The Express.
London, England, 1853-05-23 00:00:00

SPAIN.

The Madrid Gazette of the 16th publishes the.de-
tails of the reform in the finance department, the
heads of which we have already given, and gives a
royal decree appointing M. Domonech, ex-Minister
of the Interior, president of the commission for the
examination of the claims for arrears in the Treasury.
A Madrid letter mentions a report that the com-
mission charged to examine the railroad conces-
sions has declared that the concession of the northern
line shall be submitted to the consideration of the
Cortes.

- , 'GERMANY.
- The King King9f Prussia, with the Princes Charles
ansi 1 redethdit Child's, arrived at Vienna on the
19th, and took up
.their recit in the imperial
pewee. ' The li,ing of, the • ns, with his son,
wet, still the gkests of the And-elan sovereign. The
,Oliefal Pionaa Gazette of the 17th contains an
article inpfaise of the noble qualities of the Prussian
King, and especially of his conduct towards Austria.
The Belgian monarch donned his Austrian uniform
the day after he received his regiment.
A regrettable occurrence threw the city of Luxem-
burg into emotion on the 16th. In the course of the
night, a young civil officer, Herr Hilger, comptroller
of the board of accounts, was returning homewards
alone, and, from some cause which will probably
never be explained, came into collision with a sentry
at one of the government offices. It is said that he
seized the sentry's firelock, but, however this may be,
the soldier drove at him with his bayonet, which pe-
netrated to the depth of nine inches, and passed
through the centre of the liver. The body was buried
the next day, all the civil officers and a large number
1 of citizens attending the funeral.

VIENNA, FRIDAY EVENING.
Tho King of Bavaria, who was expected, is not
coming to Vienna.

HOLLAND AND BELGIUM.

ROTTERDAM, MAY 18.
The elections for the Second Chamber of the States-
General—a chamber dissolved by the new cabinet in
order to give the country the opportunity of declaring
whether the constitution allows of the restoration of
the Roman Catholic episcopacy—took place yesterday
throughout Holland. The majority of the elections'
already known show results favourable to the new
ministry. In Dort, Leyden, Gouda, and Delft, the
ministerialista have exclusively triumphed. At the
Hague, a ministerialist, and a supporter of the late'
cabinet, have been elected. In this city the ballot
box was opened this morning. There were
found in it 1,430 votes, four of which were
blank. According to the Dutch electoral law,
when there are several candidates, an abso-
lute majority of the votes is requisite. The
absolute majority in this case was 714. On opening
the box the numbers were found to be—for Heer
Band, 700; for Heer Van Bosse, 649 ; for Ileer Van
Papendrecht, 613 ; for Heer ltijk, 589; and for Heer
Deynoot, 266. Consequently neither obtained the
requisite majority. Heer Band and Heer ltijk are
the candidates proposed by the political union which
support the present cabinet. A second vote was then
had recourse to, so far as the first lour candidates were
concerned—the fifth one being considered hors de
combat. The definitive result was favourable to Heer
Band and Hoer Rijk. Heer Thorbeck, the late
Prime Minister, has been defeated at Leyden.
BRUSSELS MAY 20.

The results of the elections for the Second Chamber
or House of Commons of Holland are still favourable
to the ministerial candidates. Some partisans of
Heer Thorbeek, however, and the ex-Premier him-
self, have been returned. The new Cabinet, it is now
certain, will have a large majority in the above
Chamber.

The Brussels Nation of this day censures the King
of the Belgians for consenting to be mado the colonel
of an Austrian regiment which had "distinguished"
itself in the last Italian campaign.

SWITZERLAND.

The remnant of the Ticinese in Lombardy con-
tinue to be harassed by the Austrian police. The
New Zurich Gazette states that expulsions take
place almost daily.
In accordance with its intention, expressed in a
recent vote to the Federal Council, the government
of Ticino has presented a bill for better regulating
the position of refugees in the canton.
The New Zurich Gaulle states that the Council
of State of the canton of Fribcrg has been authorised
to levy a forced loan of 200,000 florins.
The Carlsruhe Gazette publishes the official notifi-
cation of a treaty with Switzerland, for reciprocal
facilities in the conveyance of merchandise and the
reduction of the duties on the navigation of the
Rhine, and of the ratification of the treaty with
Switzerland for the prolongation of the railroads of
Baden on the Swiss territory.