The Express.
London, England, 1853-02-08 00:00:00

GERMANY.

PROSECUTIONS OF THE GERMAN PRESS.
Gervinus, resolved upon taking the highest ob-
tainable legal opinion upon the alleged illegal cha-
racter of his book, has transmitted the following
questions to the law faculty of the University of,
Gottingen:
Has the writing of Gervinus, entitled " Introduction to
the History of the Nineteenth Century," either the matter
or the spirit imputed to the book and its author by the
state prosecutor of Baden, or does it not, both in matter and
°twilit' tendency, belong properly to the scientific investi-
gations of an historian ? Are there to be found in the
writing prima facie grounds for making each a product of
scientific inquiry the object of an indictment? Apart from
these questions and their answers is the indictment,
grounded both in law and fact, according to the legislation
of Baden, so that a judgment can take place on the case
preferred, or is it not the opinion of the reverend jurist
faculty that the complaint of the Grand Ducal stets prose-
cutor must be dismissed ?

Gervinus's " Introduction " has at length been
confiscated at Leipsic, the place of its publication.
The seizure took place on the 4th, but only a few
copies of the work were found. The German
.go-
vernments seem to ha re been last week "i' the vein "
for punishing authors, speakers, and printers.
On the 3rd, the last number of the magazine called
Dtulachan itanalea was confiscated at Leipiac. An
article on the relations of Germany to the French
empire was the cause of offence, and the proceeding
is said to have been instigated by the French ambas-
sador.

At Dusseldorf, on the 4th, the police seized Dr. J.
A. Bieterim's new work, called "-Elucidation of the
Secret Instructions to the Jesuits." (Monad Sc-
crcta Soc.Jeas.)

The hasty prOreedings of tho Oberst of Heidel-
berg have given oonrage to the entire class of ob-
scurantist' in Baden. The church council of lEark.
rube has lent in a memorial to the senate of the
University of Heidelberg, recommending it to strike
the name of a certain private tutor from the official
list, on account of the alleged pantheistic tendency
of a philosophical work, of which he is the author.
The well-known Councillor Schlosser has sent in an
energetic protest against these repeated encroach-
ments upon ancient university liberties.
M. Milner Melchior, the leading free-trade orator
in the parliament of Hesse Darmstadt, has just been
tried at ?doyen°e for one of his Zollverein speeches,
delivered in the Second Chamber. The boo. deputy,
as we pointed out in giving his speech at the time,
dealt some very heavy blows at the cabinet, which
was leaguing with Austria for the destruction of the
Zollverein, the best institution with which Hew
was then connected. The ministers have since been
obliged to abandon their unpatriotic projects, bat M.
Willer Melchior is not forgiven, and on the 4th
inst. he was tried, with the printer of the newspaper
io which his address appeared, for "an affront
offered to the ministry." It seems that heating a
government in debate is a crime in grand•ducal
Hesse, for the printer of the speech is condemned to
five months' imprisonment, while M. Melchior has
only escaped by some technical informality.

AUSTRIA.
A correspondent writes;
VIENNA, P. 3.
Although the despatch of a corps d'obwroation to
the frontier during the progress of the Montenegrin
strite is a perfectly intelligible proceeding, the order
given suddenly yesterday afternoon to mobilise the
ninth army corps now in garrison here, and march it
to the frontier, has produced some surprise. Mean-
while three brigades have already been started for
Croatia. A division of pioneers marches today, to-
morrow the infantry regiment, Prince Emile, will
follow; on the sth the regiment Grand Duke Con-
stantine, the regiment of Lancers, that of the Arch-
duke Charles, as well as others, will be sent with
the necessary batteries. Nothing positive has trans-
pired as the immediate grounds of this order. lam
informed that the Austrian forces on the Turkish
frontier will number 45,000 men. It will be divided
into two corps, of which the first stationed in the
Austrian-Bosnian frontier, will be commanded by
Jellachieh, the notorious Ban, and the second sta-
tioned in Dalmatia, by General Count Leiningen.
An arrsto just issued from the Ministry of the
Interior informs Austrians disposed to emigete to
the United States, that except under very special
I circumstances, they will not be allowed to return,
but will be considered to have lost irrecoverably
their rights of domicile. All ministers are cautioned
against facilitating the return of such emigrants by
improper vises, and the frontier police are enjoined
to keep a sharper look oat than ever.