The Express.
London, England, 1848-04-21 00:00:00

GERMANY.

PRUSSIA.—We have received our usual files
of German papers. The date of those from Berlin
is of the 18th. Our correspondent writing from Co-

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lope on the 18th says :
rhe Prussians are beginning to call seriously into gela-
tion the right of Austria to place herself at the head of the
Germanic Confederation, and consequently to act as the
leader of the Germanic Diet. Several Prussian journals
have of late analysed the population of the Austrian em-
pire, in order to discover
comparison the various
betwee inngr it ediand the com onesng
it, and to draw ain
Prussia. The analysis has led to the following discoveries.
—ln Hungary, Gallicia, Bohemia, Moravia, Steiermark,
and Illyria, there are 14,200,000 Slavonians ; and in Hun-
gary, 4,000,000 Magyars ; its Italian subjects amount to
4,4410.0(10 ; its Wallachian to 1,300,009 ; its Jewish to
450,000 ; its gipsey tribes (Zigeuner) to 30,000 ;
and its pure German to 6,300,000 only. In the
following analysis, the general census of 1820 (31,624,688
inhabitants) was held in view. The population has increased
since that time, but the above data will serve to show the
relative numbers of the Germans and non-Germans. On
the other hand, it is proved by figures that the population of
Prussia, exclusive of the Polish inhabitants of the province
of Prussia and that of Posen, is 15,000,000 of true Ger-
mans, speaking the German as their vernacular, and tho-
roughly German in feelings, habits, sympathies, and origin.
The Prussians place these two figures, 6,000,000 and
15,600,000, in juxtaposition, and proudly ask whether Aus-
tria with the former or Prussia with the latter should be
Linked upon as the head of the Germanic Confederation and
the President of the Diet.
klection committer, are now in course of formation in nu.
114k.trOU5 town', hi order t steure popular del. gates for the
forthcoming assembly at Fraukfert.
It appears that the reserved troops that gave rise, through
their misconduct, to the late sirious riots at Aix.la.Chapelle,
were exclusively from Pomerania, a part of the monarchy
where numerous influential individuals have attempted to
produce a reaction, by representing that the Kiug was kept
a state of constraint by his rebellious subjects of Berlin,
and that he was not a free agent. In some parts of Pome-
rania the soldiers went so far as to tear off the German
cockade from the hats of the inhabitants.
Up to the 16th inst. Prussia had forwarded to Schleswig-
Hoist( iu 14 battalims of infantry, the 20th infantry rPiti-
men*, one battalion of the 31st ; the 2.111 regiment of Cui
rassisrs, two squadrons of the 3rd Human, six other .guad-
cons, 22 field pieces, and the 3rd Artillery brigade, altogether
13,000 men. Counting the Hanoverian, Brunswick, Olden-
burg, and Schleswig-Holstein troops, the Gersaan army
amounts eo 26,000 men, with 60 field pieces. The Danish
torte is set dowu from 20,000 to 24,000, with 96 field pieces.
The fleet, however, of Denmark mote than makes up for the
interior number of its land army, which is, moreover, flaily

on the increase.
About 9 o'clock on the night of the 17th, at Cologne, a
special engine arrived from Aix-la-Chapelle, bringing the
intelligence that the troops stationed in that city, and the
civic guard, were unable to repress tr e riot which had
first broken out there on the 15th in consequkne. of the mis-
conduct of some of the reserved troops, and which continued
during the two following days: Six rioters were shot on the
evening of the 16th by the civic guard, and ushers wounded.
Two battalions, with several pieces of artillery were imme-
diately despatched, on the night of the 17th, by special train,
to Aix-la-Chapelle.
The latest accounts from Posen (adds our correspondent)
are up to the 16th inst. The Polish armed limps, who had
not returned to their homes, were about to be incorporated
with the troops of the Hoe. It has beta resolved by the
Polish inhabitants to appeal to the (Aermanic Diet in favour
of their national re-organisation. Bitter complaints are
heard respecting the vacillating policy of the Prussian
cabinet with respect to Posen, and also with reference to the
excesses committed by the Germans. There is some talk of
raising a Polish loan ia London.
It is now fully ascertained that the majority of the Polish
army at Schroth' have laid down their arms. The remainder,
utaler the command of Mieroslawski, have taken to the
forests. In several Owes the sithensen had conflicts with
the Prussian soldiers. The Prusso-Runisn frontiers con-
tinue to be well guarded. A number of armed " Russian"
Poles crossed the frontiers at Labaschin, but were driven
back by a detachment of Prussian hussars.
BAVARIA.—NIuNtcn, APRIL 15.—King Ludwig
had resolved, as is well known, to proceed in the
first instance to Switzerland, and afterwards to
Aschaffenburg. It was stated that it was the royal
intention to fetch the Countess of Landsfeld, and to
take her to Aschaffenburg. When this was found to
be the case several of the chief officers in the service
of King Ludwig declared they would sooner take
their leave than accompany their royal master on such
an errand. The travelling carriages were all packed;
nay, some of them had even started, and relays had
been (deleted via the road. lidos Maximilian ROW