The Express.
London, England, 1849-08-10 00:00:00

OPENING OF THE CHAMBER.

BERLIN, AvovsT 7.

The speech from the throne was read to-day, in
the " white hall" of the palace, to the assembled
deputies of the First and Second Chamber, and such
portion of the public as could gain admittance into
the gallery. The reader was not the kirg, but
Count Brandenburg, who wore his military uniform
and orders. The rest of the ministers were present
in their ceremonial dresses, on a bench apart. The
public audience were chiefly ladies, among whom
might be observed many fair patronesses of the
Treubund. People second to be struck with the
abundance of new members. It was hard to light on
a face you knew; and they moved as strangers among
each dh,er. Perhaps the man who attracted moat no-
tics was Camphausen, the former minister. He has
declined the seat to which he was elected in the Second
Chamber, but still remains in the First. Alfred and
Rudolf Von Anerawald were much greeted, and became
the centres of rings. One was glad not to see Vincke.
Neither was Hansemann present. Count Arnim-
Buitiembarg, the tory candidate for the presidentship
of the Second Chamber, was among the oon-
spicuous. Simeon, the whig aspirant, was
surrounded by a rival caorie. The militate:a,
in grand uniform, came in soon after mid-day. A
velvet cloth hung over the throne showed the king
would not appear. All having taken their seats,
Count Brandenburg, standing by the left of the throne,
read the following speech :
Gentlemen,—His Majesty has commanded me to open the
Chambers in his name.
The ministry welcomes the moment which gives it the
satisfaction to proclaim, before the representatives of the
people and the country, principles by which its course of
action has been guided.
We have conceived it our duty to oppose with strength
and vigour that domination of terror which a misguided
party began to exercise over Prussia and Germany. We
have sought to re-establish the tranquillity and order which
have been so much disturbed. But we have laboured, on the
other tend, with the same resolution, through recognition of
the true needs and just demands of the nation, to lay the I
ground of a lasting quiet, and in this way to deprive new at-
tempts at revolution of all foundation and pretext.
In the stable organisation of the common fatherland lies en
indispensable condition fcr the riddance of the wide-grasping
confusion which perplexes the state of Germany.
But the more intimately we were convinced that the erec-
tion of aGermsn federal-state, with the due power (in the ex-
ecutive), and with the due freedom guaranteed to the people
is of the highest importance for the future of Prussia, the
more have we conceived it our duty to resort only. to
just and honourable means for the attainment of this aim.
The government of his Majesty the King has avoided even
the appearance of intended coercion evilest the confederated
German governments, and confiding in the insight and de-
votion of the princes as well as in the sense of justice and
national feeling of all Gasman races, has made the attempt
to bring about the political regeneration of Germany, from
which no German state can long escape In the way of free
agreement.
The establishment of political order, the corner-stone of
which is the foundation of a German federal states, we regard
as the chief function of our activity.
We have been mindful of the patriotic devotiun in which
the people have vied with the royal house as often as the
historical mission of Prussia required sacrifices.
From you, gentlemen, we may expect that you will grasp
and examine our actions, not singly but together, while you
contemplate the melte attained sot without regard to the
difficulties which were to be vanquished.
It is known to on in what manner, for the 'append= of
open rebellion, Prussia has afforded successfully the aid of
her arms demanded by allied Germs& governmenh, noon
the pound of existing treaties, sad how upon this occasion
the excellent spirit which animates oar army has given fresh
tokens of Its exhume, to the glary of oar coaatry.
The heir to the throne hen, at tie head of the troops led
on by him, shwa their dangers and labours; and • young
prince of the royal house has shed his blood in their ranks.
If eye attempts to arrive a an undemanding with the
Garman National Assembly Woks down, to our great regret,
in conesimenes of the tura which thine took at Friskiest,
the government of his majesty has not acknowledged with
lem outdoor the labours of that assembly ,• and sad these as
the groandwaek of their earnest and Jealous endeavours to
promote the work of the constitution, so far as was com-
patible wish the boacat of the whole, and with the rights of
eagle parties.
Ths unity of Germany, with an unitarian executive power
at its head, which will represent its name and interests with
dignity sad strength, eai the imam of the German peo-
ple, secured by a melee representation with legislative
power, was and continue to be the els of one endeavours.
We have ressadeed the complete combatibilliq of bolls
conditions with the secure political existence of all Getman
countries. The draft of the federal constitution attests that
no sacrifices are demanded from Prussia or any other
German state, as far as its independence. is concerned, but
each as are inseparable from the eennion of a truly national
federal states.
For the formation of such a federal state, negotiations lave
been entered into with the plenipotentiaries of the German
governments. The results already obtained, csacernleg
which complete information with justificatory documents will
be laid before the Chamber, inspire the hope that, aided by
the co-operation of upright and enlightened friends of the
Fatherland, sad particularly of the men who are hare assem-
bled in order to represent the Pruden people, our endeavours
willuot remise &aides,.

.The imams ;ITich, tiering the lest half of this year, had
been mixed up with the dimwits, of the German question,
have given way to sedate deliberation, and the n
delay which has attended the meads, a/ the Chambers
in this respect be followed by geed asesequenees.
It has not been possible to smoke the Chambers so early
m Is prescribed by the 49th article at the Ccestitution.
While the deplorable occurrences in May occasioned the
el.ctian to be put off, daring the negotiations on the
German electoral law, it beams evident that a raodi-
['cation of the law of December, 6 and g,1616, wader which
the deputies of the Second Promise Chamber were chosen, was
indispensable. In having effected these alteratices by the
decree of May 30 of this year, the government has yielded
to an urgent necessity. No eddies has ther, by been de
wired of his electoral right. while, by the publicity of Totter
in•roduced, the impure influence of party intrigue has been
u much as possible averted, and, by the hissed= of three
divisions of voters, the abrupt contradiction has been recon-
ciled in which the excretes of universal suffrage hitherto
stood to the real circumstances of life. The execution of

diSIS um elute& regulations demaaeled, fa the abases et
a mead spiesai &net taxation, a looser 'interval for the
esaveestioa et the ehsadoera

fa the einerlemere of the extraordinary reeparibilify
whisk we have lornrred in the whole of this matter, we that
apes the mei& of oar cceduat con=sit.t • *pedal
whisk sill be hid before the
The eimmant bee also in the usesalimie elregit to avert
%eons ether eedimenees the retinal te • Mae
ed marehy.
eonTtaniedth=byerrad• Ns librettos, sad supplier
deadly several gape, which had became by
the change of eireanistances. it hopes to bays Imam& hem
interruption the continuance of the activity this dauber,
before which all ordinances promulgated on strength of the
106th article of the constitution, will be immediately lag.
The revialoa of the onatitation the diaoussion of the
projects of law for • new municipal arrangement of the lan
for the ordering of circles, districts, and provineee, of the or
dinette, for facilitating the abolition of hardiest' on tended
property, and many other bills will furnish other subjects of
laborious occupations to the chambers.
Known events, the reaction of a disturbed time, have oc-
casioned the government, upon ground of art. 110 of the
constitution, to suspend In certain places end for certain
than the exercise of fandantental ets.
In proportion to the difficulty with which we could recon-
cile ennalves to the adoption ef these measures, will be the
readiness with which we shall lay an account theme( before
the chambers.

n o the budget, the representations made ea
the chambers at their first ocavoeatien may be repeated ma
this ocarina.
Notwithstanding the greet pecuniary sairifieee demanded
by extractdinery circumstances, w ineriessregold with satin-
(scrim and tranquillity the state odour
The country has not been so deeply shaken that the re-
' venire of the state did not suffice to answer, even heavy re-
quirements, without resorting to Itstardous financial
experiments or exhausting the means of taxation, in order to
seek a precarious assistance.
The public works have continued without interruption.
The government will lay bet re the chambers propositions
calculated to employ many industrious hands in profitable
occupation.
In the foreign relations of Prussia no prejudicial sherd-
, lion has occurred. _ _ _ _ _

By the conclusion, under the mediation of Great Britain,
of an armistice and provisional conditions of peace with
Denmark, a way has been entered epos for putting
• stop to that war, which, apart from possible
complications with other powers, laid upon the Ger-
man ncrch arid BiL is coast, the ►eaviest, and, is the long'
rue, intolerable sacrifices, while it required, under the given
circumstances, a dispruortionate expenditure of fore.. The
documents hereto relating will be laid before the chambers;
AU the wishes cf the duchies of Holstein and Schleswig it
was impossible to comply with.
The totems! condition of Germany will obtain a more
thriving development in proportion to the peacefulness of
our relations to the other members of the great European
family of puples and states, u well as to the progress of
these states in bringing to a pacific and stable determination
their own internal distractions.

Among the manifold motives which will induee the
Chambers to Fret without delay about their meet urgent bu-
siness, end settle it as soon as possible in the most advanta-
geous manner to the country, the near approach
of the fir.t G. man Reichat-g autumn • foremost
place. In order that this Assembly may bring to
• speedy conclusion the great work of the constitu-
tion, the Chambers, in conformity with a royal ordinates
shortly to be expected, will have to appoint half the
Praia= member,. _ .
. _ .

The government will, to the utmost of its power, farther
facilitate the activity of the Chambers.
By commend of his Majesty, I aew declare the chambers
of the kingdom to be opened, and I beg the deputies of the
First Chamber to resume their labours, and those of the
Second Chamber to proceed to the constitwion of their As.
!nimbly.

After the close of the speech, the Assembly gee-,
throe cheers for the King. The pausges which re.
laced to the formation of a federal state and the
approaching convocation of the Reichstag were read
with peculiar emph ilk. A faint cheer was also elicite4
by the assurance of the flourishing state of the finance,
Count Brandenburg then declared the sitting dwell
The ministers disappeared, and the members took their
departure. The chief topic of conversation elterwardd
was concerning the probable duration of the ministry,
and the energy with which it bad declared the forma-
tion of the federal state as its remaining task.
Outside the palace there were very few persons as,
eembled, although the day was fine and favourable
for *tending in the open air. Not a single cheer
greeted any of the deputies as they proceeded with
their white neck-cloths, and mostly with spectacles, in
hired droshkeys to the place of meeting. Very different
was the former day of opening, when enthusiastic
cheers greeted the democratic champions who had
inherited their commission from the National As-
sembly.

IMPORTANT FROM HUNGARY.

AUSTRIA.—Latest intelligence from Vienna u to
the 6th instant.

Raab has been taken and occupied by the Hun-
garians!. Such was the terrific intelligence that
circulated with lightning speed through Vienna.
Telegraphic despatches came one after the other,
and a part of the Vienna garrison hastened out on
the same night (the 4th and .sth) to proceed by forced
marches to the seat of war. All was consternation

and alarm at Presburg.
The manoeuvre is said by some to have been exe-
cuted by Aulich. The town naturally did not refuse
to receive him, and thus the most important position in
the rear of the Austrians is now is the hands of the
insurgents. Another account says that it was the
garrison of Comorn which made a fortunate sally.
The " Vienna Lithographic Correspondence " appears
to have 'plead the latter version of the affair, though
in rather ambiguous terms. _ _

A disorderly crowd of fugitives arrived at Free-
burg on the 4th 'wit, and it wu soon known that
the Hungarians were within sight of Altenburg, at
the distance of twelve English miles from Freeburg.
At (forgo and Raab the Hungarians found large,
stone of victuals and ammunition, [BO,OOO bushels of
oats, and 2 400 head of cattle, which they carried off
to the fortress of Comorn. Besides this, they cap-
tured two companies of Austrian foot and six pieces•
of artillery. The Hungarian troops, who were com-
manded by Klapka, did not keep possession of Raab,
bat returned to the fortress.

Oar Constantinople pondent writing on the
25th, mays: "A courier from Galati has brought us the
following news; which, however, in the opinion of
the politicians here, requires confirmation. The
Austrian-Russian army, 60,000 strong, which after
it had compelled the Hungarian general, Perezel, to
retire, and had occupied the cities of Hermanstadt
and Cronstadt, and other small placer, advanced
as far as Sarcani. The errors and imprudences
of Perczel in Transylvania, induced the Han-1
garian government to send general Bern to
retake the command of that most important
part of Hungary. He (Bem) collected all the facesl
under his command, amounting to 40,000 men;
marched immediately against the enemy, and on ar-
riving at Suomi offered battle to the Russian Gen.
Luders. The battle commenced on the morning of
the 10th, by a stratagetio movement on the part of
Bern, by which he out off the who!e of the lett wing
of the Austrian army, attacking the right at
the same time, and compelling it to fall
back upon the centre. Gen. Bem, seeing the
disorder of the enemy's lines, ordered the
reserve to advance, which, by a determined and
lant charge, decided the day in favour of the Hon-
gal-
garbing. The Austrian-Russian army took to a pre-
cipitous flight, leaving on the field 10,000 dead and
wounded, nearly all the artillery, and 8,000 prisoners,
among whom is General Aulemberg. Atter this
battle General Bem again took possession of Cronstadt
and Hermanstadt. In Galicia General Dembinski is
also reported to have gained a victory, and taken
General Freytag prisoner.
A Vienna letter, dated the sth inst., appears in the
Independence Beige of the 9th inst. It appears by
this that the announcement, which appeared in the
Wiener Zeitung of the 3rd, respecting the occupation
of Szegedin, was premature. Private lettere, recently
received from Pesth, repeat the news, it is true, and
add that the brigade Bechtold, which advanced
through Hellas, bad taken Szegedin without firing a
shot. and that General Haynan had marched from
Feegyhaza ; but letters dated the 2nd, and sent di-
rectly from Hu-Telek, where Haynau's head-quarters
then were, announce that the imperial army did no:
march from Kis-Telek on Szegedin till the 2nd.
By the same source we learn that Giug-y was
being pursued by Generals Sass and Osten-Sacken.

(THREEPENCE.

AI/ this, harem, was not official. With retina to
the news annonnoed above concerning Rub, it was
quits positive that the mail from Vienna to Path that
left on the 3rd was obliged to return to V 106114 from
Raab, in obedience to the injunction of the governor
of the latter town, who did not consider this routs
gaff on to Path, and consequently no post from Pesth
arrived at Vienna on the btb.

ITALY.

SIONATUItE 07 TER TREATY OF PRAM

BgrWEEN PIEDMONT AND AUSTRIA.

SARDINIA.—The treaty of peace between Aus-
tria and Piedmont was signed on the 6th inst. at
Milan. A partial amnesty was proclaimed at Milan
on the sth. This intelligence was received by a
special courier from Turin, who reached Paris on
the 9th inst.

ROMAN STATES.—The Milan Ossetia of the
4th insL contains contradictory accounts of Garibaldi.
By a letter dated Forli, 30th ult., his corps is said to
have been separated in two by the Austrians; one of
the divisions having the direction of Peonabili, while
nothing was known of the other. Other correspon-
'deer from Wages, lest inst., states that Garibaldi
awned on the 31st on the territory of the republic of
San Marino, where he laid down his arms, and
desired the secretary of the republic to announce this
act of submission to the commander of the Austrian
troops. Other accounts from San Sepolero state that
on or about the 31st Garibaldi', trcope were at Ma-
cerate Feltris, and his vanguard of 80 men at Car-
pegna. A rumour was also current that Garibaldi
had deserted his men and fled. A letter from
Aegbieri, of the same date, states that his army had
been entirely defeated near Saint Angelo, in the
Papal S'ates.
The Statute of Florence, of the 2nd, quotes a letter
from Forli, 31st ult., which states as follows :—"
native of Forli, belonging to Garibeidi's cavalry, hoe
brought the intelligence that Garibaldi's band has
fallen in an ambuscade laid by the Austrians, near
Urbania, and his cavalry entirely destroyed. Forbes
and Marrochetti have abandoned him. He, with
about 1,000 men, has fled to San Marino."
Our correspondent writes as fellows :
ROME, JULY 31.
To-day Rome rejoices (?) in the arrival of the
papal commissioners, who have after all succeeded in
making their entry into the scene of their former
splendours. The names of Cardinals Della Genge,
, Altieri, and Vermicelli are sinister omens for aught of
liberty. or justice. The two former are especially de-
tested in ltene, and Della Genga wee near falling a
victims to popular fury last year, when he owed his
safety only to the speed with which he galloped from
his own palace to the Quirinal. The first measures
of such commissioners are of course looked for with
the greatest anxiety,and a monentary fever prevails in
consequence of a general expectation that the repub-
lican paper money will be either annulled or mate-
rially reduced in value. Beaidesthe tremendous distress
such a measure would create among the Romans,
foreigners would not be exempt from its effects: Eng-
lish, and especially French, merchants would be heavy
sufferer'.

The conduct of the French army is still admirable;
but the Romans cannot bear to useciate with either
officer or men. The Amphitheatre of Correa opened
the other day, and a considerable audience was wait-
ing for the commencement of the representation, when
a party of the French officers entered the pit:
the Romans left the pit, and repaired to the gul-
let",; the French, not to be lett alone, followed
them to the gallery. The Romans then left the gal-
lery and went into the street, and, after some little
time the French officers yielded to such a marked
demonstration and went oat also,learing the audience
to return unmoks'ed to their meets iu the pit. I now
observe that no French officers go to this play in
uniform. The French officers appear mostly to be
men of liberal sentiments, and not at all to approve
the part they have been made to play in this expedi-
tion; but discipline, they say, and military honour,
kiwis a soldier no choice but that of obeying orders
or blowing his brains out. Restrictive measures con-
tinue to vex the people, and not only is the Roman
press entirely interdicted, but foreign journals are
now in part prohibited. The Statato and Arrenire,
,4ubli►hed at Florence under Austrian censure, ale
considered as too liberal for the proteges of France,
and are consequently stopped at the post-office. The
Concordia of Turin is occasionally subjected to the
same "treatment.

VESIGE.—The Sick (Paris paper) states that it
has received information that three United States
ships entered Venice with money and provisions for
tho besieged.

FRANCE.

PARIS, T- MIASMA; 6.30 P.M.
After an uninteresting debate in the Legislative
Assembly to-day on the 'object of the Ecole d'Ad-
ministration, the project of law on the state of siege,
of which the but has already been forwarded to you,
clime on for debate. The eight articles forming the
first pal t of the project of law were adopted without
debate. The eighth article, in the following terms,
was combated by Mr. Charamanle:

The military trfbnnala may take cognissuce of crime com-
mitted against the safety of the republic, against the republic,
against order and the public peace, whatever may be the
quality of the chief accused, or their accomplices. Except
in ease of complicity with the anthem of crimes of which
cogniaance is taken by the military jurisdiction, the Crime/
of the press will be submitted lava:l6ly to a jury.

M. Charamaule combated the whole of this article
as in his opinion it created an exceptional jurisdics-
tion.

M.Dufaure replied to M. Charamaule, amidst taunts
from the left of "royalists," &c.
The article visa voted after replies from M. Grevy
and M. P. Leroux.
There is no doubt as to the fact of General
OudinoPs recall. M. Edgar Ney left yesterday for
Rome, bearing a letter from the President of the
&Man Republic to General Oudinot, putting an end
to his mimuon. General Rostolan is to take the com-
mand of the expeditionary corps.
M..Bareste, editor of the radical journal La lU-
publique, has been arrested.

l'A.lllB, Aye. 9. Par
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KUZMA/A. —Patisaid Orlaaas. 73;
and Havre, 245; Arles= said Mar,
Bale. 101 23; Centre Viers" $O2 60
423; Paris and Btrarboeurt, 353 23 ; 11

,; Tub and Rouen, 533 ; Rails
wiles, 222 30 ; Strasburg and
); Bordeaux, 398 75; Northr
rows and Nantes, 305.

SPAIN.

For some days rumours of a modification of the
Spanish ministry hue been current at Madrid ; and
the semi-official Heraido of the 4th alludes to them in
such a way as to show that, though exaggerated, they
are not unfounded. The probability of a ministerial
crisis caused a decline in prices in the Bourse.
Manua, Ara. 4.—Three per Omni, Stit.paper. Four per Cent,..
14 paper . rive per Orate.. 111 paper.paper.adds paper. Bank [p
Bt. Ferdinand, at money. Maumee on Limbs, 30.70.

TIOHENZOLLERN.—TheAsgsbury Gazette of the
sth inst. inserts a communication from Berlin of the
2c.d, to the effect that the negotiations were now
closed, and that the principaliues of Hohenzollern
were at length definitively ceded to Prussia. They
are 'already occupied by Prussian troops to the emonut
of 2,200, who entt red Bigmaringen on the 3rd inst. ;
900 will remain to garrison that town, the others will
occupy Hechingen and the rest of the principalities.
The Hohenzollern troops. amounting to a battalion,
were obl•ged to put on a Prussian uniform.