The Express.
London, England, 1851-11-03 00:00:00

GERMANY.

BERLIN, Nov. I.
Austria is bent an beating Prussia, if possible, out
of all her Zollvercin advantages. The New Munich'
Journal announces that negotiations have been en-
tered into and brought to a successful result, whereby
the Danube and all its tributary streams will hence-
forward be " duty free." Meantime the conferences
of " the special committee on material interests" in
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Frankfort are standing still; and the Cassel Zettutuj,
the only paper now in Hesse Cassel, and
avowedly representing "Austrian interests," af•
firms that the committee are waiting for
the return from Vienna of M. Hock, the Austrian ape-
cial envoy, before they proceed in their deliberations.
That paper further says, that till the "Aus-
trian propositions" are made known nothing can be
done, and intimates " that the acknowledgment
(Km diyung) of Zollvercin treaties is not by any
meaus the purpose of the south and middle Zollvercin
states, but rather a thorough examination of the
Prusso-llanovcrian September convention." At
I)esden and Munich intrigues at least are car-
rying on to this effect. Tho policy of Aus-
tria at present is not to recognise the Zollvcrein
as one conjoint body, but to invite the separate states
composing it to decide separately as to what they
may deem their particular interests, either in abiding
by it, or in separating from it ; and, in order to meet
and frustrate this scheme, it is said by well-informed
persons that it is the intention of Prussia at once to
bring the matter to an issue, by proclaiming the con-
tinuance of the Zollverein treaties, according to their
present stipulations, from Jan. 1, 1831, at which pe-
riod they would otherwise expire.

A letter from Vienna, dated the 24th tilt, pub-
lished in the Aeuisintry Gazette, announces an ap-
proaching interview between the Emperor of Austria
and the King of Naples. It says: " It is most likely
that the King and Queen of Naples will arrive here
(Vienna) as Icon as the Emperor returns from Ga-
licia. l'rinco Petrulla, tho Neapolitan envoy at
Vienna, has received private letters informing him of
his sovereign's impending visit."
A railway is at this moment in construction in
Galicia, from Bothnia to I)embica. This line is to
be carried to Jaraslau in the ensuing year, and
most probably ria Przeinysl to Lemberg. The plan
is to carry it finally to Brody. At Lemberg the
main line will separate, a brunch being projected to
the Moldavian frontiers, ria Strambor, Stry,
Zaleszezyki and Czcrnowitz. It is in contemplation
to connect the Galician line with that of Hungary
by carrying it from Tarnow, ria Esperiez and
Miskolcz, to Pestli.

STATE OF OCR BELFRlES.—liaring been into .a
score of belfries, at the request of a member of our (tio-
mersetshire) Archeological Society, I was surprised and
grieved at the positively beastly state of tho hell-, hamber
of every one of them, simply from the luffer-boards never
projecting sufficiently outwards to hinder the entrance of
wit, and from then. being no wire netting to prevent birds
roosting and defiling ovary inch. The straw unit birds'
dung lieher always moist ferments, and rots even the Iv st
re that the repair i, a constant soar, ay,•5p,,,,,, and a
r.ry heavy on:. Very molly towers have no buffer-Wank
but only some stone screen-work of a lulu dote, or a tew
ill-
fined slates. Win• to fill thew inflows ul any tower cum ho
:weeurcil and fined fur less than a pours I; but, like all
chore! ward, 118* duties, A canted bu compelled, suit will not
be dunc.—lioihkr.