The Express.
London, England, 1851-01-30 00:00:00

GREECE.

The Courtier d'Ailunes owes that the Austrian
minister has addressed • note to the Greek govern-
ment oomplaioir.g of the protection afforded by
Greece to the Italian exiles, who thus transform the
country into a focus of revolution, by forming so-
cieties, striking medals with the effigy of the most
prominent men in the late struggles, and thus ex-
citing the sympathies of the Greek people. The note
concludes, with a sort of tarmac*, to the effect that the
more interest the Greek nation takes in those unfor-
tunate men, the more severity will be di,played in
Italy by the Imperial government towards its sub-
jects. Toe same paper mentions a note addressed by
the Greek Minister of Foreign Affairs to all the
members of the diplomatic corps, informing them
that, in consequence of a new regulation adopted by
his colleague the Minister of Finance, they will
henceforth be obliged to specify with the greatest
precision the contents of the different sealed parcels
or boxes addressed to them from foreign countries,
exempt from duty in consequence of international
custom.

MALTA, Jen. 22.
A court of inquiry on two officers of the Mcdiaa
steam packet, Mr. Pollard, second master, and Mr.
Searle, a master's assistant, has been recently held on
board ; Captain Lord Kerr, of the Scourge ; Knox, of
the Firebrand ; and Hope, of the Terrible, steam fri-
gates, being the court. The charges were for disobe-
dience of orders and neglect of duty. The result be-
came known on Monday, and ended with a severe re-
primand, with a notification, to Pollard that any si-
milar conduct would lead to more serious conse-
quences ; and to Searle, that he would not be retained
in the service.

Lient.-Com. Darby has applied to be superseded in
command of this ship.
Mr. Douglass, a midshipman of the Albion, fell
from his horse on Friday last when riding, and was
ant somewhat seriously. Re is now doing welL
Three naval seen, two of the Albion and one of the
Superb, have been before the police court for disturb-
ing the pesos and 'mulling the police. Two were
fined 41. and 3L, and the thud admonished in very
severe terms and discharged.
The offence was more serious than the one com-
mitted a few days since by some army men, yet is the
punishment more light. The convicting magistrate
in the first instance was English, in the @mond a
Maltese. _

Ensign Gray, of the 89th Regiment, and who has
been allowed a Dominated allowance, is now lying in
prison far debt. The young man has =roe attained
his 21st year, and tit other respects than being extra-
, vagant in his idea without having the wherewithal
to indulge It, thus is he placed in a position of diffi-
iculty from which extrication for some months to come
is very improbable.

A BALLOT WAS TAKE( AT THE EAST INDIA HousE
yestarday for the election of a director I. the room of Geo.
Lyon., , who hr gleipolliod. At az o'clock the alarms
were closed sad delivered to the 'erudition, who reported
that W siastisa had balsa ea W. Dewy

GERMANY.

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oatc3rrespondent writes as follows: r- ~
DRESDEN, Jaiti..
The andunission to which the them importedt of I tiles
g'ioas before the conferences bee bath submitted; VI com-
i.
ion on trade and commerce. does not meet again until
lit of meet month; sad the Bub theamissios whiall bee
appointed to receive and report upon any proposals thet may
be made in the interim has not yet met. The &their-
etudige have not arrived, and everythiag here, se wallas In
the other commission', is at • perfect stand still. The
wospecu of the third commission are not very brilliant. The
Aleutian plans, which have not yet made their appearance in
the conferences, but which form the bosia of the Seaton and
Bavarian memorials to the commission, are not likely to
appear he that shape in which they were proposed to
Prussia. The inensisotaren in Bohemia, and in
Prague especially, and in Lower Austria, have relied &storm
Of opposition sgsiost the proposed tariff for the customs
ambit, and the customs congress which Brock has amenthled
in Vienna to discuss his proposed tariff proves very refrac-
tory. In its second sitting fourteen or fifteen of the depu-
ties immediately left the room, declaring they would no
Lager sit in an suembly in which the right of di/sussing the
Waldo to be followed, in legislating on the subject for
which they were met, was not merely questioned but
absolutely prohibited. In the next sitting, however,
the Austrian minister succeeded in conciliating the
seceders, by granting the right to discuss the principle on
each item of the tariff es it comes before them. The opposi-
tion of the Austrian manufacturers will not be so easily
est aside, however. They are a powerful body, and are
almost unanimous in their views with regard to protectien.
Yaw of them advocate entire prohibitios,-but all are enemies
to free trade, and very few indeed in favour of moderate
protective duties. A minority of the manufacturers
may perhaps be found to supp.irt Baron Bruck, but the
mmority will reject his tariff. With this opposition in the
heart of the Au +trial camp, and the declarations of the Prus
sian Rovernment that they will use, r consent to the intro-
duction of a higher tariff into the Zoilverein, but that, on
the contrary, that tariff must underfp important reductions,
the Austrian plans have so chance whatever of success, and
even the commercial treats* between the different customs
systems have become very problemrical. The Austrian
government would, under any circumstances, find ready
supporters in the governments of Saxony and Wurtem•
berg; but when the question really has to be settled,
ea.:entreat:as and interests will have to be considered to
which at this moment but very slight atteation Is paid.
Politically, the government of Saxony may do what it
pleases, se long as the powerful hand of Austria supports it;
but . the commereal and manufacturing interests of
this kingdom have to be consulted ere such a
measure u a customs union with Austria can be
carried out; and, so tar as I have been able to
secertain, the manufacturers are decidedly opposed to
it. One of their chief arguments sgainst it is, that if the
union be established, the population of Saxony would be an-
nually presenting to Austria • share in the duties on all
cram:oil artioles, such as tea, coffee, sugar, its, which are
unknown in the greater part of the Austrian empire, where
the poorer classes live entirely on vegetables and farinaceous
food. Bavaria at this moment enjoys a clear us of
seven million thalers a year from the lame source. Aey
customs union which brings with it such an enormous profit
to the oae party, with an equal loss to the other, which on
the one hand increases their market, but on the other
the difficulties of access to it, and the latter in as decidedly
unequal degree, the mannfact f Seemly see opposed.
Very great apprehensions are entertained here respecting
the Austrian military plans, and we are now told that
another large body ul Austrian troops will very shortly make
Its app in the north. 30,000 to 40,000 are mentioned.
I myself beard • remark • few days ago from the mouth of
in Austrian officer. He said, "Only let us once be inside
Hamburg, end I warrant you we shall remain there quite
its long as the Teething."

DRESDEN, Luc 27.
The German art of making politics is aa full of con-
tradictions and perplexities as an egg is of meat. The pre-
sent conferences afford us another 'wanes of the truth of
this assertion. Oa most of the octillions when the necessi-
ties of the fatherland, the political dilemmas of the
thirty-tour fathers of this extensive country, or the unruly
behaviour of the different races whom these thirty-four
fathers ecki,owledge us their children, have assembled the
representatives of the whole to discuss the cures to be ap
plied to the evil, it has been the cucom to depute the task of
dismissing the different medicines proposed, and selecting
fronts among them that panacea which is most expedient, ana,
therefore, most likely to he spneraliy approved of, to several of
the parties present. These mumble, as a commission or
committee, bat in • negative character. The Germans are
very fond of nenativi s, end eo the custom has generally been
to deprive the members of those e .m mattes of the attributes
which the representation of estate endows them with, and to
appoint them in their personal character to the committee.
The person of the representative, aced not the state he
represents sits in the prepara.ory committee; he can propos
plans, alterations in plans, can vote for them in committee,
but be is thereby not prevented from doing exactly the
reverse, when the report of the committee and the proposals
it contains are brought before the whole house, to use a
psrliamentary phrase. On the present occuion, however, the
contrary practice has been observed. The states themselves
were elected to serve on the committees. It is not Count
Alvereleben who sits in the lint commission, but Protein
herself, with all her interests, pretensiote, erd dignities
It Is the same, of course, with the other nine members, mid
is a more rational practice than the one generally observed ;
bat the consequence is that the commission, which ex-
pected to make a unanimous report on some plan or plans,
is unable to come to any decision without a division.
lo the first commission, for the choice of a fe-
deral head for the c.nfederation, three votes out
of the ten are opposed to the plans which are
before it. These three votes are those of the two
riocipalities of Ruse and Saxe Weimar, who,e opposition
done has delayed the report of the first commission. As
yet there is no prospect of their opposition being overcome,
and unless other events intervene, it will receive the support
of the msjority when the report at last makes its appearance
before the g e 1 assembly.
The same circumstances render the proceedings of the
second commission equally difficult, while the subject before
it is one of tenfold greater magnitude end intricacy. This
commission is understood to be now occupied in examining the
protocols of its former sittings, in order to ascertain what it
hes done. The result will show, I believe, a aeries of gust-
relsome discussions on questions of internal administration,
with unaninsitysolely on those which refer to military and
police questions. The result, then, which the thirty lour
plenipotentiaries have obtained during the month which has
so rapidly put, is in reality nothing more than those long pro-
tocols and ~the conviction that the unanimity necessary to
re-establish the confederation is not to be gained in the
conferences, The German princes will have to make the
humiliatiog confession to their subjects either that they can-
not, or that they will not, restore the orlon which yoked all
Germany into one great political body. This result is a
Posthumous instificatiou of the man who endeavoured to seta-
blish the Erupt Dition, though it also contain still stronger
condemnation of their blindness in not pursuing that plan
with greatet energ end foresight.
Your readers winnow more clearly perceive the prospects
of the Dresden couferences.. The true nature has long since
been foretold by many of the leading men, who now throw
oat the idea that anew basis must be sought for the re-esta-
blishment of a confederation, and that the best mode of
spproeching it is by means of treaties between the several
states.

PRUSSIA.

in a semi-official form has ap-

peered in the ministerial paper of Berlin, to which .
is necessary to direct the special attention of the
Erglish public. According to the provisions of the
Prussian passport regulations, foreigners are only
allowed to enter the kingdom when furnished with
paseporta from the authorities of their own countries,
or those of Prussian offilials—of course, ambassadors
or console. But for English subjects an exception
was made on the ground that English passports can
only be obtained of the Foreign-office, on the payment
of a high fee, there being no subordinate authorities
who can grant them. For English subjects, there-
fore, it was enough to be provided with the pass of
the Proesian or Belgi►n consul, according to the
route of the journey. This privilege is now to be
abolished, and it is announced by the Prussian
police that every English subject entering Prussia
must hive an English, that is, a Foreign-office, paw/-
port, only obtainable on payment of the fee of
21.125. 6d. A tax to that amount is, in feet, about
to be levied on all English travellers to Germany,
for it is scarcely possible to proceed in any direc-
tion without entering the dominions of Prus-
sia. The only reason alleged for this new regula-
tion is, that the privilege has been " abused."
Swam, lAN. ?S.—Voluntary Loan, 1064 ; New Loan,
Four-sad-a-Half pas Cents., 1004 ; National Debt, 844 ;
Contancial Matins Society's Premium, 128; Beak Shares,
959.
VIIINNA, Jew. 27. Pim per Cent. Melanoma, 95.
Foor•and-e-Half per Cads., 831. Bank Shan, 1,138.
Unhinge on Loudon. 12.42.

DEPUTATION TO THE CHANCELLOR OF THE Ex-
tallaStant ow INN PAPER DCTIII.—This morning a large
number of delegates sad others interested in the abolition of
the tax upon paper, met at the Yiog's Arms, Palace-yard,
and afterwards proceeded to the official resides*. of the
Chancellor of the Exinsquer in Downing-street, to lay before
that gentleman a number of petitions, resolutions, and me-
morials, which bed been sent from various parts of the ma-
tropolis, end from Liverpool, Oltagow, Birmingham, Man-
shaver, and other ports of the country, on the subject ; end
also to explain their own views in reference thereto.
Amongst thorn present were Mr. W. J. Fox, M.P., Mr.J.
Hume, M.P., Mr. Chambers, of Edinburgh ; Mr. Crompton,
of Manchester; Mr. P. Bntltwick, Mr. B. C. Hall, Mr. C.
Knight, Mr. John Cassell, Mr. Fowl*, of Oxford; Mr. J.
Duncan, Mr. Holden, Mr. Bildern, and several other gin-
Unite& interested in the paper trade. The deputation, who
were received with great courtesy, having explained their
views en the matter, the Chancellor of the Exchequer re-
plied; and the deputation shortly atteneards withdrew.
GRAY'S-INN, law, 29.—At • pension of the Ron.
84:tior firsrs.ian holden this day, Alexander Chem
.A., was sailed to the degree of barrister at law.