The Express.
London, England, 1846-10-16 00:00:00

wines oompared with those of the present year for colour,
spirit, and aroma." Various parts of the champagne country
appear to be particularly favour d. It was feared that the
wines might be too fruity, and therefore might not sparkle ;
but the more skilful witietasters pronounced them of remark-
able fineness, and of a delicious fragrance. In consequence
of the extrao;dinary demonstrations of the superior quality
of the vintage, the buyers were numerous in all the great
wine districts, and prices had risen, and were rising daily-."
The year 1846," says a writer from Bordeaux, " will be
sigaalised in the annals of champagne. It will be long re-
membered, and long hare traces of prosperity."
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GERMANY.—Aesrms.—The Spanish marriages
are the principal topics of conversstion in diplomatic circles
at Vienna, and the news from Paris and London has caused
a considerable fall in the funds.
The Prussian Allgemeine Zeitung has the follow-
ing :—" Divers German journals criticised the resolution of
the German Diet of the 17th ult., concerning the duchies of
Schleswig-Holstein. We did the same, but we thought it
suitable to keep within the limits of the question. Some
journals expressed their opinion that the federal assembly
could not suitably speak in the tone of an address, and that
its resolution said all that was required at the present
moment; but there arc others who are angry that the
German Diet did not immediately treat the question of a
violation of privileges, not existing, as if such already did
exist. The German confederacy has declared its right to
protect (the case requiring it) the rights of all and every ono.
It received from the representative of the King of Denmurk to
the diet the positive declaration that his Majesty never intended
to infringe on the privileges and independence of Holstein.
It would, therefore, be quite out of place to tr.at the ques-
tion at once, which would be regarding a likelihood as a
reality, and giving judgment in a case not yet brought to
trial. We do not blame the impatience manifested to see so
important a question solved ; far less do we wish to blame
those who desire this question to ba dropped until it can be
finally decided ; but we do not wish calm reflection, founded
on the firm basis of right, to outstcp the limits pre-cribed by
circumstances. Many of the public journals regard the ques-
tion in another light; they do not wish to calm public opinion
by recognising that the German confederation, if the ease re-
quired it, would act according to its right; they desire the
agitation to continue and if possible to increase, and
think that agitation in Germany is peremptorily necessary.
We arc of opinion that in the matter in question the less
noise that is made the better • at the same time that it is
requisite to maintain with calmness and dignity our privi-
leges when they are attacked. Nor do we think that the
German press acts in a salutary manner, either as regards the
present or the future, by endeavouring to represent the reso-
lution of the Diet as insufficient."

GALICIA.—LEMBERG, SEPT. 26.—The harvest in
the western districts is satisfactory, but prices are high,
owing to the potato disease. The price of meat is also high,
owing to the Illness among the cattle in Bessarabia.
FRANKFORT, OCT. 9.—The price of bread has
increased half a krcutzir the six pound loaf. At Stuttgard
the six pound loaf costs twenty-eight kreutzers. A society
of bankers and capitalists has just been formed at Frank-
fort to buy large quantities of foreign corn and flour to sell
at prime-coet to the bakers; the houses of Rothschild, Beth-
mann, Grunelius, Metzler, and others, belong to the society.
FROM THE RHINE.—The vintage in Germany
tarns out to be excellent, as was expected. The Ilcase
Gazette estimates the produce of the whole of the Rhenish
vineyards at a million and a half of ohms (the ohm is 160
litres), in the following proportions:— Bavaria, 600,000;
Wurtemberg, 150,000; Franconia and Miltenberg, 100,000;
the Mein, up to Miltenbere, 100,000 ; Rhenish Hesse,
100,000; the Moselle, 50,000; the Rhine, from Lorch to
Bonn, 60,000; Hoeheim to Lorch, 50,000; the Upper
Rhine, 30,000; &c., &c. According to the Hesse Gazette.
the product in France will be 25 millions of ohms, and in
Hungary 15 millions; but this is mere supposition, as there
is no correct data on which to found the estimate.

DENMARK.—The Danish Cabinet seems far from
flinching from its line of policy as regards the duchies. A
Nuremberg correspondent states that he can assert, on good
authority, that in the month of May or June last, the King
of Denmark entered into an agreement, under the form of
a treaty, with a foreign power, according to which, in case
of certain eventualities, that power is bound to protect the
indivisibility of the Danish government, arms in hand.
SWEDEN.—STocKnoLM, SEPT. 29.—The Com-
mercial Council of Stockholm has proposed to the King the
re-organisation of all the Swedish-Norwegian consulships.
According to the proposed plan the 76 consulships are to be
reduced to 54, and 19 consulships-general are proposed.
The Consul-generals at Hamburg, Brussels, Madrid, Lisbon,
Florence, Athens, Constantinople, New York, and Rio de
Janeiro are to be entrusted with diplomatic functions. The
Consul-generals at St. Petersburg, Abo, Helsingor, Amster-
dam, London, Paris, Algiers, Tangiers, and Buenos Ayres
are to receive fixed alaries, and are now allowed to enter
into commercial transactions. New consulships are to be es-
tablished at Calcutta, Singapore, Batavia, Canton, Vera
Cruz, Laguayru, l'anama, Guaaivil, and Valparaiso.

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HOLLAND.—TiIe lIAGCE, OcT. 11.—The Staats
Courant of this date contains the programme fur the opening
of the ordinary scion of the States General, at the Higue,
on Monday, October, 184 G :—Thio Session will be opened
by His Majesty in person. The Gazette of the Upper
Rhine states, that it is proposed that the Duke of Nassau
shall marry a Princess of the Netherlands, namely, her
Royal Highness the Princess Louisa, daughter of his Royal
Highness Prince Frederick of the Netherlands; the Princess
Louisa was born on the 3rd of August, 1828.
OCTOBER 14. Some journals have announced
that the Russian Government has addressed remonstrances

to Ice- eubinct of the Hague against the new treaty
between Holland and Belgium, and that it has even '
threatened Holland with reprisals, unless the advantages
granted to Belgium, to the detriment of German manufae•
tures, were granted to the Zollverein. The Cologne
Gazette says on this subject, that it can declare on good
authority, that no threat of this kind has been made up to
this time, but that ucgociations had been open <d between
the two states, and that they may terminate favourably, if
some concessions were made to the Dutch Government,
relative to the diminution of the navigation on the Rhine.
The Cabinet at the Hague has already addressed a circular
on this subject to the states on the banks of the Rhine, but
has not yet received any answer.
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AMERICA.----A great fire occurred at Cleveland,
Ohio, on the 23rd ult. The canal collector's office and the
range of stores and shops along Union-street to the Mer-
chants' Hotel, were burned about seven o'clock in the even-
ing. The roof awl upper stories of the Merchant,' Hotel
were also consumed, and much damage was sustained from
removing furniture, &c. Books and papers of the csllector'a
office saved. Entire loss of property is several thousand
dollars—mostly insured.