The Express.
London, England, 1848-06-14 00:00:00

GERMAN Y.

AUSTRIA.—The condition of the empire continueS
to be characterised by thrrateninga or appessiehing
dissolution. The Winer Zribrny, of the titer June,
contains a ministerial re ecript declaring that numer-
ous petitions have been forwarded fiom Bohemia,
praying that the Provis!onal Government in Prague-
may not be recognised ; and that the ealtine t abides
by its resolution to regard that b edy as illegal sued un-
constitutional. In Prague, on the other hand, a de-
claration has been published by Count Leo Thun, in
which he announces his determination to pay no at-
tention to the injunction.' of the ministers a Vienna,
and to receive instructions as to his conduct from the
Emperor alone. He takes the whole responsibility of
the measure adopted at Prague upon himself, addin.;
that " the lawless proceedings at Vienna have ren-
dered it impossible for the government of the land in
trusted to my care to move in a strictly legal path."
The session of the Hungarian Diet is to be opened
at Pestli on the 2nd of July, and the Hungarians
give out that the Emperor intends to be present on
the occasion. The Hungarian papers have announced
the unconditional sub ..tsaion of the Bann of tleastia ;
but in this they are premature. Baron Jelachich
(the Bann) demands, before he consents to the incor-
poration of Croatia into Hungary, guarantees for
the continuance of the union with Austria, the
subordinati en of the Hungarian ininiwriere of war
and finance to the general government of the empire,
and the maiatenance of the military frontier iu its
present organisation, and in immediate dependence on
the minister of war at Vienna, free from any inter-
fere nce of the Hungarian minister at war. It is
highly probable, too, that the announcement in the
Hungarian papers that the Diet of Transylvania had
decreed the incorporating union of that pro-
vince with Hungary is premature. A declara-
tion of tho Saxon colonists in Transylvania (who
constitute eleven circles of the Bennet), published
in the beginning of June, appeals to their German
brethren to protect them from an incorporating union
with Hungary, even should the Emperor sanction it,
and declare that they will mist it to the last. There
are as many elements of discord in the would-be
united and independent kingdom of the Magyars as
in Austria itself. Meanwhile the Austrian provinces
seem to be on the eve of resolving themselves into
a number of distinct and independent nations—
German, Italian, Sclavonian, and %gear. The court
at Itinspruck appears still to contemplate playing the
game of keeping down each province by the instru-
mentality of the soldiery of some other. The various
nationalities of which Austria is made up are to be
played off against each other. At the latest dates
from Innspruek, Count Bombelles and other re-action-
aries are said to have been banished the court since
the arrival of Messrs. Von Wessenberg and Von
Dobbeloff ; but the proceedings of the lath of
May are still denounced in bitter language,
and obseare hints continue to be thrown out as to the
possibility of its being found necessary to hold the
constituent meeting or the states general elsewhere
than in Vienna. Count Stadion was expected at Inns-
pruck from Lemberg, to take upon him the presidency
of the ministerial council.