The Express.
London, England, 1848-03-11 00:00:00

GERMANY.

STATE OF FEELING IN AUSTRIA.
The intelligence from Germany becomes daily
mote interestrog. The smaller states have already
granted reform; bat Prussia, Austria, and Saxony,
have as yet made no great concessions. In Austria
the current of public opinion is beginning to be felt.
Already Hungary, whose chambers are sitting et
Presburg, has made a decided n,ove in the way of
reform, and Bohemia will no doubt follow.
A letter from Presburg of the 3d of March, in the
Brfatatter ZePting, says, " The news of the revolution
in France has quite turned the heads of the oppo-i-
-, tion in the Hungarian chamber. We are within a step
of revolution. The sitting of the chambers last night
I continued till ten o'clock in the evening. In the
sitting of to-day a proposition made by the
chief of the opposition was carried by acclamation :
to the effect that a deputation be sent to-morrow to
the King at Vienna (the Emperor of Austria is
King of Hungary) to demand the immediate nomi-
nation of a Hungarian Ministry of State, to cortsi-t
of Hungarians only, and separate from the ministry
at Vienna ; as also the immediate redressing of all
grievances, and a speedy alteration of the Hungarian
constitution. The bank note diffieulties have reached
the h zbt st pitch. Quarrels and disputes with respect
to them take place in all the taverns and shops. To-
day was market-day,and there was a ct owd or country
people, whose presence increased the difficulty, all of
them refusing to take the bank notes as tender for
payment."
Such is the state of matters at Presburz
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At Vienna (says a letter from that capital dated the
3rd lost.) we are in a state of the greatest excitement.
Dully—nay, hourly, the most alarming intelligence
reaches us from abroad, consternation is spreading
wide, and terror pervades all classes. Scarcely had
the telegraphic announcement that disturbances had
br•'ken oat in Paris reached us on the morning of the'
day before yesterday, when intelligence arrived in the
evening that Louis Philippe had abdicated in favour
of the Count de Paris, that a regency had been
formed, and a new ministry appointed. Surprised
and appalled at this unexpected proceeding, we yet
clung to the hope and strove to give a favourable
interpretation to these disasters, when the news
arrived of the overthrow of the monarchy, the
fie4lit of the Kin; and of the royal family from
Paris—each news received within forty-eight hours,
in stormy days like these, increased the pre-
railing alarm. The newspapers are read aloud in
many public places, the expression in every counte-
nance was, st hat fearful event will the next day bring
forward ? Who would have thought this a week
ago ? All is happily quiet here ; but a gloomy and de-
pressing feeling fills every breast with an earnest
desire that this peace may be maintained and secured
by concessions. The chief movement is among the
military. The regiment of infantry of Farstenwerther
Von Climax and several others have marched from
Vienna, to reinforce the army in Italy.

Another letter of the same date says, the intelli-
gence received from France filled the mercantile
world with panic. The railway shares fell considerably
last night ; the Northern fell to 90. Scarcely any
business has been done this afternoon. The Allge-
miene Zeitung states that letters from Vienna confirm
the intelligence that a loan of 30 millions of gliders
has been concluded between Russia and Austria.
Count Fiquelmont, Minister of State, and of the
conferences, has been appointed to the post of Presi-
dent of the Aulic Council of War, and Lieut.-General
Count Wratirlaw' Aide-de-Camp General to the
Emperor, has been appointed to the command of
the first corps of the army in Italy.
Archduke John has returned suddenly to Vienca,
in consequence of the excitement caused by the
French news, and Count Fiquelmont has been obliged
Ito postpone his voyage to Milan. The effect of the
. Paris news in Italy ass not known at Vienna, bat
excited the greatest anxiety.
Count Flahault, French ambassador at Vienna, left
that city on the 2nd for Loudon.
It was said at Vienna that 30,000 men were about
to he marched into Italy.
The official gazette of Vienna of the 4th thus
characterises the French revolution :
The bloody events of P..tis, which have overthrown the
governmeut and established by revolt and violence, the
reign or terrors and of disord.r, have been faithfully corn.
municsted to our readers. It now behoves us to examine
the cause and connexion of tihase events. We cannot
dis-
cover the clue of this connexi,tt is the natural and regular
course of things. Far from it : appearances prove that in the
11,1141 course of a constittr.ionat system, ennsidered by the
many to be the modal of a well-ordained political system,
a force, which co-existed with the regular government has
suddenly interfered, and hasten:seeded, in a fatal moment, in
estabhuhing in a terrible manner the fiction of the sovereignty
att., people, upon w hien tint cons, itutiou was based. We
may consider this force us being partly the result of a public
opiniou,mo.tdeeply t•rtytril, and partly as a COO spiracy tend-
ing in the Moat formal manner to the accorc pl ish ment of its aim.
Fortunately, that mice which was prepared under Germany
and Italy has burst at Paris, rather sooner than these incen-
diaries imagined, and Escape can now cast a glance upon
the abyes into which they bad striven to precipitate her. In
such circumstances we ktiow but one means of salvation :

the Jim adherence of the governed to thee government,
and the faithful and honourible fulfilment of the duties of
the citizen at the hour of danger in every situation and in
every class of society. Relying upon the habitual virtues of
the suhjects confided to the sceptre of Austria, the Austrian
monarch, even at pr, sent, can wait the events with calm-
nes., strong ice his hopes in divine providence, in his reliance
on his people, sad in the certainty that this empire has sur-
mounted still greet, r calamities. •
The Bresfau Gazette asserts that on the receipt of
the French intelligence the Austrian cabinet imme-
diately assembled, and sent off couriers in all direc-
tions. Business immediately came to a stand-still on
the Bourse.
la Prussia the effect of the French revolution be-
gins to be more felt.
It is now probable that, in the present critical time,
the two concessions announced in the King of
Prussia's speech will not be deemed sufficient. Alter
the termination of the business, the Prince of Prussia
entered into an animated conversation with the
members, and was heard to exclaim t "The unity of
Germany is a powerful rock." The Allgemeine Preus-
sisele Zeiturtq states that there was never before so
sudden a reaction on the Berlin bourse as on Feb. 29,
on the arrival of the startling intelligence from
France. It appears that the inhabitants of Munster
(Westphalia) consider the military preparations of
Prussia—so long as France is cot alining—as highly
dangerous, and express the wish that Prussia would,
as soon as possible, recognise the French republic.
At a puolic meeting held in Coblentz on the even-
ing of the 6th inst. resolutions were passed in favour
of liberty of the press, a repr sentative government,
the jury system, the responsibility of ministers, ge-
net al arming of the people, freedom for all religions,
&e. A petition to that effect was forwarded the
next day to his Majt sty.
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The Frankfort Journal of the Bth inst. says :
We are positively asswed that the Germanic Confedera-
tion has adopted the following resolutions on the subject of
the defence of the frontier, iu the event of an attack :-1.
Prussia and the states which compose the 7th and Sift corps
of the stay (Bavaria, Wurt-mberg, and the Grand Duchies
of Baden and of Hesse) are to concert on the security of the
western frontier of the territory of the confederation, and
inform the Diet of what is requisite to be done on this point.
—2. Austria, Prussia, Bavaria, Wurtemberg, and the Grand
Duchy of Baden, shall have in readiness the contingents
which each of these states is obliged to furnish, according
to the regulation of federal war, for the federal fortrisees
of Mayence, Luxembourg, Landau, 12m. and It istadt.-
3. Prussia, Bavaria, and the Grand Duchy of Baden shall,
in their quality of frontier states, immediately inform the
Germanic Diet of every indication which may menace the
federal frontiers-4. The federal states are immediately to
pay into the federal treasury their contingent in money, to
cover the expenses which may be necessarily incurred.
Letters from Munich, under date Match 5, state
that the King, in order to appease the armed multi-
tude which had assembled on the previous afternoon
lin front of his palace, hod acceded to their demand to
convoke the Diet on the 16th inst., instead of the 31st
of May next. After the King's brother, Prince Charles,
had assured the crowd that that reel promise would
be kept, the latter gradually dispersed, and numbers
amongst them brought hack to the Town-hall the
arms which they had taken from the arsenal, as
already related in this paper. The legislative as-
sembly of Wurtemberg is convoked for the 13th.
According to accounts from Hesse-Cassel, up to the
morning of the 6th inst., the Prince Elector bad dis-
missed the obnoxious minister, Herr Scheffer. All
the prince's family hare removed to Wilhelmsbole. It
appears that, however, the Grand Duke is rather
obstinate in his opposition to the wishes of his
people. The greatest excitement prevails in Hanau
and Cassel.

The entire army of the kingdom of Wurtemberg
will be placed on war footing.
The Land rave of Hesse-Homburg has acceded to
all the popular demands made to him.
At a meeting at Heidelberg, on the sth inst., of
official delegates from Prussia, Bavaria, Wurtemberg,
Baden, Hesse, Nassau, and Frankfort, it was resolved
to urge their respective governments not to interfere
in the affairs of France. Another meeting will be
shortly convoked.
The citizensof Gotha have demanded a constitution,
with an elective chamber.
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A letter from Leipeic, of March 5, says : " When
the students of the university were assembled in the
Aula, and were addressed by the rector, he called
upon them to declare that they would take no part
whatever in the popular movement of the times. To
this about one in ten or fifteen answered in the
affirmative ; the rest were silent. In the course of
the evening the other students wrote a declaration
stating that they had not only withheld their &affirma-
tion, but that they highly approved of the new
movement, and would consecrate all their powers to
it. This was a great disappointment to the rector,
who had intended to give in a far different report at
Dresden. In order to prove that there might be no
mistake in the sentiments of the students, they pro-
ceeded in a large body to the residences of Robert
Blum-Arnold Ituge, Professor Biedermann, and Otto
Wigan, who have lately spoken very decutslly against
the Saxon ministry, and saluted them with songs ane
" vivats;" they likewise cordially greeted the commu-
nal guard, wh.ch was patroling the city in gnat
numbers. No attempt whatever was made to inter-
fere with this demonstration of the students, who
were joined by a great number of the inhabitants.
As far as we can learn no further apprehensions have
taken place.
A letter from Dresden, dated the Gth, contains a
proclamation from the King to the people, in which
he promises to call the chambers together before the
end of April, when all that is for the real good of the
state wilt be granted. Amongst this, he goes on to
say, will no doubt be the abolition of the censorship.
On the Gth that. the Duke of Nassau opened the
Diet at Wiesbaden, and made the following addre-s
Gentlemen and beloved Members of the Dtct,—l have
cline in per.on to open this assembly. to prove to you that
I conform completely and 'strictly to the dispositions wtich
were announced yesterday to the country by my proclama•
tion. You have at present only to occupy yourselves with
the new electoral law which I have promised you. I in-
vite you to examine this important question with especial
cote. I ought, in the prevent difficult conjecture., to
be able to rely more than ever upon your counsel and
fidelity, and I do rely upon them. Your sitting will in
future be public. Gentlemen and beloved merrewrs of the
Diet, I trust, by the grace of God, the new institutions wilt
be a source of blessings to our country, and to the whole
German nation.

BRAZILS AND LA PLATA.—By the Eliza
Jo'ninon, arrived at Liverpool, dates have ►een received
front Pernambuco to the s:b Feb., and Bahia to the 31st
Jan. ; but the advice* Jo not contain any nese of intkreat.
Another vessel has also arrived at Liverpool with one day'.
later intelligence from Monte Video, but their letter are
equally devoid itf iaterett.

-Ilia Grace tb4

CONSECRATION OF iht. HAMPDEN.—
Lord Primate has appointed the consecration f the riAht
reverend prelate to take place on Sunday, the 26th instant,
at 141abettt PaLao.