The Express.
London, England, 1849-07-03 00:00:00

GERMANY.

The following is the programme signed at Gotha
by 1:11) members of the centre of the Frankfort As-
sembly, and referred to in our paper of yesterday :
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Th. heavy embarrassments of Germany, and the dangers
of a situation which offers no guarantee of peace at home, or
of rreneth abroad, hare laid upon the undersigned the
of 1 gatron of forming &judgment in common on the present
state of thing', and coming to an undentandieg with respect
to the way in which each of them can, in the fulfilment of
his duties toward, the fatherland, co-operate for the purpose
of es.ablishing the unity and freedom of the nation in a law-
ful manner.. _ _ _ .

The result of the deliberations held on this matter Is
Gotha on the 26th, 27th, and 28th of hum, is comprised In
the following paragraphs
1. Intimately permuted that the German National As-
scroll , sheet it proclaimed, on the 28th March, the German
eottetaution, acted inconformity with the position to which it
was caved by the then state of German allain, the undersigned
cannot, nevertheless, elms their 0711 to the fact that to carry
throu,lt the German constitution without alteration is
Demme impossible. On the other band, in the scheme of
constitution which has been drawn up in the conferences at
N riles, a way has latterly been opened in which the lost
point of anion may be posiibly recovered. We are warned
not to scorn the adoption of this way by the dangers which
=Aimee our country from the inner and outer foe, from the
pristine* of civil war, but still more by the substance of this
scheme, which, however objectionable some of its single pro-
visions may be, still contains the indispensable principles of
the German federal state, namely, hereditary sovereignty in
the reigning monarch of the most powerful unmixed Ger-
man state, a senate (Staatenhaus), and people's boom, and
this includes the kernel of the Frankfort constitution.

2. The masesignedgeasider the objects to in rsseased by
the constitution of the 2dth of March higher than • stiff
adherence to the form under which these objects might be
attained. They look upon the constitution offered by the
three kingdoms as an inviolable promise to the nation, and
acknowledge that the course adopted by those kiogdoms
eau had to the proposed goal, under the supposition, lint,
the al German governments which co-operate for the sum.
running of a Reichstag upon the above foundation, stand
nlatvely to the Iteichwa; in a form combining each single
pow ti•ment as one ; secondly, tb. t the revision reserved for
the It ichstag extend only to such articles as are not identi-
cal in the two schemes of constitution.
3. It hence appears as a political necessity that the other
Gerenste states (making abstraction of Austria, which r. jects
the Getman federal *tete), should as soon as possible adhere
in a binding manner to that scheme of constitution, and
furteer, to the best of Its power, this speedy convocation of a
Reichstag.
4. As the undersigned regard the convocation of •
Reichstag se the' chief object, so are the elections next in
importance. As far as the elections to the people's house
are concerned, the electoral law passed in Frankfort, which
supposes the cerryirg through cf the constitution, has met
with insuperable obstacles; and hence the weal of
the country demands that another law should be laid
down as the rule. In this regard the undersigned
eunsider the must suitable way to be, that each single state
should settle in a lawful constitutional manner the electoral
lor for choosing its deputies to the Reichstag. If this, miler
prevailing circumstances, should not be possible, it will at least
be necessarylas has indeed been already suggested in the me-
morial attached to the Berlin constitution) that the single
states should he allowed to modify the execution of the elec-
toral law et the 2Stli May according to their various einem-
stiences ; end in all cases the undersigned, as far as their con-
tribution to the great end is concerned, would decline the
responsibility of allowing a scruple about the electoral law to
wreck the whole work.
Therefore the undersigned, in consideration of the heavily-
menaced situation of Germany, whom political existenee in
common is, without the adoption of this emus*, exposed to
extreme peril, hold themselves in duty bound under the
foregoing suppositions 1. To contribute, with their utmost
endeavour, to procure the adhesion of those states which
have as yet held off to the project of consti•ution prepared
at Berlin ; and, 2. To participate in the elections for the
next Reichstag.
(Follow the signatures of 130 deputies.)
Goths, June 28, 1849.
Among these there are 12 from Bavaria, Wirtem-
burg, and Baden; 10 from both tresses and Nassau ;
15 from the Kingdom of Saxony and the Thuringian
duchies; 18 from Hanover and Brunswick; 6 from the
free towns; 6 from Schleswig-Holstein and Leven-
burg ; 10 from Oldenburg, Mecklenburg, the Anhalt
States, and Lippe ; lastly, 53 from Prussia.
AUSTRIA.—Vienna papers are to June 28.
The united Austrian and Ramian army of
the Danube, which was concentrated on the 22th,
25th, and 26th in the plain on the right bank
between Altenburg and Wieselburg, advanced on the
27th eastward in the direction of Raab. The young
emperor, Franz Joseph, rode at the head of the let
artuy corps. The village. through whieh they paned
were abandoned of all save a few old women and
children ; the doors were closed, the springs of water
muddled, all provisions swept clean out After six
hours' march the army reached Hochstraes, where the
head-quarters were established.
Lloyd gives as the latest intelligence, that the head-
9uarters of Haynan are at Hochstreas. Peakewitch
is said to have reached Kuehn. Thu main fora of
the Nfegyare was betas Raab, and was to be at-
tacked on the 28th.

reprie that es the 20th a
battle took piece mar Salem, ea the road from
Palo= to Nprzies, between the Raepriane sad the
Roadie wader (lea. Itelira, in which the
latte wen ThesiM had two be:ta-
boos et lakatry sad three d deem; the
Roasime eageged win two fitishafay wad