The Express.
London, England, 1849-06-26 00:00:00

GERMANY.

ENTRANCE OF THE PRUSSIANS INTO
MANNHEIM AND HEIDELBERG.

BADEN AND RHENISH BAVARIA. Our
latest accounts from Mannheim and the seat of war
are to the 23rd inst.
After the Prince of Prussia had defeated th, insur-
gents on the 22nd inst., near Wegbausel, the troops
under General von der Groben crossed the Neckar,
near Ledenburg and Mannheim, and in the course of
the night took possession of the latter, without oppo-
sition, a counter-revolution having broken out in
favour of the Prussians, and the insurgents having
retired from the town, in order, it was said, to march
against the corps of General von Hirschfeld. It ap-
pears that the second regiment of dragoons refused to
obey the orders of Mieroelowski, and that the
second exit fie recruits on his part baa
caused much dissatisfsetion. Heidelberg was also
taken without opposition by General von Schack. On
the followirg day (the 23rd) the Prussian troops
quartered in Kreferthal marched also into Mannheim;
but, after a few hours' rest, they left in pursuit of the
enemy, who, by the latest accounts, was in the vicinity
of Nickarsterch. _ . .

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The armed insosgents of Rhenish Bavaria have
joined those of Baden, pursuant to the plan of Micro,-
loweki. By the cap'ure of Hirschhorn, the Prussians
gained possession of six pieces of artillery. It is not
exactly known where General von Hirschfeld has
etched his head-quarter", but probably at Wiesloch.
e corps under General von der Groben met with a
determined resistance at Ledenbueg, but they suc-
ceeded in getting possession of the town, though
not at first of the bridge, which was strongly barri-
caded and defended on the side opposite to Laden-
burg by seven pieces of artillery. The next day,
however, the enemy, threatened by the advance of
Prussian and Bavarian troops in all directions, aban-
doned the bridge, over which, shortly afterwards, the
Prussians crossed to Heidelberg, the garrison of
which had previously withdrawn.
The Prince of Prussia has issued the following
proclamation :
As the insurgents in the greed dully of Baden continue
to organise as armed reti,tiviee to r e troops aseembled oa
the freatiere for the purpose of restoring the legitimate
1110,0SEMS% and so they have already opposed them Ia
bottle. I hereby declare, as conatander-ire-cloisf of the
Prwasiaa se ny sent for the above purp4ae to Baden, that
the Wire grand duchy is placed under martial law. Ae-
eordiagly, all p-reons in the grand duchy of Baden endan-
gering or Injuring, by traitorous proceedings, the troops
under my e'mmand, are amenable to the military tribunals.
Tne rispective commanders of the army corm are em-
powered to take the necessary step', and to confirm the sen-
tences of death. _ _ _ _ _ .

iieP;SWins have also taken possession of Bruit-
saL The journals favourable to the insurrection de-
pict in glowing terms the ardour of the republicans,
and their readiness to make all kinds of sacrifices for
the cane. Acewding to some of these journal., the
headquarters of the insurgents will be at Se,hwet-
engin or Odenheim.
The new ministry in Baden (the one appointed by
the grand duke) is composed u follows : Bluer,
minister of f ggnn affairs ; State-Councillor Rege-
saw, anus; Ssoret•Councillor Yoe Mersoball, in-

Ice eentidering the scheme of operations of the three army
corps, which are to work in common, General Pincher
ngards as en essential festers in the function of the Neekir
corps to guard egainst the enemy, whose main force is ccoped
up between Heidelberg and Mannheim, either throwing
himself into the Odenwald, and fr. m thence vexing
the grand duchy by fresh parii.l attacks, ea well as
spreading insurrection towards Frankfort, in the rotor
of the army; or, on the otter hand, penetratinz the
unprotected frostier of Wurterabag, between the
upper purses of the Netksr and the let ine corps
marching from Clerrnetaheim. From these motives Genera al
Peucker has determined, as 'O3ll u the vanguard at the god
corps reaches Heppenheim and the neighbourhood, to throw
himself into the Oitnwald, to march by the difficult roads
through the forest upon the puns of the Upper Neckar at
Hirschhorn. Eberbach, and Zoriogenbergoo force thee,
and by a fink march upon Smithson to effect a junctioil
wioh the cone marching from Oerosenbeins. Accordingly,
en the night of the 18th inst.. the detochment of the
Neckar c.rpt, stationed at Furth, received orders
to reach Hirschhorn, which had been reconnoitred a
few days before by a forced march, to take the castle
and town, to secure there the materials for building bridges,
and to blockade completely the valley of the Neckar at that
point. The vanguard under General Wachur, stationed at
Weinheim, has received orders to remain there till the 20th,
in order that the flank-march of the corps, and its re-ptaco-
rust on the Bergstrasse by the aocond corps, may not be
perceived by the enemy ; bat after that time to follow through
the o.lenwaW, and enure the bridges in t.:e rear, as well as
to cut off hands hutening to the stietance of the retails. At
one in the afternoon of the 19th General Peucker,after, the
vanguard of the second corps had marched up to
replace him, marched in execution of the preceding
plan through Furth to Beerfelden, and late in the evening
reached 11,uttenthal, which place also the rem-guard of the
corps reached from Heoubach. In the night of the 19:h
Colonel von Weiss announced that he had found Hirschhorn
unoccupied, and fulfilled the part entrusted to him without
opposition. Oa the 20th, at G in the morning, the cor:rs
touched to Beerfelten, concentrate: Welt there, while in-
telligerco was brought in by scone concerting the occupa-
tion or not of both the other posses of the Neckar, of tne
strergth of the enemy C e security and accessibility of the
defile., and of the road 'from the left bank of the Neckar to
Ilingheim. All agreed in reporting that the roads to
Eberbach and Ewingenberg wen Unleaded and im.
arm bI e, that advanced poets wen drawn up before Beer-
&hien and both the pumas over the Neckar, slot by regular
troops, however, 'intros corps and nationals. In consequence
it this it was resolved: 1. To strengthen Colonel von Weiss
in Ilfrochhorn with one battalion, and thereby enable him
to occupy the left back commanding the valley road to Blur-
bock and Zwingeeberg. 2. To attack with the advise-d
guard, in several columns, both the latter places, and to let
one brirale follow as main body half-way, whiles 1113 rest of
the corps remain at Beerfelden.
Too columns found en their march several oaken Danl-
.:odes abandoned by the enemy. With nightfall bath
Eberbach and Zwingenberpr were taken; and a portion
of the wife, was brought up to Vierbaeh from Beerteldt n.
Oa the caner hand, Colonel Weiss was attacked in Hirsch-
horn by 'superior column of the enemy from Heidelberg,
with artillery. The enemy was repulsed, however, and the
fire which the artillery had kindled in the town ex'ingui.ked.
Thus, thanks to thirty hours' of hard exertion by the troop+,
we have marched from the Bergstruso through Forth and
Barfeld to the puma ef the Neckar, of which we have taken
poesrasion. Thecorps is in neel of half a day's to pose to be
iu halving condhion. In the meantime the brilge building
in Z wingenberg. goes on actively, sad all is ready for our
march to Si :ilium.
'PRUSSIA.—Our corn epoodent writes:

BERLIN,

rtxx 23._

The court-martial held to-day its first skiing to try
the democratic prismcrs arrested in May. The state
prosecutor, Schlitte, has laid the sentences at two
years fortress-imprisonment for Dr. Gehrkc, nine
moaths for Waldeck, Schoneman, and rime others,
and six months fur tho rest. he referendarius,
Meyer, is at this moment making his speech in de-
fence. The verdict is expected this evening. No hope
is entertained of acquittal.
A popular journal, the UrtAilder, has been sup-
pressed.
Lord Ponslnby is expected here shortly, on his
way back to Vienna.
The Bavarian minister, Von der Pfordten, has
arrived here from Visor a. It may be remembered I
that Pfordten, in his late speech at Munich, declared
that the mission of Bavaria was to act as mediate
b.:tween Austria and Prussia. If the Bavarian minis-
try bears a mcasage of conciliation, ha could not nave
arrived more opportunely, for the schism between
Austria and l'russta is 'lore at the widest.
AUSTRIA.—The Wiener Zeitrinff, of June 21,
imparts the following official intelligence
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The Russian army, under command of the Prises of
Warsaw (l'askewitch) cross 4 the Hungarian boundary on
the 17th and 18th init., in four columns, commanded respec-
tively by Osmosis lluachiug, B.clegujett; fisidiger, and
Orabbe.
The head-quarters of the prince field-marshal were on the
lath last. at Bartteld (first post-town on the Hungarian side
of the Dukla.pau).
TM reserves, nyder Generals Beckon and Sass, are sta-
tioned provisionally in Oallicia, on the Ilassgarian berth,.
The south army, under command of Baron JeUachieh, has
advanced with its main force to Soave, Kie-Ker, and 0 Ker,
at which last place the ban had fitted hie headquarters.
Two brigades were ordered to FUldwer and St. Thomas, the
accepation of the former place being of importance for stopping
the navigation on the Theis. end canal. Meanwhile st.th-
cleat troops were left in and about Nensatz to keep in check
the garrison of Peterwardein.

So far all is official. The commission appointed to
devise a remedy for the financial crib's, presented, on
the 20th, a written apart to the minister of finance,
in which the following measures are said to have b en
recommended :—" I. The issue of a voluntary loan
provisionally, to the amount of tiO millions. 2. The
negotiation of the 49,379 reserve shares of the Na-
tional Bank. 3. The suspension of the decree pro-
hibiting the exportation of money. 4. An express
declaration on the part of the administration that the
war indemnity expected from Piedmont shall be
handed over entirely to the bank, on account of
the advances made by the latter to the government,
together with an engagement not to pawn the credit
of the state hereafter to the same extent and in the
same manner u hitherto, in order to guarantee that
of the bank."

The conclusion of peace with the Sardinian govern-
ment was generally considered certain, although not
yet officially announced.
The South Selaroniau Gazette contains a horrible
account of the sack and cartage. on the entrance of
the Croats into Nensatz. This important and popu-
lous city of the Servians has suffered bombardment
from the Magyar garrison of Peterwardein, while the
most abominable atrocities have been exercised
spinet the "population by the savage. hordes ander
Jellachich. Plunder, cruelty, !use, rioted without
control through the streets for revered days in sue-
cession. Neueatz wu entered by the ban on the 11=h.
According to letters from Jassy, a Rumanish
Janke HMI, had succeeded, at the head of some fol-
lower., to relieving the Austrian garrison left in the
fortress of Karlaberg upon the retreat of Pachner from
Transylvania.