The Express.
London, England, 1849-05-16 00:00:00

MILITARY INSURRECTION IN

BADEN.

PROCLAMATION ow Tut REPUBLIC.

The intelligence from Baden is alarming. It was
officially annoanoed in Frankfort, on the 13th instant,
that four battalions of Baden troops stationed at
tads had bad revoke ',murdered five of their officers, and
proclaimed the repabre. wellge are complete
masters of the fortress, as uof all the military

stores.
A battalion has also revolted in Lorrach, murdered
the colonel, and joined in the republican movement.
It is asserted that Oflenburg is also in insurrection,
and that a general republican movement all through
Baden may be expected.
FRANKFORT.—The following order of the day,
addressed to the troops in the service of the Oer.
man empire, was issued by the Archduke John,
on the 12th inst. :
German Soldiers!—An unfortunate contest respecting the
eonstittion of the empire has broken out in Germany.
All true friends of fetherland already unite in ell
their strength for the perpme of bringing stout the adjust-
ment of this eoneist *rm. legal means, and not through
war of brother against Maher. There is only one party whisk,
having am the egmlitslien bat arstesetive objects in view,
makes the coesseasesegesdbtelse emeneisuon Ha peewit
for attacking law and ogler, eat err grepagatiag disturbanee
sad civil war =eat Oirsamy. Disnesemsry to pineeet
coarsimmisly, tlearrgresimmellimispartythe pease and I
ha ploys of oar dear latheelani ami the welfare and
industry of its citizens. Gomm salaam, the safety
of the entire German fatherland is entrusted to your
tioeour. All attempts to make yea waver in 'cur
Whilst
duty will be ripened by yea with oostempt.
year victories, emapanioes is erms are forming in
noble anion cospect ranks in sensation to the extern.'
you will also act in anima against the internal one.
fikeald anarchy and intractability vesture to raise their heads,
yea will prove by deeds that the unshaken lnyalty, resolute
gagner, and fraternal concord of thee:knees army form the
rz Vshield which shall viewlessly avert every danger
II erlan <I. come whence that danger may.
(Signed) The Vier oldie Bra**,
Archduke Joan.
Frankfort, Way 12, 1849.
BAXONY.-0 or dates from Dresden are to May 12,
las which day our correspondent
to wyet r
down the leaders
ites :
I It would be a great mf
ed the insurrection here as a set of common dema-
gogues. Heebner enjoyed so much consideration in
the legislative chamber, that opinion selected him as
the premier who would smo Held. Todt, likewise
reorwegs-rea, was the officer of the government
who WM charged with the formal dieashition of the
chamber, c 4 which he was one of the most able and
moderate members. Tschirner alone had any of the
malignancy of the thorough-going radical about him,
and earned, from his factious worrying of the minis-
ters,the title of Inferpeilations-rath. lt is wondond at by
many that men like Todt and Heebner, with an enviable
position sod prospects of power, should have plunged
into a rebellion so desperate, the failure of which,
with a Prussian army six hours off, at Berlin, might
be predicted so certainly. But this only shows the
nature of the movement, and proves that it was not
what the government papers labour to represent it,
a republican socialist outbreak, but a conscientious
Bing, headed by distinguished citizens, against a go-
, vernment which extinguished the most precious rights
of the people. Oat of five ministers, three had coun-
selled the king to accept the German constitution.
The king, I understand, was well disposed of bis
own scored to do so, and was just about to
sign the decree of acceptance when a courier came in
with a letter from the King of Prussia, which put to
flight the inspirations of his better 'geeing. As for
the note of the 3rd of May, sent by Beast
81--
to the
Prussian government, and published in the
Anzeiger of yesterday, requesting Prussian
ference, it is evidently an es post /ado dam
concocted at the bidding of the Berlin cabinet, to ex-
cuse them in the eyes of Europe, and was probably
rather the dictation of Manteuffel on the 9th, than
the composition of Benet on the 3rd. The Saxons, to
a man, are for the Frankfort constitution. Brest, and
two or three of the same absolutist kidney, set up
their single wills against the desire of a whole people.
The king, who was, before this calamity, generally
beloved by his subjec's, would not, if left to his own
free will, and unassailed by the pernicious suggestions
of the Prussian court, could not persist in the uncon-
stitutional course which he had struck into.
In the riot which took place at Leipsic on the night
of the 61 inst., Herr Geuther, one of the richest
merchants, was,
among the members of the communal
guard who were killed. All the companies of the
communal guard turned out in procession on the day
of his funeral. Their costume is exactly that which
has been rendered familiar to the plai-goer.s of all
countries in Der Freischuts. Tbey are in fact
Reischeitze —and the d which looks theatrical, is
national. But in the presencereem of some hundreds of
these whits felt hats, with black ostrich plumes. Braes
frocks, and slang rifles on the Gr'at Leipsio Market-
place, it was difficult not to believe Drury Lane the
original and these the oopy. while one expected
every moment to hear them burst out with the &ink-
ing chorus.
The Leipsio fair having, been stopped prematurely
on Monday, the 7th init., in consequence of the M
ood
otel
an adjournment took place to
washte Paulinum
Manricianurn, where badness concluded.
PRUBBIA.—Up to the 14th lest. the troops of the
line had not made any stale on Elberfeld, which still
continued in the porression of the insurgents. It
appeare.that the committee of safety have succeeded is
preserving the right' of property, except with
to some obnoxious public persons, and that they
snit a deputy to Frankfort to solicit the probes*. Of
the central executive. One of the railways leading to

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