The Express.
London, England, 1846-09-29 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 29, 1846.

kissing the Queen's hand. He was received (says his
constant ally, El Hera:do) by her Majesty as one of
the men who has rendered the greatest services to the
constitutional throne. The Duke subsequently received
the visits of a crowd of eminent persons of all shades of
opinions. The Due de Glucksberg left Madrid on the 22nd
with all the papers relative to the contract of marriage
of the Infanta. On the 21st, at 5 o'clock, P.M.,
Mr. Bulwer, the English Ambassador, was
received by the Queen in a private audience,
the object of which, solicited by the Ambassador
(says our correspondent) was to congratulate the
Queen Mother. Mr. Bulwer did not see the
Infanta, because (as it was said) that Princess has
been slightly indisposed during the last three days.
The same correspondent assures us that Mr. Bulwer
had not officially protested against the 11Iontpensier
alliance, but had merely addressed another note to
Senor leturitz, requesting explanation as to some
words which fell from that Minister in the Senate on
the 19th ir.st., which implied that the English
government had opposed the marriage of the Queen
even more than that of the Infanta.

- In the Chamber of Deputies Senor Gonzales
Romero continued to support his amendment as to the
collection of taxes, to which the Minister of the
Interior replied, and the discussion was again ad-
journed. By a special courier, who left M drid on
the 23rd, we learn that the former was accorded to
the Ministers on a division by 13-1 to 13.

The Lisbon mail brings accounts to the 20th. The
journals of the capital continue to assert that the Mi-
guelite movement was completely put down, and that
the governor-general employed in crushing it, was
received everywhere with enthusiasm. Although
little credit is due to these reports, it is certain that
the Miguelite insurrection, though not put down,
makes no progress, and merely exists as passive dis-
content, a feeling common to the Cabralists and Mi-
guelites. The peers were discussing at great length
the most irrelevant subjects. The country and its
parties were preparing for the elections, the Cabral-
nits affecting to remain tranquil, but in reality put-
ting more faith in the Miguelite movement and the
Court, and in the hope to influence one by the other,
than at all daring or venturing to appeal fairly to the
electors. The Court would restore tile Cabrals if it
could, and the knowledge of this is quite sufficient to
throw every popular and independent vote into the
party of the Septembrists and ultra-Liberals.
Meantime, the credit oozes from the Bank of Lis-
bon, which is no bad thermometer of that of the go-
vernment itself.

STUTTGART, Seer. 23.
Drums are beating, trumpets braying, banners
waving, dust flying in every direction, and all the loyalty of
the little kingdom of Wurtembcrg is afoot in honour of the
arrival of the Imperial bride, the Grand Duchess Olga, with
her husband the Prince Royal; an event anxiously looked
for, fur some days past, and to-day happily ace nnplished.
The royal party slept last night at Heilbronn on the Neckar,
and early this morning set out for the capital, passing through
Luthvigsburg, and reaching their destination about one
o'clock amidst the acclamations and greetings of as great a
multitude as, perhaps, ever thronged through the gates of
Stuttgart. A long procession of upwards of two hundred
white-robed mainens, selected between the ages of 17 and
19 from the families of the citizens, went out to meet the
Princess as fax as Canstadt, three miles off, followed by all
the authorities, civil and military, and by thousands
of the inhabitants of the city an 1 its enviroas.
Several regiments of infantry, and two or three of cavalry,
furnished the escort, and in the midst of the motley Cr iwd
came the royal carriage, bearing the Grand Duchess Olga,
who, like the immem heroines in the Arabi:vs Nights,
has the reputation of being " the most beautiful princess iu
the world." To judge by the busts which are to he seen
to-day in many • niche in Stuttgart, this compliment has
not been rashly paid, for the features which they exhibit
present an air of sweetness and majesty which has its type
only in the purest models of classical beauty; neither d d
the casual glimpse which I obtsiued of her charms falsify
the expectations which had been raised. My host of the
Hotel de Russie, one of the nimblest and most energetic of
Germans whom it has been my lot to encounter, says, in the
English ho is so proud of and of which ho makes such great
use, that she is " a rrincees of great spirits," whereby he
intends to intimate that she is, he understands, tKa-
spirituelle ,• the distinction between the two characteristics
his knowledge of tongues has not yet imparted to him.
The appearance of the city is strikingly gay, that is to say,
the Konig-stramie and its immediate vicinity ; every house
being decorated in greater or lees profusion with tapestried
windows, floating banners, crimson and gold draperies,
wreaths of Hewers real and artificial, inscriptions of " Wel
come and long life," anal prayers for happiness, and the
magical letters " K " and " 0" (Karl and Olga) intertwined
anal united in every variety of form and colour. At the hotel
of the Count von Sontheim, " Grim-visaged war has sznootli'd
his wrinkled front," and the swords and bayonets of his
department ere turned into trophies of' tenderness and em-
blems of everlasting love; the eagl..t of Russia fraternises
with the lion of Wurtembcrg, garlands of roses and lilies
bring "the links that bind them." All the public buildings,
the towers of the churches, and even the scaffolding me ctcd in
front of the rising palace of the Prince Repil, exhibit the
same signs of " Willkommen " to the daughter of the Czar.
The column in the great equate, erected in 1811 by the
country to the King, in token of its gratitude for a bene-
ficent and paternal reign of five-and twenty years, is
covered around with evergreens and shields of arms of the
old Suabian lineage, and on each side of the pedestal hang
flags inscribed with the names of the fields where Wiliam-
Frederick distinguished himself' against the French in the
last campaigns of Napoleon. But the palace itself is the
cynosure of every eye—at least to the strangers in the town
—for of course every citizen looks upon the external decora-
tion of his own house as the hnepicst achievement of the
day. Here the eta amen of rod sad black, and white and
saffron (the national colours), the gold-bordered crimson
velvet draperies, the statues that crown the balustrades and
the golden emblem of sovereignty which " arches user all," at-
tract myriads, not only of the gaping peasantry who have never
saen them before, but of fat tut-contented citizens, who on a
day of holiday swat ow the old and the new with equal
avidity. I had been told on the way to Stuttgart, to pre-
pare for great variety of costume, as well as great beauty in
the women. Amongst the crowds collected to-day there
were certainly a great many pretty faces, but except the
special young ladies in white muslin and garnet necklaces,
there was nothing very striking in female costume. The
men carried the day hollow,—not so much for grace or
picturesque effect, as for quaintness and oddity, of attire.
The "stage countryman " so well described by a Beckett,
found a frequent representative, and the eye was often
rivetted on a stalwart gentleman, or a spindle-shanked
youth, attired in bright yellow buckskin breeches,
jack-boots or wellingtons adorning. the untrowsered leg,
• fierce cocked hat, and ekirtless jacket covered with
tin battens, as profusely as any London page.
Butif I were to pursue this theme, I should fill a column ; for
dress is a subject on which the dullest can show fire from
Brummall up or down to Moses. Let it suffice that, whether
brilliant or homely, all Stuttgart, all Wurtemberg indeed,
through her representatives, were assembled to do honour to
their future Queen. Since her arrival, the fair lady has not
again mad. her appearance. Consideration for the pockets
of his people has induced the King to dispense with the illu-
minations which their loyalty would to-night have displayed;
but to-morrow the sight-seenare to have their eyes glutted
with a show of fireworks, the like, "mein guter Herr," says
mine host a; aforesaid, " as was never before seen, no never,
so splendid !" You cannot express in type the effect he
gave to the last word. It may serve as the climax to this
great day in toe estimation of the honest Wurtembergers.

ITALY.—A letter from Rome states that the
Roman journals are not allowed to enter the kingdom of
Naples.
SWITZERLAND. Geneva has thrown a new
torch of discord into the confederation by making a protesta-
tion which greatly offends the canton of Berne, namely, de-
manding the establishment of federal commissaries to the
Vorurt. The Swiss journals are greatly occupied with the
affair.

GERMANY.—AUSTRIA.—VIENNA, SEPT. 18.
Her Imperial Highness the Grand Duchess Helen is suffer-
ing from a slight attack of illness, and was not able to attend
the files at Sehoenbrunn. Baron Krieg, President of the
Regeneyln Galicia, has b :en dangerously wounded by the
horns of a stag. and his life is despaired of.
PRVSSIA.--BERLIN, SEPT. 20.—The marriage of
the Prince Royal of Sweden with the daughter of Prince
Charles of Prussia is still talked of A marriage is also said
to be oil the tapis between Prince Frederick of Hesse,
widower of the Gram' Duchess Alexandra, and Princess
Louisa of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. It isrumoured at the Court
of Berlin that the presence of the Grand Duke Michael and
of the Grand-Duchess Helen at Vienna is owing to a pro-
jected union, which has met with some difficulties. The
affairs of the Grand-Dachy of Posen are not seemingly in a
nourishing condition, as great sympathy is shown for
Russia, which the Poles seem to think more capable of help-
ing them than Germany.—M. Rarge, the wonder of the
German Catholic Sect, was some time since condemned to
one month's imprisonment for having preached in public at
Latin, though prohibited from doing so by the authorities.
He has just received a full pardon from the King of Prussia,
M. Ronge continues preaching in the different towns of
Silesia, and attracts large audiences.—The winter was begin-
ning to be felt in Silcsia, and the tops of the mountains are
covered with ice.

BIVARIA.—A letter from Munich, of the 20th inst.,
states that the small town of Falkenstein, in the district of
Roscnbeim, has been completely destroyed by fire.
.THE HANS TOWNS.—BREMEN, SEPT. 19.—The
assembly of citizens, or Dwyer-convent, have demanded the
senate to take the necessary steps with the diet for the main-
tenance of the privileges of those parts of the confederation
menaced by the letter-patent of the King of Denmark. The
senate replied that it would not lose eight of the honour and
interests of Germany.
DENMARK.—KIEL, SEPT. 20.—An order has
been issued to all the courts of justice, and probably to all
the police officers, that they shall in future give a weekly

report to the government of their district, not only in general
but of individual cues.

IlotsTEts.—The congress of naturalists and Ger-
man physiri ins was opened at Kiel on the 18th instant, in
the new edifice erected by the nobles of Holstein for scienti-
fic congresses, The different members of the congress were
to proceed to Gravenstein on the 21st, on an invitation from
the Duko of Augustenburg.
PLON, SEPT. 17.—After a short visit to the estate
of Pankir, his Majesty the King has returned home. The
Queen also returned, and was escorted by torchlight by a
guard of honour. Their Majesties will probably remain
hero till about the 20th.