The Express.
London, England, 1851-02-03 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 3, 1851.

GERMANY.

TheAugsburg Alg. Zeit. eaysthat Prince Schwarzen-
berg will shortly return to Dresden; that the con-
ference there will be closed at latest towards the end
of this month, and be recommenced subsequently at
Frankfort. The tichleswig-Holateiners are very
indignant at the report that the North part, the
crown work, of Itendsbarg, which commands the
old town, and is the key of the fortress, is to be
occupied by the Danes. The triumph of the oppo-
, sition of the second Berlin Chamber, by the election of
Cunt Schwerin to the presidency, is very much en-
hanced by a contrary expects• lop having been very
coefidently entertained by the ministry. The Deutsche
Reform, in an article on the subject of the election
the day before it took place, says, "however
it may tall out, this political act will
have a deep signification, not for the ministry, but for
the majority." This hint is token for a threat of a
dissolution. The Roue Preussisehe or Kreutz Zeifung,
openly recommends that the chambers should if pos-
sible be intimidated into forming a majority for the
revision of the constitution on the old principles, or
if this cannot be done, that they should by
"repeated dissolutions" be driven to such
extreme views, as to rouso the nation against
them, and so make the necessity of a new constitution
felt by all. The Austrian Lloyd has several articles
against the constitution of the 4th March, and, though
the ministerial organs disavow them, there are from
many quarters ramous of a combined plan of Austria
and Prussia systematically in both countries to make
common cause against constitutional institutions.
Intelligence from Vienna of the 29:h tilt, states that
another conspiracy has been discovered, extended in its
ramifications. It seems that even part of the garrison
jof Vienna had been misled. The 4th of March was

fixed for a geteral outbreak. Severity persons, stu-
dents, citizens, and officers on half-pay, have been ar-
rested. Three battalions of the garrison of Vienna
have been sent to the proyiums. Rewards have been
offered for the apprehension of those persona who
attempt to mislead the soldiers. The Austrian press
will not be allowed to notice there facts.
PRUSSIA.

In was supposed that aarelive battle would be
fought in the Prussian chamb.re on the 31st, by the
divers parties, on the occasion of an election for pre-
sident, and that Count Schwerin' who is considered
too liberally inclined, would not be re-elected; the
result hu turned out otherwise. A telegraphic
massage from Berlin, dated the 31st, says:
Yesterday the definitive election of the Bureaux took
place in the Second Chamber. Count Schwerin woo again
elected president, by • majority of 180, against Count
Arnim, with 106 votes. On the other band, M. Cie=
was re-elected vice-president by 160 votes against b
with 131.

Boar tr,~FEP. I—Voluntary Loan,lo 61 ; New Loan,
Four-and-a-11614 per Cents., 100; National Debt, 841 ; Com-
mercial Marine Society's Premium, 1271 ; Bunk Shares, 96.
VIINNA, Ja'c. 31.—Fite per Cent. Metalliques, 98;
Four-and-a-Bali per Cents., ditto, £4ll ; Bank Shares,
1148 Eschange oa London, 12.40.

THE LAST PENINSULAR MAIL OCTWARDI DELAYED.
—lntelligente has reached the Admiralty that the steamer
Iberia, Which let Bouthompton on the 27th alt. with the
Peninsular mails, was obliged to put into Dartmouth on the
28th nit on account of the severe weather in the Channel,
I nut/ that Ott proceeded on her voyage «t nOOll On the 30th.

FRANCE.

PARIS, SATRILDATEYRNINO,

The Assembly's sitting of to-day was siit;e7i;ed by
an official communisation of the governuient touching
the mortality of children in Manchester, whieh will
create no small astonishmeht across the Channel. I
apprised you, in my letter of yesterday, that M.
Nadaud had quoted from a report of M. Blanqui,
made in the time of the Constituent Assembly, the
astounding sta,ement that, out of 21,000 children'
born in Lille, 20,000 died from hunger and cold be-
' fore attaining an age beyond infancy. M. W.l4e, it
seems, has been putting queatioos on this subject to
the Prefect of the Nord, through the electric tele-
graph, and today he mounted the tribune to read a
telegraphic despatch from Lille, which stated that the
figures given by M. Blanqui were copied from M.
Poncelet, and applied, not to the city of Lille, but
Manchester.

The sitting of the assembly to-day was presided
over by M. Benoit d'Azy. M. Nadaud wished to
present same explanations on the part of the Associa-
tion of Tailors of Clichy. Hereupon there arose a
stunning call for the order of the day. But M. Mor-
timer-Ternaux having requested the assembly to allow
M. Wetland to proceed with his explanations, that
representative was beard, and answered by M. Morti-
mer:lmmix, who stuck to the facts which he had
brought forward yesterday, and confirmed his general
position by fresh allegations impugning the character
of the ass3ciation. M. Madier de Moojan strove in
vain to prolong the discussion, the assembly calling
vociferously for the order of the day. M. Moulin
presented the report of the ccmmittre on M. Coeron's
petition, which concluded with recommending the
assembly to grant the authorisation fur proceeding to
the arrest of M. Mauguin.
M. Waisse, the Minister of the Interior then ap-
peared in the tribune, to rectify the statistical state-
ments which had been made by members of the
Mountain reepicting the mortality of children •t
Lille. The Left at first refuted to hear him, since M.
Madier de Mont,* had not been permitted to speak.
But the President of the Assembly insisting on the
constitutional prerogative of ministers to address the
house when they pleased, M. WhiASO proceeded to
read the telegraphic despatch from Lille, part of
which I have quoted above. The rest added that the
mortality at Lille among children from one to five
years old was one-third.
The Assembly rejected the motion of MM. Scbml-
cher and Perrinon, proposing that slaves belonging
to the domain of the state should tot be included in

the colonial indemnity.
The Minister of Commerce presented a bill relative
to a dispute between France and Chili, on a questioo
of tariff. After the report on petitions had been
read for some time, towards the close of the eittint,
M. Otrardin renewed his demand of yesterday fur
placing on tie order of the day the report of M.
Tillers on public assistance, and a report on the bill
presented by M. Defaure ; but, after some words of
explanation from M. Thters, M. Girardin wee induced
to abandmi his motion.

The tumultuous debate on the state of the working
dames has been marked by the speeches of three
workmen, one of whom, M. Nadand, may be consi-
dered as a genuine organ of the immense majority of
°wirer. The other two characterised all the schemes
of relief originated by the revolution of Fehraary
Utopian. Oce of these was M. Peupin, before February
a watchmaker, now a secretary of the Amsembly, and
the other, M. Loyer, who is now a wealthy manufac-
turer and representative.
The state of the li wee to-day was highly sdis-
famory. The Fives gained 39c. and closed at 96.65.
There was a corresponding rise in other securities.
No news, either foreign or domestic, circultved.
Even the dotation w.s Ito longer talked about. Toe
German news have ceased to have any influence on the
French funds.

Towards the Clore of the sitting of yesterday, after
the Assembly hart burked the 2,000 cantonal repot ts
on the state of the working classes, M. Emile
de Girardin, wishing to farce the majority
into a practical statement of their views cm
this subject, moved that a bill on public as-
sistar.ce presented in 1849 should be placed on the
I order of the day. This bill, it was said in the report
of M. Coquerel, was to be "a noble answer to the
madmen who foment sanguinary sedition, to achieve
utopian vanities." Sv. ral members denied the exis-
tence of such a bill or report; but M. Durant,, with
his usual incisive cle►rnees, established the existence
of the bill, which be himself had presented, and etr-
➢leined the motives of its having been shelved. In fact
it gave the government too strict a surveillance over
charitable institutions. M. Emanuel Arago proved also
the existence of the report, and stated that be had
heard a member of the committee ou Public Assist-
ance, of which M. Thiers was reporter, confess that
the report of NI. Triers had not been brought for-
ward for debate, because it was felt that whatever
advantage the majority might gain in the Chamber,
they would have the voice of the country agienst
him. This incident raised a tremendous storm. M.
Placatory rushed to the tribune and defied, in terms
little short of insult, M. Arago to name the member.
M. Arago maintained the accuracy of his statement, but
although he refused to give up the name of his in-
formant, he made a very bumble apology to the
Assembly for repeating part of a private conversa-
tion, and has got himself slightly snubbed this morn-
ing by the pepers of his own party for the moderation
of his tone.
Tte Moniker plibliabes the averages of the prices
of wheat in the last markets of the five classes into
which France is divided, and which serve to regulate
the import and export duties. The highest price per
hectolitre is IM. 3c , and the lowest 124. Bc. The ge-
neral average is 13f. 780.

SUNDAYEI'ENINO:

At the close of the sitting yesterday, kl. Girardin
announced that he should demand, on Monday, the
placing on the order of the day of M. Thieris report
on public assistance, and that he should move that a
report on M. Dufaure's bill should be presented by
the Committee on Public Assistance. M. Thiers re-
plied that the committee had not rejected the bill of
M. Dufaure, but thought tkat it would be discussed
with more advantage when the particular bills forming
a part of the general scheme of public assistance had
been voted. These had been either passed or were in
the stage of report. The committee would devote
' itself next week to the examination of M. Dufaure's
bill, and appoint a special reporter. The diacussion
of that bill would form a good occasion for a general
debate on public assistance. After thtee explana-
tions M. Girardin would not press his motion.
The Committee of Initiative yesterday heard M.
Saint Beare, who went into very long details on the
proposition he deposed some days since, tending to
organise the commercial regime of France on new
bases, in a fres trade sense.
Gen. Rulbieres met with a serious accident in de-
scending the staircase of the Genie dee Pyramidee,
on Saturday. Having made a false step, he fell and
ruptured the tendon uniting the knee-cap with the
leg. He then fell on his head and became insensible.
Medical aid was immediately called in. The General
pissed a very bad night. •
The celebrated Spontini, the author of " La Vestals"
and " Fernand Corte:" has lately died, at Jeai, his
native place, in the Homan States, where he had gone
to peas the winter, in the hope of re-establishing his
health. Being desirous of attending divine service,
in spite of the severity of the season, be took cold on
leaving the church, which in a short time induced
fatal results. He expired in the arms of hie wife, the
sister of M. Breed, the celebrated pianist.
The Dotation Bill, about which reports daily vary,
is now expected to be presented on Monday or Tues-
day at Wad. This measure is opposed as precipitate
by many of Louis Napoleon's friends.
MM. de Lansartine, Billault, Flandin, Dnelerc,
Bethmont, and Penny, were invited on Friday
evening to form a odential dinner party at the
Elysee. MM. Billault and Lamartine having been
consulted daring the late ministerial crisis as to the
formation of a cabinet, it is supposed that the guests
assembled at the table of Louis Napoleon on this oc-
ossion will form part of the definitive ministry, the
principle of whose composition would be in that coma
mixture of Bonapartiats and republicans of the Centre
Gauche.

M. illanqui has adireend a letter to the papers,
containing explanations relative to the statistical
statements attributed to him with regard to the mor-
tality at Lille. He goatee the pelage in which M.
Gooselot, surgeon at Lille, attributes to Manchester
the frightful mortality ascribed by M. Nadaud to
Lille.

The Central Jury of Industry met yeeterday at the
Ministry of Commerce, M. Charles Dupla taking the

chair. Forty-five members were present. hi. Schneider,
the Minister of Commerce, explained in a.speech the
' views of the government as to the London Exhibition.
The jury answered through the organ of their presi-
dent, M. Charles Duple. It was settled that they
should meet on Tuesday at the termines of the
Northern Railway, to examine the articles sent for
the London Exhibition.