The Express.
London, England, 1851-10-04 00:00:00

GERMANY.

VIENNA, SEPT. 30.
Advices from Italy announce that the Emperor
has suddenly altered the plans which had been
formed for the continuation of his journey, and that
he is now on his road to Vicars by the shortest
route. He is expected to arrive to-morrow morning.
The cause of this sudden return remains a mystery.
By some it is ascribed to the bad weather ; by others,
to the displeasure of the Emperor at the cold recep-
tion he has everywhere met with; but it is not at
all improbable that the same cause has brought
it about which during the past week hos led to the
long daily ministerial councils, and to the summon-
ing to Vienna of most of the governors of provinces.
What the subject of these prolonged deliberations is
remains to be seen. On this a difference of opinion
also exists.

Respecting the magnificent displays of loyalty
which are described daily in the 17enfia Ginette as
having been displayed in Milan, Brescia, Venice,
I have seen letters which give a very different account.
In Brescia the inhabitants were ordered to illuminate
their houses, on pain of severe punishment; and in
order to deprive them of every excuse the govern-
ment sent a supply of candles to every house. Thepaid
elaqueurs certainly shouted to their utmost when the
Emperor appereed in public, but their numbers were
so small, and their isolation so complete, that the cry
of "Long live tho Emperor" was only heard at in-
tervals from single individuals. The military did
their best to prevent the true state of the case from
being too apparent. In Milan the same circum-
stances occurred; and in Venice a letter which I have
read asserts that you might have heard a pin drop
in the streets, so death-like was the silence during
the visit of the Emperor. It has been much re-
marked upon that the Emperor did not pass a single
night at Milan, which city he quitted on both occa-
sions before nightfall. The Croce di Savoie contains
a letter from Brescia, describing, in matter-of-fact
terms, the want of affection and loyalty displayed
I there. It was confiscated by the police, who ac-
tually visited every cafil in which Italian journals are
kept in order to obtain possession of it. Perhaps
this confiscation was partly caused by an allusion to
the Archduchess Sophia in another article, in which
that princess is termed the vainest and most ambi-
tions
woman that has appeared in the world since

Eve. (La pia superbe ed orgogliosa donna, ehe sia
converse net mundo da'.Era in poi.)
I mentioned in a former letter the anger of the
Austrian government with the Porte for the libera-
tion of the Hungarian fugitives, and stated my ap-
prehension that -Prince Schwarzenberg would seek to
bo revenged. A correspondent of the Lemberg Lei-
tung takes the same view, and explains the manner
in which the Austrian premier will endeavour to
punish the Porte for its so-called faithlessness. In
the Bosnian insurrection, during last spring, several
Austrian citizens were robbed of their property, im-
prisoned, and several severely ill-treated. They com-
plained to the government at the time, but without
obtaining redress. Wanting a grievance, Prince
Schwarzenberg. has dug up the complaints of the suf-
ferers in Bavaria, and intends to demand satisfactory
compensation in Constantinople. This is not all. To
prevent the recurrence of similar events, and to pro-
tect the frontier, an Austrian army of observation is
to be posted on the frontier of Turkish Croatia and
the Herzegowiva. To reconnoitre the terrain
was the special object of the Ban Jellachich's recent
journey to Dalmatia, a report of which he handed to
the Emperor at Trieste. The frontier is to be oc-
cupied by Croatian soldiers, but an addition of three
regiments and three batteries is to be made to the
garrison of Dalmatia. General Mamula is to take
the command of the whole. Montenegro, which is
threatened by the Turks, has applied to the Austrian
government for assistance in case of necessity. The
same correspondent adds " that Lord Palmerston,
aware of these preparations, has given orders to the
Mediterranean fleet to proceed to the lonian Islands
to be close to the scene of events." Prince Schwarzen-
berg has, it is known, caused very strongly-worded
despatches to be presented to the Turkish ministry.
On the 29th of July the Austrian ambassador at
Constantinople presented a note to Ali Pasha, which
expressed the astonishment of the Austrian govern-
ment that the l'orte intended to liberate kossuth
and his companions without the most mature delibe-
ration, and appealed to the contract, which it declared
binding upon the Porte not to liberate the fugitives
without the permission of Austria. An infraction of
this contract would impose a painful duty upon
the Austrian goveromont. The Foreign Minister of
the Porte replied on the Dith of August, that, peace
having been restored in Hungary, and the govern-
ment of Hungary organised on a new basis, the libe-
ration of the fugitives would not be attended with
any important consequences. On the 18th of Aug.
the Austrian ambassador presented a second note, in
which the responsibility for all the consequences that
might ensue was placed upon the l'orte. Since then
no further correspondence has taken place that I can
learn.

A merchant in Pcsth has brought an action
against Kossuth for an unpaid bill of exchange. Ac-
cording to the Pcsth journals the bill dates from the
year 1846.
The articles in the Lloyd on Hungary. and the
change in its government which is to result from the
appointment of Archduke Albrecht, have excited
universal attention. Their author is now known to
bo a certain Ilofrath Zsadanyi, who was formerly
chief secretary to Count Apponyi, when that noble-
man was chancellor of Hungary, and who has always
been one of, if not the chief, litterateur of the ex-
treme conservative party. His position and
his personal liberty would be at stake were
the contents of his articles not founded on
fact. The columns of the Lloyd this morning
are again tilled by his pen, and with an article of
equal importance to those which have preceded it.
I need not translate the whole, but give you a sum-
mary. At the commencement he depicts the joy
which greeted the imperial manifest of the 20th of
August, in which Hungary is spoken of once more
as a kingdom, and not humbled into a mere province
of the empire. The Hungarians are said to consider
the mere revival of the old title of their country as
a pledge that their separate independence will
eventually be restored. I may remark that the re-
joicings of the Hungarians are greatly increased by
the feeling that the failure of the centralisation
scheme and the re-introduction of the old federal
principle, at least as far as regards their own country,
is an acknowledgment by the government that they
were justified in assuming arms to defend it. Herr
Zsadanyi then proceeds to inquire into the effect
which the contemplated changes in the government
of Hungary will have upon the other parts of the
Austrian empire, and replies to his own inquiry that the
severe centralisation of all the branches of internal ad-
ministration decreed by the constitution of the 4th of
March will be broken up, because it has been found
to injure more than promote the unity of the Austrian
monarchy. The only question which the writer con-
siders not yet decided, is the settlement of the limits
within which the former independent ' • • "•
of each province shall be re-establish
tenor of these articles it is clear that a gradual attack
is intended on the centralised administration of the
empire, and that the commencement is to be made
with Hungary. Within a short period, then, the cm
pine will be subjected to a third, but this time a
governmental, revolution.
The Presse denies the truth of a report that Baron
Kraus is likely to be removed from the ministry of
finance.
Baron Bruck, the ex-minister of trade, who re-
cently returned from London, has left Vienna for
Trieste.
The Empress Maria Anna, wife of the ex-Emperor
Ferdinand, has met with a severe accident, by a fall,
while walking in the garden at lteichstadt.
One of the measures of economy and reduction
which are contemplated by. the finance minister in
consequence of the imperial letter recommending
both, I understand that It is contemplated to abolish
: in the larger towns of the empire the present system
of collecting and managing the taxes. The adminis-
tration of the taxes, as it is called, is in future to be
under the direct superintendence and control of the
Minister of Finance, with a director and a board of

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councillors to advise and carry out his wishes. The
change is to be effected on the Ist of November.
M. Delacour, the ambassador of the French re-
public, has returned to Vienna, after some weeks' ab-
sence on leave.

The government has abolished the few " insurrec-
tion treasuries," which remained in Hungary, and has
applied the funds they contained to the building of
barracks. Your readers must not imagine that these
treasuries had any connection with the late war. The
Hungarian "insurrection" was the term given under
Maria Therese to the militia of the nobles, summoned
together for the pses of war ; a name which con-
tinued in use until thurpoe year 1818, when the Hunga-
rian parliament decreed that the whole nation should
in future bear arms.

MILAN, Barr. 28.

Tho grand military manceuvrcs on the Somme
have commenced, but the weather was highly in-
auspicious. The Prince of Baden and General
Grotenzalm have arrived and presented themselves
to the Emperor.