The Express.
London, England, 1849-05-17 00:00:00

GERMANY.

NAPLES.—We have received despatches from our
correspondent at Naples, dated the 9th instant, in-
forming us of the breaking out of fresh hostilities in
Sicily.
It appears that several of the members of the
Sicilian government bad been brought to favour
a reaction is favour of Bing Ferdinand. Thule are
accused of inducing the Sicilian patriots to go to Ca-
tania to fight against the Neapolitans, the rue-
tionista well knowing that that town would probably
succumb. And advantage was then said to have
been taken of this at Palermo to advise the
nations' Fraud and regulars not to fight. Not-
withstanding the efforts of Stabile and Ruggeri*
Settimo, this counsel for a time predominated, and a
deputation left to meet Filangieri, and offer him the
complete surrender of Palermo. The deputation
having left, and with it the principals of the reaction,
the favourers of Naples fled, and the people are now
up in arms, and in possession of city and forte. Seer-
, dato and Michele are leaders. The city will resist
to the last. A portion of the Neapolitan force was,
by last accounts, near Palermo, the main body at
Calatl nissetta.
Del Carretto, the notaries' policeman of Ferdinand,
had returned to Naples.
Neapolitan Fives were at 88, and were falling.
ROMAN STATES.—The following despatch from
General Oudinot, dated the Bth instant, at Palo,
appears in the Paris iforsitessr (official journal) of
Wednesday :
Bince my last report oa the 4th of May I have had no
important operation to euente. The disembarkation of the
3rd brigade, u well as of the 16th light infantry, and the
16th battery of the Bth ruining of artillery, took place
with the greatest order. Being convinced that the pert of
Plumisino offered every sausage foe facilitating our com-
samdeltioas with Rome, I have taken it, and the 20th
re.d
Me line is strongly established there. I think
I let pea that duds; the day of the 30th ult. 200 and
gal mss elf the 20th, under the orders of Captain Picard,
gni gime office e, beiog carried away by their ardour, and
asadad by weeds of emsailiatioa, entered Home by the
Rea Pustoniergrar, and there allowed themselves to be
taken. [The -poet of the 4th of May does sot mention
this" Thep ham just came in with the deems subjoined.
['The trignidge demo of the Ist inst.] I thought that
Fuses maid set thew herself lea "menus, sad I
=Vgave cobra to the Fresalt govessee of Civita
iet free the battalion of Roman chassews which
wom ks t prisoners is that sews I infused the goventasat
of he Isms republie that in return for this proceselag
uslorsessl that the Fees& to Item% sad eves all Amgen,
'kohl shelve soh ors hele to her eat of She tows.
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our govensmaa gm tabs.*, to the peak Is-
staaity, sal cell Women the sestedoes of Faso. I
thank yes, hoselave to Illkshlee. be the mesas you have
plead at my essersi aloha that estl. I shall steam
appall happy If I semeedle is resift the paeans
fives of or governess% aed *see of the Preeklest of the
Trash republic. I ea. wish rape*. lh.,
Ovoteos.
The Tbulonneis of the 13th inst. oceans the

following :
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to Wert with sessese, and whims drain et Wood, by
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PRUSSIA.—The fultuvring is the
re►pondent:
DUBLIN, MAT 14.
The Prussian government hare struck the first de-
cisive blow at the Frankfort Assembly. The Prus-
sian clergies have been recalled. Tbe decree of their
mean appears in the Staats-Ameiger of this evening,
and is as follows :

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ROYAL ORDINANCE.
1. The conwaiviow of the deputi. a elected in the Prusian
Wats to the German National Assembly on the ground of the
Diet's decrees of March 30, and April 7, 1848, and oar own
ordinance of the 11th of the latter month, is expired.
2. This, our present ordinance. is to be set before the de-
pities by our plenipotentiary at Frankfort on-Maine for their
obrearneoe, and with the injunction to abstain from taking
say put la the farther prcasedings of the Asserntey.
FRIDERICK WILLIAM.
Gimm at Charlottenburw, May 14, 1849.
The signatures of all the ministers follow.
The reasons for this measure are set forth in a long
preamble.
It assures the king that the great majority and
loyal portion of the Prussian people w.ll bupport his
majesty, for that no Prussian can with houour con-
tinue to countenance the decrees of a body, containing
as they do a declaration of hoirility evilest the
Prussian state. The address opened with a long jus-
tification or the conduct of the Prussian throne
towards the Frankfort perliement from the very
outset of its career, and accu-ed that assembly, by its
decree of the 10th instant, of having itself occasioned
the breach. The address further declare s tbat several
Pru-aian deputies have already voluntarily vacated
their seats, and that the others only awa't the decision
of his meje,ty.
Tree rebellion in the Rhine province fills the govern-
ment with alarm, the more so as every pad of the
kingdom exhibits the same antipathy to the present
sys'em, and no place can be safely divested of troop.
The municipality of Konigsberg summoned a
municipal diet throughout the circle to consider what
respite ions it were best to take in relation to Um
German question. The chief of the civil administra-
tion, after having approved this step, has just pub-
lished an order forbiddirg the assembly in question,
and declaring that the Konigsberg corporation is not
competent to call togetber such a diet.
The landwehr called out in Westphalia exhibit a
spirit of insubordination which shows how little the
government can depend on this all-important force.
At Paderborn one of the wehr-men made a speech re-
flecting on the illegal mode in which they had
been summoned, by single men, and not in com-
panies. The major wanted to arrest him, but his
comrades, who highly applauded his speech, would
not permit him to be touched, and the major was
bald to digest his spleen. They declared in a body
they would not fire on the people, and they pledged
themselves to stand by the German constitution.
The royal ordinance of the 10th inst. creates every-
where the most profound disgust, particularly that
article which enables every petty officer to play the
tyrant in his district by declaring it in a state of siege.
There is no doubt that Radowitz has been charged
with the representation of the Prussian government
at the conference called together at Berlin to decide
the German question. Lerchenfeld has rent in his
credentials as plenipotentiary for Bavaria, Stilve for
Hanover, and Beast for Saxony. B.u,t is still at
Dresden. Berlin is crowded at this moment with
fugitive families out of Dresden. The most horrible
storks are in circulation concerning the atrocious
murders committed by the soldiery in the storm of
the houses in the Alt-stadt. The central commissioner
at Dresden, Briegleb, received a telegraphic despetch
from Frankfort on the 12th inst., in consequence of
which he sent in his resignation to the central
government.
AUSTRIA.—Dotes from Vienna are to May 12.
The emperor made his entrance into Freeburg at
half-put six on the morning of the 10th. His arrival
was followed by that of Prises Schwarzenburg and
General Von Berg. The emperor went immediately
to vieit the army. He entered the city incognito,
without attendance, and alighted at the house of
Wachtler, where the Casino is.
The long inaction of the Hungarian army, of which
nothing has been heard for the last fortnight, seems
to countenance the notion that the Magyars are
gathering their strength fa some great blow.
Some outposts are said to have been seen in the neigh-
bourhood of the Jablunka Pelf, which occasioned five
cannon to be brought to the fat. Giirgey is said to
be advancing on the Moravian and Silesian border, at
the head of 80,000 men. It is useless, in the absence
of facto, to theorise about what the Hungarians will
do next. But it would be shallow to augur from
their apparent Inaction ill to their cure. A alight
engagement bad taken place at Salim, is consequence
of which, after losing 40 killed, the Austrians with-
drew to the right bank of the Wasg. The greatest
discrepancies prevail with regard to the statements
of the Russian force which has advanced through

Cracow.
The Peseker Zeitung of the 6th instant, contains
the following news : " Kossuth, in a report to the
National Assembly, in which be terms himself, in
accordance with the national desire, President and
Governor of Hungary and all the countries thereto
appertaining, had appointed the following ministry :
Minister of Interior and President of the Council,
Barthol Cromeri ; of Foreign Affairs, Count Casimir
Bathyany ; of Finance, Duschek ; of Public Works,
Caan; Worship, Michael Horvath, Bishop of
Craned; Justice, Bakovica ; War and Commerce to
be named later."
According to the last report of four o'clock on the
afternoon of the 6th, Ofen had been bombarded
during twenty-eight hours, and already a breach
opened. The Hungarian batteries are planted on
the Adler, Schwaben, and Blocksberg.
The bombardment of Peek from Ofen had begun
on the 4th instant been exceedingly destructive both
to property and life. On the afternoon of the 6th the
firing on Pesth ceased, and GOrgey was requested by
the government oommimioner Iranyi to send an officer
to Ofen to Pew,led stop the coatinuatice oil hos-
tilities against on pain of the garrison being
put to the sword on the capture of the fortrees.
FRANKFORT.--In the sitting_ of the National
Aseembly of the 15th of May, MM. Ends, Giese-
brecht, Fuchs, Von Eicherpsurael, and Schoesmickere
resigned their mandates. The two deputes of Lim-
burg enter in the proses verbal a protest against the
future reaniou of the duchy of Limburg to Germany.
(Lively movement of indignation oa the Left.)
The president of the Assembly me an account of
the interview he had had that morning with the vicar
of the empire. His imperial highness announced to
him that the formation of the ministry was completed,
and the programme drawn up; but that, having re-
ceived by telegraph the news of the speedy arrival ci
a commissioner from the Prussian government,
charged with a mission with respect to the oonstite-
title of the empire, he had decided on postponing tbe
definitive nomination of his mieietry. impala
highness urgently requests the National Assembly to
grant him a further brid delay for coming to
decision.
The President informed the Assembly that be had
received from the Mini*: ef War the mums that