The Express.
London, England, 1848-06-06 00:00:00

the barricades were being rapidly removed. The
committee of public security had resolved that in lien
of the barricades six batteries should be
constructed on the bastions, and the charge of them
entrusted to the citizens and the national guard.
• The ministers bad aomded to this arrangement.
Eannuch was reported to have been appointed com-
mandant of the national guard. Hefner remained at
liberty ; but Tuwona had refused to leave his prison
till liberated bye verdict of a jury. An impression
prevailed that had the University legion been dis-
banded, and the students distributed among the
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companies of the national guard, the next step would
have been to send them u volunteers by compulsion
to the army of Italy. Everything was uncertain
respecting the future ministerial arrangements. The
new
igoverner of the bank—Meyer of Gravenegg,
was nspiring confidence. The bank is to receive a
new organisation. The city was quiet, but distrust'
continued to prevail between the people and the
otailease. Many of the latter body were leaving
Vienna to join the court, or to retire to Ballen or
Ischl. Nearly all the foreign ambassadors were at
aibling in the vicinity of Vienna. The bankers
Rothschild, Sins, and Eskeles had left the city. A
general wish was felt that the Emperor might soon
return, or (what the majority would prefer) send the
Archduke Joha, who enjoys the public confidence, as
his locum Omens.
As one of the signs of the times it may be noticed
that the Wiener Zeituep appeared one day without
the imperial arms which have hitherto stood at its
head. They were replaced next day, with an ex-
planation that ministers had insisted upon this, as the
term of the contract into which the proprietors had
entered to publish all official notices has not yet
expired.
It is in contemplation to establish a thorough
liberal joarnal in Vienna, the editorship of which has
been offered to Herr Kuranda, the editor of the
Gremboten of Leipsic. That publication has a very
large circulation in Austria, thanks to the spirited
articles of the editor and one of his colleagues, a
young Bohemian, named Kaufman, a distinguished
English scholar and warm admirer of English litera-
ture and English political principles. The co-eslitor-
ship of one of the Vienna journals was lately offered
to the latter gentleman, but the offer was declined,
probably to keep himself free to accept an engage-
ment under his friend Kuranda, if the latter should
accept the post offered to him in Vienna, and resign
that of deputy to the Frankfort assembly.
PRAGUE, MAT 30.—The great Sclavonian con-
gress was inaugurated to-day by a solemn mass, at
which Servian Papas officiated. Our town looks like
a great masquerade, in which all kinds of Sclavonic
costumes are jambled—old and modern, Czechisch,
Polish, Croatian, Dalmatian, Servian, and even Rus-
sian. A deputation of 400, with the patriarch and
bishops at their head, is to be sent to Hungary and
Vienna.
GALLICIA.—The accounts from this province are
alarming ; and it is feared that the scenes of 1846
will be re-enacted. According to an official circular
of the government the revolutionary pa-ty, in conjunc-
tion with the emigrants, are preparing for another
insurrection.
BRUNSWICK.—Two important laws were pro-
mulgated on the 18th ult. The first abolishes all
disqualifications on account of religion, and therefore
de facto emancipates the Jews ; the second repeals'
the prohibition of intermarriage between Jews and
Christian..
HAMBURG.—The Marine Congress, convened to
adopt measures for the establishment of a German
navy, commenced its sittings on the Ist of June. A'
letter from Venice, dated 23r 1 May, recommends that
letters from Hamburg to Venice be addressed "el.;
Switzerland and Milan," as all Venetian letters are
opened at the Austrian frontier.
FUOITIVZ PRINCES.—The Duke of Modena is at
held with the Archdnke Louis, the prop of the re-
actionary cause in Austria. The Duke of Parma
arrived at his estate of Weistropp (between Dresden
and Meissen) on the 21st ult., with a view to take up
his abode there for some time.