The Express.
London, England, 1849-09-24 00:00:00

GERMANY.

PRUSSIA.—The following is the letter of oar cor-
respondent :

BERLIN, Barr 21.

I mentioned in a preceding letter that a Hanove
rian mete had beet received declining to the Suedes-
staat. This communication forms at present tne chief
subject of political conversation. Hanover is of opt-,
aloe that the Drei-Koni,sbund wee perfectly con- '
formable to the provisions of the treaty of contederta
tion of 1816; but regards the f =alien of a partial
federation as well as alliance as not. jirtified by any
existing treaty. If M. Bteive and the King of Has-
over had made this discovery some months sooner, a
gaol deal of trouble and disappointment might
have been spared. Their julgment enforce-
neely only became clear just as Austria re-
covered her legs. It is imposalle to eonceive a
more dastardly coarse of preceding than that
which has been adopted by the governments which
formed the League of Use Three Kings. The school-
boy-fright with which theee princes and their
ministers scramble back into their old places the
instant Austria appears, ferule in hand, in the midst
of Germany, is really one of the most lamentably
ludicrous sights which have ever been represented ou
any political arena. Conceive all the diploasatie
machinery that has been clattering since the let of
Apri., during six livelong months about this same
Bundes-staat. First, in April there is a solemn invita-
tion to all states to and up plenipotentiaries to
Berlin. Then the conclave (a very thin one, from the
general preference given at that time to the
Frankfort constitution) having met, after brooding t..r
a month, and journey of Canits with spirited pro-
peals to Vienna, rejected with passive pride, out
cense at the end of May Heir Von Radowitx's gratd
programme for Germany: Treaty of three kirgt,
rd sift of constitution, sup ems court of arbitration at
Erfurt, veraealtungs-rath, or diplomatic council at
Berlin. The most renowned jurists in Prange ate ac-
tually appointed judges of the Court of Arbitrati n,
and go down furnished, no doubt, with mutable grave
uniforms to Erfurt, there to wait for tee first CIIII3 of
political litigation under the new order of thing*.
IValdeek and Temme have been chorea members of
the First Chamber fee a district of Co.rfeld in West-
phalia. Both these darocrafc leaders are in prison,
the first at Berlin, the other at Munster. The enter-
treehunge- Richter, or juge d'instruction, has made an
application to the court of appeal to have them either
brought to trial co liberated ; to which the court of
appeal has replied, that the preliminary investigation
is to be continued. The public infer, that as yet
nothing has turned up which will serve to convict
either of the pris )nersof any punishable crime; but that
some result is hoped from the endless ferettinge of the
Fake, which have been set on foot to procure evidence
against these friends of the people. If they accept
the seats offded them in the First Chamber, it is ti
derstood that a motion will be made in that legislative
assembly Ito admit both as membere, and postpone
their trial until after the session. But of course Ware
leading liberals will adhere to the policy of the r
party and d.cline forming part of the presee.t parlia-
ment.

AIX:LA-CHAPELLE, SEPT, 20.—Notwithstanding
the decree of the Frankfort National et,sembly,l
gambling is still c trried on in Aix•le•Chai elle almost
as publicly as formerly, and with the tacit connivance
not only of the civic authorities, but of the govern-
ment in Berlin.
MECKLENBURGH-STRELITZ, SZPT. 20.—The
grand duke still refuses to give his sanction to the con-
' stitution drawn up by the common diet of the two
blecklenburghs, thus paralysing the acceptanci of it
by the grand duke of Micklenbu-gb-Schwerin.

DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES.

HAMBURG, Burr. 21.
The night before last a manifesto of the senate,
containing the objections against the constitution
made by the Constituent Ateembly was published,
and yesterday morning the convent passed the two
laws by which the press is fettered, and clubs end
/starlit, meetings "regulated." Blaming the antho-i-
-ties or foreign germ; meats for any public act makes
the writer or speaker liable to penalty or imprison-
ment. Nay, even ceestieg a suspicion against such
bodies is a misdemeanour, for which an anti n tmtp
be brought against the author, publisher, printer, or
vendor, before a court, without a jury, where it is
much more likely that the judges are friends of the
parties bringing the action then of the defendants.
In the case of publ;o meetings, of which 24 hours'
notice, if held in a house, and 3 days if in a field,
must be given, the president is made answerable foe
all the speeches delivered; moreover, it is in the
power of the police t,, dissolve such meetings without
any ceremony. The manifesto shove mentioned is
written with considerable ability, the fear of comma-
nism on one side, and of the mcnarchical governments
on the other, are brought so well into play, that both
property and state independence appear to be in
jeopardy, though in reality there would be no danger
of either, if the new constitution were to become the
ars.. law. There is, however, no probability of such
a change ; the proposed of the senate, now made and
accepted beforehand by the civic colleges, is sere to
pass the convent, of which, if not numerously attended,
the latter form the majority. According to that pro-
posal, a committee of four senators aid five citizens is
to treat with the Constituent Assembly, endeavouring
to come to as understanding as to sheratio-s to be
made in the constitution, as enacted by the Assembly,
After protesting "Aleut any intention to discard
reforms altogether, the senate sets forth, as a basis
foe the alteration. required in the new constitution,
the Ibllowing seven items The mode of
elation to the legislators is not to be universal
eafrosr bat baseA on the principle of the Berlin.
A at the 2flth Key for the elections of deputies
to Abe peOplets hemp .ot the German empire, with
isailiadmis. hie trommanded br our Ideal ei--
ellasesibiodlivinf kismet number of the fat-class
electors by the rate of mfr orbs of direct taxation.
2. The number of Amman matte oar Ispdature to
be diminished (the sow esimititation fixes three hun-
dred), mewing tlsem irsosmively, and not at too
skeet pried' (the SOW . constitution wants the mesa-
ben to be sissted ter two. years, and not to be renliwelV
in the meantime, mesas of vaeseeim by is*
&c.) S. A curer alteration in the standing