The Express.
London, England, 1851-01-16 00:00:00

GERM ANY.

Our despatches bring no news of importance, ex-
cept
that the differences which had arisen in the first
committee of the conferences on the question of the
" Central power" had, ifter much and violent de-
bating, subsided into a perfect agreement. It was
this subject probably that called M. Manteuftel to
Dresden. He has returned to Berlin, whence we
learn, for a third time, that Prince Schwatrenburg
has token his departure for Vienna. The telegraphic
news communicated yesterday, that the Emperor of
Russia was shortly to meet the Emperor of Austria
and King of Prussia at Dresden, is pronounced by
the papers on the day following hob? quite groundless.
The Austrian project of a Z 11 Union is the subject
that most engages attention in Prussia at present.
M. Manteuffel and the Prussian cabinet are opposed
to the project. The very long memorandum of the
Saxon government laid before the conferences seems
decidedly to favour it.

Our correspondent writes :
DRESDEN, JAN. 11.
It has been stated in a former letter that the go-
vernments of Bavaria and Saxony had presented to
the commission on trade, navigation. &c., memorials
similar to those which they presented to the Congress
of the Zollverein at Cassel. The latter is published
in full by the official Dresden journal. I have ob-
tained the important points of the former. It com-
mences with a long wordy introduction respecting
the necessity of an attempt being made to fulfil the
terms of paragraph 19 of the Bundesakt, which re-
serves to the members of the confederation the right
of deliberating on measures fit the erre ion of a ge-
neral system of trade, navigation, &c. This right had
sever been exercised by the Bundesrersammlung,
but by the efforts of an individual state, a partial
customs union, the Zollverein, had been established.
The Zullyerein was, however, insufficient, as many of
the German states refrained from joining it.
There were et this moment in G rmany nine
different custom systems. 'I he memorial then dilates
en the disadvantages to Germany abroad of this
dismemberment, and lays great stress on the general
movement which has been visible tbroughout every
state in Germany, to establish free-trade between state
and state. It next bestows high praise on the
memorials of Baron Bruck, the Austrian Minister of
Trade, commends the plans they contain, and then
proceeds to inquire into the mode by which those
plans can be carried out. The difficulties, it confesses
are great in the path of a general German Customs
union, but they disappear before the fact that the two
great commercial bodies in Germany, Austria and the
Zallvere in, contains within their confines the majority
of the population, that only a few federal countries
are excluded from them, and that those few belong to
seven different commercial systems.
The difficulties in the way of a commercial union
between Austria and the ZJllverein are represented
as trifling, and there once agreed, the advantages to
all must be so great that there can be no question of
the ultimate adhesion of the rest. The memorial
recommends a voluntary treaty between all the states
of Germany, to be drawn up in such a manner that it
shall effect, at no distant period, the welding of all
German commercial territories. To such a plan the
Z illverein itself opposed no hindrance, as in Article
41 of the fundamental treaties a clause was inserted
which fixed the duration of the Zillvertin only fur
the period in which the Bundeaversammlung aid not
establish a general measure. Guided by these
considerations, the government of Bavaria had at
Cassel endeavoured to commence negotiations with the
other governments of dr, Zollverem, for the purpose
of paving the way to the adoption of the
great Austrian plan, but with the result that
•mportant objections had been made to a direct cus-
toms and commercial union, though not to a traffic
and commercial treaty, suitable to the interests
of all, upon the widest basis, and with a successive
extension, until the perfect union of the customs' ter-
ritories be obtained : this method being also considered
the safest for the existing manufacturing interests the
government of Bavaria proposes without hesitation
the following as the fundamental points of a commer-
cial treaty with Austria, and as the introduction to the
future Austro-German customs union. These points
are:

1. Mutual free im?ortition of all home productions of
nature, industry, and art, by the abolition of all duties upon
their entrance into either commercial polity, end free trade
in the same within hotb, with the exception of than article,
specially named and specified, whereby the freedom of trade
in articles of national produce is to be regarded a, the rule,
and the limitation as the exception.
2. The exceptions from the rule would be:—(a.) Those
objects which is any one or more of the commercial systems
are a state monopoly, or are subject to a tax on their use.
(b.) Those products which are taxed too untqually in the
different commercial system?. (c ) Those products also
which are so slightly different from similar foreign articles
that a certain control of the same would In accompanied by
great didluilties (legir and coffee manufactured). (d.)
Finally. tee produce of several great branches of induatry,the
clones of production, and other necessary conditions of
which differ too much from those of the other commercial
systems to permit them to bear the immediate competition
without decided disadvantages and diminution of their pro- I
verity; though with the condition that a gradual diminu. I
Lon of the per cent ige of the *event items in the tariff of
each shall take place at suitable periods.
3 Liberation of all national produce of nature, industry,
and art, ire m transit duties, and every possible fecilitation of
other transit goods not belonging to these categories, with
a gradual introduction of Ural freedom from transit duties.
4. Liberation of all export goods from export', duties with
the exception of a few materials for manufacture.
6. The mutual facilitation to the utmost possible extent
of all industrial traffic, by mutual liberation of the com-
mercial travellers from the payment of duties (whit patterns
only) then of the market and fair traffic. Equal treat.
meat of the subject of the contracting state in worsen to
the protection of patents for inventions, patterns, and meau-
facturers' signs, affair st improper imitation, and if possible
• general and equal legislate's on this subject.
6. Facilitation and simplification of the dining of road,
bridge, and paving dues, and consideration of the easiest
mode by which the same can be placed on an equal footing.
7. The consideration of the establishment and maintse
once of the most important sets of roads on which the goods I
traffic is carried on in the states of the German Cunfeders,
tion.
8. The greatest co-operation towards affecting the estab-
lishment of a general system of money, measures, and
weights, and the preliminary Immures necessai y to procure
an official seduction of the existing moneys, measures, and
weights.
9. Equal treatment of the subjects of the contracting states
in reference to the peyeeent of canal, sluice, bridge, ferry,
harbour, road, and de pot dace, and also for the use of
the existing inetitutior.s for the facilitation of %MSS.
10. An weenie's't as to the most effective measures for
the suporeseion of smuggling ; and especially, therefore, the
speediest possible. conclusion of • general customs duties
cartel.
These proposals were in the memorial which was
fait bekore too (3as:A Z):lverPin C.sngre e, ir.tondod
iudeli as the basis of • treaty be:vievn Austria avid the
ZAlverein; but they are, in the present document,
recommended as the bola of a treaty between all the

existing commercial systems. The present memorial
concludes with the following four articles for the
agreement, which are ssid to contain safe guarantees
for the material interests of Germany, ar.d the ulti-
mate fultiment of the long entertained and general
wishes :

1. The customs and commercial anion between all the
states of the Germanic confederation, shall be promoted by
the means of a treaty, and for this purpose the spacial deli-
beration on the conclusion of an intens.ve troth and com-
mercial treaty on the ba,es alluded to above, shall be nom-
' menced at -, by earn toi..sioners deputed for the pur-
pose, within four week, from the general ratification of the
present agreement.
2. Within the same period an especial negotiation ph:II be
commenced between the commissioners from the German
littoral stets which are eoeceraed in the regulation of the
navigation and dues relations on all navigable German
rivers, both for tte purpose of alleviating the barbers en
shipping as also for the introduction of on equal and general
treatment of the same.
3. A special emagoi,sion shell further be at the rams time
appointed, to consist of deputies from the federal rates of
Germany for the purpose of drawing up a general navigation
law for Germany, of determining the nature of the German
flag, its rights, the conditions upon which it may be' carried,
the rights of the harbours of Germany. and the measures
necessary for the protection of the foreign trade of Germany,
together with the relation. of the German navy.
4. To the came eetaMissiea, the whole consulate system of
the German federal states shall be confided for the purposes
of TIMMONS and for the establishment of general normal rules
binding on all the ;trade consuls appointed abroad by the
governments of the Germanic nfederation.
All console appointed by the governments of the GeTMlLtie
eon', &ration shall at once be authorised to afford to all
merchants and mariners who are subjects of a German
federal state the same protection as subjects of the state
which appointed them
Dresden, Dee. 31, 1850.
The Saxon memorial presents a suspicions simila-
rity to this, and the two would appear to have pro-
ceeded from the came pen, were not the Saxon
written with a precision and elegance which are
wanting in the Bavarian. The ideas and plans in
both ate the same, and we are not far from the truth
when we assert their source to be Austrian. The
Saxon and Bavarian puppets dance as Austria pulls
the wires.

The If Zeitung says :—We are enabled to
communicate the plan of M. von Bruck, and the
manner in which it is proposed to carry it into exe-
me ion. The Austrian industrials have declared them-
selves in favour of the same 'Loll tariff (with small
modifications only) which in Cassel was approved of
by the whole Zollverein congress, with the exception
of Brunswick. On this footing the Vienna cabinet is
ready to treat, if Prussia be thereto disposed 3 and if
not, Austrian commissioners will be deputed to attend
the Zollverein congress to be held iu Dresden on the
let of February next. The plan is as follows: —The
three commercial districts (Ilandelagebrete) should by
compact form one commercial verein, which should
adopt the above-described tariff system f6r its entire
circumscription. Simultaneously with this Equali-
sation of the tariffs, all transit duties should be re--
moved from raw materials of every sort on the fron-
tiers of Austria. On the other side, Austria
demai de the introducion of a tobacco mono-
poly by all the Garman governments. This
compact should be concluded for six years, with
the prospect, at the end of that time, of a complete
union. During these six years a careful control
should be established on the boundaries of the three
commercial districts over the import as well as oon-
sumption of foreign goods is the separate state', eo
that it might be possible to calculate exactly the cus-
toms income of every state. The complete union
would be stipulated fur 12 years. Austria calculates
that the North Sea States will be wen over to this
plan by the great market the abolition of transit
duties will procure them; and Bavaria, Saxony, and
the Silesian provinces, by the facilitation of frontier
trade. Austria hopes by this plan to turn to account
her natural productions, particularly in Hungary, so
to get out of her own financial difficulties, end to force
Prussia to abandon the vantage ground her Zollverein
position gives her.

HAMBURG, Jiw. 13.

It seems that the terms aren2Orefaiourable to
the Schleswig.liolsteiners than it appeared at first.
The status quo ante bellum is guaranteed; also
the possession of the fortresses. The army is not to be
disbanded, but two-thirds of it only to be sent home
on furlough, so that they may be called in at any
time ; for which purpose the staff of the regiments,
the arms, tkc., are left undisturbed at thtir garrisons.
Only as regards the navy, the commissioners declared
they were without instruction. They are still here
transacting business with the Danish Commissioners
VIENNA, J. 9.

The months of February and April giie a deficit
in the Austrian revenues of 18; millions. What
are we to expect from the months following, in
which such an immense military establishment was
set on foot. On the Bourse and at the
Bank, the best informed persons, and those
who most favour the government, reckon upon
a deficit for the year of at least 60 millions.
The only increase in direct taxation can be from
ground and house taxes. But from the devastated
lands and demolished bourse and villages of Hungary
no tax whatever can be collet, ed. The paper issues
from the state amounted, in less than three months,
to no less than sixteen and a half millions. The
Bank has again advanced 3,786,000 florins. From
llungary, instead of five millions quarterly, as for-
merly, the present income is only b 8,107 tl. The
tw,kruptcy of Austria is only a question of time. A re-
gulation of the Austrian mint is in prospect by which
Austrian money will be made current on the same
scale as that of Prussia and South Germany. This
plan is universally approved of. The present coin
will be preserved, but its value will be reduced to its
sterling worth.
flaws, JAN. 1 l.—Voluntary Loan, 1051 ; New Loan,
Four-ind-a-Half per Cert., , 19 ; National Debt, 811;
Conmerci.l Marine Society's Premium, 110; Bank Shares,

951.
VIENNA, JAN. 13. Five per Cent. Metalliquos, 9.5,
Four.and-a-Hall per Crate., 121. Bank Shares, 1,13.
Exchange on Lcados. 12.41.

COMMITTEE FOR THE RELIEF OF THE
CHRISTIANS WHO SUFFERED IN THE EVENTS
OF THE IGTH AND 17TH OCTOBER, 18.50.

Aleppo, Dec. 7, MO.
TO JOBISPH 1117111, NUL, N P., LONDON.

The newspapers will, no doubt, hays acquainted
you with the terrible occurrences of which our city has beau
the thcatre, and we will not, therefore ,enter into details of
the horrible scores which have taken place. It will he eufli-
d-nt to mention that 500 Christian homes, mostly opulent,
were sacked and pillegad, women end girls brutally assaulted,

. .
min auassinated, and numbers wounded ; fire churches were
pillaged and three of them burned, priests killed, and the
Syrian pelvis/eh aeriou•ly wounded. In a word, that all the
barbarities imagination can paint were practised upon the
Christians at Aleppo.
" '

It is easy to imagine that in consequence of such n catas-
trophe, the numbers of people formerly in a state of affluence
are now in complete destitution, and that the working
classes are plunged into the deepest misery, which calss
loudly for aid on all charitable persons. But the efforts and
sacrifices of this amall European colony and of the natives
who escaped this horde of barbvians, are insufficient to
relieve so many sufferers, and a committee creopostd r f the
six persons,whose names are undersigned, has been formed in
order to the generosity of all philanthropists whose alms
could not be directed into a sore deserving closnnti.
Convinced that you will kindly mist in relieving ctt
Christian popula• ion we make this appeal to your generosity.
in the hope shot you will also induce your numerous friend'
to co operate in this good work. We trust, sir, that you
will extend your assistance to us, and need not assure you
of our sincere grati!ude and the sentiments of high esteem
which we entertain for you.
(Signed) ALEX. CALDER. Loots idoieoraat.
Wat. Rtnumm.. Vl:war:so hlancovoLt.
'Dusts°. E. PORTALIS.
I hereby certify that the above are the true s'itnatnres of
the persons whose names are written above.—Aleppo,
December 11,1&50.
(s pad) w. W. WERRY, Consul.

PORT W
List
forl NlEB6Ol'
.R 21.4
tO4L. 2:01). —tal juhane Oporto
tityo hif
iport 8w,;lj;
piexported to Crest Britain In the year to have been r,3,480
pipes i total quantil exported to ports out al Great Fjritii,,
wlH2e,al7m,ptess.;.BoBtoltneelee3mx.ouip.ort:,
n3D74:actc7o.).!Tte4pr3i6
IT;shchie.e...rirbievat.:,Q7sintateui,336o:
Messrs. Martine:, Gainiott, an Co., 2,068; mew, Rust,
Hosp., Teague, and Co., 1,865 ; Meaux. Ce.ekburn, Smiths',
and Co., 1,7/8; Mean. Croft and ; Messrs. Br tan,
ant Co., 1,3/7 ; Di ine. 0M.,, Forrester, Wobber,
and C,,„ 1,177; tlevas. G. r.od 7. Gr %%sal ani C 0... 1,017.
The res, of the shippers are under 1,000 pi„tes. These tea
establishments shipped 2.0,248 pips', being more then half
the total export.