The Express.
London, England, 1848-05-08 00:00:00

of the grand duehliqi te 6111 a fket'lc wis itipeeted est
the morning of the 2nd hr{,llo st=itiamaletafie would be
made %%last Posen. The MY of Posen have
th.°lrjoireadi Preaduebytetitgataitth the Oinalia•Un 181114."11111alleafaanablatee asfai7ires=4 d
refused to take any part in the eletdielle TM the
diet at Berlin. A furious conflict task_
_plea at Mons on the
29th ult. between the Prussian and Nish troop. Aooordleg
to the Posen Gamete, the latter, who fought tome Esse I
perately, suit red immense lo • Cho 1 Pisweiemy sessedies
to the same journal, had 40 killed cud 66 wermilefle Owe
hundred and twenty Poles were brought 1141011691
Schrimaa, and about 700 have been taken primitive. Oa Mei
previnua nay the Pruraow had taken Gratz, after a lieVers
contest, in whieh 20 Poles were killed. On the other band,
it appears by the Zestungslialts, that the Poles, after a
drapprate aociliet. Raised possession of the town of Milosiaw,
whence the Prussians fled in great disorder.
P.S. According to • despatch received from Gen. yaw
Scnreckenatain, in Tan., tranquillity has been restored
that town, and on his doming the bat ricades have bele
removed.
It appears by a correspondence from Berlin of the
3rd inst. that the Prussian cabinet is about to reni-o the Queen of Spain. Dun Antonio ZarcoM
Valle had a private audience of the King of Prussia
on the 3rd, in which he presented his credeatlals
ambassador extraordinary to the court of Berge
from that of Spain. The official journal announces
that a Prussian representative will shortly be net
to Madrid.
BAVARIA.—During many years past the let et
May has been signalised in Munich by grom ex-
cesses, for at thatdate the price of beer is periodically
raised, and is fixed for the entire summer season. As
a matter of course, therefore, the Ist inst. pawed off in
the usual way in that capital—that is to say, there
were numerous tumultuous assemblages, attacks on
breweries and public-houses, smashing of windows,
occasional Wallets with the military, and no few
wounds given or received. According to the Augsburg
Abend Zeitung of the 2nd inst., the rioters kept to
their work until an advanced period of the night, and
then the matter, as usual, ended.
BADEN.—The Journal de Franrfiirl, May bth,
says : "At Fribourg all is at present tranqu.l.
During the night hours the outposts are occasionally
tired upon with fulminated cotton, to prevent the re-
ports being heard. Yesterday 264 fresh prisoners
were taken from this place, Ltirrach. The appoint-
ment of M. Math,' to the post of member of the
council of state appears to have produced a favour-
' able impress ion."
From Carlsruhe of the 2nd we learn that Field
Marshal Prince Charles of Badgria, accompanied by
Prince Frederick of Baden, set out at 7 o'clock this
morning to make a tour of inspection in the circle of I
the Upper Rhine and along the lake of Constance.
FRANKFORT.—The Duchess of Orleans, accom.l
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el,/ the Count de Paris and the Duke de
passed through Frankfort on the 2nd, on
their way to Fulde.
AUSTRIA. Intelligence has been received at
Lloyd's, relative to an act of aggression committed on
one of he Austrian Lloyd's steamers, accompanied by
lamentable loss of life :—On the 2nd of April the
Mahmoudie left Trieste for Pola. She had on board
300 soldiers, and on entering the port was taken for a
Sardinian war vessel, and before the fort could be un-
deceived was fired at, and the unfortunate captain
and mate, besides several officers and troops, fell vic-
tims. A number immediately jumped overboard, but
were unable to reach the land, and were drowned.
Before the batteries of the town had discovered their
error the vessel was on fire.
Our private correspondence from Cracow explains
something that was an evident omission in the official
report of the late unhappy events in that city. The
cause of the tumult and subsequent attack on the
Austrian commissary Krieg, was not stated in that
report. We are informed that M. Krieg, who has
long been known as the most active and most un-
popular Austrian official at Lemberg, the capital of
Galicia, but who for some months past has managed
the police at Cracow, refused to allow a number of
emigrants who were on their return from exile to
leave the railroad station and enter the city. The
citizens have since the revolution not been accustomed
to have the Austrian police regulations enforced, and
took part with the emigrants who demanded a free en-
trance. This having been refused by Krieg. the national
guard shut him up in his bureau, and on his re-
quiring military protection, he was beaten, and com-
pelled to sign an order for the admission of the emi-
grants. In the meantime, Gen. Castiglione com-
menced a skirmish in the streets, in which he was
dangerously wounded, and bad just time to order the
city to be bombarded before he was carried off to
bed. Great loss of life has been the result of the fire
of the artillery, whose balls penetrated into the
houses and killed peaceable citizens, and even their
wives. The exasperation of the people may lead to
Iserious reprisals when the news of the success of the
Italians reveals the weakness of the Austrians to
the Poles.

DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES.

HAMBURG, LUBECK, AND BREMEN
BLOCKADED.
The B;;rsenhale, of May 4, contains the follow-
ing proclamation of the King of Denmark :
We, Frederik VII., by the grace of God, proclaim that
in consequence of the hostile acts committed against us by
t a Kings of Prussia and Hanover, the Grand Dukn of
Oldenburg and Mecklenburg, as also by the free and Hansa
t iwns of Lubeck, Hamburg, and Bremen, we find ourselves
compelled to di dare the harbours, coasts, and rivers belong-
ing to them (as al-o such of our own ports as are in their
possession) in a state of blockade. We have directed our
ships of war to carry these measures into effect, and to pre-
vent their ships from entering into the said blockaded ports
and harbours. Published at our royal city of Copenhagen,
under our hand and seal—(Signed) Futenzaicn Rex.
A letter from Swinemunde. dated May 2, says:
Yesterday the Danish frigate liartruen, of 42 guns, came
to anchor and blockaded the port ; and in the afternoon the
following ships were refused permission to enter: viz., the
En;lishbarque Margaret Shelly, Topping, from Bahia, with
sugar for Stettin; and the English brig Exquisite, Captain
Naylor, from Sunderland, with coals. Early this morning
13 other English vessels arrived and anchored under tne
guns of the frigate. The captains of the former have been
allowed to land, and were told they were at liberty to proceed
where they pleased with their ships and cargoes, excepting
to a Prussia port. Other frigates have left Copenhagen to
blockade Dan zig.
The letters trona Memel, Stettin, Kiel, Itendsbarg,
Elsinore, Hamburg, and Carolinensiel, all allude to
various movements of the Danish fleet on the vessels
and their cargoes belonging to German ports, with
reprisals in return.
The authorities at Stettin had decreed that, in con-
sequence of the steps taken by the Danes, all Danish
vessels in that harbour and all Danish property
should be laid under embargo. The vessels and pro-
perty of Schleswig-Holstein, of course, were exempt
from the m as•tre.
A Danish frigate had left Elsinore to cruise off the
Elbe. Two armed merchant schooners left Hamburg
to take their stations off Skagen. Several other
Prussian weeds had been laid under embargo, and
taken into Copenhagen. Their names were—the
Fairy, from Torre Vecchia •, Osiris, do. ; Eolus, do. ;
and Hiram, from London, all for Emden ,• Alhy, from
Alaz tta for Stettin, and a barque and a schooner,
name unknown.

Letters from Port-au-Prince bring us further de
tails of the law extraordinary movement at Aux
Cayes, and represent the impression as still prevail-
ing that the President, if not privy to the affair, was
at least resolved to connive at it. Respecting Gen.
Dulguse Zamor, late in comraana of the department of
the South, whose displacement was the object aimed
' at by the insurgents, our correspondent writes :
PORT-AU PRINCB, Aram 6.
General Zamor is a black man, and though without edn-
°Wien, possesses strung natural good sense. He has rid him-
self of a feeling of c.t•te with which he was formerly imbued,
and is disposed to treat men as he finds them without
regard to colour. lie has thus become popular with
the respectable part of the community. But this very cir-
cumstance, c &lined with his resolute determination to
maintain the law and put dawn brigandage, has rendered
him equity mop viler with the rude and dissolute of his
own colour. it believed that the president regards
his growing popularity with a jealous eye. General
respectsZmor still
rand:is here, toe Prvsident's pleasure with to him
not being yet known. Some arrests have lately been made,
it is said for political offences, but nothing certain is known.
The general character of the prisoners is good ' • possibly
their offence may be a tint lighter than that of the President
—an unpardonable fault in his eye. At present we are
tranquil, and hope rather than expect a continuance of this
state. •

ROME, APRIL 28.
We are all deep in the election of deputies to the
Chamber. The old obscurantist party being compact
and organised, and holding garrison in most of the
underling Mikes, are straining every nerve to secure'
a respectable obsti active minority in the lower house. '
The go-a-head party is far from being drilled to the
same extent of euhesion, but there is no doubt of an
overwhelming return of liberal and " progressive
members. The affair comes off on the ldth of May,