The Express.
London, England, 1849-11-24 00:00:00

GERMANY.

VIENNA, Nov. 18 —To allay, the alarm with
which the prospect of a reformed tariff inspires the
industrial cLun, to hush the clamours of monopolists
and dissipate the unfounded rumours which are
spread to throw discredit on the new undertaking, a
semi-official communication in the Wiener-Zietung
indicates somewhat more definitely than hitherto,
the course intended by ministe re. It has been ob-
jected that the plan is undertaken in a fiscal spirit,
and will be carried Gut without being previously sub-
mitted to the verdict of the public. These reports
are declared utterly groundless. The principles men-
tiered in a former letter, as guiding the
ennmittee, ere appealed to as a proof that
the first reproach is unmerited ; while
many organs of public opinion attack on
the ether band the Tiles of the government as too
prohibitive and too ler removed from the liberal prin-
ciples adopted in the Zollverein tariff. The reformed
plan swill proceed throughout on the fundamental
principle of holding last by a system of high protec-
tive duties for shielding native labour ; and the inte-
rests of the industrious classes will be the more con-
sulted as not a single duty in the tariff will be
altered without the meet comprehensive examination
of persons conversant with the subject. Next, it has
never entered into the bead of the ministry to execute
more than a draft of the reformed tariff. The grounds
for entrusting this task to a competent commission ;
the mode of procedure to be adopted ; and the argu-
ments for believing that a congress of industry would
not in the least contribute to the end propmed, have
been already. developed sufficiently in the commercial
organ Austria. Not because the government de elites to
take into account the claims of labour end industry,
but because it wishes to cherish those interests with
the most efficient ca-e, and to protect the national
economy from sudden transitions and all shocks, it
has declined to summon an industrial corgrees ;
which is, by its very nature, the machinery least of
all fitted for the preparation of a reformed tariff, The
draft of such a tariff must, however, be submitted in
the most complete form possible, in order to furnish
public opinion with a sure standard for the examine-
Von and judgment of the new system of duties.
When the draft of the tariff is complete,
either as a whole or in single sections, the
commission wi.l begin to deliberate upon trite-
rior measure,. In the meantime the Wiener
Zeitung is authorised to declare that it is the intention
of ministers to subject the draft of the tariff, as well
as the motives of the proposed amounts of duty,
and of the whole division and grouping of the mem-
bers of the tariff to the most gent ral public discussion.
Such is the ministerial explanation, which is better
calculated to mitigate the opposition of the monopo-
lists than to satisfy the public. The concluding words,
indeed, although emphasized by exci-ptionnl type, are
somewhat vague, and it is remsrked, with some
alarm, that no mention is made of the Reichstag. Al-
though the constitution requires that every min-
isterial decree should be submitted for sane-

tion to the leai.lature, there is a vast difference be-
tween asking for a bill of indemnity and bringing fur-
or and a 1)41. A subject of such vest national import-
er ce is clearly the very matter of all others moat
raper for undergoing a thorough debate in the Aus-
trian parliament. 11 any otherart of public discus-
sion, such as that of the press, assemblies and private
circlet be meant, the ministerial expression is a mere
delusian.

The Emperor sets out this evening on his journey
to Prague, attended by his aide-de-camp, General
Griinne..Bach,. and probably also Sithwarzenberg, will
accompany him. The trip will last eight or ten days,
and apparently include Liam
The Asstriats army at present consists of 63 regi-
ments of the line, 20 battalions of grenadiers, 18 re-
giments of boundary infantry, 1 Czeikist battalion, 1
regiment of chameurs, 23 battalion, of chasseurs, 8
regiments. of cuirassiers, 6 regiments of dragoons, 7
regiments of light borw„ 12 regimests of hussars, 4
regiments of lancets, 1 enrps of bombardiers, 1 rocket
corps, 5 regiments of artillery, one corps of miners, 1
corps of sa,ners, t oorps of pioneers,6 garr'son batta-
lions, 2 cordon battalions, 1 regiment of gens-d'-
alma', 1 military waggon corps, 3 battalions of
lirtenna volunteers, 1 Italian light battalion, 3 batta-
lions of Styrian riflemen, I Istria battalion, 1 regi-
ment of Bandinal hussars, 1 ltutheuian battalion of
mountain riflemen.

The Co!wine Gtatette announces trim Berlin that
Count C. Moltke has been sent ma a miimiou to Vienna
by the King of Denmark; and that Primala does
not intend to traasfer the negotiations on the subject
e Schleswig-Holstein to the interim coomaissioa.