The Express.
London, England, 1848-09-08 00:00:00

HESITATION OF THE NATIONAL ASSEM-
BLY TO RATIFY THE ARMISTICE.

FRANKFORT.—M. Heckscher, Minister of Fo-
reign Affairs, intimated the tenor of the armistice
concluded by the Kings of Prairie and Denmark, to
the Natiseel Assembly on the 4th inst. An impres-
sive and detailed coconut of the proceedings in the
Amenably, sod the spirit by which it was animated
oe the maim, will be found in our Frankfort nor-
respondent's letter, in another part of to-day's publi-
' cation. The resolution moved by Professor Waits,
and adopted by the Assembly, was to the effect that
the executive committee, and the international
committee, be instructed to report, within
24 hours, whether the evacuation of Schleswig-
Holstein by the German troops ought to be sus-
pended. This motion, made by • leader of the left
centre, was supported by Prince Lichnowsky and
other leaders of the extreme right. The joint com-
mittees met immediately upon the rising of the
Assembly. It is generally believed that they will
report in the naiades, and that the Assembly will
adopt the report. In that event the execution of one
of the principal articles of the armietice will be impos-
sible. The consequences of this state of affairs it is
difficult to foresee.

AUSTRIA. REUNION or Eng HUNGARIAN
WITH THE VIENNA MINISTRY.—Our oorzespondent
at Vienna, writing on the evening of the 31st ult.,
says: "Count Bathyany and Count Talk have ar-
rived here from Pe•th, and enter* 4 into con-
ference with oar ministry. The result of their de
liberations has been the &termination that the Hun-
garian ministries of war, thinner, aild foreign affairs
shall be united again with those of V: nna. 'fhe result
of this step will be the prevention of the apprehended
.Hungaro-Croatian war. It is to be feared that the
Hungarian envoys will experience but an indifferent
reception on their return born.', at least by th -
Slagyars. Scarcely any other result could, however,
have been anticipated. The Hungarian manifesto of
13 h Mach would have re-established the powers 11
poesesetd by the Magyars (who constitute scarcely
one-third of the whule population) over the rest of
the eornintusity in the middle ages. Had the Magyars
been willing to concede equal rights to the other
races, there is little &ON that H&gary might have
been as NO( prndent nation. Kossuth appears reso-
lute to clues his career eharacteristically. He chal-

freed to editor of the Oesterrekhisch• AUgemeias
'Zestesweet aosoant of some remarks on him which had
appeared in that journal. The editor coolly answered
that say foal algid give a challenge, but that two
hob was seeded fora fight
The evening supplement to the Wiener Zeitemg of
let September reotaios an intimation from Fiume
that a commissary of the Bennet brought orders on
the 28th ult that the governor and all officials of the
Magyar race ebould immediately vacate their posts,
and that care should be takes to prevent any moneys
in the Treasury from being sent to Hungary and
placed at the disposal of the administration there.
The Austria,' Lloyd of the 30th ult. publishes a
despatch from Lord Palmerston to Count Dietrich-
stein, dated March 23, acknowledging the receipt of
a note pressing for the fulfilment of the agreement
entered into respecting the treatment of Austrian
vessels at Bombay. Lord Palmerston intimates 'bat
the Anglo-Indisa government having abolished .ill
differential duties throughout India, they can of
course be no logger levied on Austrian vessels. It
woe then. fore anneceseary to take any steps fir m-
iming to Austrian vessels in Bombay the privileges
conferred on them by the treaty of Ic3B.

1111111 FORT, Bier. 4.
We have obviously arrived at a crisis, and not
merely a ministerial but a national, and it may be a
European, crisis. The law organising th- central
power attributes to the National Assembly the right
to confirm all treaties. The armistice for seven
months concluded between the Kings of Prussia and
Denmark, on the 26th of August, is of course subject
to the decision of the Assembly. M. Heckscher, our
Minister for Foreign Affairs, acknowledged this right
of the Assembly when he laid the armistice before it
this forenoon. He added that the right was the
more incontestable, inasmuch as the King had not
oonfined himself within the limits of the conditions
on which he wasauthotised to conclude an armistice.
But this Is of secondary importance to another ques-
tion raised by the tenor of the treaty. It purports to
hive been concluded " in the name of the King of
Prussia and also in the name of the Germanic confe-
deration." This preamble would of itself suffioe to ex-
cite the indignation of all Germany. The sole aim
and the first result of our revolution was to have done
with the confederation of the states of Germany, and
to make Germany, what it ought to have been since
1813, one confederated state (Boubd.attant). The
King of Pringle, therefore,and his agents, by treating
in the name of the 000federatien, have called in ques-
tion the right wlich the German nation believed it
bad acquired by the revolution, or, more properly, by
the restoration of the old German state.
The articles of the treaty concluded in the name of
a king, who has no title to enter alone into a treaty,
and of a confederation which no longer exists, are ell
calculated to reconcile our German patriots to this
forgetfulness of the rights which they believed they
had acquired by the revolution and the co-stituent
assembly in Frankfort. The first article grants Den-
mark an armistice of seven months—an interval
nicely calculifed to allow the war to recommee cc in the
month of March, and to save the Danes from all danger
of our troops crossing the ice and attacking them in
Copenhagen itself. The third article puts an end to the
blockade. The fourth restores the prisoners of war
to liberty. The fifth restores the vessels that have
been captured to their owners. The sixth recalls
the German troops from Schleswig-Holstein with
the exception of 2,000 men left to guard
the hospitals and arsenals. The same article
attributes an exclusively Schleswig nationality to the
Schleswig troops, and an exclusively Holstein nation-
ality to the Holstein troops, thus indirectly deciding
against the claims of Germany to have these provinces
recognised se German, and of the patriots of Schierl-
wig-Holstein to have them recognised as indissolubly
incorporated. The 7th article establishes an interim
administration In Schleswig-Holstein, which is to
govern in the name of the King of Denmark, two of
whose members are to be nominated by that monarch,
two by the King of Prussia, and the fifth by the
other four. The same article repeals all the laws
enacted by the late provisional government,
and thus re-establishes the status quo ante,
that is to say, the supremacy of the Danish
law, which ignores the German National Assembly,
and central power. The remaining ar:icles are insig-
nificant, and relate to Laneuburg. By the 10:h article
England is requested by the contracting powers to
guarantee the treaty. Finally, the concluding article
providee that the treaty shall be ratified within eight
days of its being concluded. It was concluded on the
26th of August : it must have been ratified at latest
on the 3rd of September (it was actually ratified on
the let], that is at least one day before the National
Assembly could know anything about it.]
I It is further provided in the additional articles that
the ratification, the raising of the blockade, the ex-
shanks of prisoners, &e., shall take place inim•-
diately. The interpretation universally given here
to this haste is, that the negotiating parties
have been acting in bad faith, and that, fearing lest
the treaty should be ill received in Germany, they
hate sought to give it as soon ss possible the charac-
ter of afsd oecompli. Some even go so far as to
maintain that the political interests of Germany have
besa entrifieed to the commercial interests of Ham-
ill:England.
is finally another additional article in which
the members of the interim administration are nomi-
nated, and the men who have been selected are
avowed opponents of the German tendencies in Hol-
stein ; Count Molke (the president) is the same per-
son who was charged with the execution of the letters
patent (droner Britt) which at the time occasioned
the insurrection in Holstein and the movement

throughout Germany.
It ts evident, then, that this treaty could not but be
revolting to the national sentiment of Germany. M.
Heckscher was repeatedly interrupted while reading
it by bursts of astonishment and indipth, from the
Assembly. A letter from M. Kamphanesn, the Pru-
den minister to the Central Power in Fraaltffiet,
which accompanied the treaty, endeaveared to szplsin
and extenuate the mast offensive eireemmisasse, bat
without snows. As soon as these deeumeati had
been read an energetic and impassioned Mansion
commenced. M. Dahlman began by reading a ques-
tion respecting the treaty, which he had intended
to put ; it came too late, but threw a strong light on
the most important articles. The extreme left in-
sisted that the debate on the treaty should begin im-
mediately; bat the extreme right succeeded in hav-
ing it remitted to a committee, who were, however,
instructed to report with the least possible delay. The
opposition then demanded that the Assembly should,
in the mean time, ism orders to suspend the execu-
tion of the treaty. Professor Wain, on the part of the
lett centre, moved as an amendment that the commit-
tee to whom the treaty had been treferred should be
instructed to report within 24 hours whether the
execution of the treaty should be suspended or
not. This resolution was carried by an overwhelming

majority.
To-morrow, then, this matter will be decided. I
believe the irional Assembly will not sanction the
treaty. It shooks too strongly the universally pre-
vailing sentiment in Germany. For the Assembly the
question as it at present stands is one of life or death.
If it admit@ that the King of Prussia hu a right to
contract treaties in his own name, and in the nsme of the
Germanic Confederation, all Germany will disclaim,
all Europe will laugh to scorn the new Central Power,
and the new Confederated state of Germany, which in
the first step it endeavours to take renders itself ridicu-
lous. The Frankfort Assembly entertains this convic-
tion, and it is on this ground that I %enter, to predict
it will not sanction the treaty in question. At all
events the ministry mast be overthrown, even though
the work of its imbecility should be established.
(Along with this letter we received another from the
same hand, dated the 2nd of September, which ap-
pears to have been delayed by some accident. It con-
tains speculations on the affairs of Limburg and
Schleswig Holstein, which the events detailed in the
above have deprived of interest. But it narrates, in
addition, a striking incident inothe Assembly, which
we subjoin.]
FRANKFORT, Barr. 2.
• • The day before yesterday the National As-
sembly examined the accounts of the committee of
fifty. Guess how much this body, which wielded all
the power of the whole of Germany for six weeks has
cost the country P Only 3,849 fining 18 kreutser
(3001. sterling). You will allow this is not very ex-
travagant; and yet this committee of fifty suooeeded
in restoring Germany from a state of complete
anarchy to a state .of legal order, and all
!his without having shed one drop of blood, and
without (except in the MO of Hecker's ercapade)
having been once obliged to resort to force. The day
before yesterday the National Assembly passed a vote
of thanks to the committee, and this vote was inti-

mated end received with a simplicity almost patri-
archal. There were no big phrases—not one word
more than The nation acknowledges the services of
the committee of fifty." The Assembly felt that this
was enough; and the members of the committee ac-
cepted the praise in the same spirit in which it was
given without making any reply. When Sive, voted
for the death of Louie XVI. in the words, " La mort—
mane phrase," he flattered himself perhaps that he
had avoided the rhodomontade of his colleagues. But
there is as much pretension in his " sans phrase " as
in the biggest words he could have used. Our com-
mittee of fifty received the grateful encomium of their
country in silence. General Von Gagern, the first
martyr of our new era in Germany, was interred
come months ago without any funeral oration. I
know not whether this our official liconio sparing of
words, will strike you as much ab it does me. There
is much talk is the church of St. Paul—far too
much. But on every solemn occasion, since the
month of March, the Germans have shown themselves
chary of magniloquent phrases ; and for my part I see
I. this a proof of the unaffected earnestness with
which they Lave entered upon. the great revolutionary
work which has been begun, in Germany. This last
scene in which the committee of fifty took part
appears to me characteristic of a people strong,
earnest, calm, and resolute.

MADRID, Elirt. I.
The violent anti-democratic reaction going on in
France has inspirel the Spann' h government with the
id** of inatalling a new reign of terror here, at pretisell7tre
nameat when all teemed propitious for relaxing the iron
sale of arbitrary power, and restoring the even sway of the
laws. No account is made of the wide difference between
the circumstances oldie two countries. No sooner does the

Paris mail come in bringing the account of four 01fiV0 new;
papers put out in the French capital than the political chief
of bladed receives his can to he down neon the unfortunate
orgies of liberalism here. The Clamor Publico has suffered so
muchtr.)m continual seizures latterly, when it uttered the least
doubt of the government's complete wisdom and justice, that
it has been obliged altogether to drop the Wettest colour of
direct opposition. Yesterday a menage was sent round to
the offices of the different papers, to give notice to the editors
'that the government would not tolerate any unfavourable
criticism of its measures.
We hear this morning that Count VWahermosa has re-
signed his office of mayor of Madrid.
The revolutionary exaltado party in Catalonia is growing
extremely formidable. There are already seven bands dis-
persed hi varions_parts, and latterly an influential alealde
the district of Tarragona, has joined the rebels, whose de.
faction from the government is expected to be followed by
that of 3,000 ar 4,000. persons influenced by his example.
Bergs, in Catalonia, is blockaded by the Carlists, for re-
fusing to pay its quota of the contribution imposed.
Another outbreak at Madrid is expected, and much
eatiefaetion is said to exist among the military.
General Villelong& has placed himself at the head of the
army of Valencia, to suppress the rebellion in the Mam-
tease). He was employed upon a similar service in 1844,
behaved with energy, and came out with success. He has
publi•bed a proclamation to the ishabitants of the Mats-
triage.