The Express.
London, England, 1849-05-25 00:00:00

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856.] LONDON. FRIDAY, MAY 25, 1849. [THREEPENCE.

ITALY.

TUSCANY.—A letter from Florence, of the 16th
inst., says " The Mariam met at Leghorn with only
a feeble residua,. Sixteen thousand men, well armed
and commanded, could have only an easy task in dee
hating the defenders of that city. About 430 having
sought and received protection under the French
flag, the acinsalieneral of Frans mat some of them
to Buda and same to Marseilles. The Austrians
entered Leghorn as a conquered city. and the Tim-
mins now know lees than ever whetter they ere their
friends or enemies. No withstanding the strict discip-
-111•0 which Gen. D'Asprepromised should be observed,
smog booms have been plundered, and among them
sight or tom inhabited by foreigners. The damage
aidelmil toy Mr. Hall. an Englishman, is estimated
et "NO banes. The country paople came in crowds,
ttatl wohasid aksost at nominal priors all they
wanted. Yea at. acquainted with the insult peen
Is the Freseh flag, and its reparation. On the fal-
ba*. day General D'Aspre went on board the
tetasere, lyieg in the mitred, and again exwmeed
weaselly to M. de Gasquet, as he had already done
to M. Clavaud, somelander of the Inflexible, how
greatly he deplored this accident. The most eigaifies-
Ides act of General D'Aepre has bees Is order the die-
ziime:aced dreath:aotltalwiiaatuZialagiooloi_tralthe flag of
Doke
freely sompted.it by a fie of May 14, sad at that
time his principal ministers edge MM. Basin and
Baldasserene, and he acted in fall liberty.
efiewSTATES.—The /sdidesita
,-o/ dee 16th lest., cattalos a kettteerr from
Rome of the 13th, stating that up to that day the
situation had not changed. The French were fear
miles off, the Neapolitans twelve, the Spaniards at
Fiumicino • and that an attack from all sides
was expectedi to take place on the following day.
The Conciliators, of the 17th, however, states that
20,000 French are at Castel di Guido, 13,000 Neipo-
Wane at Albano; that the latter have not advanced, in
consequence of steps taken by General Oadinot to in-
duce them to halt.

GERMANY.

PRUSSIA.—Oar correspondent writes as follows
BERLIN, MAT 22.
The Emperor of Austria passed through Breslau on
the night of the 20th, on his way to Warsaw, to
meet the Emperor of Ruda. He was preceded by
General Berg.
The King of Prussia's assurance to his reople, on
the 15th of May, that the great question of German
unity was solving as speedily and favourably as pos-
sible, under the auspices of two or three diplomatists,
such as Radowith, Beust, Lerehenfeld, &c., has turned
out, even in the sense of the king, as usual, a mere
bubble; for it now appears nearly certain that
these plenipotentiaries are completely at logger-
heeds, and that their conferences have been broken up
without their being able to come to any agreement.
One source of difficulty regarded the reach of the
stadtholder's power and prerogatives in relation to
the g!.vernments. It was impossible for Austria and
Prussia, for Prokesch-Osten and Radowitz, to agree
as to the amount of military force to be placed at the
disposal of the central executive.
The last decrees of the Frankfort parliament rela-
tive to the appointment of a stadtholder to carry.on
the constitution, have made ounsiderable sensation
here. Whether the King of Wurtemburg will ac-
cept the etadthulderehip, in case they should select
that moearch for the office, as appears probable, may
he doubted. But one thing lam able to tell you,
from a good source, that the Prussian court's missies
of the Prince:Von Croy to Btattgard, has turned out a
complete failure. The king has stuck manfully to his
des:been in favour of the Frankfort constitution.
It was reported yesterday that the government
would send troops to Baden; but the landwehr is in
so dangerous a state of fermentation es to cause the
greatest embarrassment arid indecision. The breaking.
down of the Zollverein barrier in Baden and the
Palatinate is a more serious matter than the confisca-
tion of the custom-house tills by the insurgents. The
cotton printers of Berlin and the industry of the
Rhine will be a gocd deal effected by this breech in
the customs league; while the neighbouring esta-
blishments of France will pour freely their goods
into this extensive market.
The apparent p..litical apathy of Prussia at the
present moment arises from the critical state of
things in Framer. Hungary again, on the other
side, fixes their attention deeply. Let the reactionary
ministry be upset in France, or let Dembinski ;Attie
a decided victory over the Russians, and . you will
have this people in a mood which will give their
rulers more trouble. Meanwhile the military strut,
the police ferret, and the people scowl. They say
that a good number of seals are daily broken
at the post-office now, particularly of letters ad-
dressed to eminent persons at Frankfort. By the
way, the free postage which I spoke of yesterday to
the Prussian deputies at Frankfort, has been sus-
pended by a decree, which appears in to-night's
Staats-Anzeiyer. This paper was expected to con-
tain the new electoral law; but, if the chambers are
to be indefinitely poreponed, one does not i.e why
the ministers should be in a hurry to octroy a law
which could only excite more irritation agrinst them.
The vanguard of General Holleben entered Hagen
near Iserlohn, on the 18th instant. The burgherwehr
was immediately dissolved, and gave up their arms
at the town-hall. The Berlin landwehr wee not yet
' come in. During the whole way from Potsdam to
Hamm these troops showed so much insubordins-
tics that they were distributed in small parties over
the towns on the way.
In the fighting at Iserlohn fifty of the citizens
were killed. Many prisoners were brought in from
the hills about Blberfeld, who had been concerned in
the construction of the barricades.
AUSTRIA.—Dates from Vienna are to May 20.
It is understood that the emperor has gone to
Minute.
Alluding to the defeats of the Russian., supposed
by many to be somewhat exaggerated, the following
proclamation was issued at Pest&
Austrian newspapers dare to publish the lying report that
the spirit of diamrd had broken out in our armies, and also
among the noble Hungarian nation. Brave comrades in
arms, noble peop,e ! You know what credence such a report
merits. Oar battle for freedom ha turned the eyes of Europe
upon us; hasten to our head•quarters, and you will fled there
lilt only the envoys of our immediate neighbours, bat also
from Franco, the aragnanimeas Bogland, aye, even from
states bared the great omen. Do not tremble at the ap•
Mouth of the Rumbas, nor at their cannon. The brave
Lent.-Gen. Beta has twice succeeded, as you know, in
chasing away the bold stranger, when he entered our land
from Galicia. At Henan, on the 7th of May, 6,000 Rua-
piens laid down their arms; oa the 9th and 10th of May, at
Ana, more than 30,000 men ; their officers fight now in our
ranks. Their arms, artillery, ammunition, and heroes were
our booty. Pontoon bat for a while in the contest for our
rights, for our freedom, and our j
Presiden Koester', ras sill triumph.
The
BATHIAXT, WLADISLAW HAMM=

Del:met:hi, May 19, 1849.
While the severe penalties inflicted on editors who
infringe the order of Barn, to abstain from giving
news from the mat of war from all but official sources, I
oblige us entirely to rely for intelligence on the bul-
letios of the Wiener &Oen,,
these are rarer, more
meagre. and insignificant than ever.
All the news from Freeburg indicates preparations
in the army fora decisive movement to reconquer the
line of the Waag. 100 with bridge:mate-
rials, arrived at Tyroau on likh. The points at
which the vangnaM would attempt to °roes would be
Posteny, Freistadt, and Eisered. The first of these
towns im on the left bank, and therefore in posesesion
of the Hungarians, who had 40 large pieces of
lamp planted planted there. Wohlgemath marched at the
bead of two brigades and artillery from Tyrnau
towards Freidadt on the morns of the 16th.
Hereabouts, therefore, in the Leigh of the
fortress of Leopoldetadt, aas engagement must
ensue. Meantime the Hungarians wpm to have
drawn off the greater portion of their feces towards
the mountain towns, and to cootsesplate a descent
upon &Ws, where the revolutismary disposition of
the people would cause them to be moseyed with open
alum
The Russian general Berg has left %sash, on a
mimics of importance fe Paskardlchs at WallaW,