The Express.
London, England, 1848-04-10 00:00:00

tains news from that place up to the 4th instant, and
from Posen up to the 2nd. The halt of the wine tax
has been taken off throughout the eutire province of
Silesia. Business is at a complete stand still, and no
peccniary accommodation can be hsd on any term;
even on the most valuable deposits, such as jewels and
the precious metals.
Stettin and Swinemunde are being put in li corn.
plete state of defence.
Both chambers in Hanover voted unanitnouslv, on
the 4th instant, the bill sanctioning the liberty Cl the
press.
1 The authorities in the Bromberg district have ds.
Glared that the acts of the present government am
null and void, because the King was not a free &gest
in Berlin.

AUSTRIA.—We have dates front Vienna to the
4th. According to a Vienna correspondence of thee
date, published in the Zeitungs-llalle of the 6:11, .
tria has resolved to declare its Italian posseesions lli' .
dependent, after having received a suitable pecuniary
indemnity, and entered into a favourible commercia
treaty. Whether Austria means to do so or not, it
has peaceful intentions towards Lombardy, f
r pry
nwisetd of t
commissioner,
ea. Finance,
(cant
posals of peace have been transmitted through the
medium of an extrao,anrthddi
nary
Montecuculi, who left Vienna fur that purpose on the
2beendn.,
atß arhiosnowKnubeedemk
succeeded by Baron von Krauss.
Count Kolowrat has resigned the provisiotal dim.
lion of the council of ministers, and Count Fiquel.
mont, Interim Minister of Foreign Affairs, has been
named to replace him. Mai sisal Fanim is to be
Minister of \Var. To complete these changte, we
learn that Archduke L nes has decidedly retiree,
and that Archduke John has taken the direction al
affairs. The Sardinian ambassador had received lee
passport.
The Vienna Gazette says, that in come:pence of
the change in the organisation of the ministry,
the council of state is no longer needed, and his
Majesty has therefore determined to dispense with it
for the future ; but, in recompense for the services
done to the state by its member, Le has determined
I to grant them situations which will not interfere with
the constitutional working of the cabinet council.
A deputation, headed by l'rofeesor llye, waited on
the ev, ning of the Ist inst. on the minister, Von pa.
leredorf, to express the general dissatisfaction of the
people with the new law relative to the press, anew
request him to reconsider its most exceptionable pro-
visions. The minister excused the imperfection at
the law ou the ground of haste, and promised to refer
it to a committee, with a view to modification.
Volunteers are offering themselves for the campaign
in Italy, and the 1 lungarian Diet has placed 10,000
I men at the Emperor's disposal.
11 Business in the Austrian capital is at a stand still,
and the number of unemployed operatives is hourly
increasing. The government has given notice that
the last loan of 1817 is suspended—that is,the Malone
will not make any further payment:. on it.
On the end, a troop of students were preparing to
go to salute the German flag, which had been planted
on the tower of St. Stephen's. On their way they
stopped at the Hofburg, where the emperor Kimmel
at a balcony, with the German flag in his hands, and
was received with enthusiasm.
On the 3rd, the emperor received the deputation of
the kingdom of Bohemia, which presented the follow.
ing demands:—The indissoluble union of all the
countries of the clown of Bohemia ; the guarantee of
their union with Austria ; equality of Germane and
Bohemians; a national representation on the widest
foundation ; a special ministry at Prague ; a national
guard to be organised, and its armament granted;
reform of the university ; and all the authorities, civil
and military, to take the oath to the constitution. A
deputation from Croatia had made nearly the tame
demands. They ask the union of Croatia, Scloonie,
Dalmatia, and the Military Frontier prosiness
(Militar Uranze) ; an independent ministry; eta
vocation of the Diet for the Ist of May;
an annual Diet, to sit alternately at Agrem,
Essegg, Zara, . and Fiume ; equality of taxes;
euppreseion of customs between the divers parts of
the kingdom; suppression of eere'es, and &be-Mk:eel
celibacy. The answers to their demands are not yet
known. Bohemia is evidently not satisfied even with
the concessions already granted to it. Meanwhile mew
sacs have been taken in a cabinet council, held on
the 31st, to re-organise the kingdom of Bohemia.
Archduke Albert has resigned the command of the
troops of lower Austria. Notwithstanding the
peaceable intentions shown in the sending of Monte-
cuculi to Lombardy, the movement of troops towards
those provinces continued. The whole of the garrison
of Vienna was ready to march to Italy, and the nee
auxiliary corps was to concentrate under the ooze-
mand of Count Nugent, near Gertz, the centre of
operation being Venice. 10,000 troops, under Victor,
had already marched to Udine.
From Hungary we have the most startling inten
ligence. The Berlin Zeitungs-Halle, of the Gth,
as
nounces, in a correspondence from Pesth, dated the
31st, that Hungary declares herself independent,
and that Archduke Stephen had been chosen
king. A feeling of strong discoteent had long ex-
isted at Pratte which has at last shown itself. At
Pressburg, from which we have dates to the 2ad, this
announcement seems not to have been known. The
Archduke Stephen had returned on the :Het to Prose
burg, with the decree containing the retractation
of
the royal resolution respecting the independence of
the Hungarian ministry. All the meruh,rs of the
Diet assembled to meet him on the bottle' s of the river,
and in the evening he announced the happy event in
the Diet. The greatest joy prevailed, and Pressburg
was illuminated. On the evening of the next day s
deputation from the Diet waited on the Archduke,
to thank him in the name of the nation for the boon
he had obtained for them.
From Botzen, in Tyrol, we learn, under date the
30th of March, that the citadel had yielded to the
Provisional Government.
HESSE-DARNISTAIA. The following is the
letter of a correspondent from 'Alayenco
MAYENCE, Aram 7.
We have just had here what would he called ca
the other side of your Channel e a great day for Ire-
land." At three o'clock yesterday a mob of several
thousands mustered on the bridge of boats that spine
the Rhine, and having effected a passage without per
meat of the usual government toll, they proceeded de•
liberately to break up and demol:el the first three
miles of the railway which connects the great empo-
rium of Frankfort with the gnat liquid highway of
Germany. They then set fire .0 the station-home,
and having duly celebrated their eelele exploit with
an appropriate quantum of ehoutize azd drink, they
returned in disorderly masses to le az• defraudiese
the toltkeeper of the bridge as Is tee:. 'fteadreds
them
.passed under the windows ::ci. carryie4.
in triumph the rails of the iro. t*.e: line see
vociferating vengearter ageing reset..mee :1 all son.
This sounds very die:ea-dem .7. F
to have originated the peettene n4von. men-
talists and emplace?, thee ff...• von ens. directe=
and they gutted cast eremmit foe hew,. :::ntract.xs
for public works ar.d master heeee.e. :am they
conceived nut to hio e gwen eaffeee: weeees or em-
ployed sufficient hands. There a la this
frontier town of 13,000 men. half Proseare. and ha
Austrians, according to an art.e:e the treaty ed
Vienna. The governor, Prince of lerees'.a. is absent
just floor, but his lieutenant-genera:. Hoer, when
applied to for a corporal's guard. which would have
been enough to keep the bndge and sere the Frank'
fort Railway, said he did net ctdlc with the
squabbles of townsfolk, vc, "4.V...018, and
they might settle their differences Ainslie themselves:
his duty was to keep garrison in Mayence for the
King."
The fact is, Prussia feels herself e r weak in the
Rhenish provinces that she dare not oth ad the mob.
I and this they know well and set aceoraingly. To'
day they have taken a new whim int., their heads.
Numbers used to be employed with their horses
is
towing barges up the river before steam-tugs were
introduced. The word has been passed down the
Rhine that steam power will be no longer permitted
to supersede horse power in this drudgery, aed
cordingly at Neuville, a little town shore Coblene,
upwards of a hundred men with two ph (vs of cannon
took their station on a small Leland to-dae, and on the
approach of a steam-tag dragging t'oer merchant-
shqu up the stream, they gave warning by shouts
and discharge of musketry, that they would not stiff,
the convoy to pass, but would sink the ainpfschiff.d_
Ohl, attempted to pass their Dardanelles. I e.aw ta!
eliapfullen steamer drop her anchor in the 'three, ape'
the trews of the barges looking very blue at ale
utter etoppitge of their trade : what will be the eons.;
quoins to commerce along this great thorOaettan