The Express.
London, England, 1849-07-02 00:00:00

IMPORTANT MEETING AT GOTHA.

PRUSSIA.—Our correspondent writes to us as
follows :

BERLIN, Jura 29.
A quiet drama is now going on in Gotha, which
this little town will treasure in its archives, and
hallow in days to come, no lees than the sermons
which were preached here by Luther. The hopes of
Germany have taken refuge at the foot of the Thurin-
jan forest ; and while open rebellion is flaming in
one part, covert sedition is conspiring in another;
while the squares of war are charging here, and packs
of constables sniffing there, and selfish courts and
narrow-minded diplomatists toil to make the great
birth with which Germany is labouring a mis-shapen
abortion, here a handful of honest men have met.
striving with faithful patience to work out their great
task in peace, and to knit together the disjectare mem-
bra of the German fatherland.
On Tuesday, the 26th, the table d'hote of the Moor
was crowded with hungry patriot., flocking in front
all quarters, and exchanging kindly greetings. It is
known that the invitation to Gotha only extended
to the Weidenbuseh, or centre of the Frankfort As-
sembly. This party, it is true, split on the motion of
Reden, condemning the Prussian intervention at
Dresden unauthorised by the central power, but the
fraction which then separated has been re-attached.
Oa the first day above 100 members met, and on
the second about 159. There were Gagern
and Bassermann, Dahlmann, Soiron, Beckerath,
Reamer, and the other well-known worthies. The
Grey-haired poet, Arndt, was sickly, but old Jahn io
excellent spirits ; and all gave • loud cheer of wel-
come to broad Vincke as he came in in hie familiar
brown coat. The conclave went to work in the
theatre. No portion of the public was admitted,
I neither was any profane short-hand writer or corre-
spondent suffered to intrude; by which the reading
public, however, sustain little kw, u the debates
appear in the newspapers quite u fully as the most
curious can desire. Becker, the deputy for Gotha,
took the chair. The Assembly, having no commission
either from the governmews or from the people, was
of a strictly private character.; long and formal
speeches were voted a bore, the object being merely
to coos to some agreement on the most practical plan
for realising German union. For this purpose a pro-
ject, already drawn up in Frankfort, by Dahlmann,
was submitted to the Assembly. Gagern, with
great earnestness, declared for closing with the offer
of the thee e kingdom& as the only possible hue
of action. The scheme of the constitution of the 28th
of May embraced the most essential features of the
Frankfort constitution, and the unity of Germany
most not be sacrificed to minute scruples. The great
majority of the Assembly echoed this opinion, and
regarded it as the duty of every patriot to make the
Berlin project acceptable to all the German states.
The p ogeamme of Dahlmann proposes that all those
aeticise on which the Berlin and Frankfurt constitu-
tions agree should be co- sidered as settled out of
hand, and not to be re-submitted for discussion to the
Reichstag to come. All the German governmerts
are to invite the King of Prue,ia, as head
of the confederacy, to summon the Reichstag.
The members of the senate, or staatenhaus,
are to be chosen according to the electoral law of May
28. Those of the Peoples House neither according
to the Frankfort nor Berlin electoral law, but accord-
ing to the law which obtains in each state. Bat the
Prussian electoral law, if it should be insisted on, is
declared not so oppressive; as that German unity
should be giveif over on this account. At the same
time, it will be advisable that the qualification of
being dready entitled to vote in the municipal

elections, and having resided during the three pre-
violin years on the spot, will be modified as too exclu-
I sive. Other passages in the programme stirring
some of the questions which have been most
hotly debated at Frankfort, Beckerath proposed
another, calculated to concilire more votes. A com-
mittee was appointed to report on both, which in the
course of the afternoon framed a third, approaching
the views of Berlin still nearer than Beckerath's.
There prevailed throughout the great malori7 of
the Assembly a still greater feeling of alienation
from Austria than aver, and in proportion a greater
adhesion to Frani& The Hanovenans were the only
section of the Assembly who exhibited any decided
opposition. Grumbrecht, a deputy from this king-
dom, known for the vehemence with which he op-
posed the great German party in Frankfurt, breathed
at Goths the most violent hostility 0 Prussia, de-
claring that the people of Hanover would never be
brought to acknowledge the league which had been
joined by their government ; and that no trust what-
ever could be reposed in such a ministry as that which
ruled at Berlin.

Anz, the deputy from Marienwerder, had the mis-
fortune to fall at Heidelberg among thieves, or rather
among some insurgents, who levied black mail on
him to the extent of all his effects. On the 28th a
great many deputies left, after having given their ad-
hesion to the programme of the committee.
Legal prociediogs will be instituted to try the
Prussian members of the Stuttgardt Rump Parliament
for high treason. The elections for the common
coandl of Berlin have been in favour of the radicals.

BADEN AND THE PALAT:NATE.—Latest
intelligence from the seat of war is to July 1.
The statement of the Ments Gazette, that the fortress
of Rattadt bad been tsk•n by the Prussians, is an un-
founded one. It is certain that the fortreu is well
provisioned, and that Mieroelawski has more than
10,000 troops in the vicinity ; so that the capture of
it without a fierce struggle is not likely. The opera-
tiors of the Prussian troops in the Baden Oberland
commenced on the 28th of June. The Hes.isn troops,
forming the advanced puts of the army of the empire
(which must not be confounded with the Prussian
army) had taken up their quarters in Ettlingen and
Moloch. An immense number of Prussian trcops
marched through Carlsruhe on the 28.11, en rfni:e
for Hastadt. According to the testimony of several
deserters from the Baden army, the remain'ng
in-
surgents were resolved to combat to the very list.
According to the statement cf a Prussian offi.er, the
Prussians lost 200 in killed and wounded during the
conflict near Waghausol on the 22nd. He speaks in
terms of praise of the strategefcal arrangements
made by. Mieroelawski. In the above little lowa, the
Pru-sians massacred all the inmates of the extensive
sugar manufactory of Herr Von Haber, af•er one of
the comrades of the former bed been killed (as
alleged) by a shot from one of the cellars of the
establishment.

0,000 Austrian Imps are stationed Along the road
between Bludenz and Bregerz. 4,000 more will
shortly arrive. These tr.ops will be ehottly marched
into Baden, under the command of Prince Charles von
Schwartzenbcrg.