The Express.
London, England, 1862-03-06 00:00:00

lAATEI3T INTICLLIGENOE.

PRUSSIA.
THE MILITARY PREPARATIONS.

We reed in the Publiciste of Berlin, of the 3rd :

No sae ma doubt that extraordinary military prepezadeas
have bees in programs at Berlin for some time. We do wok
refer merely to the telegraph line between the *see
sad the barracks, nor to the transformation of the foundry

into barracks to which • company of the garrison of
Spandau has been transferred, although such proceed-
ings almost irresistibly imply that there was erste
desks of protecting the person and dwelling of the
Lin— we allude to circumstances of • greyer kind. We
have already stated that the practice has been reennald at
the barracks of having • cartridge case always ready.
This is not necessary for rifle practice, as the
nes-oommiesioned ofhser on duty is charged to
eirraye um the key of the case wider • penalty of six
weeks' meet. Again, for some days the 'Ain'', waggons
have been fall ; and to get them out more readily, 111111=110
have been takes which appear to tend to facilitate the nee
d artillery upon uneven ground. Marshal Wrangel, eons-
mender in the Marches, bas inspected the waggess thus
fillsd. We learn also that in several barracks • secret
order is kept by a nos-commissioned officer on duty, to be

gime to the. commander to be opened, either upon
renipt d • telegraphic order or when • danger
edits in the streets. The people to-day are
set the people of fourteen years back ; they
have bad grave and mad experience ; the political con-
mimes and the idea of law are sufficiently developed to
make them aware that by • violent rising against an mg&
Wad military power they must succumb, and can never
acquire • lasting right. Even in presence of •
map Grata, which, however, is not to be feared
in Prussia, there would be no revolutionary move-
ment. The people would recover their rights, but it would
be by peaceful means, by eoest•soy and well considered
mete Why, then, them msamerse, which so seriously disturb
the public mind?
The Cologne Gazette asks for frack and loyal ex-
planations from the government. "We do not
see," it says, "any reason for our government to
fear an ifineute. The immediate dissolution of the
Parliament, unjust as it would be, would not °one-
sion it. The deputies would return quietly home ;
the new elections would take place in the beet
order, and the same men would return to Berlin,
with, perhaps, the exception that the radical
party would be strengthened."

(.eau's nualu
FRANCS.

3EWII PROPOSALS OF THE EMPEROR IN
EFERENCE TO THE PENSION AFFAIR.
PAPA MA c% 6.

The Moniteur of this morning says :—" The Es-
penance newspaper, published at Nantes, has re-
ceived a second warning, on account of a letter
from its Paris correspondent, spreading reports
injurious to the government, and subversive of the
respect due to the chief of the state.
"The Council of State has commenced its deli-
berations on the bill which was announced yester-
day to the Corps Legislatif in the letter of the
Emperor.
" According to this bill an annual Rente, the
amount of which is not yet fixed, would be inscribed
in the great book of the state to reward by pensions
or dotations distinguished acts on the part of
generals, officers, and soldiers, as well as to re-
compense exceptional services rendered by them in
times of war. Imperial decrees would constitute
these pensions or dotations, and would fix the con-
ditions of their enjoyment or reversibility, should
the latter take place."