The Express.
London, England, 1849-05-03 00:00:00

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837.] LONDON, THURSDAY, MAY 3,1849. (THREEPENCE.

thulium which is inspired by &just national muse,
end is the best augury of eventual triumph. They
will at least have the Poles at their sides, and perhaps
the Turks at their back. Buena hem before her au
immense war, which may possibly end is giving her a
very different rank among the European powers
from that which she enjoys at present.
FRANKFORT.—Our dates are to April 30.
The general impression in Frankfort is that Prussia
will attempt a military coup d'ltat against the Na-
tional Assembly. Besides the 8,000 Prussian troops
stationed in and about Kreemuch, 2,000 more have
meshed Meets. Indeed, so fully persuaded is the
Committee of 'Thirty (appointed by the above assem-
bly) of the probability of some such coup being made
by the Prussian government, that it has requested the
Comma' Minister of War to dismiss from Frankfort
all the troops belonging to countries which have not
reeegnised the German constitution. The latter, in
relay. stated that no one but he bad the right
to dispose of the troops garrisoned in Frankfort, and
be trusted that that declaration world remove the ap-
prehensions apparently entertained by the committee.
Meantime extraordinary military precautions against
disturbaeces are taken in the city both by day and
wait
"rThe proceedings of the National Assembly in the
sitting of the 30th were important. Several other
Auttnan member withdrew from the Assembly,
on the ground that it had pealed ',solstices m-
ending tbir wintry hem the seee-ef-filerineary, ad,
had refused to come to any understanding with that
empire. It was officially announced, amidst loud
cheers, that the King of Wortemberghad fully rewg-
aired the right of the constitution, and had given
orders that all state ftmotionstiee should swear to
observe it. Hie majesty, moreover, it was add. d, has
no objection to the acceptance by the King of Prussia
of the post of provisional or hereditary head of Ger-
many.
The important business of the day was then com-
menced by Herr Simon, of Troves, who brought for-
ward a motion to the effect that the President of the
Assembly be empowered to convoke it at any time
and in any place he may think fit ; and that the pre-
sence of 100, instead of heretofore 200, members, be
considered sufficient to form a house. The object of
the former part of the motion is clear enough, and
the latter part is rendered necessary by the with-
drawal of 100 Austrian members. In the course of
his speech, Herr Simon observed that the late Aus-
trian plenipotentiary bad left the Assembly, and thel
execrations of the people of Germany followed him.'
The cause of the dissolution of the Second Chamberl
in Prussia wee the alliance between that kingdom,
Russia, and Austria, whereby 40,000 Prussians were
to march into Bohemia. The motion was carried by
a large majority.
The following important resolutions were also
carried :

1. That before ell Germany the National Assembly
presses its disapprobation of the dissolution of the second
chambers by the Prussian and Hanoverian goviniments.
2. That those governments be nqueeted to appoint fresh
elections immediately.
3. That the remaining legal organs be urged to express
openly courageously, and speedily, the will of the peolle in
opoosttion to the soveramente.
During the discussion, Herr Zimmermann, of
Stuttgart!, stated that he had just returned fromi hie
borne, and that he had learned that armed assemblages
had been already formed in the Palatinate, and that a
sanguinary collision might be every moment expected.
The order issued by Prince Frederick of Wurtem-
burg, during the recent crisis in that kingdom, for
the read of the Wurtemborg troops stationed in
Baden, has given deep offence, not only to the central
executive, which has alone the right to dispose of the
forces employed for imperial purposes, but aho to the
Wurtemburg Chamber of Deputies. In tact, the latter
has gone so far as to demand, by a large majority, that
the command of thearmy corps In Baden be taken from
the prince, and that a tall explanatiou of his conduct
be given through minister.. The king has not yielded
exactly with a good grace to the wishes of his
ministers of the above chamber and his people in
',entre, for he stated to a deputation that he had
been compelled, by the force of circumstances, to
recognise the validity of the German constitution.
At the same time, however, he expressed his deter-
thination to uphold it.
SAXONY.—The chambers were dissolved on the
30th ult. As grounds for this bold step, ministers
set forth Ihat the proceedkgs of the chamber were
not in unison with the demands of the people. The
excitement in Leipsio is interim.
COLOGNE.—lntense excitement was produced
on the morning of May the lit, by the appearance
of a proclamation on the part of the governor of the
province, prohibiting the meeting on the sth inst.
(convened by the town council of Cologne at the
meeting referred to in another portion of this day's
impression) of the members of all the town councils
of the Rhenish province.
BRUNSWICK. The chamber of deputies has
unanimously declared in favour of the recognition of
the German constitution, and has resolved to uphold
it at all risks.

HAMBURG, APRIL 30.
Travellers who arrived by this morning's train from
the north, who pretend to be well-informed, assert
that the Schleswig-Holstein troops in Jutland, form-
ing the vanguard of the army, having advanced too
far, were nearly eut off by the Danes. The
letters received by the same train do not men-
tion anything of this. They only state that
the bead-quarters of Osceral Prittwits were
at Aller, not at Christianfelde, as was reported yes-
te-day, consequently further from the frontiers than
was supposed, and of course less able to render assist-
ance to the vanguard.
Telegraphs have been erected all along the coast of
Schleswig, by which the enemy's men of war, seen
ate distance at ma, are signalised all the country,
and preparations made for their reception.