The Express.
London, England, 1851-04-26 00:00:00

SPAIN.

MADRID, APRIL 17.
Public attention in the metropolis is almost wholly
turned to the elections. It appears that the govern-
ment finding that the friends of the fallen cabinet
are working actively to get their partisans elected is
already, notwithstanding the professions about purity
of election made in the Cortes, making use of the
same arts as were used by Count St. Louis. The
circulars sent to the governors of the provinces direct
them to use every means in their power to obtain the
election of the ministerial candidates, and in cases
, where it is impossible to prefer a moderate pro-
gresista, but on no account to permit the election of
one of the polacas (the name given to the partisans
of Nurvaez). Encouraged by the enthusiasm with
which the moderate progresistas were received in
their last public meeting, the ultra democrats sent a
deputation to the political chief, asking for permission
to call a meeting; upon that magistrates refusal, one of
the deputation told him that General Narvaez had once
permitted them to meet. It is true, said his excel-
lence, because the general wanted to have a pretext
to sfiuot or transport the most dangerous among you;
but, as this government wishes to avoid all extreme
measures, I shall not permit any ultra-democratic
movement. The rebellion in Portugal also attracts
much of public attention ; the prints under the in-
fluence of the defunct cabinet reproach Bravo Mu-
rillo for the retrenchments he has made in the army,
assuring him that if he be obliged, according to ex-
isting treaties, to intervene in Portugal, the reorga-
nisation of the army will be immensely expensive. It
is thought that no intent ration will be necessary.
The committee of the progresista elections have pre-
sented a memorial to the Queen praying her to raise
the state of siege in which the provinces of Macs-
trasgo and Catalonia have so long been, at least
during the elections. The absolutist party is deter-
mined upon taking a part in the elections, and many
a priest has fulminated from the provincial
pulpits curses on those who do not vote in
favour of the candidates of the principle of divine
right and passive obedience. There has been much
preaching during this Lent, especially against pro-
testant doctrines, writings in favour of which have
been pretty extensively distributed ; so much so, in-
deed, as to call forth complaints from clerical autho-
rities against the negligence of the custom-house
officials. A proof, however, of increased tolerance
on the part of the government is the publishing of;
the history of protestantism in Spain, a work in
which the catholic religion is roughly treated. A
translation of the bible is also announced on almost'
every wall without calling forth any animadversion.'
The public roads continue to be very insecure, and
highway robberies as numerous as ever.

GERMANY.

Our correspondent writes as follows :
BERLIN, APRIL 23.
The First Chamber met this morning, but no business of''
importance was transacted.
The sth of May is said to be the day fixed for the assem-
Wing of the Diet in Frankfort ; the papers of this evening
mention the 12th also. Au ainhassador for Prussia has nut
yet been appointed.
The Minister of the Interior has renewed his instructions
to the provincial governments to watch the press and to
proceed with energy against all offenders against public
morals. The authors and publishers of attacks on the king
or the government calculated to lessen the confidence and'
attachment of the people are to be prosecuted without de-
lay. In future all publications seized by the police are to
be followed up by the seizure of the types and forms I
of the articles, whether books, pamphlets, or papers
so seized, in order to prevent their multiplication.
The same authoriity has prohibited for Prussia
the sale of a collation from Luther's work an
" Princes, Nobles, Court-servitors, and Priests," as well r
the German edition of T. Payne's " Rights of Man." For
novels of democratic and socialist tendencies, written ler
Streckluss, have ben confiscated within the week - in Co.
logne a new publication, by Dr. Becker, entitled " Mr
march), and Republic," part 2, was seised as Weird*
last. Older works arc treated in the MIN MM.
ner. Some published previous to the revolutionary
period have undergone the same fate. The police mud
gradually amass an immense volume of dangerous literature,
the inflammable effect* of which are apprehended ; and as
a sentence of destruction by fire, usually pronounced over
such works by the proper law court, has not been published
for some time, a large bonfire may shortly be expected. (Prom last eight'. Gazelle.)
The military laws of Prussia are about to be subjected to CROWN-OFFICE, APRIL 21.—Memher returned to
an ample revision, in order to bring them into accord with serve in the present Parliament for the borough of Boston:
the new penal code. James William Frcshfield, of lietchworth, in the county of
The Cotatitutionelle this evening contradicts a report of Surrey, and of Devonshire-place, in the county of Mid-
the sale of the paper to the protectionists. Mese:, EN., in the room of the lion. Dudley WorsleY
Yaw articles of furniture oar the property of great rasa Anderson Pelham, deceased.

fhe7Ducheu of Kent returned to Frograore.
The Queen walked this morning in the Slopes and Home
Park, and the royal family took their usual airings.
Prince Albert, attended by Lieut.-Colonel the Hon.
Alexander Gordon, rode out on horseback this forenoon.
The royal dinner circle, this evening, included the
Duchess of Kent, Lady Fanny Howard, Baroness de Speth,
Lady Caroline and Miss Barrington, Major-General and
Lady Isabella Wooly's, Lieut.-Colonel the Hon. C. B. and
Mrs. Phipps, Lieut.-Colonel F. If. and Lady Emily Sey-
mour, and Sir George Cowper.

The Oxford University Commission met yesterday at the
official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury, in
Downing-street. Present the Bishop of Norwich, the
Dean of Carlisle, the Master of I'embroke, the Rev. U. Ca.
Liddell, J. L. Dampier, Esq., Rev. Professor Powell, Rev.
0. U. S. Johnson, and Rey. A. P. Stanley (secretary).