The Express.
London, England, 1849-03-13 00:00:00

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• eirelts, which bays hitherto refused or delayed to
Ant reireeeotativey. An I even thorgh Prussia
ebeald c ny its point by a *arrow majority, this
would afford no firm footing for an emperor of Ger-
many.
The affairs of Germany are in a terrible state of
perplexity, but the entanglement is not yet great
enonzh to serve toe purposetc f Prusea. All that is
beinldel log in our pretest situation is owing to the
',teaks of that power. She lamed fr. m the begin-
stag at a eocsitution which would exclude Austria;
aim alone threw cold water on the popular enthusiasm
that would have scorched,withered, and dissipated all
obstacles to the reorganisation of Germany. And
after having done all this mischief she accuses of
want of patriotism all who refuse to pat their trust in
Ira, and blindly play her gams.
The second reading of the constitution will pro-
bably be moved on 'Monday next. Bat there is res-
in& to apprehend that foesign affairs sill come in the
so "Y. armistice of blalmtie will not be renewed;
hut it is said a treaty of peace has been concluded at
Petersburg. In one way or another this subject will
proy,,ke &elusion ere keg. If the armistice termi-
nates and the war is renewed, ministers will be called
to account for allowing themselves to be duped by
the Ramo-Denish pol'ey, which will appear clearly
only to have sought a suspension of hostilities
enrieg the winter month", when all the edvan-
tages were on the side of Germany. If the
mom of a peace concluded at Petersburg
is confirmed, the debates will be still more
msbarrsssine ; for the central power and the
damnably will, in that ease, have a right to accept or
reject the treaty, and this will give rise to difficulties
quite an great se attended the armistice of Malmo**.
In either esse we are rapidly approaching the crisis
which will determine both the internal and external
=got Germany for a long time. We who are
down the mud-current of the headlong tar-
rent that hurries, are lees then any others able to pre-
dict what the next day may bring us. But the Ger-
man nation will have the lest word an its constitution
• and policy, if those who at present rule it are incapa-
ble of comprehending that it wishes to re-assume its
• place assoog the great powers in the conclave of Eu-
mean states.

HAMBURG, MAWR 9.
To judge by tte measures taken by the war ftart.
mint in the duchies, they must expect hostffities
is recommence at the expiration of the armistice. A
clarnation to the landed proprietors acquaints
diem that troops of the empire are expected, and, as
was done in similar cases before, contributions in
kind,ssy food for men and horses, will, be levied ; the
iandlor* arc to take notice of this, and not to empty
their granaries either of corn, straw, or hay ; bat be
prepsred for requisitions. Another proclamation
orders the authorities to send in lists of all the able-
heti d men from the ages of 28 to 30 years.
The "central union for forming the landwehr," at
Schleswig, invitd Dr. Ingwcraen, at /atom, to assist
them in carrying out their plans; and he obeyed
the call. Volunteers, who got their arms from the
mend at Itendsburg, arc practisiog all over the
eleintry, particularly riflemen, and there is no doubt
Om contest will be a sanguinary one, the Schleswig-
Holeteiners seeming inclined to defend their country
to the last extremity against foreign aggression, and
the Danes, perhaps, not lees eager to conquer it. The
seasinander-in-chief of the Schleswig-Holstein army,
General Boobs, bas ordered all the waggons is the
peninsula of Sandewitt to stop which are carrying
sapplitor of food to the Island of Alien, where the
Danes muster very strong and are fortifying them-
selves. The typhus fever is raging there vielent'y, as
Wed by the Schleswig-Hohtem papers.
The Schleswig-Holstein diet is convoked for the
lath instant, to meet at the city of Stbleewig. The
Danish newspapers remark that soldiers in the ser-
vile of Denmark, who are natives of the duchies, and
en leave of absence. will not be permitted to return
when their time is up. This is contradicted by the
Behleewig-Holsten government; but at the same
time it 111 observed that they will be punished so-
serdieg to martial law if found fighting in the ranks
of
the enemy.
A regiment of Baden infantry quartered at Altona
sad the adjoining villsgen has marched this morning
is the direction to Rtndsburg, and will be relieved
by Saxe-Altenburghers, who are coming across the
Elbe from llarlang and the neighbourhood. This Is
the first moventtut of troops into the duchies since
the evacuations which took place according to the
armistice of Malmie. There are others to follow
from the south. 20,000 men will arrive, besides
10,000 PellealU3S, 6,000 Saxons, and 4,000 from other
northern states. - - -

To our commtros the state of =certainty is almost
as ruinous as if we were at war, the kar of its out-
Inak paralysing all mercantile enterprises which are
at all in connexion with shipping. It mast have a
bed effect upon tome branches of the English trade.
The news just received of the dissolution of the diet
at %roomier, and the grnnting of a liberal constitu-
tion by the Emperor of Austria to the whole of his
seessarchy, creates a good deal of sensation.