The Express.
London, England, 1848-04-14 00:00:00

an army, MI given offence to the German inhabitants, the manner that Magary has keg enjoyed, and the Grand limy et
enema of came of whom against the Poles he energetically ?seen elle.
blames. The Silesian Gazette of yesterday asserts that en- We entreat your Majesty, therefore, to sanctio• the emetic* d •
committee composed at Poles that have the full academe of the
fire districts of the grand duchy have become Polish ; that country, that it mar quickly undertake the rtorganisatkeof the cogs
in Schroda there are from six to eight thousand Polish tr., on a purely national rooting, tom form a plan fora topionentadoe
troops, with six cannons. Whilst proceeding with the na. national assembly which may take the place of the old diet, the faulty
lions] re-organisation of the grand duchy, General Willisen, coostitution of whith has nraclaimed it useless and gone ; farther,
It is understood, will take steps to preserve the rights and that reeeddedens may It ePPainted to prepare
e the eabllee of those
nationality of the German inhabitants, end also to restore 'Peet"' which relate to the aemeefehatt . ee mgeeleetieh of the
public order. There will be two presidents for the grand country ; finally, that th royal rent be given in order that the fol..
lowing value, which were to part embodied in the address detach
duchy—one a Pole, the other a German. The latter will 15, 1817, may be realised :
be the head president. 2,000 Polish troops have taken full I. The removal of those omelet whom the committee shall deem
possession of the town of Pleschen, and resolved not to let unworthy of coadence, and their replacement by natives . .
any Prussian soldiers enter. The Silerion Gazette adds that 2. organisation of a national. guard on the widest
uee .hama, and la
it will be very difficult for the Prussians to regain the town. conformity 3,, with a tlia:Ztaboeorm'rl. by the .gC Cof ''',. ,of Good,
The nobles, accompanied. by their tenantry, armed with or of such foreigners as have devoted themselves to the cause of the
scythes, have joined the military. It is now fully understood country. The commencement of this army to be termed by the rui..
that some grand move sill be made against Maga, if no meats which have been raised in Galicia, the speedy recall of which.
obstruction be given by the Prussian troops. and their subjection to the orders of the committee of organisatiin, is
The Breslau Gazette of yesterday confirms the intelligence humbly
tr;quested take an;.at that ordersi,,y be given wW to thee trootztoob,weinitethet.
of the Siksian Gazette respecting the numbers and determi- our national iluititutions an long as they remain, and that they may,
nation of the Polish army. It adds that in mate towns the in the meantime, be employed in maintaining peace said mom in the
Poles have exclusively placed themselves at the head of country.
affairs; that the communication between those places and 4. The me of the Polish language in schools, courts of j tietirr. and
Posen is interrupted ; that thousands of Poles are armed in public business; in the elementary schools, the prevailing language
of the place may be employed.
with scythes ; that barricades are erected in various parte; 5. The speedy assembling of a diet or national assembly, on ptins
and that, in fact, the Poles are regularly in the field. The doles to be declared by the committee, but whom chief disunctioa
former journal states that it was resolved to forward to shall be a full and fair representation of the whole peoi.le, without
Schroda several thousand infantry, two squadrons of cavalry, distinction of rank, or of rt ileums oonfereion.
and four cannons ; but that, on the arrival at Posen of Gen. G. With fervent gratitude foe the liberty of the preu conceded by
Von Willisen, counter-orders were given. The national your Majesty, coo pray that free dacuasion of public business may be
all
(Polish) committee have promised to do all in their power 1. A owe
general ammaty for military „mitt& immormi so rocr, by
to induce their Polish countrymen to surrender their arms been granted to civilians, and that bath be restored to their rights and
for the present, but it is thought that they will not succeed property as before incarthiatlem.
in the attempt. 8. Public and oral proceedings in courts of justice, and Mal by
The Oder Gazette (Breslau) of yesterday contains a cm, Poy
respondence from Warsaw of the 6th, is which it is stated ___.;.9 The eclu'heiee
rime or el 'ous infesion, the abolition of all restrictions on m 'hi-
d all eitisiens before the taw, whatever be their
that the Russian government has ordered all the landed cm, and other juce,, also at all mtm moo levied oo Jews
proprietors to forward all their corn to the state depot in the 10. A communal ornmaation for towns and villagee on the mast
above city. They will be paid half in ready money and half liberal bola of parachul and municipal government.
in bills. According to the same journal the greatest excite- 11. The abolition of the system of police organisation and maths.
meat prevails throughout the kingdom of Poland. The Oder !ion of that.laida y to its proper
u ttut:usiedubitnian"oonagirmlyt° %p :he
Gazette rho contains a correspondence from Cracow, under Itirtee•=,..liAreeeeinge t est - w
date April 8, refuting the statement already made in a Be,- ij. The release of the pe,,,..ts from forma labour, too, being the
lie journal to the effect that Austria had resolved to give up with of the landed proprietors no less than of the peasants. The pu-
tts possessions in Italy. The forint r journal adds that a cone- vision il committee to be clanowesed to proclaim this release, and that
mission will be sent to Milan in order to settle the question national assembly to discuss the terms upon which the coratuutaLloa
amicably. of the labour rent for an mistrial tax or rate is to be utablielcd.
Finally, we resume all the wishes here unrested in one urgent
'flee hollowing is an extract from one of the morning request that your Majesty will plows to sanction the mumbling of a
journals of thus day: "We protest against the idea that provisional oommit.ee to tweet the danger which threatens, has a
Prussia should undertake at its own expense a war against tempest, to accumulate above us, and whose discharge, if violenas
- which -' -a deeply I break -. ' - '- overwhelm all in ow common destruction. A&

—.seta, in order to loss a province w___ stretches
into the heart of our fatherland, a province in which many
millions of our taxes have been expended, in order to make
the formai of Posen a bulwark against invading Russia ;
we protest against the surrender of a province in which half
a million of our German brothers reside, brothers who,
moreover, protest against their incorporation with the king-
dom of Poland."
Some disturbances took place on the 11th at Co-
logne, which caused the calling out of the national
guard. These disturbances were caused by the com-
plaints of the owners of horses for hauling boats up
the Rhine, that they were deprived of employment
by the use of tug-boats, which consequently ought to I
be abolished, and by the demands of certain work-
men who called for a rise of salary of 15 silber-
groechen.
AUSTRIA.—We have intelligence from Vienna of
the 7th. It was stated that the King, after having
closed the liunprian diet on the 9th at Presbarg,
would go to Pesth, where he has not been since his
accession. It was also stated that the Emperor
had named the presumptive heir to the imperial
throne, Archduke Francis Joseph, eon of Archduke
Francis Charles, captain general of Bohemia.
The Berlin Zeitungs Halle of the 10th, contains a
correspondence from Vienna stating that two Austrian
plenipotentiaries have left for Italy, and that the
Emperor had resolved not to sacrifice any more

energetic errictly national committee Is .1005 able tocollect around it
the org-ante element, of power for a good end. Every other ramie of
transition from the rule of foreign officials must plunge us into an
abyss and !hake the power of every neighbouring government. 'Pius
we lay our wishes for the grandeur of your throne und the weal of
the people of this empire with confidence before your Majesty.
FRANKFORT.—The Germanic Diet has issued
the following decree relative to the Sleswig Holstein
question :
I. The German Diet declares, conformably with Art. 3S of
the final act, that the German federal state of Holstein is in
danger of an attack, and the Diet entirely approves the decie
lions taken in a federal and national spirit by l'russia and the
states of the 10th corps of the army for the purpose of de-
fending the federal frontier in Holstein. 11. In order that
a unity may subsist in military measures which may be
ultimately adopted for this object, the Germanic Dirt invites
Prussia to agree on this subject with the states of the 1011 t
corps of the army. 111. To obviate the effusion of blood,
and to endeavour to obtain an amicable arrangement, the
Germanic Diet is ready to ch.rge itsclf with this mediation
in the name of the Germanic Diet on integral rights of Hole
stein, namely, on its union with the Duchy of Sleswig,
founded on public rights. There is no doubt that hostilities
will be immediately suspended, and that the slain quo anis
will be rs established.

LISBON, APRIL 4.
Late last night the steamer Jackall was announced
for sailing. She will take a mail, I believe. Up to this 'into
Lisbon is perfectly quiet, nor have there oceured the slightest
disturbances in the provinces, but the greatest anxiety exists
as regards the course events may take in Spain ; in the mean
time the Lisbon government are taking every precutiou to
suppress or to put down an outbreak, should anything of
the kind be attempted ; and, from the very strong garrison in
the capital, it is unlikely that any movement would be rue-
eosin!.

blood or treasure.
The following letter of a correspondent gives an
account of the reception by the Emperor of the depu-
tation of Poles from Galicia :

In the ministerial ranks, however, a small civil war hu
been going on, and, as usual among Donna Maria't coun-
cillors, the skirmish has had sole reference to the loaves and
fishes. Two of the minkters, those of the home department
and of the marine, have been very unceremoniously ejected
from their posts. The cause. may be stated as follows :—lt
would seem that M. Albana, the minister of marine, bad
sought to obtain privately the signature of the Quo. n to a royal
decree, creating some party or other a baron, with the title of
Fianunier, for which he was to get some four or fire cone*
of rein, wnile the home minister, Id. Gorjao's little job was
in connection with a privili ge to be conceded to a gag
company, the price to be paid him for his good offices beteg
twenty-five contoa, or nearly 0,0001. ; sterling, however. as
ill-luck would have it for bath of these gentlemen, the affair
oozed out by some means or other, before the transaction eras
completed, and the Cabral* and John Oliveira, ►ighly indig-
nant at finding interlopers intheir particular line of business,
' insisted upon the Queen's sending the offender to the right
about forthwith, which was accordingly done ; the ministry
therefore has had to be re-constructed, and the coesequent
changes are as follows :
Foreign affairs, Gomea de Castro, in room of the Duke of
Saldanha, who goes to the home department ; Costa Fares is
appointed minister of justice; and the Baron Ourem, late
civil governor, is named minister of marine ; and the Mar-
quis of Fronteira goes back to his old berth as civil goy, race
of Lisbon.
In the Cortes there is little of interest occurring, be-
yond a very general impression that in the financial
measures presented to the chamber au important modifica-
tion will have to be adopted in as far as the home debt is
concerned, the reduction of the rate of dividend being
strongly opposed ; the robb:ry of the Engli• h bondholder,
however, meets with as equal applause as the attack upon
Portuguese pockets does opposition. There remains little to
be added. The Howe, now complete in her interior arrange.
meats, went down the river yesterday ; she proceeds to
Madeira, to bring home her nxijesty Qu,ca Adeliiele and
aude, but we are expecting the Jupiter I ut to take the place
of the Howe. Exchanges upon England as follows ; —At
30 days, 521 ; 90 days, 521 t ; while Lisbon Bank note
are feat hurrying to the value of waste paper, the Moeda
note of 4,800 rein being now quoted at 2,750 discount !
To-day is the Queen of Portugal's birthday, and some
attempt is being made for an illumination, while the soldiers.'
loyalty, it is stated, is to be stimulated a little by the issue of
a fortnight's pay, it the wherewithal can be scraped together,
which is somewhat problematical

DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES. The
Hamburg Borsenluslie of the 10th says: "The suppo-
sition that the Prussian troops are to be confined to
the defence of the frontiers appears to be wholly without
foundation, for the cantonments of the two battalions of
fusiliers are on Sleswig ground." A letter from Itendaburg
of 9th April, says: The fusilier battalion of the :Kith
Pruwian regiment of infantry arrived here this morning,
and have taken up their cantonments in the surrounding
villages. An obstinate engagement has taken place at 800.
Twu Danish men-of-war threatened to bombard Flensburg
in consequence of which the Sleswig.llolstein troops have
been obliged to ►bandon their position, both at F -enchurg
and Bon, ►ad have taktn up a firmer position on this side of
Bon. The 16th battalion, under Count Bandiseeu, is .aid
to have suffered very much in the retreat. The King has
entered Flensburg.' Another letter soya: "An engage-
ment between the outposts of Denmark and Sleseig took
place on the ith. One of our troops was wounded, and an
officer and two men fell on the aide of the enemy. The
Danish troops have concentrated at Sondern, and carried
away some of the principal inhabitants prisoner,. Prince
Waldemar wee expected to return from Berlin to Sleswig es
the evening of the 9th."

'Ube Court.
The Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Mary
visited the exhibitiou of the British lostitutwa yesterday.

A Cabinet Council was held jesterday at the Foreign
office. The Ministers present were Lsrd J. Rowell, the
Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of Lowdown., Sir G. Grey,
Viscount Palmerston, Earl Grey, the Chan,*llor of the Ex-
chequer, the Earl of Auckland, Sir J. Hobhouse, Lad
Campbell, the Right Hon. IL Labouchere, the Marquis of
Clanricarde, Viscount Morpeth, and the Right Hon. T. H.
Macaulay. The council sat two hours and a half.
The Archbishop of Canterbury had an interview
with Lord J. Rouen yesterday, at his official residence in

Downing-street.
The Lord Chief Justice Doherty had an interview
with Sir G. Grey Itsterday, at the Home-otfiee.
Sir Henry lour.g had an interview with Earl
Grey yesterday ; the Earl of Suffolk and the Rev. Dr.
Nicholson had also ietertiews yesterday with the noble earl
at the Colonial-office.
The Ecclesiastical Commisaiosers fur England had
a general meeting yesterday.
Sir Thomas Fr.mantle, Chairman of the Customs,
had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yes-
terday, at his official residence in Downing-street.
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat
yesterday. The lords present were the Master of the Rolls,
Lord Brougham, Lord Campbell, the Chancellor of this
Duchy of Cornwall, and the Judge 01 the Admiralty Court.
Judgment was given in " Magnus Smith v. the Judges of
Sierra Leone." Their lordships afterwards ►sod appeals.

GRAND ENTERTAINMENT TO LORD HARLINGE AT
/RE MANSION-mut 3E.—Yealercl4y the Lurd Mayor gave a
grand dinner to Lord kiudinge, after the presentation of the
freedom to the noble lord at the Court of Common CouneiL
Amongst the company were the Earl of Auckland, the
Bishop of Oxford, the Biahop of Madras, Sir John Cam
Robboure, But., M.P., Viscount Castlereagh, M.P., and
Lord Adolphus Fitzelarnce.
INTEROOURSE WITH THE EIoNTINENT.—The usual
returns of the number of pastengen through the ports of the
channel, give for the week, ending April •
numbers ;—Through Boulogne, 1,72.5 • ,
Corresponding period last Tear—tbre Tioulogne, .1 re
through Calais, 279. The peaseng Idayougn •Ik:i
may be subdivided as follows :-1• I Yefrestone, • ~...
from Dover, 36 ; trom London, 62 • ' WM, 4U2. For Folk,- -.0
stone, 909 ; for Dover, 113; for Lonclan,l,3ol. ; total,
.1,39.221
Thus it appears, that the law of mongers to .E.e7-70
WI c:iatianes unabated.
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