The Express.
London, England, 1849-01-15 00:00:00

created" (as ministers have decles but is alread
y
in existence, although the head of that state is nets;
permanently chosen. All German states took pert'i;
the formation of a German united one, but not
with the same intention to abide by the decisions of
the central executive. In Vienna, a member of ths Constituent Assembly in Frankfort was shot, iu direst oppoeivon to one of the laws of the OctralLll Conk,:
rate State, and to the rights of man.
From that time the opposition to theNatinnal Askm,
bly, the central executive and the unity of Germany, is.
creased. On the 11th October the Austrian tiu
meat promised to promulgate officiall7 the laws,'
the Natior al Assembly. A fortnight beer mine the
fall of Vienna, and then a change ensued, even in the
very tone of the Austrian government. Greater
bib
terness arose. The National Assembly riquirett
tisfaction for the illegal execution W one of ns mesa.
bers. The Austrian cabinet became every *awe
and more un-German. On the 27111 iictober it isle
its programme before the Diet at Kretesier. It ws,
evident by that pro ramme that the Austrian govern.
ment had before all in view the re-or. enist.isu
Austria, and that it was desirous of porponiog
lone es possible the junction of German Awed% with
the German confe&rate state.
In a note dated Dee. 6, 1848, the Austrian 'Mii,ister
of Justice declared, with reference to Blunt', ,leath,
that the central laws of Sept. 29 and 30 (relying to
the inviolability of the deputies), we:e not published
in Aueria ; yet the Austrian plenipotentiary in
Frankfort bad sated on Oct. 11 that lie ht.. duly foe.
warded to Austria the Ist, 2nd, and 3rd folios of the
central laws. Next came the of Aral dtelaration that
the laws passed in Frarlfort were not binding is
Austria until the relations of the lane.' with Getman
were finely settled. Ou the Bth of NovernberAnstris
refused to contribute its quota to the German fleet,
upon the ground that it already possessed a dear which
could protect the commercial inter, es of Germany.
On Dec. 11, the Austrian government decliurd pro.
mulgating the central law relating to bills of ex.
change ; and from that time all negoti,tions wi..h the
central executive were carried on, as before the revo.
lution, by the Minister of Foreign Atfa ra. In fact
(adds the report) it is clear that the Austrian cabinet is
doing all it can to bring matters back to the
state they were in previously to the revolution.
'I he Austrian Count Windischgratx and the old ans.
tocracy and diplomacy of Austria indulge now in the
hope of being able to restore by degrees the Metter.
nich eastern ; and the ex-minister, Von Sch r.erling,
has also done his best to bring back things to their
former position, not only in Austria, but in all
those countries in which the court, the aristocracy,
and the bureaucracy made unwilling concessions to
the spirit of thetimes..

The Sc merling ministry was replaced by the Von
Gagern one. The latter published its programme
(which has appeared in our journal). In that pro.
ramme (continues the report) we may discover the
line of policy pursued by Prussia, and already re.
terred to. The development, however, of t list system
cannot be justified by the position taken by Austria.
The government of Prussia have also alighted the de-
cisions of the German National Assembly, and it is
probable that the head of that government remains so
simply because the above Assembly de.
mended his dismissal. Prussia, Hanover, BM
rid, and Saxony, have not prtinulgated the
laws of the National Assembly. In tact, if the op.
position of German governments to the central power
Mrmed sufficient grounds for their expulsion Ito tt the
German confederate state, that state would moon be
limited to Paul's church and the offices of the central
executive. The exclusion of Austria would be tanta-
mount to a division of Germany, and would lead to
the secession of Bavaria and a part of Sloth Ger-
many, which have more important relati.ns with
Austria than with Prue-la. Gelman Austria, more.
over, would not agree to the separation, and then
comes the question, " Would Germany go to war in
order to effect its own division ?" The abandoning of
the German Austrians would be the msking them
over to the Sciavonians and other non-Germans. The
Get man element is momentarily put down iu Austria;
public opinion cannot speak out ; but shall Germany,
which protects its sons in Posen and SAleswig.
Holstein, give up without a blow mi.lions of its
noblest children ? But it is said there will
be a union between Austria and Germany.
A fine phrase. In spite of that union, Au►
tria would become a foreign bulwark against
Germany, just like Alaatia, Lorraine, Switzerlaiid,
and the row Russian (ex-German) pro, inces of the
Baltic, without Austria, Bohemia, and Tyrol, a north
German empire, would succumb to the first irruption
of the Sclavortians.

By the new Austrian note (published exclusively
in our late edition of Tuesday last) Austria declare
that it shall not secede from Germany ; but s.ems
to entertain the hope that when it has done with
Hungary and Italy, it will be able to bring back Ger-
many to the old confrderation which existed before
the March revolution. The Gagern ministry refuses
to admit the right of Austria to treat with the
National Assembly respecting the constitution, a re-
fusal which (the report asserts) will he upheld by the
vast majority of Germane. The report then expresses
the opinion that the central ministry will not be able,
through the medium of negotiations with Austria, to
arrive et a satisfactory result, particularly as one of
the objects of those negotiations would be to prepare
fur the eventual union of all the Austrian empire with
Germany.
The tall of Vienna (procet de the report) has intro-
duced into Austria a state of affairs hostile not only to
the National Assembly in Frankfort and the central
executive, but also to the German cause in generaL
It is the duty of the central power to defend the
rights of all Germans, and to take care that the
future contritution e'en apply also to German Austria.
The committee—entertainiog the opinion that an
intimate political and commercial eonuexion with all
Austria is desirable, that the National Assembly
alone is celled upon to draw up the constitution, that
consequently the principle of a concosdenre with the
various governments of Germany is inadmissible,
that the establishing a constitution for Germany does
not prevent an intimate political and commercial
union with those portions of the Austrian
mpire which did not belong to the former
German Confederation, but rather milers a union the
more advantageous for both sines—propose to the Na-
tional Assembly, Ist, to fully recognise the rejection
by the central ministry of the principle of a concord-
ance respecting the constitution ; Red, 2ndly, to em-
power the central authority to eater into negotiations
with the Austrian government with regard to the
relation to the German confederate state of those por-
tions of Austria which did not belong to the late Ger-
manic Confederation.

AUSTRIA.—In the sitting of the diet at Krem-
sier, on the 4th inst., the Minister of the Interior,
Herr Stadion, read an official declaration setting
forth the decided objections of the cabinet to the
first article of the fundamental law, as lately voted
(at the first reading) by the Diet. That article,which
sets forth that all power proceeds from the people, is
denounced by the Austrian cabinet as embodying a
principle which has rendered the streets the theatres
of the wildest excesses, and which gave rise to the
murder of Count Latour. Such a principle is incom-
patible with that of hereditary monarchy. The Dist
had not been authorised to call the rights of the crown
into question. Ministers trusted that that objection-
able principle would not be sanctioned by the Diet at
the second reading. The approval of that article would
be considered by ministers as a violation of the basis
of the monarchical principle. This announcement
created the greatest sensation, and it was at last re-
solved to adjourn till the Bth inst., in order to give
members the oppollmnity of becoming well acquainted
with the import and contents of the ministerial de-
aeration.

PRUSSIA.—BerIin letters and journals of the
10th inst. have reached us. Herr Camphaustn,
the Prussian envoy at the court of the Vicar of the
Empire, had arrived in Berlin. The cholera is still
raging in Breslau. The funds of the Berlin bourse
tell again on the 10th, many parties selling nut.
The Chamber of Deputies of Mecklenburg-
Schwerin has declared in favour of the election of
the King of Prussia as hereditary Emperor of Ger.
many.

ROME, Jaw. 4.
P had been resolved on by the ruling authotities
that the opening day of 1849 should be solemnised by
a grand display in honour of the ronvocation of the
Constituent Assembly; but that chanced to be the
only raii.y day we have had for a month. On tae 2ad,
however, notwithstanding the intense cold, a mostim-
posing demonstration came off. Towards evening the
guards began to gather on the Piazza Venezia with
banners and music. The whole garrison of Rome
turned out, pioneer', cannoneer., and all the general