The Express.
London, England, 1848-07-19 00:00:00

GERMANY.

PRUSSIA.—We have received the Berlin journals
of the 16%. It has been stated in the official Stoats
Anceigen that Herr Camphausen had been named
president of the council of the empire. The fret is
assumed by other Berlin journals of the above date
to be a
.fait (tromp/4 but the intelligence from Frank-
fort, which we give below, does not as yet confirm
this. Our correspondent writes :
COLOGNE JULY 17.

The Prussian Minister of Finance has announced his
intention to propose that, on and aR•. r the Ist of Septem.
ber next a duty of two thalers (65.) he imposed on every
cwt. of raw native sugar the produce of beetroot, and a fur-
ther duty of three silhergroschen (about 31d.) per cwt. on
the raw beetroot itself. tie has also resolved to increase
the duty on brandy from 2 to 3 :qr. per 20 quarts, and on
certain other distilled liquors from 1 sgr. 8 pf. to 2 agr. 6 pf.
The latter measures to come into operation on and after
the l't of October next. On the other hand, the minister
proposes to deprive (after the Ist of August) of exemption
from the payment of the class tax the following categories of
persons : —Noblemen, ecclesiastics, schoolmasters, military
authorities, and officers of the standing army, and the land.
wehr, whenever their respective carps are not placed on war
footing. A ministerial project of law, respecting the forced
loan referred to in a recent communication, has also made
its appearance. The main principles were explained fa
yesterday's despatch. I may add here, however, that the
subscriptions to the voluntary loan of 15 millions of thaleM,
at 6 per cent. interest, will be closed on the 10th of August
next, and that after that date, in case the required sum be
not raised, a forced loan, bearing only 31 per cent. interest,
will be enacted. It will be recollected that under nearly
similar circumstances a large and sufficient voluntary loan

was subscribed in Holland a-few years ago.
The Berlin constituent assembly has not yet nominated
the committee for drawing up a report on the Posen ques-
tion, and the recent distur 'minces in that duchy. The minis-
ter of the interior has declared that he will dismiss all em-
ployes under his authority who make use of the influence of
their posts in order to promote or effect a political reaction.
A nocturnal attack, made in defence of a number of un-
fortunate women by a party of soldiers on a landwahr patrol
in the well-known Thiergarten of Berlin, on the 13th inst.,
has greatly exasperated the comrades of the latter. The with-
drawal of the regiment from the capital is warmly de-
manded.

It is asserted in a Berlin correspondence, in the Neue
Rheinische Zeitung, that the Emperor Nicholas persists in
declining to hold any communication with the central power
in Frankfort, and continues to carry on his negotiations with
the separate courts and states.
The Vossische Zeitung of Berlin, and the Sehlesisehe Zei-
tung, confirm the st.temeot of the Posen Gazette, that appre-
hetnons of another Polish insurrection in that duchy are ge-
nerally entertaintd by the German inhabitants. It appears
that there is in Pcsen a great number of Pules who are
strangers to the place.
In several recent communications the Hesse Darmstadt
Odenwald has been referred to so the rendezvous of the
German republicans, who are preparing fur another insurrec-
tion so soon as the harvest is got in. A few days ago a strong
detachment of troops of the .ine, bat ked by a battery of sr-
ry, suddenly made their appearance in Michelstsdt, and
arrested several persons on the charge of exciting to revolt
and rebellion. The maj rity of the ringladers, however,
having bail notice of the approach of troops, escaped by Hight.
AUSTRIA AND THE DANUBIAN PRINCI-
PALITIES.—The Vienna Gazette and other journals
of the 13:h inst. have reached us. The Diet at Vienna
was still discussing. preliminary matters,
The wife of Archduke John, the Countess of
Brandhof (the marriage was a morganatic one), is
expected to arrive shortly in Vienna, where, for the
first time, she will be lodged in the palace. It is said
that a splendid roception awaits her there, notwith-
standing the hostility which the female portion of the
court has ever displayed towards her.
Accounts from Bucharest reach to the 2nd inst.,
and front Jassy .0 the let. The provisional got ern-
ment in the former appear to enjoy the confidence
of the people, and there are attempts to bring about a
movement in favour of the ex-Prtuce Bibesco. The
cholera was raging
.at Jassy, but another plague, a
Russian army, has not yet made its appearance there.
Prince Stourdza, who, according to some journals,
had been executed by his subjects, was alive and well
in his principality up to the latter date.—The Prague
Constitutifinettes Blatt brings the alarming intelli-
gence that the cholera has broken out in the Molda-
vian village of Botuezan, five miles from the Austrian
hamlet of Suczawa. It was feared that it would
shortly make its appearance in the Buliowina
district.

The Breslau Gaulle puhl;shcs a letter from
the Moldavian frontiers, under date July 6. It is
stated that the number of Russians who have marched
into Moldavia is 10,000, and that 4,000 Turkish troops
would enter Wallachia.

AletieifrOMthel---)almatian frontiers, published in
the Vienna Gazette of the 13th, bt des that the urks
were preparing with ardour to proceed against the
Montenegrins. Levies and formation of magazines
were going on with great rapidity, and the army to be
formed would amount to no less than 60,000 men.
The llungarians have obtained a victory over the
insurgent Illyrians, of whom 300 were killed and
many wounded. On the other hand, a battalion of
Illyrians have deserted from one of the forte, in order
to aid their ccuntrymen.
It appears by the Prague Constitutionelks Blatt
that iu consequence of a riot having taken place in
Cracow, on account of thedifficulty of getting Austrian
bank notes changed, the authorities have decided that
those notes be considered a legal tender.
FRANKFORT.—The vicar of the German empire
left Frankfort on the lath for Vienna, in order to open
the Austrian Diet. The vicar of the empire has
already nominated (provisionally) three central
ministers in Frankfort. Herr von Schm• ruing, for
the Interior, and pro tem. for Forei'oi Affairs ; Gen.
l'cucker for the War Department ; and Herr Heek-
scher for tt.at of Justice.

The Frankfort Constituent Assembly came to an
important decision on the lath—nothing less than
voting an increase of the army of the Germanic con
federation in the ratio of two per cent. at the popula-
tion. It is calculated that by this vote (if fully car-
ried oat) the German army will amount to 800,000
men. The vicar of the empire previously to his
departure from Frankfort, addressed a proclamation
to the inhabitants, setting forth that the Ger—
Tr ans, after years of oppression, had obtained 1
full liberty, which they had richly deserved,
and which they would know haw to guard ;
recommending Germans to await with confi-
dence the constitution now under discussion amongst
their representatives, and to preserve order and
loyalty ; and declaring that he will oppose all the
power of the laws to criminal intrigues and license ;
he concluded by expressing the conviction that if
German honour and German rights should be en-
dangered, the valiant German army would know how
to fight and conquer for the fatherland.