The Express.
London, England, 1848-07-17 00:00:00

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On the 13th, the King of Wurtemberg, the Grand
Dukes of Baden and Hesse-Darmstadt, and the Duke
of Saxe Meiningen-Hildburghausen, arrived in
Frankfort, to visit the Vicar of the Empire.
The following list of central ministers for the
German empire is circulating in Frankfort, a list
which the Mainzer Zeitung declares is drawn up on
tolerably good authority :—President of the Council
without portefeuille, Camphausen; Minister of the
Interior, Schmerlia (ex-president of the Germanic
Diet) ; Minister of War, Von Sebreckenstein, or Von
Stockhausen ; Minister of Justice (if one be nomi-
nated, which is doubtful), Molitor, formerly a mem-
ber of the Bavarian cabinet; Minister of Commerce
and Finance, I)uckwitz, of Bremen ; Minister of
Police, Mathy. It is said that Wessenberg declined
to accept the post of Minister of Foreign Affairs, and
no other name is given as yet for that important
place.
The conduct of the King of Hanover and of the
first chamber of that king will be shortly brought
before the constituent assembly. The Frankfurter
Journal denounces that conduct as ta cation to the
people ( Vulksterrath ), and declares that the central
power will pronounce a severe judgment upon it.
Such language is remarkable in so moderate and in-
fluential a journal es the one above quoted. Referring
to the threat of the King of Hanover to leave the
kingdom if the Frankfort Assembly went beyond
certain limits, the Bremer Zeitung of the 13th
remarks that "if his Majesty can do without his
dominions, his dominions can do without him."
PRUSSlA.—Respecting the affairs of this state
our Cologne correspondent writes as follows :
COLOGNE, JULY 15.
The Prussian ministry gained a decisive victory on
the evening of the 12th, by the rejection in the Berlin con-
stituent assembly of llerr Jacoby'ii motion, to the effect
that they did not approve of the conferring of irresponsible
power by the Frankton &nimbly on the Vicar of the Empire ;
that they, however, acknowledged the competency of the
German national assembly to make such a provision,without
requiring the consent of the various German governments ;
and lastly, that it did not become the Prussian government
to make a proviso or restriction of any kind whatever.
After a stormy debate, durin t which the assembly decided
that the motion should not be divided into two parts, the
motion was negatived by a majority of 262 to 62, a result
which will tend to strengthen the Prussian government
and the majority in the constituent assembly in Frankfort.
It appears (by the Alfgemeine Oder Zeitung, of Breslaw,
of the 11th) that the statement of two or three German
journals, that all the prisoners in Posen, with one exception,
had been released, was premature, General Von Brunneck
having officia.ly ii,clated that he had not yet been authorised
to restore them to liberty. Re states, however, at the same
time, that he had received no instructions to bring them to
trial, or to give them op to the civil authorities.
AUSTRIA.—The elllgemeine Oder Zeitung states
that up to the 10th instant the Baron Von Do'Alhof
had not succeeded in forming a new ministry. The
Breslau Zeitung of the 11th announces the appoint-
ment of General Count Aueraperg as minister of war,
and Dr. Bach as minister of justice. The scheme,
however, of the Vienna journals of the 10th throws
some discredit on this announcement.
The Cologne Gazette of the 13th inst. publishes a
correspondence from Pesth of the Gth inst. communi-
cating the report that the ultra Illyrian party in
Agram have declared Jellachich dictator, pro tem.,until
a king be elected. A great and deciding battle was
expected to take place on the 6th inst., at Becse, be-'
tween the Ilungarians and Illyriars. The former
are estimated at 33,000 men. The result has not yet
transpired.
In the last sitting of the Diet of Agram, when the
question was started that there was a want of ade-
quate funds for sending troops to the threatened
quarters, all the deputies, and even the auditors,
rose to offer voluntary contributions, several giving
600, 1,000, or 2,000 florins ; the ladies followed the
example, and gave watches, chains, rings, and other
precious trinkets, so that in a few minutes, besides
other objects of value, no less than 15,336 florins were
collected. The Hungarian ministry on its side does
not appear inclined to make any concessions.
The same journal, in an article headed " Pesth,
July 6," says that the Russians had not only crossed
the Pruth, but had marched further in. It is added
that all the rich boyars bad fled to Cronstadt, and
that some were expected even in Pesth.

NAPLES, JULY 8.
Of the affairs of Calabria I think I may speak with
a greater degree of certainty than heretofore, though the
differences between the stetements of the two parties conti-
nue to be as wide asunder 11.1 ever. Oa the Gth, news arrived
that Busacca, reprovisioned, had united with Lanza and De
Corn 6, and reduced almost the whole of Castrovillari,
particularly Cassano, Saraceno, Lungro, and Firmo,
who had all sent invitations to the troops to enter. The
insurgents had fled everywhere on their appearance. They
were then moving on Cos.nza. At 10 p.m. of the same day,
news arrived that a deputation from the Archbishop of Co-
senza, the canon archpriest Scaalione, DD. Campagna,
Mauro, and Gaudio; had waited on Busacca on the 4th to
assure him that the majority of the people of Cosenza were
well disposed to his present Majesty, and that they were wait-
ing with great an r iety for the presence of the troops.
The provisional government had fled from Cosenza, in the
direction of Tiriolo. The Neptune, on the oth, brought
further intelligence that Busocca and Lanza were in posses.
aim of Cosenza, and that Nunziante, seeing the inutillity
therefore of his marching in that direction, was occupying
Monteleone and Nicastro, and taking measures to intercept
the fugitives. With this view the passes of Amato and
Sorace, tha narrowest and most difficult of the peninsula,
had been closed. Deputations had waited on Nunziante from
Nicastro to excuse the several communes, declare a firm at-
tachment to the King, and promising to give up their arms.
The King had sent several thousand ducats to bo distributed
amongst the sufferers of Pizzo, which had been burnt by
the royal troops. At four, p.m., of the 7th, the following
news arrived from Diamante by telegraph. "The royal
troops are on the point of entering Cosenza. By order of the
intend, nte, the telegraphs have resumed their active opera-
tions." On the contrary, the anti-royalist party in Naples, nu-
merically a strong party, admitting the flight of the provision-
ary government, and the bodies of the insurgents, describe it so
the. mode of carrying on a guerilla war, and aff,ct to entertain
hopes of the ultimate defeat of the king's party. "A nation
can never be conquered," said one of the party to me, " the
principle may be good, but it is not the nation who are
united against the present state of thing., but merely a
party who, whatever may be their assertions, would
not he sorry to see a republic established here. Ric-
ciandi for instance, one of the most devoted chiefs
of the movement, declares himself a republican. Many
wounded on the part of the king, they say, have been
brought up to Naples; on the night before last, four
steamers full, and carriages and waggons in great
numbers, bad been ordered to a certain point to take
them to the hospitals. Evidently some distinguished
persons, it was said, had been landed dangerously
wounded, and the greatest mystery had been observed
as to the fact. Immediately after General Winspeai
bad been sent off to the seat of war. On the arrival of a
Fov,rnmeat steamer no communication is permitted between
st and the land ; the greatest passible secrecy is maintained,
and d was said that all the officers of the Roberto had been
placed under arrest a week or ten days since for having made
some revelations.
The fact is, however, that the royal troops have decidedly
the bett2r of it, and (as says the Corriere di Calabria) that
the insurgents, even the most exalted, are alarmed. Nor is
soy dependence to be placed on the other provinces who
had promised largely enough; then" being no sufficient
motives to induce the peasantry to leave their homes and
their families to expose themaels. a to the dangers of war.
The difference between this or that constitution is what they
neither understand nor care about.
A superior officer is said to have arrived from Aquila,
giving news of a counter-revolution in that province. The
crowd carried white flags and cried " Down with the consti-
tution." " Lena live the past government." Orders had
been given to sustain the existing constitution.
The Porcupine returned from Palermo, having taken
do on, as I am told, d. spatchee with the name of several of
the princes who would not be unacceptable to the English
government as sovereign of Sicily. It was added that on its
particular reeomrnen..ation the name of the Duke of Genoa
had been first proposed and discussed in council, no decision
basing been come to. The Porcupine I again for Palermo
to-morrow, in order to ascertain the resolution of the
government, At Messina hostilities seem to be suspended.
It is said that the English government was the fleet to ac-
knowledge the independence of Sicily, anticipating the
French by two or three days. Here, in Naples, 13eauharnais
is spoken of as a candidate for the Sicilian throne.
Since I lest wrote, the King's speech has been the topic,
and general appears to be the dissatisfaction which it has
created. Not a word about Sicily—no clear intelligence of the
state of things in the Calabrias—no promise of a farther :-
tension of the constitution ! Such are the remarks in every
owe'. m uth.
The Sidon steamer left yesterday for Palermo, with one of
the secretaries of the embassy on board, to be present at the
choice by the Sicilians of their King.

TUE STAMM GOVERNMENT AND SIR H. Bt'LWER.
—The annexed communication from Senor Orem (Marquis
de Alhaida), one of the most distinguished men of the pro-
gresista parry, goes far to prove that the Spanish governs
meat fabricated a tissue of plausible but false accusation-
against our ambassador at Madrid. Senor Orense has wi•tk
thffieulty escaped into France from the persecutions of Ner-
eus :—"Bayonne, July 9, 1848.—Sir,—I observe in the
Herald° of the 4th instant, a diplomatic note containing the
charges of the Duke de Sotomayor against Sir H. Bulwer.
In the .sth he mentinos me as one of the individuals whom
that gentleman concealed in his house. Nevertheless' the
truth is that, never in my life, nor on the 26th of March, nor
before nor after, was lin the residence of Sir If, Bulwer. I
AM much surprised that a government, albeit the actual one
of Madrid, can affirm falsehwds whose only foundation
exits in the reports of its spies. In order that the truth may
be known, I request you will have the goodness to insert
this communication, and remain in the meantime your 'very
2bedient servant.—Josg bleats OEENSE."

The Queen and Prinoe Albert, the Duchess of
Kent, the ladies and gentlemen of the court, and the domes.
tio household, attended divine service yesterday morning in
the private chapel in Buckingham Palace. 'the Hon. and
Rev. C. Leslie Courtenay officiated.
Prince Albert wan present at the field-day of the
Scots Fusilier Guards on Saturday morning in Hyde park,
and took the command of the regiment.
The Queen and Prince Albert, attended by Major-
General Wernyse and Lieut.-Col. Seymour, equerries in
waiting, drove up on Saturday in • carriage and four to
Richmond, and honoured Lord and Lady J. Russell with a
visit at Pembroke Lodge.
A magnificent chimney-piece, grate, and fender,
en suite, of an entirely new mode of manufacture, made for
his highness Abbas Pscha, were submitted to her Majesty and
Prince Albert, on Saturday, at Buckingham Palace, by Mr.
H. Room, of Birmingham. Her Majesty and his Royal
Highness were pleased to express their approbation of the
arucles.
The Queen and Prince Albert, attended by the
Countess of Charlemonr, Hon. Mira Cavendish, Lord Carnoys,
Major General Wemyss, and Lieut.-Col. Seymour, honoured
the performance at her Majesty's Theatre, on Saturday even-
ing, with their presence. The Duchess of Kent and the
Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Prince George, and the
Princess Mary, also honoured the performance with their
presence.

The Chevalier Bunsen, Prussian Minister, had an
interview with Sir George Grey, on Saturday, at the Home-
office.
Mr. J. G. Deane and a deputation of bakers had
an interview with the Right Hon. H. Labouchere, at the
office of the Board of Trade, on Saturday.
Mr. J. Wood, Chairman of the Excise, had an in-
tervi,:w with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on Saturday,
at his official residence in Downing-street.
Despatches were received on Saturday at the
Colonial-office from the Governor of the Cape of Good Hope.
Despatches were sent off on Saturday evening
from the Celonial-office tor the governors of the West India
colonies.
The Duke of Wellington attended the early ser-
vice yesterday in the Chapel Royal, St, James's. The
prayers were read by the Rev. W. Hall, and the sermon
was preached by the Hon. and Rev. A. Petceral. At the
daily service the prayers were read by the Rev. T. Helmore
and the lesions by the Rev. G. Renton. The sermon was
preached by the lion. and Rev. A. Perceval. The anthem,
•' I was in the spirit" (Blow), was sung Messrs. Brad-
bury, Bennett, Francis, and Machin. Mr. Tulle presided
at the organ.

Lady Crofton and suite arrived in London on
Saturday morning by the Gene.al Steam Novigation Corn.
pany's steam-ship Triton from Ostend.
Lord I)aniekold (Lord Chamberlain to the King of
Den.nark), his family, and suite leR London on Saturday
morning by the General Steam Navigation Con y's
steam-ship Princess Royal, for Hamburg.

THE NEW COLONIAL SECRETARY AT SIERRA
LEONE in place of Mr. T. O'Brien is to be Mr. \V. Fir-
guson, one of the writers in that colony, where he has spent,
says the Obserrer, the almost unprecedented period of ten
years in the public service.
CONSUL TO THE COMORO ISLANDS.—Mr. T. Na-
pier proceeds immediately to the Comoro Isles in the Indian
' Ocean, as Consul of Great Britain, the wry great increase of
our trade in that quarter demanding the residence of •
British agent there.
SIGNET-OFFICE AND PRIVY SEAL.—The Earl of
Mioto, Lord Privy Seal, George C •rnewall Lewis, Esq.,
Under-Secretary of State for the Rome Department, and
George Rich, Esq., one of the Lords of the Treasury, hove
been instructed to inquire into the Signet-office and the
office of the Privy Seal, with a view to their amalgamation,
or reduction in these departments. They have appointed as
their secretary Mr. W. If. Stephenson, of the Treasury, who
was private secretary to Sir Robert Peel when Prime Min-
ister. Being composed entirely of persons already in office,
it will be an unpaid commission of iropiry, and will hold its
sittings—to commence this day—at the official residence of
the First Lord of the Treasury in Downing seri:et.

THE. LORD-LIEUTENANT OF IRELAND, IN ENG-
LAND.—The Queen's letter was despatched to Ireland on
Saturday appointing Lords Justices to administer the go-
vernment of that country during the absence of the Lord-
Lieutenant. The Archbishop of Dublin, the Lord Chan-
caller of Ireland, and the Commander of the Force., are
named in the commission to act in the place of the Earl of
Clarendon, to enable his excellency to pay a short visit of a
few days to London, es usual at this period of the year. Lord
Clarendon will leave Dublin on Monday (this day). It is not
improb able that during his short stay ministers will avail them-
selves of his presence to discuss more closely the present con•
dition of Ireland. The intended visit of the court, post-
poned by the unhappy circumstances of the country, so de-
trimental to its best interests, may still, perhaps, form ono of
the subjects for discussion.—Observer.
TILE NEW STEAM-SIIIP EUROPA, Capt. Lott, sailed
from Liverpool, on Saturday, for Halifax and Briton.
ROYAL. AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. —On Friday
morning the general meeting of the members of this society
was held in the Guildhall. the Earl of Yarborough in the
chair, when votes of thanks were imanimouely adopted to
the Lord Mayor and corporation of York ; to the local COM•
mittee ; to the various railway companies who had afforded
facility for the transmission of stock and implements; to
H. S. Thompson, Esq., of Fairfield, for the use of land to
try the implements ; and to Professors Johnston and
Simonds for their lectures. This concluded the business.—
Mr. Bates, of Kirkleavington, near Yarns, then said he had
written letters to the president and judges, which, if they
had been attended to, would have prevented certain errors
that had been committed in reference to a particular clan of
cattle. His remarks, however, were not sufficiently definite
to be understood by the meeting generally.—Tho chairman
stated that that was not the proper occasion on which
to discuss the subject ; but that if Mr. Bates had any com-
munication to make to the society, it would be received by
the council at any of their usual periodic it meetings—The
Earl of Chichester proposed a vote of thanks to the chair-
man, which wan seconded by H. S. Thompson, Esq., and
earned unanimously.—The Chairman acknowledged the
compliment, and then requested the Earl of Chichester, an
president elect, to take the chair at the meeting of the coun-
cil of the society. The attendance at the show grounds at
York, during the three days it was t pen, appears to have
been very large. On Tuesday 1,113 persons we.. admitted ;
on Wednesday, 6,066; and on Thursdav, '25,732; making in
all 32,912, for the period spoken of. The tickets being ex-
hausted, about 1,200 were admitted by payment of money at
the door. A considerable portion of the prizes are awarded
to parties in the south of England.
LONDON CHARTISM WITHOUT FUNDS.—The fol-
lowing official communication was issued on Thursday last,
from the chartist headquarter, John-street Institution,
Tottenbam-court-road :—" We have this day balanced our
accounts. and have to announce to our friends that we are
without funds.—On behalf of the Executive Council, 'ow;
M'CRAE, Secretary."
THE HUDSON'S BAY COMPANY.—Sir,—WiII you
kindly permit me a word of explanation with reference to the
question put last night in the House of Common+ by the
Earl of Lincoln to the Under Secretary for the Colonies, on
the subject of the Hudson's Bay Company, and with which
my name has been connected ? In bringing the subject
under th- consideration of her Majesty's government I was
actuated by the double motive of drawing attention :—lit.,
to the condition of the inhabitants of Rupert's Land; and
secant!, to the peculiar nature of the tenure under which the
company at present exercise their monopoly of trade over
that extensive territory. As this last feature was not ad-
verted to by either of the distinguished speakers I take
this opportunity of stating briefly the facto of the case, and
they will, probably, be new to many. The Huckon'e Bay
Company was incorporated in, the year 1670, under a charter
of King Charles 11., conferring on them exclusive privileges
of trade over the countries around Hudson'. Bay, together
with other Immunities and powers of the most ample descrip-
tion. This extensive grant, however, slid not receive any
parliamentary sanction or confirmation, and being on that
ground held to be unconstitutional, failed to secure to the
company the privileges intended. From the journals of the
House of Cemmons it appears that in 100 the company,
sensible that they had no legal title to their monopoly, were
under the necessity of petitioning parliament for a bill to
confirm their charter, upon account of the great losses they
hail sustained from the French, end their having no right to
restrain English interlopers. Accordingly, after consider-
able opposition, a bill (2nd of William and Mary) was
obtained for confirming to the governor and company
of adv. nttirere trading to Hudson's Bay their privileges and
trade, " but for the term of seven years only, and no longer."
Whether the company after the expiration of the act (which,
by a remarkable oversight, was never printed) were appre-
hensive that parliament would not renew it, or whether they
deemed it impoliqc to awaken public attention to the subject
of their monopoly, the fact is no less certain than extraordi-
nary that thee have never from that time to the present
applied for a second confirmation of their charter, and to
this day hold their monopoly of the trade to Hudson's Bay
under the original unconfirmed grant of King Charles 11.
In 1821, the Hudson's Bay Company having united with the
North West Company of Montreal, who had for many years
I successfully contested the fur trade with V.ern, obtained
from the legislature of the day a license of exclusive trade
for 21 years over the Oregon territory, which, as its waters
empty themselves into the Pacific, was not included under
the original charter. This license was renewed in 1842 for
a similar tem. These licenses, it is important to observe,
are not (as has been generally supposed) in any way a con-
firmation or extension of the charter of King Charles 11., as
may be seen by a reference to a parliamentary paper of the
year 1843 (No. 547), being a return made by the Hudson's
Bay Company on the motion, in the House of Commons, et
Mr. Ilume, of all the grants made to them from the date a
their i icorporation to the present time, the all important act
of 2nd William and Mart being, however, for obvious rea-
sons, omitted. From these facts, then, it is clear that the
title of the Hudson's Bay Company to the exclusive trade of
Hudson's Bay as distinguished from that over the Oregon
territory is altogether imaginary, and rests entirely on public
sufferance.—A. K. Issisraa.—July 15, 1818.
DESPERATE LEAP FROM WATERLOO-BRIDGE.-

Yesterday morning, a men named James Crispin made
a most determined attempt to destroy his life. The
unfortunam man, who is about 45 years of age, was one of
the many labourers lat-ly expelled from France. Since his
arrival in London, he has had comparatively ho.hing to de-
pend upon for a living, but has been obliged to obtain assist-
ance from his friends. He walked on Waterloo-bridge, and
having mounted one of the recesses, plunged headmremost
Into the river. The splash in the water attracted the atten-