The Express.
London, England, 1849-07-20 00:00:00

CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.

We have journals from the Cape to the 28th of
May, at which date it was in a very disturbed state,
end en hieetae was apprehended when the convict
settlers arrived from England. Public meetings
and demonstrations were still everywhere being got
oP to protest against the measure, and the greatest
anxiety was felt foe the peace of the colony.
Lieutenant-General Sir Harry Smith, ().C.8., the
governor and commander of the forces, was at Cape
Town.

The naval commander-in-chief, Rear-Admiral B.
Reynolds, C. 8., lay in Simon's Ray, with the follow-
ing force: The Southampton, 50 guns, nag-ship; the
Seringspatars, depot ship ; the steam-transport Dee,
and the steans-eloop Geyser, 8 guns. The Nimrod,
20-gun oorvett., was also hourly expected from Bour-
bon. Her bbjeety'a sloop Childers sailtd from tne
station for England ea the 28th of May.

Mynas,Jctr 13.—Thees par Com, 210 wont, yew vr
Oral., The patOnta. Uj paw Copan, 4. Mama& cm
lioadon, 0 10001117.

GERMANY.

RATIFICATION OF TIIE ARMISTICE BE-
TWEEN PRUSSIA AND DENMARK.

Telegraphic intelligence has been received this
morning, officially stating that the ratifications of the
armistice between Prussia and Denmark were ex-
changed at Berlin on the 17th inst.
PRUSSIA.—Oar correspondent writes :
BERLIN, Jun: 16.
The elections of the direct electors or Wahhnilmser,
take place to-morrow. Here it would seem am if the
government apprehended some disturbance, from the
precautions taken. All the troops are ordered to
remain in barracks. The constables have directions
to come away from the poll as soon as they have
given their votes, and repair to their posts. Strong
patrols of constab!es aed aoldien are to move at fre-
quent intervals through the streets. All those elec.
ten who are furnished with their tickets of legitima-
tion, and disposed to exercise the franchise, are to
'genie to the poll of their section at eight in the
morning. Berlin is divided into 262 such sections.
Churches, schoolrooms, halls of taverns, and other
places, are the localities appointed for polling. Smok-
ing is prohibited, a circumstance which by no means
increases the disposition of the democratie party to
came. This party still adheres throughout Prussia to
their determination to ignore the elections, although
it is believed they might easily have gained a majority
in the next chamber. It' that be true, their position
will not be wins?, as their protest against the validit
of the elections it will then be impossible to dirrsga
AUSTRIA.—Our correspondent writes :
VIENNA, JULY 14.
The six fresh accomplices in the murder of Count
Latour, tried by the court-martial of Vienna, have
been condemned to different terms of imprisonment
and hard labour in irons from five to twenty years.
All are common workmen with the exception of
Ransch, lieutenant of the academic legion, who is
sentenced to six years' imprisonment in a fortress in
irons.

Great dissatisfiction is expressed by the bourgeoisie
with the mode which General Haynau adopts in his
reports of mentioning among wounded officers the
names only of those who belong to the nobility. Thus
out of twelve officers wounded on the day of the 11th,
h only names a Windischgratz and a
On the Bourse to-day there circulated a report that
a fie .h battle had occurred before Comoro on the 13th.
end anothi r that the Russians had joined the corps of
General Ramberg in Path, both of which appear
highly improbable.
BAVARIA.—We see by the 1 ranklipri 0. P.
Zeitung of the 16th, that the gambling tabic has been
re-opened at Kiesisgen; we were previously in-
formed that this was the case at Wiesbaden, at Ham-
burg, and other places. Nothing more clearly shows
than this, how utterly fallen German unity is for the
pment.
BADEN AND THE PALATINATE.—The in-
telligence from Rastadt is to the 14th inst. Deser-
tions from the fortress, in which fever had broken
out, continued. For two days all firing had ceased.
Nothing was known of Tiedemann (formerly the re-
lutionary commandant of Rastadt) during the pre-
vious three days. It was thought either that he had
escaped during one of the late sorties, or that he was
concealed in Restadt itself. It appears that the for-
tries still contains abundance of provisions and of
ammunition, but the Prussian besieging corps still
expo cted that a general sally would be made by the
garrison.
On the 12th inst. a deputation from Carleruhe had
an interview with the Grand Duke of Baden at
Mentz, in order to beg of him to return to his capital,
but it appears that he gave no positive mower to
them.