The Express.
London, England, 1848-10-11 00:00:00

plexion. This is only mart, however. Another
report is that he proposed to call to office MM.
Defame, Visions, Barthelemy St. Hilaire, UM de
Ma&milk, General Changarnier, and, finally, MM.
Gamier Pages and Declere. Another project is men-
tioned as having been promised support both at the
Ree de Poitiers and the Institute, for a ministry con-
Ostia" half and half of republicans of the collie and
republicans of she tensional*.
All these speculations, however, on the tactics of
the Roe de Polders, must be based on mere conjec-
ture; that jetrty bad no meeting since Friday, nor will
it have any till Wednesday; there were, however,
last night, numerous small " reunions" in private
Wass. the desultory conversations at which can be
the only grounds for these rumours.
is generally understood that the election of the
Zitt will be postponed until a month after the
"which the const.tution is declared, but no pro-
position for any further postponement will be tole-
rated. The committee on the constitution had a
meeting this morning at which it was resolved to pro-
pos* to the Assembly that the election shall take
place immediately after the constitution has been de-
clared.
M. Prondhon has distributed today an amendment
on the article of the constitution to the effect that if
none of the candidates for the presidency should ob-
tain an absolute majority, the president should be
elected by the people of Pans.
The proceedings of the Assembly to-day were pro-
foundly interesting, although no speeches worth re-
porting were delivered. At the commencement of
the sitting several amendments were proposed with
the view of modifying in various ways the mode of
electing the president defined in the project of the
constitution. Them were severally rejected after very
little discussion, when finally the 43rd article,declanng
that the president shall be elected by universal suf-
frage, by ballot, and by an absolute majority, was
earned by a majority of 627 against 130.
The article 44 was then discussed, which is to the
following effect:—that if no candidate shall obtain
more than half the entire number of votes delivered,
the National Assembly shall elect, by ballot, one of the
five candidates who shall be highest on the poll. This
was finally adopted; but an amendment in the
original article was also adopt.2d, which substituted
two millions of votes as the lowest number which can
render the election valid, for three millions, as pro-
ported in the project.
The article 45, declaring that the president must be
a natim of France and a French citizen, was then
debated. M. Authony Thourret proposed an addi-
tion to this, excluding every member of the royal and
imperial families. This was opposed by the members
of the committee, and supported by MM. de Ladre
and Reynlud. In the midst of this part of the debate,
Prince Louis Napoleon entered the house, and,
ascending the tribune, protested with much dit,nity
and force against the name of pretender, which' was
continually fixed :upon him. He declared that he
assumed no character except the honourable one of
the nominee of 300,000 French citizens, who had

twice returned him.
After this M. Thourret withdrew his amendment,
and the article 45 was voted without division.
It will be seen by rvterence to our Bourse report,
that there was a fall in the funds of 3 per cent., attri-
butable to the present governmental crisis.

GERMANY.

Our correspondent writes :
VIENNA, OCT._ s.—The

has entrusted

o.—The Emperor ._
the Baron Adam Recety (Lieut.-Captain of the Run-
ge:len Life Guards) with the task of forming a new
ministry in Pesth. The latter has accepted the mis-
sion—a difficult and dangerous one. His Imperial
Majesty hes a'so issued • rescript addressed to the
Hungarian Diet:
The Emperor, after greeting the members of the Diet,
expresses his displeasure at their illegal preceedings and
illegal resolutions (and. r the influence of Kossuth end his
adherents), and at their hostile decision respecting the mis-
sion of Count Lamoerg—a decision which had for its result
(in Folge desseo) the assassination of that royal commis-
sioner. The limpeinr then decrees the immediate dissolu-
tion of the Diet and the i:legslity of all its resolutions not
manetionvd by him; appoints anew the Baron Jells-
'shish commander-in-chid of all the troops and armed
sorps of Hungary and the allied kingdoms; places
Hungary under mutial law, nominates the above noble-
man as his royal commissioner and p.enipotentiray,
declares that whatever that personage shall ordain, arrange,
determine upon, and order, shall be considered as done by
Ida rota set'. se.d eommands all persons in authority to obey
dr Ban of Cutatia as implicitly. so t, sy wou'd the King of
Hungary. The emperor next instructs the Bin to bike
see pa for punishing with the utmost severi,y of the laws the
assailants and murderers of Count Lemberg, and bolds out
the prospect of • future congress of the representatives of t
various nations of the monarchy, for the purpose of arranging
their respective interests.
We have accounts from Pesth up to the evening of
the 2d inst. All business is entirely suspended, and
the National Guards are constantly under arms. The
firm resolution of the inhabitants, that is to say of the
Hungarian portion, is to defend it like another Sarep
gone. It is now certain that a short truce had bees
agreed upon, but, notwithstanding the armistice, a
sharp contest ensued on the let inst. between portions
of the belligerent parties. The result was, that Jells-
chick fell back still further. The report that the two
brothers, Counts Zichy, had been hanged as traitors
in the Hungarian tamp is confirmed. Com-
rmising letters from Jellachich and the Arch-
duchess Sophia were found in their possession. The
two brothers were allied by marringe with Prince
Metternich. The Hungarian camp is at Miulonva-
ear ; on the 2nd it received reinforaments to the
amount of 21,000 men. Toe levy en masse is hourly
adding to the numbers of the Hungarian forces. Ac-
cording to the Journal of Austrian Lloyd's' a portion
of the left wing of the army of Jellachich had fallen
back on Raab, where they laid a heavy contribution
on the inhabitants, which was reluctantly paid. The
same journal adds that numerous masses of Hunga-
rians (called out as a Landsturm) were approaching
that town in order to expel the Croatians. The troops
of Jellachich, it is stated, are in anything hot military
order.
On the afternoon of the 2nd instant, the civic
authorities of Pesth issued a proclamation, stating
that the Croatian army bad advanced to Mar-
lonvasar, in spite of the resistance of the Hun-
garian troops, and ordering all persons capable of
bearing arms to march oat that day to join the army.
All shops are to be closed for eight days. In the
evening an immense mass left the city. for the camp.
The committee for the support of indigent mecha-
nics in Vienna has just published an interesting re-
sort
of its labours since its formation on the 12th nit
The report shows how much may be done by judi-
ciously aiding the working classes ; not so much in
giving pecuniary relief (for that is not the chief ob-
ject of the committee), as by affording them the means,
as far as possible, of pursuing their respective occu-
pations. A complete "organisation" of :about' may,
pottage, be a chimerical idea, but assuredly much
;good may be effected, particularly in second or third-
rate cities, el' fortiori in small towns, by associations
similar to the one in Vienna.
Up to the 25th ult there have been 661 eine d
cholera in Lemberg (Gallica), of that needier UM
are reported as cures, 301 as deaths, and the a-
'spender as doubtful.
PRUSSIA.—The Berlin journals of the Bth have
arrived. Ministers are booming every day mass
popular, or rather lees unpopular than they were at
the time of the first formation of the cabinet. Know-
ing that the possess the confidence of the crown, in-
asmuch as were freely chosen by the King, not
only beyond e circle of, but without any reference
to, the parliamentary party that brought about the
downfall of the preceding administration, they are
anxious to derive additional support from the popular
side, as proved by some concessions on their part. The
late cabinet, which was all but literally forced upon '
the crown, adopted a different line of policy. Cogni-
sant of its weak side, and yet too confident of its
eseure possession of popular support, it drew nearer
every day to the so-called court par y, but whilst gaining
sewstrengthin one direction,itbecsune enfeebled in the
other, and at last discovered—to i i utter amazement
—that the parliamentary majority which first raised
it to power had fallen away from it all at once, ren-
dering it not only useless but injurious to that crown
which, in turn, was unable, if not unwilling, to come
to the rescue of its too subservient adherents. The
Von Panel administration is t iking a wiser course,
and its concessions to public opinion, whilst gaining
for it a certain amount of parliamentary and popular
support, will tend to the consolidation of the con-
stitutional monarchy. The tenure of office, however,
in Berlin is very precarious, and there were rumours
afloat of a modification of the ministry. Meantime
the thoroughly radical portion ot the constituent As-
sembly being on pretty good terms, at all events not
in avowedly bad terms with the cabinet, and having a