The Express.
London, England, 1849-03-12 00:00:00

GERMANY.

SCHLESWIO-HOLSTEIN.—We have dates to
March 6. The legislative Assembly sill meet on the
13th instant in Schleswig for the despatch of butiness.
Chevalier Bunsen, in consequence of instruc-
tions received from Frankfort and Berlin, has re-
plied very concisely to the official announcement of
the King of Denmark, denouncing the armistice cf
Mamie. He declares that the negotiations for peace
are thereby broken off, and must be broken off until
that denunciation be withdrawn.

England and France have, it is said,
likewise manifested to Denmark their serious
disapprobation of this denunciation. Denmark
will thus be thrown back more esinplttely
upon Russia, and ;will find at St. Petersburg
an energetic supporter, the more so since the
Russian note to the Berlin cabinet, which was at
first doubted, is now positively denied. There wu
to be a meeting at Schleswig, on the 6th, of the
bureau of the National Assembly, for the purpose of
discussing the important que.tion whether it be
needful, under existing circumstances, imme-
' diately to convoke the Assembly. Great activity
prevails in the war department at Schleswig.
General Bonin clearly manifests greet interest
in the Schleswig-H*loam canoe. It is reported that
the results consequent upon the treaty of pe we are
expected to have an unfavourable influence open the
inhabitants of Schleswig-Holstein, and that for this
reason all the Schleswig-Holstein troops are to quit
the country and to be replaced by troops of the em-
pire. Tne new levy amounts to 3,500 men. The
burghers of Itendsbarg bare quarters fur 3,000. A
gun boat for the Schleswig-Holstein service basked
been launched at Gluckstadt. The command of the
native troops will probably be confided to Colonel
Fabrics's.

.BERLIN, ?Dam q.

The strength of parties in the second chamber has
been for the moment decided by the publication of
the programme of the Right with 171 signatures at-
tached. This is a dear majority in the present hones,
bat it is not • majority when the after-elections are
completed, for then the chamber will consist of 349
members. These remained on tho opening day 31
re-elections to make; of these several have taken
place, mostly in favour of the liberals. The
gramme, which is said to be drawn up by Vincke, is
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makes the consent of the King and both the Cham-
bers indispensable to the mission of a law; and the
other enacts that the meditation may be altered in
the seine way as any 06111 law may be passed by
a simple majority in the erative aosemMies.
The Chambers did not meet yesterday, but to-day
was a field day in both, with sharp fighting. In the
Second Chamber, with which I begin as the first in
importance, the presence of Brandenburg and Mon-
teuffel, with three other ministers, urn the ministe-
rial benches, showed that the cattieg would be
no common one. The business began by Man-
ta:lW announcing that he had to lay be-
fore the home two propositions in eoenexion
with the removal of the state of siege. Irma, he was
empowered by his Majesty to bring in three bills-
1. On the abuse of the right of assembly and asisocia-
ties. 2. On the misuse of placards and hand-bills.
3. On the regulation of the press. His mooed pro-
position coarsened a memorial of the ministry,
in which the grounds were represented which had
induced the imposition and prolongation of the state
of siege. He finished by saying that when the
chamber bad examined and accepted the bills he now
placed before them, the point of time would be nearly
reached when the daft of siege might be responded
The president ordered the propositions to be sent to
press, and then to be examined in the sec-
tion. He thin announced the secretaries elected to
be Ciesder, Osterman, Oelkrn, and Sperling, all of
the right. On the order of the day stood the follow-
ing motion of Vitae, which wu read : that the
chamber appoint a committee to draw up a project of
address in answer to the King's speech. 15s leader
of the right supported hie motion in a vay short
speech, in which he said that it was of the highest
importance that the relation of Prussia to the central
ment should be known sa soon as possible.
Kirebmann and Kinkel spoke in opposition to the
motion, Moller and Heylandt for. A division was
called for when it appeared that for the
motion were 172; against, 169. Only two
deputies were absent from this important division.
In the first chamber the ministry may be said to
have suffered a defeat. A motion was brought forward
by Lens to suspend the action of the ministerial
decrees of 2nd and 3rd January, reforming the courts
of law. Leers motion was supported by
Mild., Bornemann, and other members of the highest
consideration in the house, and there was a large
majority in favour of taking his motion into further
consideration.