The Express.
London, England, 1851-12-08 00:00:00

SPAIN.

A very brisk debate occurred in the Chamber of
Madrid on the Ist, when Gonzales Bravo led an at-
tack on the ministry by supporting the motion for
asserting the inviolability of deputies. On a divi-
sion the ministry had 13.5 against El 3 votes.
The state of the Basque provinces gives the govern-
ment much uneasiness. Our correspondent states
that these provinces, which rebolled nominally for the
King Charles, but truly for their own privileges, are
feeling the effects of republican, neighbourhood. So-
cialism is beginning to spread among the lower
ranks.

GEIt M ANY.

PRUSSIA.

Th Conditutuinnel states that on the receipt of the
news from Paris, it was resolved to mobilise the Bth
army corps. This statement is not confirmed by any
official authority. A Berlin correspondent of the
C'ulagne Gazette announces that the Prince of Prussia
will immediately leave Baden, where he is just
arrived, to go to Coblentz. The Berlin journals
complain of the scanty information to be obtained
respecting the progress of events in France. The
telegraph is engrossed by the government, and com-
munications arc day and night interchanged between
the capital and the Rhine province.
The conservative journals approve of the coup
d'etat, which they regard as the termination of the
revolutionary crisis: while the organs of the left see
with joy in the same measure the triumph of univer-
sal suffrage. The New Prussian Gazette, whose
legitimist tendencies are well khown, speaks of Louis
Napoleon in a most hostile manner, and in an appeal
addressed to the chambers, calls upon them to afford
the government every moral and material support of
which it may have need in the face of all eventuali-
ties. The peace.of Germany and the independence
of Prussia, It declares, are at stake.

DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES.

Letters from Copenhagen represent the Danish
ministry as passing through a crisis. M. Madwig,
Minister of Worship, and one of the chiefs of the
exclusive Danish party, has followed the example of
M. Redtz, and resigned his seat in the cabinet. M.
von Dockum, Minister of Marine, also retires. Their
successors are not certainly known. The immediate
cause of these resignations is the success of M. Orla
Lehmann's motion in the chamber.
Advices from Kid of the2nd state that the Danish
gencral,Bardenfleth,was on the Ist officially invested
by the commissioners of the Federal 1 het with the com-
mand of the Holstein contingent of the buml. The
troops have taken the Danish cockade, and all the
superior officers and the staff arc Danish. The
German officers are daily leasing the battalions. On
the 2nd the soldiers took the oath, but no "Hoch"
was raised either for king or duke.
The Hamburgh papers continue to give fresh
illustrations of the unhappy situation of the Schles.
wigers under the restored ascendancy of the Danes.

ITALY.

PIEDMONT.

In its sitting of the 2nd, the senate unanimously
voted the prolongation of the law imposing a tax
upon trades and liberal arts, which had been passed
for only a limited period.

ROMAN STATES.

Our correspondent at Rome, writing on the 30th
November, states that the ecclesiastical authorities were
making as much ready money as possible by farming
the Custom-house and the lottery, and by exacting the
tax on industry. Our correspondent sends the sub-
stance of the notification published by the interna-
tional commissioners of the Central Italian Railway,
inviting tenders. Another band of brigands had
been captured in the northern provinces. Grea
sensation prevailed at Fabriano on account of th
beheading (considered unjust) of three young men o
that city. At Loreto there were disputes betwee
the Austrian and papal tribunals. The King-of Pru
Ida had written a letter of thanks to tho Archteo
gieal Society of Rome. Father Ignatius Spencer was
holding forth at the Piazza Navona.