The Express.
London, England, 1851-04-30 00:00:00

GERMANY.

We learn from Berlin, that General Rochow has
been appointed Prussian ambassador at the Diet,
greatly to the dissappointment of M. Bismark Shon-
hausen, and of his party, who have made every
effiirt to obtain for him, as n representative of the
feudal retrograde party, the Frankfort mission. M.
Bernstorff is talked of as ambassador, in the place of
M. Roehow (whose health has suffered by the Prus-
sian climate), at the court of St. Petersburgh. The
(Moyne Gazette says that very frequent diplomatic
communications have lately taken place between
Paris and Vienna, and that M. Dietrichstein has been
sent on a confidential mission from the latter court
to the former.

BERLIN, APT!. 27.

As the Dresden conferences could not succeed in oda-
blishing the alterations desired in the organisation of the
Confederation, every reasonable person would have supposed
that they would be adjourned at once, and the time and
labour of the plenipotentiaries, and the funds of the govern-
ments economised Not to, however. The spirit of German
bureaucracy is opposed to leaving anything unfinished ; the
conference', must lie closed in slue form ' • the afters must be
carefully collated, the proceedings of each commission
scrutinised and arranged separately, and then re-arranged
as a whole, so that on paper at least the conferences will
appear to have fulfilled the task which they undertook.
These often will firm a, very considerable, but I
believe not very valuable addition to the federal
archives, in the pigeon-holes of which they will I
remain, neatly ticketed and tied, until some more I
than usually enterprising historian shall plunge into
the sea of matter to have the few ideas which can be
discovered in the mass of writing. The labour will be her-
culean. The third commission of the conferences has held
its lard sitting, and has signed, scaled, and delivered. 'f he
second and first, with whom the differences at first origi-
nated, seem to find it equally difficult,to close their labours
harmoniously, if their repeated sittings have not some other
object unknown to the world.
Twenty-nine persons publicly acknowledged their con-
version from the protestant to the Roman catholic faith at
Bn.slau on Easter Sunday. The labours of the Roman catholic
priesthood have not been in vain, nor the cardinal's hat
recently presented by the Pope to the Archbishop of Bres-
lau been without influence.
It is anticipated that in consequence of the alterations re-
commended by the commission of the Second Chamber, that
the government will not proceed this session with the new
press law, the necessity of which is in reality not very great,
seeing that the government can octroy ordinances of what-
ever character they please, without running the risk of a
condemnatory vote in the next Chamber. Under these cir-
cumstances, the Chambers will probably he prorogued im-
mediately after the Income Tax Bill has passed the Second
Chamber.
During the past year 3,15.5 persons emigrated from the
kingdom of Wirtemberg, the whole of the population of
which hardly exceeds a million and a half of souls; one-half
of this number of emigrants carried property and capital
with them to the amount of 1,400,000 florists (140,0001.)
The King of Prussia is to visit Mecklenberg-Schwerin in
the beginning of May, to assist at the christening of the
infant crown.prince. The Empress of Russia is to visit
Ems again this summer.
Some time ago the king refused his sanction to the ap-
pointment of a certain person as Mayor of Breslau ; a similar
refusal has just been given to the election of Herr Grainier
to the mayoralty of Magdeburg. In both cases the political
principles of the parties is the cause of the royal displeasure.
In 1848 a ladies' committee raised sufficient funds to pur-
chase a gun-boat for the Schleswig Holstein marine. In
consequence of the dissolution of the navy they have re-
claimed their present from the federal commissioners, who
have referred the matter to the Diet.