The Express.
London, England, 1849-04-24 00:00:00

GERMANY.

IMPORTANT DECLARATION OF THE RUS-
SIAN MINISTRY.
PRUSSIA.—Uur correspondent writes :
BERLIN, Aran. 21.
The Second Chamber has accepted, by a majority
of 176 against 139, the Frankfort coos itstion, and
repudiates all modes of altering it except that which
is laid down in one of its own articles. The ministers
have therefore suffered a complete defeat upon
lthe most vital question. I send you below the decla-
ration of the ministry, read by Brandetbarg, in an-
swer to the motion of Rodbertus, whose fiord para-
graph embodies the principle enunciated above.
The at is out of the bag at last. Count Branden-
burg ban had mercy upon the impatience of the world,
and spoken out upon the German question. His con-
fession confirms fully the opinion I have so often
exprt seed in previous letters, that no agreement was
possible between Frankfort and Berlin under present

After the report upon Rodbertue motion had been
reed by Vitiate, the President of the Council rase,
amid the deepest silence, and spoke thee:
The premiss; was aware with whit aludety the meats"
looked to the foal eels ios of this question, sad was pre-
pared to give fall lasatiras. lie would read the highly
important deemed which he held is kis head :—l. The
government of his majesty is coeseins that it hes cot ahaa-
dosed the pally bill dews in the cotes of Jas. 23 sad Feb.
11, and that It its resisheil true to the same coarse in the
sots of the 3rd et this math. 2 The goverment of his
m .jirty has ever haebeeroll the lively wish to unite all Ora
rase states to a Baran Neat, but Mb painfully that sera an
saes is, os secoustal leseporable sheaths, he the present
moment 'reparable, sapless the dreeplisa el its owe
hopes ; the govern meat , howerar, fen Iras esairedistios
with the dralaratioes pees In the eirasher, if, wader the era
cratatratess which prevail,it atowebel say trap, leakiest its
exertions towards the cousuamehea of a Renews Ilisadas-
Bora 3. It Ms already bees degared that the soreisetime
of the National Assembly at Froddhet seeds, to the estr
blehsost of its validity, the resegallios of the Ossora
governorate. Tee government of kis easjetay, la the sea
of Jas. 23, already entered apes the ensue ealealarad I.
union with the other Gyros& revetments to opesseal to
the Frankfort Assembly, through prepsesis total ellest.the
alterations which the government recepised as semosey ia
the constitution. It Battered itself with the \op *Mit
this we those drams would be removed trees the isemesita
tem which erased arasseary to its sempesase_. Alm!
elm I this hope has am bees foIAIML The re-
prossestiess arid regulations made by his mojesbris
ereverararagree under wish the otter Cietiaaa
have ter tie seat pert noshed disregarded. The esesti
dew, ea the emceed reading, underwent fresh aboadoes,
which use Nay be designated as fa the highest degree pejo'.
disial. Them defects are of so prepooderatiag a kind, that
the nisistry Bads itself usable to recoomead to his majesty
the easoralitiosal seeepanes of the cooratatioa. Gentle.
ass, mostime has Mee nails (lithe mObt of public opleiwa
I mknowledge matpletely this might, Mt ender present sir.
ousultraces I regard it setts might of the eleaseats is teat-
persons modes about the ship of the state. The skip meet sot
be &Modeled to the raging sad stermiag of the el.meats,
to drive pilotless over theses cad and no feat isooriage. No,
we will never do nib, raver, sever, never!
The motion of Rodbertne, in the debate upon
which the above declaration was read, proposed
that the chamber should declare in favour of the
acceptance of the Frankfort constitution, and of the
imperial crown by the King of Prussia, upon the
around of the eonstitution. line urgency of this moo-
tion, which was thrown out by the central committee,
was, after speeches by Rodbertus and Camphaosen,
carried in the house by a majority of 218 to 113. Tae
report of the committer, read by Vincke, disapproves
the course marked out by ministers in the note of
April 3rd as regards the scoeptarce of the German
crown by the king upon the base of the constitution,
and under suppositiou of the consent of the (Abe;
German struts, as the only way of saving Oranutty ;
and expresses a desire that a course may be adopted,
with attention to present circumstances, calculated to',
lead to this result.
I think it would be a mistake to impute this result
to any political opinion on the part of the minister*.
The ministers, I believe, are guiltless of any decided
views upon questiors in which decision is of
importance.
It is to be noted that, in the first paragraph of the
ministerial explanation, the note of the 11th of March
is disavowed.
This is another of the symptoms wMch hive ap-
peared of lets ind'eative of the isolated position of
Count Arnim in the cabinet. An ordinary ministe-
would not hesitate to resign in the face of such an
affront; but ordinary rules are not applicable to Count
Arnim, who is still loss his oe n master thin the other
ministers.
There is a contradiction of importacce between the
reports of Brandenburgh's answer to Rodbertus'
motion. The close of the second paragraph is given,
accardiog to theversion of the Kammer Zettunq, thus:
The government would, however, deem itself is rostra-
• n with the wishes exprorat in the unarm of b,ttt
chambers to the royal speech lilt gars up, in the face of
present circumstances, its endeavours to arrive at a narrower
Beedrasteat.
The official report, which has not yet appeired,
will clear up this de crepanoy to-marrow.
Teo Breslau linen publish a royal dec'ee of the
14th inst., approving and confirming the suspension
of the Breslau biirgherwher by Von Schleittitz, the
governor of Silesia, on the 22nd of March.
I n ed hardly say that the speech of Brandenburg
made the deepest sensation in the chamber. One
sines " bravo was le and on the right.
The result of the sitting, which terminated between
five and six, was the carrying of the third paragraph
of the motion of Rodber tits, which is thus expressed:
That, on the contrary, the chamber on its pert minimises
the cur ritution completed by the German Netball Assem-
bly as legally valid (reckerageg), and cherishes the sostvie•
ties that 'heretics of the sane is only edmiesible is the way
provided for is the 'mediation itself.
All the amendments of all sides were rejected; and
the net result of this impntsat sitting was the az-
oeptanos of the above resdutiou.
The concluding words of Brandenburg must be
interpreted as an expressed intention of the ministry
to continue in office. They will therefore be obliged
to dissolve or peoragoe the chamber'. Is that ease
we may lo'k shortly for barricades. There is one
solution of this question which stems to me highly
geabible, and mach mare: perhaps than any one
in es—l mean the abdication of the king.
A STRIA. —We have dates from Vienna to
April 19.
According to an official orommunication, the bridge
whieh connected the fortress of Komorn with the We-
ds-pont was destroyed by the Austrians, which greatly
changed the face of the serge in their favour. A let-
ter from Perth, dated the 17tb, states that the arrival
of Welds': at that plan had been hailed with maths-