The Express.
London, England, 1848-12-20 00:00:00

SPAIN.

The Madrid Gazette of the 14th inst. publishes the
ceremonial for the opening of the Cortee on the fol-
lowing day. The Clamor Public° asserts that the
ministry had given in its resignation, but subsequently
recalled it. A grand religious ceremony in honour of
the Pope was talked of.
A Madrid letter, of the 14th, states that several
officers of the palace had been dismissed; among
them MM. de Cambres-Altus, Santiago, and Baaalo.
The two latter had demanded two months' leave of
absence to travel. The former, being a deketriaverdoss
in hiding until the meeting of the Cones.
• was dismissed because he bad written a strong letter
=Names to a political chief, with respect to an

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GERMANY.

PRUSSIA.—We have received the Berlin journals
of the 18th inst.
It will be remembered that a short time ago the
easement usembly of Auhalt-Bernburg declared
that their duke was Incapable of reigning—an opinion
with which the commie's:peer of the central executive
indirectly coincided—and exuessed a wish for the
appointment of a regency.. The poor duke, however,
has mastered up a little wit, and heroically. resolved
to imitate King Frarrick William of Prima, by dis-
solving the °manliest assembly of Anhalt-Bernburg,
and taking upon himself to oetroyer a constitution !
In the ducal proclamation it is declared that, on the
29th ult., the diet had passed a resolution " deeply
affecting his honour and dignity." This was the
resolution (passed with only one dissentient voice)
declaring hie inability to reign.
The Neue Ithesieeke Zeigung, of the 19th, state*, in
a correspondence from Dusseldorf, that Lient.-General

Drigalski, the military commandant, who bad—
strange to say—revived the censorship in that town,
after it had been abolished not only by the National
Aiisembly in Frankfort, but al-o by the new constitu-
tion promulgated by the King of Prussia, has been
suspended by the ministry. The same journal also
declares that Heir Spiegel, the president of the pro-
visional government, has been dismissed. If these
steps be really taken, it will show that ministers at
last are resolved not to allow their subordinates to
set all law at defiance. Certain it is, that Drigalski
hoe been obliged, or has thought proper, to remove
the censorship imposed on the Dusseldorf journals, a
proclamation to that effect having appeared in that
town.

AUSTRlA.—According to the llreslauer Zeitung
(a suspicious authority), the Russians have marched
into Stebenbtirgen, and taken possession of Cronstadt.
It appears, by all accounts, that frightful excesses are
committed by the rival races in Siebenbtirgen.
The imperial war council in Temeswar has issued a
proclamation, enumerating many gross excesses com-
mitted by the Hungarians, and threatening severe re-
prisals if these excesses are continued. No positive
confirmation of the assertion that a republic has been
proclaimed in Pesth has arrived, and the re-
port is not belie,. d. Two thousand insurgents have
appeared in the Bukowina, in favour of the Magyars.
Letters front Hermaustadt, state that the town of
Felwiutz, the inhabitants of which were hostile to
the imperialists. has been reduced to ashes. It is
rumoured that Kossuth has been proclaimed King of
Hungary. The accounts from the field of war are
contradictory. The adherents of each belligerent
partly claiming victories for friends.
The Frankfort Deutsche Zeitung, of the 17th, states,
in a correspondecce from Kremsier, under date Dec.
11, that one of the deputies, a athenian peasant,
named Koby lice, had returned to his home in the
Bukowina and had been proclaimed king, with a
' body-guard of 1,000 armed peasants. The new move-
reign, acting, as he proclaimed, in that name of the
emperor, dispossessed the public functionaries, and dis-
tributed the property of the rich landowners amongst
his followers. la the same correspondence, it is as-
sorted that the Minister of Finer ce, Kraus, had drawn
out of the beak twenty millions of florins, in antici-
pation of the eighty millions which he has demanded
from the diet.
FRANKFORT.—Von Gagern, who, as we stated
yesterday, has been commissioned by the Vicar of the
Empire to form a new ministry, and made that an-
nouncement in the Assembly on the 10th, did so in
the following words:
I have the honour to make a communication to the Na-
tional Assembly respecting thesituation of the ministry of the
empire. That ministry saw that, after the declaration of
the Austrian minister, Schwartzenherg, it beams at
last necessary to settle definitively the nature of the relations
of the central power with Austria. Herr Von fichmerling
declared that, as an Austrian, he did not consider that ha
was a proper person to take any part in that bu,inees. Upon
these grounds I received the invitation to join the ministry.
My reply was, that as I was left in a minority on my motion
on the 2nd end 3rd sections of the constitution, I could not
undertake to fill the post of misister. I added that, should
the views of the National Assembly become cbangt d, in con-
sequence of the Austrian pregrasame, I should feel honoured
by becoming the colleague of the distinguished men who
then formed the cabinet. Since that time, the state of
affairs his so far changed, that the resignation of Herr
Von Sehmerling and Herr Wurth has been accepted.
As ministers declared that they 'scald not come to any dad-
sion respecting the Austrian question before the vacant posts
were re-filled, I was summoned to the Vicar of the Empire,
and I felt that it was almost a duty on my part to refuse no
longer to form a pert. of the ministry. Although I have not
yet fulfilled my mission, I must announce to the high assem-
bly that I now resign the post of its president. It was not
ambition which bas spurred me on to the taking on myself a
duty or such deep importance, for my ambition was perfectly
satisfied with the distioguised post I have hitherto held, and
I feel that I am free from indulging in any undue estimation
of my uwn week p mere, for I rely upon the support of the
Vicar of the Empire, upon that of my colleagues, and, above
all, on the constant aid of this Assembly, the confidence of
which I ahall ever mdeavour, to the utmost of my ability, to
maintain.
The conclusion of the speech was greeted with long-
continued cheers, amidst which the Assembly broke
up in great excitement. The choice of a new presi-
dent (vice the Baron Von Gagern) was fixed
for the 18th. Previous to Von Gagern's state-
ment, the Assembly passed • resolution to the
effect that the central executive be authorised to digs.
solve the commercial and navigation treaties existing
batmen stogie German states and foreign powers, to
doer those treaties, if necessary, into imperial
treaties, and to conclude new ones of that kind (in all
eases subject to the approval of the National Assem-
bly). The central executive was also urged to draw
up, as soon as possible, the draft of law for a general
tariff and system of customs for Germany.
At the request of Baron Von Andrian, he has been
recalled from his post of ambassador from the central
-.motive of Germany to the court of St. James's.