The Express.
London, England, 1849-09-06 00:00:00

GERMANY.

PRUSSIA.—Our correspondent writes :
BERLIN. 83re. 3.
Austrian diplomacy is busy here at present. There
arrived here on Tuesday last a special envoy from
Vienna, Count Wrbna Ereudenthal, fidget-adjutant
of the emperor. Re was presented next morning to
the king, and dined at Saussouci. The mission of
General Von Neumann to Warsaw is said to stand in
close relation to that of Count Wrbna to the court of
Berlin. There is every reason to believe that there
exists by no means so imperfect an understanding be-
tween the courts of Berlin and Vienna as the sparring
between the Schwerzenburg and Brandenburg cabi-
nets would lead the public to suppose. Neither can
there be a doubt of the close intelligence
which exists between Berlin and Warsaw. The czar,
the King of Privets, std the Emperor of Austria, or
rather the camarille,of which that youthful sovereign
is the puppet, are haunted by the same fixed idea,
which is the fortification of their dynasties against the
smelt of the revolution, by immense standing armies.
As for the progress of the Prussian Bundes-etaat to-
wards realisation, we must look to the results of the
next few months to learn if there is any sincerity at
the bottom of this plan, or whether, as many suspect,
it is a mere fictitious ground to conciliate to the mi-
nistry a momentary popularity, and to amuse the
activity of the Chambers with a bone to mumble their
debates over. Time alone can tell us this. Mean-
while, one circumstance is evident. It is as
difficult for Prussia to go heck to the &oaten-
bend (as the Germanic confederation is called) as
to go forward to the Bundestaat ; for the: simple res.
son that Prussia availed herself of the March revolu-
tion to throw the provinces of East and West
Prussia, with a part of POlOO, into the confederation;
so that, whereas before the Austrian population com-
prised in the Bond outnumbered the Prussian, now
the Prussian outnumbers the Austrian. Under these
circumstances it would be absurd to admit the old
supremacy of Austria in the Diet, where the rwrsitz
or presidency chair was the hereditary privilege of
the house of Hapsburg-Lorraio. Austria, therefore,
would naturally insist upon the Prussian encroach-
ment upon her supremacy going the way of all the
other fruits of the detested revolutionary year of 1848,
the March-wrestings, as they call them.
The committee of the Second Chamber on the Ger-

man ques'ion has presented its report, which is in
perfect harmony with the views of the government,
and merely a repetiton of what has been already said
upon this subject in the speech of Itadowitz, and the
despatches of Count Brandenburg.
It seems that the ministerial ordinanoispromnlgated
in the recess, concerning the right of assembly and
association, are not considered stringent enough to
answer the purposes of the government; and they
have been handed over to a commission cf three
government functionaries to be furnished with the
necessary sharpness. Thus revised in the coarse of
the week they will be laid before the Chamber.

AUSTRIA.—Latest news from Vienna to Sept. 1. 1,
Oa the 30th ult., the Ring of Wurtemberg arrived
at Ling. Prince Schwarzenbtu!, with the Bavarian
envoy, went immediately to visit him there. The
German question is suspected to lie at the bottom of
this journey, and the accession of Wurtemberg to the
South German League under the auspices of Austria.
The object of Count Wrbna's (pronounced Warm)
mission to Berlin is to come to some arrangement
with Prussia about the central power, which the
Austrian government proposes should be exercised at
once provisionally by Austria and Prussia, while the
other states choose a third representative. This is
merely looked upon as a momentary arrangement,
until the Austrian government can assume a more
decided attitude on the German question, and dis-
tinctly formulate her definitive desires. There seems
to be every probability of the whole question ending
in the old arrangement, proposed a year ago, of a
directory.
The suspic ion of false dealing on the part of the
Russian allies, whether grounded or not in fact, is at
Vienna daily growing more decided, and awakens
a hostility in all classes against Rus is, which shows
that the humour even to go to war is not wanting
were only the means at hand.
From Comoro there is no certain news. This ar-
mistice will be up on the 4th, and then we shall hear
of something decisive. Meanwhile it is said that
Klapks, like Goorgey and the commandant of Arad,
will only lay down arms to the Russians. The de-
testation and contempt with which tho Austrians are
regarded know no bounds. No doubt the atrocious
cruelties of Hayman have crntributed much to
this result. There is a report that Haynau is to be
recalled, and Giulsz, the minister of war, to be made
governor of Hungary.
Jellachich was expected in Vienna on the 2nd.
They sty he is to be made governor of Dalmatia, as
well as Croatia and Sclavonia. The emperor has, by
a hand-billet, commissioned the Ban to report his opi-
nion concerning the constitution of the military boun-
daries, and the mode of bringing the constitution of
the empire into harmony with the organisation of
those territories. The more favourable treatment
which Venice has received as regards her paper-
money, is a fresh thorn in the eye of the Hungarians.
Itsdetski was expected at Vienna on the 19th.
Great indignation has been roused there by the ap-
plication of corporal punishment with a cudgel to of-
fenders at Milan, for having introduced a carnival
episode on the emperor's birthday. Schmerling, the
minister of justice has brought forward a project of
law tor introducing solitary confinement into the
prisons for such as are condemned for not more than
one year's imprisonment. On passing through Agram,
Jellachich gave a severe reprimand to the Banarath
for objecting to publish the constitution of March 4. A
severe shock of an earthquake was felt at eight in the
morning of the 26th between Gloggni'z and Wiener-
Nenstadt. Several houses were thereby ruined at
Wimpassung. According to a private letter from
Arad, Kossuth, after he bad given up the dictatorship
to Gcergey, enrolled himself as gunner of a Honved
12-pound battery, azd this was the uniform which he
wore on the day before Gcergey's submission at
Wages. Before the Magyar corps of Bem
surrendered to Larders, at Devil, they were as-
sured of receiving the same terms whieh
Gcergey secretly made at Vilagor. Peterwardein
still holds out. On the 28:h there existed no hope of
the speedy surrender of this fortress. People begin to
talk about the coronation of the emperor taking place
before the end of the year.
, The latest news inspection Kossuth and the com-
panions of his flight appears in letters of the 28th ult.
from Semlio, but wants official confirmation. Accord-
ing to these the destination of the fugitives was Con-
stantinople. From Orsowa Kossuth went to Calafat,
' the rendezvous of the dispersed Magyars.
The list of fugitives sent from Calafat, includes
Bem, Dembinski, and sixteen Polish officers. Among
the Magyars are Kossuth, Messaros, both Perczels,
Cze.tnin, Nyary, Karoly, Madaras, Guyon, and twelve
' deputies. There wait a steamer at Gallatz placed at
the disposal of the refugees, to convey them to Coe-
atantinople. In the meantime Omer Pasha, coin-
, minder of the Turkish farces in Wallachia, having
heard in Bucharest of the arrival of Kossuth and his
friends at Calafat, contrived to have them brought to
Widdin, where they now remain closely guarded. A
Turkish commissioner, with Austrian consular func-

tionarms, came and searched their baggage, among
which apparently they expected to find the crown of
St. Stephen, and other regal insignia of Hungary.
Some of the Hcnveds of Ocergey's corps having
reached Pesth, give a fearful picture of the privations