The Express.
London, England, 1851-08-18 00:00:00

SPAIN.

.fro. 12.
The reports of the ministerial changes are un-
founded. The Committee on the Budget has not yet
as,-embled since the close of the session. An editor
of a French journal has arrived to arrange the basis
of a treaty between France and Spain for the pro-
tection of literary property. The I reach Ambassador
is occupied with this creation.
MADRID, AVG. 12.—Three per Cents., 36k• after Bolus,
36i. Four per Cents., 151; after Balsa, 1. Fire per
ICents., lit ; after Bolas, lit. Passives, 61; after Balsa,
6 9-16. Coupons, 84 ; after Dolma, Si. Bank of St. Ferdi-
nand, 100 paper; after Botta, 991 cash. Exchange on
Loudon, 50.5 cash. •

ITALY.
PIEDMONT.

ALLESSANDRIA, Aco. 14.
The Arenire says: " Our readers will remember
the scandalous discussions between the cure of
Arnaud°la and the Servites fathers, on the image of
the Blessed Virgin. These are now to be renewed.
The cure has lately exhibited a new Madonna on the
'same model. Father Pero has written a pamphlet
to prove that this new Madonna is more miraculous
than the one of Rimini, and that the old Madonna
of the Semites fathers is not to be compared with her."

MILAN, Aro. 12.
The cure of Sampcyro was yesterday arrested at
Turin. The theologian Borghesi, has been arrested
at Casa.

GERMANY.

FRANKFORT-ON-THE-MAINE, Arorsr 15.
Lord Cowley, minister plenipotentiary to the Diet,
has returned from England, where he has been on short
leave of absence.

I understand that, nothing daunted by the repulse which
the protest of the English and French governments met
with at the hands of the Diet, these powers intend within
the neat few days to renew it, repeating the arguments upon
which they found their right to intervene in the incorpora-
tion question, and denying altogether that it can be considered
a question of internal government, in which foreign powers
cannot be interested. The English and French governments
arc fully justified in taking this course, seeing that the
opposition which they have met with is not unanimous, and
that there are at least three members of the confederation
who take the same views. _ _

P.B.—A report has just reached me that the Emperor of
Ramis, who has hitherto remained neutral on the ineorpo-
rstion question, has already united, or intends to unite, with
the English and French governments in protesting against
the incorporation of the non-German provinces of Austria.

BERLIN, Aro. 1.5.
The Staats An:eiyer published lately a proclama-
tion from M. Remise, the new president of the Rhine Pro-
vinces, specifying the objects fur which the provincial diets
are called together; and the Preussisehe 7.eitung thereupon
remarks how senseless the alarm of the constitutional party
is less these diets should have retrogressive designs,
for iudeed the objects enumerated by the Rhine pre-
sident have very little or no political bearing.
To-day, however, that same_ paper publishes a royal
ordinance, signed by his 3lajesty, especially es-
powering the provincial diets of the Rhine district to adopt
any measures, and pass provisionally any laws that may
seem to them suitable and necessary with reference to all
communal questions. Here, then, the very institution, the
communal ordinance, which has been called into existence
by the legislature, and sanctioned by the King, as a tubed-
i lute for the Diets—which has thus become law—is thrown
; virtually back into the hands of these illegallyrenewed diets,
to do what they like with it What very loose ideas of law
German governments must have : but that they have a very
distinct idea of authority above law (which indeed appears
to them to be law) is equally clear from the whole of this
Diet-revival transaction.
Every day the bare existence of the Frankfort Diet seems
I to inspire now:One state, now another, with some portentous
, act of courage. The Dresden Journal of the 14th contains
a ministerial reseript, by which all the " free congregations "
of Saxony are declared to be dissolved. It is made criminal
to be a member of these unions. or to attend any of their
assemblies. The pretext fur this religious persecution
(for that is the name the measure will fairly provoke and
bear) is that these congregations are hot-beds of democratic
doctrines sad passions. This act of the Saxon government
is regarded merely as the herald of a universal dissolution
of all the " free congregations " nil over Germany, which
is, the Cassel/Tr Zeittaig intimates, to be pronounced shortly
"rscar/iedra" from Frankfort.