The Express.
London, England, 1848-08-14 00:00:00

GERMANY.

PRUSSIA.—We have dates from Berlin to Autos
11. It is calculated that nearly seven millions ed
thalers have been alread7 contributed to the forced
loan of fifteen millions, the term for the Raymond
which has been proloneed. Forty-six de,uties
district clubs or unions have forwarded an address%
the constituent assemblies of Berlin and Frankest,
setting forth that they cannot discover in the sea
sures taken by the la ter for the promotion of Genus
uni•y, any danger for the independence of the variant
German states, but expressing the hope, or realer the
conviction, that no attempt will be made by the
national assembly to weaken the importance ed
Prussia, or to s.crifiec its dignity. They declareei
favour of a free united and puwetlul
free united and powerful Germany. According to
accounts from Posen, a bitter animosity nista
between the military and civilians in =ay
places. In Kempen, one of the chief seem
of the late insurrection in the duchy, the
garrison was compelled by the civic authcritiee
moreover to prevent a collision with the inhabitant'
In Wreschen, on the 3rd inst., four persons was
wounded during an affray with the military, wham
being attacked by a number of Polish peas nts, was
obliged to make use of their weapons. The did
president, l'inder, has gore to Schweidnitz in sett
to institute a rigid inquiry into the causes of the lido
excesses committed there by the military. Sowed
the leading democrats or republicans of Berlin are
preparing to leave for Cologne, in order to take put
in the republican congress which will be held Mere
during the approaching remarkable festival, the molt
splendid one ever held in that ancient city. It is u.
certalued that extraordinary measures have beta
taken there in order to prevent any untoward demon-
stration against the persona of the distinguished
guests. The King will leave on Sunday night fee
Cologne, where he will arrive about 4 the next afernooo,
accompanied by Prince Frederick of Prussia,and sla
by the president of the council and the minister of ths
interior. The forcible representation of the Praisiu
cabinet respecting the necessity of renewing the a►
gotiations, instead of the war with Denmark, hut
not failed to produce an effect on the central mei-
tire. It is positively asserted in well informed
tical circles that the central government have tally
authorised the Prussian one to agree to a truce wits
Denmark, and even to come to final terms of pesos.
Such a step on the part of the executive would be die.
toted by the well-understood interests of Germany,
for the renewal of the war would place it in a false,
iF not dangerous, position with respect to certain great
powers of Europe, and would, moreover, compel
Prussia, in all probability, to take steps at variance
with the boasted unity of the empire.
The constituent assembly has voted for the appoint-
ment of a commission, in order to proceed to Schweid-
nitz, with the view of drawing up an official report
of the origin and cause of the attack by the military
on the civic guard of that town. Besides the six wbe
were shot on the spot, two more have died of their
wounds, and three otters cannot long survive. less
assembly also voted, by a large majority, the folloi.
ing significant motion :
That the Minister or War be requested to issue a dreads
to the army, ord. trig the officers to terrain fum all ries
tionary movements, to avoid all conflicts with civilians, ei
mingle with citizens, and thus show that they will Uses*
cooperate in the development of the constitution.
The following resolution was also c irrio d by alas-

jority of one :
That the ministry be requested to urge as a matter of las
flour upon those otficeis with whose political cmrictioas
foregoing resolution dues not accord their withirawal hoe
the army.
According to the Sprnersehe Zeienng there have
been, up. to the present time, 16 cases of Asiatic
cholera in Berlin, of which 14 have terminated
fatally. In Petersburg six hospitals have been
closed in consequence of the decline of the disease.
FRANKFOHT.—It was officiary announced se
the 10th, in the National Constituent Assembly, that
the central ministry was composed as follows:—
Prince Leiningen, President of the Council; Ve
Schmerling, Minister of the Interior, with Buser
mann and Von Worth, as Under Secrete, les of State,
Ilecksher Minister of Foreign Affairs, with NINI. Von
Gagers and Briegleb as Under Secretaries; Deck.
wits, Minister of Commerce ; with Nlcriswm and Fel-
lati as Under Secretaries ; Beckerath, Minister
of
Finance, with :Hefty, Under Secretary; and K. Voe
Nlohl, Minister of Justice, with Wedenuiann as Under
Secretary. The assembly
.decided, by a majority of
350 to 116, that the election of Hecker (the well-
known republican leader) for a town in Baden, where
he is proclaimed as an outlaw, was invalid. It is
not a little remarkable that so many as 116
voted for his admission into the National Assembly.
The wnr in Italy occupies much of the attention of
the members of the constituent assembly et their
various reunions. The general impression amosgst
them appears to be that the war is not an honourable
one, politically speaking, for Germany. They hold
that it is impossible to look upon that contest as one
purely between Austrians and Italians, particularly
since the 6th instant, when the unity. of Germany
was solemnly proclaimed in the .lustnan capital by
the national guards and the garrison, manifesting
their homage to the Vicar of the Empire. This feeling
on the part of numerous members of the constituent
assembly is shared by the majority of Germane; la
on that account the endeavours of England as
France to bring about a pacific settlement of the
affairs of Lombardy are more likely to meet with

success.
AUSTRIA.—Dates from Vienna are to Atig.B'
The Minister of Finance has announced that, in order
to restore the equilibrium of the receipts and expert.
diture of the empire, he must have recourse to either
of the three following measures:-1. To issue Palos
money, bearing interest, and having a forced compel
2. To issue a further quantity of bank notes, decor
the medium of the Bank ; or 3. To contract a naneol),
loan, upon the security of the state and ecclesiastics
property.
'lhe following official article appears in the Frank'
fort Oberpostamts Zeitung:
INNSPRUCK, AUG. 7.—Their Majesties the Emperor.
and the Empress, as well as the other members c!
the imperial family at present residing herr, iris
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their return to Vienna. In consequence of the
health of the monarch being still somewhat
affected, and attention and circumspection being
requisite, his Majesty, with all his suite, will
pass the first night in St. John's (St. Johann,
a small post town about half-way between Innspruck
and Salzburg) ; the second night in Salzburg the
third in Lambach •, and the fourth in Linz, so that he
will reach Vienna by the steamboat on Saturday, the
12th, at noon. Ilia imperial Majesty interds to take
up his residence in the Palace of ISchoribrunn. The
Emperor had resolvt d to return before the deputies of
the constituent diet arrived, and had thereby antici-
pated the wishes which they were commissioned to
express.

GERMANY.—THE FESTIVAL AT COLOGNE.—A
correspinneut of the mthentruni writes as follows on the
subject of this interesting et remony ;—At no time, perhaps,
since the laying of the second foundation stone has the
Cathedral of Cologne exhibited a greater apt earance of
activity than it does at this moment. Owing to the late
political disturbances it was feared at one time that the
comammoratien of its six hundredth birtheay, which has
long been looked forward to as one of the most important
epochs in its piegrees, Mond have been postponed sine die.
It hu, however, been suddenly resolved to celebrate the day
—or rather three days—with all tht splendour that may be ;
lira ail hands are strained at the eleventh hour to complete
the preparations in time for the 14th of this month, which
these fears had impeded. Workmen swarm like ants inside
end outride the building. The stroke of the mallet and
trowel, which has sounded for the lost few years, like the
reanimated pulse of the building, is quickened to a feverish
speed ; and %wiener, the architect, allows himself so little
rest, either to body or mind, that his pulse must
be pretty moth in the same condition. Yet, with all
this activity, there remains so much to be done, and so
little time to do it in, th it ro a mere locker on the
work seems more than human hands can accomplish.
In point of internal clever:diem, the King of Bavaria's present
is by far tne costliest and most important acquisition that the
cathedral has yet received. It consists of the glass for the
three who' • windows and two ball ones of the south aisle ;
and them altogether are the most remarkable things that
modern liernieu art hasyet accomplished. The final uncover-
ing of these windows is to be one of the great momenta of the
approaching file. The chief subjects of the thr, e whole
windows are the Adoration of the Three Kings, the Entomb.
meet, and the A.censioa. The artists clued) concerned in
these windows have been Professor Hess and H. rr Ainmiiller.
It had be. rap del that on this coming oecosion the old
partition wall b hind the organ, between the chancel and
c ma, would, with the organ itself, have been removed, and
the whole grind length of the centre thrown open. But it
appears that, temporary as it is—it a wall that has at soil
for three hundred years can be so calltd—it is still too
essential, just at that vital junction, to the safety of the build-
ing to be rimoved ; and %wiener begs his friends, it they
wish him to sleep quietly in his bed, to abstain from urging
his removal Ma atone of it. This, therefore, must continue
a great iy.rore to impatient spectators, though it will be co-
loured over ul the same hue with the rest ; but meanwhile,
the wooden partitions of the aisles on each side of it are
being rapidly down before our eyes. The programme of
the three days' fete, as a mature of the solemn, the festive,
and the hi !erica', coloured with German bonAomniie and
*mind by German mus.c, is sutheiently interesting. The
morning of toe 14th will open with a procession of the Lon
dereins, to the number of some thousands, who will fetch
the arebbist.op ar.d ‘.ther prelates and conduct them in state
kith* cathedral. There they will be met by the choristers
from the gymnasiums and various classes of singers singing
the 121st psalm, .` Lvetatus sum in his." At coe entrai•ce
of the cathedral the archbishop is to be received by the Dom
Boa-writer, who will f .rmally make over to his archiepis-
copal highnese the new portions of the building, whereupon
the procession will cuter, and the gird psalm, " Quoin di-
lecta tabernacula tua " will be auhg. The curtains will
Men be withdrawn, aid the King of ivories win-
dows disclosed to view; after which a fest-cantata,
by Leith, and other music will be penman-el.
TM, second day's procetdiags will commence with
the consecration of the new portion by the arca-
bishop ; during which the doors of the cathehral will remain
closed, while the choristers and different religious orders,
male and female, with which Cologne abounds offer up sone
and prayer alternately round about the building. By ten
o'clock the doors will be thrown open, and high Mtn per-
formed; the Te Deum being owl alternately by the choir
and by the multitude. At lour o'clock there will be a ban.
quet et the clergy, the chii members cf the Dom Vereins,
and the most distinguished guests, at the old hall, the
Gurzenich : and in the evening there is to be a gereral illu-
mination of the city. On the 16th, all the Vereins will meet
together again and attend high muss. Then, leaving the ca-
thedral, they will walk in possession round it, halting on the
great Frani:in Plato. which is to be sup. rbly decorated for
the occasion. litre another selection of music will be per-
formed, and the statements of the cathedral expenses will be
read aloud. Fourteen new members will be chosen fur the
committee, prizes distributed of the most skilful workmen,
and the wnole will tendnate with a grand ball in the
evening.