The Express.
London, England, 1848-07-12 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, TeESDAY, II A.M.
I have already adverted to the untiring efforts of
that small section of the public press known here as
the press of terror,or the red republic, to goad on the
worst portion of the labouring classes against the
property, intelligence, and respectability of the
country. The most vile calumnies against the
administration of the hospitals and the prisons
are circulated, which have not even a slight
thread of truth to support their malignity. Thus the
populace of the faubourgs are told that thousands
of their friends and relatives in the prisons are shot
like dogs, without trial, and without even ascertaining
their names or descriptions, and that the wounded
insurgents in the hospitals are the objects of
the most odious neglect lied maltreatment.
Happily the executive has shown a dispo-
sition to repress those abases of the press. The en-
forcement of the caution money required by law has
to-day had the effect of suppressing another journal,
Le People Cons'ibtont. This as also the Represesdaid
do Petside, suppressed yesterday, as already
stated, was avowedly edited by a member of
the assembly—the former by M. Prudhon and the
latter by the Abbe Lamennais.
lam informed that at a meeting of the moderate
majority yesterday in the Rue de Poictiers, it was an-
nounced as probable that the executive government
would today apply to the assembly for permission to
prosecute M. Prudhon for the article I mentioned
yesterday, recommending the populace to order
the assembly to confiscate one-third of the
revenues of all persons having property. M.
Prudhou being himself a member of the as-

sembly, this permission is indispensable. It was
resolved, however, that in case the executive govern-
ment should nut take the initiative in this matter,
that the assembly itself should be moved upon it.
In what I have said above respecting the press of
the red republic, I have only referred to its organs in
Paris: La Reforme, Le Peuple Conatituant, and Le'
Representant du Peupk. These, however, are mode-
rate in their tone, compared with the journals of the
departments, some of which direct agai• et the assem-
bly a torrent of abuse of which it would be difficult to
give an adequate notion.
We read in the 3fessayer of yesterday evening :
" Mention was made at the National Assembly, this
day, of the discovery and defeat of a plot at Sedan, at
the moment when it was on the point of being put
into execution. It is said that twelve of the princi-
pal establishments of that to-en were to have been
burned, and vengeance to have been exercised upon the
manufacturers who had refused to accede to a reduc-
tion of the hours of labour. It is proper to state that
certain deputies of the Ardennes declared that they
had not received any information of this kind; but,
on the other hand, letters containing the news, and
coming from an honourable source, were spoken of."
By the will of M. Cliweaubriand it is ordered
that his =moire, which he calls Andre Innabe, shaii
133 published under the direction of MM. Mand 'roux-
Vertamy, Louis de Chateaubriand, his nephew, Hyde
de Neuville, and de Levis.

We have received the Madrid mails, with the
journals and co:respondence of the 6th. That
capital was kept in complete ignorance of the
Carlist movements in the provinces, respecting which
the most absurd statements had been circulated. The
defalcation discovered in the batik was estimated at
63 millions of reale.
Aisnuu, Jeer G.—Three per Cents, 14 paper; after hake, 19i
cash. Flee per cents., 121 taper; utter nuke, 12f cash. Cuestres,
41 paper; after !Salsa, 41 cash. ....• efts. s paper. Mink of at. Fee -
&wad. 65 paper. Discourt of notes, 9i to 10 per Cent. Esc I.at
Al London, Ott days, 4- SO paper.

GREECE.—By the Levant mail we have re-
ceived the Athens journals and correspondence to
the 29th ultimo. The insurrection still prevailed
on the Turkish from iers. Sir St.at ford Can-
ning had left the Pitteus on the evening of the
20th, in the steamer Antelope, intending to touch at
Pores and Cape Surinam, before going to Constanti-
nople. During his stay at Athens he had frequent
interviews with the King, which had given hopes that,
by his counsels and persuasion, a change might have
ben effected in the deplorable policy of the govern-
ment. Much disappointment was, however, felt at
the absence of all result. The same system which has
prevailed hitherto was still continued.

GERMANY.

RECEPTION OF THE FRANKFORT DEPU-
TATION BY THE ARCHDUKE JOHN.
AUSTRIA.—We have received the Vicnnajournals
of the 6th, from which me take the following account
of the solemn reception of the Frankfort deputies
by the Archduke John ma the sth :
The Frankfort deputation went in state oa the sth to the
palace of Archduke John. At ten o'clock in the morning
the civic authorities sod the national guard and student,.
went in procession to the house where the Frankfort deputies
had taken up th it abode; and, alter an exchange of greet-
iog between them and the heads of the procession, they got
into court carriages prepared for the occasion, and, followed
by the rest of the procession, went to the state chancery.
The procession was greeted as it passed by the most
enthusiastic cheering of immensecrowds,w hick had assembled,
and the rir giug of hells. The streets were hung with flags
and banners. The deputation was accompanied on its
entrants into the state chancery by the civic authorities,
and they were received by his Imperial Highness, sur
rounded by the Austrian ministers, the ambassadors of all
she German states, and numbers of generals.
Baron Andrian, as vice-pre side nt of the national assembly,
addressed the Archduke John, giving him greeting. The
address was then read by the cuiet secretary, Herr Jucho ;
atter which Herr Heckscher came forward, and thus
addressed the Archduke : " Your Imperial Highness now
sees before you the deputation upon which the c outituent
national use mbly has devolved the glor.ous charge of laying
before your Imperial Highness the intelligence, that
after deciding on the foundation of a provisional
central power far Germany, it has named your Im-
perial Highness Vic a of the Empire. In entrust-
ing the office to you the great principle is pro-
claimed that the German people, in its national assembly,
represents the enure. and the fount of the highest central
governmental power in Germany. The irresponsibility of
the Vicar of the Empire, which is also proclaimed, denotes
the permanency and stability of the highest power of the
state. Your high virtues, the love of the German people,
and the confidence of the united nation, were the mo•
tiles which determined the election to fall upon
you, and the joyful cheering and gr. klieg of the whole
nation have contained the choice of its representatives.
Germany hopes and expects to find in you the faithful
guardian of its freedom—the right of the petiole. It hopes
to attain under your auspices a return of order and cools
device, and in your righteous and powerful government
a worthy representation of it in the eyes of the world. But
one desire is expressed hy the whole nation, and it is
that your imperial highness will determine to accept the
high (Ace to which its love and its coefidenco has elected
you. We await the assurance of your acceptation."
Archduke John replied: " Gen.lemen, I feel flattered and
honoured by the election which has fallen on me of Vicar of
the Empire, and to which, as the Germanic Diet has in-
formed me,the German governments have e ivere their consent.
The confidence set in me, and the favour shown me, imeose
great obligations upon me, which it is my profoundest
desire to fulfil. I feel in its full force the great honour
as well as the importance and difficulty of the trust
imposed on me. May Gee! give me the strength necessary
to answer to the wishes of the German fatherland ! May I
be supported by the co-operation of all the friends of Ger-
many I This desired object can only be attained by unity,
mutual moderation, disinterested views, and love of recti-
tude. I beg you, gentlemen, to bo convinced that I desire
no other honour than to devote the last strength of my old
age to the united fatherland. One thing embarrasses me,
and that is my present position, which prevent+ me at pre-
sent from deciding upon the time at which I shall assume
the office of Vicar of the Empire. I will immediately com-
municate with the Emperor, my gracious master, u to the
way and method by which I can combine the performance
of my new office with that which he has entrusted to me."
Baron Andrian then advanced and said :—" The national
assembly will receive with joy through us the assurance of
the acceptation by your Imperi l Highness of the post to
which they have elected you, and it will find the conlideioce
returned which it placed in you for the love of fatherland
and according to the sense of Germany."
The Archduke then shook hands with the deputies and
said, " " Now we are all broth: rs ;" and going out on the
balcony, he spoke a 'ew welds to the crowds on the Fran-
sensplatz. A salute of ono huneired tool one guns was at
the moment tired. An immense mass of voices struck up
the German patriotic none, and the Archduke having re-
ceived the congratulations of those around him the depute.
tion returned as it came.
Herr Ileckscher and Raveaux addressed the people from
their windows, and the deputies were all called to be greeted
by a general hurrah.
The following is a letter from a correspondent :
VIENNA, Juxx s.—The ministry of Pillersdorf has
rendered itself most unpopular by the regulations which that
minister proposes for the Austrian assembly. The liberal
press call loudly for his dismissal. Stadion is trying to enter
the ministry. but he is considered to be a menibetr of the old
liberal school, an aristocrat after the heart of Joseph I I , and
a friend of the liberal provincial develepment. As for the
new National Assemb'y of Austria, thr e-querters of its
members are melt of the R. catest ignorance and incapability.
Two of them are well known to Rave been par icipators, if
not leaders, in the massacre of Tarnow in Galicia, and from
which province there are also 30 members woo tan
neither read nor write, and whose poverty is such
that they sleep on straw in rooms provided far them
in barracks. To crown all, there is one-fourth of the
members of the esscmbly who cannot speak German.
There is a great want of leaders amongst them.
The following is shout the state of parties: Tho
Camara's, led by Jesuits and women, form the ex-
treme right and are in the proper ion of one-lii-
teenite ; the German aristocracy and Sclavenic peasantry
six-fitteenthe; the conservative or ministerial party who wish
for Austria's independence of Germany is represented by
three. fifteenths, and rallies round the black and yellow flag.
The party of the left, with Archduke John, have as their
symbol the red black and go.d Hag, which represents the in-
terests of Germany as a oottfederaey in the proportion of
three-lifteenth*, and the extreme left, or radical party, of
two fifteenths. It is probable that this assembly willbe forcibly
dissolved, the dissatisfaction and apprehens:on respecting it
being general.
PRUSSIA.—The Berlin journals of the Bth have
reached us.
In the Berlin constituent assembly on the 7th inst.,
the president of the council declined to answer a
question, having in view the ascertaining. what mea-
sures were taken to protect the Prussian frontiers
against Russia. The minister of finance declared that
the funds in the national treasury, instead of diminish-
ing during the last six or seven years, had increased.
The 600th anniversary of the laying the foundation
stone of tho renowned cathedral of Cologne will be
celebrated with extraordinary romp on the 14th,
15th, and 16th of August next, on one of which dates
the newly-constructed portions of the edifice will be
consecrated. It in fully expected that the vicar of
the German empire and the King of Prussia will be
present. There is also some talk still of the Pope
coming here on the occasion.
HAMBURG.—The following is a letter from our

correspondent :
HAMBI:110, Jura. 7.—We expected to hear both from Co-