The Express.
London, England, 1849-03-23 00:00:00

GERMANY.

PRUSSIA.—Our correspondent writes :
BERLIN, Marten 20.
I learn that yesterd'y the Danish covey had an in-
terview with the minister of fort igo affairs,Ven Arnim,
in which he c ommunicated to him the rerewal of the
Danish arrirstice for area month,. This rault
really comes from St. Petirsburg, and is the effect
of that Prusbisn not of which I desc, Red the tenor
in my letter of the 12th. I then ventured to predict
that by the 20. h we should have the question of war
or peace decided here. Fortunately it hss turned out
the later; but of this rest enured, that the p_•ec ful
issue is the r suit of the warlike attitude assumed by
the Prussian government, indications of which fact
will probably s•xrn find their way into the press of
Berlin. I hear that the Ittr.siati ambassador has ex-
plained away the extraordinary armaments that have
been collected on the frontier; and that, to the cool-
ness which has recently prevailed between the Rus-
sian embassy and the government, all at once a
renewal of intimacy and entente cordiale has suc-
ceeded.

The debate on the address was resumel t:-day in the
Second Chamber, with the same repetition of noise,
personality, and putrils witticisms which set the
Prussian Chamber of the People in such a disctediti-
ble light before the world yesterday. The result was
the rejection cf d'F•tet's addrees, of which I stud you
&translation, as the docent nt which has yet appeared
most significant of the tone and temper of the oppo-
sition. The numbers of the division were : Ayes, 62;
Hoist, 236; abeept, 14. The address cf Itodbertas
was then voted on. 111! &et part wce thrown out
without a div'sion. The see md
.part was rejected
by 211 against 120. It Is to be noted
that in this division the party of D'Ester, or extreme
left, voted agn'us•. Rodb rtus. If we take the fifty or
sixty votes of the extreme left, and add them on to
the minority, we shall have • c' naiderable majority
in favour of the motion of the left centre. Tole divi-
sion is remarkable, as showing an approximation be-
tween the moderates of bet h Fiche of tie home. This
is explained by the new turn which the German
question h s taken, and the schism which exists
between the fractions of :be right on this lead;nit sub-
ject. I shall enter more at large on this tope in my
next letter. Then the house divi led upon the first
paragraph of the addrese-.project of the committee,
which was carried by a marrity of 172 against 161.
Three sbstainei from vot.ng, and eight were absent.
In the bcginnirg of the sitting the "..‘linistrr of
Finance laid upon the table two projects of law, upon
the budget &Ed 'icon a revision of the 'Lull tariff in
'citation to the article of soda.soap. He took that oc-
casion tr (It ears as altolethe r groundless the repot t
already contradicted lw the Stoats-An:eiger, that the
government emtemplaied a loin of seventy-six mil-
lions. A committee of twenty-one was to be ap-
pointed by the waives for the examination of these
bills.

The first speaker to•day upon the address was
Ki•chmann, one of the tax - refusing members
of the National Assembly, a retnarkab e man,
with a &ear and recite inteltect, whose speech
cuts clean sod drives strain ht at the mark ;
but his heat of temper betrays him into expres-
sions of excessive violence. Count Bran.en-
burg calls d upon the president to protect the
ministry against his injurious language, whereupon
Orebow calki the speaker to order for a pers mel
attack upon mitistees. This raised a storm of cla-
mours on the left, and a scene of immense confusion
followed. Waldeck cried out for liberty of speech.
D'Estcr said the ministers could speak when they
chose, whereas he, a member, had not ben permitted
Ito reply to an attack of Viccke on him yesterday.
Parrisius declared that the miniet rs sat there on
purpose that they might be attacked (Noise,
cheers, and general hilarity.) He should make
an onslaught upon ministers as often as he
thought proper; for they were better armed than
common members, inasmuch u they could always
defend themselves. Von der Heydt (Minister of Com-
merce) declared ministers would not reply to attacks
of that sort, as beneath their notice. Bismark-Schan-
Fausen said the calling to order was fully justified.
Ministers could not be else protected against coarse-
ness. Here the president, with much test, called the
member of the right to order for using the word
" coarseness" (grobheit). (Hila.ity.) Jacoby declared
that Kirchman had nevi no personal expressions
against the ministry, and was therefore called to
order unjustly. The acts of the constitutional mi-
nistry had been the subject of his remarks. He bad
only pronounced a judgment on the policy of mi-
nisters. The Minister of Commerce, Von der
Heydt, said that ministers could not concede the
right to the chamber to pronounce judgment upon
their actions. This exttaordinary declaration was re-
ceived with marked dieapprobition by the maority
of the house, and with immense uproar on the left.
At last the debate was renewed. Unruh spoke at
some le. gtb, and was generally applauded. Vincke
rep ied, and then the house proceeded to divide on the
question, as steel above.
The address to the crown proposed by D'Eater
forma so complete au expression of the views of his
party, the extreme left, and the moat numerous on
that side the house, that I send it to you in full. The
tone of parody in which the words of the royal speech
are adapted to the sentiments of the democratic party,
reminds one of the bitter irony of Hamlet s

Queen—Thus*, thou haat thy father much certuded.
Ihmkt—Xotber, yoo have guy Daher much oftuded.

Ths address is signed by 38 =embeds, among whom
are Waldeck, Jacoby, Jung, &rend, &c. :
Nisjestg,—Tits Prnoian National Assembly has boss,
in consequence of events which ars fresh in the ro.
collection of the country, dissolved against its will
by your M lefty, on the sth of December. Their
soon emapleted work, to frame • conatitatims answer-
ing to the weeds of the people, is thereby inaserupted, the
public situation' deeply. shakes, eat the hops of a speedy
fulfilment of the paianste mode by your imiolly in the past
yew deferred. The people has sea sae, libissib exercise
of the right of universal suffremi„ ekasa ripeeintatlvis to
complete the interrunted work of ties Maisel Amiably, to
&liana upon the charter psttlislesd Wpm" Booty as the
541 Dessabie, 1848, whlih, whams doe swat el the
gworriathil'as
the Sean iimilltelka et
aalirmig_te = Air Mose poselplei dem

December 5 of the preceding year, we will submit to an
earnest examination. Penetrated, however, with the hne-
pensableums of the principle that no law ems be gives with-
out the co-operation and consent of the 's repeessata-
tires, sad celled to uphold the hisliesahio of ilso peo-
ple, we compeive it our duty to prase& die
validity of domes which retch so he. dis=lifistiest
Mate. We will undeuteke the deli NA perlagof all
laws nocemary for the sempletioa of the esealleatiem, all the
more readily es we ere pmeneded the& maly, thereby, and
through suitable damps in the emiteinieleedea of the
army, and of the pad tostetatiea, oda the deeply-
shaken confidence of the media Muni _ and trade
and industry recover from that Iriffild SUSS wilds threatens
to end is utter ruin. PeinfullY hes the whole people
felt that the state of siege has been impoted upon the capital
and many parts of the country, by wields the lawful guaran-
teed rights of the Prussian people have been stupeeded, and
the domination of the laws ism been usurped by thud form
and mbitrarity. It is our first duty to declare to your Mt-
josty that we hold the continuation of the state of siege in
the pleas where it yet exists incompatible with the return
of the dominion of the laws and the welfare of the country,
but especially in the espital, where se, the representatives
of the people, ere to bogie oar deliberations, so importing fir
the future welfare of the Prussian nation. The people's
sense of jetties require a speedy tummy for those whom
the substitution of form for the dominion of the laws has
matched from their bundles, or involved in trials.
la the discussion of the budget to be laid before
us we shall consider what possible economies may
be intretlueed without prejudice to the state', service, par-
ticularly in the administration and army, whereby the
government will be enabled to attend better than hitherto to
the melioration of the condition of the poor and to the peo-
ple's schools. For the ettalament of the great sad of the
Intimate union of all German rams into one federal maims
we eu-tll at all times willingly co-operAte. We believe, how-
. var, that the first condition of the unity of Gee many is the
security of the freedom and the ranflrmation of the rights of
the people.
Tr.e text paragraph hopes that an honourable
peace will be ooncleded as soon as possible with Den-
mark. and the only remaining one worthy of notice
pats in a word for the realisation of the repeatedly
pledged rights of the oppressed nationality of the
Polish subjects of the coon.
FRANKFORT.—We have intelligence from this
-•ity of the 21st inst. The debate in the National
AllieMbly, 03 M. Welch, eas proposition was declared
to be closed, but the totes were not to be token till
the 21st.