The Express.
London, England, 1851-08-22 00:00:00

SPAIN.

A Madrid letter of the 16th says: " M. Leopold
Auguste de Cuelo, ex-minister of Spain to the Court
of Denmark, left yesterday for France. having been
chosen by the Minister of Foreign Affairs to nego-
tiate with the French government, in concert with
another Spanish diplomatist, M. T. de Bouligni, the
settlement of some old disputes, :is to the interpreta-
tion to be if'Fen to a treaty concluded between 1: ranee
and Spain in 1824, on the subject of maritime Cap-
tures made by the two countries."

GERMANY,

The German sovereigns are again on the move for
the purpose of coming together and giving to the
world new- editions of Olmiitz and Warsaw confet-
, cues. Bregentz is again announced to be the spot
, where the King of Prussia and the Emperor of
Austria are to meet. It is said that the King of Ba-
varia has invited the King of Prussia to Munich.
Meanwhile the latter is on a journey to Hohen-
zollern, and his first visit on leaving Berlin has been
to the King of Hanover. M. de Manleufkl was
there too, and had some interviews with mi-
nisters of the King. These visits may have been
led to by the internal state of Hanoverian poli-
ties and the hostile positions in which the King and
his nobles are placed but this can only be partially
an object. King Frederick William cannot have
done much, for his stay was short. On the nth ho
was at Cologne, and left that city en rook for the
Hohenzollern principalities. lie rested nt Coblenz
on the 18th.
Our correspondent writes as follows :
FRANKFORT-ON-TILE-MAINE, AUG. 19.
This morning, at 10 o'clock, the old free city in I
which two yearn ago the people of Germany discussed na-
tioenal questions in a national parliament, was honoured by
a visit from the same monarch whom the majority of that
parliament elected to the imperial throne of Germany.
this circumstance, connected us it must he in the king's
mind with the recollection of his own weakness, or perhaps
worse, caused it to be supposed that his majesty would
avoid entering the city. Arrangements, accordingly, were
made that the troops in garrison should he paroled outside
the city, close to the railway etation, within which his Ma-
jesty was to receive the diplomatic, military, and civic
authorities resident here. Late last night orders arrived
announcing that the king would enter the city, review the
troops on the Itoesmarkt, a large open equate, in front of
the hotel d'Angletcrre, within which apartments had (wen
hastily fitted up for the reception of those who were to he
honoured by an audience. the king baldly gulped dowel
his own ungenial recollections, or perhaps imagined that he
was doing a fit penance for former offences by rousing them
to greater force.
Bile Majesty came this morning from Mayence, where ho
did exactly the same as he has done here to-day, reviewed
troops received gentlemen in variously cut coats, all with
stiff collars, and more or less splendidly decorated with gold
lace. On his arrival at the Fraellfort terminus of the
Taunus railway he was received by a Prussian guard of
honour, General ltochow, Baron Dionark, °lateral Schiller-
ling (Austrian), the commander of the united garrison, and
his stuff, being in attendance. The Prussian barrack, with-
in a stone's throw of the terminus, was gaily decorated with
flowers, evergreens, flags, eagles, and especiully with a
plaster of Paris bust of the King, surnioanted by a wreath
of laurels. The royal cortege, followed by a
mass of staff-ofhcere, rode rapidly to the Roes-
markt, passing down the lines of the Austrian, nava-
rian, and Frankfort battalions, which were drawn up round
the square. The Prussian battalion had been drawn up in
front of the military etation and inspected. Having in-
spected the stationary lines and troops, they were put in
minion and marched past the king. First of all come the
Prussians, whose compact order, exactitude of line, and
peculiar style of march, redounds to the credit of their
drill-masters. With colours flying, music playing, they
marched past, followed by the Austrians. There is leas of
the martinet neatness and regularity about the Austrian
than the Prussian troops, but their appearance is soldier-
like, and full of promise of service. Then CAM' the Basra-
rhino, who really deserved to be sent to the "awkward
squad" for somewhat more than a month. Two
months' drill could hardly bring their disordered
serpentine lines, awkwardly - handled musket', to a
military shipshape. The Frankfort battalion, being the
whole army of a commercial city, ought not to be compared
with the well-disciplined troops of the larger and militarily
governed states, but they certainly put the Bavarians to the
blush. Having thus inspected and paraded the whole gar-
rison, the King entered the hotel, where the diplomatic
terns were waiting audience. These gentlemen, together
with the officers, were thus honoured, and after an hour's
stay within the city, the King quitted, without venturing
to appear upon the balcony, beneath which half the popula-
tion of Frankfort were collected.
The reception given to the King of Prussia was very cool
indeed. There was no cheering at all, and but few indivi-
duals testili al their respect by removing their hats.
The Prime of Prussia and Baron Manteuffel travel with
the King. From Frankfort the royal train proceeds, with
stopping, to Dartustadt, where a delay of several hours
takes place to receive the hospitality of the Grand Duke.
From Darmstadt the train proceeds at once to Baden, where
the King will remain until the 21st inst. The moment the
royal party enters linden all the usual royal ceremony will
be dispensed with, and a strict ince:nolo observed. The
royal name and title will be dropped for that of the Count
of Zollern.
I must now turn to a subject of more importance than a
royal visit or imperial birthday. On Saturday last the
Eugene-Rath had a sitting, in which the reconciliation
between the Austrian and Prussian cabinets was evinced by
the re-introduction of the question respecting the compe-
tency of the Diet to interfere with the constitutions of the
states composing the confederation. 1 have mentioned
before that the smaller states have girded up their loins to
oppaee the attacks on their independence which lie
hidden beneath the general tent's of the motion which
Austria and Prussia have submitted to the consideration
of the Diet, and the decision on which was delayed by the
interruption of the good understanding between those two
powers. It was again brought forward on Saturday, and I
am told that, after a hard fight, the opposition succeeded in
partly defeating it. The motion was withdrawn, for the
purpose of giving time to the proposers to specify more par-
ticularly the cases in which they think the intervention of
the Diet called fur, and its competency desirable. On
Thursday next the question will be discussed again. lam
told Olaf the representatiee of Hanover, Baron Scheele, is
among the foremost of the opposition.