The Express.
London, England, 1848-05-19 00:00:00

GERMANY:

PRUSSIA.—Oar accounts from Berlin of the even-
ing
of the 14th state that the peace of the city had
not been disturbed. A demonstration took place on
the 14th, an immense meeting having assembled, in
which it was decided that the people would accom-
pany in a mass a deputation charged with propounding
to the Minister Presider• of the Council the following
resolution : "That the Prince of Prussia should oily
be recalled by a decision of the National Assembly,
which is to meet on the 22nd. Secondly, that the
ministers unwilling to give this guarantee should
resign;' The deputation accordingly went, ac-
companied by a vast crowd, in procession, to
the house of Herr Camphausen. The deputation
went in, and after the expiration of an hour,
the ministers, Von Auersivald and Von Schwerin,
appeared at the balmily, accompanied by the deputa-
tion, and stated that as Herr Camphausen had gone
to Potsdam, no answer could be given that day, but
it would be forthcoming on the next. Some shouts
and tumult ensued, but peace was soon restored,
and the crowd ultimately separated.
We have no report of the manner in which Herr
Camphausen answered on the 15th, but the official
journal of the 16th, which has come to hand, contains
a proclamation, signed by the minister, and which
states :—" We hereby declare that his Highness the
Prince of Prussia can, end will, at the earliest in
fourteen days from the
.present, at all events after
the opening of the National Representation on the
22nd, return to his fatherland."
Previous, however, to this the Prince will, as was
all along intended, make known his adhesion to the
new constitutional course pursued by the country.

A correspondent of the Cologne Gazette writes from
Posen, 12th May :
In the course of yesterday waggon after waggon arrived
with fugitiv.s oat of places aurrouncling Posen, a. it was re-
ported that bodies of scythemen, which increased every hour,
had shown themselves in 'Lemberg, Buck, l'inne, Otiendk,
Woegrowiee, and threatened t) plunder all that stood in
their way. Accirding to s me accounts it seems that several
of the guerilla chiefs had disbanded their men and sent them
home ; but these latter, not satisfied at the result of the
campaign, had united iu bodice and seemed inclined to carry
on the war after their own fashion. It was yesterday re-
ported that Mieroslawski was brought in a prisoner to Posen,
but although probable, we do tot vouch for the fact. It is
not true that a court martial has been named to try Kean.
thotor lirotowski ; and it seems that on the contrary Gen.
von Pfael is authorised to proclaim an amnesty as soon as
the l'ules have laid down their arms. All who have any
thing to lose naturally embrace this opportunity of securing
it, and such wish to a e order and tranquillity restored. The
people, stranee enough, are not so easily pacified, and,
although is scattered belies, continue their depredations. It
seems that Gen. von Pfuel, the second royal commissary, is
now at lo;:ite rheads with Generale Von Colomb and
Steinscker, about the way to pacify the province, not hav-
ing the same faith in martial law with those heroes, and
believing in some ele;zree is the efficacy of jus•ice and mercy.
One of the proceedines with which the others are dissatisfied
is the discharge of the greater part of the imprisoned
peasantry out of Fort Wiriary, which will perhaps take
place to-day, but assuredly shortly. Yesterday afternoon a
great festival was held in celebration of the incorporation of
Poen into the Germanic C.,ntederation, which was per-
formed with much military pomp, hut there was little sym-
pathy on the part of the people. The people showed that
even if most of the inhabitants are Germans. the city is no
German ci•y, and while the Polish and German banners
streamed front the town-house, from whose front a long line
of effigies of Polish kings looked down, we felt with grief
sod shame that Prussia here was committing the act of
oppression which she took up arms to prevent being eons.
mitted in Schleswig-Holstein. This festival appeared at all
events as premature as the rajoicinsts of the poor Poles had
been at their imagined independence, for we may ask,
where and shat isth.• "German Confederation?" Is it
not a phantom, whose incorporation into a reality is still
stoutly resisted on many sides r
AUSTRIA.—It appears that Sir Stratford Can-
ning had entered into negotiations with the late
Austrian cabinet, in order to bring about peace
between that power and Italy. The resignation of
Count Fiquelmont put an immediate stop, however,
to all negotiations.
There have been some slight riots at Trieste, but
everything had been quiet at last dates.
BAVARIA.—The minister Tricoupi, sent by King
Otho from Greece with a letter of congratulation,
had an interview with the King of Bavaria on the
13th. Sir Stratford Canning had also an interview
with the King on the same day.

ROME, MAT 8.

I felt very reluctant to join in the chorus of lamen-
tation over the supposed abandonment of liberal and
national feelings by Pius the Ninth, with which I
foresaw all European journals would teem on the oc-
casion of his recent address to the College of cardi-
nals. Hence I have abstained from any precipitant
and rash announcement in your column° of such un-
looked for and incredible recantation of the great
Italian reformer. On diligent inquiry into the facts
of the late demur on the part of our sovereign to in-
dulge the Roman mob (tartxt Remi) with a formal
declaration of war against the Austrian monarchy, I
find several matters of which journalists are not sup-
posed to take cognisance, but which are of a nature to
sway the mind of an intelligent pontiff. An official
declaration of hostilities, though war was actually
waged with the Pope's approval and hearty con-
currence, for the liberation of the Peninsula from all
foreigners, involved a very serions question of eccle-
siastical subordination and hierarchical rule. Since
the publication of the famous work of Petrus de
Mares, " De aneorditi Sacerdotii et Imperil," never
was a more knotty point mooted than this emergency
suggested. The most opulent and best endowed por-
tion of the present catholic establishment is unques-
tionably the portion ruled over by the emperor. The
primate of Hungary (since the Archbishopric of
Toledo has had the gold rubbed off its gingerbread) is
the richest churchman in Christendom. Hie princi-
pali'y is magnificent, 90,0001. a year; his palace of Gran
on the banks of the Danube, combines the dignity
of feudal power with the various attractions of
an educated court. The Austrian Prince Swatz-
esbeurg, Cardinal Archbishop of Itatisbonne, though
the youngest member of the sacred college, is
remarkable not merely for his high birth, but for his
vigorous and untiring visits to the poor, the sick, and
the hospitals. The primate of Croatia is the first man
in the country, and ranks next after the Kaiser him-
self; he has three regiments of infantry of his own
for his body guard, and holds hie court in the fortress
of Agram( which is called Agent) by the natives, but
geographers don't value local orthography). I have
seen him in his splendour several years ago (1841),
and can testify that when he received the Duchess
of Berri in his ecclesiastical stronghold, not Solo-
mon in all his glory, welcoming the Queen of
Sheba, showed more magnificence. Then there are
the only rich abbeys of the Benedictine order now
extant in Christendom protected by Austria. There
is the splendid and most richly-endowed monastery of
Molke, overlooking the Danube, and full of treasures
of art and literature; there are in Hungary and
Bohemia various other munificent establishments.
Was the Pope to imperil all these splendid possessions
of catholicity by pandering to the clubs of Rome ?
Had he not done enough by blessing the arms of the
warriors who went forth to redeem Italy, without
forcing him into an unnatural act of official and un-
diplomatic offensiveness, the object of which could
have been no other than to exasperate the communion
of German adherents of the holy see, and provoke a
renewal of the onslaughts which Joseph 11. made on
the church in the days of Pins VI. ?

One thing is, however, elicited by the controversy—
that is, the full freedom of the press in Rome. Only
imagine a priest publishing under the nose of the
Pope in the Cofemporano", a vigorous critique on his
refusal to declare war, and signing his name there-
unto (C. Calenzi), without any rebuke from authority.
The English journal (Roman Adrertiser), notwith-
standing the taste and talent of Mr. Hemans' has
given up the ghost on the Ist of this month. Lord
Brougham killed it by his speech in the Lords, attack-
jag the sincerity of Pio Mono. Indeed, English
diplomacy in Italy has been most disastrous within
the last three months. Even in Cairo a recent tra-
veller describes the Italian residents as openly in-
salting 13ritish travellers, and indignant at Pal-
mereton's tergiversation in this Peninsula. The
Italian subscribers to the English journal all with-
drew en miteie in consequence of the late protocols
from Downing-street.
The King of Naples has just ordered his ambassa-
dGe it Rome to wait on Cicerowhackio with the grand
medal and order of " Civil Merit," instituted by Fran-
viseo 1, The brusque charcoal-dealer told his excel-
,,_eney that he did not value such trinkets a single
""Mee : that he might tie them to the neck of some
irrational animal that may delight in the jingling of
I°Y-bells ("s,,nuyile "1; but that he found them of no
we in the pursuit of his lawful business. Whackio
many points o 1 reaemblaneo with Beranger, who

would not be a deputy ; and who, tinging of the
gipseys (Les Bahenitens), makes them say :

Sour noblemen may boast their 'aside,
Proud of their trappings tad their touch
But never heed them •
Out. is the life of perfect Wit,
Freedom la inian.a best yoy—and this
Is wined freedom I

I told you in my last how the old rotten gates of
the Ghetto had been demolished by some enthusiuts.
The Jews are deucedly sorry for the said demolition,
inasmuch as whereas formerly they were safe from
robbers in their peculiar sanctuary after sunset, now
the whole of Judie' is infested with the worst set of
vagabond thieves in Rome, who, finding no gates to
the land of Goshen fit to impede their ingress, effect
all sorts of marauding excursions in the territory of
Israel.

Give me valn my bellow tree,"
With " old do " sod security.
When the civic guard lately broke into the Castle
of St. Angelo and took possession of the fort, Minerdi
the spy, who is there in custody, got frightened in
real earnest, and has made important revelations con-
cerning very high personages in connection with th.
(stifled) conspiracy of July, 1847.
Lord Clifford is understood to have placed one of
his rural abodes in Devonshire or Somersetshire at
the disposal of Father Itoothan, general of the Jesuits.
It is very certain that no ne here knows where the
worthy general is gone.
The new ministry have ordered a levy of 6,000 ad-
ditional troops.