The Express.
London, England, 1848-11-16 00:00:00

GERMANY

Sons.
Nothing can better prove the sense entertained by
Americans themselves, resident and connected with
business in the tar north-west, of the superiority of
the Canadian over the New York route, than a com-
munication which was forwarded to the provincial
government by a mercantile firm in Chicago, a port
on Lake Michigan, in the state of Illinois. The ob-
ject of this communice.tion was to obtain permission
to send an American barque from Lake Michigan
through the Canadian waters to the ocean. The fol-
lowing was the reply thereto :
Secretary's-eflice, Montreal, Sept. 23, 1848.—Gentlemen,
I have the honour, by command of the Governor General,
to acknowledge the receipt of your letter o' the 7th instant,
transmitting a communication to you from Meer,. and
—, of Chicago, in the date of Illinois, praying to be
allowed to pass their hsrque Utica through the Canadian
waters to the ocean. lam directed to acqusint you in reply,
for the inf .rmation of the applicants, that on other men-
, alone, and with a view to amore limited use of the Canadian
waters by foreign vessels between Quebec and Montreal,
questions as to the legality and policy of this naviga
boa., have engaged the serious attention of her
Majesty's government, to such an extent, as to place
it beyond the discretionary power of his excellency, as
overnor of this colony, to grant the permission prayed for.
gin excellency command* me, however, to say, that he has
MOOD to believe that this subject will again engage the at-
tendon of her Majesty's government. is connected with the
as of the canals now opened on the line of the St. Law-
mace, and with reference to the policy of a trade between
Canada and the United States leas restricted than at present;
and that he hopes, before the opening of the navigation
next season, to learn, and to be enabled to make public the
intentions of her Majesty's government on these important
matters —I have the honour to be, gentlemen, your most
obedient servant, J. Lantz, Secretary.
The Canadian foresees, as does every other intel-
ligent man, that the navigation laws, either as regards
the St. Lawrence or in their operation elsewhere, can-
not last much longer. But unless something be done
in the meantime to relieve him from their restrictions,
he will lose the benefit of the trade of the coming
Beason, whilst their repeal is a matter of debate in
parliament. If there is any power in the executive
government to suspend their operation, it could not
confer upon the province a greater boon than to throw
the St. Lawrence, by way of. anticipation, at once
open to the shipping of the world.

Tins evening takes place the ball for the benefit of
the refugee Poles of the duchy of Warsaw. We
should have left these exiles to the charity of those who
have long sympathised with end supported them ;
but the efforts made to steel all hearts and close all
purses against them is so much a part of that same
execrable system, which would make Englishmen
flatterers and admirers of military despots, that we
sincerely trust the Poles may not lack their annual
patronage and pittance.
It is said that the Emperor of Rusine threatens to
invade the Polish part of Posen, should the Prussian
government persevere in keeping it separate. Some
time back the CZAR would not have ventured to
affront Germany ; but as that country is lapsing back
into the control of its courts and armies, Russia may
venture a partial invasion, or, at least, give Prussia
an excuse for breaking its promises. The Sclavonian
spirit is, however, awake in Europe, and even in
serving the cause of despot am, is learning the secret
of its strength. Many years, many months, cannot
pass without Sclavonians demanding and asserting
their national freedom; and when they do, we may
close the Polish ball. Its objects will have recovered
a home, wherein to perpetuate the memory of English
kindness.

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BERLIN DECLARED
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elhligeeintey have
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a state of siege on the
in the course of the day. It w eos aT,,
beat of down in all quarters of the city, and jested up
on the walls. No persons are alliivred-' to form
gatherings in the duets; no meetings ore permitted,
no placards allowed to be published ; the duos to be
closed, and arms delivered up. The peace of the
city has not been broken, and up to the last moment
no collision bed taken place. The constituent Aweul
bly met in the Schiitzen Hans at three o'clock &nl
re-elected Von Unruh their president as befcre,
also the issue vice presidents. (It their proceed.i
ings it was impossible to know much, on ae.
count of the crowds that suet °ended the
place. It was stated outside that they had
declared all those opposed to them guilty of high
treason. The Assembly was en permanence, and ale I
Sing up to the latest moment on the 12th. The elute --
all presented addresses to the chamber approving of
its resistance, and the Burgher U .ant chiefs load met
and determined not to yield or give up their arms.
Meanwhile the period for delivering up arms arid die- • '''
solving the civic guard has been delayed twenty-four
hours, and would remain open until sunset on the
13th, when measures were to be taken to compel them
to do so should they not obey.
During the day the whole of the garrison was under
arms, the palace being occupied by two battalions of
guards, with artillery. The force at the arsenal bad
been increased, as likewise that t.t the principal gates.
General Wrangel had his head-quarters in the palace,
the gates of which were closed. The soldiers were
furnished with three days' provisions and a good sop.
ply of cartridges. The streets were crowded during
the day with people. Foreigners had arrived to join
in the approaching fray ; the whole of the streets
leading from the Schntzen liens were recupied by
bodies of workmeo, armed and ready to fight. To-
wards evening the streets became somewhat clearer,
and it was evidently not the intention of the leaders
of the movement to commence hostilities. Many
families were leaving the town. The mission of
Grabow to the King had been nusuccesafte. His
Majesty referred him, as well as others who came to
mediate, to ministers.
The Prussian Stoats Anzeiger of the 13th con.
tains the following proclamation of the ministry of
state :
Although his Majesty the King, by virtue of the peerop.
tire of the crown, hes, by a royal message, under date of the
Bth of this month, commanded the removal of the
Constituent Assembly to Brandenburg, and its adi
jeurnment until the 27th of this month, a portion of the
deputies of this Assembly, instead of obeying tics nrdinanee,
have continued to hold sittings here, anti to form resolutions
which must bring about the most lamentable COOS( quenca,
and forcibly violate the peace from which atone emanates the
general weal. This lawless proceeding appears the leis justi.
flabie in proportion as the charges against the member at the
state ministry are groundless. Animated my the purest motives,
the ministry of the state—fully determined mos: maxim.
tiously to carry, out the reiterated premise sot his Majesty
the King, contained in the proclamation of thus day, to esta-
blish true liberty—must decidedly repudiat, evnry attack
upon its sense of duty and its views. Tee ministry of
state feels called upon by the proceedings of the
above-named deputies hereby to declare publicly that
the transactions and resolutions which have cm:mated,
or shall emanate, from that portion of the Awembly
since its prorogation are all and each illegal, and
c moot be recognised by the government of his IL
ty the King. The public t lierefore is cautioned with a view
to mown interest not to b I misled by the illegal prose&
logs of the deputies still it sem:shied hem into Fool,
whereby the public orders it,be in &nye ire harm , sni
which will in no cue rem A• ' Tunisherl.—Berlin, . ov. 11. t.
—Signed, the Ministry of State, COUNT VON BRANDIN-
BURG, VON LADENBERO, VON STROVIA, VON 11ANTEUP-
FBL.
The Prussian Slants Anzeiger like-wise contains
a proclamation of the royal Prefetture of Polio',
stating that, as the magistrates of Belli° have re-
fused their co-operation in carrying out the royal
proclamation of the 11th of this mouth, relative to
the dissolution of the civic guard, because such en
obligation is not expressly imposed upon the civic
authorities by the civic guard law of the 17th October;
the Prefecture of Police has been charged by the
Minister of the Interior to effect the surrender of the
arms given by the state to the civic guard at certain
epecitied places. The arms are to be deposited by
battalions and duly numbered, so that on the re.
organisation of the civic guard they may be re-
stored in the risme order.
The movement at Berlin is of course exciting much
attention in the provinces.
The Rheinische Voile Italie snyethat intelligence had
been received at Berlin on the 11th, by teligraph, that 1
Breslau was ininsurrection, and that the palace of Count
von Brandenburg there had been burnt down. This
was considered untrue by the Cologne Gazette. A i
letter from Breslau of the 10th inst. says that the in-
telligence had reached that town of the adjournment
to Brandenburg and subsequent steps of the Anelll-
bly. Meetings had been called for that evening by
the clubs and a number of the civic guards, fer the
purpose of supporting the cause of freedom of the
, people. The town on the 10th was quiet.
The communal council of Cologne has sent an ad-
dress to the National Assembly, declaring that the
King has no right to adjourn or dissolve the Diet
without that body's consent. Meetings ha also
d
taken place at Aix-la-Chapelle, Coblertz, and Troves.
AUSTRIA.—Tidings from Vienna come, as might
be expected, fraught with atrocity and bloodshed.
Not only has Messenhauser, the brave commander of
the national guard of Vienna, been shot, but Robert
Blare, member to the central Diet for the city of Leip-
zig, has been also shot by Windischgt a' z. I.llum and
his colleague, Freebel, went with no address to the Diet
of Vienna ; there is no proof of their having joined in
the resistance of the Viennese further tnan their
having been found lodged in ono of its hotels.
But their sacred character as members of the central
Diet cannot be denied ; and the shooting Blum is an
act of soldierly defiance to all constituent and repre-
sentative assemblies that will make a deep impression
upon Germany.
Blum was a man of first-rate talent,and,for popular
eloquence, was unrivalled. So strongly was his merit
felt, that he was almost unanimously elected deputy
by his fellow.eitizens of Leipzig, although a great
majority of them did not approve of his extreme opin-
ions. The act of Windiachgtatz seals the fate of the
Archduke John, as head of the central government,
and cannot but cause an explosion against his weak
and puerile ministry. It brings, indeed, the great
wavering and moderate into the ranks of the move-
gar ontlecon toot' aGcelrosenituoruanisotYluantiodn.of centrallatsy
must fling all the
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went.
The effects of the murder of the two dee
putiea are likely to be even more serious in
Berlin, than in Frankfort. The Prussian
untiesthe
will then see what they may expect from the
And although the
trolled freedom of military power.
Prussian monarch ie not the idiot which reigns over
Austria, and although Prussian generals and so
are not altogether brutes, like Windischgrsts and the
Croats, still the horror of military, role and its
mockery .f justice, as ext mplified in the case of
Blum, cannot but be felt, and with the keenest sensi-
bility, from Kunigsberg to Cologne.
The captain who, on the 6th of October, kept guard
in the war office, was to be tried by court martial, be-
cause he had not protected Count Latour with his
men, but gave him up to the fury of an exasperated
mob.ln Kremsier all thepreliminaries were eing adopted
for the meeting of the Diet. The Castle of Kremsier
contains about 160 apartments completely furnished.
In the little city itself, also, there is no want of
accommodation for the Diet. Three of the ministers
are always to be present at Kremsier.
The general in command, Count Auereperg, has
tendered his resignation.
Count Stadion had arrived in Vienna. It was said
he would form part of the ministry, Baron Weans-
berg being so ill as to render it probable he would
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ROME, NOVIIIIREIL 2..
As proof that our Pontiff has personally no objectiFa
to hallow by the church's benison the marriage of paruei
who cannot give up their respective conscientious bor
lief, he has allowed a young Roman spinster to wed
her lover, an adherent of the synagogue, and whose
creed continues to stop short at the blank page th!t
separate* the Old Testament from the New.
of Tha
occurrence has just taken place in the parish St.
Paul.
We are in a strange apathy concerning cholera.
It is true that an absurd edict has just gone fo
rth.
subjecting to quarantine all vessels coming direct
from England or Scotland, but no internal armor