The Express.
London, England, 1848-07-01 00:00:00

GERMANY.

FRANKFORT.—In the sitting of the National
Assembly, on the 27th, the divers proposals made as
amendments to the original ono respecting the nomi-
nation of an executive power for t e whole of Ger-
many, came under discussiNt. The first proposal put
to the vote was that of Baron Von Vineke, which
was as follows:—" The National Assembly decides,
reserving the consent of the German government; first,
that, until the definitive foundation of a governmental
power for Germany, a federal director shall be named
to exercise that supreme power in all the common
affairs of the German nation ; secondly, the federal
director shall be named by the German governments.
This motion was rejected, and that of the commis-
sion put to the vote and adopted. Though we
have given the proposition of the commission in ez-
Mnso we will here repeat that portion of it just
adopted by the assembly.
Until the defi,:itive creation of a
.governmental
power for Germany, a central provisional power
will be named for carrying on the common affairs
of the German confederacy. This central power
will possess the attributes of supremacy in all
matters concerning the security and general pro-
sperity of the German confederacy. It will
have the superior direction of all the armed
force, and will name its generalissimo. It will pro-
vide for the international and politico-commercial

representation of Germany, and will name envoys
and consuls. The central power will not con-
cur in the work of this constitution. An

amendment to this motion, conceived as follows, was
then put :—" The central provisimal power will pub-
lish and execute the resolutions of the National
Assembly." This motion was negatived by 277 votes.
against 261. Another amendment, to the following
effect, was adopted by 408 votes against 143:—" The
central provisional power ;e to decide, in conjunction
with the National Assembly, on peace and war, and
to conclude treaties with foreign powers." The latest
account left the motion as to whether the central
power should be confided to a president named by
the free elections of the National Assembly in
abeyance.
AUSTRIA.—The Archduke John reached Vienna
lon the 26th inst.
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We learn from lonsprack, under date Jane 24,
that the Archduke Stephen, accompanied by two
of the Hungarian ministers, arrived here quite un-
expectedly. The object of this visit is not yet
known ; whether it be to escort the Emperor to the
opening of the Hungarian Diet at Pesth, or to compel
him to fulminate another decree against the Ban, is
problematical. The diplomatic corps has nearly all
left.

PRUSSIA.—We have the Berlin papers of the
26th. The new ministers (whose names have been
already published in this paper) have declared, in
their programme, that they desire the permanent
establishment of a constitutional monarchy, and that
they are, therefore, partisans of the two-chamber
system, and advocates of the principle that the two
chambers and the King should jointly exercise the
legislative power. The new cabinet, however, declares
that the first chamber must be based on a more
popular foundation than on the draft of the constitu-
tion laid before the National Assembly by the late
government. Moreover, it announces several muni-
cipal and financial reforms, and a determination to
I steer clear of the old political system as well as of
anarcty. On the whole, the programme is a satisfac-

tory one.
The appointment of Herr Milde to the post of pub-
lic works (a very difficult one on account of the neces-
sity of finding employment for the working classes)
has given great satisfaction.
The new Minister of Foreign Affairs stated that
there was nothing to cause anxiety for the present in
the nature of the relations between Russia and
Prussia. _ _

According to the Cologne Gazette, the preliminaries
of peace between Denmark and Germany have been
signed. Denmark and Schleswig are to be politically
separated, and the right of stioceasion in the male line
will be acknowledged.

COLONIAL.
NEW SOUTH WALES.

We have received Sydney papers to the 4th of
March. They are filled with complaints of the refusal of
the emigrants, arrived in the Hyderabad, to engage u
labourers, " except on conditions so absurd, that they would
be impossible for the employers to fulfil." The Australian of
3rd March says:
What will oar English readers think when they are informed that
to the whole of the families who were disengaged on hoard the
Hyderabad, on Monday bat, the following offer was made—and re-
fused by them— To each man a money-wage of 154. per annum,
with 101. per annum additional for his wife ; whose only care (mare the
almost nominal one of shifting the folds) would be to attend upon
her husband ; together with the following ration, which we put
down in the annual grins, ♦ia. :
• Meat. Flour. Tee. Sugar.
lbs. Its. lbs. lbs.
Man's Ration
Wife's ditto 620 620 13 104

Total .lbs. IWO 1040 96 206
/WI seals of moos aid Micas totegi4 goy, by lb* people
.bilernie bitbar Ira pidi by Ir^ mg whom gnat turoia ri In
ur moat bays boo boollidoe 66 pei.la aEra owl kis wits
foe ball of a Look radon at the Qtlal7 and Kole so cared sod w
ripiteced.

NEW ZEALAND.
We have received Auckland papers to the 23rd of
January. The following official notice is vehemently at-
tacked by the Southern Cross—the organ of the Bishop of
New Zealand and the missionaries. To ns its object appears
to be the substitution of a simple, expeditions, and econoini
cal tribunal, for one remarkable for its complicated and ex-
penaies hems of procedure :
The governor areas it to be notified for the hiformatton of the
public, that no court of rsgaab will be holden kw the northern die.
trlet or division of New Zaataa4 Irma and after the Sed day of
February, 111411, and that Use (Moe el the said court wit dose upon
Me 4th day of the said month and farther, that from and &Rent he
said 4th d February, all claim and demands of a civil nature,
whore them or damp dallied shell not .arid 20f. my be heard
and determined by the reddest magistrate, or any two or more
justices of the pesos purenan. to the provolone of the resident magis-
trates' court atheism., session 7, Na 16.—8 y his eseellesay's com-
mand, Aunasw Ingez.tra, Odontal secretary.

NATAL—By an order in council, lamed in last
night's Gazette, agricultural implements may in future be
imported lato Natal, Scull Africa, duty free.

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BUCKINGHAM PALACS, JUNE 27.—This day the
Right Hon. J. G. Rrabason Rarl of B.uboroagh and the
Right Hoe. 8. M. Phillipps were sworn of her Majesty.%
Moat Honourable Privy Connell, and took their rupecuse
pima at** board acoordiodlY.