The Express.
London, England, 1849-02-12 00:00:00

FOREIGN CORRESPONDENCE.

FRANKFORT, Faa. 7.
Every day gives birth to a new system for the
organ tiLition of the central authority of Germany.
People seem disposed to understand the refusal of the
King of Prussia to accept the hereditary imperial
offiee as sincere; and one day it is a second note of
the Prussian cabinet, the next it is a proposal from
the cabinet at (Minute that is pat forth in journal
gossip as a suggestion of a new German constitution
likely to be acceptable in the eyes of all. Whilst
these plans continue to appear one day and vanish
the next, the promoters of a hereditary Prussian em-
pire push forward anintermittingly towards their
object. They thus glaze upon the Prussian note :
" The King of Prussia is king of a consti-
tutional state; he will be compelled to sub-
mit to the wishes of his ministers and his
chambers; the scruples entertained by the King
are merely personal, and will count for nothing
in determining the actions of a constitutional mo-
narch. As soon as the
_parliament decides that there
must be an emperor of Germany, and that the King
of Prussia must be emperor, the Prussian chambers
ministers will accept, beyond a doubt, and the
King will have to waive his private scruples?' This
is the language held by the Prussian party in Frank-
fort ; and the chances are in favour of this game suc-
ceeding, provided a large majority of the parliament
renlve to have a Leredttat7 em r, to elect Fre-
derick WilliamlV. But this indispensable condition of
success may fail them. Meanwhile the partisans
of a hereditary Prussian empire are acting
both with firmness and sagacity. They have
a great majority in the committee on the
constitution, which is preparing a revised and
corrected edition for the second reading. A' vote
in its favour on the second reading will be definitive,
and then Prase* Austria, and the other governments
mart either accept or reject it. The original draft of
the constitution excludes Austria from Germany. The
second and third paragraphs declare that the Austrian
states are to be divided into two classes, and the Ger-
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man Austria and non-Germ Austria ire to be con-
nected by no other link than their subjection to a
common sovereign. These two paragraphs in parti-
cular have been vehemently opposed in Austria, and
all who wish to see German Austria retained as an
integral part of the German empire are anxious to
have them omitted. Bat the committee on the
constitution report that toe two plirtgraphs
are to be retained—coate gu'il wive. The
Frankfort Ober Post Amts Zeitung (the ministerial
journal of this day) expresses a confident expectation
that the majority of the parliament will, on this point,
agree with the committee, and that, in consequence,
Austria will withdraw from the federal state. I be-
lieve the majority of the committee and ministers on
this matter reckon without their host—that is with-
out the majority of the parliament. The Prussian'
pity are quite aware that they would be left in a
slimily woes the vote to be honestly taken on the
peal" whether we are to have a Prussian empire
and a petition of Germany, or a government more or
less provisional for the whole of Germany. And for
this reason they are making every exertion to have
twzreliminary vote taken that may tie the
of the majority in parliament. The
esnemiftee on the constitution are eager to hurry
en the second reading. They fear that the communi-
cations with the court at Olmiitz which parliament
has sitherised may change the temper of the i 4.
ity, Bid therefore they urge on the second
bebee theme negotiations can lead to any result. Were
the Need and third paragraphs or any other pr.ovi.
dowel the constitution incompatible with tho views
et Aglaia definitively adopted, it would be impossible'
to rut that state in the empire. This is obvieuely
what one party is aiammintnggat, but I doubt its seeemn..!
The ow* of the PrmCan elections emberrassil tV
Perin party at Frankfort. These electives
eases to threaten new shocks at Baia,
Aare as at Vienna revolution continues to be Ilse
Mier of the day, for Windiechgrats and Wraegsl
eve as essentially revolutionary as the most frantic
castors of the clubs when they invoked the aid el
paving-stones against bayonets. All who have any
pretensions to foresight are expecting a recommence•
meat of the Prussian revolution and. alisw
lowed to
the Frankfort parliament to uphold seder in
Germany. But, to enable it to do this, Frankfeet ad
Berlin must remain separate; making the Kier ti
Prussia emperor would be to intestine* the reeide.
denary spirit which animates Praia bib the the ate'
fort Assembly. I know you are fileelrhe theeleim
of the Rim of Prussia; but, believe me, Idealsolies
would be an additional lever placed in the hip &of
the revolutionists, and that the, Frankfort Memeelly
will cease to be a bulwark against revolutiou ape
as it comes to be identified with the antis iisn•
ary powers of Germany.
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ROME, Jas. 8.
An edict has Cain out this morning, signed by the
whole cabinet, declaring General Znechi a traitor to
his country, and ordering him-Ortie arrested if he
make his apparent* on any point of the Roman ter-
ritory. He is forthwith to be brought before a wart-
mart d if ewe&
Thal/media Wu, 4,000 strung, are to marsh
Me 800 to-day, at &clock, by the Gate del
h ?Maw They have bees absent from town neatly
algid months. Sevseal dstddinintes of cavalry, with
ornest=4:went off patmay bode to Franca' and
oath fickle afire Emu States.
Another Issasial has boss resolved on to
rountimoir. 44=4 Wed in the Oarepsip
is the bee best
inableme_ny
bills the meant of arsaa
bused to-day,

were
The report in town im that the Pope positively fled

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Thus esa M revel eale; founded
48miaidsel mhos, locustley doJealousies and exi-
=6,....8, Inglint a0110:01•eenet i tat up to the present
et MR gemma 'quibbles have manned a
Asps likely -Se- break -up the stry. Meantime the
his endheei • meal deihst In the chamber en
Chelllititt mei Wires. the posdnobl towel, the Stet
esti& el whisk wee vita lry a sasierity of 101 against, 86.
la Ohs 1411 an banks misiden will, In all probability, be in
it miewity. In the etelmittes on the bill for the donation of
the clergy, the pmeneisset km only two members oe its
aide; all the rest me daddeily *weed to Men's plan.
D. had Joaquie Os Mere left -Madrid two days agu by
piss for Leeds& He is believed te he charged with a ma-
men kr the quarrel between the two govern-
ts. This g who is conductor of the foreign
portion of the Heralds which his doe is director, was
ERcie babe by' the insdenides to Louden te pour late
et the Wilk gsmanneent aseighiste spimlllit
Below, hes was set remind by Lewd Pakmastoe. a
drinmstattee whit may partly semen he the extreme pa-
wed bitterness width has tinctured die articles of the
liffeigit 11l till sakfeet of our expelled envoy. If Mora
enact oda the Of et Lord Palmerston, he will no doubt do
all he ma to wriggle himself into the confidence of the
lades, who are always believed by the Eliodendos to be on
the eve of coming into pewee.
Whitt. demigod seedy Midas the gevemateathere lathe
Iwo of the mosey mail.t. in eamegeeme of disk Wader-
:gag anima with the Lek of Mu est their atter
went diode. Tine 11111hddln been ~1 thig,=
to Naha* a Ina with the house of
ha rageastatettee Weieweiler, to aver the
pearly divider. of the debt. . This diodes-
awl illegal benefit has been 'Meted by
the _ modem of the quicksilver mine',
isty the ode of 03 dellan the quintal, with the condition of
to sale ia case of insolvency, which at the current
would put 60 per cent. into tho pocket of the capitalist.
inachieg the ear of the public this will cause immense
1 affigial. To give a notion of the state of the money market
,there are at this moment simulating in Madrid pro-
d hills Is the sweat of six millions sterling. Two mil
*me atheist him to the Bank of San Fernando, which has
sauteed leo in &e of the capital which has oozedi out cd
diet addiMmind. Seveni: millions of reek result hem
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the failure of Bestodano • that of fislasagnes oue Bil-
lies steeling. The Batik of Foment° holds 29 minima
of zeds in these protested bids, the Bank of th. Union 00,
the emapanies of the Actividad and Ancor% 8 or 10 each, the
asspaity of the Commie some millions more ; and, in hot,
there is not a commercial concern here that does not show to
a pester or hes amount the same rot. On this account the
no:are:ambit a
islianciearre, alrestolvf,:ldaodr:dut;
zdandsoind the
isese leia.:llllllfirr thenCwalacomengs t to an union with the ruinous bank of
Ilea Itumaado.
The Bend& gives out that Cabrera has been killed, but
no use Mem believes the story.
The ministers are greatly annoyed at the sensible reply of
Oloberti to their proposal for a crusade to reinstate the Pope
in the Vatican; and the Heraldo has furnished, to order, a
maple of oolscans of ranting abuse, assailing with a string of
its accustomed foul epithets the Piedmontese king, ministers,
and people.