The Express.
London, England, 1851-02-20 00:00:00

GERMANY,

A telegraphic dispatch, dated Berlin, Feb. IR,
(evening) states (on the authority of the Deutsche
Befurnt) that Nianteuffel had at noon unexpectedly
arrived from Dresden ; had immediately seen tho
King, and was to return to Dresden the same night
or the next morning.
Manteuffel and tichwarzenherg, as announced
would be the rase, met at Driaden on the IGth.
Oar correspondent writes as follows:

BERLIN, Frn. 17.

The journey of the Prime Ministers of Austria and
Prussia to Dresden, recalls attention to the Dresden con-
ferences. As vet nothing whatever has been done; and no
matter what the newspapers may say on the subject, I dis-
tinctly assert that the report of the first commission on the
proposed alterations in the organisation of the confederation
is the only result which has as yet to be chronicled. The
protests against those alterations have not yet been presented,
hut will doubtless be handed in at the next full sitting. All
the stories about proposed executive organs are more moon.
, shine. No proposition on the subject has been laid before the
conferences, nor can 1 learn that any has actually been ugns d
to between the two great powers. It is the policy of Austria
to keep this point vague until she has secured the greatest
share of power in the Engere Rath, which the proposed
redivision of the votes would have placed in her hands. The
opposition of the small states to this measure, and
the lukewarmness with which Prussia has support sl
it, have convinced Sehwarzenberg that he cannot
carry it out, and he now meets ISlonteuffel with th,,
intention either to persuade him to consent to the ri ron=ti-
tution of the confederation, notwithstanding the opposi•i.in
of the smaller states, or to withdraw the former plans .1114
propose the simple reconstitution of the old Diet on' it. 0:4
footing. The latter is now generally considered the most
probable termination of the conferences. The Nei,
sisehe granny of this evening complains bitterly that tla•
Dresden conferences will not lead to the desired strengthening
of the supreme power in Germany, and informs us, what
have long since told your readers, that the union betwis
Austria and l'russia is not so firm a, to promise their mutual
sanction to a common course of proveeding.
The chambers did not meet to-day. While Arnim ass
attacking ministers in the debate of Saturday, he had in los
pocket a note from the King, informing him that ord. rs
had been given for the marching of l'russim troops into
holstein.
The l'rnssian nation now learns what the direct cost of

the mobili,ation of November has lv.ten. The deficit
in the annual accounts of revenue and expenditure for [l^
past year amounts to more than thirty-two millions
of thalers. •Phis sum includes the eighteen millions
which were voted fur military purposes in Febru•
ary last, of which four or live millions remainad in
hand when the mobilit,ation was decreed. o h`r.•n
squandered away, together with the other fourteen millins,
which are on the wrong side of the account. The
thirty millions ur• exclusive of the two million tie„
hundred thousand thalers which will be produerd by the
side of the enormous quantity of horse. parch:co 1. It ton
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io Kutch- a,..erte4l that the moduli...oton ot. the annv hut.
•ritaikit mom the country a direct cipi•niliturc of fully
•ightmn million thakra.

On the 15th, a courier left Vienna for l'a•
charged with important dc,putcht-s relating to th.•
Turco-Egyptian complication, which had cau,cd a
fall in the Vienna fund.,