The Express.
London, England, 1848-08-09 00:00:00

GERMANY.

AUSTRIA.—We have dates from Vienna of the
3rd of August. Count Stadion has resigned the
governorship of Galicia,which has been given to Wen-
seslaw Von Zsleski, who, in addition, is to be gover-
nor of the districts of Cracow and Bukowina. Count
Von Rothkireh has been removed from the govern-
ment of Bohemia, and Baron Carl Von Mersery ap-
pointed in his stead.
Our correspondent at Vienna writes :
VIENNA, Arcs. 3.
During the last few days the general diasatisfaction has been
increasing, and if the ministry had not exerted itself to soothe
public opinion by every means in their is wee, and if they
had Lot entered into intimate connexion with nearly all our
newspapers, we might certainly have had a new edition of
bunks. There exists here at present but one completely
independent journal, the Allgemeine Oestreiehiselse Zeitung,
which espouses the democratic monarchical party.
The general dissatisfaction at present proceeds, however,
not so much from the press or the ministry as from the
Emperor's refusal to came back, a refusal which we are
afraid will be confirmed by the deputies who have left
Vienna to offer the address of our national assembly to hie
majesty. In expectation of this refusal different parties are
collecting their forces to settle the question after their own
fashion. _ . _

There are two decidedly opposed parties. Count Stadion,
who, as they say, has already a new ministry in his pocket,
is the chief of the aristocratical party. They are the staunch
friends of the Emperor, for they know that there is no
aristocracy without an emperor, whom they ear eider here as
the first aristocrat; and they know, also, that there is no
aristocracy but by the historical right. Both rf aeons prompt
them to profess the exclusive s ivereignty of the Emperor,
and to protest against that of the people.
The other party, which is the larger one, disregartie aris-
tocracy and historical right, and knows no other law than the
weer igoty of the people. They tolerate the dyne. ty hut as
far as it rules, subject to the powerful majority of the house,
which decidedly takes the liberal view. The ministry sheet
to be of this popular party, hut there are strong doubts of
their sincerity.
The ministry and government in general is in a very
singular position with reference to Germany. If Austria is
to be kept up, it is quite clear that we cannot obey the na•
tional assembly of Frankfort. The Austrian German repre-
sentatives in Vienna are no more than shout one-third of
the whole Austrian constituted assembly, and if they adhere
to everything which may be legalised at Frankfort, the Poles
and Bohemians would of ..tourse decline to sit any longer
with them. One of those unfortunate questions has just
been started, which may have the most dangerous effect on
German unity. Th.• new German Minister of War, M.
Peukert, wanting to become popular, has sent an order to all
German governments, that their soldiers should wear the
German cockade. M. Latour, our Austrian minister of war,
declares that he does rot know anything of the existence of
a German central government, or of a central ministry. M.
Schmeriug, our ambassador at the now dissolved Diet at
Frankfort, has quite forgotten to inform us officially of the
change which has occurred, and the Emperor of course has
nothing to ratify. Latour is most happy tot ave such a good
excuse for refusing to obey M. Peukert. And, in truth,
it iv a delicate question to make our soldiers in Italy wear
the German cockade. It may be th.t the Bohemian regi-
ments wouldrefuse ; and it is clear that the Austrian soldiers,
considered as Germans, it is no more Austria but Germany
which is at war against Italy.
A placard, circulated yesterday in Vienna, was sold to the
number of 50,000 copies, expressing the public opinion, and
menacing the declaration of a republic if the Emperor should
not come tack.
The communal deputies wanted to prohibit it, but the com-
mittee for public security declared that they did not ere
anything illegal in this proclamation, and ordered some hun-
dreds tat national guards to defenerthe printing and the sale
of the document.

Last evening a catholic priest refined to let the bells
be rung on the occasion of a poor student's funeral, for which
only 17 donna had been paid instead of the usual 30 florins.
In consequence the mob Socked together and began to de-
molish the house. The mob is still assembled, and has beaten
the national guards, who wanted to interfere. There are
10,000 to 20,000 men still assembled : they want to hang
' the priest.
Our hank is growing worse daily; it ►as no more than
nine per cent. cash against the issue. Still it is scarcely to
be feared that it will not fulfil its engagements ; but the
government will be obliged to settle with the bank in ene
way rr the other.
After the main conditions of an amicable settlement

of the Hungarian-Croatian question had been settled
and confirmed by the Archduke Palatine and the
Baron Jellachich, the former returned yesterday
to Peath and the latter to Agrem, to communicate
the same to their respective Diets.
The minister Wessenberg, who retains his seat in
the cabinet, is expected at Vienna immediately.
From Berlin, trom which place our dates are to
Aug. 4, we learn that the English envoy had made
representations to the cabinet for the amicable settle-
ment of the Schleswig-Holstein affair, and a note
from Sweden to the same effect has been received.
From Carlsruhe, under date Aug. 3, we learn that
the number of volunteers to take part in the war
against Denmark is so great that it was impossible to
admit them so rapidly as they arrived. The same has
ec+•.urred in several other garrisons. The troops will
embark at linielingen and Mannheim, and go down
the Rhine as far as Cologne, from whence they will
be transported by railway to the theatre of war.
We have news from Munich to Aug. 3. The an
nounc, went that the Bavarian army is to- take part
in the war with Denmark had given great satistacticn.

NEGRO INSURRECTIONS IN THE
ANTILLES.

It is not easy to conjecture what measures can be
adopted by the Spanish governor of Puerto Rico when be
learns the events which have occurr. d in St. Croix ; for on
the bare receipt of the news respecting the movements in the
French islands he appeared to have exhausted all the ex
pressions of angry consternation. The following proclama-
tion emanated front him in the trepidation of his soul
Inhabitants of the Island of Puerto him—By the arrival this day
of the French schooner, Argus, from Martinique, I have been in.
formed of the occurrences which have taken place in the Frenen
colonies of Guadeloupe and Martinique, in consequence of the late
decrees of the provisional government of France, relative to the
emancipation of the cloves in her colonies. The unfortunate emi-
grants who arrived by the aforesaid schooner, after abandoning their
faradic, and interests, came to this island to eeek that safety and
protection which they could not find in their own country, thus
affording the most evident pro f of the lamentable sate in which those
colonies are plunged, and of the fermatans stupidity of the African ram,
who, neither conscious nor capable of conceiving the clemency
which their government bad conceded to them, show their
gratitude by surr.ndering themselves to those propensities which, is
them, are innate—Ntt'MllaTlem, aseassination, deetructivencell.
Happily this Wand, ie every point of view, is ins very different pa-
kten but, as the news brought by the above-named vessel will
',mead through thL, capital, and will rapidly go through the whole
island with all the additions and exaggerations usual In similar cases,
it becomes my duty to din el all fears which such accounts might
create in your mind., and to usure you that your Captain-General
watches constantly fur the maintentuxe of order and tranquillity
in the territory, which our moat gracious Queen (may Heaven
guard her'.) has been pleased to confide to me, as well
for the safety of your persona as for your interests. With
this view, and in thee that sparks of the conflagration which
consumes the French islands, should be thrown and be propagated
in the ihni h ialthils of St. Croix and M. Thomas, I have tans day
derpatched one of my aidesAle-carap, to offer, in my name, to the
governor-general of those islands, that efficient aid, by armed (cortex,
which he may require, in case of so dlrefu, an event, insider to eater.
urinate the ill-disposed who might meditate the ruin of those settle-
meats. Inhabitants of Puerto Rico, be tranquil; confide in the bra-
very of Spanish soldiers, and in the valour of your captain-geaera..
—(Sigtied) Cover be Rues.—Puerto Rico, May 31, 1040.
Inhabitants of the Wand of Puerto Rico.— The critical state of the
times, and the afflicting position of nearly all the neighbouring Wands
—some labouring under civil war on account of their institution; aril
others under • lathe of extermination between the different nee:—
compel me (in order to prevent such misfortunes es are now desolating
our neighbours in a high degree from introducing themselves into oar
peaceable and loyal island) to establish laws to punith promptly amt
severely those crimes which may be committed among us. Therefore,
using the power which our most gracious Queen (whom may God
protect) has thought fit to invest me with, as well for the security of
our island as for the welfare of its inhabitants, I do decree :—I. That
offences of any kind which, after the publication, may be committed
by individuals of the African race resident in this island, free or un-
free, shall be tried and punished in • military manner by a court-mar-
tial, which this government shall name, to the absolute exclusion el
any other tribunal-2. That should any individual of the African rose,
whether free or slave, take up any weapon against white persons.
though even provoked so to do, be shall, if a slave, be shot dead, end
if free hare his right hand cut off by the common executioner; but i.
the white be wounded, then the free shall also be shot dead.-3. That
ebould any individual of the African race, free or slave, insult by word
or action, as by threatening with sticks, throwing of atones, or other-
wise offend any white person, he shall, if a slave, be condemned
to five years' imprisonment, and if free, be punished in a
penalty corresponding to the offence comraitted.-4. That
()wises of slaves are authorised by this proclamation to punish
and chastise minor offences committed by their alarm, and no
Ruble other nor any authority shall have a right to inquire into the
cow, as thaanhoriv wes Maly wars% if apxcaosy, le 040 OR

the conduct of any owner towards his slave—S. That if any elms
(which in not expected) should rebel against his master or employer,
the latter is allowed to kill the °Renckr on the spot, in order to pro.
yen', by such prompt action, others from rising.-6. That it devolves
on the military commanders of the light depurtraente of this
island to take the necemary steps to institute inquiries
Into the offenors asainst public security or perabns that
may be committed by individuals of the African race
these proceedings to be summary, and nerve to nova twentyvfoar
hours after the committal of the trine; a summa y et the process to
be wet to me by express in order that I may pronounce the scalene.
in Keeping with the punishment established in this publication. And
In order that it may be known by everybody, and that no one may
plead Ignorance, I have ordered that this proclamation be aftixed in
all public places of this city and el the neighb iurins towns, and also
that it *ball be inserted in the governmen rosette, in order to be
complied with in every respect, am] that nobody may set on the non-
trary.—(Sigised) Conan as Ram St. John's, capital at tie istand of
Puerto Rico, May 30, aft N.R. Respect this