The Express.
London, England, 1851-03-20 00:00:00

GERMANY.

Prince Schwarzenberg has answered the King of
Wurtemberg's letter. lie by no man. opposes the
king's ciewa, but says the time has not yet come fur
carrying them out—that the German princes must
first come to a full agreement on the subject,.
Our correspondent writes as follows :
BERLIN, MARCH 17.
The negotiation. Ix tureen Berlin and Vienna nn the sub-
jut t of the ~nranisation of the Ge rman ronfidenttion seem
at last likely to radio* a result. Prince Sehwarsenherg
has at last perceived that the desire of Prussia—very
strongly expressed—that no illtgalmeasures should be taken
against the &nor states did not ►rise from any intention on
the part of Manteuffel to put them forward as scapegoats,
but that it was caused by an unconquerable aversion
in the mind of the King of Prussia to the em-
pires in. ot of force against erowned heads. Fithwarrenberg
lx•tray,-d remarkable ignorance of the actual characters of
the persons with whom he had to deal. lle ascribed to
Manta offel and hi. advisers a degree of cunning and diplo-
mats: not at all consonant with the great sacs-ems his
own policy towards Prussia has met with. In the same
manner tachwarzenherg imagined that 31anteuffs.1 was at
the bottom of the French protest against the admission of
the Austrian precincts into the confederation. In future,
however, and as long the present personages remain at
the halm of public affairs in Prussia, fichwarzenberg will
know better than to suppose, for an instant even,
that, turaust the presumptuousness of Prussia's adversaries
on her pn•rerlsial good fortune offer to her government the
most favounible opportunities fur (11tabli,liing more firmly
the interests of the country, and because the most ordinary
ink lkyts are capable of seeing the mode by which those op-
portunities may he employed, that that government will do
o. Ile may, on the contrary, invariably calculate on their
doing the contrary. That has been the case in the
present instance. The Prussian ;government has disap-
massed of the opposition of the minor states, has rejected
the proposal of a second anti-Austrian coalition, and has
Indirect') diseountenancerl the French protest. Added to
the conviction of Prussian honesty towards Austria, there
Came the threat of the representative of Ideeklenberg.
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Pelmet it, t., re ge.e 31,, at to even the olinhted alteration of the
federal constitution; and, ifattempted by Awdria and
to et•cede from the confederation, and place the independence
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of the duchy under the protection of the foreign parties to
the treaties of POI. Schwarrenlierg has discovered that he
cannot sneered with his eleven-vote project, and like
a sensible man he withdraws it. The negotiations in Vienna
am about to terminate, if they have not already terminated,
with an agreement between Austria and Prussia to propose in
Dresden a division of votes, similar to that which in con-
tainol in a memorial presented to the conferences by the
representative of \leskk•nleerg just alluded tu. The old
busts is to Is. retainesl, but four new votes are to he
added and equally divided between Austria and Prussia,
so that in the I:ogen-Both each of these powers
will 111.4,4 three. The total amount will be increased from
form 17 to 21 votes. This proposal, it• adopted, will lessen
the disadvantage under which the Prussian interests would
have laboured had the eleven votes been adopted ; hut still
Austria can on ordinary occasions count on 10 of the 21
vote., while three, if not four, will be doubtful. With re-
gard to the parity ekmandial by Prussia, Austria
is to retain thu president's seat, but Prussia is
to be admitted to • share of the work. The terms
used in the uegotiatimv; hove been, I lerstand, that
l'russia shall lunges% in future a share of the business of
the presidency, but not of the seat Or the president." The
Austrian policy, not to define exactly the nature of any
agres•ment when the power is in their bands to make what
they please of it hereafter, is displayed in this instance.
The share of Prussia is less undefined, nor is the alternate
period at which this share may be eternised stated in exact
terms. The only other question on which the two powers
are at suriance was the admission of the Austrian
provinces into the confederation, and hereon it was that
Manteutfel hung his claim to the parity as a counter-eon-
cession if Prussia cone. del the Austrian demand. The
desired purity basing liven gained, the difference coated to
east, and Prussia consents willingly to the admission of
Italy. Hungary, Croatia. Slavonia, eke., into the confedera-
tion. The two ministers have, however, discussed the
French protest; and as, unfortunately fur Germany
general, and Prussia in peirticular, that document is
not leased un the general question of alterations in
Ik.' to :dies of lieu but on the particular question of the
admission into the omfeileratiou of the Italian proviwes,
the Austrian minister removed the uneasiness of his Pros-
Man colleague, by fomenting, if the protest be persevered
with. to drop the Italian provinces. i'lllo4ll intends alsoto
enter the confederation with all her provinces. Manteuffel
forgets that Prussia thereby forfeits entirely her cha-
racter as • European power, and takes a place as second
power in the Germanic confederationk u result which
considering the increase of Austria's power in Germany conse-
quent on her bringing all her pmvinces int., the Germanic
confederation, is highly dangerous to the balance of twace
in Europe. Lord hilmerston certainly ought to devote a
little more attention to this point then seems to tar the case
by his last despatch to the Austrian government. The
nature of the agreement between Austria and Prussia will
vs ry probably be communicated without delay to the con-
fer, ores at Do sden. A plenary sitting took place yesterday,
but fur what purpose has not transpired.

110SNIA.—T6e Austrian cabinet has addressed an
energetic note to the rurte, wherein the peeitication
of Bosnia and Hertzegovinia is urgently demanded,
and also better frontier regulations. In the sumo
note the project of making Scutari a free harbour is
alluded to, is hush, it is hinted, would be injurious to
Trieste.

A NEW FORM Or POST-Orrirr MoNET-ORDER
and ads ice will be brought into use in all the money-order
*elms in April neat in the country. The new order; and
&driers will be of a different shape from the one, in present
gm, and the printing on which will be red. The order
before eoucal will be attached to the advice, and will bear
the same printed number. When issued the former will I
be torn from the Litter and given to the remitter, and the
latter will be tilled iu and sent on to the Postmaster who
will have to pay the order. T, c great advantages of this
plan will be that before an order can be paid • puetnunter
must have the identical advice which was joined to it before
it wait issued, because the counterparts and printed num-
bers of both advice and °Mar must agree. A.', therefore,
the issuing postmaster will not be able to use an adviee in-
discrituiriatcly fur any order ; and as at the end of the day
he will have the praise number of separate advice: u of
orderslw has issued, he cannot possibly forget to write an
advice for every order he grants, and as the same numbers
are printed on the order and advice they must always cor-
respond. Postmasters forgetting to writs :advice*, and the
number of orders and advices not corresponding have
hitherto been two very fruitful sources of error, and of con-
sequent inconvenience to the public.
COUNTY COURT CAsES.—According to a return to
the House of Lords, just printed, obtained by Lord
liruusham, only 11m writs of certiorari have been issued to
remove proceedings from the county courts into the Court
of Queen's Bench, between the Vith March, 1847, when
the act came into operation, and the 15th ult.

DEATII OF A DANISH SAVANT.—The well-known
Danish natural philosopher. Oersted, died at Copenhacon on
the 9th inst., in his 74th year. He was the author of nu-
merous works on physic., most of them in tha Latin lan-
guage. His last, which 14 in Danish, and intitukd
6..siantlen d Naturen " (Spirit in Nature), caused a great
sensation when it was published, particularly in Oermany.
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