The Express.
London, England, 1849-01-30 00:00:00

render as little severe as possible the steps ait
may be taken against those who may be in the esa.
ton of Tessin.

GERMANY.

HAMBURG.—Our correepondent writes under
date Hamburg, Jan. 26 :
You will have observed by our newspapers that a skirmish
took place oa the borders between a Danish partisan corps a
600 to 600 men,_ who craned the frontier from Jutland into
Schlrevrig, ar.d a troop of cavalry, assisted by a small
division of Miasma, under the command of Certain V.
Rubin' r, who attacked theta. After they had ante end he
summons to surrender by firing at him and killing one of
his, he routed there, killed three, and wounded 26, whom he
made prisoners. Unimportant as the affair is, the sensation
it created, taking plate during the armistice, was not sung.
When the treaty was sigr:ed, all the German itreguler troops
were withdr.,wn from the duchies and disbanded, to prevent
• predatory warfare of this sort. The Danish government, it
apps tie, did not take that precaution. According to some
accounts, it was a part of ti.e Jutland " landstuna"
(ory en mane) who committed that breach of the armistice,
for the purp-se of preventing the tax payen from paying thik,
taxes to the Schleswig. Holstein authorities. If this vertioa
is comet, it was no doubt done with the connivance of the
Danish government.
titi.das, memorials, and addresses of all sorts, are pouring
in upon the parliament in Frankfort and the Archduke
John, Vicar of the Empire, from the towns of listzbury
and Mblln, in the duchy of Lauenburg, about the succession,
which his since time immemorial be en only in the mile line.
When that duchy was c'ded by Hanover to Denmark all
their rights were guarant.ed to them. They claim to be
relieved from the Danish sceptre when the mai= line of the
pre set kings is extinct, and to he transferred to the rule of
the mile heir (t. e., the Duke of Holstein Augustenburg),
and not to he separated from Germany. Another t etitten,
from the prelates, nobles, and the owners of estate. which
formerly belonged to noblemen in Schlep** sad Hetl.teic,
in tact the representatives of the upper classes in their old
parliame rats, as long as they existed, protested against Ma
separation of the two duchies. They claim the continuation
of their union, bath as an historical right of four centuries'
standing and bcca'sae the ties and cont.r lions existing between
them, cannot be separated, they say, without the ruin of both
countries ; and therm fore they desire, as a basis of the pease,
the undisturbed union. A petition to the same effect has
been received from the town of Haderslebe n.
The committee of the Spanish bondholders at Berlin are
likewise petitioners to the parliament at Frankfort. They
nsemorialtee the same as they did the Prussian ministry, to
use their influence with Coe Austrian and Prusslan entre.
merits to melee the Spanish government do something at last
for the unfortunate foreign creditor, of Spain. They state
the same facts which were expos. d in the British parlia-
ment ; and say, moreover, that the Dutch government his
instructed its anabas.cdor at Madrid to that effect, and that
the Belgian, the French. and English will do the same.
They hope the cabinets of Vienna and Berlin will out rem in
behind.

The cftletal publication of the fundamental law, or Nil of
rights of the German people, by the senate in our newspapers
since Saturday lay, has not created that sensation which it
did in other parts of Germany. Only the inhabitant, of the
Jewish persuasion manife t a nervous desire to fee the 16
section put into practice ; and when you consider how Lug
they have been struggling for their emancipation oksined
by them under the reign of Napoleon, and ►natched main
from them at his downfall, though they had been lighting
against him in the rank. of their fellow•citizens, you will
not blame theta for their present eagerneas.
Since last night we have a gale of wind from the west,
which will clear the river of the ice still left, and will sink
it, so that we may expect the shipping quite open to-morrow.

BRAZILS.—Dates from Bahia to the 24th Decem-
ber have been received in Liverpool, but there is nothing of
iuterest to report.
UNITED STATES.—We have received American
pipers of the 12th, brought by the Waterlo", but they afford
little to be added to the telegraphic despatch we ealblished
yesterday. The slave question u approaching to a crisis.
Tee motion for bringing in a bill prohibiting the slave trade
in Columbia, had given rise in the House of Representatives
I to counter motions. amendments, and their consequent warm
discussions. The Illinois legislature have passed reenlutions
instructing their senate's and representatives to obtain the
prohibition of slavery in all newly-acquired territories. On
the otter side, Mr. Calhoun has issued a manifesto urging
the southern states to unite and prepare fur a concerted de-
fence of its "rights" against the aggressions of the north.
The California mania is raging more generally than
ever. Many holders of lucrative situations have given them
up to b•. come gold seekers. Several artists, editors, printers,
and doctors, have also joiced in the pilgrimage. Oa Wed-
nesday, the 10th, a " mass" meeting was held in New York,
to organise an overland expedition to C.tliforn is. Articles of
agreement, pledging the subscribers to abide by the orders
and instructions of the president and directors, and to fur-
nish, from time to time, the necessary feeds, were signed by
a large numbcr of persons, each paying the initistiou fee of 1
dot The printed report of a committee appointed at a pre-
vious meeting, was also produced and distributed. The cold
in many of the states was unusually intense. The New York
Courier and Inquirer complains of frozen types, and that
their standing news " defied distribution, but was as had
Red compact as adamant.

*Mt gtourt.
WINDSOR, MONDAY.—The Bishop of Oxford left
the Castle to-day.

A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon at
the Foreign offic,. The ministers great nt were Lord John
Russell, the Lord Chancdl r, the Marquis of Lansdowne,
the Earl of Minter, Sir George Grey 1, istount Palmerston,
Earl Grey, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Francis
Baring, Sir John Hobhouse, Lord Campbell, the Right Hon.
H. Labouchere, the Marquis of Clanricarde, and the Ruled
Carlisle. The council sat two hours and a half.

Sir Henry T. De la Beetle bad an interview with
Earl Granville yesterday at the office of the &aid of Trade.

DEATH OF MAJOR-GENERAL SIR GUY CAMPBELL,
BART.—This distinguished officer died at Athlone (which
district he commanded since 1842), on the 27th inst. He
entered the army as as ensign in 1794 ; was present in the
battles if' &dein and Vimeira, and in the retreat to and
battle of Corunna. In 1809 he served with the expedition
to Weleheren, as aide de camp to Sir John Hope. In 1810
Captain Campbell acted as military secretary to General
Campbell, then Governor of Gibraltar; but in 1812 the
captain gave up this appointment to join his regiment (the
6th Foot) in Portugal ; he was present with it in the battle of
Vittoria, end, in 1813, succeeded to the command at Ronces-
valise. Major Campbell was severely wounded in command
of his regiment at the heights of &whaler, and for his gal-
lantry on that occasion was promoted in the field to the rank
of lieut-colonel. He was also present in the actions at the
Pyrenees in July and August, 1813, fur which he received
the medal at the end of that year. Lieut.-Colonel Campbell
returned to England in consequence of the severity of his
wounds. He served again in 1815 in Flanders ; was attached
to Sir Thomas Pinion's division, and was present at Quatro
Bras and Waterloo. For his services, he was, in June, 1815,
nominated a Companion of the Bath, and crested a baronet
of the United Kingdom. In Nov., 1841, Sir Guy Campbell
became a major-general, in 1812 he was appointed to the
command of the Athlone di,trict, and in Ont., 1848, obtained
the colonelcy of the 3rd West India Regt. These lucrative
appointments are thus vacated.