The Express.
London, England, 1851-12-04 00:00:00

GER MANY.

BERLIN, Nov. 30.
The Austrian cabinet is making all haste to con-
stitute its new tariff the base of commercial negotia-
tions about to take place, not only in Prussia,
but throughout. Germany. You have heard already
of the efforts of the Saxon government to bring Aus-
tria into the congress of the Zollverein states to be
held in Berlin in February next; and it is now an-
nounced that on the 2nd of January a commercial
conference of all the German states is to be convoked
at Vienna for the express purpose of bringing about
a union between the Zollverein, the Steuerverein
and Austria. In this proposition the treaty
of the ith September seems to be entirely ignored.
The conferences have been fixed at so early a date,
expressly in order nut to notice it ; for, supposing that
within the next month the Prussian and the nano
verian chambers should express their approbation of
the September treaty, yet there would be no time to
come to an unduatanding with the members of the
Zollverein, with respect to modifications of the tariff
on the junction of the Zoll with the Steuerverein, as
the Vienna conferences will intervene with the cha-
racter of a renewal of the deliberations broken off at
Frankfort. Besides, the Diet on the ith of Novem-
ber called upon all the German governments distinctly
to express their opinions touching the) Zull union pro-
posed at Dresden, and only slightly altered afterwards
in the technical committee. ?urther, it is well
known that Austria would not at Frankfort give any
tbrmal recognition to the September treaty. It re-
mains now to be seen whether the German states in
general will send representatives to the Vienna
conferences. Certainly such conferences as these
should not be held within the Austrian territory,
where public opinion has no native independent
organ, and all the north German journals are prohi-
bited, and where, consequently, the Austrian project
could not receive a fair open discussion.
Should success crown the newly redoubled efforts
Prince Schwarzenburg is now making to substitute
for the existing Zollverein one which would com-
prehend all Germany, and thus be placed under the
superintendence of the Bund, in which Austria has
uncontested ascendancy, it is certain that Prussia's
position in Germany would bo gone, only to be re-
gained, if at all, by an appeal to the people, or to
revolution, to avoid which all kinds of danger have
been incurred.

The arrival hero of M. Kleuze, director of the
customs in Hanover. gives occasion to the most con-
tradictory statements relative to the disposition of
the new ministry of Hanover touching the treaty.
While the Pritat'an Gazette repeats with vehemence
that the new government hus given the strongest
assurances of its intention to uphold the treaty, the
llottoreriati Oazette advocates boldly the Austro-
German Customs union.

The Chambers here are still occupied with formal
business, such as the nomination of committees, and
the like.
In opening the Oldenburg Diet, on the 27th ult.,
the minister, ltoessing, after alluding to the aboli-
tion of the "fundamental German rights," which,
he said, would have but little importance in Olden-
burg, and to measures to be taken against the abuse
of the freedom of the press, made mention very em-
phatically of the treaty of 7th September between
Prussia and Hanover, to which, he said, Oldenburg
had been invited " by Hanover" to become a party.
Negotiations to that effect were now going on,
which would be shortly communicated to the
chambers.