The Express.
London, England, 1847-04-24 00:00:00

The latter have now expressed their readiness to construct
the railway in question at the rest and risk of the state,
and, through a royal mamma which was yesterday laid
before the united diet, have asked for a loan for that per-
pee. It is stated that the interest and capital could be paid
eat of the so. called ",railway fund ;" and (if ni emery) outof
the probable surplus revenue of the national treasury. This
mode, however, of raising the needful supply, is an objection-
able one In the opinion of the guernmenr, insomuch 42 the
notemere sums for carrying on the undertaking would
peebebly come in very slowly, and con.equently many
veers must elapse before the grand East Prussian Junction
line could be completed. A quicker mode of operation hes
therefore been devised by the mini.try. It is proposed to
convert into capital the average yen ly interest of the rail-
way fund, and to obtain a loaa from it. The fund in It
was fixed in 1812 at the yearly sum of 2,400,000 dialers; and
it is proposed to raise a loan in the mode before deecribed so
soon es the state of the money market becomes more favour-
able for such operations. According to the " patent " of
Feb. 3, the diet will have to discuss the question of the loan,
and it is probable that the debates on it will commence in •
few days. In 1842, it was proposed to construct the follow-
ing lines: the Cologne and Minden ; the Halle and Middle
Rhine; the Berlin, ataxic, Konigsberg, and R 4122123
frontiers; the Frankfort-on-Oder and Breslau ; the Oppelo
and Austrian frontiers; and the Posen, Prussian, and
Silesien Junction. The first line will be opened
throughout in a few weeks; the second will be
entirely complete in the year 1847; and the third
is at present only in contemplation. The expenses of
the coustruction of bridge• alone across the Vistula and the
Nogat, are calculated at 8,865,000 thalen, and the comple-
tion of those works alone was first set down for the year
1857. The entire cost of the line (whits will run by Kin-
nisi, Unseen, Schneidminl, Bromberg, Duschan, Munn-
berg, Hieing, Mithlhausen, Brauosherg, and Kiinigsberg to
Dannie), is estimated at 32,751,593 Melees. The entire
length of the line will be 08,88 German miles. The fourth
line is already completed, and the fifth and sixth eves are
seedy so. In the year 1842, it wee calculated that the line
to Dantaic could not be finished before the expiration of
eighteen years; the goveramest, however, now express the
opinion that by means of the loan in question, the railway
will be opened for circulation in half that time.
A brief description of the so-called " White Hall," in
which the lauded diet, and after the members of the upper
house have retired, tne three other state* hold their debates,
may be found interesting to your readers. The IVeisse Sao, is
one of the noblest rooms in the royal palace in this tin,
being 105 feet long, 51 broad, and 41 high ; it is adore d wilh
Connthian columns of Carrara marble, Dearing the marble
statues of the twelve princes--electors of Brandenburg. The
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eight provinces of the monarchy are also represented by
eight colossal statues. The roof is richly painted, and the
four corners are adorned with allegorical bee-reliefs. The
main colour of the saloon is white, blended with gold. The
floor is composed of ornamented wood. A marble figure of
Victory, by Rauch, is one of the chief attractions of the
noble room. The king's throne is placed near the middle of
one of the oblong walls; scats for the ministers are
ranged on each side, and, further down, for the members
of the upper house, when the diet is in plena. Opposite
the throne, are the seam of the members of the eight pro-
vincial diets, each state brine separate from the other. The
seats are numbered, covered with dark red cloth, and pro-
vided with moveable desks. The respective members of
the three states sit in rows one above the other, so that it
frequently happens that a mere tradesman, the deputy Iroin
• town, sits alongside a member of the Ititterschaft, who is
a prince or a count, although not entitled to be • member of
the upper house. Each apeaker addresses the diet from a
species of pulpit, erected for that purpose near the throne.
No member is allowed to read his " speech." The members
of the upper house hold their debates in another part of
the royal palace. The united dot is composed of about
600 members. The miniatsea may speaks but they have no
notes.

ITALY.—ROME, APRIL 9.—A moot diabolical plot
to muter the Pope liss been discovered. It was first found
out by the French ambassador, and he revealed the names
of the conspirators to the Pope. Their intention was to
usassinate him whilst giving audience to one of them who
was, by lot, to be appointed to kill him. A Capuchin pre-
sented himself for an audience of the Pope. His Holiness
requested his name ; this he gave boldly, but before being
eilmittkd the Pope looked ever the list of the conspirators
and found the name of the Capuchin there. He immediately
called for and concealed six carbineers who, on the Capu-
chin's entrance, seized him, and on searching him found he
bad a brace of loaded pistols and a poisoned dagger about
his person. The Capuchin was conveyed to prison. Meny
arrests have taken place. This plot is no doubt a concoction
of the Jesuits, who have made tools of the Capuchins.
G ERMAN Y.—PRUSSIA.—BERLIN, APRIL 19.
The Spener Zeitung says that the states of the Zollverein
have agreed not to renew the treaty of commerce and nari•
anion concluded on the 2d of March, 1841, with Great
Britain. _ . .

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BAVARIA.—The King of Bavaria issued a decree
en the 26th ult., prohibiting women from taking monastic
vows before they have attained their thirty-third year. The
ceremony is to take place in the presence of a commissary,
not a churchman, who has the right of interrogating the
person about to take the vows, and if he think fit to put •
stop_to the whole proceedings.
HAMBURG, APRIL 16.—0 n the 15th, at Seven in
the evening, the Elbe overflowed its banks, and inundated
the whole town. In some parts of the town near the •
the water was 19 feet deep in the streets, entering in at the
windows of the first floor. The cellars and ground floors of
the houses were completely under water, and boats plyed
through the streets. From nine o'clock till eleven, minute
guns were tired from the ramparts, but it was impossible to
render any assistance. Towards midnight the waters began
to subside, and at eleven the following morning the Elbe was
running en smoothly within its proper limits. Hamburg
has witnes-ed many inundations, but none severer than this
last. Happily the rise of the waters was so gradual i hat the
inhabitants had tints to save themselves, but the loss of pro-
perty is immense.
ItUSSIA.—Sr. PETERSBURG, APRIL 10.—A letter
of the above date, in • Frankfort journal, states that the
Emperor was sufficiently recovered to be able to take his
usual walks.

GREECE.—AmeNs, APRIL 10.—All diplomatic
relations have ceased between this country and Turkey.
Greece has no longer a representatise at the Ottoman court.
This is the situation t 1 which we are reduced by the haughti-
ness and egotism of Coletti. What Coletti intends to do is
unknown. It is rumoured that M. Pouiropoulo will resign
but this is only a feint. The municipal elections are the
muse of much bloodshed. Two rainistei ial parties have
come to hostilities in Laconia. The village of Gythion has
hem nearly destroyed, and even the soldiers of government
have sided with the adverse parties. This is the way in
which Coletti engenders civil war. On the 6th, the anniver •
sup of the mourning of oar independence, took place with
its usual pomp. Letters from Western Greece mention that
brigandage is increasing in Western Greece. W hen will the
government take efficacious measures to eradicate from that
province the scourge which desolates it? In oonisequence
of the Pasqua, the chamber has not held a sitting since the
30th of March. Their next meeting will be a stormy one ;
the subject—the cessation of diplomatic intercourse with
Turkey.