The Express.
London, England, 1849-01-08 00:00:00

DON, MONDAY, JAN. 8. 1849. (THREEPENCE.

sontinuing to represent the ideas that the imams majority
of the votes of the country had sososseeMd by his ducks.
It is said that the President of the sssiahya lssss shortly
to soave's* the 'ministry, and to publicly the
good understandiag that exists between him sad the men
to whom he has meafided the exemies of power.
I was unable from the late hour at which the dis-
cussion took plan to send yon the full details of the
explanations which took place yesterday in the
Assembly, as to the charge made against M. Leon de
Malleville' wlulat Minister of the Interior, by M.
Germain Barret, and of the interpellation of M.
Dupont (de Beam) as to the causes which led to the
resignation of that sainister.
The explanations given by M. Leon de Malleville as
to his resignation were, that his resignation
bad nothing in common with the mysterious
affair of the documents demanded by the
President of the Republic., and refused by
him as Minister of the Interior. The cause of
this resignation was not to be found in any (»lineal
disagreement between the President of the Republic
and the minist r, but a simple sentiment of suscepti-
bility personal to M. de Malleville, of which he is and
can be the sole judge. M. de Malleville ervered
into no other details, but kept himself strictly within
the limits imposed by his personal dignity and
parliamentary usages, and declared that he still re-
mained united in sentiment with his former colleagues.
The letter of the President of the Republic op M.
Lois de Mellowing pablielaiLin La Pearl., to which
I have alluded, as to which speculation has been so
much afloat, and of which so many versions have
been given, is as follows :
'Visite, Dec. 27, 1848.—Monsieur le Ildialstre,—l have
asked the Prefect of Police if he did sot sometimes receive
reports on diplomacy; he replied off ratattvely, and added
that he yesterday tren.mitted to jod copies of a despatch
on Italy. These despatches, you understand, ought
to be seat to me Immediately, and I mast express
to you my dissatisfaction at your delay in communicating
this. I also request you to send me the sixteen beam of
papers (cartons) that I have asked for. I wish to have them
on
Thursday. ((They are the documents on the affairs of
Strasburg and Boeing's.) I do not aadeestand why the
!dislike of the Interior should wish to copy the articles
which are personal to is.. This was not done under
Louis Philippe, and should not now be done. For
Some days I have received no telegraphic despatches. In
short. I perceive that the ministen that I have named would
treat me as tithe famous constitution of &eyes was in force,
but I will not suffer it.—Receive, Monsieur Is Ministre,
L. M._ BONAPAILTI.

—PS.liOri;i7,l say that there are at Bt. Lenre eighty
women under wrest, of whom only owe has yet been brought
before Use Council of War. Let me know if I have the
power to set them at liberty, for Ha, I will instantly give
orders to that effect.

GERMANY.

PRUSSIA.—Our intelligence from Berlin reaches
to the Oth inst.

The electioneering committees are ahead actively
employed, and are divided into To-liberal
and democratic ; the former damaging from their
candidates the full acknowledge/seat of the esastitu-
lion given by the king, and the latter regarding it
merely as the temporary basis far further demands.
The publication of a royal ordaining*, introducing
the jury system in every part of the Pruden mo-
narchy, is daily expected.
Herr Team*, the director of the =rem tribunal
of Alunster (Westphalia), whale now ia custody on
the charge of high treason, fir having, ea a member
of the late National Agreeably. taken steps to publish
and propagate the decision relating to the
suspension of the payment of taxes, has
addressed an admirable letter to the minister of justice.
He sets (oath that he (Herr Temme) was arrested and
imprisoned without any previous examination, and
that the charge of high gasmen was solely based by
the judicial authorities en the circumstance that his
name appeared among* the signatures to the procla-
mation is the people. Suck a Fooseding, he con-
tends, is unexampled is the aims* of justice, at least
in Prussia. Haw von Temme protests against the
competency of the shwa trilmaal, because the offence,
if any exist, was committed in Bettis, and not In
Westphalia ; because the enecalsers of the tribunal had
calcially denounced his conduct is the National
Assembly previoady to their haw called von to act in
their judicial capacity ; and lastly, because, as a de-
puty to the above Assembly, he was not accountable
to any judge or tribunal for his proceedings therein.
He complains that he is imprisoned in Ara of the
house of correction, a cell whisk had been previously
occupied by robbers and murderers. This, he remarks,
is extraordinary treatment for the president of a
supreme tribunal of judos. This protest on the part
of Herr Temme has not been altogether &wailing,
for the minister of justice has directed that the trial
shall take place before the supreme tribunal in
Paderborn.

FRANKFORT.—We bare intelligence from this
free city up to the bth inst. As anticipated, all par-
ties in the National Assembly were desirous of voting
the order of the day on Herr Wesendonek's motion
declaring the octroi of the constitution by the Log
of Prussia null aid void . • but the form in which the
respective coteries set forth their wishes, gave rise to
a long and animated debate. The motion of the spe-
cie' committee appo'nted to report on Herr Women-
donek's proposition was simply for passing to the
order of the day, without entering into the merits of
the question, so far as the Assembly in pkno was con-
cerned. Four amendments were immediately pro-
posed, and were subsequently replaced by tour others,
upon which the votes were taken, after the motion
of the coalmine had been negatived by a majority of
230 to 202.

The first or the amendments set forth that the
National Assembly, by its decision of the 20th No-
vember, had certainly promised to uphold the rights
and liberties of the Prussian people, amongst which
rights is the one, on the part of that people, of coming
to an agreement with the crown respecting the consti-
tution; that it had become necessary, however,
through circumstances, to break off (on the part of the
crown) the negotiations with the Prussian National
Assembly, and that the Prussian people clearly in-
tend to proceed to the elections for the new chambers,
thereby recognising the octroyee constitution as the
provisional basis, at least, of farther negotiations with
the crown. It was moved that, upon all those grounds,
the Assembly pass to the order of the day. This
amendment was negatived by a majority of 241 to
167. The second amendment (proposed by Herr
Simon) declared that the right of the Prussian
people to eater into arranuments with the crown
respecting the constitution, was one of the
acquisitions of the March revolution, and one
that could not be set aside by either party ;
that even it it were necessary, in an extreme point of
view, to diesolee the National Assembly, that necessity
did not empower the King to ()drover a constitution,
but merely to convoke fresh representatives of the
people; and that the Prussian nation clearly intend to
proceed to the elections, &c. [Here follows the con-
cluding portion of the first amendment.] This amend-
ment (the second one) was negatived by a majority of
236 to 158. The third amendment was to the effect
that the National Assembly, whilst recognising the
rights of the Prussian people to come to an agree-
ment with the crown with regard to the constitution,
and whilst acknowledging that the final settlement of
that question is only attainable by such an arrange-
ment, pass, nevertheless, to the order of the day,
upon the ground that the constitution granted by the
king had not been refused by the Prussian people,and
that constitution was not wanting in connecting links
for the maintenance of the principle of an agreement
between the people and the crown. This amendment
was negatived by a majority of 200 to 190. The
fourth amendment (Uhlend's) was as follows: "That
the National Assembly, as the representative of
newly-acqu'red liberty and political honour, as well
al of the entire Fatherland, declare that it cannot
acknowledge the legality of the constitution promul-
gated by the King of Prussia, or consider it compati-
ble with the self-consciousness of a free nation, so long
uit is not agreed to by the representatives of the
people. This amendment was negatived by a ma-
jority of 238 to 100; consequently no decision was
arrived at. It only remained, therefore, for Herr
Hunan, the Cologne deputy, to move that, as the
house would not come to any decision, the question
be considered dropped. After a stormy scene, this
motion was carried. The Assembly then adjourned
till Monday, when the Austrian question will be
brought on the 44.

RELOIUNL—CLoss or nu auou.s.—Navigor
lion ea all the mask of this eonatry has been stopped dam
the evening of tie Ist last. The frost was se sailidenly la.
tones during the a=f the lea, that in akw hours the ice
was several Isar'
NATlOATlon.—Daring the past year, 1,143 Teasels
entered the port of Antwerp; 1917 the neither which en-
tered, was 1,922. Tbk diffinsace of 779 vessels been • pro-
portion at seven.eitrhtlas on vessels from the snrth ; there
arrived but 268 is 1848, whereas the preceding year the sam-
ba was 965. This Is evidently the oonsequaris of the *nor.
moos diminution which is to be Awned in the movement of
imports in timber ard eorst.—Brtutels Hirai&
EXPEDITION TO TBe War COAST or Arms.—
The Louise-Mark, ganiot, et the Belem Royal Navy, tom-
mand-d by Pirst-Lieeeenaat Vas liaverbeke, has just sailed
from this port to explain, a mooed time, the western coast of
Africa. It will be neolleshad that this vessel made a former
voyage to those shorn, about a year dace, but it is not
generally known that the inforetatioa furnished by its
ememander ladosed an honourable manufacturer of
Obeid. N. de Co,,te to forward by the barqueßiame a ship-
ment of &Woo wookiodoom. the *slue of which may be
estimated at about 300,000 f. We think that Belgium should
watch with the real m interest this drat attempt at a per-
manent oommereial estAblishinent which, we have ne doubt,
will furnish a market fee our different branches of industry.
—bourne! d'Anears.