The Express.
London, England, 1849-01-26 00:00:00

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GERMANY.

PRUSSIA.—We have intelligence from Berlin up
to the 22nd inst.

Rumours of ministerial changes were again cur-
rent, and it was positively asserted in the best in-
formed political circles that before the assembling of
the chambers, both the Count Von Brandenburg and
the Minister of Justice will retire, and that Camp-
hausen will form a new cabinet. It is now certain
that, more than a month ago, the count tendered his
resignation, which was not accepted, on account of
the ((Acuity, if not impossibility, of finding any one
willing to undertake the formation of a new cabi-
net previously to having ascertained, through the
elections, the opinions of the country. The Polish
league in Posen contemplates the convocation of a
general Solavonic congress. The frequent arrival of
couriers from Munich gives rise to the supposition
that negotiations are still actively carried on between
Prussia and Bavaria, respecting the election to the
imperial crown of Germany. The Chevalier Bunsen
was to leave Berlin, on the 23rd, for Frankfort

According to the. Danish Stale Calendar for 1849,
the Danish fleet is composed of six ships of the line,
thirteen frigates, six sloops of war, one barque, some
small schooners, 33 bomb-shallops, 23 bomb-boats,i 39
cannon-shallops, six war steamers, and two brigs.
To this number will be added, in the course of the
spring, one ship of the line and one sloop.
Some of the Berlin journals which give the fore-
going intelligence, write despairingly of the forma-
tion of a German fleet, able to cope in any way with
the formidable naval force of Denmark.

A number of Berlin compositors have been sen-
tenced to a fortnight's imprisonment for having
struck work some time ago, in order to obtain shorter
hours. So strictly is the state of siege observed, that
on the eventogof the 20th (not 48 hours before the
general elections), a small meeting of 20 persons in a
private house was dispersed by the military. The
state of siege has beeh raised in Duseeldorf.
The grand primary elections terminated at Cologne
on the 22nd, to the all but general triumph of tne
democrats in the 64 electoral districts into which the
city and neighbourhood are divided. So strongly, in
fact, has the tide set in against the re-actionary party,
and even against those who are in favour of the new
constitution, that, to make doubly sure, the electors
in several districts chose not only extreme democrats
but thorough-going socialists and communists, as
electors in the secondary degree, that is to say, as the
direct electors of the deputies. Even the Com-
mandant of Cologne, CoL Engels, was defeated in
the 45th district, his antagonist, a republican and a
socialist, being returned.
In Bonn, also, the victory of the democrats is not
less signal, their partisans having been elected in not
less than 18 out of 21 deputies. In fact, the Bonn
Gattette declares that it is the republicans who have
triumphed.
AUS fßlA.—According to the latest accounts from
Pesth, Kossuth was still at Debreczin, but it was
' thought that he would attempt to move on towards
Siebenbargen in order to effect a junction with Gen.
Bem. Then had been a great fall of snow in Hun-

gary, which is an advantage for the Magynes, Re the
approaches to Debrecain are rendered unpasseige.
The government have resolved to increase the An.
trian army by 50,000 men, making altogethee
650,000.
The description of Kossuth in the Hue and Cry je
as follows : 45 years of.age ; place of nativity he.
peria, in Hungary ; married ; not a catholic by mi,
gtoni speaks German, Hungarian, Latin, Slowakish.
and French ; was a lawyer and a journalist, &Di
finally president of the committee of defence ; is of
middle size, and thin ; face oval and tolerably fall;
brown complexion ; high open forehead; black hair;
blue prominent eyes; large dark gyebrows • flat now.
small and h indsumely-formed mouth ; go teeth ;
oval chin ; black whiskers and beard. Particular
signs : naturally curly hair, bushy from the crown et
the head downwards. Generally wears a cap ; nun.
ners pliant and insinuating:"
On the l'ith the Kremster Diet voted the Equality
of all citizens in the eyes of the law, and the abolition
of all privileges of caste. It was also resolved that no
titles or other distinctions of nobility should be con.
ferred or be recognised by the state.
The dissolution of the Kremsier Diet is confidently
talked of. All the Cracow journals, with one excep.
tiou, have been suspended, and the favoured one is
subjected to &strict censorship.
The Austrian government have declared that Hun-
garian notes wilt be taken at their fall value in all
the public treasuries.
Several of the soldiers seat against the insurgent
General Bem, in the Bukowins, have been frozen to
death.

SAXONY.—In the sitting of the second chamber
at Dresden, on Jan. 20, Vice-President Schaffrath
stated that he had to bring forward a motion, which
had in view, not the influencing of the national assem-
bly in Frankfort (for it had already decided in favour
of an Emperor for Germany), but the displaying of
the truth to the world with reference to that question
and Saxony. To place Prussia at the head of Ger.
many would be (observed the speaker) to make Gee.
many Pi nssian. The existence of the separate states
was the beat guarantee against a centralisation de.
structive of liberty. Herr S haffrath then moved
that the following questions be put :—" will the
chamber declare that it will look with de-
cided aversion, upon a hereditary and irresponsible
emperor ?" (This question was answered affirma-
tively by a majority of 57 to 7.) " Has the chamber•
the same repugnance to the transferring of the im-
perial dignity to the throne of a single state ?" (An.
awered afliriratively by a majority of 55 to 9).
" Ought a responsible president to be placed at the
head of Germany, and does the chamber entertain the
opinion that only a democratical solution of the
question is a salutary one ?" For this question—the
all-important one—there appeared 51 ayes against
10 noes that is in favour of a republican form of
government for Germany. To render matters more
complicated, one of the ministers stated that the
Saxon government still adhered to the priuciple that
the National Assembly in Frankfort had not the
mission to complete single-handed the work of the
constitntiwo, but only with the oroperation of the
respective governments and legislative assemblies.
He added, that in spite of all assertions to the coo-
-1 trary, the Saxon cabinet had not expressed any
opinion respecting the election of the future head of
Germany. Subsequently another motion to theeffect
that ministers make a declaration similar to those of
1 the chamber, was carried by a majority of 51 to 10.

CONSTAN EINOPLE, JAN. 6.
I omitted in my last to mention the death of the Hon.
Mr. Ashburton, after a few hours' illness, of a species of
cholera. He was interred on the following day in the large
burial ground. Sir Stratford Canning auendfd in pence,
as did also the officers of the British embassy, and those of
the English steamer of war the Tartarus. Ins cholera has
again broken out amongst us,. neither heat nor cold appear.
to have any effect upon it. The following circular has been
sent to the various foreign legation§ Sir,—The Health
Office has the regret to announce to you that some cases of
cholera morbus have lately taken place in this city, and that
from to-day it considers it a duty to mention the same on all
clearances and passports delivered." Since the issuing of
this document the cho.era has gone on increasing, and bids
fair to be as severe as it was some months ago.
Large bodies of troops have moved en towards Transyl-
vania, fearing an outbresk between that country and Hun-
gary The Neapolitan mibister, M. Martorana, died from
a violent attack of cholera on the 314 ult. The weather has
been awful. The French steamer Vidette, which left he
for Smyrna on the 15th ult., encountered a hurricane on her
lassage from N.E., which rendered her unmanageable, and
eft her for 24 hours at the mercy of the waves. This use
hurricane did considerable damage here. A line of battle
ship moored in the basin was blown on shore : two vowels
went down at their anchors. Many vessels have been lost in
the Bosphorus. Several minarets and trees were blown
down ; several houses were blows down and many unfrosted,
and so great was the quantity of hail and snow that many of
them were half filled up. No account has yet been received
of the damage done in the country, but no doubt it is
immense.

Little doing in grain, and prices the same as my last.
40,000 kilos of Indian cern, and 30,000 kilos of Roumelia
wheat, have been sold for England at 18 piastres the kilo.
We have 300,000 kilos (bushels) of wheat in store; 12,000
kilos Indian cure, and 70,000 kilos of barley. Freights to
England from is. to 81. per quarter; one even chartered at
6e. 3.1. Exchange on London: 110 piastres the £ sterling.

ATHENS, JAN. 8.
In the absence of any political movement worthy of notice,
I will give you an account of the progress of the cholera on
our northers ircmtiers,. or rather on the frontiers bordering
upon Turkey. It has increased greatly at Tricela and La.
rime, in Themaly, was now to amount to 50 daily: them
attacked go off rapidly, generally in eight hsun, or
sooner. At Lanus, 372 persona died in sixteen
days. The population of this town, including 3,000
soldiers, is about 35,000 ; most of these have fled
ioto the neighbouring towns and villages. Several
eases have occurred at those places in consequence. The
persons attacked are mostly those grown up, or advanced in
years. Cases have occurred of undoubted Asiatic cholera in
the town of Arts, the village of Comboti, and the village of
Costokiou, eazh of which have had some 30 attacked daily,
most et whom died. It was hoped that the change of the
temperature from heat to excessive cold would have stayed
this dread.ul scourge, but it has not ; and all here are fearful
of its appearing among us. Should it do so, Athens will be
deserted.

The National Bank of Greece hie issued a notice
that the " billets de la banque," due on the 16th
of April next, will be exchanged for metals on
this day, to theee who wish for it; and that the interest
of 8 per cent. will cease from this day, whether they exchange
them or not. The wonder here is, where the money has
come from to do this. The exchange will, no doubt, be made
in live-franc pieces. Many consider this a ruse on the part
of the bank to establish a better credit with the country,
and afterwards come out with a larger loan at a lesser rate of
interest. 1 hear from Patras that the currant trade has been
very brisk, and not more than 3,000 tons left for sale.
Freight to England 361. for currants, and 38s. for colones:
plenty of vessels, and no demand.

MALTA, JAN. 14.
Her Majesty's steamer Merlin came in on the 12th from
Corfu with the mails ; she brought the officers and crew,
106 in number, of her blejesty's late brig Mutice, wrecked
at Yalestrina, near Venice. The assistant-surgeon, two
mates, the cerpeuter, and the sergeant of Marines lost their
lives on that melancholy occasion. The passeogers saved are
all on board the Vanguard for • passage to England.—The
Governor has put an old order of 1918 into force, by which
all grog shops ere to be closed an hour after Ave Maria, or
about 8 p.m., in winter, and nine, p.m , in summer ; this is
ce•sequent upon the late rows between the people, police,
and soldiers. The harbour is full of merchant vessels, seek-
ing, and nothing doing. Freights is the lonian Islands are
365. 1. r fruit, sod 38s. for valonea per ton ; and several
vessels there disengaged. The French steam.: (Mei', tram
Alex.ndria, has just arrived ; she will „leave for Marseilles
to-morrow morning.