The Express.
London, England, 1848-08-17 00:00:00

GERMANY.

AUSTRIA.—We have received the Vienna journals
of the 11th inst.

On the 9th and 10th the principal business in the
Diet was the discussion arising out of M. Kudlisch's
motion for the abolition of all feudal burdens which
originate in relations of subjection to feudal superiors.
The number of amendments is so great, that unless
tho mover's request to have their number re-
duced by incorporating those which approximate
most closely in their tenor into one, be com-
plied with, the debate must be interminable.
It appears, from the official report of the pro-
ceedings of the 9th, that several questions had been
addressed to ministers respecting the military opera-
tions in Italy. With regard to the alleged burning of
Sermide, and destruction of all the inhabitants, with
the exception of twenty-two men and two women,
Count Latour said that an inquiry into the
facts of the case had been instituted. To
M. Turko's question, whether ministers still
adhered to the declaration in the speech from
the throne, that the sole object of the military opera-
tions in Italy was to conquer peace, M. Dobblhoff
replied : " Ministers have made all arrangements in
their power to give effect to the declaration alluded to;
and not on our side only, but from another quarter also,
strenuous efforts are making to bring about a peace.
At this moment I can make no further disclosures."—

An extract of a private letter from Vienna, dated the
10th of August, appears in the Berlinieche Nadi-
niehten, of the 13th. It is therein stated : A German
propaganda for the Austrian democracy appears on
the eve of being instituted ; for it is announced that
a number of students arc about to repair to Munich
and the north of Germany. The democratic club
here enjoys the especial protection of M. Dobblhoff,
president of the cabinet. The city was alarmed today
with a report that a new attempt would be
made to prevent the Emperor's return. The working
men entered the town with a petition to M. Dobblhoff;
the national guard and troops of the line were about
to be called out ; but Professor Faster, with several
of his colleagues, repaired to the malcontents, and
induced them to desist from their intentions. The
Emperor has issued a farewell address to his beloved
Tyrolese and the inhabitants of the Vor-Arlberg.
News to the 12th, received since the above was
written, state that the entry of the Emperor was to
take place on the artermon of that day.
From Trieste, under date Aug. 7, we learn that the
German flag was posted by the side of the Austrian on
the castle. Early that morning divine service was
celebrated for the military in the open air, in honour
of the renewed union of Germany.
PRUSSIA.—Our Berlin dates are to the 14th inst.
inclusive. The news from the capital is of little mo-
ment. The papers are criticising the conduct of M.
Harkort, a member of the national assembly and a
conservative. It appears that the honourable member
bad treated some ministerial proposition somewhat
after the fashion that Disraeli used to deal with Sir
Robert evai before the breaking up of the party ; and
this is denounced as subversive of all party discipline.
The political clubs meet frequently and discuss the
'proceedings in the national miserably. All the Prue-
Wall journals are full of details relating to the king's
depa. tune from Berlin to attend the festival of the
Cologne Cathedral; his reception on his progress
I through Magdeburg and other towns; and his arrival
lat Colo.me. Respecting the festivities in that geod
old city our correspondent there writes as follows :

TEE COLOGNE FESTIVAL

COLOGNE. Aro. 14.

The following is a translation of the address with
which Privy.councilPir Steintwrrer, the head haymaker
of dill city. greeted his imperial highness the Vicar of the
Empire. on his arrival last night.
•" In homely, honest, and sincere language, as has ever
been the custom on the German Rhine, the old Rhenish
city gives a molt respectful, a most cordial welcome to your
lingerie? highness the illustrious Vicar of the Empire. And
that welemat of veneration and affection is uttered by us
here, in presence of tit.• lofty dome, the symbol of the future
arestuebs and unity f..f Germany. And like renovated tier.
MY% to Dobai gat %%loam alio, is Ns noned itzasph,

magnificence, and dignity. and in the now certain hope of its
completion, festively adorned and prepared fir the great an-
niversary which in its venerable and sacred aisles will collect
and unite from far and near thousands and thousands of

noble Germans, headed, hand in hand, by the illustrious
Vicar of the Empire, and the illustrious royal pro-
tector, and accompanied by the chosen of the Ger-
man people, they to whom is intrusted the founda-
tion, as well as the construction of the moat sublime
and most magnificent edifice of our times and of our
country—the cathedral of German power and G:rman
unity. And as, according to the plan of the architect, under
skihd guidance, and with the cheerful co operation of the
true-hearted assisointe in the work, we hope that stone to
stone will be happily and harmoniously joined until the
noble and God-dedicated temple be cqmplctetl, so we trust

German races will Power:ally and bermoniousli
work together at the glorious edifice of German nationality
and unity. key both edifices, under the Almighty protec-
tion, endure in their strength and besot% until remote times
and generations of men; and when 600 years mare shall
bare expired may another double secular festival be held
hero—a festiyalof German sentimentr,Grrman power, and

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German unity." The conclusion of this approiriate and
pithy address was ail 4:led with enthusiastic cheers.
The reply of his imperial highness was to the following
effect ;
My warmest thanks for this cordial reception. yon:barn
well called the Cologne cathedral the symbol of German.
unity. It is so, and it *hall be so. The work which, foe
Germany's, for our fatheriand'a, wtlfare, we hare to erect, is
a great, a gigantic one—even like your own cathedral. A
firm determination aal skilful workmen aro required, in
order that each atone may conduce to the harmony of the
great whole. We will supplicate God to givens the strecgth
that will enable all of so to co-operate with equal zeal end
perseverance in the construetioa of a united, a great, and a
happy Germany—one as fierily rooted as ycur cathedral. I
renew my warmest thanks, and give three cheers for the

city of Culoony."
The Vicar's example was followed by the countless spec-
tators. As orated yssterday, his imperial highness proceeded
on tout, amidst every demonstration of rispeet, esteem,
' and attachment, to tie house of the governor of
Cologne (Herr Von Wittgenstein), Who i 3 also the com-
mander-inchief of the civic guard. On his arrival at the
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governor's house, be was ie&ived by Prince lrederick of
Dusselde.rf (surrounded by a brilliant staff, whore uniforms
strongly contrasted with the plain private dress of the arch-
duke) and by the archbishop, who was accompanied by
several prelates.
This day, the first one of the festival, was Relined in by
the ringing of all the church bells, amidst which the deep-
tor.ed ones of the venerable cathedral were easily distinguish-
able. About nine o'clock the View of the Empire, accom-
panied by General Von Rauch (who has been appointed by
the King of Prussia to wait on his imperial highness during
his stay in Cologne), and the present architect of the cathe-
dral, Herr Zwimer, inspected the entire edifice, aud fre-
quently expressed his satisfaction with the new punkas,
During the forenoon the Vicar of the Empire drove through
the principal street' of the city in a plain carriage and pair
and without ary escort. Ile was everywhere erected in the;
most respectful manner.
Shortly after eleven o'clock the 'principal singing societies
of this city assembled in the large and handsome ball-roam
of the Casino (a private club-house erected in the year 1f131),
and give a vocal concert, which Fumed off with great suc-
cea. At one p.m. all the delegates from the various "cathe-
dral building fund societies " in Germany (and their name is
legion), assembled, under the presidency of the head of the
central society, in the so-called Rathham (town.hall), end
entered into interesting accounts of the progress of the clubs,
the amount of their respective subscriptions, Ike. A few
words respecting the Rathhaus may not appear out
of plate here. That building, which dates from
the 13th century, contains the celebi stet] Hann-hall, in
which are found a number of iarge stone statues, ripresent-
ing the members of the Hanseatic league. It will be zemem-
ben d that Cologne was also at one time a free city. In the
Rathhaus there are also good collectio.is of drawines and
copper engravings, a well-assorted library, and handsome
Gehelins. Over the marble porch area number of has reliefs,

containing inscriptions in honour of Julius Cesar, Augustus;
Agrippa, Constantine, and the German emperor Maximi-
lian, the founder of the Imperial Chamber and Aulic Council.
Another tan-relief represents Hermann Gryu (the heron
burgomaster of Cologne under Erigelbeet the Second) killing
a lion to which he had, it is said, been thrown in conse-
quence of his strenuous defence of the liberties or privileges
of the city. Connected with the Rathhaus is a very old
church, called the Rathkapelle, which, during more than
400 years, was employed as a Jewish synagogue. It we.
consecrated for the Christian worship in I t2O, by order of the
senate of Cologne.
The great attraction of the day was the grand procession
from the Neumarkt to the cathedral. Between two and
three the procession, after having stopped at the archbishop's
palace, in order to invite him by deputation to joinit, moved
through the principal streets in the following order :—The
mounted band of the civic guard ; a division of the mounted
civic guard; infantry band of ditto ; the choirs of the three
gyrumaia and of the burgher sch:ol ; the chief singing club ;
a number of other siegtag societies; the male and ferule
oreltan schools ; a second bend of the civic guard ; the va-
rious trades employed in the cathedral ; the general banner
of the cathedral clubs; the directors of the central building-
fund club ; the Bishops of Ermeland, Ilddesheina, Mat trice,
Munster, themburgh, Ituremonde, Spires, and 'reeves, and
the Archbishop of Cologne, all in pontiftalibus, and at.
tended by a numerous body of clergymen. Next came the
member- of the central cathedral Club ; the tat others of the
ether clubs ; two more bands of music, and a mounttel
da-
methaent of the civic guard. An immense crowd was esteem-
ble 1 in the atm to in the line of procession, and the windows
of the houses (all of which were gaily bedecked with ban-
ner., flowers, or branches of trees), were filled with ladies.
The greatest order and decorum prevailed.
As soon as the procession, with its hest of banners, reached
the lilosterplatz, opposite the great entreuer of the cathedral,
the northern and southern doors of that edifie* were thrown
open to the public, an.l several thousands immediately
entered, but all the good places had been reserved for those
who were fortunate enough to ebtain tickets. Detachments
of the civic Guard were stationed all round the choir. and a
portion of 'the southern nave. The Vicar of the Empire,
who bad been conducted by the I recession, from the house of
the provost of the cathedral, entered that edifice by the door
bete cee the tower already standing, and the foundation of
the second one, which, in all probability, will not be finished
for the next thirty I ears.
The procession stopped at the west entrance of the cathe-
dral, the various choirs and singing societies chaunting the
psalm of David, Latatus sum in his quer dicta sent mini:
in donitan Domini ibinius. Atler a few words from the
archbishop, the procession entered the church ; the architect
made over to the archbishop the new portions ot the build-
ing, and the splendid window, given by the ex.king of
Bavaria was uncovered. Another psalm: ()meat ailecia
tabernacula too! was chaunted, and t4e procession then
advanced to the choir, velure a Td Deigns and the episcopal
benediction concluded that part of the ceremonies of the day.
About half past six the King of Prussia arrived at the
D:utz station of the Berlin Railway, amidst the ringing of
all the church bells and the discharge of cannon from both
Bides of the river. His Majesty crossed over in the Schiller
steamer to the Cologne side of the Rhine, and proceeded on
foot amidst the cheers of the assembled crowds, and in com-
pany of the Archduke John (who had gone to Deem to meet
his Prussian Majesty), to the house of the governor of
Cologne. After a short stay, the King and the Vicar of the
Empire proceeded to the palace. at Bruhl, in which Queen
Victoria stayed one night on her visit to Germany. The
King of Prussia is accompanied by Prince Frederick, Prince
Charles, the President of the Council, eitei the Minister of
the Interior. Ail has pseud off happily and well to-day;
but to-morrow will be the " great" one of t:te festival. There
will be a splendid royal banquet and a geerral ieirmination,
including that of the cathedral andrthe bridge of boats.
HANOVER, AUG. 12.—Ministers have availed
themselves of the opportunity afforded by t!:.) presen-
tation of the memorial adopted at public meetings in
Hanover, Itildeshtim, and Celle to explain away the
most offensive passages in the unlucky manifesto of
the 7th of July. M. Bennigsen, in the name of his
colleagues and bin royal master, assures the memo-
rialists, in a written answer, dated the 11th inst , that
hie Majesty is most anxious to promote the real union
and liberty of Germany. The rescript then proceeds
as follows:
His Majesty observes with regret that his conduct in rela-
tion to those matters was rot at first rightly understood.
Bat he confieeetly anticipates that when hereafter it is re
viewed as a whole, every good and loyal Hanoverian will
admit that his Majesty has sincerely had at tweet the
unity and rights ot Germany. The memorialists a;lio.t. to
posoble colbsioas between the Hanoverian. government and
the central authority, which would be much to he regretted.
It is suffi tient for the vindication of the government to state
that there is no ground for such apprehensions ; that, on
the contrary, the most amicable relations exist between the
two high parties; end that, in particular, the relation on
which our mope are henceforth to stand to the central au-
thority has been formally ictimeted to them by a petered
order of the Gth of this month. In addition to this his Ma-
and this will be
jesty has resolved that the Hanoverian troops shall ad. pt. the
left at every
on e 12th ; and a
ihnol'uTaintinetdedcaitlounocuthnooepvia:rarmthbj,:efwifroithetemrehomiuktaansdcle:daslawanye:r
public meeting was to be held in a few days to de-
cide what steps ought next to be taken.
11ANIBURG.— Dtsvunneices.--Oar correspond-
ent, writing under dote of Hamburg, August 12,
sera:
Luc night the peace of the city was disturbed by a letter
i.uhlished in one of the local papers called the Reform, el-
treed to have been written by a pro- in the as lam,
signed Brakewaasen, who pretended that he had been kept
there these five years, though of sound mind, and giviag
as a resent for such cruelty that he is a °tined to property
to the amount of fifty thousand MUM Improbable
as this sorry is, it was believed, and plots formed to
liberate the man, Crowds assembled at the pig
market, near the gate through which they had
to pan, hut where they would have been obliged to pay the
ton ; they began to form hatricadee, but were disturbed by
the Burgher guards, who assembled in large numbers u
soon as the drums gave the alarm, and assisted the police in
destroying the harrimuks and in arresting the Titters: it
took them from about 11 to 1 o'clock. Three of
the speakers at the Tea-halle on Monday were
arrested yesterday, and will be brought to trial for 'editions
behaviour. These are Drs. Trines and Gabon and Mr.
!deer. Some people are afraid that attempts will be made
to-night to rescue them, groups heavies; been sees in the
neighbourhood who look suspicious; but, with the exers.lent
organisation and the spirit of our burette re, I do cot think
there to reason to tear that their &elect will be attained. It
leas the as it ail Stasis Wits us issil taus as