The Express.
London, England, 1847-01-30 00:00:00

potation of corn gave rise, yesterday, to several remarks in
the Chamber of Representatives. One member, M. Dela-
haye, observed that those measures would have a prejudicial
eff'ect on Belgium, and urged ministers to take off the duty
on cattle imported into this country. The Minister of the
Interior remarked, in reply, that Belgium was the first
country to open the ports to corn and to prohibit the expor-
tation of certain articles of food. With respect to cattle, he
begged to observe that the abolition of the import duty
would not be of any advantage to the poor, who, even in
times of prosperity, could seldom afford to purchase meat,
and that such a measure would prove injurious to the in-
ternts of the graziers of this country. He added that there
was no intertion on the part of the government to take off
the duty referred to.
A now Congress of Deputies from the liberals
throughout the country will be heel in Brussels, in the end
of March next. It is proposed to elect a deputy for every
ten thousand persons. The principal topic of debate will be
the reform of the law of elections and the diminution of
the influence of the clergy. The government has refined to
accede to the request of the town council of Liege to sus-
pend
pros ision ally the duty on foreign cattle entering Belgium
by the frontiers. The irontuasters of this country have
resolved to maintain their present prices. Their next meet-
ing is fixed fur the 4th of next March.
SPAIN.—EI 77o-inn° of the 20th inst. states that
on the evening of the 12th the courier of the French em-
bassy was stopped and plundered at two leagues from
Miranda, on the Ehro. His carriage was stopped by three
men, who took from him his watch and 750 francs in silver.
GERMANY.—VIENNA.—The Emperor has ordered
a general mourning, during three months, on the occasion of
the death of the Archduke Palatine of Hungary.
THE PRUSSIAN CoNsTrrurros.—lf we are to credit
the Augsburg Gazette, the new Prussian constitution was to
have been proclaimed on the 21th lust., the anniversary of
the birth-day of Frederick the Great. A few day, will show
if this long-announced and never-forthcoming constitution
hoe at length made its appearance.
We read in a Frankfort journal of the 24th :
" The new proclamation of the Duke of Brunswick, dated
London, the lit inst., has been forwarded to the Germanic
diet, which resumed its sittings on the 14th. This proclama-
tion, which is against the existing on'er of things under the
reigning duke, and against the sale of several public domains
in the duchy, is drawn up in a style which would spoil even
the best canto."

The Grrnsan journal of F•ankfort states, from
Vienna. that the Archduke Stephen, who by a decree of the
Emperor has been appointed as the RUCCeII,OI., ad interims,
of the late Palatine of Hungary, will be elected Palatine by
the diet, most of the Hungarian nobles being favourable to
his nomination.

K(ENIGSBERO, J.%N. 17.—The civic authorities of
this place (writes a correspondent of the S,,e.ion Garelte)
have addressed a petition to the king respecting the incorpo-
ration of the kingdom of Poland with ltus•ia, an event
which they contend would prove injurious to their mercan• ,
tile interests, inasmuch 1111 it would be followed by the aboli-
tion of the Code Napoleon, the commercial portion of which li
is in force in the duchy of Warsaw.
SAXON'i.—The states of Saxony were opened on
the 21st inst. by a speech of the Minister of State Konneritz.
The lower chamber was to hold its first sitting on the 22nd.
CRACOW.—ne Crarnir Ga:elle of the 21st inst.
published the following notification :—" On the 29th January
the territory of Cracow will be incorporated in the imperial
customs line, in such manner that the frontier on the Prus-
sian and Polish side will form the customs line."

GALICIA.—The accounts from Galicia give an
alarming report of the state of that province. Misery and
famine prevail to a fearful extent, and bands of hungry men
attack the travellers on the high-way. Anarchy reigns
among the people as well as in the government. The pea-
sants feel somewhst ashamed of the excesses of last spring,
and the hands which committed the greatest devastation' are
now said to have consisted chiefly of soldiers on leave, under
employt4 and other, who wire joined by all the lowest
rabble of the towns and c wary. The government does no.
thing, prevents nothing, and the orders from the different
heads of the districts contradict each other. The one com-
pels the peasants to pay the comer, whilst another deludes
them with false promises, and leaves their execsees unre-
strained. Great insubordination is manifest in the army ;
the soldiers loudly proclaim that the lands of Galicia ought
to he distributed amceig them. The complaints addressed
to Vienna on the subject temain unanswered, the same non-
conformity seems to rei•rn among the high as among the
lower authorities, and the orders of Prince Metternich
often clash with these of M Kellourot, and, at times,neither
agree with Count Stadion. Unhappily, the proprietors of
Galicia are the sufferers on every tide.

BET OF TuNts.—The Bey arrived
at Tunis on the morning of ,he 30th ult., by the steam-
frigate Labrador, placed at his service by the French go-
vernment. The Bey and all who accompanied him hare re-
turned in good health. Tit, re is some jealousy expressed,
at the Sublime Porte, with rezard to the compliments paid
to the Bey in Paris, which are considered a little beyond the
bounds of diplomatic etiquette. There have been various
conjectures on the failure of the Bey's intended visit to Eng-
Portajoglio Maltese, Jan. 14.

HAVANNAH.—EXTRACT FROM A LETTER, 15TH
Dec., 1816.—" Nothing neu from Mexico. A report was
current a few days ago that about 1,000 men, belonging to
Taylor's army, composed of Irishmen, Germans, and of
nearly every other nation under the sun, had passed over to
the Mexicans; but I cannot give it any belief. The Ohio is
fitting out for the Gulf of M, :leo ; and the Albany, at pre-
sent here, is to sail for the ~,me destination, carrying a num-
ber of officers for the squadron and Tampico. I dined with
the captain and several other of the officers of the Albany
the other day; and it is the opinion of the former that no
attack will be made en the Castle d'Ulloa, but that Vera
Cruz will be taken, and the garrison of San Juan starved
out. lam of opinion they are afraid of the fort ; as, in case
of a repulse, it would Itu such a disgrace to their arms, that
whatever they may do on land, they will not be able to blot
it out. It is ridiculous to see a nation that talks of giving
John Bull a thrashing, unable to take a fort like San Juan
d'Ulloa, with a gaff son of Mexican engineers, &c. A
schooner has just returned from the Gulf, after discharging
her cargo at Tobssco. Another is about to sail for Vera
Crux, with wines, brandy, &c."