged on a motion for the esta-
blishment of a triumvirate in the Germanic Diet, and
ultimately it was adopted, with amendments, as fol-
lows:
The Diet will be aliment( d by three members, who will
be charged to chome a federal general-in-chief, to carry on
the diplomatic all Airs between Germany and foreign powers,
and further to exercise the executive power, in cue of ur-
gent need, on their own responsibility, but in ordinary cases
according to the advice of the Diet.
That body, after coming to an understanding with
the committees of 17 and 50, will propose the
triumvirs to the government, and these three will be
responsible for their acts to the nation, and will re-
main in functions so long as the constituent assembly
does not decide to the contrary.
A motion was then adopted to the effect that the
nomination of a federal general-in-chief be not post-
poned till after the nomination of the triumvirs, but
that it be made immediately.
FItt'SSIA.—No papers were published at Berlin
on the 30th.
The Sdesian Gazette says that blood is still flowing
in I'osen. The bands of scythemen break up in one
place and reunite in another, and recommence their
guerilla war. They are not deterred from carrying
on their planless and chiefless strife by the fact that
they are everywhere beaten,and do butlittle injury to
the troops, and therefore do they fight not for
anything, but against it. They fight against the
hated Germans and against the enemies of their reli-
gion. The former sentiment is cherished by the
nobles, the latter by the clergy, with a fanaticism
worthy of the middle ages. There are clergymen
who speak of the murdered when they name the
scythemen who have h.en killed. The skirmish at
Res)kow was very sanguinary. From 50 to 6k) of
the scythemen were killed, and 70 men were wounded
and taken prisoners, while on the side of the military
five were killed and two were taken prisoners.
AUSTRIA.—We have not received our usual files
of Vienna papers. A letter from that capital of
April 27 says, the presumptive heir to the throne,
Archduke Francis Joseph, who is appointed Viceroy
of Bohemia, is gone to Verona, to the head-quarters
of Marshal Rad:teki. The late intelligence from
Italy, respecting the submission of Frioul, has greatly
encouraged the party who desired the reconquest of
Lombardy. The intelligence from Galicia is very
gloomy.
Intelligence from Trieste of April 21, states that
the English consul had arrived from Venice, having
declared to the Venetian government that England
would not acknowledge the republic. Upon this de-
claration becoming generally known, the mob pro-
ceeded to the British consulate and tore down the
armorial insignia of England, and the departure of
the consul was the immediate result. The city was
in a state of anarchy, and the people in general and
deep distress.
The . estrian LI-Iprg of the 26th, from Trieste,
states that operations by sea against Venice com-
menced on the 24th. Two flotillas with two steamers
are blockading the Gulf, and effectually prevent all
intercourse with Venice.
BAVARIA.—Count Bray was admitted on the
29th ult. to the cabinet council as minister of foreign
affairs. The baptism of the young prince took place
on the same day. His godfather is King Otho of
Greece, and his name Otho William Leopold Adel-
bed Waldemar.

DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES,

A letter from Rendsburg of April 30 says : " The
Danes have entirely quitted the continent as far as
Alsen and North Schleswig. In the west, Tondern
has been besieged ; on the road thither the artillery
of Count Schakenberg was seized. On the 28th, 12
officers, 17 subalterns, 16 musicians, and 380 privates
were brought in prisoners."
The entire eastern coast of Holstein and Schleswig
is blockaded by Danish ships of war. The merchants
interested in the trade of the Baltic arc more appre-
hensive than ever, and await with anxiety the inter-
ference of the English government.

SOUTH AMERICA.—New GRANADA.—lntelli-
gence comes to hand from Santa Martha, Bogota, and Car-
thagena to the 20th ult. Congress was in session at Bogota,
and things were all going on prosperously and well in the
republic of New Granada. The news of the unfortunate
outbreak at Caracas, en the 2.lth of January last, is pub.
fished in El Dia. The unfortunate condition of things in
Yrcesuela elms not in any way affect her more peaceable
neighbour, New Granada. The President delivered his met-
sage to the House of Congress at I.l,gota on the lit • ult.
It is quite a short document ; indeed, the country is so quiet
and Nourishing, that thee is no occasion for lung-winthd mes-
sages. On the subject of the railroad across the Isthmus of
Panama, he says : "The privilege of making a railroad
across this isthmus has not as yet been used, inasmuch as
the company to whom it was granted have been cramped
in their money alfaira by the European crisis ; the directors,
however, have informed me that they will omit nothing in
their endeavours to fill their engagements. I shall not neg-
lect this great enterprise, and should the time get for the
commencement expire, I shall avail myself of the authority
I possess to renew it. The receipts of the republic during
the year ending the 31st of August, 1847, amounted to
28,218,920 doS. 16e.; and the expenses to 22,945,416 dub. 76e.,
thus showing a balance in favour of the receipts.
I,a (iacetu Mercantil gives the following account of the
explosion of a steamer called the Magdalena: " On the 20th
of I,,hruary, after baying discharged cargo at Baranca,
and taken more on board, the steam-boat Magdalena took
her departure from that place at 2 p.m. Almost immedi-
ately after getting under way, and while still in eight of the
town,-an. explosion was heard and much smoke secs. Num-
bers of the citizens of Baran= immediately went to their
assistance, and brought up the wounded to the town, render-
ing them all auditaiico possible. In spite of all, however, Capt.
Beekman died on the 27th, and also 11 others of the crew
and engineers. Some died instantaneously, some lingered
a little, and others survived a few days. The only ones saved
were the pilot and nix others. 'the cause of the disaster was
the giving way of one of the boilers, in consequence of the
great amount of steam raised for the purpose of working
the engine an fest as possible. Neither the engine, hull, nor
cargo has suffered. It is said that Capt. Beekman had made
a bet that he would reach Baranquilla the same evening,
which induced him to raise the steam very high, more than
the boiler could bear thus leading to this unfortunate acci-
dent. It is also said that there was hut one engineer on
board, and he was sick. The Magdalena was built in New
York about a year since, expressly for the navigation of the
Magdalena river. She was constructed entirely of iron, and
was about 250 tone burden."