The Express.
London, England, 1849-04-16 00:00:00

GERMANY.

PRUSSIA.—The following is the letter of our cor-
respondent:
BERLIN, APRIL 12.
The government have seized another occasion to
evince their anti-German policy, They have refused
to eecogn•se a deputation of the Schleswig-Holstein
Assemb y, who arrived hero on Thursday to express
the satisfaction of the duchies at the imperial election
having fallen on the King of Freesia. After the dele-
gates from Schleswig had waited a couple of days for
an sneer from Count Arnim; to their application for
an audience with his Majesty, they were told by the
Minister of Foreign Affairs that the King could not
receive the deputation as such, but would be happy
to give them audience as private individuals, and as
them at dinner. The deputation wrote at once in
answer to Count Arnim declining to divest themselves
of their official character by being presented to the
King in a private capacity; and left Berlin to return
to Schleswig.
There prevails a strong suspicion that the Prussian
government are not bent on pushing the war with
that vigour which would bring it to a speedy close,
and secure honourable and advantageous terms for
Germany. Meanwhile the conservatives urge the
necessity of striking a home blow at once, propose the
ooeupatson of Jutland, and &drier, the issuing of letters
of marque for privateers to cruise in the Baltic. It
seems the loss to the trade of the northern ports will
be increased this year by the present impracticable
state:of the Bromberg canal, which during the last
war formed part of the circuitous inland water-route
which the merchandise of the Baltic took between
Kiel and Konigsberg.
The Second Chamber met to-day for the first time
after the holida The main subject of discussion
was an interpeltatien of Jung with regard to the mul-
titude of persons who were unjustly expelled from
Berlin. Jung brought forward a number of instances
to prove the arbitrary proceeding of the government
in this respect; but none of striking interest enough
to quote at large. Miuiteuffel answered that the per-
mit; expelled had been nearly all foreigner., who had
Man under Geo. Wrengel's order that all such
foreigners as could not give a satisfactory account of
their motives for reekVog in Berlin should be sent
away. For the net, it was doe to this energetic
measure that order had-been-preserred. On the next
, order of the day stand the laws on placards, and the
riet of association and assembly.
The central committee has decided by a railway of
4 against 3 in faiour of Waldeck's motion for the see-
pension of the state of siege.
In the First Chamber yesterdsy Kuh's motion,
affirming that the King of Prussia's answer to the
Frankfort deputation had exposed Germany to
danger, was reported by the committee as not urgent.
Thereupon, a debate ensued, Kea speaking at some
length. The chamber voted with the committee by a
majority of 76 to 38. In the course of the debate
Brandenburg stated that Camphausen had been sum-
moned from Frankfort, and would receive his instruc-
tions that day.
A new writ was ordered tobe issued in consequence
of the promotion of Simons to be minister of justice.
The new Minister of Justice, Simons, was formerly a
resident in Illberfeld ; and has for several years been
member of the Rhine-Cessation-Court in Berlin, His
activity isextolled ; but neither was his predecessor
defective in that quality. Yesterday, several of the
members of both houses attended the burial of Herr
Fosirinbeck, the fire, of their number upol whom the
dark lot has fallen since the beginning of the session.
Onsne capaz mood sena nomen. The government
has been almost exclusively absorbed with the German
question. On the 10th, a ministerial council sat four

hours, in the morning, and four is 41111" evening, at
whWCamphansen was pretreat ' '
O, King received Rum Martenei thb Saxon
z`plnisty, en the .102 i, to *meta his letter of
The,awful Dinh' deilittee_et Eckerntorde was
koowe; at Stettin oral aterite* of the 7th, and
changed the downcast be whielt the noes of the
blockade of Swinsuanste had speed amour the
merchants and skippers • lace the moraine, into a
feeling of triumphant satieftictien. Already they
seemed to have settled the peace to their mind, and
to wee their emancipated 'trading flotilla stretching
away with full sails through the Sound. The Dane
has lost through this defeat the fourth part of his
whole strength at sea in men and guns. His navy
ea paper is 40 ships of war with 1,126 guns. Six of
these are ships of the line of 84 guns; one of 66;
eight frigate. of 48-40; five corvettes of 26-20;
four brigs of 16-20; three schooners; four cutters;
four reamers. Of these are in commission : one
ship of the line, five frigates, five corvettes,
and five smaller craft—in all sixteen. The
Christian VIII. was quite new, having been run off
the stocks in 1846. After her upper part had been
blown into the air, the rest burned to the water's-
edge. The guns of the sunk wreck may be wily got
out, as the water is not more than 24 feet deep. The
Gefion, with the German tricolor flying at her
mast-head, is a goodly trophy. The blockade of
Kiel is by this victory de facto raised. After Eckern-
ford. had been taken, or laid in ashes, Kiel, Fehmarn,
Newstadt, Ste., were to be honoured with a visit from
Christian VIII. and company. When the Danish
ship sailed from Copenhapn, amid the cheers of the
people, it is said that her crew swore to spend their
Easter at Rendsburg. Their vow has been fulfilled
to the letter: for the 1,000 prisoners have just been
escorted thither by a reserve battalion. The prisoners
were of opinion that the powder-magazine had been
fired by a desperate midshipman.
The departure of General Fabrier from Copen-
hagen, which some ascribe to the French elections, rs
really the consequence of his disagreement with the
Danish war minister Hansen,who opposed the French
general's advice of waging a guerilla war, and giving
up all idea of a set campaign. For the rest Fabrier's
adeioe is now recognised as good ; and there is talk
of even abandoning Jutland, and bending the war
chiefly to blockades and coast attacks.
AUSTRIA.--We have intelligence from Vienna to
the 10th inst.
Letters from Pesthrepresent thetictory ofJellachick
as a snare of the Magyars into which be tad fallen, and
se been cut off from the Austrian centre ; and that now
the Ban would be obliged to fall back upon the Ser.
vians, while it is pretended that Schlink had, in
1 ke manner, been driven towards Upper Hungary.
Thus the Hungarian army had the path clear
before them to Comorn. In the meantime the
siege operations of Comorn are reported to have come
to a dead stop, from the persuasion that no effect can
be produced upon the fortress front the distance at
which the artillery of the besiegers is at present
obliged to be planted. A mutiny is also mentioned
as having taken place among the besieging troops.
A kattaliaa of Chateaus, which had already suffered
much, refused to obey the order to storm the rite
de pant. Thereupon the dragoons had to slash them
with their sabres, and were received by the mutineers
with rounds of ball-eartridge.
Letters of the 6th from Kaliech report the with-
drawal of the Rusean troops from thence. Their
destination was supposed to be Gallicia.
The garrison at Warsaw amounts to 50,000 men.
The new general reeru;trnent which is taking place
throughout Poland gives a strong impulse to emi-
gration.
The withdrawal of the greater part of the garrison
of Cracow is attended with the more hazard to
Austria at this moment, that everything indicates an
approximate rising of the Poles in Oallicia. That
this crushed people contemplate the successes of the
Magyars as the first steps towards the reconstruction
of their own nationality is indicated by the inde-
fatigable devotion with which the Polish generals of
the Hungarian army sustain the cause in which
they are engaged. Of this Russia is well aware; and
the removal of the Russian troops from Larch to-
wards Gallicia is the consequence of the drain which
is made on the garrisons of the latter country by the
Hungarian war. I may add that the commit.ee of
Isafety in Cracow, although they have published their
opinion that the withdrawal of the troops will not be
succeeded by any disorders in consequence of the re-
cruiting which is going on in the city and circle, have
thought proper also to hint that the commander
general has issued orders to the troops which remain
to lire immediately on any groups that refuse to
disperse on the requisition of their commanding
oaken _

Not long ago it wee reported that the Russians
had gained a great victory over Bern; that subse-
quently the Russians had evacuated Transylvania,
and that Bem had marched into Cronstadt. All this
appeared inexplicable. The following statement will
throw some light on the mystery :—During his march
from Hermannstadt on Kronetadt, Beni had to fall
back before a large Russian force towards the country
of the Sutlers in a north-east direction. Atter two
days the Russians pulled up ; Bem also stopped. Oa
the 3rd the Russians began to retreat ; Bem followed
them. At last they bivouacked in a strong positinal
before the mouth of the Ti rzburg pass. Bem es-
camped neer, sending out patrols towards Kronstadt.
Suddenly his scents came in with intelligence that
Turkish troops had been seen moving through the
Temeecher pus; and in fact before evening a Turkish
20,000 men strong, formed a third bivouac
cwith orps, 20,000
poets facing Bern as well as the
Russians. Thus, daring four days, these three
hostile armies remained in presence of each other.
At last one morning the Russian troops disappeared
through the TOrzburg Pass into Wallachia, and 24
hours later the Turks retired into the same country
through the Temeecher Pus. Beni, having certified
himself of these facts, marched on Kronstadt, of
which he took possession after a small Austrian divi-
sion left there had surrendered. The arrival in Vienna
of Mayerhoffsr, the Austrian consul at Belgrade, with
I important news, which he immediately went with
the minister to amen to communicate, perhaps has
reference to this sudden appearance of the Turkish
army in the Carpathians.
The capture of Zomber by the Hanweds.is ascribed
to tho blunders of Count Albert Nugent, formerly of
the Bandetil Hamm, now commanding a Servian
corps. Nugent had declared Zomber in a state of
siege, and left the place with his troops the same
night, requiring the inhabitants also to take to flight.
Bat they preferred to stay and surrender themselves
the Magyars.
The Magyars have advanced in the country of
Bacer as far as Verbas, and Parent has thrown him-
self with reinforcements into the fortress of Peterwer-
dein. All imperially inclined had notice to quit the
fortress within 24 hours.
By an order of the military authorities' just posted
up, the wearing of red caps, cravats, and ao forth, is
prohibited under penalty to be inflicted by court mar-
tial. The city and district of Fiume, Beecori, Porto
Re, and the whole sea-coast of Croatia, are by a notice
(dated at Agram, 28th March) of the military go-
vernor, declared in a state of war.
Letters from Lem beg, of the 3rd, state that a
corps-tParmee is by orders of Oen. Hammerstein
being collected at Mikis-
Letters from 'easy, of March 26, date that the
Russian army of occupation in b ith principalities is
97,000 men strong, and is to be increased shortly by
17,000, which are marching from Bessarabia through
Skuleni and Lipkaui. News had arrived from Con-
stantinople that in consequence of the late negotia-
tions of the Porte with the foreign powers, touching
the Rumba occupation of the principalities, M. Titoff
had solicited the Turkish eab'net to grant a term till
May for their evacuation. The Turkish troops eta-
Coned in Chaste have been relieved by fresh, and are
gone to Bucharest.

Our correspondent's letter is as follows:
VIENNA, Aran. 10.
I did not think it worth while to oommunioate
two official bulletins which were published yesterday
and the day before concerning the war in Hungary.
These bulletins speak, as usual, of 12 and of 6 can-
nons which the imperial troops have taken, of some
dozens of prisoners which they have made, and of
11311113 few men which they have lost, while all letters
agree about the fact that there was continual fight-
ing during three days in the environs of Pesth, that
the imperial troops have sent to Peach about 300 car-
riages with wounded men, and that they have re-
tired now close to :he walls of Pesth, several
regiments arriving in a state of total dis-
order, and all complaining of great lessee.
!lathe garrison of Vienas. 8,000 men, left to-day
I for Huagary; and the small army (12,000 men)
•

which surrounded Venice, has got order, to be in 1
Pesth before the end of the month. With those
troops we have sent now 280,0013 men to Hungary.
Near Pasth we have at this moment the corps of Win.
dischgrits, lellaehich, and Schlick, or about 100,000
men; in Oren we have 18,000; in FAseg, 8,000; in
Arrad, 4,000; near Ke-norn, 20,000; in Croatia,
15,000; en route to Hungary, 20,000.1
I do not think that the Magyars will tike Peath ; it
is not a good position, and it is quite dominated
by the fortress of Ofen. I believe that the Magyars
will rather relieve Komqrn and march against Vienna.
I have news from Hermannstadt to the 4th inst.
Everything was quiet there. Bern bad installed him-
self as military and civil governor, and kept up the
strictest order.
From Prague we had yesterday. a telegraphic
despatch that the dissatisfaction was increasing each
moment, and that a general outbreak was to be
expected. Our ministry has authorised M. Leven-
huller, commander of Prague, to declare the state of
siege and to publish martial law whenever be should
think it necessary. Budweis, where they have burnt
the constitution, has already been put under martial
law.
Here we had to-day an official order signed by the
military and civil authorities that nobody is allowed
to wear any apparel of a red colour. Any gentleman
or lady with red cravat or red ribbons will be arrested
and condemned conformably to martial law. Oar
garrison being diminished to about 8,000 men, the
rest being parted for Hungary, all private soldiers
had been ordered to keep out of barracks, and are
liable to 25 lashes if they return before eight o'clock.
This ordinance can only be explained by the wish to
show to the public that there is still a sufficient num-
ber of men in town to keep up what they call order
just now.

DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES.
(From our own Correspondent.)
SCHLESWIG, Aran. 11.
A skirmish took place yesterday between the
Danish and Schleswig-Holstein forces, between
Hadersleben and Christiansfelde, in which the troops
of the duchies were the victor', and in copse:pence of
which the Danes retren'ed, leaving many prisoners in
the hands of the Schleswig-HOlsteiners. General
Bonin's farces pursued them to the frontier of Jutland,
and there is not a Dane now left in the whole duchy
of Schleswig, except on the islands of Aleen and
Arroe. The Danes have resumed the course which
they adopted last year of making civil officers, and
even clergymen, prisoners, if they are found to be
favourable to the Sebleswig-Holstein cause. This
has been done even in districts where the country
people speak Danish, tte town of Ripen, in the north
of Schleswig, only excepted. This place, however, as
well as the whole of the duchy, is now in the hands of
the Schleswig-Holstein forces under General Bonin ;
and with the view of preventing the Danes from ill-
treating the clergymen and civil officers whom they
have made prisoners in the neighbourhood of Aleen,
the Statthalterachatt has ordered three clergymen,
and three civil functionaries in the Danish interest,
to be taken into custody at Ripen as reprisals.

HOLLAND.
THE HAGUE, APRIL 14.—The King has received
the deputation from the grand duchy of Luxembourg
who were commissioned to congratulate him on his
accession to the throne, and to receive his oath asl
Grand Duke of Luxembourg.
The Rondelsblad stat,is that all the troops who
were sent into Lembourg, in consequence of the dis-
turbances which tmk place there, have returned to
Bois le Due, tranquillity having been entirely re-estab-
lished in that duchy.
General Nepvere has quitted the Hague for 01-
miitz, where he is to announce the death of William
II , and the accession of his sm. General Van
Omphal is to discharge the same mission at Hanover,
Stockholm, and Copenhagen.
There appears to be a general apprehension that
the present cabinet will be dissolved soon after the re-
opening of the States-General. This apprehension is
founded on the fart of the severe censure which the

sections have passed on the financial project for co-
vering the deficit. Neither an inoome tax nor any
other tax will they hear of. The proposition which
met with the least objection was that by M. Slost of
selling lands in Jara, the creation of paper money,
and great retrenchments in the state expenditure.
The project of law, and the responsibility of antho-
rid,' gave rise to vehement animadversions.
In the Dutch expedition against Bali are very
many Germane, who lest year went as volunteers
against Schleswig-Holstein.
Letters from Surinam have been received to the
22d February. The colonies were in a healthy state.
Oa the 17th the Governor-General had published
three proclamations of local interest; the first referring
to the necessity of timely notice being given by per-
sons desirous of leaving the colony; the second limit-
ing the practice•of notaries to second clerks of the
colony; the third relative to pensions and engage-
ments to European military, and provision for their
widows and orphans.